Mark Radcliffe

@JonathanWiltsh7 @piersmorgan Oh dear .. some concern broke your peaceful dream and naive vision the world .. wake up !!

@piersmorgan Really, I have a zero sympathy for us. We've voluntarily got involved in an illegal war, against a brutal regime, and no one has any idea how this is going to play out. We've walked right into the middle of this.

So not only has Iran brazenly lied about its ballistic missile range capacity, but this means it can probably hit the UK with them - and we have zero, I repeat ZERO, defence against these missiles. Very worrying.

@AhronBregman @piersmorgan Get stuffed !

@piersmorgan Piers, it is unlikely that anyone, including the Iranians, will start firing at you unless you fire at them or become involved in a war against them. The UK should stay out of this situation! This is Trump's adventure; let him handle the mess himself.

Freedom can also be lost little by little, by what the Fabians call the doctrine of gradualness. A little more taxation here, a little more government expenditure there, year after year until the people are no longer the masters of the state but its servants. There are always, it seems, good reasons advanced for the state to have more power. But rarely for the state to divest itself of power. Each new problem becomes an excuse for more government intervention and less individual responsibility.

@Sranang_Mang @ChillyMagma @afneil Because their net zero obsession and ban on North Sea oil and gas has led to total dependance on open markets … not difficult unless you are a retarded leftie

@ChillyMagma @afneil It’s the most important part actually.

ANDREW NEIL: We’re heading into what could be the greatest energy emergency ever with a bunch of clueless inadequates at the tiller mol.im/a/15665931

@Melon_Musked @MattGunner32 @LiamHalligan Grok them then bellend !! 🤡

@MarkRadcliffe44 @MattGunner32 @LiamHalligan Wrong. Argentina is an emerging market. 130% is the death zone - NO other country has survived. Japan is the only one but they own assets. Your solutions are retarded and actually escalate the issue.

So the UK's 10-year gilt yield - the cost of government borrowing - is now up at 2008 levels. An 18-year high The difference is that, back then, UK national debt was 48pc of GDP, and now it's the best part of 100pc. So the debt service costs are much MUCH heavier. Of the £14.3bn the UK government borrowed in February alone, no less than £13bn of that was spent on interest on existing debts - a situation which is not only unsustainable, but very close to provoking a disastrous financial collapse. Yet still, our national discourse is all about more spending, more borrowing, more "state intervention". When is the Labour party – and much of the listless, unthinking rump of the UK's political and media class – going to start acknowledging reality? WHEN ....?

@JonForest09 @mrs_ayst @ThePosieParker Now you’re just being a knob !

@mrs_ayst @MarkRadcliffe44 @ThePosieParker And the apprenticeship always contains a college element.

The United Kingdom is in a sinister, censorious state. I was invited to an interview with the police for the first time in 2017 for saying it’s wrong to castrate a 16 year old. Over the last few years, I’ve had a visit from the police for being “untoward about paedophiles”, been arrested for organising an outdoor political gathering during lockdown, and made a couple more trips to the police station for my speech. My primary role in life is that of a mother; I see this country through the lens of what we leave for our children. Yesterday, whilst in a taxi after listening to the extraordinary Noa Argamani speak, I saw an email from my son’s college. (In the UK, college/sixth form is compulsory for 16–18-year-olds.) The email was a sinister and viciously authoritarian punishment for wrongthink and speech. Had my son said women have penises and should be able to share rape crisis centres with other women, he would have been fine. He would not have been accused of being ideologically abhorrent (in writing) and given a permanent record to take with him into university or an apprenticeship. We, the adults, have created this environment for our children, and it is incumbent upon us to fight to stop it. These battles are high risk for our children; speaking freely can cost them friendships and opportunities. You must ensure your child is not suffering the harms of our societal neglect. There will be consequences for adults who think they can bully my son. Maybe they haven’t heard, but, especially when it comes to my children … I never lose.

@CrowsOutside @dssx66 @SUTONGIROTCIP @TheFrogDies @WarTalk1 @LiamHalligan Because they would get better returns shorting the currency and when that happens you won’t be so happy.. all world assets priced in $ good luck

@MarkRadcliffe44 @dssx66 @SUTONGIROTCIP @TheFrogDies @WarTalk1 @LiamHalligan So we would stop issuing Gilts etc. great! Talk us through why existing holders would sell their interest bearing Gilts.

