John Duncan 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

Here I am doing my 'man of the people' act with a permanently full pint in the hope that everyone will forget that I'm actually a privately educated, rich, greedy, entitled, selfish, bone-idle, grifting gobshite.

Hi @ChrisMasonBBC - why are you ignoring this bloke's dodgy tax stuff? Have you got to the bottom of Farage's house-buying confusions yet, or his crypto dealings? Did you investigate Lord Lebedev for 7 months? #r4today #BBCbias #ReformBBC @BBCpolitics

#HS2 was supposed to be a £36bn high speed rail network connecting London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, and be finished THIS YEAR. Now only one phase, it could cost over £100Bn with huge amounts of fraud baked in, and not until 2033. But... ferries. 🙄

@bbcdebatenight @BBCScotland @BBCiPlayer @BBCOne Labour’s Michael Marra has recently been told off by UK stats watchdog for lying about the Scottish NHS👇 Will he be asked about that? @StephenJardine #bbcdn

The SNP have kept Palantir out of the Scottish health service, Labour under Sarwar and Baillie would sell the SNHS to Palantir

@AnasSarwar You literally Hid, Covered up and Stole Scotland's Oil FFS #McCroneReport #LabourOut

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Remember the NHS before 15 years of Tory austerity.. Same day GP 95% seen within 4 hours in A&E No queuing ambulances 92% specialist treatment within 18 weeks 85% started cancer treatment within 62 days It’s not the NHS model that’s the issue, it’s our choice of leadership!

@paulhutcheon @bilbo815

ANY ANSWERS @BBCScotlandNews?

MASSIVE: 🇺🇸 The BBC just validated everything we've been saying. A clear pattern of trades right before major Trump announcements. Iran war. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. We tracked a whale for weeks. 0 losses. 11 wins. 100% win rate. You would go to prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. They front-run war decisions with billion dollar bets. Now the BBC has the receipts. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. The game is rigged. And now the world knows it.

I cannot unsee this. I've been watching Trump answer questions for years. The confidence. The certainty. The way he shuts down a room. I genuinely thought he was one of the sharpest communicators alive. Then one day I caught myself finishing his sentence before he said it. Not guessing. Knowing. Word for word. Before he said it. So I pulled the transcripts. Press conferences. Interviews. Sprays. Egg prices. Greenland. January 6th. Military strikes. Different years. Different reporters. Completely different topics. Same thing every time. Every single time Trump is asked a question — any question — he runs the exact same 7 steps. In the exact same order. Without exception. This is not personality. This is not confidence. This is not charisma. This is a deliberate repeatable formula. And I can prove it. His actual words. Public record. Verify every single one yourself. 📷 STEP 1 — KILL THE QUESTION (First thing every time — make the question itself the problem.) 📷 "That's a stupid question." / "Fake news." 📷 STEP 2 — KILL WHO ASKED IT (Destroy the source so the question has nowhere to stand.) 📷 "Your ratings are terrible. Nobody watches your network." 📷 STEP 3 — INSERT HIMSELF (Every topic. Every time. Without fail. It always lands here.) 📷 "Nobody has ever done what I've done." 📷 STEP 4 — SCALE IT TO THE BIGGEST CLAIM POSSIBLE (Not good. Not great. The greatest. Ever. In history. Every single time.) 📷 "More than any administration — by far." / "Nobody has ever had crowds like I've had — in history, for any country." 📷 STEP 5 — UNNAMED PEOPLE AGREE (Faceless. Countless. Unverifiable. Always there.) 📷 "Smart people are saying it. Great people. A lot of people." 📷 STEP 6 — VAGUE THREAT (Something bad will happen. Never specified. Always implied.) 📷 "All hell will break out." / "They know it. Believe me." 📷 STEP 7 — LOOP BACK TO HIMSELF (Different words. Same destination. Formula complete.) 📷 "It's been an amazing period of time. Page after page of accomplishments." The question was never answered. The formula just ran. Go back and watch any clip. Any year. Any topic. Any reporter. Count the steps. I'll wait. This is the part nobody wants to sit with: Real conviction engages with the actual question. It sometimes stumbles. Sometimes says I don't know. It changes shape based on what's in front of it. A formula runs the same 7 steps whether the topic is war or egg prices. Which means the response was never built for the question. It was built for you. To feel powerful. To feel certain. To stop you from noticing that nothing was actually answered. And it worked. For years it worked. Pull any transcript. Public record. Count the steps yourself. This isn't about politics. This is about what you were never supposed to notice. I've found the same deliberate pattern running in another major figure in this administration. Different slots. Same principle. Same effect. Next post I break it down. Follow or miss it. VIA~~ Jamie Hoo

The White House is completely silent as BBC confirms a consistent pattern of massive financial spikes occurring just minutes before Donald Trump makes market moving announcements. The administration is facing severe allegations of illegally profiteering off inside knowledge.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is quoting the fake bible verse from Quentin Tarantino's movie Pulp Fiction at a military prayer service. We live in the Idiocracy timeline now. We are already there. The dumbest people alive are in charge of everything.

