Buck Frexit

Iran Crisis: They Wanted Sovereignty. Just Not Like This If anyone has ruined the special relationship, it's not Starmer- it's Trump

No legal basis. No clear objective. No exit. And much of Britain’s political class spent the week calling Starmer a coward for noticing.

Latest substack from me.

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Governing to these people is just one long “who’s got the biggest dick” contest. Absolutely pathetic.

Those proud bastions of free speech Reform UK banned @willhaycardiff.bsky.social from their manifesto launch because they are scared of the scrutiny he would provide. Imagine what these cowards will do in power.

Like the ones your goons shot dead?

How democratic is the UK? The UK has a crisis of democracy

Did you vote for this?

Wages taxed at marginal rates of 20%-45% + NIC.

Dividends taxed at rates of 8.75% to 39.35%. No NIC.

Capital gains at rates 18% to 32%. No NIC.

Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.

Democracy and social justice... whose?

Our Armed Forces must always protect British citizens wherever they are in the world.

But tax exiles and influencers who make a living criticising the UK should contribute to the country they still expect to protect them.

'Nasty and violent' Kent councillor jailed for coercive behaviour Ex-Reform UK councillor for Cliftonville, Daniel Taylor, receives a prison term and loses his seat.

Missed this while I was off. A Kent county councillor (elected for Reform) has been sentenced to 12 months in prison after admitting controlling & coercive behaviour.

There's a by-election next month in his seat, and it looks like another Green/Reform/Labour fight...
www.bbc.com/news/article...

People who are not tax resident in the UK should not be allowed to donate to UK political parties.

Companies should not be allowed to donate to UK political parties.

No one should be allowed to use crypto to donate to UK political parties.

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Jeffries: "Article 1 of the Constitution provides Congress with the sole authority to declare war. Framers made that decision b/c they were concerned about kings plunging their people into unnecessary wars to pillage resources of others for the benefit of a tyrant and his family. Sound familiar?"

Starmer is no Churchill, butTrump is no human.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Sun headline about £500k compensation for migrants, discussing human rights, and public outcry over payouts.

Did you see this headline?

Did you feel the requisite anger and rage at asylum seekers that The Sun was asking of you?

Did you maybe blame Starmer because.... um... it was probably his fault🤷‍♀️

Would you like to know the reality behind the headline?

Course you would!😜

Let's take a look

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We rightly called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a violation of sovereignty.
If we don’t apply the same standard to US-Israel’s attack on Iran, then sovereignty isn’t our principle, alignment is. And that is why international law loses credibility.

Reform are in denial about why they lost by 12% in Gorton & Denton (60% white, 80% UK-born) after losing by 11% in Caerphilly (98% white, 98% UK-born) to Plaid Cyrmu

Both seats unusual in seeing more people vote than at last Welsh Senedd/last GE: more voters turned out to stop Reform than supoort

Hague Group measures against Israel to be weighed up by 40 countries

NEW: A group of 40 countries are considering a package of measures to hold Israel accountable for its genocide in Gaza

So, we’re spending U.K. tax payer money to go and get people who left the U.K. because they didn’t want to pay tax? The same people who are now immigrants in another country yet blame immigrants here for every problem?!?

Holiday makers yes, tax dodgers…..fund it yourself.

Cornwall Insight says current levels of UK wholesale gas prices (if sustained) would push up the Ofgem domestic fuel price cap by 10% for July-September 2026.

+£160/year for typical household bill...

www.cornwall-insight.com/press-and-me...

Update as Sadiq Khan confirms when Oxford Street will be pedestrianised The Mayor of London hopes to use the traffic-free street for events this year

Coming soon: a traffic-free Oxford Street.

Following strong public and business support, we’re moving at pace with plans to pedestrianise the heart of the West End.

A full mile between Orchard Street and Great Portland Street is set to go traffic-free by the end of this summer.

US strikes on Iran ‘outside international law,’ says Macron Macron joins Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez in calling the legality of the strikes into question.

After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law.

But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?

If you delight in Trump having a go at Starmer, if you don’t mind having worse trade terms after Brexit, if you’re happy for the economy (and therefore public services) to tank, impacting fellow citizens, you’re not patriotic in the least, your loyalty is to Farage, not the UK

Has there ever been a political party before that has come to power through the method of openly despising and rooting against the country they nominally represent?

So he’ll be getting rid of that? What an arsehole.

* single shit. 🤦‍♀️

All Europeans will pay the price for their leaders' reaction to the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran this weekend.

European leaders (all except Pedro Sanchez) have now accepted the end of international law.

The consequences of this will be felt not for weeks, not for years, but for decades

International law died yesterday. And Europe helped kill it. Macron, Starmer and Meloni gave their stamp of approval to Trump's illegal invasion of Venezuela to run the country and take its oil. Who can take them seriously now on Russia's invasion of Ukraine?

The writing was already on the wall with European leaders' reaction to Trump's illegal invasion of Venezuela, and to his first attack on Iran in June.

They've tacitly endorsed the new might makes right era.

That will not end well for Europeans.

This frivolous garbage was said today by the man who launched missiles without giving a sigle shit ahout what happens next.

The man is a genuine moron. What the fuck have you done America and why aren’t you undoing it???

Becaude you have to have some honour?