Deb Waines

@lee_spicer1 @silverrich39 It doesn't mention socialism once. It refers to the damage done by Thatcher

@DebWaines @silverrich39 Links a Google search (with no source) and a BBC (Pravda) article to prove point that Socialism (the spending of hard working people's money on the lazy/hopeless) is a good thing. You must be a liberal academic?

As you can see from the reaction to my post she still has many supporters!

@krantz_dean @piersmorgan Oddly similar

@piersmorgan It reminds me of the Barbary Pirate Wars. All the major nations of Europe were content to pay extortion to the Muslim pirates and suffer their slave raids in Southern and Eastern Europe. America said "No" and went to war against them with zero support from Europe.

This is a brazen pre-admission of genocide against the Iranian people, which would obviously be a war crime. Madness.

@lee_spicer1 @silverrich39

@silverrich39 She basically saved this country from a horrific post industrial decline, without her we would probably be on a par with Greece, economically. I suppose we could have carried on digging out coal, that nobody wanted and all skip around together waving Trade union banners.

@PaulRChase @DrJStrategy

Well, here are my thoughts... Firstly, I doubt that Trump has ever heard of Hegel or would have the slightest inkling of what 'dialectic' means. But the picture you present is essentially Trump's narrative - that NATO allies and others are free-riders on American hard power. But your analysis is ahistorical. You write as if America has no skin in the game - like they're doing the rest of us a big favour keeping the bad guys at bay. You don't mention the petrodollar system that replaced the Bretton-Woods Agreement that was repudiated by the 'Nixon-shock' in 1974. That new system was a deal between the US and Saudi Arabia, and then the other Gulf petrostates, whereby in return for American guarantees of security and investment these states would price and sell oil in US Dollars - and then recycle the Dollar surplus back into the US economy by buying US debt. It is this arrangement that has created an almost limitless demand for US loan notes and funded 50 years-worth of US budget deficits. Part of that US security guarantee was to keep the Hormuz Strait open so the oil exports could keep flowing. But in this present conflict America has failed to defend its Gulf allies from Iran's retaliatory strikes and now the Hormuz Strait is closed. This is a strategic catastrophe for the US - proving themselves to be unreliable allies to the very states that buy their debt. This could be the fulcrum on which the petrodollar system is undermined or even collapses and the Yuan becomes the currency for pricing oil. This isn't some Trump-genius Hegelian dialectic working its way through, it's a god-almighty cock-up by a President being manipulated by a Zionist Israeli leader. The tail wagging the dog nearly always leads to disaster.

Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

@realrealitybit1 @FurkanGozukara Jonathan Powell this time theguardian.com/politics/2003/…

@FurkanGozukara It goes further than them. The UK is their manager. Remember who sabotaged the Ukraine peace negotiations? He told Zelensky "you will not negotiate Peace." The mop-head blonde: Boris Johnson. City of London is the Root of all Evil.

Absolute bombshell on live TV. US Senator Chris Coons confirms Israel intentionally assassinated the exact Iranian leader the Trump Administration was trying to negotiate peace with. Israel deliberately sabotaged diplomacy to trap Washington in an endless war.

@BBCNews cbsgb.co.uk/news/125/where…

PM gives BMA 48 hours to call-off strike or lose 1,000 training posts bbc.in/4bXF8Ug

@SkyNews agindustries.org.uk/resource/aic-i….

@SkyNews October last year

'It's a really serious situation': Warning food prices are set to spike in the UK Read more 🔗 trib.al/jJ6uJ86

@BazaritoDorito @GL_Today @SkyNews October last year agindustries.org.uk/resource/aic-i….

@GL_Today @SkyNews Its literally to do with the supply of ammonia, which we use for fertaliser, which has been hampered by the Iran War

