Yusuf
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BREAKING: Doubts are prevailing in the White House, and US President Donald Trump now believes that the opening of the Strait of Hormuz is unlikely in the near term, reports Reuters, citing a White House official.
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@WhiteHouse TWICE you negotiated with Iran, TWICE you bombed them whilst you were negotiating.
I get the feeling negotiations are a waste of time if you are not sincere.
A person is only as good as their word.
At the moment USA is worth zero because what you say is meaningless.
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"The Iranians don’t seem to realize they have no cards..." - President Donald J. Trump
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@Conservatives The Conservatives did have a two child policy.
Did they spend it on defence?
NO.
In fact the military is in such a poor state because of 14 years of Conservatives rule, let's face it, you were useless.
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The next Conservative government will bring back the two-child benefit cap, and use that money to fund our Armed Forces.
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قناة بقيمة 100 مليار دولار قد تحل أزمة النفط 🚢 حرب بين الولايات المتحدة وإيران
ماذا لو لم تكن السفن بحاجة إلى مضيق هرمز؟ 👀
قناة بقيمة 100 مليار دولار بين الإمارات وسلطنة عمان قد تغير صناعة النفط العالمية إلى الأبد.
طرق أسرع. مخاطر أقل. تأثير هائل. 🌍⛽
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@ThatAlexWoman To use your football analogy, the rich countries like to play at war AWAY from home.
That way none of their cities get bombed. No civilians from their country gets hurt.
If they had to play at HOME then there would be more opposition to war.
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I can't remember there being an obsession about totting up who has been 'winning' a war the most, like I am currently seeing over Iran.
It is entirely because so many people just want to see Trump fail, at any cost, or win, at any cost. Never mind reality.
I suppose it's the natural follow on from the chronic blow by blow commentary over Gaza
The Footballification of War
We didn't / don't do it with Ukraine. No identity politics there.
Nor did America ever demand to know Europe's 'plan' before handing over $60m. Evidently Europe never had one. And still doesn't.
But "Orange Man Bad" or "Free Free Palestine" has turned swathes of society into foam flecked twats.
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@husainhaqqani So why did warships from other countries stop Iranian ships carrying Iranian oil.
India stopped two for example.
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The Strait of Hormuz is an international strait. Under UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (which Iran has not ratified) all ships & aircraft enjoy freedom of navigation & overflight. No state can suspend this right. Rights are not subject to negotiation & renegotiation.
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Keir Starmer is the John Terry of the Iran war - all he's done is make UK irrelevant on world stage.
My column for today's @TheSun newspaper. Lint to full column ⬇️
thesun.co.uk/news/38774803/…
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@KemiBadenoch The Conservatives did have a two child policy.
Did they spend it on defence?
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We are now spending five times more on welfare than on defence. This must change!
The Conservatives will bring back the two-child benefit cap and use the money for defence.
The security of the United Kingdom is our priority, and we have a plan for a stronger country.
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@KemiBadenoch You can have any policies you like and have a two child benefit cap, if you win power.
Don't use it to divide people, one against another.
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@ClaireCoutinho Do people decide to have children depending on what benefits they can get.
Remember those benefits can be taken away if another party comes into power.
Do you need to keep an eye on the opinion polls before going to bed ?
Will childbirths fall under the Conservatives ?
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Many couples work hard, but cannot afford to have another child.
Yet from this week, they’ll be paying more in tax so that couples on welfare with four, five, or six children receive more in benefits.
This is not fair. It is not compassionate to make welfare pay more than work.
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Good grief. How does Keir Starmer manage to be SO wrong about EVERYTHING?
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Sir Keir Starmer interview with @Peston * Says Israeli airstrikes against Lebanon are 'wrong' and should not be happening "Let me be really clear about it. They're wrong and they shouldn't be happening. That's my strong view. The question isn't a technical one of whether it's a breach of the agreement [the ceasefire] or not. [It is] actually a matter of principles as far as I'm concerned." * The UK is monitoring the US use of British bases to ensure they are not conducting "offensive" strikes 'From the get-go we've been monitoring this situation so I'm pretty clear on my own mind about what we've agreed and what the use of the bases are and that is a really important point of principle because we have to learn the lessons of Iraq' * Says he is 'fed up' with families seeing their bills rise 'because of the actions of Trump and Putin'. Argues there needs to be greater energy independence 'I'm fed up with the fact that families across the country see their bills go up and down on energy, businesses' bills go up and down on energy because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world and saying to families across the country, saying to businesses across the country: 'we've just got to be, we've got to put up with being on the international market'.'
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@KathyConWom @Ed_Miliband Funny how the Conservatives under Thatcher sold off North Sea oil and gas licences and now blame Labour.
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While Ed Miliband kills off North Sea gas, Norway pockets £50bn a year from theirs. Funny how that works.
@Ed_Miliband
conservativewoman.co.uk/what-norway-ca…
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@BBCWorld Iran had learnt before the war started, no point fighting US and Israel with fighter planes or warships, a complete waste of money.
So they concentrated on drones and missiles which they can move and hide.
They knocked out more planes on the ground parked up then in the air.
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After weeks of war, what has US achieved in Iran? bbc.in/4cns8aK
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@JFAIRU0 @pritipatel Which British Citizens?
The ones who left the UK to avoid paying UK tax?
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@pritipatel Now there’s a ceasefire Chris Starmer is going to the Middle East acting like the ceasefire was all his idea. He left British citizens unprotected when they asked for help. The man is an absolute disgrace. I’m rather than than acting the hero he needs to resign in shame.
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Keir Starmer has disappointed our allies in the Middle East during this conflict.
The Labour Government’s lack of substance in defending our allies and protecting British assets has been deafening.
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@pritipatel No point sending our troops to a danger zone, in a war we are not involved in.
I presume you would send them to Ukraine too.
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@ProlificIntent Yes we have data centre's for banks etc, but Open AI is something else.
They can consume enormous amounts of power and need water to cool the system too.
If they can generate profit, they can provide and pay for their own electricity.
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@BritishYusuf Data centres power everything from banking, apps, video games, your online shop, as well as training AI models like the ones that'll be going into robots and GPUs.
Maybe stop speaking about things you know little to nothing about.
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🚨We just lost on our share of $500 billion of AI investment because of our insane energy prices.
We cannot afford to miss the growth opportunities from the industries of the future. Yet Labour are doubling down and locking us into higher energy prices for longer.
We are the only party with a Cheap Power Plan that would cut costs for households AND businesses.
Guido Fawkes@GuidoFawkes
Disaster for Miliband as OpenAI Pauses Huge UK Project Over Energy Costs & Regulation order-order.com/2026/04/09/dis…
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@LBC @NickFerrariLBC It seems as they get away with lies in America, they are trying it out here.
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Who is to blame for 'hollowing out' Britain's military?
Sir James Cleverly blames the Prime Minister. But some of @NickFerrariLBC's listeners get in touch to argue otherwise.
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No. Trump didn't lose. The West lost. In the last few weeks we've proven comprehensively that we are decadent. We are unwilling (not unable) to bear the cost of tackling an existential threat. We'll reap what our civilisational weakness has shown.
Daniel Hannan@DanielJHannan
Trump has just lost a war to Iran. I would liken it to the Suez débâcle except that, at Suez, Britain successfully swept Egyptian resistance aside. We were defeated by Eisenhower’s hostility, not Nasser’s tanks. This time, the US just flat out lost - and the world is vastly worse off for it.
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