Not a Business Rescue, but a Political Manoeuvre
The Prime Minister announced tax cuts aimed at saving High Streets. However, representatives of business and the public have criticised these plans and accused the head of government of populism.
Adam Brooks: Mass protests in Spain...
🚨 Mass protests in Spain over the illegal immigrant invasion of Ceuta
Patrick Henningsen: The U.S. can only sustain...
The U.S. can only sustain these exchanges for a limited time before they have emptied their essential missile & munition stocks to critical levels. No amount of bluster or tweeting can change this reality.
Jackie Walker: US Democrats...
US Democrats repeat the Labour playbook
Pouria Zeraati: The Islamic Republic is a master...
The Islamic Republic is a master at screwing itself over :) From Khorramshahr '81 to Hormuz '405: Chris Wright, the US Energy Secretary, says that on Monday, 17 million barrels of oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz, the highest amount since the war began.
Liz Webster: This is a disgracefully evasive...
‼️ This is a disgracefully evasive and weak answer from @andyburnham @amcarmichaelMP asked whether Britain would protect consumers and farmers from Brazilian beef the EU is banning over inadequate antimicrobial assurances. Burnham deflected to public procurement. Schools buying British beef will not stop rejected Brazilian meat entering supermarkets, restaurants and processed foods. This is a public-health and food-standards issue not a procurement exercise. Britain must mirror the EU suspension immediately. We cannot become the dumping ground for meat our nearest market refuses to accept. Two people are dead and 474 have contracted Salmonella in outbreaks strongly associated with imported eggs served in cafés, restaurants and takeaways. Public procurement does not protect anyone eating outside a school or hospital. It neither stops rejected imports entering Britain nor provides traceability once they disappear into catering and processed food. Food safety requires prevention, not excuses after people become ill.
Adam Brooks: Labour to field...
Labour to field a refugee as their Holborn and St Pancras candidate.
Andrew Bridgen: This is interesting news...
This is interesting news and it will send a chill through the bones of the tax evading ‘elites’. If President Trump’s administration can do this to the Iranian leadership they can do it to all the off-shore tax haven users and money launderers. Many of them will be sweating in the UK. The U.S. says the tens of billions siphoned out of Iran by the Islamic Republic’s ruling class are no longer safe, as it comes directly for the personal wealth they stole from the country. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the United States has mapped the offshore system used by senior Islamic Republic officials, IRGC figures and their families to hide enormous wealth abroad, and he is threatening to freeze it. “We know where in the British Virgin Islands your accounts are at these trust companies. We know the $100 million houses you have around the world, and we are going to freeze those.” Bessent has previously said the Islamic Republic’s inner circle was siphoning roughly $400–500 million out of Iran every month, equivalent to billions every year, while the IRGC may also be skimming a massive share of the country’s oil revenues. And even figures from within the Islamic Republic are now undermining the regime’s constant claim that sanctions are responsible for Iran having no money. Iranian economist and former government adviser Saeed Laylaz put the scale of internal theft and capital flight far higher: “$40–50 billion is being stolen from Iran’s economy every year, and you’re still focusing on sanctions? This is capital theft and massive capital flight out of Iran.” The money is moved through offshore trusts, BVI shell companies, exchange houses, front traders, crypto wallets and family-controlled companies, before reappearing as luxury property and investments from London to Dubai. Treasury has already gone after regime-linked financiers and networks tied to properties across the United Kingdom, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Cyprus and the UAE, while Bessent says roughly $1 billion in Iranian crypto assets has already been seized. Now the pressure is becoming personal. Bessent says weekly bank sanctions are coming, while airline-leasing companies and businesses dealing with the IRGC are also being targeted as Treasury tries to choke the channels that move and replenish these fortunes. The contrast is staggering. The Islamic Republic blames sanctions for Iran’s poverty while people connected to the system siphon billions out of the same economy, hide it offshore and accumulate enormous fortunes abroad as ordinary Iranians watch their wages and savings collapse. Bessent says the objective is to “economically asphyxiate this regime.” That increasingly means not only cutting Iran’s oil and banking revenues, but finding the billions accumulated by the people running the Islamic Republic and freezing the accounts, trusts and luxury properties where they thought their money was safe. https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/2094789366778368249Andrew Bridgen: Fired Ukrainian defense chief...
Fired Ukrainian defense chief cashes in with Palantir Mykhailo Fedorov lasted just six months as Ukraine’s defense minister before Zelensky fired him amid bitter clashes with the military leadership. Now he is turning to Alex Karp of Palantir. The revolving door spins again.
David Frost: Let's hope he means he'll drop...
Let's hope he means he'll drop the absurd Starmer agrifood deal making British farmers follow EU laws without our government having any say in them. However, I'm not holding my breath. When this govt says it wants a better deal it usually means acceding to more EU demands.
Andrew Feinstein: You too will soon be gone...
