shawaaaaaaay

[Gabriel @gbrl_dick]

every new british PM approaches the job like it’s an oral exam at oxbridge. always a grand strategy. brother you’ve just been appointed captain of a ship that’s halfway to the seabed and you have 90 days to get it headed back up or they’re going to cook you in a big pot

[Anglo Futurism Capital LP 🇬🇧🐿️ @RollingHedge]

Oh for fuck’s sake give it a rest…

Brexit was FACTUALLY a de minimis footnote (I voted remain in 2016 so don’t even start…) when compared with a raft of the worst policy decisions imaginable since the end of WW2 across virtually all policy areas, by fuckwit politicians…

To name some of the biggest offenders:

- Most expensive energy in the developed world fuelling inflation across every good and service going - and net zero cultish insanity crippling our economy; we now make virgin steel only via emergency nationalisation in all but name - mainly because windmills and solar don’t produce the joules to produce concrete or steel, to build stuff

- Shuttering North Sea oil whilst buying the same stuff from the Norwegians who banked the oil: two trillion in the tank, three hundred grand a head, a quarter of the budget paid forever

- PFI. Blair and Brown fancied hospitals that didn’t trouble the books, so they put them on tick with loan sharks. £60b of buildings, £300b out the door, NHS still paying through the nose for a car park and a leaky roof.

- Tories borrowed the best part of £400bn at 0%, the cheapest money in three hundred years, and what have we got for it? Furlough, a fortune in PPE that didn’t work, and ~£20b handed to chancers with fake ltd co’s. Nothing built. Nothing that pays you back. The lot, gone. And here’s the one nobody says out loud… Money was free. Risk free. Rates at zero for the best part of a fucking decade. If a govt or their perm secs had any sense that was the moment to issue a 30y infra bond and build the grid, the reactors, the track, the housing, lock the cost in at basically nothing and let it pay for itself for two generations. Norway would’ve had it done by lunch. We didn’t issue a penny of it. Now the long end’s at 5.5 and the door’s now bolted shut. We had the cheapest money in history and spaffed it all.

- Capital markets that don’t work since Blair and Brown’s various legislative and regulatory changes, making pension fund allocations lower going into British companies, and making it harder and more costly to raise capital to grow and keep businesses here paying taxes and employing people - the collective cost of this to British households is conservatively estimated to be around £20trillion (per @andyroocraig’s figures) and countries that were literally communist within living memory are on track to overtake us this decade, on the IMF’s own numbers. Oh, and Mississippi HAS already overtaken us on GDP per capita basis (they are the butt of all poverty jokes in the US)

- Brown flogged 395 tonnes of gold, over half the national reserve, in 17 auctions between 1999 and 2002, at about $275 an ounce, near a twenty-year structural low. They call it “Brown’s Bottom” for a reason. Pocketed $3.5b but I t’d be worth around $52b today. So that socialist genius cleared the lot at the bottom of the market and torched the thick end of £40b in one decision (because he like many politicians since the 90s is a retard with no real world understanding)

- P90/P10 wage compression under social democracy is demonstrably worse than even the Soviets managed under Gosplan ffs

- Selling off and sweating various other national assets to fund our absurd debt borrowing pile that has mostly been spaffed up the wall on zero return or loss making initiatives / welfare socialism etc

- Series of the worst trade deals imaginable (pre and post Brexit)

- Too much of people’s money tied up in the resi property Ponzi scheme doing nothing (other than now: losing value in realtime)

- Planning laws that stop anyone building infrastructure on housing

I could go on…

Plus we have rising long yields now, which are (TL;DR) the price of having destroyed your own structural buyer base and then issuing into the gap while the central bank sells on top. Brexit doesn’t appear anywhere in that mechanism either.

So, this creepy obsession you have with Brexit is weird, lame and entirely worn out.

Bin.
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[justina @justtjustinaa]

dipping the bug is so funny

[Alex Fairfax @Alex_Fairfax06]

“What’s my approval rating?”

- It’s bad Mr Prime Minister. It’s -43. It’s…it’s in the mud.

