Benjamin Jones

Norway collected £50bn from North Sea oil and gas last year. We collected £4.4bn, having taxed our own producers into closure in pursuit of a #netzero fantasy. I cannot think of a cleaner example of a government failing its people @Keir_Starmer and @Ed_Miliband conservativewoman.co.uk/the-suicidal-m…

@elonmusk Breach of trust; abusive relationship really

For good reason

Quem inventou isso foi GENIAL 😮✨ Brincando, a criança aprende sem nem perceber 🧠💖 Simples, divertido e viciante… salva pra testar 😉

As usual, Ciaran Martin is busy spreading bullshit to hacks. The PM is *often* told by officials details from vetting, leak inquiries, investigations by intel agencies etc. This is because the PM in our constitution is often the only constitutional authority deemed able to make a political judgement about things including risk assessments of appointments. Martin's bullshit that details are never shared is factually untrue. Often officials run through a list - sorry PM, sex pest. Sorry, being investigated by NCA for fraud but we shd keep this quiet as he isn't charged yet. Sorry, he was asked about leaking X and he lied to the investigators, a breach of the ministerial code... I've watched discussions about each of these things with the PM and officials. Martin is asking you to believe that officials can just say 'sorry PM you can't appoint X he's failed vetting' and *the PM* isn't allowed to know any details. Absurd for many reasons. I know I say ministers have become NPCs but it isn't quite that bad yet - though the likes of Martin would *like* officials to control absolutely everything. When the penetration of Whitehall by PRC intel became a huge story, Martin spread disinfo to hacks trying to make the disaster look less disastrous. He is a Remainiac Heywood stooge who pipes up for elements of Whitehall & shd not be treated as any sort of 'impartial official'. Mandelson was a political appointment. All sides agree that the PM made this appointment and made clear he was pushing it through before various checks were done and regardless of various checks already done. If the vetting people came back with concerns, *the proper action was UNQUESTIONABLY for officials to take this to the PM* for him to make a judgement about the pros/cons and risks of his own political appointment, including the 'details' which Martin is pretending junior vetting officials are allowed to know but not *the PM*. This is the only proper way for such a problem to be resolved. Ollie Robbins and Ciaran are talking crap. And so is Starmer. All systems are working as intended. Also hacks shd be asking: Who officially authorised Mandelson for STRAP clearance? You don't get to read very sensitive material, like transcripts of intercepted calls between important people, just because you've got DV - you *also* need STRAP. Either a) an official cleared Mandy for STRAP or else b) the requirement / 3+ month delay was waived by the PM, or c) we're supposed to believe Mandy wasn't shown STRAP material? So which official authorised it or did the PM waive it? When? (It's already in the published paper trail that he was told it would take over 3 months)

@GoshawkTrades @federicocarrone @elonmusk @rupertlowe

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There is always a Yes Minister episode!

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@SBarrettBar @RupertLowe10 @dshensmith just why?

"Labour wins vote to seize powers over private pension pots" Communists/Socialists always steal private property telegraph.co.uk/money/pensions…

Just pointing out that I broke the story 7 months ago that Mandelson failed vetting from the security services and put it to Downing Street...so the idea that Downing Street only found out on Tuesday is complete nonsense. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Free for next two days

Frank Chodorov was one of the most uncompromising libertarian thinkers of the early 20th century. In his 1954 classic Income Tax: The Root of All Evil, he explained how taxation had become Washington's most powerful weapon against the American people. A short thread:

That's certainly an Insane Economist Quote

@viennoiscafe @mises @RupertLowe10

Hayek a raison : il n'y a rien à garder dans le socialisme, tout est à jeter. Pourquoi ? Tout simplement parce que toutes ses conclusions et solutions émanent de prémisses fondamentalement fausses. C'est pourquoi débattre de politique économique avec un socialiste est toujours une impasse. Tant que vous lui laissez le choix du champ de bataille, c'est à dire celui de ses idées, de ses définitions et de sa vision constructiviste du monde, vous avez déjà perdu. Le combat est ailleurs, il est sémantique et méthodologique. C'est la grande leçon que doit apprendre le libéral.

"One of the main tasks of economics is to explode the basic inflationary fallacy that confused the thinking of authors and statesmen from the days of John Law down to those of Lord Keynes." Mises, Theory of Money and Credit

Happy Tax Day. The Rhine barons who set up tollgates were tax collectors. So were the gangs who charged caravans for "protection." The technique hasn't changed, only the vocabulary. Frank Chodorov's classic essay on what taxation actually is. on.soundcloud.com/oNgnjPiQbQ3KaB…

Feb 2024 re vandalism of MoD, the nuclear shitshow cannibalising MoD budgets, procurement horrors, choices coming to Starmer, MPs ignoring it all, refusal to watch the frontier evolve in Ukraine etc

Bernie Sanders’s hypocrisy explained by his own posts 😂