wing

understand someone before you judge

[wing @cjbwin]

Glorious.

[Anglo Futurism Capital LP 🇬🇧🐿️ @RollingHedge]

Tax’s final boss @DanNeidle nails @garyseconomics here.

Dan is probably the last man in Britain you’d want to have an argument about tax with, what he doesn’t know fits on the back of a grain of rice 🤣

[wing @cjbwin]

Toe the line shit bag, embarrassing.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

I'd hoped a leadership contest would give us the opportunity for a proper debate. But months of internal Labour politics isn't what the country needs right now. We've got to get on with the job.

@AndyBurnham's earned this and he's got my full backing.

Our job now as a Labour team is to help him succeed, because the country needs him to... 🫡

[wing @cjbwin]

Man’s not wrong, but don’t worry as long as we save the world from climate change, all is forgiven

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Volkswagen aims to axe up to 100,000 jobs in a “profound” strategic shift to counter trade tariffs, stagnating markets and, above all, fierce competition from China.
It will cut one in six of its 660,000 jobs worldwide and production at four German factories — the largest restructure in automotive industry history.
China is out to do to Europe’s car industry what it’s already done to its solar panel industry — destroy it.
Judging from the pathetic response of the EU so far to this threat (the UK is equally pathetic) it’s likely to succeed.
China also aims to dominate batteries, wind power machinery, machine tools, Pharma and chips — with its mercantilist ‘industrial policy of everything’.
China 2.0 poses a far bigger threat to European industry than China 1.0 over 20 years ago. Some forecasts predict over 50% of what’s left of Europe’s manufacturing base will be gone in a decade.

[wing @cjbwin]

Doomed with this bully involved

[UNN @UnityNewsNet]

Gary Stevenson set to be appointed as an 'Economic Adviser' in a new Andy Burnham administration.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

It genuinely amused me that people think replacing Starmer will make things better.

From Boris Johnson's election onwards, we've been shuffling the bollards on the Titanic.

You have to actually change direction if you want to avoid crashing into the iceberg:

- End Net Zero
- Make business viable again
- Get welfare under control
- Fund defence
- Ensure equality under the law
- Arrest criminals and keep them in jail
- Deport illegal immigrants and close the border
- Bring the civil service to heel

Burnham will become as unpopular as Starmer within months since he isn't going to do any of that.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

@ArthurMacwaters We are far more enslaved to the bottom 1% than the top1%.

In fact, most of your real world problems in life can be attributed to societies repercussions with dealing with the bottom 1% of society.

Almost everything good in your life has come from the top 1%

[UK Decline Statistics @UKDecline]

£5,778,570 from Buckinghamshire Council to one taxi firm in 2025, across 3,215 transactions.

That's an average of £1,797.38 per transaction.

And yet people are saying there is nothing wrong here.

[wing @cjbwin]

Based

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

Today I learned $1 Trillion in wealth is excessive but $40 Trillion in debt is totally cool… 💁‍♂️

[wing @cjbwin]

@harrow_council Guess in the end man just messed with his own money 😂

[wing @cjbwin]

The first sentence is the crux

[Hazel Appleyard @HazelAppleyard]

Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire has been a really great IQ test for the general public.

You see people online who think Elon literally has a trillion dollars sitting in a bank somewhere and has chosen to just… keep it there.

These are not serious people and not worth engaging with. It’s like trying to have an intelligent discussion with a monkey.

[wing @cjbwin]

Jeremy cordumb

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Sentenced and imprisoned on grounds of “terrorism” that no jury ever convicted them of.

Meanwhile, the British government continues to aid and abet the greatest crime of our time.

A historic miscarriage of justice — and a truly dark day for civil liberties in this country.

[wing @cjbwin]

The last sentence is the crux

[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.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Je vais partir du principe que tu es de bonne foi, parce que ton raisonnement est intuitif et que 90% des gens le partagent. Mais il repose sur trois erreurs factuelles, et ça vaut le coup de les regarder calmement.

Erreur 1 : la fortune d'Elon n'est pas un tas d'argent. C'est de la propriété d'usines, de fusées et de satellites. "Prendre la moitié de sa tune", concrètement, ça veut dire forcer la vente de la moitié de SpaceX et Tesla. L'argent ne sort pas d'un coffre, il sort des entreprises elles-mêmes, qui passent sous contrôle de fonds étrangers ou d'États. Tu ne redistribues pas du cash, tu démantèles un outil de production. C'est la différence entre récolter des pommes et découper le pommier.

