Graham

Lifelong Watford fan, ⚽️occasional birder, butterflies🦋,insects🐝🐞, snooker pool 🎱 and darts🎯occasional punt🏇🏇Conservative member.

[Graham @grahamwfc]

Great post

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

So you are still, in effect, arguing that Brexit explains the Anglo-French yield spread. You’re wrong.
Between 2005-2015 average UK yields were up to 60 basis points higher than French, and that includes the Eurozone crisis period when French yields peaked above ours briefly. French yields tend to be lower because France is in the euro, which has massive market confidence (backed by the Bundesbank). But I don’t see you advocating UK joining that. Maybe you should.
Between 2015 and 2025 real GDP growth was higher in the UK than in France: 16–17% versus 12–13%.
Between 2020 to 2025, real GDP growth was also a bit higher in UK than France: around 5–6% versus France’s 4–5%.
So supposedly Brexit-induced slower UK growth doesn’t explain our higher yields either.
This is what does: We’ve suffered a moron premium ever since the ClusterTruss of 2022 and Reeves has done nothing to assuage it. The opposite in fact. In her two Budgets Reeves has increased taxes by £340bn (2024-29) and borrowed £260bn more (2024-29). An extra £600bn in tax and borrow. Now little scope to tax more, almost no scope to borrow more (except at penal rates). Hence our higher yields. Simples.
And, of course, political instability plays its part. But France barely has a government. Labour won 2024 in a landslide, with a massive majority, surely a harbinger of political stability. The fact it’s thrown it all away in under two years contributes to our continued moron premium. That’s Labour’s fault, not Brexit (which can rightly be blamed for many things but, no, not higher yields). You simply don’t have the evidence.

[Graham @grahamwfc]

@RightSide_Uk @he1entweets

[Graham @grahamwfc]

@geekgoddess2024 Here we go again Callaghan 1975 take 2

[Graham @grahamwfc]

@jim8oy66 @JDVance @DavidLammy JD Vance - “ sorry, and you are……?

[Graham @grahamwfc]

@historyrock_ Mark Knopfler not in your top 10 !!!! AI rubbish

[Graham @grahamwfc]

@NotFarLeftAtAll @NoMoreLibDem

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

There is a grotesque double standard at the heart of the Nowak scandal.

Ordinary people are told to trust “the process” and wait patiently for the IOPC, the CPS, the Attorney General — yet Hampshire Police didn’t wait.

They tried to shape the process, in real time, with a trial‑time statement to squash “disinformation” and an early push that there was “no indication of misconduct” by any officers involved.

They even let it be known that Henry had been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated assault, effectively laundering the murderer’s “wicked lie” through official channels while his victim’s body was barely cold.

Only after the public saw the bodycam footage, only after protests, only after national outrage, did the chief constable shuffle in front of cameras to say he was “deeply sorry” and that the footage was “distressing” — but still insist he won’t resign.

If this is what we see in one high‑profile case, imagine what happens in the dozens that never make the news.

Keeping Boon in post now is not “stability”; it is an endorsement of a police state‑style information machine.

Boon MUST be dismissed immediately.

[Kevin Edger @KEdge23]

The main thing we can take away from this Labour government, is that they are compulsive liars and are totally corrupt.

Worst government in history by a country mile. They’re rotten to the core.

[Paul Weston @PWestoff]

A one minute silence for Henry Nowak from the English football team in LA later this month is being admirably proposed by fashion designer @jeffbanks_uk. What a wonderful man Jeff so surely is. Please re-post this far and wide. Copy in @Keir_Starmer!!

[Benonwine @benonwine]

The face of everything that is wrong with our country today!

[Graham @grahamwfc]

@NeilTheRobin1 Nice sentiment but I suspect sky high prices

[Graham @grahamwfc]

@TheBritLad As much as I’d like it to be true it’s fake AI

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Voters disapprove of Nigel Farage's response to Henry Nowak's murder more than any other leader

Approve / disapprove

Nigel Farage: 26% / 32%
Keir Starmer: 26% / 27%
Zack Polanski: 12% / 17%
Kemi Badenoch: 28% / 15%

Via Opinium, 2,051 people

[BobHopium @eRotation]

New: Leadership polling from Opinium
Polling 3 June

The Kemi bounce Is real
And Nigel neck and neck with
Zack and catching up Starmer as the Most Unpopular leader

[Graham @grahamwfc]

@InTheTrenchesUK Claimed on expenses no doubt

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Keir Starmer is a wanker’ has been named the official song for England fans during the World Cup!

Sing it loud and sing it proud.

Let the whole world hear. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Graham @grahamwfc]

@gibraltarfx @AndrewHWestern Exactly

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservative Party in Britain, appeared on Piers Morgan’s show and said what too many politicians are afraid to say.

She stated clearly that jihadists are members of a death cult. Their goal is to murder and to die as human sacrifices for Allah. They are not allies of Britain — and no amount of appeasement from Keir Starmer will ever change that.

[Graham @grahamwfc]

How can this be

[The Reformed Media @ReformedMedia_]

NEW🚨: This is PC Paul Beckwith

He has been allowed to walk free from court despite being convicted of possessing indecent images of children and voyeurism. He had catergory A (most serious), B and C images on his devices.

But instead of going to jail... He was given a 14 months imprisonment, suspended for 18 months.

Meanwhile these police officers are arresting people for social media posts and getting jailed for them and jumping on you for sitting on a wall watching a riot 🤦‍♂️

SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE!!

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

Andrew Western MP,

Two likes. Zero retweets. Even your own mother scrolled past.

You call people "Relegation Rupert" from your government office at the DWP. You are a minister of the Crown attacking citizens with primary school insults. You spent eleven years as a councillor, failed twice to become an MP, finally slithered into a safe seat in a by-election, and now you think you are a statesman.

You are not. You are a glorified project manager who found the right party to tickle. You vote with your party ninety-eight percent of the time. You have never had an independent thought. You are a rubber stamp with a grievance.

You attack "far right cronies" while you preside over a department that monitors the bank accounts of welfare recipients. You lecture about malign philosophy while you take money from pensioners who worked forty years. You are the petty tyrant who finally got a badge.

You look like a man with something to hide. The hard drive comment is not random. Men who attack this aggressively usually have closets full of skeletons.

You have just made yourself noticeable. Start scrubbing your past, boy. The public is watching. The public is wondering.

[Benedict Rogers 羅傑斯 @benedictrogers]

So, so completely right.

We need to elect @KemiBadenoch as Prime Minister at the earliest opportunity because she’s the best leader this country could have in these troubled times.