Bruce Murray

For the last ~15 years since I left uni, I’ve been a consistent top 1% (at the start) to top 0.1% taxpayer (last few years). I’m not rich, though. We live modestly. We save. We invest. We are sensible. But I work hard. Really hard. Most weekends I’m writing strategic go to market plan, white papers for new products, attending ExCo calls, or sending data to our major stakeholders. I’m also the only real income in our household for the last few years. My wife runs her own small company and they do quite well for their size - they paid our kids school fees for a few years, sure it’s up and down, as any new endeavour tends to be - but she also gets absolutely hosed by Reeves for any success she can manifest. And I’m sick to the back teeth of the way the economy treats risk-takers and entrepreneurial people, and the general way it is configured. It’s all wrong. I’ve absolutely had enough. The social contract is totally and utterly broken. The state is eating the economy; it rewards indolence and kills ambition. I’ve left the country before for work opportunities and better prospects, so I’m not averse to the idea. Though I don’t really in my heart of hearts want to and I suspect this is what the state is betting on more broadly. This time around, I have remained in Britain so far because: it’s our home, our families are here, our friends are here, we bought a big pile in Surrey to put down roots after a lot of travel, our kids are settled in school, and our parents are in their twilight years. It’s not easy to just up roots like it was in the past. But it is inescapable that the country is structurally fucked. In every conceivable way. You can’t build. You can’t keep what you make. There’s very little to zero return on your taxable income and efforts. Long term, the delta between state spending and borrowing and its productivity and wages/tax receipts is moving in an exponential K-shape. The pension system is geared against people like me who put in, and geared towards a critical mass of indolents - both domestic and imported - plus a big proportion of boomers who have never contributed what I have. And in my pond, I’m not even a big fish. 16,500 of us have already voted with our feet. I’m just absolutely done paying for welfare socialism and Islamist scope creep. I see the Greens waiting. Reform is the main alternative to the traditional parties and they’re a total joke. Despite their membership numbers and THE EXCELLENT @RupertLowe10 - I am unconvinced Restore will ever be given a fair hearing by the mainstream media. Their electoral cut-through is likely to suffer as a result. The SDP led by the brilliant Clouston still have no cut-through. It’s collectively all so disappointing. I will continue to support both parties as they are the only patriots left. My friends - many of them - are out already, and many more are about to be. It’s 90% of what we discuss when we meet. Tonight I made a decision. I’m out. Do what is best for your family now. No one you know in your day-to-day life is remotely aware of what’s coming. It will be swift and it will be unforgiving. No one is coming to save you. Good luck. Godspeed. ✌️ (Red pilled for years, radicalised by @trevgoes4th and @db_fink)

