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$760M short on oil. Placed 20 minutes before the Hormuz announcement. This is the 3rd time. March 23: $500M short — 15 minutes before Trump delayed Iran strikes. Oil dropped 15%. April 7: $950M short — hours before the US-Iran ceasefire. April 17: $760M short — 20 minutes before Hormuz declared open. The CFTC is investigating. The ‘peace trade’ was sold to retail. Someone else got out first. Who knew?

@BasedMillwaII @TheRealJamieKay Perhaps it's time to put that fourth pint of the day down and leave whatever Wetherspoons you're in, Paul. Time for your afternoon nap.

@Tory_Brexit69 @SamCoatesSky @metpoliceuk

@SamCoatesSky If this is proven, Robbins must be arrested and charged with treason @metpoliceuk He knowingly put the security of the UK at risk, without informing the Prime Minister. This is treason of the highest order.

What do I think really happened with Mandelson and vetting? In October, November and December 2024, No10 indicated it wanted to appoint Peter Mandelson as Ambassador to Washington. It was presented with an array of people telling them not to: Cabinet ministers, spooks, officials in a vetting report. All raised major red flags. Starmer and McSweeny made clear they weren’t interested in any objection, and this must go ahead at all costs. So Mandelson’s appointment was announced mid December 2024. The vetting we are focussed on today came later, in January 2025. Vetting of ambassadors is the responsibility of the FCDO and Olly Robbins. One bit of the system said no - the UKSV agency said don’t appoint Mandelson. We don’t know on what grounds, but probably the grounds No10 had seen and rejected as a reason to block. Olly Robbins cleared Mandelson. Very quietly, Mandelson didn’t get the very highest level of clearance when he got the job, but he got the overall OK because of Robbins. Robbins did No10 a favour. This is because Olly Robbbins knew that going to No10 post announcement, and saying the Mandelson appointment can’t happen, was politically impossible. And civil servants want to deliver for their political masters. So Olly fixed it for Keir: and is now paying a price. Olly Robbins has - incidentally - done No10 a second massive political favour. The really really toxic claim doing the rounds last night was that surely someone - anyone - in No10 DID know the UKSV agency turned down the vetting Olly Robbins is making clear he didn’t tell people the UKSV verdict because that would be inappropriate as part of the process he followed. It’s not even clear he saw it. No10 don’t seem to realise he’s done them a favour, and are releasing documents to challenge alternative versions of events. Let’s see how it plays out. The bottom line is No10 wanted Mandelson come what may. They rammed it through. One quango; post appointment announcement, was never realistically going to be allowed to stop Mandelson taking the job because the top of Government had publicly committed to it. They hadn’t wanted to heed the warnings earlier; and were in too deep That’s where I think we are

@TheRealJamieKay The crime happened, us guys don’t have any control over it

‘No evidence' found over alleged rape which sparked asylum seeker protests in Epsom, police say. news.sky.com/story/no-evide…

Really looking forward to MAGA explaining why Trump paying $20B, for Iran to give up their uranium, is somehow better than Obama paying just $1.7B for the same thing. Excluding the thousands of deaths and billions in military costs, naturally.

@jfoster2019 @Peston and this isn't a "witch-hunt"? 🤣

@mask1 @Peston Why a Commission looking into a pandemic .. spent so much time and taxpayers money focussing on WhatsApp messages is beyond me and the rest of the public frankly.. It was turned into a political witch hunt.. and never mentioned China 🇨🇳

I’ve spoken to one of Robbins’s predecessors as permanent undersecretary at the foreign office, who says he “doesn’t recognise” Ciaran Martin’s account of the vetting process and Robbins’s role in it. He says it is highly unusual for the Foreign Office to reject advice from UK Security Vetting not to appoint someone to a sensitive job and that Robbins could have informed a senior minister - the PM or the foreign secretary, or indeed their senior advisers - of the fact that UK SV advised against the appointment, even if the convention was not to share the reasons or the accompanying analysis. It will be fascinating to hear from Robbins on this

@jfoster2019 @Peston Perhaps we could take lessons from the Tory High Command on how easy it to wipe and conceal vital WhatsApp messages from the Covid Commission?

@Peston It will .. and I do hope he’s looking after his mobile 📱 wouldn’t want that to go missing too .. would we 😉

BREAKING: Sources say Olly Robbins felt bound by the rules of the security vetting process NOT to tell the PM, No10 or the foreign secretary about the concerns raised about Mandelson That means it appears No10 WERE in fact unaware he had issues with his vetting And sources say in fact Mandelson DID NOT simply fail his vetting. Instead issues were raised and the FCDO security team and ultimately Robbins had to make a decision on whether to grant him DV clearance. It was their decision and there was no “overturning,” sources say As @SamCoatesSky reports via former security official Ciaran Martin, Robbins was prohibited from sharing information about what happened with anyone outside the FCDO security team Sources say the point of the vetting process is that it is extremely invasive and people who go through it must be confident they can tell the whole truth and not have highly embarrassing information about their personal lives leak or be spread around colleagues That means the circle of people allowed to know about what happens in each vetting case is very small and the information is highly privileged The decision on whether to approve Mandelson’s clearance, according to the vetting rules, is taken by a small team of FCDO security officials and ultimately Robbins, sources say Under no circumstance is Robbins or that team able to share the details of the vetting case with No10 or anyone else, sources say. Robbins felt he could not share it with any minister or private office, sources say It appears the PM and No10 were unaware of how these rules were perceived by Robbins and FCDO, and think he should have told them. Allies of Robbins think it is unfair he was sacked But crucially it appears right now that Robbins did not tell No10 and they were actually in the dark about all this until Tuesday. What an unbelievable mess

@MarioNawfal sure sure sure sure. x.com/TankerTrackers…

🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. Navy ships are patrolling the Gulf of Oman right now, enforcing the full blockade on Iranian ports. CENTCOM says forces are ready to stop anything trying to slip through. So the closed Strait of Hormuz is now SUPER closed 🤷

🚨 BREAKING: Nigel Farage under fire after apparent U-turn on NHS funding. He previously argued against tax-funded healthcare - but is now denying it. This video tells a very different story. Caught out? 👇

Seems nice.............

@USAttyPirro x.com/mjfree/status/…

I have created a tip line to receive information regarding alleged sexual or inappropriate conduct in D.C. by Congressman Eric Swalwell. The number to call is 202-252-0809

CNN's Tom Foreman analyzed roughly two thousand videos of Jeffrey Epstein released by the Justice Department. Here's what they showed.

TLDW: RW influencers are all in a group chat with government ppl and they get their talking points in the chat and billionaires and campaigns pay them for posting the talking points; this money doesn't have to be reported to the FEC because it's just a post.

@RickValens1 @Partisan_12 Funny you mention pedos.

@Partisan_12 Catholic? You mean the Catholic church that had thousands and thousands of perverted priest moved around to hide their pedophilia? That church? This lady can fuck off...

Marina Purkiss: "I was raised a Catholic" "Trump has broken 8 of the commandments" "In my opinion Trump is the antichrist, so no wonder he doesn't like the Pope"

Voting system is broken Parliament is broken Parliament needs Reform