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Many couples work hard, but cannot afford to have another child. Yet from this week, they’ll be paying more in tax so that couples on welfare with four, five, or six children receive more in benefits. This is not fair. It is not compassionate to make welfare pay more than work.

The nut zero zealotry of Ed Miliband. A new occasional series. [feel free to add]. Fertiliser prices and shortages are soaring because the petrochemical industries of the Gulf states are major global suppliers but the Strait of Hormuz, through which they export, is closed. Not good for the spring planting season. Undaunted the UK will introduce a levy on imported carbon-intensive fertiliser as part of its costly obsession with cutting emissions, even when the impact is slight. At a time when we should be increasing food security government policy is to penalise farmers further.

@MelJStride As night follows day. Same old labour

Unemployment UP 📈 Taxes UP 💷 Benefits UP 💷 Cost of living UP 📈 National debt UP 📈 Labour have made us poorer.

🚨Jeremy Clarkson RIPS Into Jeremy Corbyn And His Socialism Dream “I lived through the 70s, I know what socialism is, and I’ve seen it at work around the world, in places like Cambodia and Venezuela, It doesn’t work, and it’s dangerously doesn’t work.” “It’s a hopeless, hopeless proposition.”

@LizWebsterSBF Always worth reading even though I disagree with MH a lot. We are dependant to Immigration for dr and nurses. This is true. But doesn’t have to be. Illegal migration shouldn’t ever be mixed up with legal migration. This and pretty much every article around migration convulses

⭐ Michael Heseltine, the highlights: ✅ My only regret is that I wasn’t PM. But I certainly wouldn’t want to be in such a neutered position as the PM is today. ✅ Nigel Farage is one of the most menacing developments in modern politics. To have him anywhere near the centre of power would be appalling. He is Donald Trump’s vicar in Britain. You’ve only got to look at what Trump is doing on the world stage to realise just how ill thought out Farage’s policies are. ✅ The government is stark raving mad. Their tax regimes are destroying great swathes of wealth-creating activity and forcing a large number of entrepreneurs and investors out of the country. That’s the most appalling misjudgment. ✅ Keir Starmer is on a world stage over which he has very little influence and control. First, because it’s largely dominated by Trump and the Israelis. Second, because we have left the European Union, so we’re away from our allies there. Starmer is constantly demanded in one part of the world or the other. If he didn’t go, he would be much criticised. If he does go, he’s criticised for being out of the country. It must be an exhausting experience. ✅ In the Sixties we had Enoch Powell with his speeches about immigration. Now we’ve got Farage. I’ve lived through it all before. It is the easiest thing in the world to stir up tension against people who are different. He is oblivious to the fact that our social services and our health service are dependent upon doctors and nurses who come from overseas.

The Guardian has given up on journalism. This is Green Blob propaganda riddled with errors and lies. Goebbels would have been proud.

Newcastle's recruitment was a mess last summer, but it could've been so different had top targets signed over previous windows. 🇫🇷 Hugo Ekitike (Reims & Frankfurt) 🇧🇷 Joao Pedro (Brighton) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Marc Guehi (Palace) 🇺🇿 Abdukodir Khusanov (Lens) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Trafford (Burnley) We made several bids for all of the above. Then there was Mbeumo (Brentford) and briefly Cunha (Wolves). The tricky bit is our approach. Was it naive to think we'd beat 'big six' sides to Ekitike, Pedro, Mbeumo, Cunha, Khusanov? We tried (with no sporting director or fit CEO), but failed and wasted time. In other cases, however, it feels like we cocked it up. Guehi was there 18 months ago, but Mitchell couldn't get it done. There was a window where Man City wouldn't have matched our bid for Trafford, but we didn't get it done, then lost out. Many of our top targets would've been superb buys, but we wasted a LOT of time pursuing options that never seemed likely to come, we didn't have experts in place to oversee pivotal windows and our late pivots were often unsuitable (Woltemade) and/or overpriced (Wissa). #NUFC

@HayatG36 @SwedishRumble A. You haven’t got a clue what I want. B. Ruin the market for 1000’s. No just the the big 6! I like the process and the progress we have gone through. It’s frustrating that we can’t spend just what other clubs can spend. I think that’s wrong and if you were in my shoes…..

@abu685 @SwedishRumble No, that's where you are wrong. If it was your club's money then PSR or even SCR rules wouldn't be able to touch you! It's your owners money, you want to spend unlimitedly! ruining the market for the other 1000s of clubs in the world! Brighton are fine! their wage ratio is 66%!

