Carlos

Nullius in verba

[Michael Brown @MrMBrown]

Seeing as getting orders filled is topical today…

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Never give up

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

Highly significant that Carns is not just angry about defence spending but makes clear he cannot defend the bill which puts veterans in the dock for their actions in Northern Ireland. The fundamental contract between those in uniform and the govt is broken

[Carlos @CarloP1984]

Defence. All of our attack subs are in maintenance or waiting for it. We have no ballistic missile defence. Our sub detection system is stretched. Trident subs are doing 6 month patrols under water because of cuts. Good luck when Putin comes calling.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

We spend £66 billion on defence, and £18 billion on policing.

Ask the average voter - in Al Carns’ or John Healey’s seat - which is in dire need of more money. Westminster journalists may be surprised!

[Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico]

Spend less on the NHS & more on defence.

[Douglas Carswell🇬🇧🇺🇸 @DouglasCarswell]

Mississippi is growing faster than Britain.
5-year growth — Mississippi: 12.8% | Britain: 3.1%.
See how you compare → https://t.co/tT4JnZLMX9

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

My pinned tweet explains the background to Healey resignation.
We got real numbers in 2020 for first time in ~20 years.
Since then everything reverted to fake.
Thanks to Trolley & Wally, they let HMT and MoD shovel cash into things they KNEW were broken, like AJAX, and scuppered funding the future (e.g drones, robotics, AI, cloud).
The nuclear weapons supply chain is a multi-billion multi-decade fiasco and reinforces fake budgets.
MoD & CO used UKR war to prop up the lies and disasters, not to fix them. Trolley, Sunak and Starmer all went along with: classify, punt, spin fake budgets.
All these chickens are coming home to roost.
The DIP is a disaster because it combines: a/ continuing to fund old things which shd be scrapped but senior people's careers rest on lying about, b/ failure to fund the future, c/ more dodgy accounts, d/ classified nuke shitshow, which forces lies/cannibalisation of conventional, and e/ continued failure to change procurement and long term budgets despite covid and UKR.
Ive said this 100 times for years.
Also relevant to resignation --
In 2020, I got the PM & CHX to agree to take the next gen fighter AWAY from HMT and MoD. (FOI the doc screenshotted below!)
They were using a bogus 'above STRAP 3 study' to claim that AI would be irrelevant to future fighters in 2045. This 'top secret' study was written *before* DeepMind was created!!
We agreed to take away the next gen fighter/drones from MoD/HMT and put them into a new civilian project with huge commercial development of drones/robotics/AI, with procurement and budgets done totally outside normal system (like vaccines, ARPA etc).
After I left this was u-turned along with shredding all the true budget numbers.
The MoD and HMT proceeded with the usual procurement with BaE.
This has now blown up *as it was obvious it would SIX YEARS ago'.
HMT is refusing to fund it because the MoD is a corrupt shambles.
And MoD is knackered by the HMT's insane budget processes and insane procurement.
HMT and MoD have reasonable complaints about each other. 'Everyone's right and everyone's unhappy'.
The only way out is the Vote Leave plan and No10 smashing heads together with the full authority of the PM, as in the secret process of 2020. It cannot be left to 'normal processes'. Senior people must be forced to tell the truth 'or you're fired'. We did this. It works!
The MPs refuse to engage. The MPs on defence committee say they cannot ask officials re the 2020 process because 'they'll just refuse to answer'.
But our enemies know everything everything I say is true!
It is impossible for dud Starmer to solve these problems.
It is good timing that Burnham will soon take over and could draw a line under decades of Tory failure and set out a new path...
But there will be HUGE pressure from the old system, in HMT and MoD, to patch everythign up with more lies, spin, fake accounts, and massive classification...
Maybe some MPs could finally pay attention to these issues and resolve to stop constant lies, please!
Our security, prosperity and critical technologies are at stake and the old parties and old Whitehall are pathological!
NB. In 2020 we also bought LEO satellites. SW1 laughed. Starlink has been critical in UKR. Whitehall sold off the satellites!
NB. In March 2022 when the UKR disaster started I wrote: 'Prediction: 1) lessons from UKR will overwhelmingly support the arguments of those who in 2020 argued for radical MoD changes (including taking money from old tank projects that everybody privately admitted were a multi-billion pound disaster) and 2) the correct criticism of the review and connected documents will be seen as a) they did not go nearly far enough, b) the collapse of No10 follow through on defence reform in 2021 was — like the collapse of 2020 plans for planning reform, tax cuts, deregulation, Project Speed, intense focus on R&D and skills etc — a disaster for the country (and a political disaster for the Tory Party).'
NB. Special Forces who have observed the drone wars in UKR have told the senior MoD repeatedly that the mega expensive things they want to plough cash into in the DIP will get VAPOURISED in a real war by cheap drones! The SF are told to shut up and not give HMT a chance to cut the budgets!
I know it's psychologically extremely hard for SW1 but Vote Leave worked with the deep state on this in 2020 and we were right on all the big things.
The disastrous old processes have now blown up with unprecedented resignation over these exact issues.
6 years have been wasted. Tens of billions have been wasted. Lives lost. Talent resigned.. Opportunities to lead squandered...
All over Whitehall are officials involved in 2020 who know what I say is true, the MPs and hacks should finally get the details into the public...