@MDC12345678 agindustries.org.uk/resource/aic-i…

To be absolutely clear, the looming fertiliser and food price crisis has not happened to us. We have done this to ourselves. In 2014, I worked with the UK’s shale gas sector and the fertiliser industry. Our warning was very simple: without domestic gas, you lose ammonia; lose ammonia, you lose fertiliser; lose fertiliser, you hit food supply. Ammonia is also needed to make... explosives - which are quite handy when you need to re-arm. Westminster, green campaigners and national media journalists scoffed. It was dismissed by anti-fracking campaigners as “scraping the barrel”. Then reality intervened in 2021–22 with the war in Ukraine. In June 2022, fertiliser producers went into administration because they could not secure feedstocks at viable prices. By 2023, CF Fertilisers (which acquired Grow How) announced the permanent closure of its UK operations. And now, in 2026, we are told the problem is Donald Trump and disruption to the Strait of Hormuz. This is classic obscurantism. Shift the focus to the trigger. Avoid the structural cause: domestic energy policy, climate policy (Net Zero) and deindustrialisation. And continue to deny the potential of shale and the North Sea. Our media and political elites do this because confronting the actual cause is too uncomfortable. Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats all chose, over time, to make this country more dependent. Not always explicitly, not always deliberately, but consistently. Sabotage fracking. Ban it in 2019. Vandalise the North Sea with the EPL. Allow energy-intensive industry, including fertiliser, to be offshored. Accept higher costs and greater reliance on imports as the price of policy. And if you are Ed Davey, boast to journalists that you are “proud” to have played your part in sabotaging the sector as Energy Secretary. SW1 can dress it up however they like. They can continue to point to geopolitics, wars, foreign leaders. But the chain was known in the 2010s. The risks were flagged. The capacity was allowed to wither anyway. Now the whole country will pay for it. See the @NWTaskforce briefing note from 2014 here: d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/nwenergy/pages…

@shiftychicken 🤔

CIA Reading Room anyone? cia.gov/library/abbott…

@teutonicus2024 @MJTruthUltra edition.cnn.com/2026/03/16/bus…

@MJTruthUltra There are blocked 2000 ships. So we need two years for the current jam. 😂😂

President Trump on AF1: Iran gave us 20 boats of Oil going through the Hormuz Strait as a sign of respect — We blew a lot of Iranian targets up today, their Navy’s gone, their Air Force is gone. Everything is going extremely well, but you never know with Iran. We negotiate with them but then we always have to blow them up.” He proceeds to highlight how Barrack Hussein Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal would have nuclearized Iran. rumble.com/v77tqzi-iran-g…

@Harrisbro777 @deNutrients Not true

@NicholasLe81575 @RichardWellings

@RichardWellings already 1.89 in E.Surrey and thats at the reasonable stns not ones up near M25

"The new price of a litre of diesel will be £1.85 - an increase of approximately 50p." Which in turn will push up prices for other goods and services...

Drivers on the Isle of Man have been asked not to panic buy fuel after diesel pumps on the island ran dry over the weekend. bbc.in/4di2gPA

@LordRedfern @AllBiteNoBark88

One rando screenshot of someone sending a message does not constitute fact, ive seen this image circulating the boomer circles on facebook. Geelong refines 5-10% of the total Australian consumption, not sure if that can be increased. But ive spoken to petrol station managers who have told me their shipment situation is bleak

I know to be true

@DailyMirror @G_C_HQ

Petrol shortages warning as Tesco joins Asda in huge UK fuel cutback mirror.co.uk/money/petrol-s…

@lostinganglia @davidkurten

@davidkurten Here’s how you sound David “There’s abundance of wood, steel and limestone so there’s abundance of houses” Wonder what’s up with David’s and being conspiratorial.. David Icke, David Wolfe, David Duke.. list goes on.

There is an abundance of oil. There is an abundance of coal. There is an abundance of gas. There is an abundance of food. There is an abundance of water. Scarcity is being fabricated by psychopaths.

Who can forget the great Covid era global run on toilet roll, which also originated in reporting from Australia? The bigger point here is that so much of the modern economy remains super efficient, just in time, low stock, but also low resilience to mass rapid changes in consumer behaviour… all this works better when there is high public trust/ stability.

@JimFergusonUK @FUNKNA

x.com/JimFergusonUK/… 🚨 NO FUEL — NO FOOD — THIS IS WHAT COMES NEXT An Australian farmer just exposed the reality most people don’t see: It takes tens of thousands of litres of diesel just to grow and harvest a single crop. Now imagine that fuel isn’t there. No diesel means no harvesting. No harvesting means no transport. No transport means no food reaching shelves. This is not theory — it’s already starting. Fuel shortages are building. Costs are rising. Deliveries are slowing. And this doesn’t stop at Australia. Around 20% of the world’s oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz — and that artery is under pressure. If that flow tightens further… This becomes global. Food disruption. Price shocks. Supply shortages. Most people are not prepared for how fast this can unfold. Because crises like this don’t begin with empty shelves. They begin quietly… And then suddenly everything changes.