@RachelReevesMP @SarahChampionMP Highly selective spin, stagflation incoming.
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david smith 🙂🇬🇧
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Growth higher than forecast, borrowing down, and now inflation falling further than expected.
This Labour government has the right economic plan.
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@tesssummers98 @David90shaw Farage is no better than the rest. The fly in the ointment gets my vote, and you should vote for him too IMHO
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@David90shaw Only one fly in the ointment - Rupert Lowe who's out to destroy Farage even if it means letting Labour win.
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🚨 BREAKING: Total panic has officially set in. Labour politicians are now openly admitting they are terrified of being completely "wiped out" by Reform UK. After losing major strongholds like Birmingham and Wolverhampton last week, the Labour grassroots are in full meltdown. 🧵👇
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@GoodwinMJ @scotpath “Beware! I bear more grudges than lonely high court judges.”
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Here are 4 things that happened to the UK in the last 24 hours:
1. The Labour government confirmed it will remove the right to a jury trial. Cases will be tried by a judge alone.
2. The Labour gvt confirmed it will impose Digital ID despite it never being included in Labour's manifesto and nearly 3 million Brits signing a petition against it.
3. The Labour gvt confirmed we will "align" with the European Union, directly going against the 2016 democratic vote for Brexit & forcing the British people to pay billions for laws they'll never be able to influence.
4. The Labour gvt confirmed that while Islamist sympathisers & antisemites are free to march on the streets of our capital city, & while it welcomes former allies of al-Qaeda into Downing Street, it has banned conservative activists from joining a peaceful protest against mass immigration in London.
Put all these things together and you get a sense - just a sense - of how hideously authoritarian and illiberal this Labour government really is.
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david smith 🙂🇬🇧 retweetledi
As an MP, I will not comply with Digital ID.
I just won't do it, and I hope many millions of British men and women will join me.
Send a message to Starmer - share this graphic absolutely everywhere.
I will not comply with Digital ID.
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@SimonDixonTwitt @Ma1973sk I didn’t see this angle, quite worrying.
Evan Luthra@EvanLuthra
🚨ARMED MEN BROKE INTO A FAMILY’S HOME IN FRANCE.. TIED UP THE GRANDPARENTS, THE MOTHER, AND TWO YOUNG CHILDREN.. HELD THEM FOR THREE HOURS AT GUNPOINT.. AND LEFT WITH $820,000 IN CRYPTO.. THIS IS HAPPENING EVERY WEEK NOW.. On April 20.. Two hooded gunmen forced their way into a suburban home in Brittany, France.. The father wasn’t home.. He works in crypto.. That’s why they came.. So they tied up the grandmother.. The grandfather.. The mother.. And two young children.. Held all five of them on the floor at gunpoint for over three hours.. They didn’t hack a wallet.. They didn’t exploit a smart contract.. They pointed a gun at a mother’s children until she gave up the passwords.. €700,000 in crypto.. Gone in minutes.. No encryption can stop that.. No hardware wallet.. No multisig.. No seed phrase hidden in a safe.. When someone holds a gun to your child’s head.. You give them everything.. The crypto industry calls it the “wrench attack”.. French police call them “cryptorapts”.. And here’s the part that should terrify every person holding crypto.. In all of 2024.. These attacks were considered statistically marginal.. Barely worth tracking.. In 2025.. French police recorded roughly 30 cases.. In just the first four months of 2026.. Over 40.. That’s not growth.. That’s an epidemic.. And the attacks are getting worse.. In one case.. A victim was doused in gasoline to ensure compliance.. In another.. A finger was amputated.. In another.. Attackers impersonated police officers to walk through the front door.. In another.. A 25-year-old posed as a delivery driver with a handgun.. The head of Binance France was hunted across two locations by three armed suspects.. They took his phones to access his authentication apps.. A Ledger co-founder and his partner were kidnapped.. He had a finger cut off to pressure his associates into paying.. These aren’t random burglaries.. French authorities immediately escalated the Brittany case to their highest organized crime jurisdiction.. The same courts that handle terrorism and international drug trafficking.. Because this is organized crime.. With a command structure.. The architects sit in other countries.. They identify targets using leaked KYC databases from exchanges and hardware wallet companies.. They cross-reference LinkedIn profiles.. Crypto forum activity.. Public blockchain transactions.. They build targeting files on families before they ever set foot near the house.. Then they hire local crews to execute the physical operation.. If the crew gets caught.. The network stays intact.. The stolen funds are already laundered through mixers and privacy coins in minutes.. And here’s the paradox nobody in crypto wants to admit.. The entire movement was built on the idea of being your own bank.. “Not your keys, not your coins”.. But when you become your own bank.. You also become the target that banks are.. Except banks have armed guards.. Time-locked vaults.. Surveillance networks.. Insurance.. You have a wooden door and a consumer alarm system.. A suburban home with children and grandparents inside is not a vault.. It’s a soft target.. The crypto industry spent billions making wallets unhackable.. Nobody spent a dollar making the people holding them unstobbable.. The violence has left the internet.. It’s inside people’s homes now.. And the statistics say it’s accelerating faster than anyone predicted.. If you hold significant crypto and your neighbors know what you do for a living.. You are already on someone’s list.
