Marty Fishwreck

@LiamHalligan @Telegraph “How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Brexit, then a failure to own my own poor judgement” As Liam Halligan didn’t say

“How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly”. This quotation from Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises describes how economic ruin often occurs ... My latest Economic Agenda column in today's @Telegraph attempts concisely to explain the extent of the delusion not just of this government, but of much of the UK's political and media class, when it comes to the state of Britain's public finances – and the related dangers. The idea that the roll-out of artificial intelligence is going to provide a major growth/fiscal boost over the next few years, as argued by Rachel Reeves in last week's Mais Lecture, is also widely complacent. Yes, AI is of huge significance and COULD be a major source of economic wealth-creation/progress for Britain (if the related job upheaval can be managed). But AI, and the related data centres, require HUGE amounts of energy. And Britain's considerable potential in this sphere is being massively curtailed by our sky-high energy costs, shaky national grid – and the related difficulty/impossibility of securing grid connections. And that's before Ed Miliband's madcap idea to "decarbonise the national grid by 2030" I've said for a couple of years now that the UK needs to choose between net-zero virtue-signalling and economic growth (with growth being absolutely vital if we are to pull this nation back from the fiscal cliff-edge). That reality is becoming ever more apparent with every passing week and month .... This is a slow-motion crisis - and the vast majority of decision-makers/commentators still have their eyes shut and their fingers in their ears. But financial meltdowns, for both individuals and countries happen gradually, then suddenly – as Hemingway understood. telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

@shipwreckedcrew He’s making videos yesterday supporting Orban 😂 How thick are Americans?

Have you been in Donald Trump’s shoes? No. You’ve never had your family and business hounded by prosecutors based on allegations they knew were false. Going after family is over the line. Polite is out the window.

@USA_Polling Americans really are hilarious

"Which party has better policy on economic issues?" Republicans: 40% Democrats: 34% Ipsos / March 19, 2026

@Claudeallain5 @WhiteHouse @RealDeanCain Elected by cunts for cunts.

@WhiteHouse @RealDeanCain Show time.

NO MORE WAITING, NO MORE GAMES!

JD Vance in 2025: “I think a lot of European nations were right about our invasion of Iraq. And frankly, if the Europeans had been a little more independent, and a little more willing to stand up, then maybe we could have saved the entire world from the strategic disaster that was the American-led invasion of Iraq.” Interesting 🤔

Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Trump is at 4 trillion US debt in a little over a year. He is on track to hit 50 trillion before he leaves office which I stated he would do last suumer. He had 7.8 trillion his first term. That means he would have just about 23 trillion of the 50 trillion in debt, which is 46 percent of our nations debt in 8 years in office. When you see how rapidly the net worth of billionaires has escalated during his time in office, including his and his families, you can only conclude that we have been robbed. Our kids future destroyed and not a single piece of new infrastructure. America is being bankrupted on purpose.

@Nateyxoxo @Edler101 @TheEconomist Russia have expended 250,000 soilders to move less than 3km and are now being pushed back. Of course it’s working. More Russian talking points. So so called glorious Russian army haven’t gained territory in years.

@MFishwreck @Edler101 @TheEconomist Which is what is happening, and it doesn’t seem to be working.

“I’m not giggling, I’m mad at your politicians.” Speaking to Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor-in-chief, Tucker Carlson says European leaders are “liars” trying to “divert attention” from the “disasters” in their own countries. Click the link to watch the full interview: econ.st/3PwcHoC

@Nateyxoxo @Edler101 @TheEconomist Ukraine will fight its own war backed by Europe.

@MFishwreck @Edler101 @TheEconomist Does it have a ‘standing army’ of this many, and which are conflict ready? There is no central command, all trained and organised differently. I don’t believe most Europeans want to die in a feud between Russia and Ukraine.

@VillanuevaPM @Edler101 @TheEconomist Ypu don’t have an argument to debate. You say Russia won’t invade Europe, 12 years after it invaded Europe and as its dictator sends 10’s thousands of Russians to die in a sovereign European country. You can’t debate with stupid. You’re clearly a Russian asset. Good luck.

@MFishwreck @Edler101 @TheEconomist 😂🤣😂🤣 You fucking idiots are pathetic. Can never handle an argument. Weaker than a diarrhoea 🤣

@VillanuevaPM @Edler101 @TheEconomist You’re clearly a Russian bot or asset Goodbye

@MFishwreck @Edler101 @TheEconomist Russia has no plans invading Europe, even you said this somewhere in this very thread. So the only way a confrontation would happen is with them in the defence. Thus, definitely same or similar situation.

@Imranahhmmeedd @EvanWritesOnX Well. I’ve been in the private sector all my life, both corporate and owner, and you need stability, not this relentless insane bullshit from a paranoid man-child freak. Trump is literally the worst thing to happen to the global economy in my lifetime.

@MFishwreck @EvanWritesOnX His antics are all for show, Trump represents the private sector so everything he does is part of their plan.

Trump is saying America doesn't need Hormuz anymore, because private sector power has secured what it wants.

@VillanuevaPM @Edler101 @TheEconomist Different terrain, invader vs invasion, defence vs attack. You’re literally comparing 2 utterly different scenarios.

@MFishwreck @Edler101 @TheEconomist How big was the Vietnamese economy compared to the American one? Or Iran’s sanctioned one now? It’s not only about the size. As they say. Ammunition especially but also missiles and weaponry is a total mismatch. The RheinMetall CEO just said that Eastern stockpiles are empty.

@Frances_Coppola He’ll need months and 100,000’s troops. So I don’t see this.

Yes. Look at what he does, not what he says. He's going to invade Iran.

@Fox_Claire @jennirsl There really isn’t a single situation you won’t weaponise in your relentless grift is there?

Very very sad. Far too young. Jenni was rare at BBC: an iconic Woman's Hour presenter who knew what a woman is. So they dumped her. RIP. With love and admiration.

@Reuters Which hour is it? Has he stuffed his fat face with a Filet o fish? Has he shit himself? It changes hourly and who knows what brain fart the ignorant sex offender has suffered & why.

How Trump's stated reasons, goals and timeline for Iran war have shifted reut.rs/3PkNmhv reut.rs/3PkNmhv

@NewStatesman @adamboultonTABB Childish. Besides, if we were actually living in Ed Miliband’s world, there would have been no Brexit, no Corbyn, no Johnson, no Truss and no Farage or Reform. We would be wealthier and happier.

“We’re now living in Ed Miliband’s world.”

@PaulEmbery @NickCohen4 I thought he was your hero?

Jesus wept. Started a crazy war. Watched it unravel. Now signals a retreat and insists that other countries - who rightly wanted no part of it in the first place - go in and clear up the mess he created. What an appalling president. What a shameful episode.

@WSJ Nobody tougher than Old Bone Spurs

Iran is signaling that it believes it is winning the war and has the power to impose a settlement—which may prove to be a dangerous misreading of Trump’s determination on.wsj.com/4rLSoB0