Not commenting on the suitability of the “FFP rules” — while I do think football would have been in much worse shape without them — but I think the incorrect focus from teams like Newcastle is a disservice to their prospects of success. 🔺An indisputable fact is that the PL FFP rules — except during two transitional years, 2023 and 2024, when UEFA implemented new rules — have been significantly more lenient than UEFA’s FFP rules. In plain English — for any club with top 6-7 aspirations — the PL FFP rules are completely irrelevant. It’s like you have two speed limits working in parallell on one road; one gives you a fine if you drive 50 mph and the other if you drive 70 mph — and then people lobby to remove the 70 mph limit. 🔺The main driving force behind UEFA implementing their FFP rules were the 50+1 countries, and especially the German and French federation. France has had FFP rules since 1984 after a pandemic of bankruptcies. That initiative got — very very broad support — from greedy owners. FFP prohibits their clubs from spending more of their money. Claiming that the FFP rules exist because the top clubs wanted to prevent ”nouveau riche” clubs from overtaking them is simply a complete fabrication. It’s like saying that the Yes to Brexit vote won because immigrants voted for it to get more liberal immigration or something similar that completely is not in touch with reality. The Arnaut report came in 2005 for example, 3 years before UAE bought City. UEFA implemented its first licensing system in 2002, after a work that started years before that. Abramovich bought City in 2003. There had been a constant problem in football where financial injections where made into clubs, which forced other clubs that wanted to compete to spend over their means, with strained financials as a result. 🔺The current FFP rules allow for unlimited investments in the stadium, training facilities and other facilities (hotels and what not), academy and women’s teams. In addition, the current FFP rules allow for unlimited cash funding. Ie you don’t have to loan from the bank and pay interest. From this perspective — a team with strong owner backing of course have an extreme advantage. Man City has more than anyone else used that. 🔺Newcastle has not. The club paid £12.7m in interest according to the last Annual Report for 23/24. Why are Newcastle loaning money from the bank when PIF can give them an interest free loan? Why aren’t investments made in the stadium? Why aren’t investments made in the academy? Instead a ’Red Cartel’ is blamed. But the PL could scrap all the FFP rules tomorrow and it wouldn’t help any club with top 7 ambitions…

@HayatG36 @SwedishRumble But so could Villa and Newcastle. It’s anti competitive in plain sight. It’s even worse next year with turnover to wage ratio. This will impact Bournemouth and Brightons of the world which are run better than any other clubs in the country.

@abu685 @SwedishRumble Even then, we can pay it back so we can spend more!

@HayatG36 @SwedishRumble 😂😂 But that’s not what happening though is it? Chelsea and Man united keep spending above their means which is why their debt keeps going up. Think it’s you sunshine that needs a financial lesson! 😂😂

@abu685 @SwedishRumble what you actually need is basic finacial education. If you earn 6000$ a month, you bought an apartment or a house & you have to pay 1500$ a month to the bank to service your debt, believe me or not, you can spend 4500$ a month on whatever you like!!

@SwedishRumble Again, look at Villa. Would have signed Rashford. Couldn’t because they couldn’t pay the wages to meet FFP. What are these rules for? There is no way Newcastle an Villa are going under. Rules are there to keep the status quo.

@abu685 But what is ”it”?

@NUFCTheMag wtf???

Rafa Benitez needs to replace Eddie Howe themag.co.uk/2026/03/rafa-b…

@NihilusBTC All in red since posted

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So if Reeves’s claim that Brexit cost us 8% of GDP is correct it would mean we’d have grown four times more than Japan/Germany and almost twice France/Italy. Up there with Canada/US. If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you. In reality, even with Brexit, we were fastest growing European economy in G7. Just a tad more than France (with no Frexit).

I was never a member. But I chatted to them a lot. I was 19. I was a liberal leftist for a lot longer. Then I changed my mind thanks to what I experienced over years in schools. Why is changing our minds when evidence is presented seen as a bad thing? Isn’t it good?

@DPJHodges Do t value his opinion in sport so not surprised I don’t value his option in real life either! Left wing tosser

Jonathan Liew on Gails. "Its very presence 20 metres away from a small independent Palestinian cafe feels quietly symbolic, an act of heavy-handed high-street aggression". In Britain, in 2026, the simple establishment of a Jewish businesses is now seen as a hostile act.