HarryDisraeli

Engineer prole

[HarryDisraeli @HarryDIsraeli]

@Danjsalt @andylondon Does that include delivery?

[Paul Johnson @PJTheEconomist]

The stupidity of, and damage done by, stamp duty is being recognised by more and more people. I’ve said it before and l’ll say it again: any govt which cared about economic growth and people’s welfare would abolish it.
https://t.co/tXMXN99OPo

[Retard Finder @IfindRetards]

Found one

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

Britain is just one more tax away from fixing everything. We’re so close gang.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

Is anyone going to tell him?

[HarryDisraeli @HarryDIsraeli]

£1.2m of damage and breaking a copper’s spine.

Should be shot.

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

The sentences handed to four young activists for taking direct action at an Israeli arms factory are completely disproportionate and wrong.

They've been sentenced for a "terrorist connection" they were never charged with.

A clear miscarriage of justice and dangerous precedent.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more.

This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead.

Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards.

What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning.

Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to.

I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone.

It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off.

Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now.

We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

Britain spent a decade choosing to be smaller in the world.

Right now the rules on communications, energy and trade are being rewritten. By China. By Russia. By countries that take their own security seriously. We need to be at that table. That's a choice we must make.

Strong countries get cheap energy. Weak countries pay whatever the strong ones decide.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

I’ve never quit anything in my life. Until now.

[WeGotitBack 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸 @NotFarLeftAtAll]

The look on Bridget Phillipson face when being told the truth .. she doesn’t care about the hardworking taxpayer

This is Labour they couldn’t give two F’ks

[Richard Williams @williams_rje]

@AlistairCarns had a distinguished military career. It is damning that Benn, Starmer, Hermer, Reeves and others would not listen to him on lawfare, the Northern Ireland Bill, on defence transformation or on financial resources; and all credit to this RM veteran for stepping into the breach and his resignation on principle.

His dynamite resignation, on the back of the Healey exit represents the necessary detonation of a political bomb under UK defence; highlighting how screwed up it all really is, how badly Starmer is lying to the country, and how totally irresponsible is this @UKLabour government.

Carns is very right on the big things, the MoD and the “centre” are not facing reality on the changing technologies of war, they are not getting the resources they need and they are not defending veterans from lawfare. On this latter and vital point, this is led and encouraged by the UK’s own Attorney General as chief back-stabber.

For this, Hermer should be the next to go. And by the way, don’t expect much from the Starmer-loyalist, ex-Para Jarvis….not every Politician has the guts to do what Carns and Healey have just done…

[Bear @BearJFK]

Fuck me. Treasury really wanted to smash defence.

Reminder: HMT had ZERO issue with pension, welfare spending, various other pet projects, NetZero bollocks…

But defence of the realm? In the global context? = problematic

HMT need to explain in detail their reasoning

[Bear @BearJFK]

And remember, billions sent to Ukraine is also funded from the MOD, whereas this should arguably come from FCDO.

Billions for resettling Afghans has come from the MOD budget, when it should come from FCDO aid budget also.

Unserious political establishment

[HarryDisraeli @HarryDIsraeli]

Or he might think the bloated welfare and particularly triple lock need nuking in favour of having a 21st century military.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: A Treasury source attacks John Healey for resigning as Defence Secretary

"Let's be clear on what John is asking for: cuts to schools and hospitals"

h/t @e_casalicchio

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

A Green councillor called Hamas founders "martyrs".

The Lib Dems made him cabinet member for children and families.

Birmingham deserves answers.

[Simon French @Frencheconomics]

Announce the end of the triple lock, approval of new N Sea oil and gas licences, and bridge the inevitable financing gap until these savings/ revenues come in with IHT-exempt War Bond issuance (which would probably be hugely oversubscribed and push down the average cost of borrowing). To govern is to choose.

[HarryDisraeli @HarryDIsraeli]

Anything but help British grads and kids.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Rachel Reeves will reimburse British firms £5,000 per foreign worker in a bid to make the country more attractive despite the UK’s growing youth unemployment crisis

🖇️ https://t.co/J0uxGTrnyr

[HarryDisraeli @HarryDIsraeli]

After years of identity politics, the identity politicians now cry about the volte-face.

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

Crime is now being viewed through an entirely racialised lens – but only when the perpetrators aren't white.

When Chas Corrigan stabbed a Saudi student to death, or Paul Doyle mowed down Liverpool fans, white people didn't have to fear being a target of collective retaliation.

[Paul Embery @PaulEmbery]

First minister Michelle O'Neill: “The debate today ... is about our inclusive society, our welcoming society.”

Tone deaf.