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[@billwells_1](/creator/twitter/billwells_1)
"@WorldByWolf I was born in Poplar London in 1953 and am not sure I recognise the XXXX% white British figure. Might check it Given the people at my school many of my neighbours families were from Ireland also in this post-War period many Polish Italian & German pupils"  
[X Link](https://x.com/billwells_1/status/1982029745635344800) [@billwells_1](/creator/x/billwells_1) 2025-10-25T10:21Z 1101 followers, XX engagements


"Outside school friends & special Chinese meals out at Chinatown in Limehouse; Commonwealth migrants from Europe - Malta Cyprus & Gibraltar; & as helped my Dad up the stall visited wholesalers in Stepney & Aldgate many of whom were Jewish Hard to reconcile with XXXX% @stephenkb"  
[X Link](https://x.com/billwells_1/status/1982032091563819028) [@billwells_1](/creator/x/billwells_1) 2025-10-25T10:30Z 1101 followers, XX engagements


"@PhilAldrick @jagjit_chadha @MrRBourne Isn't this (Osborne/Carney approach) exactly wrong direction to go And reason for some of the rise in structural problems Deal with inflation through monetary not fiscal policy. Pre 2020 Bank Rate too low. Reg prices too low @EconSteveM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/billwells_1/status/1979844261907734856) [@billwells_1](/creator/x/billwells_1) 2025-10-19T09:37Z 1100 followers, XXX engagements


"@s8mb Think any damaging effect might be mitigated by 'soft law' - information advice & guidance. Establish 'pro forma' processes smooth the process of setting initial rents & recontracting T&Cs. Pay rounds in collective bargaining play that role for collective bargains @RECNeil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/billwells_1/status/1981303288617119886) [@billwells_1](/creator/x/billwells_1) 2025-10-23T10:14Z 1100 followers, XXX engagements


"@RECNeil Think this is important and suspect commentary of economy - unrelentingly negative/glass half empty - may contribute. eg @faisalam 'surprise' rise in retail sales. Seemed to me to be in line with trend (eg 3mth on 3mth q4) of an economic upswing becoming more embedded"  
[X Link](https://x.com/billwells_1/status/1981631906262233330) [@billwells_1](/creator/x/billwells_1) 2025-10-24T08:00Z 1099 followers, XX engagements


"@FraserNelson You may want to see this thread. It provides reasons behind the v. top x% of income distribution pay around 1/4 of total tax revenue. And why Lafffer Curve is too crude an analysis. Key is that economic activity - pay house prices - are a lognormal distribution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/billwells_1/status/1981980906547282401) [@billwells_1](/creator/x/billwells_1) 2025-10-25T07:07Z 1100 followers, XX engagements


"@s8mb I think in general London looks much better than when it seemed in terminal decline in the 1970s & 1980s. In all measures of regional deprivation depopulation & deindustrialisation London & other great cities came out worst. See inner cities debat. King's Cross Docklands etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/billwells_1/status/1981728903610659147) [@billwells_1](/creator/x/billwells_1) 2025-10-24T14:26Z 1100 followers, XX engagements


"@duncanrobinson @HCH_Hill Similarly I'd not scrap either Stamp Duty of IHT. Rather I'd take as many people out of tax as possible by raising starting pt of taxes as high as possible. Think IHT (& savings allowance) good basis design. Taxes kick in when very few people pay it. Scrap tax base to raise more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/billwells_1/status/1981741997607067718) [@billwells_1](/creator/x/billwells_1) 2025-10-24T15:18Z 1100 followers, XX engagements


"@duncanrobinson @HCH_Hill So believe that Farmer's IHT was exactly right way to go. But did not use any of money to raise IHT starting pt even higher. And reduce even further people who pay any IHT (inc some farmers). Have X% rate in all taxes so don't tax ebay pocket money Council Tax etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/billwells_1/status/1981743071327821927) [@billwells_1](/creator/x/billwells_1) 2025-10-24T15:22Z 1100 followers, XX engagements


"@HugoGye Given the @obr commentary on latest borrowing figures - (I read as) good chance of hitting OBR March forecast maybe next borrowing forecast better than expected & developments since (bonds retail sales etc) might enable 'headroom' to be described as a + or - range. @EconSteveM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/billwells_1/status/1982185741376455120) [@billwells_1](/creator/x/billwells_1) 2025-10-25T20:41Z 1101 followers, XX engagements


"@duncanrobinson @HCH_Hill I think any change should be a package with some winners as well as losers. & winners people you want to help. eg I'd lower starting rateof higher Income Tax rates 50k for 40%: 100k for 45%. And describe it as reform by scrapping 100k & High Income Child Benefit Charge tapers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/billwells_1/status/1981739124080927195) [@billwells_1](/creator/x/billwells_1) 2025-10-24T15:06Z 1101 followers, 1609 engagements


"@spectator It is all about curves. Crude stereotypical version of the Laffer curve does not work. Because the real world is best described by a different curve - the lognormal distribution. So need a Colbertian tax system - maximise no. of geese not noticing feather plucking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/billwells_1/status/1982013828024926619) [@billwells_1](/creator/x/billwells_1) 2025-10-25T09:18Z 1101 followers, XX engagements


"@spectator See this thread - why crude Laffer curve does not work. Need to take account of the diversity of the real world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/billwells_1/status/1982014566058872916) [@billwells_1](/creator/x/billwells_1) 2025-10-25T09:21Z 1101 followers, XX engagements


"@Frencheconomics I would make a further distinction between incentivising and promoting. Using provision of information rather than regulation or tax system. eg Premium Bond winnings - facilitate enabling people's winning to be transferred eg into Green Bond/do you want to invest winning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/billwells_1/status/1982359102769533065) [@billwells_1](/creator/x/billwells_1) 2025-10-26T08:10Z 1101 followers, XXX engagements