Martin James

Cicero, Carlyle, Cromwell, Darwin, Danton, Elizabeth, Marx, Picasso, Nelson, Walsingham, Wren

[Victoria Freeman @v_j_freeman]

Spectacularly arrogant to say he has a “10 year mission” when he wasn’t an MP when this govt was given its mandate to govern, none of us voted for any of this, not even Makerfield, & he only asks to “imagine” how he might achieve anything refusing to take questions.

[Martin James @mememdo]

@SkyNews @TrevorPTweets Of course they do - this whole system and all these verminous MPs need dumping. We are going to have another unelected leader carrying out policies nobody has voted for. The system is not fit for purpose.

[Martin James @mememdo]

@PolitlcsUK @AllisonPearson Somalian, again

[Martin James @mememdo]

@HeidiBachram @StopAntisemites Or anybody else

[Martin James @mememdo]

@j_austincain Stadiums are irrelevant, pillock. Anyway yanks just want a bucket of ice cream and enough room for their lardy asses.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

In October it will be 90 years since the East End cockneys, Irish dockers and communists joined hands with the East End Jews to force back Oswald Mosley’s fascist Blackshirts who were there to threaten the Jews.
This year @unitetheunion will commemorate this event by erasing Jews and holding their event on Shabbat.
My friends in the Jewish community and our allies will host our own event on the Sunday which will remind people of what the Battle of Cable Street was actually about.

[Martin James @mememdo]

@MartinDandach No body wants Iranians for obvious reasons

[Suella Braverman @SuellaBraverman]

I’ve met desperate parents because they tried to protect their children from transgender ideology and puberty blockers.

I’ve met families in tears because their adult child regrets their decision and wants to reverse the mastectomy and effects of testosterone on their voice.

A conversion therapy ban will criminalise those who love their children. Just for loving their children.

I know Starmer is desperate for a legacy but this is shameful.

[Martin James @mememdo]

@FranceintheUK @GerardAraud @jnbarrot @francediplo_EN @RPFranceUE Not a chance. There will be no return to the EU.

[Martin James @mememdo]

@SkyNews Laughable . Hopefully a future government will prosecute him.

[Martin James @mememdo]

@MikeTappTweets There aren’t any good arguments - “the way things are” developed long ago and is obsolete.

[Martin James @mememdo]

@YouGov Yes, before they see him doing anything…

[Martin James @mememdo]

@RachelGilmourLD Don’t talk rubbish - she was 100% right - these Labour politicians are loathsome.

[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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[Herb Brubanter @HBrubanter]

I say 'hello cows' and 'hello sheeps' or sometimes I say 'ay up' instead of hello.

I am 52.

[Martin James @mememdo]

@bphillipsonMP I don’t think there are more teachers and I wouldn’t give much credence to you saying there are.

[Martin James @mememdo]

@FT WFH in other words

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

Surreal headline, amazing that this even needed to be done.

This was never a left vs right issue but a battle for common sense. And common sense won.

One of my proudest moments in politics was intervening to stop this rubbish.

Thank you @ForWomenScot for leading the way.

[Marc Goldberg @MarcGoldberg111]

Attempts to bring a private prosecution against a man with dual British Israeli nationality for serving as a reservist in the IDF after October 7th have been thrown out by a judge in the most glorious way I've ever seen. The judge called it "embarrassing".

Judge Goldspring's comments are essentially that if Pro Palestinian activists wish to engage in lawfare they should at least know what the law is.

Comments from the judge include:

“This application is legally flawed, evidentially deficient, and procedurally defective. It constitutes an abuse of the process of this court, driven by an improper motive and facilitated by serious breaches of the duty of candor. The application for a summons is refused.”

https://t.co/qfsv2dv0Ik

[Doinkadect Klomberbatch @Doinkadect]

Is this the first time the UK’s been looking for a new Prime Minister, James Bond and Doctor Who at the same time