Andy Brown

Trump so admires Putin that he has launched his own special military operation. It won't end well but it might quickly result in Trump.letting Putin sell oil

Why the price of oil matters more than you might think A shock to oil supplies is rattling financial markets, driving up prices at the pump and raising fears of a bigger economic hit.

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Rising prices, mixed messages: Iran war is fraught with political risk for Trump The war's price, measured in damage to the economy and in political costs to Trump, is still coming into view.

The way to understand Trump is to reverse everything he says and assume what he accuses others of is what he is doing.
He has a plan for nothing that happens next, OK? The war is not remotely complete. Oil prices will be sky high for months.
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Bombs falling on Iran will not bring democracy. They will only endanger the brave Iranians who have already risked their lives protesting for freedom.

We must not repeat the mistakes of Iraq and Afghanistan by blindly following Donald Trump’s America into another dangerous war.

Great Britain has only two days of gas stored, while Iran war threatens to disrupt supplies National Gas insists storage broadly in line with levels for time of year despite disruption for tankers carrying LNG

UK has only two days of gas stored, Iran war threatens supplies.

Maximum capacity is 12 days.

Mainland Europe has reserves of several weeks’ worth of gas.

UK storage capacity shrank after privatisation.

The Rough storage facility closed in in 2017. British Gas wanted subsidies.

We need to be realistic about what the US planes taking off from British soil and heading towards Iran are doing. They are refuelling and weaponing up to fly over to support a bombing campaign on another country using information gathered in Yorkshire. That makes us participants in Trump's war.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Khamenei’s fall, Iran’s future: why Pahlavi still blocks real change US-Israeli attacks disrupt Iran’s religious leadership regime, but what Iranians really need is democracy not a return to monarchy

Khamenei’s fall, Iran’s future: why Pahlavi still blocks real change

US-Israeli attacks disrupt Iran’s religious leadership regime, but what Iranians really need is democracy not a return to monarchy

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'Night turned into day': Iranians tell of strikes on oil depots Fuel depots were hit in Tehran and Karaj overnight, with videos showing huge fires and plumes of smoke in multiple locations.

Bombing water supplies, killing children at school and choking ordinary people on burning oil is highly unlikely to make them cheer on the bombers and overthrow the government.
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G7 nations to hold emergency meeting on oil as stock markets sink Chancellor Rachel Reeves with join talks with reports suggest could include releases oil reserves.

Trump is busy crashing both the US and global economies. A strange was to make America great. A sure way to make him the most unpopular President ever.
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It would be unwise to join hands with Donald Trump on the Iran war - Andy Brown Consistency is an important characteristic. Yet it can prove a very elusive commodity when it comes to politicians making decisions about international relations.For over four years now the vast major...

British government is "still too reluctant to distance ourselves sufficiently from Donald Trump. A man who has proved to be an enemy of every decent value that the people of Britain want the country to stand for." My latest column for @yorkshirepost.co.uk
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Former staff show how Trump acted to upend EPA's mission and "make America sicker" Their new report details relaxed restrictions on dangerous chemicals in food, consumer products, water and air.

Trump's EPA relaxed restrictions on dangerous chemicals in food, consumer products, water and air

Trump Is Risking a Global Stagflation Crisis With His Iran War The effect on oil and gas could be much, much larger than he thinks. And that shock will be passed on to every sector of the economy.

Trump Is Risking a Global Stagflation Crisis With His Iran War

The effect on oil and gas could be much, much larger than he thinks. And that shock will be passed on to every sector of the economy.

it's only 4 times larger than Iraq, has only 90 million people, only 95% of it is mountain or desert and they've only been mentally prepping for being invaded for 40 years. Gonna be a breeze

With people who bend the truth and lie, sometimes the way forward is to let them dig their own grave. If trump makes a big public statement that the UK bases are not needed. Don't let him use them. Refuse permission to land, give 24h to leave and don't back down.

Everything uses energy so we have massive inflation because energy got more expensive. The petrol pump might be the first obvious place you see it, but it compounds all the way down the supply chain, that loaf of bread you drove to the supermarket to buy isn't just affected by the cost of fuel. 2/

Unfortunately anyone depending on gas heating and paying food bills is going to be hit very hard by Trump's war

If you allow US planes to take off from Britain to participate in a war you are no longer staying out of the conflict. These planes aren't going out to drop aid but to drop bombs

Trump tells Starmer help not needed even as US uses UK bases for Iran strikes US president delivers stinging criticism of UK prime minister over delayed support for Iran war

Why is Britain allowing US bombers to take off from bases on our soil to pursue an illegal war that hits almost everyone in Britain in the pocket? This isn't an alliance. It is exploitation, bullying and insults.
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There's an inflation wave coming. How worried should we be? Economic consequences are an intrinsic aspect of the Iran conflict, writes BBC economics editor Faisal Islam.

The most effective way to protect yourself against the oil price shock is to go green. Solar and wind keep powering regardless of the war. Batteries store energy cheaply at night and release it when expensive. Electric cars don't suffer price hikes at the pumps. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What part of stay firmly out of Trump's mess doesn't Keir Starmer get. He started out with the right words but he is gradually drifting towards complicity in a war crime that will cause damage for years.

Asking the wrong question is one of the oldest disinformation ploys.

The right question is NOT whether Ayatollah Khamenei's regime was evil and a sponsor of terrorism.

The RIGHT question is whether simply bombing Iran will lead to a change for the better or just make things worse.

Trump destroys.

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Yorkshire’s ‘Dirty Business’: The scandal flowing through our rivers Yorkshire’s water pollution is the third worst in the UK. Who is responsible – and what can be done about it?

Yorkshire’s ‘Dirty Business’: The scandal flowing through our rivers | Yorkshire’s water pollution is the third worst in the UK. Who is responsible – and what can be done about it? | Kirsty Tucker

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UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

Ensuring #FoodSecurity - surely a crucial government responsibility on which Westminster has been failing for decades

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🇬🇧 50 UK families have more wealth than 34 million of us COMBINED. 🙃

Extreme wealth concentration is the crisis. Everything else is just a useful distraction for the billionaires bleeding us dry.