CHAYHO Christina Hughes-Onslow

[CHAYHO Christina Hughes-Onslow @CHAYHO1]

@hwallop Far more useful than depressing old Woman's Hour

[CHAYHO Christina Hughes-Onslow @CHAYHO1]

@MartinSLewis Make sure the road lines are painted. They are a disgrace in London.

[CHAYHO Christina Hughes-Onslow @CHAYHO1]

@KemiBadenoch Hooray - at last.

[Iain Duncan Smith MP Chingford & Woodford Green @MPIainDS]

Not surprising to see the two isolated and dangerous regimes of North Korea and Afghanistan now proudly shaking hands and publicly demonstrating their collaboration in support of Putin’s illegal war against Ukraine. Both regimes have some of the worst records of human rights violations against their own people.

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

Labour’s “Islamophobia” definition was almost certainly influenced by extremists.

They covered it up and said all the evidence was deleted.

I forced them to investigate.

Now their top official says ministers lied, and they do still have records of it.

There is zero excuse not to publish it.

[TaxPayers' Alliance @the_tpa]

Find out your benefits bill by clicking the link below

https://t.co/43ImcWNnlb

[CHAYHO Christina Hughes-Onslow @CHAYHO1]

@AirportSchipol and @Visit_NL what an insult to visitors to keep them queuing in front of 10 potential immigration booths, only two of which are manned. Get a grip.

[Charlotte Gill @CharlotteCGill]

Replace “cutting back on military expenditure” with cutting back on:
- Charities
- Quangos
- Universities
- Arts Council England
- Mayors and their teams

[Cllr Lucy Trimnell 🫖 @LucyTrims]

Amazing pushback from Military Surgeon Darren Mann against the Comments by Monica Grenfell regarding the SAS ‘dark humour’.

He has explained it carefully but forcefully and explains the psychology behind it. If it’s published read it because it’s a brilliant piece.

[Kel Mansfield @tedkel]

CHAGOS SCANDAL LATEST DUPLICITY

A statement quietly slipped out by the Foreign Office on Wednesday evening, 30th September, as the Labour Party Conference wound up, has massive implications for the rotten Chagos deal.

The salient points:

1 The UK states the people of the Falkland Islands have every right to develop and manage their natural resources without intimidation, coercion or interference from others.

2. Attempts to obstruct lawful economic activity in the Falkland Islands undermines the prosperity and economic security of a self-governing people.

3. The United Kingdom will continue to robustly defend their wishes, their economy and their right to determine their own future.

If the Chagos deal is ratified, the statement clears the way, for Mauritius to mine the Chagos Archipelago's France-sized seabed for minerals and extract any hydrocarbons, as well as all other economic activities including commercial fishing.

The statement was released by Uma Kumaran MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Overseas Territories to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

The FCDO have been pushing the Chagos deal hard for many years.
They are clearing the decks for selling out the Chagossian people, who overwhelmingly wish for their homeland to remain British, and paving the way for a radical change of power and influence in the strategically important central Indian Ocean.

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

“The fasten seat belts sign is on”.

This is a message I received early this morning from one of the UK’s most experienced, savvy and respected financial traders. Someone I have come to know and trust for the last 25 years.

10-year bond yields are now almost 4.5pc - up some 50 basis points over the last month.

30-year yields this morning went above 6pc - a 28-year high.

Yet the UK’s political and media class continues to focus on party posturing and folksy rhetoric, ignoring the slow-motion disaster that has been happening on the UK’s sovereign bond markets for at least the last 18 months - a disaster that will inevitably, unless we drastically change course, turn into a fully blown market meltdown.

At that point, the UK government won’t be able to borrow enough money to finance our already spiralling debt interest bill.

Britain’s financial management will be taken over by overseas technocrats - that will be the condition of additional borrowing, to maintain the basic functions of the state, as happened in Greece and Italy back in the early 2010s and here in Britain 50 years ago this year (when we were forced in 1976 to apply to the IMF for a bailout).

The austerity then imposed on Britain would make 2010-2019 feel like a picnic - far, far worse than it would be if we took serious action now to control our public finances.

Lower-income households would suffer most - and there would be serious damage done to the UK’s already rapidly-fraying social fabric ….

I have been warning about these looking fiscal dangers publicly, in my newspaper columns and elsewhere, since at least early 2024.

Doing so hasn’t been easy or fun. I have been dismissed and derided by numerous economists, “economists”, officials and policymakers - as well as lots of journalists.

I absolutely don’t want a disastrous 1976-style outcome - which is why I’ve taken the blows and issued the warnings.

The state is too big. Public spending is out of control. Our fiscal rules are a convenient nonsense - designed to kick the can of financial reality into the future. We need to get real … and take bold action to tame the growth of spending, push back a now totally over-bearing state and snap the British economy out of today’s high-tax-high-borrowing-low-growth doom loop - the result of myopic, counter-productive policy-making by successive governments for the last decade and more …

Other prominent economists who agree with me - ie who are financially-literate, can read a yield curve, have a passing interest in economic history and who understand the dangers of some 80pc of UK government borrowing going on debt interest as it currently is - need to chuck “career risk” in the bin, and start saying publicly what so many of them have, for quite a while now, only had the bottle to say to me in private …

Remember: “The fasten seat belts sign is on”

[CHAYHO Christina Hughes-Onslow @CHAYHO1]

@WalkerMarcus Probably got a consultant in to make it more relevant to young people

[CHAYHO Christina Hughes-Onslow @CHAYHO1]

@MichaelLCrick So high-handed and plain dumb to treat people like this.

[CHAYHO Christina Hughes-Onslow @CHAYHO1]

@Lord_Sugar You are wrong. I completely understood the difference.

[CHAYHO Christina Hughes-Onslow @CHAYHO1]

@Lord_Sugar 1. No
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. No
5. No

[Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft]

Sadly this is so true. A problem is the appointment of Trustees. Bureaucrats in Government prepare the shortlist of potential Trustees for Minsters to rubber stamp. Military involvement is limited. This should be increased. There needs to be a clear out including the Director-General…

[CHAYHO Christina Hughes-Onslow @CHAYHO1]

@kelvmackenzie Spotto!

[CHAYHO Christina Hughes-Onslow @CHAYHO1]

@zmkc @Telegraph I missed it so thanks for posting it. How lovely. X

[Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft]

Even the cartoonists in the national press are getting the message that the @I_W_M (Imperial Woke Museum) has lost its way. After kicking out over 200 Victoria Crosses and adding a LGBT self guided tour with subjects including drag shows in POW camps and a story about Enid, a land girl who preferred to to go by the name of John…the Trustees need to be removed…

[Priti Patel MP @pritipatel]

Today the PM of Mauritius confirmed to his Cabinet that Andy Burnham reaffirmed Labour's commitment to surrender the Chagos Islands and pay Mauritius billions to do so. He also confirmed that the National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell - a man who operates in secret and with no public accountability - is meeting him shortly. We need Labour to come clean on what these negotiations will cover, if Labour will be paying Mauritius while President Trump objects, and what their plan is. The best thing to do is tear up the surrender treaty, but white flag waving Burnham won't do this.