Erreur 2 : "ça résout énormément de problèmes dans le monde". Cette expérience a déjà été tentée, en vrai. En 2021, le directeur du Programme Alimentaire Mondial de l'ONU a affirmé que 6 milliards de Musk pouvaient "résoudre la faim dans le monde". Réponse d'Elon : décrivez-moi exactement comment, comptabilité publique à l'appui, et je vends mes actions Tesla immédiatement. Le PAM a publié son plan. Verdict : ce n'était pas "résoudre la faim", c'était nourrir 42 millions de personnes pendant un an. Un an. Puis il faut re-payer, pour toujours. Le PAM avait d'ailleurs levé 8,4 milliards l'année précédente, et la faim était toujours là. Les ONG traitent les symptômes en boucle, jamais les causes, parce que leur financement dépend de l'existence du problème.

Erreur 3, la plus importante : tu cherches ce qui sort vraiment les gens de la pauvreté. Bonne nouvelle, on a la réponse, et elle est massive. En 1990, 36% de l'humanité vivait dans l'extrême pauvreté. Aujourd'hui, moins de 9%. Plus d'un milliard de personnes sorties de la misère en 30 ans. Par quoi ? Pas par la charité ni par l'aide internationale (plus de 1 000 milliards versés à l'Afrique en 60 ans pour un résultat à peu près nul). Par l'ouverture des marchés, l'industrialisation, le commerce. La Chine seule a sorti 800 millions de personnes de la pauvreté en abandonnant le collectivisme, pas en taxant ses entrepreneurs.

Donc fais le calcul complet. Option A : tu confisques 500 milliards, tu finances quelques années de programmes, l'argent est consommé, et tu as détruit la machine qui produisait les fusées, les voitures électriques et l'internet des zones rurales. Option B : tu laisses le meilleur allocateur de capital de sa génération réinvestir 100% de sa fortune dans des industries qui baissent les coûts pour tout le monde et emploient des centaines de milliers de personnes. L'option A soulage ta morale pendant 18 mois. L'option B sort des populations entières de la pauvreté pour toujours.

La pauvreté ne se redistribue pas. Elle se résout par la création. C'est contre-intuitif, c'est frustrant, mais c'est ce que disent 200 ans de données.

[wing @cjbwin]

Someone say dictator

[Liz Kendall @leicesterliz]

Those who use social media to incite violence and disorder are breaking the law.
Next week we will lay in Parliament an update to the Online Safety Act requiring services to take quicker action to remove illegal content circulating during times of crisis.

[wing @cjbwin]

@samvaughan05 @tomhatters @TYROTWENTYNINE Reading between the lines stott is thinking bigger than county. He’s invested in another club and wrapped it all up under one investment vehicle. From what we’ve been lead to believe Simon Wilson is said to join said vehicle as an ‘adviser’

[wing @cjbwin]

I’ve been a #stockportcounty fan all my life and in my eyes we are a small local club, but seeing the fallout/social media attention from our manager leaving with other teams fans is glorious! #rentfree

[wing @cjbwin]

Gutted

[Sam Byrne @_SByrne]

It's felt a little inevitable in the last few days but I believe Dave Challinor will indeed be leaving #StockportCounty.

Speaking for myself, it'll always be hard to replace a serial winner - whether that's in the form of league titles or securing play-off places as a minimum.

Challinor will depart as the man who got County back into the EFL, with two league titles to his name. Two play-off final appearances, a Trophy final appearance and one play-off semi-final finish. Successive third place finishes in League One, and has never finished below fourth in five years with the club.

A campaign of real adversity (with injuries etc) at times for club and manager, but both now look set for a fresh start. More to follow in the coming days.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Reuters stories on Henry Nowak: 0

Reuters stories on George Floyd: 1,087

Do you see what’s happening?

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

Hi Gary, sorry to keep ratioing you, and I suspect I will do it again.

I only had to listen to 29 seconds to put this together because you revealed yourself by calling Reform the "far-right party". Perhaps after 29 seconds there is some sense in there, maybe I'll come back to it, anyway....

Let me first say, I am not a huge fan of Reform, but I am also not a fan of branding everything you dislike as far-right.

Far-right politics, historically, means authoritarianism, racial supremacy, political violence, suppression of opposition and/or rejection of democracy itself. Agreed?

So Reform then, well they support elections, free speech, lower taxes, border control and reducing the size of the state. You can dislike those ideas all you want, but they are mainstream positions held by millions of voters across democratic countries.

Ironically Gary, or perhaps not, but parts of the modern far-left openly flirt with some of what you have branded:
- Censorship and deplatforming
- Punishing dissent
- Political intimidation
- Opponents as morally illegitimate (what you are doing here lad)
- Expanding state control

You can see this in support for speech laws, attempts to silence academics and journalists, aggressive cancellation campaigns and the belief that certain views should be excluded from public debate entirely.

Please stop this stunted intellectual crusade, it is embarrassing. We know the agenda, you just want to expand the state, give more control to incompetency and loot the voters.

Init.

[wing @cjbwin]

@StockportCounty set up a tifo for the second leg yet nearly 24hours later and no official picture online???