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Patrick Henningsen
23, June #BrokenSystem

Patrick Henningsen: Notice how in her pandering to...

Notice how in her pandering to the Far Right reactionary mob, Liz Truss conveniently leaves out the part that all major migration flows into Europe are a direct result of UK/NATO & Israeli foreign interventions (as well as CIA/MI6 covert ops) and sanctions that have wrecked Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Iran, Yugoslavia et al. People need to stop being duped into a race war. You are being manipulated by the political/oligarch class and Military & Israel Lobbies - to fight their wars at home and abroad…
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Deborah Haynes
23, June #BrokenSystem

Deborah Haynes:NEW: Dan Jarvis, the new defence...

NEW: Dan Jarvis, the new defence secretary, signalled he is pushing for extra money for the armed forces and said he would not publish a defence investment plan “at any cost”. It is understood that a decision by his predecessor, John Healey, to quit over a failure by Sir Keir Starmer and his chancellor to find sufficient additional funding has had an impact on discussions. However it is not clear what that might mean in terms of the size of any additional uplift. The government is thought to have been seeking to release the long-delayed Defence Investment Plan on Monday but that date appeared in doubt as discussions continue between the Ministry of Defence and the Treasury. Dan Jarvis said he wants the document released – as the outgoing prime minister has promised – ahead of a major NATO summit in Tukey on 7 and 8 July. But this would mean Andy Burnham, or whoever replaces Mr Starmer, would not have had the chance to endorse what is a fundamental piece of UK government policy – the plan to defend the nation and be ready for a potential war by 2030. Addressing an annual army conference in London, Mr Jarvis said: “My priority is to get the defence investment plan done, but not at any cost. I have a responsibility to get it right.” Asked whether he was seeking additional funding and – if he did not succeed – whether he would delay publication until a new prime minister takes office, the defence secretary said: “I want to do right by defence, I want to do right by industry, and I want to honour the commitments that the prime minister and I have made about doing this prior to the Ankara summit.” He said that he was “working very closely with my colleagues in government, with the prime minister, and with the chancellor”. Mr Jarvis described having had “very good and constructive meetings” with Rachel Reeves over the past few days. “I am determined to secure the best possible deal that I can, and I'm determined to do that sooner rather than later.” But there is a clear question of time, with the summit barely two weeks away and with Mr Starmer then handing over to his successor as soon as 17 July. “Time is not my friend, because we've got to do this well in advance of going to Ankara, and that is what I'm aiming to do,” Mr Jarvis said. “But I'm also aiming to get it right and make sure that we've got the resource that we need and the right mix of capabilities to demonstrate that international leadership to our allies and most importantly make sure that our people in defence have got the resources that they need and that they understand that we will invest in them for the longer term. That is my job. That is a job I take very, very seriously. That is a job that I am determined to succeed.” Mr Healey and Al Carns, the armed forces minister, resigned from government almost two weeks ago in protest at a failure to fund the defence investment plan sufficiently. In particular, Mr Healey was seeking a commitment to lift defence spending to 3% of GDP from just over 2.3% by 2030 – a move that would unlock tens of billions of additional money. The UK is committed – along with its NATO allies – to increasing the spending target to 3.5% by 2035 but has yet set out a clear trajectory for this boost. It is something that Mr Jarvis also appeared keen to address. “I want to demonstrate to our allies that, as they have been able to previously, they can look to us for leadership in this area,” he said. “The backstop is 3.5% by 2035 In truth, it's in the normal order of things, spending reviews that chart those kind of major spending commitments, but those conversations are well underway with the chancellor, and they will no doubt continue for the next day or two”
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Pat Condell
23, June #BrokenSystem

Pat Condell: Why did we vote for Brexit ten years...

