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Julian Elford retweeted
You know how these morons used a nonsensical measure to come up with their tariff rates? As it turned out, they misapplied their own formula, overestimating the "tariffs" other countries put on American goods by a factor of nearly four.
The two authors who point this out write: "our view is that the formula the administration relied on has no foundation in either economic theory or trade law. But if we are going to pretend that it is a sound basis for US trade policy, we should at least be allowed to expect that the relevant White House officials do their calculations carefully."
What a disgrace this whole thing has been.
Julian Elford retweeted
Fantastic graphic from the WSJ. Trump just increased the price of a iPhone by nearly 60 percent. Obviously completely unsustainable so won’t be sustained. An American Liz Truss moment
This war crime is yet another example of why Israel has decades of problems ahead
There aren’t words strong enough to describe the cowardice and depravity of a “military” that will methodically execute medical workers, bury them in mass graves, and tell the NYT the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without lights on. These soldiers and their superiors are utterly depraved and a threat to all humanity.
Before hiding the bodies in a mass grave, they forgot to grab the cell phone of one of the medics who recorded his own assassination for the world to see — if it cares.
As the “soldiers” are nearing their vehicle, and the medic knows they will murder him, you can hear him saying: “Forgive us, everyone. Oh God, accept me as a martyr and accept my repentance. Oh mother, forgive me, this is the path I have chosen to help people.”
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Julian Elford retweeted
Why aren’t you wearing a suit?
Have you said “Thank you” to Greenland and Denmark for allowing you to have a base on Greenland?
Julian Elford retweeted
President Zelensky will meet King Charles at Sandringham tomorrow. A spokesman for the King said the purpose of the meeting was "to annoy the fuck out of that dreadful orange shithead"
Julian Elford retweeted
In nearly twenty years as a journalist, this was one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed.
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Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Verify-Sy, a Syrian fact checking group, now says that this man is Air Force Intelligence First Lieutenant Salama Mohammad Salama, notorious for extortion and theft in Homs, who had been arrested due to disputes with his colleagues about profit sharing.
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Julian Elford retweeted
“We welcome the government’s commitment, but to bring meaningful change, funding must go hand in hand with a sustainable plan to retain and grow the NHS workforce and invest in critical IT and physical infrastructure."
Read our reaction to #Budget2024 👇
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Julian Elford retweeted
"I have the most sympathy with the incoming government on this."
Prisoner early release was due to a "Conservative failure" that has left the Labour government with no choice but to "let some out", says former Conservative leader William Hague.
Julian Elford retweeted
I'm very impressed that the Conservatives have managed to lose an election which only had Conservatives running in it.
Julian Elford retweeted
You know that time when it comes…. when you have to sell the Rolex to compensate for the next 25 years of Winter Fuel Allowance.
Julian Elford retweeted
This stuff was *always* going to bite them on the arse…
🚨🚨 Exclusive: Awkward photos show James Cleverly's wife was at Wimbledon freebie - despite record saying she wasn't
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Julian Elford retweeted
‘If anyone in the Tory party wants to know the nitty gritty of all this, possibly they could ask for an introduction from the former minister Lord Frost - because his spouse Harriet Matthews has been the lead official negotiator for the foreign office on the Chagos treaty with Mauritius.’
There seems to be significant faux outrage from Tory leadership candidates Cleverly and Tugendhat about the Starmer government’s transfer of the Chagos islands to Mauritius.
Official sources tell me the transfer would have happened in materially the same
way at roughly the same time if Sunak had somehow won the election.
The point is that the transfer was being negotiated on the recent Tory government’s watch - including by Cleverly as foreign secretary and then by Cameron - and the deadline was in effect set by Washington.
I am told that President Biden wanted the deal done before the 5 November presidential election. Biden wanted certainty about the future of the US military base on the Chagossian island of Diego Garcia, just in case Donald Trump were to win the election.
For confirmation that the deal was clinched on a timetable and in a style to suit the US administration, see Biden’s statement that “it is a clear demonstration that through diplomacy and partnership, countries can overcome longstanding historical challenges to reach peaceful and mutually beneficial outcomes”.
Biden pointed out that the agreement between the UK and Mauritius meant the US had secured “the effective operation of the joint [military] facility on Diego Garcia into the next century.”
It is therefore curious Tugendhat should describe the transfer as “leaving our allies” exposed when the UK’s most important ally, America, has welcomed it.
And Cleverly’s denigration of Starmer as “weak, weak, weak” for formalising it seems eccentric when the negotiations with Mauritius were in full swing when he was in the cabinet.
As for Liz Truss’s assertion that Boris Johnson is to blame, I am told that Johnson was the last PM to wholly oppose giving up sovereignty over Chagos, and that the talks did not start properly till she was PM.
If anyone in the Tory party wants to know the nitty gritty of all this, possibly they could ask for an introduction from the former minister Lord Frost - because his spouse Harriet Matthews has been the lead official negotiator for the foreign office on the Chagos treaty with Mauritius.
Julian Elford retweeted
'The Labour Party has continued and essentially enacted the arrangements that were already agreed before the Conservatives left government.'
@MarksLarks clears up 'the nonsense and politicking' around the Chagos Islands row, discussing the historical context with @mrjamesob.
Julian Elford retweeted
And not yet declared on the new Commons register of interests 👇🏼
Exclusive by @LucyGJWhite
*Kemi Badenoch is running her leadership campaign from the house of a wealthy donor
*she hasn’t yet declared the donation-in-kind to parliamentary authorities
*it comes despite Tory criticism of Starmer using Waheed Alli’s flat for the same purpose
*Neil Record is a currency trader, anti-net zero campaigner and former Institute of Economic Affairs chair
*Record tells Bloomberg that Badenoch’s team asked CCHQ for advice and were told they didn’t need to declare the use of the property
*but CCHQ says that advice applied to an internal log not the parliamentary register…
*Badenoch spox says she hasn’t done anything wrong
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