Glenn Campbell asks if John Swinney is "picking a fight" with the UK Labour Govt by pledging an 'essential items' price cap. Sarwar announced a similar pledge on Monday. Was he picking a fight too? Seriously, how this man is a political editor is beyond us.

@PeterAdamSmith Communism? That's where main stream media broadcasters tell the proletariat what to think.🤔

ITV's Peter Smith describes John Swinney's pledge to cap the price of essential food items as ... communism. Communism? Is the energy price cap communism too? Are bus fare price caps also communism? When did broadcast journalism become this bad? Is Scotland just unlucky?

@BBCScotlandNews There’s BBC Scotland using Abdul Majid to criticise the SNP plans for a food price cap. BBC doesn’t tell you that Majid is a member of the Sarwar Foundation. Or that Majid went to court over the Deposit Return Scheme. @bbckirstenc @BBCPhilipSim @jamiemcbbc @GlennBBC

This one will require a stiff drink. In the early 1990s, the government came up with a clever idea. Instead of borrowing money cheaply to build hospitals, schools, and roads, it would get the private sector to build them and then pay the private sector back over 25 to 30 years. The Private Finance Initiative. PFI. The attraction was obvious. You got a shiny new hospital today. The bill didn't show up on the government's books. The cost was deferred into the future. Politicians got ribbon-cutting ceremonies without the awkward conversation about borrowing. It was, in effect, the nation's credit card. Buy now, pay later. Except the interest rate was extraordinary. The total capital value of everything built under PFI was around £50 billion. As of March 2024, there were 665 PFI contracts still running across the UK, with roughly £136 billion in remaining payments stretching out to the early 2050s. These are payments public bodies are contractually locked into. Hospitals, schools, councils, government departments. Paying for buildings that in many cases were constructed twenty or thirty years ago. And the terms are extraordinary. PFI contracts were structured so the private sector would not just build the facility but manage its services. Cleaning. Maintenance. Catering. Portering. These services are bundled into long-term contracts with built-in inflation increases that the public sector cannot renegotiate, cannot exit without paying massive penalties, and often cannot even fully scrutinise because of commercial confidentiality clauses. In one case raised in Parliament, a hospital was charged £333 to change a lightbulb. That isn't an urban myth. It was cited in Hansard. The NHS has been hit hardest. According to parliamentary analysis, the capital cost of NHS PFI projects was around £13 billion. The total repayments are estimated at around £80 billion. And the peak of NHS PFI annual repayments isn't even here yet. It arrives in 2029. The bills are still going up. In 2020-21, NHS trusts paid £457 million purely in interest charges on PFI contracts. Not services. Not maintenance. Interest. In the last five years, NHS trusts have handed over more than £1.8 billion in PFI interest alone. We Own It calculates that money would have covered the starting salaries of over 50,000 new doctors. One NHS trust, Essex Partnership, has reportedly paid back 27 times what was originally borrowed. Some hospitals are spending more on PFI repayments than on medicines for patients. And remember, these repayments come out of the same NHS budget that's supposed to fund patient care, staff, and equipment. Scotland got it just as badly. Audit Scotland reported that Scottish taxpayers will pay a cumulative £40 billion for PFI assets worth just £9 billion. North Ayrshire Council will have paid £440 million by 2038 for four schools that cost £83 million to build. Now here's what makes this worse. Many of these contracts are starting to expire. The buildings are being handed back to the public sector. And the NAO has warned of significant risks around the handback process, including cases where public bodies were dissatisfied with the condition of assets being returned to them. Decades of payments. And some of these buildings may come back needing significant further investment. So what actually happened? The government could have borrowed money at significantly lower rates to build these hospitals and schools itself. Sovereign borrowing has always been cheaper than private finance. Instead, it paid the private sector to borrow at a premium and passed the inflated cost on to the taxpayer. The private sector took the profit. The taxpayer took the risk. The buildings are now ageing. The debts are still being paid. And the services that were supposed to benefit are being squeezed partly because so much of their budget is locked into contractual obligations they cannot escape. PFI wasn't investment. It was an accounting trick. A way for governments to build things without the borrowing showing up in the national debt figures. It made politicians look fiscally responsible while loading future generations with obligations they had no say in and no ability to renegotiate. Both parties did this. The Conservatives created PFI in 1992. Labour massively expanded it after 1997. More than 700 projects were signed. The coalition eventually wound it down. The current government scrapped the latest version. But the contracts remain. The payments continue. And the damage is already done. This is what it looks like when a country chooses to buy its infrastructure on hire purchase instead of investing properly. You lock in above-market rates for decades. You lose control of the assets. You tie the hands of future governments. And when the bill keeps coming due, you're told there's no money for doctors, teachers, or social care. There was always money. It just went somewhere else.

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