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TRANSLATION.
If you sell your bonds & shares US markets break.
We’d rather take your currency as collateral and print more dollars.
It’s our only choice, as we burden Americans with more debt.
We need to extract as much value from stocks and bonds for the transnational financial industrial complex whilst we can.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent@SecScottBessent
Discussions with countries, including our Gulf and Asian allies, about U.S. dollar swap lines are part of ongoing, routine conversations that @USTreasury has been having with our partners over a number of years. They are a testament to the U.S. dollar’s primacy and the strength of America’s economic shield. Additional swap lines can benefit our nation by reinforcing dollar usage and liquidity internationally, maintaining smooth functioning in dollar funding markets, promoting trade and investment with the United States, and, in hypothetical stress scenarios, preventing disorderly sales of U.S. assets as well as disruptions to U.S. markets, businesses, and households. Many of these countries have pristine sovereign balance sheets and large dollar holdings – larger than many major economies with whom we maintain permanent swap facilities. I applaud our allies’ foresight and watchful risk management by exploring additional financial buffers during periods of market quiescence. Extending permanent swap lines can be a major first step in creating new U.S. dollar funding centers in the Gulf and Asia. Dollar dominance and reserve currency status are strengthened by constant long-term initiatives, including countering the growth of problematic, alternative payment systems. Under @POTUS, this is American Economic Leadership at work.
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Rutte from NATO:
Victory is now a distant dream for Putin.
He understands that his economy is in a bad state.
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🚨 JUST IN: President Trump says the US is "VERY CLOSE" to a deal with Iran, saying Iran has TOTALLY AGREED to not having a nuclear weapon
"They've totally agreed to that. They've agreed to almost EVERYTHING, so maybe if they can get to the table, there's a difference. But they've got to get to the table with a pen!"
"We'll have that over with, and then we can focus on our great economy"
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@davytong1611 @ArmstrongEcon Do some research on Marty. Read his books, watch the documentary about him (The Forecaster)
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@ArmstrongEcon @ArmstrongEcon when you say "computer", what computer is this? Are you running some kind of predictive algorithm on your pc?
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The computer does not show this is ending. So buckle up. Trump has to back away from Netanyahu. I fear he will not.
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david smith 🙂🇬🇧 retweetledi
@YvetteCooperMP Go to your constituency, Yvette. Look around.
Go to ANY constituency, LOOK AROUND. The homeless, the suffering, the poverty.
THESE people cannot wait. And you are elected to serve THEM, not Gazans.
Act like it. For once.
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Who is redirecting Europe's energy?
I reported last week that European ports were not allowing oil/fuel to be unloaded from tankers. Now the diesel scheduled to arrive is being redirected. Who is cutting Europe off to engineer an energy crisis?
Commentary: Ice Age Farmer
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@LeeHurstComic @RealJamesWoods @elonmusk Reform to save Britain, you’re taking the piss if you can’t see through Farage. Rupert Lowe is the only man to save Britain
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@RealJamesWoods @elonmusk The problem is he is trying to fuck up Reform’s chances to save Britain with his ill informed backing of Rupert Lowe.
