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@TomCotterillX @ukparliament has declared war against businesses, landlords, farmers and veterans. We will be jobless, homeless, starving and vulnerable.

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 A group of former Army chiefs has accused Sir Keir Starmer’s Government of having “no moral backbone” over its “grotesquely unfair” pursuit of Troubles veterans. The retired generals said they feared that Labour’s Troubles bill could lead to a wave of “witch hunts” against Northern Irelandveterans, exposing retired troops to years of spurious persecution in the courts. Meanwhile, SAS veterans are preparing an unprecedented revolt against potential “show trials”, boycotting inquest hearings should key changes not be made to Labour’s bill. Full story: telegraph.co.uk/gift/58b60ec67…

@MerrynSW @ukparliament has declared war against businesses, landlords, and farmers. We will be jobless, homeless and starving.

Controls lead to shortages and rent rises. Surprise!

The UK used to make its own fertiliser. What outlawed that. You did. Your brother Ed continues net zero lunacy And now you present it as a problem to wring your hands about with no apology for your actions. Typical disgraceful Labour mentality

Exactly

Rachel Reeves has said she is ‘very happy’ to back drilling at Rosebank and Jackdaw. Unions want it, manufacturers want it, even Labour backbenchers now want it – the only person still sulking is Ed Miliband. This isn’t a serious government, it’s a hostage situation. Starmer’s first test of leadership is simple: sack Miliband or admit the cranks are running the show.

Dozens of North Sea oil and gas fields blocked by net zero And the Wind Fall Tax. There are 51 known new fields in British waters that could be feeding domestic pipes but have been rendered “unviable” by current government policies, including the windfall tax and a ban on exploration licences. On top of these, some 60 extensions to existing fields are being held back for the same reasons, according to trade body Offshore Energy UK (OEUK). telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

I can’t get my head around how destructive the Milibands are - seemingly with total unawareness of the results of their actions. Surely no one can be that stupid? But other than money (for David) and power (for Ed) how do they justify to themselves the devastation wreaked on economies, lives and the environment thanks to their obsession?

It is now illegal for most American farmers to do what farmers have done for 10,000 years. Save seeds from their harvest to plant next season. Four corporations control over 60% of global seed sales. Bayer-Monsanto. Corteva. Syngenta-ChemChina. BASF. Over 80% of all corn and more than 90% of all soybeans planted in the United States use patented biotech seeds. Farmers sign licensing agreements that prohibit saving, replanting, or sharing seeds. Every season requires a new purchase. Seed prices have increased over 300% since 1995. In the 1990s, most farmers saved a portion of their harvest to plant the following year. Seed companies genetically engineered crops to be resistant to specific herbicides, most notably Monsanto's Roundup Ready system. The seeds worked. Yields improved. Farmers adopted them rapidly. Then the patents locked in. Monsanto deployed a team of private investigators to audit farms suspected of replanting patented seeds. They filed over 150 lawsuits against American farmers. Settlements and judgments totaled over $23 million. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Bowman v. Monsanto (2013) that patent protections extend to self-replicating technologies including seeds. Farmers who had planted one crop with patented seeds could not legally replant the offspring of those seeds. The biology of reproduction itself was patented. Today, the four largest seed companies spend more on intellectual property enforcement and patent filings than many of them spend on R&D for new crop varieties. The consolidation of the seed industry is one of the least discussed monopoly structures in the global economy. Corteva (CTVA) was spun off from DowDuPont in 2019 as a pure-play agricultural sciences company. They control roughly 20% of the global corn seed market and are the largest seed company in the Western hemisphere. Revenue exceeded $17 billion. Operating margins are expanding as they shift toward higher-value biotech seeds and crop protection products. The pricing power comes from the fact that once a farmer is in the Corteva seed ecosystem, switching costs are significant because crop protection products are designed to work with specific seed genetics. Deere & Company (DE) sits at the intersection of the seed monopoly and the equipment monopoly. Modern precision agriculture requires Deere's GPS-guided tractors and automated planters to work in concert with biotech seed prescriptions. The software layer that connects equipment to seed to data is becoming the most valuable part of the farm. Revenue exceeded $51 billion. The precision agriculture division is growing faster than the equipment division. For broader agricultural exposure, the Invesco DB Agriculture Fund (DBA) tracks a basket of agricultural commodity futures. When seed costs rise, crop production costs rise, which supports higher commodity prices. The farmers absorb the input cost increase. The commodity market passes it to consumers. The companies selling the seeds and the equipment capture margins on both sides. The seed monopoly is a toll booth on the global food supply. 8 billion people eat every day. Four companies control the genetics. I'm hosting a once in a lifetime webinar where I go over the exact things I know as a former banker and world class investor. 100% free to join. Sign up with the link in my comments.

An entire generation of men was repeatedly told "gender is a social construct" only for them to have the rug pulled out from under them because of their gender which the law has evidently decided is very much not a social construct. And then you ask what's radicalizing them.