@sttoptrebo59923 @julianHjessop If he is right then it is bad news for everyone except those who relay on state handouts .. they’ll inflate away the debt and your savings , tax away your assets as they increase with dilution and everyone suffers

@julianHjessop I hope you're right Julian 🤞🤞🤞

ICYMI, my take on the Bank of England... 👇 (If I were a gambling man I would bet that the next move in interest rates is still down. But I can understand why people are worried.)

@AugusteCom30151 @Hannsgruber89 @Harry_E_E Well actually it is both.. the latter just triggered the bond markets concerns on the former

@Hannsgruber89 @Harry_E_E Print > inflation > rate hikes > recession This isn’t a credit crisis. It’s an energy crisis. This is only solved by bringing back more energy.

I hope everyone is ready for what comes next. I would put all large spending on hold and pay down and debts you have.

@Hannsgruber89 @AugusteCom30151 @Harry_E_E counter fiscal strain via aggressive public spending cuts and private-sector tax incentives, citing Argentina's Javier Milei, whose 2023-2026 libertarian reforms slashed inflation from 211% to under 5% and achieved fiscal surpluses.

@AugusteCom30151 @Harry_E_E There’s no other way, it’s print or collapse

@MattGunner32 @LiamHalligan Thanks to grok for streamlining my argument 👍

@MattGunner32 @LiamHalligan counter fiscal strain via aggressive public spending cuts and private-sector tax incentives, Argentina's Javier Milei’s 2023-2026 libertarian reforms slashed inflation from 211% to under 5% and achieved fiscal surpluses.

@absreturnchaser @starpukka1 Either that Or the board are in real jeopardy at the May AGM .. they will have to reassure and fast..

@MarkRadcliffe44 @starpukka1 Sky reported that the ask was 250 I think. The real question is why the leak that Bridgepoints starting offer would be 230 and not even a day later they pull out. Not even an extension. The Board may be certain that there is a better offer at hand.

#spi clearly the market is sceptical on the 'reported' likely offer being acceptable. My take is the company is worth 25-280 but a always retail sell at breakeven it seems. Sitting on my paws again today

@Melon_Musked @MattGunner32 @LiamHalligan You are right apart from the debt ratio.. one can offset the damage by deeper cuts to public sector spending and more tax incentives to private enterprise. Argentina did it why can’t we?

@MattGunner32 @LiamHalligan You don’t understand. You cut government spend and there is no GDP growth. It’s flat out multi year deflation. If there is NO growth bond yields go up even more!!! Debt spiral. The UK is approaching the death zone at 130% debt to gdp. There is no more lives left.

If speculators go after the pound we are royally screwed .. one reason being we have no gold reserves to speak of

@ClimateWarrior7 @ThePosieParker That is not 6th form only then is it .. an apprenticeship is work

@MarkRadcliffe44 @ThePosieParker Participation in education, apprenticeships, or training until 18 is mandatory.

@talaipwros1970 @og88_ @HowardLawrenson @moving_charlie It is not the workers that is the problem it is the cost of materials, the cost of over regulation and endless red tape and an asset class being taxed into irrelevance

@og88_ @HowardLawrenson @moving_charlie Yeah, while having those construction workers unemployed because of high building cost is so much better for them.

This is much more worrying than the large house builders. Smaller builders tend to build better quality. Sad but unsurprising news.

@CrowsOutside @dssx66 @SUTONGIROTCIP @TheFrogDies @WarTalk1 @LiamHalligan And there would be now buyers.. secondary market participants would sell and the U.K. would be junk bond status .. for reference see history of Argentina and base rate in turkey

@dssx66 @SUTONGIROTCIP @TheFrogDies @WarTalk1 @LiamHalligan They have a rate and duration which is set by the issuer. Rate could be set at zero, permanently.

@speakjava @RobertJudd4 @trussliz @RachelReevesMP Not yet as there is still buyers .. but by years end I would not rule it out

@RobertJudd4 @trussliz @RachelReevesMP I’ll bet you think Johnson was forced to resign over a slice of cake as well. Truss resigned for multiple reasons; the cost of borrowing was only one. Is the Pound near parity with the Dollar?

All this ridicule of Liz Truss for trashing the economy by taking government borrowing to a staggering 4.8%. Now under incompetent Rachel Reeves government borrowing is 5.6% YET where is the ridicule and howls of anguish? @trussliz @RachelReevesMP must go! #resign