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[Campaign Against Antisemitism @antisemitism]

This is gobsmacking.

Sarah Helm, journalist and wife of Jonathan Powell, Britain’s National Security Adviser, posted this on X yesterday in response to the reports that author Sally Rooney’s books would no longer be sold in the UK due to her alleged support for Palestine Action.

Clearly, the police need to investigate and Ms Helm must face the full force of the law, just like others who appear to express support for any proscribed terrorist organisation. But this raises extremely serious questions for Mr Powell and the Government.

Spouses are entitled to independent views, but plainly Mr Powell, who leads on our country’s national security and has been intricately involved in our Middle East diplomacy, must publicly denounce this rhetoric if he is to continue in post.

If the wife of Britain’s top diplomat appears to openly support a proscribed terrorist organisation opposed to Israel’s existence, what message does that send to British Jews, many of whom are currently living in fear.

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@hehisself @UxbEconomist07 Like saying I earn a billion a year whilst the business loses 2.

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@owenjonesjourno It really isn’t

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@BBCBreakfast @BBCPolitics Zzzzzzzz

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@Femi_sorry @piersmorgan You look like a fat Mr T

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@janotorres_ @MrBumpa @BBCWorld

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@KayBurley Because Kay, their council would be breaking the law.

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@spikedonline @MattZomeal Dave, Caroline and the posh lanky bird are all soon be booted out.

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@campbellclaret Perhaps you should write a dossier on the topic.

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@PolitlcsUK So why are they out on bail then?

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@campbellclaret ‘Farage lot because they have been in bed with Russia for yonks’

Go on then, name names and provide evidence for your accusations

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@campbellclaret Zzzzzzzz

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@PippaCrerar @ramonagusta Yeah because he’s lying as usual

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@RestIsPolitics @campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK @andyburnham Cool - utter bollocks of course but Burnham will also clarify what foreign interference was conducted on the Remain Campaign then.

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Hugo Chávez seized more than 1,000 private companies between 2002 and 2012, and every single one produced less under state control than it did before the expropriators walked in. Not most. All of them.

Take SIDOR, the steel giant Chávez nationalized in 2008. It shipped 4.3 million tons that year; by 2019 output had collapsed below 200,000 tons. Chávez purged PDVSA of 18,000 skilled workers in 2003 and stuffed it with loyalists; the company, sitting on the largest proven oil reserves on earth, pumped 3.2 million barrels a day in 1998 and under 400,000 by 2020. The state also grabbed Agroisleña, the country's main farm supplier, renamed it Agropatria, and fertilizer promptly vanished from the shelves. Cement, electricity, banking, rice mills: same pattern, every time.

Bad luck does not repeat a thousand times. A bureaucrat who faces no profit-and-loss test cannot calculate. Without market prices for capital goods, he cannot know whether the factory he runs creates value or burns it. Central planners lack the information needed to allocate resources efficiently. Venezuela ran that experiment a thousand times over, same result each time.

The managers who replaced the owners were not stupid. They responded rationally to their actual incentives: please Caracas, hit political quotas, skim before the next purge. Output was nobody's problem because output was nobody's property.

If your government starts seizing companies "for the people," the production those companies generate is already gone. Expropriation transfers assets while destroying the wealth those assets once created, and the people it claims to serve absorb the shortage.

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@AdnanHussainMP Given it would largely be Pakistani men being deported it would be a boost to the economy getting rid of them 👍

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@Simon_Nixon Does this count as foreign interference then Simon?

Or threats by Obama or the EU before the vote?

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@UKinSomalia Deport

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@MarkoArcabic @triggerpod @owenjonesjourno Sniff, sniff OJ

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@owenjonesjourno Nah - they are being asked legitimate questions on their racist party conference motions.