Michael Fifield ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฌ๐ง๐ค๐ช๐บ๐ฎ๐ช #FBPE
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UK, Irish, EU citizen. Campaign to rejoin the EU. Give no quarter to the Tory Party. Promote integrity in public life. Dispel the darkness with facts + reason.
๐ฎ๐ท๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง Iran just proved its missiles can reach far beyond the Middle East Iran fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-UK military base sitting 4,000 kilometers away in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Neither hit the base, but the message landed harder than any warhead could. Tehran has always publicly claimed its missile range tops out at 2,000 km. This strike attempt doubles that number overnight. The Khorramshahr-4 that likely carried out the attack can also deliver cluster warheads, the same munitions that have been devastating Israeli cities for three weeks. Look at the map. A 4,000 km range from Tehran draws a circle that reaches Paris, London, and most of Europe. Every NATO capital that thought this war was a distant Middle Eastern problem just realized Iranian missiles could theoretically reach their doorstep. Source: @sentdefender WSJ
The Government will collect ยฃ331bn in income tax this year, and spend ยฃ333bn on welfare. In other words, we now spend more on people not working than we raise from those who do. And the cost? Debt per person has risen from ยฃ11.5k in 2000 (inflation adjusted) to over ยฃ41k today.