You too will soon be gone @DavidLammy to join your friend @Keir_Starmer in some dodgy job with a huge salary - your bribes for serving up the British state to Trump & his corporate criminals; & participating in & enabling a genocide from which the arms companies have profited
James Foster: . @ZackPolanski is currently the most high-profile...
. @ZackPolanski is currently the most high-profile Green in the UK, with significant reach and visibility. Everyone knows how brilliant it would be if he won. But I think he needs to weigh up what a loss would mean. It wouldn’t just be a personal defeat. His opponents would seize on it and exploit a narrative (they construct) relentlessly. And they’d enjoy doing so.
Bushra Shaikh: Time for Britain to cut loose...
Time for Britain to cut loose this extremist Government. Expel Israeli ambassadors and ban all serving IDF members from entering into our country. Threatening the UK is a serious security issue. Enough is enough.
Philip Proudfoot: The only place you should be...
The only place you should be standing shoulder to shoulder with Starmer is when you’re both in the dock at The Hague.
Philip Proudfoot: Keir Starmer should not be allowed...
Keir Starmer should not be allowed to waltz out of parliament into some international organisation sinecure. Everywhere he goes, he should be reminded he made our country an active participant in genocide and arrested those who sought to stop it. He should be in The Hague.Lee Hurst: Let’s see if this gains as much...
Let’s see if this gains as much traction as Nigel Farage being told off for filming on the HoC roof without permission.
Patrick Christys: The government claims victory...
The government claims victory over illegal small boat crossings - tonight 10pm @GBNEWS reveals exclusive footage of illegal migrants breaking into lorries destined for the U.K. - thanks to @thenowherephoto
Carl Benjamin: Farage, the last of the boomers...
Farage, the last of the boomers, has nowhere else to go except for calling us Nazis. Pathetic.Pouria Zeraati: The Islamic Republic never imagined...
The Islamic Republic never imagined that someone who knows the filthy nature of the mullahs would come to power in America and give them a sound thrashing: Trump started the "tanker for tanker" policy last night; for every attack the IRGC carries out, America will strike the regime's own ships in return. A bunch of two-bit, shrine-weeping zealots picked a fight with a guy who's in the real estate game—and in New York, no less :))Pouria Zeraati: Important...
Important/ Sounds of explosions in Bandar Abbas, Chabahar, and several other points in southern Iran. American sources say that on Trump's orders, CENTCOM is carrying out operations against the IRGC.Andrew Bridgen: Former PM Starmer has resigned...
Former PM Starmer has resigned as an MP triggering a by election in Holborn and St Pancras. This will be a test of unelected PM Burnham’s popularity and support. A good result for Labour will make a snap General Election more likely. Expect more engineered by elections as these are the only polls that really count. Starmer was the most unpopular PM in living memory.Adam Brooks: High inflation High spending High borrowing...
High inflation High spending High borrowing High interest rates Almost no economic growth THAT’S WHY BURNHAM WILL CALL AN EARLY GENERAL ELECTION… TO FRONT RUN THE SHIT SHOW ABOUT TO HIT US. THEY KNOW THAT THINGS WILL GET A LOT WORSE
Edwin Hayward: Starmer's final u-turn...
Starmer's final u-turn: standing down after saying he would continue to serve as an MP. Soon, we won't have to think about him ever again.James Foster: I think @UKLabour...
I think @UKLabour will hold Holborn and St Pancras. @AndrewFeinstein ate into @Keir_Starmer ’s vote share because he was, rightly, able to go for Sir Keir’s failings on a personal level. Depending who Labour’s candidate is next time, it’s unlikely that animosity will be there.
Alice Smith: The ‘Conservatives’ are an opposition...
The ‘Conservatives’ are an opposition party to Labour - but they offer no opposing ideology, policies or trajectory.Philip Proudfoot: Not driven by helping his constituents...
Not driven by helping his constituents, but more interested in standing on a podium at NATO conferences This is always who Keir Starmer was: a shallow, hollow, vacuous man who is, somehow, also filled with self-importance.Adam Brooks: Keir Starmer - The worst Prime Minister...
Keir Starmer - The worst Prime Minister of our lifetime should be nowhere near NATO or a global organisation of power. He’s going to be another Tony Blair. Interfering with us now indirectly.Andrew Feinstein: It has not been an honour...
It has not been an honour or a privilege to have you as our MP @Keir_Starmer . You have given us authoritarianism, a cost of living crisis, support for genocide, corrosion of our democracy & civil liberties & extreme mendacity. We knew this would happen which is why you lost half your votes in the last election. It would have been great to have an opportunity to defeat you & everything you stand forPouria Zeraati: Important...
Important/ America is striking regime positions in Ahvaz in response to IRGC attacks. Regime sources have reported that the IRGC has launched a new round of missile attacks originating from Karaj, Yazd, and Khomain.Read more