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Between buying Twitter and running DOGE, @elonmusk has done so much for this country: restoring free speech and ferreting out Democrat fraud, and so much more. And he still makes time to help out an X client. Truly amazing.
Presidential Medal of Freedom for this great American!
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@LindseyGrahamSC @BrugesGroup @POTUS Why are you concerned? Trump says America has plenty of oil. Maybe someone’s just told him it’ll be the end of the Petrodollar.
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Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake.
The arrogance of our allies to suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb is our problem not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions have proven to be a miserable failure.
The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America.
I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.
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@davidvance US may get less than 1% of oil through the straight, however it’ll be the end of the petrodollar.
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Trump won’t forget and those who refuse to help will soon find out.
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david smith 🙂🇬🇧 retweetledi
UK police just arrested a restaurant owner for putting a sign up that says 'we don't sell halal.'
Realize where we're at
Braeden@BraedenSorbo
They ARRESTED the guy who put up a sign on his OWN RESTAURANT saying “no Halal,” NOT the animals that swarmed and attacked him for it The UK is done
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@Megatron_ron @AGDugin The world buys oil from Saudi in $ = economic boom in the region, then Saudi recycle those $ back to US assets to stimulate US economy and preserve the “legacy family” interests. But what if you’re about to move the world on to a new financial infrastructure 🤔
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NEW:
🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 Professor Jiang explains that the US economy is a giant Ponzi scheme dependent on Gulf nations investing in American tech:
“If Iran forces the Gulf to abandon the petrodollar for food security, the US economy will face total collapse and revolution in the streets.”
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@WendtheWalker @Sharon444martin Restore is the only party I’m voting for
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Now the government has kindly decided we are all allowed to vote in May - who will you be voting 🗳️ for? 🇬🇧
(Sorry I couldn’t fit anymore in but please leave in the comments section!)
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@LeeHurstComic You’re obviously anti Lowe, which of his proposed policies don’t you agree with?
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Lowe faces a problem.
If he registers his party in time for 7 May elections and stands, he may do badly.
If he doesn’t stand it looks like his bottled it.
If he does stand and gets a few wins (unlikely) the spotlight will be on them and they may not deliver.
Personally I suspect he will try and keep the ‘stud value’ of his party and not risk a heavy defeat. His main intent is to do Reform harm, not to save Britain, so he will want to keep his project going as long as possible without damaging it.
I could be wrong, but that would be my bet.
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A grinding war costs a lot of money.
If the Pentagon’s toilet seats cost 20K USD a pop, this Iran war is going to end up being a money burning furnace…
Tomthunkit™@TomthunkitsMind
AMERICA IS BROKE * China holds $790 Billion of US Bonds * China has just started providing info on US military assets in the gulf * The US needs to sell $3 trillion in new bonds this year * BRICS is challenging US world dominance with Petrodollars * The #USIranWar is costing us $1 billion a day * In just 10 days it has cost us $97 billion
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@OrSoImTold @TOzgokmen Iran pulled out of the SWIFT system and sold oil for Yuan. It’s always about the ledger,
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@SmithWolfys @TOzgokmen Oh we aren’t trying to win hearts and minds in Iran.
Yet.
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My guess is that they are running out of ammunitions & jet fuel:
Iran is a long way out from Israel
US bases in GCC are destroyed
Aircraft carriers are useless; they need to stay way out there not to be hit by Iran.
Not many, if any, countries are allowing use to their land and airspace by the US bombing campaigns. Iran has been there for 5000 years.
LOGISTICS FAILURE
UK Report@UK_REPT
JUST IN — 🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷 Unusually low activity from the Israeli and U.S. air forces over Iran.
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@OrSoImTold @TOzgokmen “Winning hearts and minds” by killing school children.
Next you’ll be telling me the US wanted a regime change to prevent them from developing a nuclear bomb.
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@SmithWolfys @TOzgokmen They had Rules of Engagement that were primarily focused on winning hearts and minds instead of total destruction.
The department of war isn’t the department of defense.
GIF
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