Maybe SW1 could update its mental models?!

Ps. if you're a hack still getting Ciaran 'AI is fake, PRC infiltration is overrated' Martin to comment on tech, you're as dud as Starmer

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

Dud Starmer is in the bunker with Baldwin and Hermer -- two of the worst people in SW1 -- issuing Operation Nero orders while officials clutch their heads and try to limit carnage.
It's like Trolley in there at the end with Huawei Hari.
Labour MPs must remove him in weeks not months, new PM by July latest

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Andy Burnham seemingly entertaining the WASPI stuff is depressing. We've gone through much more process than necessary to decide rightly that there isn't a case. It's a huge amount of money at a time where we should be investing in growth.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

“Illegal content” meaning “anything we deem a threat to the regime”

“Time of crisis” meaning “at any time we feel like”

[Carlos @CarloP1984]

But he’s basically wrong on the two pints below. British growth trend was basically unaffected by Brexit. What does he think growth would be like now if we’d borrowed our way through the financial crisis instead of doing austerity, refinancing that debt at today’s interest rates? Nothing on COVID, Ukraine and most importantly-supply side constraints. Unserious.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Get ready for Mehdi.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: The terror watchdog has warned immigration needs to be treated as a 'national security threat' after violent attacks by migrants on British streets

[@Telegraph]

[Ed West @edwest]

'He preferred to win than to listen. Now he is a man armed with an umbrella against a tsunami of inexplicable data points.' https://t.co/khHGpPAH7g

[Ed West @edwest]

Aris Roussinos on Belfast https://t.co/kVlFia4n52

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

Tampa General: sepsis deaths down more than two-thirds.

Parts of Westminster: yes, but is it aligned with our values?

[Carlos @CarloP1984]

He’s a retard

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Zack Polanski has criticised supermarkets for selling vegetables for as little as 7p

“This isn’t a sign of a healthy system… someone is being exploited somewhere”

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: A newly elected Green Party councillor who previously described the October 7 Hamas terror attack as "courageous" has been appointed to a senior role overseeing children and families at Birmingham City Council

[Matthew Lesh @matthewlesh]

Starmer wants spyware to be installed on every single phone in the country — that’s unlikely to actually protect children but will raise significant risks for your privacy.

[Carlos @CarloP1984]

That’ll be good for inflation. Glad I remortgaged last month.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

IRAN IS PREPARED FOR A LONG-TERM WAR WITH ISRAEL: TASNIM

[Ben Ramanauskas @BenRamanauskas]

The best way to increase food security is to ensure that we have access to food from as many places as possible.

We need free trade in food by abolishing all agricultural tariffs, quotas, and subsidies as well as lifting the ban on chlorinated chicken and hormone treated beef.