ProfDef

Scientist. Dad. Observer in politics and the politicisation of everything. “One of the country’s greatest visionaries” - My Mum. “Overrated” - My Dad.

[ProfDef @ProfDef]

Some people REALLY hate Democracy, and REALLY hate freedom of speech 😳

[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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[Hilton Holloway @hiltonholloway]

'Austerity'

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Did you compose that on your way over from New York in your private jet?

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

For six months, I have been negotiating with Anthony Fauci's lawyers over a date to testify before my Homeland Security Committee. He finally agreed to appear this month. Then he backed out. So I subpoenaed him. He will testify in July.

https://t.co/w2599FJASz

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

“Louise Beardmore pocketed £2.5million, up 79 per cent on the previous year, and including a bonus of £830,000.”

Worth every penny I’m sure.

https://t.co/nWZyTCdCA7

[Matt Crivelli @MattCrivelli]

For context on "why don't you Brits already have aircon when it's been around for 100 years", here's the latitude we're on.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

Electric cars are sold as clean. Yes, EVs cut tailpipe pollution, but if the goal is CO2 reduction, the full chain tells a different story.

The production of an EV requires more mining, refining, battery production and power generation over a standard petrol or diesel car.

Battery minerals are dug up and processed. Across the full chain, EVs cut CO2 by only 20%. But on top of that, batteries degrade. Over an EV's life, one battery replacement will collapse any CO2 advantage.

EVs also add major electricity demand.
They do not erase the old energy system.
They load more pressure onto it.

If you want to charge your EV at night or when the wind isn't blowing, then it will be 100% fossil fuel powering that.

EVs are not green.
They are virtue signaling on wheels.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Did cancer write this?

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

Poison 17,000 homes, get fined 1.8 million, walk away with a quarter million bonus anyway, water company logic

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Never stop sharing these videos

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

THEY CAN’T HIDE THIS ANYMORE

A massive Japanese study tracking 20 MILLION people found that ALL excess deaths were in the vaccinated group.

The unvaccinated group? ZERO excess deaths

No mention of this in the UK Parliament. I wonder why?
https://t.co/JibGM5pMJw

[Britain Unbound @BritainUnbound]

The EU budget for 2028-2034:

€2,000,000,000,000

The proposed EU budget for the next seven year period, is over half of the UKs total annual GDP.

The UK would be responsible for 12-13% of that.

Did you think it wasn't value for money before? How about when it costs double?

[Adam @AdamFulwell_]

We’re told to carpool into work, reduce emissions, reduce plastics etc etc and the BBC are incinerating a hole in the Ozone layer with a helicopter to show footage of a train??

[YourFavoriteGuy @guychristensen_]

The average Roman didn’t know their empire collapsed they just noticed their roads stopped being repaired one day.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

I was just looking back at the famous ''HOW DARE YOU'' Greta speech and it's honestly so funny.

Just perfect example of mass cultural psychosis. Liberal elites just found a random autistic schoolgirl to scream at them and lecture them about the need to implement communism and they would act like it was really deep and profound and applaud.

You didn't have to put her on the stage to scream at you but they decided to do it anyway. It satisfied something deep within them.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

This week, 75,000 delegates from all around the world are expected to fly to the UK for London Climate Action Week, where they will lecture the rest of us about the need to stop the "climate crisis" by reducing our "carbon footprints". 🤡

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

I have never taken part in a coup against any Leader of the Labour Party and I am not going to start now. 2/3

[Gully Foyle #UKTrade @TerraOrBust]

The legacy of Keir Starmer should be that he agreed to give away £12 Billion worth of UK fishing quotas to the EU, purely for the opportunity to give away more.

That is what he achieved during his tenure - absolutely nothing but to give things away. The kneeler-in-chief.

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

Over the past decade, censorship has shed its stigma.

From new "crisis" powers, to "counter misinfo" abuse, to social media clampdowns - censorship is no longer hidden but official policy.

We need liberty to win over technocracy.

Me ✍️ in Telegraph ⬇️

https://t.co/QnvPt5Eoz8

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

Minimum wage in 2005 was £5.05 an hour.

A Freddo cost 10p.

One hour of work bought you 50 Freddos.

In 2026, minimum wage is £12.71 and a Freddo is 39p.

One hour of work now buys you just 32 Freddos.

So despite minimum wage more than doubling, your Freddo buying power has fallen by 36%.

If wages had actually kept pace with Freddo inflation, minimum wage would be £19.65 an hour today.

Forget economists. Forget politicians.

The Freddo has just delivered the most depressing cost of living graph you'll ever see.