Senior software engineer (.net, azure), gardening, personal finance. Oh, and dad :)

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Joined December 2009
Political parties on our side of politics are all too desperate to appeal to my generation, and entirely ignore the needs of anyone under 50. Why? Because they don’t vote in the same numbers. Restore Britain will not do that - as we’ve demonstrated. Our plan to replace the triple lock will restore some generational fairness, it probably won’t win us many votes. But we are going to make that argument regardless. Replacing the triple lock, abolishing interest on student loans, hiking tax thresholds, scrapping stamp duty, overhauling the childcare system, enabling entrepreneurs to grow their business with no corporation tax, ending school holiday fines, slashing regulation to get the state out of their way, cutting VAT/tax on all parts of their life - I could go on and on. Our plan is coming together. We are going to continue making our pitch to young working men and women who are trying to find their way in modern Britain. Restore Britain will give them a genuine alternative at the ballot box.
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🚨 Google lost power in London this morning and Revolut, a bank with 80 million customers, went down with it. I've spent the morning reading what Revolut users went through. It's wild. People stranded at petrol stations, unable to pay for fuel or a taxi to the airport. One traveller couldn't get out of a train station in Japan. A 71-year-old woman stood at a supermarket till for an hour. Her kid had to drive 30km to bring her cash. Card payments, transfers, ATM withdrawals, currency exchange, share trading. All down. Revolut's statement said "all our customers' money and data are safe." Safe. You just can't touch it. Google's explanation so far is a "power event" in one zone of its London cloud region. Its advice to affected customers was to move their workloads to another zone or region "if feasible." Must be nice. Revolut customers couldn't even move £10. In July the UK government put Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft and Oracle under direct Bank of England oversight, because one outage at any of them could shake the entire financial system. 12 days ago the Bank of England ran a drill with the UK's 38 biggest banks and market operators. The scenario they practised was a global cloud outage. And exactly one year ago today, AWS went down and took Lloyds and Halifax with it. Same date. Different cloud. Lloyds was having problems again this morning. Revolut spent five years earning a UK banking licence. Bitcoin has been running for almost 18 years. It doesn't have a London region.
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These children are being placed by adults on a pathway to infertility, impaired & possibly destroyed sexual function, reduced bone density, and unproven but suspected harmful effects on brain development. They cannot possible at their age provide informed consent. This chapter will go down in infamy and it is important that those responsible for this abuse are recorded and -when our country regains some sanity - held to account. Many of them belong in jail.
🚨226 children, some as young as 11 years old, are about to be given £500 worth of shopping vouchers by the UK Government in order to undertake a puberty blockers trial, placing them on a pathway to infertility. This is the medical scandal of our time. jamesesses.co.uk/p/state-san…
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Well said
Provided the following comment to @LBC about the Ofcom testimony this morning. Posting here for transparency.
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There was no democratic consent for this We voted to *reduce* migration.
🌍 European countries that added the most migrants (2000–2024) 1. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: +7.1M 2. 🇪🇸 Spain: +6.8M 3. 🇩🇪 Germany: +6.4M 4. 🇹🇷 Türkiye: +5.8M 5. 🇮🇹 Italy: +4.4M 6. 🇫🇷 France: +3.0M 7. 🇦🇹 Austria: +1.4M 8. 🇳🇱 Netherlands: +1.4M 9. 🇨🇭 Switzerland: +1.3M 10. 🇧🇪 Belgium: +1.3M 11. 🇸🇪 Sweden: +1.3M 12. 🇵🇱 Poland: +917K 13. 🇮🇪 Ireland: +840K 14. 🇳🇴 Norway: +720K 15. 🇷🇴 Romania: +521K 16. 🇵🇹 Portugal: +476K 17. 🇩🇰 Denmark: +475K 18. 🇭🇺 Hungary: +393K 19. 🇨🇿 Czechia: +386K 20. 🇫🇮 Finland: +378K Europe's migrant population grew by 40.8 million between 2000 and 2024, up 67%. The UK, Spain and Germany together account for almost half of that increase. Source: UN DESA
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To all of the parents out there trying to hold everything together... You cannot work full time, get the kids ready for school by 8:30am, collect them at 3pm, keep the house tidy, cook every night, maintain a relationship, stay in touch with friends, exercise, save money, build a future and still find time for yourself without eventually burning out. All while dealing with endless washing, food shopping and a never-ending list of things that need doing. You haven't failed. You're simply being expected to do too much with too little time. Everyone deserves to enjoy their life, not spend every day exhausted trying to keep everything together.