A British soldier served in Northern Ireland. Risked his life. Followed orders. Came home. He is now in his 70s. Keir Starmer’s Government has decided he deserves to spend his final years in court. The IRA got the Good Friday Agreement. The veterans got Keir Starmer. Remember that next time he talks about “values.”

Three former soldiers will appear at Belfast magistrates court on April 20th. One is charged with a killing that took place in May 1972. He is not accused of acting outside his orders. He is accused of acting within them. The distinction no longer appears to matter. This is the reality behind Labour's Northern Ireland Troubles Bill, a piece of legislation dressed in the language of reconciliation that functions, in practice, as an engine of persecution. The state that sent these men to Northern Ireland, that gave them their orders, that relied on their judgment in circumstances no minister has ever faced, is now the state that funds the machinery pursuing them through the courts half a century later. That is not a technicality. It is the central fact. Taxpayer money flows to the lawyers challenging the actions of soldiers whose actions were sanctioned by the taxpayer. The government calls this justice. General Sir Peter Wall, who commanded the British Army for four years, calls it something without moral backbone. He is right. The operational consequences are already visible. Elite soldiers are leaving the SAS and SBS rather than face the prospect of prosecution decades hence for missions carried out under government orders. The crisis has become sufficiently acute that reservists are being brought into the regular SAS to fill roles vacated by those walking out. Britain's most capable fighting force is being quietly hollowed out by a bill whose architects appear indifferent to the result. Seven former SAS commanders have warned that the legislation is doing the enemy's work, that operational secrets exposed through inquiries give hostile states a narrative of lawless troops. Moscow, Tehran and Beijing do not need to discredit British special forces. Westminster is doing it for them. The asymmetry at the heart of this legislation is not incidental. It is structural. IRA members were released under the Good Friday Agreement. Many destroyed evidence, stayed silent, or received letters guaranteeing they would not be pursued. Soldiers kept records, gave statements, and remained traceable. Decades later, only one group remains available for scrutiny. Not because they are more culpable, but because they are more reachable. The Coagh ambush of June 1991 illustrates the logic perfectly. Three IRA men were stopped by the SAS on their way to murder someone. A coroner ruled the force used was justified. Years later a family challenged that ruling, arguing the soldier should have paused after each shot to consider whether to fire the next one. A judge described that argument as ludicrous and utterly divorced from reality. The challenge continues, funded by legal aid, heard at the Court of Appeal just days ago. No verdict ends the process. The process is the punishment. Keir Starmer has said publicly he is absolutely confident there will be no vexatious prosecutions. Three soldiers will be in a Belfast court in sixteen days. His confidence has not reached them. The government insists its bill provides robust protections for veterans. General Sir Nick Parker, who oversaw the final operations in Northern Ireland, says ministers do not understand the duty of the state to stand by those who serve it. The duty to stand by those who serve is contractual, not sentimental. A soldier who follows orders in a war the state authorised cannot later be offered up as payment for political convenience. What is being constructed here is not a legacy process. It is a permanent legal industry, sustained by public money, targeting the most traceable participants in a conflict the state itself waged. The soldiers kept their records. That is now their liability. A serious country does not behave this way. This one, apparently, does. "Keir Starmer has said publicly he is absolutely confident there will be no vexatious prosecutions. Three soldiers will be in a Belfast court in sixteen days. His confidence has not reached them."

This is the man that helped create the Climate Change Act that has resulted in the UK closing its fertiliser plants. Now he's worried about a lack of fertiliser. These people should be in prison.

Fidel Castro’s Daughter, Alina Fernández Revuelta, Calls for Regime Change in Cuba. She escaped Cuba in 1993 at age 37 and settled in Miami, later becoming one of the most outspoken critics of her father’s communist rule. Interestingly, Stalin’s only daughter also defected to the US in 1967, where she denounced Soviet communism and her father’s legacy. Only clueless American progressives like Bernie Sanders and Hasan Piker still defend Communism.

Southall Casually dumping rubbish out of his car window.. right next to a canal I HATE PEOPLE LIKE THIS 🤬🤬🤬

So mad David paulden aka mad zack Polanski wants a 55 mph limit on motorways. If this oddball and his crew actually got into power our country would be totally fucked.

Boris was arguably the most famous politician when Mayor of London yet he travelled all over London on his bicycle with NO security and on the tube where he was usually inundated for selfies. Yet Khan immediately took a bomb proof carrier flanked by a back up and then a security guard. Absolutely no need for such an expensive security team. Signs of grandeur rather than necessity!

Green Party candidate Tope Olawoyin has resigned after claiming the arson attack on four Jewish ambulances in Golders Green was an "inside job" by Jews themselves. She posted on X: “I can say with almost absolute certainty the men arrested are white… probably even Jewish.”

Is there a way for the Brits to remove this stupid, ignorant troll from office?

Former Labour anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq was sentenced to 6 years in prison in Bangladesh for corruption. A formal red notice request to Interpol has been made after she failed to respond to a Bangladesh arrest warrant. How will 'international law' Starmer respond?