“Could it get lower?”

- I mean anything COULD happen but realistically-

“Kill the ponies.”

- Wha-

“The ponies. The cute little ponies. Kill them.”

- Sir, they’re endangered

“Fuck ‘em. Make the call.”

[Count Dankula @CountDankulaTV]

This all seems to be a ploy to link IP addresses and online activity directly to an identifiable person to make them easier to catch and track down. The government falsely assumed that everyone watches porn and they thought they would get everyone that way. It obviously did not work as well as they were hoping so they are now expanding it. (I have always said that initial laws are just a foot in the door, those laws will always be expanding after the fact into their true original intended purpose).

So their plan now is if you want to use any social media or much of the internet in any way, you will need to prove that you are over 18 which means submitting an ID. This will require far far more ID submissions which will massively expand the government database, which was the real plan all along, not the safety of children.

The funniest thing about this is after all the fuss about the Online Safety Act, this blanket ban on kids using social media pretty much renders the entire act pointless and made it a giant waste of time. Which to be honest, proves that the act was never about protecting children but was really about building a giant database that links all online activity directly to a person.

This database would then be constantly poured over by AI to flag "citizens of concern" to the government who may be potential political dissidents, saying naughty anti-government things etc so the government can pre-emptively act against them.

Minority Report. This is literally the plot of Minority Report.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

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

[Mike Gardner @mikegardner_wb]

America is building rockets that can go to Mars and is taking AI to new levels.

Meanwhile, in Britain, our Government is banning underfloor heating and wants to regulate our use of towel rails.

I despair for our future under these student socialist imbeciles.

[Gabriele Molinelli @Gabriel64869839]

Defence is getting 10 billion over 4 years because "there is no money".

Meanwhile, over the same years, 4.5 billion "just" for cycling routes & crossings.

Clearly there is nothing that can be done without cutting "growth" or "hospitals".

No compromise at all to be devised.

[RAY @3xcalibaneur]

To be clear, this is not true.

[Nick, 30 @an0n_Nic]

Elon Musk becomes a trillionaire and this happens. Coincidence? I think not. Social media ban and 100% tax will solve this.

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

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

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

[DBL MP / Double @dbl_mp1]

seriously how much more evidence do people need that this isn’t for the kids. It’s so freaking blatant kids are being used to implement surveillance and censorship.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

It's fascinating how the words of the right wing populists can fan the flames, but the two-decades' long reneging on promises to voters doesn't.

Do our politicians not know the difference between a proximate cause and an ultimate cause?

Or are they perhaps unwilling to admit that *they* are the ultimate cause?

[enter shakira𓅮 @BARFJAMiN]

so you mean to tell me ai can do the jobs of teachers, judges and doctors, but MPs are irreplaceable and worth every penny of their £100k salaries?

[MrHobbes @VintageMrHobbes]

Phenomenal - attempting to behead someone is actually a form of integration

[Adam Wren @aswren]

@EdwardJDavey Is it really ‘democracy’ when the public largely agree and the only people holding the contrary position are senior police officers, ‘journalists’ & our boneheaded representatives? It sounds like a different word would be more appropriate

[Talmud Enjoyer 🇬🇧 🇮🇱 🧬 @jewndahalfmen]

Academics do this thing where they take a previously well understood word from the English language, repurpose it to suit some narrow (and highly ideological) analytic lens, and then tell you it’s always meant that.

[☀️AliquisNovus☀️ @PalmyrPar]

Please recall that UK authorities have a dedicated unit called RICU whose sole occupation is intimidating the families of politically-sensitive murder victims to shut up and put out prewritten stuff like this.

You simply cannot trust these sorts of statements.

[Stokeman @anglopjdst]

Same bullshit as always, it’s not ‘respecting the families wishes’ to fall in line and avoid criticising the British state & rancid institutions because of a high minded statement that is half the time coerced. Respecting the family is making sure it never happens to anyone else.

[Zoomer @ZoomerHistorian]

‘Police are getting bricks thrown at their heads!’

‘I don’t think they are mate’