I want to talk about the scale of what’s coming for the UK over the next three months. Because I don’t think many people have joined the dots yet. The Strait of Hormuz has been effectively closed for over five weeks. Before this war, 135 ships passed through it every day. Now it’s 5 to 7. Over 600 vessels are still stranded. Iran has mined the strait, is charging tolls, and controlling who passes. The CEO of Abu Dhabi’s national oil company said it this week: “The Strait of Hormuz is not open. Access is being restricted, conditioned and controlled. That is coercion.” Two thirds of Gulf crude has no alternative route. 14 million barrels a day behind a 21-mile chokepoint. Energy bills are forecast to jump 20% in July. From £1,641 to nearly £2,000. The second major energy shock in four years. Petrol up over 15%. Diesel up nearly 30%. Wholesale gas rose 75% in under four weeks. Food inflation could hit 8% by June and 9% by December. Academics advising DEFRA say it could reach 12%. UK food prices are already 38% higher than before Covid. We’re only 62% self-sufficient in food. We import 60% of our nitrogen fertiliser. Red diesel for farming has surged 60%. Average arable farm income has fallen to £17,000, the lowest in over 20 years. Yesterday, China announced it’s halting all sulphuric acid exports from May. Sulphuric acid is essential for phosphate fertilisers, copper mining, oil refining, and battery manufacturing. A third of the world’s sulphur was already blocked by the Hormuz closure. Now the world’s largest exporter has pulled the other lever at the same time. The fertiliser crisis just got significantly worse, heading straight into planting season. Before the war, markets expected rate cuts. Now they’ve priced in two rate rises. Over 1,500 mortgage products have been pulled. Two year fixes have jumped from 4.8% to 5.5%. Nearly £1,000 a year extra on a £200k mortgage. Gone in weeks. Flights are next. A quarter of UK jet fuel comes from Kuwait, behind the strait. In early April, major carriers said they had five to six weeks of reserves. That clock is running. Ryanair’s CEO has warned 5-10% of summer flights could be cancelled. Iran’s strike on Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG complex, which handles 30% of the world’s helium, is estimated to take 3 to 5 years to repair. Helium is critical for semiconductors and MRI machines. That’s not a disruption. That’s structural damage. Chemical and steel manufacturers are imposing surcharges of up to 30%. Analysts are warning of permanent deindustrialisation. European gas storage was at just 30% after a harsh winter. If the strait stays restricted through summer, Europe can’t refill for next winter. In Ireland, fuel protests shut down Dublin for four days. The army was deployed. Over 100 fuel stations ran dry, with warnings of 500 by end of the week. Downing Street has held talks on the potential for mass protests here. The OECD has downgraded the UK more than any other G7 nation. Growth slashed from 1.2% to 0.7%. Inflation forecast nearly doubled to 4%, with some saying it could breach 5%. Starmer and Trump spoke this week about military options to reopen the strait. The UK is leading a 30+ nation coalition. But the ceasefire is already fracturing. Iran re-closed the strait over Israeli strikes on Lebanon. Reeves is boxed in by fiscal rules. Higher gilt yields are eating her headroom. And I haven’t heard a credible plan from anyone in Westminster. Energy. Food. Fertiliser. Aviation fuel. Mortgages. Industrial chemicals. Semiconductors. Shipping. Government borrowing. Political stability. All under stress. All compounding. This country imports 44% of its energy. Has almost no gas storage. Imports most of its food and fertiliser. Gets a quarter of its jet fuel from behind a mined strait. Every structural weakness built up over 20 years is being stress tested at once. The next three months aren’t going to be uncomfortable. They’re going to be defining

Race hustling. Gender hustling. Climate hustling. Modern life is a Fabian farce and now only the mentally ill are engaging with these wholly confected frauds against humanity.

@EssexgoonerMr @awsome2together He's a meaningless puppet, so remove him and the next puppet springs up. Destruction of Western civilisation is the Globalist aim

Never before has it been so important to remove a UK Prime Minister. It is blatantly clear this man is out to destroy this country to the point of no return. We can not go on like this. He is unfit for office.

In modern Britain, the most dangerous thing you can be… is normal. You get up, go to work, pay your taxes, don’t rob anyone, don’t smash anything, don’t glue yourself to a motorway… and for your efforts? Congratulations—you’ve unlocked Hard Mode. No perks. No fast-track lane. No “priority support.” Just a direct debit and a polite reminder that you’re funding absolutely everything. Work hard? Taxed. Try to get ahead? Taxed again. Finally breathe out? Careful—someone’s probably drafting a levy for that too. Meanwhile, if you’re loud enough, disruptive enough, or fall into the right category of “needs attention this week,” suddenly the doors swing open, the language softens, and the system bends over backwards like it’s auditioning for Cirque du Soleil. And you’re sat there thinking—hang on… I did everything right. Was that the mistake? Because the quiet, law-abiding, tax-paying majority aren’t celebrated… they’re assumed. Relied on. Squeezed. You’re not the priority—you’re the funding model. And the better you behave, the less anyone notices… until the bill lands. So no—you’re not the enemy of the state. But if you ever stop playing along, you might suddenly realise just how much of it was built on you quietly saying nothing.

@MazzucatoM Let's welcome communism! Power to the eco politburo, rations for the people.

Our economic system is broken. Climate crisis accelerating. Inequality deepening. Public trust crumbling. Wealth concentrates while governments scramble to fix what markets can't do, rather than shape them from the outset. Presenting my new book The Common Good Economy live at @HowToAcademy—a reimagining of economics and a manifesto for a future economy that serves people and planet. How we achieve collective goals—through participation, reciprocity and reward-sharing—matters as much as what those goals are. 2 June | 19:00 | St Martin-in-the-Fields | Ticket link below

The empire has been here for centuries. It's a parasite that takes up residence in a host nation & exploits that nation's resources & military power until either they're exhausted or a better host presents itself. At that point it abandons the old host nation & moves on. The abandoned host is blamed by history for all of the empire's crimes, while the empire itself, with a new face & a new name, takes up residence somewhere else & carries on as before. This house-move is almost always defined as "progress" or "liberation" by the empire's stenographers.