Why did we vote for Brexit ten years ago? Because we understood that the core purpose of the European Union is to destroy the independent countries of Europe by opening the borders and transforming a diverse continent of sovereign nations into a single homogenous political bloc governed by a committee of unelected bureaucrats, as a model for the planned global dictatorship. Obviously, you’re not going to get many votes for that if you just lay it out for people, so you start with something innocuous like trade. You say “Let’s harmonise our trade arrangements and everything will run more smoothly.” And people say “Yes, that sounds like a good idea.” Then you say “While we’re at it, let’s give this small group of people the power to organise all this from one place, and everything will run more smoothly.” “Well, I suppose that makes sense. We want things to run smoothly.” Then it’s “Actually, let’s give these people the power to make our laws and override our parliament and justice system, and everything will run much more smoothly.” “Hold on a second, I don’t know about that…” “You fascist. You racist. You xenophobe. You bigot. You pig ignorant little Englander. You vermin. You scum.” Although that attitude certainly helped to tip the balance, the most important reason we voted for Brexit is that politicians had no right to sign away the governance of the UK to a foreign entity, but that is what they did, while pretending it was about trade. They lied to us, and they tried to cheat us out of our country. That is why we voted for Brexit, and it’s why we’re now being punished for our disobedience by traitors who refuse to secure the border and who are allowing our country to be flooded with millions of unwanted and incompatible immigrants and illegally invaded and occupied by an army of dangerous military age men in whose presence no woman or child is safe. Forced mass immigration from hostile and barbarous cultures is punishment for Brexit. Our country is being purposely destroyed for not voting the way we were told.
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Liz Webster
23, June #BrokenSystem

Liz Webster: Brexit was meant to unleash British...

Brexit was meant to unleash British dynamism. Instead, the UK stock market is little changed in ten years. The same big FTSE names dominate, while the US has seen explosive growth in tech and AI. UK small-caps and domestic firms missed the global rally entirely, hit by sterling weakness, higher costs, and damaged confidence. This is the reality of Brexit Britain: stagnation at home while the world moves on.
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Ben Judah
23, June #StarmerCrisis

Ben Judah: We’ve heard a lot about what Keir...

We’ve heard a lot about what Keir Starmer got wrong. We’ve heard less that he got unlucky. Donald Trump has played a big role in derailing his premiership. 1️⃣ Trump’s return fuelled a surge in support for right wing populism. Reform was at 19% on November 4th 2024. By his inauguration they were at 25% and neck and neck with Labour. In between: non-stop media coverage of Trump’s agenda. 2️⃣ Trump’s victory emboldened Musk who incessantly attacked Starmer over grooming gangs and promoted far right accounts, memes and politicians such as Rupert Lowe through his algorithm. Since then the X and Facebook algorithm have rewarded right wing political content since has fuelled the loathing of Starmer. 3️⃣ Trump’s win turned Net Zero from a common Western cause championed by the White House with major cross-party support in the UK into a wedge issue. This opened the way for right wing media and politics to crusade against Net Zero as a Labour eccentricity. 4️⃣ Trump’s interventions in UK politics to humiliate the Prime Minister over his issues from Net Zero to immigration hurt. Not to mention the painful images of Starmer’s interactions with him as he pursued British interests. These genuinely weakened his authority as the Greens hoovered up disgruntled progressives. 5️⃣ Trump made the world economy worse from his misconceived tariffs to his Hormuz-blocking war on Iran, knocking out the green shoots of better growth. This has together brought higher inflation, more expensive gilts and lower growth than had the Democrats won. ▶️ Starmer’s political mistake was not to pivot. This should have happened when JD Vance upbraided Zelensky in the White House and brought in a freeze of military aid on Ukraine. When Zelensky flew to London afterwards to seek the embrace of his closest ally — the UK — it was a top most watched moment of the year. ▶️ Starmer should have addressed the nation like a war leader and announced though we remained allied with the US we had heard loud and clear they expected us to be able to face Russia alone and that we must now prepare for such a war. ▶️ Starmer should have announced a war readiness package of higher taxes on the super rich and ending the triple lock to pay for rearmament. He should have said a trade war was becoming and he was immediately restarting talks with the EU to forge a “customs alliance” that would see us rejoin their customs union to prepare for a tariffs war. At that moment the media would have clapped and so would the PLP. ▶️ But the pivot never came. And that is a warning to Andy Burnham as he takes over Number 10. More on what he should do next to deal with Trump on @ArguablyMag .
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Kathy Gyngell
22, June #StarmerCrisis

Kathy Gyngell: Did you hear Keir's resignation...

Did you hear Keir's resignation speech? 2 years of glorious social and economic regeneration? Hmmm you could have fooled me, @Keir_Starmer . Yet for some astonishing, unfathomable reason, the Parliamentary Labour Party want rid of their heroic leader. http://conservativewoman.co.uk/delusional-to-the-death-starmers-resignation-speech-proved-why-he-had-to-go/ http://conservativewoman.co.uk/delusional-to-the-death-starmers-resignation-speech-proved-why-he-had-to-go/
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