Den Leonard

“If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.” — Milton Friedman

BBC puts out climate alarmist propaganda not journalism.

Amazing how reality punches straight through the narrative. A country that literally shares a border with Israel… Has a majority population of Palestinian origin… Sits in one of the most unstable regions on Earth… And yet - it’s still standing. That country is Jordan. Let’s get brutally honest about why. PEACE OVER CHAOS In 1994, Jordan signed a peace treaty with Israel. Not protests. No chaos. A real agreement. Secure borders No staging attacks from either side Intelligence + counterterrorism cooperation Result? While neighbors burned - Syria collapsed into civil war, Iraq got ripped apart by insurgency and militias - Jordan stayed intact. STABILITY ISN’T FREE — IT’S BUILT Jordan isn’t some rich powerhouse. ▶️ ~11.5 million people ▶️ ~50–70% of Palestinian origin ▶️ Lower-middle income ▶️ No oil wealth By every “activist logic” metric… it should have fallen. It didn’t. Why? Because it made strategic deals that actually work. HARD REALITY: MUTUAL BENEFITS This is what cooperation looks like in the real world: WATER One of the most water-scarce countries on Earth Receives 50–100+ million cubic meters annually from Israel ENERGY Israeli natural gas powers ~60% of Jordan’s electricity TRADE Industrial goods, agriculture, infrastructure support SECURITY Joint intelligence Border control Counterterrorism coordination Translation: No rockets. No terror launchpads. No chaos spillover. THE RESULT? No ISIS takeover. No Iranian proxy domination. No collapse into failed-state status. While others chose ideology… Jordan chose survival and stability. HERE’S THE PART PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO SAY Jordan has a massive Palestinian population. Yet instead of turning itself into a frontline battlefield, it built a system that keeps its people alive, functioning, and sovereign. That’s not betrayal. That’s leadership. FINAL THOUGHT You can scream slogans all day. Or… You can build agreements that deliver: Water Power Security Stability One path gets people killed. The other keeps a country standing. Jordan chose correctly.

I've spoken to quite a few people recently who still hate Margaret Thatcher for what she supposedly did to the coal mining industry 40 years ago, but they fully support Mad Red Ed Milliband destroying the UK oil and gas industry. Strange people.

It looks like the Isfahan underground "missile city" has been destroyed, together with all the missiles and the IRGC personnel there.

In 26 months, Javier Milei's government slashed public spending by USD 67 billion — equivalent to a massive 5.7 points of GDP adjustment. 78% of the cuts went to close the fiscal deficit, and the country now runs a surplus. This is how you fix decades of populism and irresponsibility.

Javier Milei showed the world what libertarian success looks like: - Fired 63,000+ public employees - Slashed ministries from 18 to 9 - Repealed rent controls and price controls - Achieved budget surplus (first in 14+ years) via 30% spending cuts This is how it's done.

Why Kuwait kicked out the Palestinians.

@RafHM Well stated Rafe!

Why haven't the evil zionists of Israel made incursions into Jordan? Oh yeah. Because Jordan hasn't allowed itself to be used as a staging spot to attack Israel. Rockets aren't coming into Israel from Jordan & Israel leaves Jordan alone. Amazing how that works.

“I have nothing against artists. I had a rock band myself. My problem is that if you need a government subsidy to make art, you’re no longer an artist—you’re a public employee.” — Javier Milei

Reports that Keir Starmer to appoint Sadiq Khan to House of Lords. Why does a socialist PM still make people ‘lords’ in 2026? Why does a socialist Mayor even think of accepting? Labour 2024 manifesto promised to ‘replace’ the Lords with a ‘more representative second chamber.’ What happened to that pledge? Labour has a massive majority and should be able to push through long-overdue radical reform. Or just abolish it. But like every PM before him Starmer has found it convenient to keep the Lords largely as it is (bar getting rid of hereditaries, a modest change). In this case ‘elevating’ Khan to remove him as a leadership threat.

@Heccles94 There's only one fair and simple way to do income tax. Everyone pays the same percentage of their income. We can all stop being envious and we can know better paid people are paying more. Why is that not obvious?

I think we should change the tax brackets. Up to 15k tax free Basic rate 20% up to 60k 60k - 80k - 30% 80k - 150k 40% 150k - 500k - 50% 500k - 2,000,000 55% Then 60% on the rest over 2,000,000 What do you think?

“Let’s spend £4.5 trillion on net zero over the next 25 years. Let’s increase taxes to pay for net zero. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments worth £7.2million from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give huge renewable energy construction contracts to China. Lets fail to improve gas storage facilities, Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1billion this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”

"You think my outfit is offensive?"

Stacey Dooley interviewed Muslims in her home town Luton and even then she said it’s never going to mix it doesn’t work to have a people that are so far from our way of life and culture in our country!

Well that ends the debate on deaths in Gaza. Hamas itself is admitting that 80% of casualties were combatants. There was never a genocide. You have been lied to and manipulated.

t.co/TeKmuw2HsW Breaking: According to reports from Iran, Ahmad Vahidi, head of the IRGC and arguably the most powerful operational terrorist in Iran, has just died after being hit by an airstrike in Tehran. Vahidi, the Muslim terrorist wanted for the 1994 massacre of 85 Jews in Buenos Aires and the architect of Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis and global IRGC terror, may have finally met justice. The Islamic Republic of Iran is a terror state that exports jihad and murder everywhere it can. Every senior terrorist eliminated is a victory for civilization, for Israel, and for the free world. If confirmed, this is yet another hammer blow against the ayatollahs’ death cult.

Listen to Labour MPs sigh and moan as I bring up the rape gangs in Parliament. Are we supposed to believe they want to get to the truth?

You don’t hear about this in the international media. Why? Because people who’ve never lived a single day under war, never spent one hour under a theocratic regime, are sitting comfortably, debating the Middle East like it’s a Netflix series. but this is the reality that people are going through…. Thanks @kwelkernbc for giving me the opportunity to talk about #DigitalBlackout and innocent people who are waiting to be executed by hanging in Iran.