Eddie Sammon

Financial adviser in France. French language account: @Sammon_fr

[Eddie Sammon @Sammon_En]

@vladoustinov Stop lying. I work in France and a co-working with 30 people in during the day will never be completely empty at 6pm.

[Eddie Sammon @Sammon_En]

@ActuFoot_ @sachatavolieri Le mercato c'est un peu comme le mécanisme de redistribution des richesses de la Premier League, il y en a pour tout le monde.

[Eddie Sammon @Sammon_En]

@elonmusk Elon Musk has destroyed Twitter, it used to be a good place for learning about global politics and foreign affairs and now a lot of it is just inappropriate videos and images.

[Eddie Sammon @Sammon_En]

@obrien @SebJohnsonUK I agree with your main point but where is daycare free in France? Especially for middle to high income tech workers? It's not free for us in Lille.

[Eddie Sammon @Sammon_En]

@LBC @EdwardJDavey @AndrewMarr9 As a British citizen living in France, I'll never vote Lib Dem as long as Ed Davey wants to replicate the awful US citizenship-based taxation system. I'd rather give up my British citizenship than be forced to pay the highest out of UK and French taxes, which is how it would work

[Eddie Sammon @Sammon_En]

@EdwardJDavey Why should people who no longer live in the UK still be forced to pay UK taxes? We don't get UK public services, so the "like the rest of us" claim is nonsense.

[Eddie Sammon @Sammon_En]

@PolitlcsUK Err, no because expats don't use anywhere near as many public services. I'm resident in France and pay French taxes, I'm not paying UK taxes for my two week per year visit.

[Eddie Sammon @Sammon_En]

@technopopulist I live in a big French city and it's very calm here right now so stop chatting shit.

[Benji Naesen @BenjiNaesen]

I'm sorry but it's hard to see people lie about how legal immigration to the United Kingdom works, and say nothing about it.

I am a legal immigrant to the UK. In 2023, I had to spent roughly £5,000 for a 2.5 years visa, NHS surcharge, biometric appointment and language tests.

I will have to spend £4,000 this year, to extend my visa by another 2.5 years, after which, I'll need to pay again for indefinite leave-to-remain.

On top of that, as a legal immigrant, I am understandably required to pay taxes, national insurance and can NOT claim benefits.

This on-going myth that legal immigrants are free-loading on UK taxpayers is complete bullshit. If anything, I'm subsidising them.

My legal immigrant ass is a net benefit to your country.

[Eddie Sammon @Sammon_En]

If a banker did what Peter Mandelson did, the banker would be sent to prison for facilitating insider trading.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

From what he’s just said in the White House Donald Trump seems to think we’re selling the Chagos Islands to Mauritius (‘do the Brits need the money?’).
Of course the UK is surrendering sovereignty AND paying Mauritius up to £34 billion over the next 100 years to lease back the islands, in what must be the worst deal any government has made in modern times.
You own something that nobody can take from you (whatever international lawyers say).
You give it away to a country of which it has never been a part.
Then you pay billions to lease it back.
Bonkers

[Eddie Sammon @Sammon_En]

UK gilt yields are soaring, the Bank of England is going to have to react, otherwise rising mortgage costs + UK government borrowing costs will cause a recession.

[Eddie Sammon @Sammon_En]

As an investment adviser, we are supposed to advise clients mostly based on "attitude to risk", but we should also be able to act on our predictions for the market, especially regarding the AI bubble, which is almost certainly going to burst.

[Eddie Sammon @Sammon_En]

@SophyRidgeSky My partner gave birth in a French public hospital and the maternity care was miles better than the NHS: no great emphasis on "natural birth", all mothers kept in the hospital for a minimum of 3 days after the birth (so four in total). A doctor nearby, private room. A lot better

[Sophy Ridge @SophyRidgeSky]

We've had a new report out into maternity and neonatal care and honestly... there's not a single surprise in it.

It's still - and I don't use these words lightly - a total disgrace. We've had multiple reports telling us this. And yet the same problems keep happening.

Women not being listened to - mums and babies being harmed or even dying - when they shouldn't be. So many people have their own stories - I'm sure if you're listening to this right now you might have your own story - or know someone who does.

There's one thing I wanted to pick out from the report by Baroness Valerie Amos.

The investigation heard cases of women who had lost babies being placed on wards with newborns.

This might seem like a little thing. But can you imagine losing a baby. The worst moment of your entire life. All those hopes and dreams for your child's future. Carrying the baby inside you - feeling it grow - and then the blood, the desperation that maybe it's going to be ok, surely it's got to be ok, and then the reality that you've lost your child.

And then what happens? You're put on a ward full of other mothers just like you... but these mums have their little babies in their arms.

That is not just negligent. It is cruel.

And it also happens systematically throughout the NHS. Having a miscarriage? Go to the maternity unit. Just had a scan where you'd hope to see your baby kicking but actually find out it doesn't have a heart beat? Go and sit down with all the happily pregnant mums.

This is symptomatic of a system where women are treated like vessels not like people who should be heard and listened to.

Because bringing life into the world can be the happiest time of your life. But it can also be the worst time of your life.

Either way - it's the most important moment. And that's why we've got to get this right.

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

Why do none of these "peace plans" include capping the russian invading army?

[Eddie Sammon @Sammon_En]

@jakepaul Game plan for Jake Paul: move in circles and make him chase you, whenever he gets close, grab him. It doesn't matter that he is stronger in the clinch, just fall over. Occasionally throw a punch when it is safe to do so. Do not stand and trade with Joshua or stand still.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Zelensky giving a somber address to the nation as he did in 2022, except this time the threat isn't invading Russian columns; it's the United States putting a gun to his head to sign a miserable deal written in Russia and practically in Russian. I hope Europe sees what's happening here and whatever remains of America's internationalist political establishment does, too. And I hope they understand how Witkoff, Kusher, and Dmitriev are using the clickbait press to launder this thing. Zelensky may be very weak and vulnerable but so is the guy shaking him down.

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

The Ukraine peace deal Steve Witkoff has ‘negotiated’ with Russia is seen in Kyiv as an all-out victory for Putin. Ukraine must lose half its army, accept the loss of Crimea and much of its eastern territory, and can’t join NATO. Russia rejoins the G-7 & its assets are unfrozen.