@simongerman600 Now do how many hundreds of thousands of people died of starvation in India due to the insane lockdowns of 2020

The more you read about the terrible miscalculation of bombing Iran, the more you understand the unintended consequences. Fertilizer plants being forced to shut down, leads to lower yields, higher food prices, and will quite literally kill people due to hunger. It’s only the world’s poorest people though so no need to worry about this.

@KonstantinKisin Scripted

Never in a million years did I imagine sharing a Tony Blair article approvingly but this is on point and an important and brave intervention.

Basically this forever

@TheDuranReal @clim8resistance "Former" MI6 officer wheeled out because he really, really wanted to interrupt his retirement to speak to the press

A former MI6 chief said the quiet part out loud to The Economist.

@AcademicAgent_X @MattersInformed The event was pre-planned The response was pre-planned The dilution was pre-planned Everything in the media that gets blanket coverage is pre-planned

Today has to be the FASTEST I've ever seen the British establishment move from INCIDENT to POLITICAL SOLUTION. - No police investigation finished - Nothing at all known about the crime - No public consultations Yet, heaven and earth has been moved already.

The mathematical certainty of fiat and credit collapse is simulataneosly our biggest risk and greatest opportunity. In the short term, you should have a plan to feed and protect your family in an extreme collapse scenario. It’s coming. On the other hand, this is the greatest chance in history to put an end to the secret criminal networks that run the world. They are scared. They’ve been meticulously planning to maintain power through this collapse for decades, but it is not ensured. We decide what kind of world will rise from the ashes. Will you fight for the right outcome? What can you do? I submit that you don’t need to storm the castle or take up arms. You need to convert your savings into silver (physical only). Not for financial reasons, but because silver is the achilles of the cabal. When silver runs out, the chains that bind us break and the chaos begins. Godspeed

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@Bogachan_1971 Travel Lockdown number 2 incoming. Famine incoming. Digital iD to access rationed goods incoming. Potentially opportunity to roll out UBI and CBDCs. Looks like it!

@Murraybruce88 I guess this war will help with that sustainable slavery goals more than anything else they did last 25 years.

4th Horseman is arriving... many people will suffer from hunger and some will die as fertilizers disappear. It reminded me the 4 Horsemen unleashed in Economist 2019 cover. I buy an Economist every year for these covers. So I have the hard copy of 2019 as well. I did not pay attention to Walt Whitman before.. he is the white beard guy on the right under Pinocchio. I did not know "Oh Captain, My Captain" was his work.. but I still do not know why Elohim put him there on cover. I guess I will read his top work now... Leaves of Grass. If anyone have any idea why this man was put there, let me know. Quick Note: Why 2019 is important? It is the 33rd edition.

@martingeddes On the positive side - It's the only free speech global platform On the negative side - it's all controlled. I am completely throttled because I deride the puppetmasters At the moment, net positive, but only because I need Mafia group B to take down ruling Mafia group A

I feel trapped by this app and I don't enjoy it. Too opaque. Why am I putting my life force into a platform that is an "algorithmic dictatorship"?

🚨 Must listen 🔥 The powers at be have an agenda & it doesn’t have the people’s best interest at heart. By knowing the roadmap to the future we can be proactive rather then reactive & god willing throw a wrench in their plan. Please like, retweet, comment & share. 🙏 god bless

@simongerman600 Young native men are the most disadvantaged and prejudiced against group in society, right across the developed "West". Not a surprise that they feel disenfranchised. Why would they want to work within a system that acts like it despises them.

Louis Theroux’s documentary on the manosphere has many viewers asking why young men would follow influencers like Andrew Tate. But simply mocking these personalities misses the bigger story. From a demographic perspective, the rise of the manosphere coincides with a growing number of young men who feel disconnected from work, relationships and traditional paths to adulthood. When old playbooks stop working, alternative identities emerge. In my latest column I argue that if we want fewer young men drawn to angry online echo chambers, society needs to offer them something better to aim for: thenewdaily.com.au/life/social-me…

@clim8resistance Yes, but... Net Zero is not just a Labour policy; it is a Globalist Deep State, which means all the puppets have/will implement it

Unite used more than £2 billion of its subs to support the Labour Party's Net Zero agenda, and still hasn't shaken off the environmentalism. The green agenda was ALWAYS hostile to the working class, Sharon. Greens ALWAYS wanted to return them to serfdom.