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⚡️Musk is attempting something far more consequential than a $10.7 billion giveaway. He’s creating a generation of Americans with a direct financial interest in the success of one of the country’s most strategically important companies. The genius of the structure is the distribution. One share per child creates millions of individual ownership relationships while leaving concentrated corporate control largely intact. A $146 gift has limited immediate economic significance. Its potential power comes from what happens afterward. Every SpaceX milestone becomes personal. Every increase in valuation raises the value of an asset held by American families. And every political battle involving SpaceX now has the potential to become a debate over the financial interests of those families. Musk is attempting to convert corporate success into a form of distributed political legitimacy. But the mechanism goes deeper. SpaceX already operates in sectors central to American strategic power: launch infrastructure, satellite communications, and defense. Its relationship with Washington will become increasingly consequential as space infrastructure expands. By distributing ownership across American children, Musk would begin aligning three constituencies that historically had different interests: shareholders, the federal government, and ordinary households. That alignment becomes especially powerful if SpaceX continues appreciating over decades. Children who receive their first share could eventually become adults whose earliest investment was tied to America’s space infrastructure. Musk is trying to turn SpaceX from a company Americans depend on into a company Americans feel they own. And the deeper consequence is the precedent. Private control of critical national infrastructure becomes easier to defend when millions of citizens have been given a financial stake in its success. If executed, this would be an unusually ambitious attempt to transform concentrated corporate wealth into mass ownership without surrendering the underlying concentration of power.
BREAKING: Elon Musk says he will donate one share of SpaceX stock, $SPCX, to every American child in 2027. There are currently ~73 million children in the US and SpaceX is trading at $146/share. This makes Elon Musk’s donation worth $10.7 billion based on current share price.
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That is indeed the Treasury view. They want to shut down family businesses and end self-employment. Everyone must be a PAYE wage slave reporting into the centralised bureaucracy. It's why we don't just need a political change. We need a system change.
Consultations like this, although cleared by Ministers, normally result from civil service initiatives. Which means that in the Treasury there are permanent officials who want to shut down the entire family business sector of the economy. (1/2) telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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They did the meme?
Fucking hell, they just did it! The BBC actually described the Islamo-leftist riots burning France to the ground as “MOSTLY PEACEFUL”! But Danny Tommo puncturing a people smuggling boat is terrorism to them. Defund them NOW!
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It's pathetic. Too much state involvement everywhere
Another British Fumble! £2bn AI data centre in Essex. 23,000 Nvidia chips, planning permission sorted, Microsoft signed up as the anchor tenant Microsoft has reportedly now walked. Because the grid told them they can't have the power until 2033/34 The government literally named this site in its own AI action plan. They talk about AI growth zones every other week. And we can't get 90MW to a field in Essex for 8 years Same story as the reservoirs. We don't build the boring stuff, so the exciting stuff can't happen here
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Reminder: just yesterday we learned that: A) a former ISIS guard for a beheading squad came to yookay illegally on a boat, obviously because of the ECHR/HRA he can't be jailed or deported, living freely; B) SAS guys sent on missions to deal with ISIS beheaders were then arrested for MURDER for dealing with them; they were lied to by the military police; they have been told they can never be clear of the charges (because the ECHR/HRA means any time some lawyer like Jolyon or Hermer wants to team up with nutters on a ECHR case, the government will be forced to investigate again and remember Hermer's friend *invented* war crimes to bring cases against British soldiers, but obviously wasn't jailed, triples all round in the Inner Temple). So we're importing the jihadis at scale while prosecuting for murder SAS we rely on to defend us from the jihadis - and if you don't like this you're fascist and it's a reason to ban X in yookay. No you will not see Kemi-kasi campaign on these issues because the Tories agreed with Labour for 25 years that this combination is 'defending civilisation'. The Tories imported many of the jihadis now in the news, and the Tories approved all the worst officials and lawyers in SW1 bringing the lawfare cases, including against those who were given medals by the Queen for stopping IRA terrorist attacks - they now have to beg for cash for lawyers in their 70s/80s. And because Reform is a bin fire which can't maintain focus on anything for 2 minutes -- like Kemi-kasi -- you probably won't see anything sustained from them either.
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🚨Announcement: My lawsuit against the Tavistock is going to trial this November. This is the first ‘anti-White’ harassment case against the NHS & the first 'colour-blind' belief case. I'm claiming my career was ended for disagreeing with Critical Race Theory & ‘anti-racism’ The claims I am bringing are discrimination, harassment, and victimisation. It will be a 20 day trial starting on 4th November with the judgement on 30th November. The Tavistock are calling 13 witnesses. In a recent hearing the judge agreed to include further claims of bullying and harassment as legal disclosure revealed that NHS senior staff at the Tavistock were openly calling me a “fascist” and a “racist” I do not currently have enough money to pay for the trial. Please, Please, donate, retweet & share my crowdfund:
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Nobody wants to face the government spend problem as it requires universal cuts or massive tax rises. Overspending is THE problem - entrenched benefits, inflation, dependent class, corruption.
France has spent more than it has taken in for the past 52 years. The problem is not lack of spending.
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We all might
So many people are going to get one-shotted by super persuasive super intelligences and I might be one of them
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Once you've been in Bitcoin long enough, you realize that 90%, if not more, of the world's problems stem from broken money. Fix the money, fix the world.
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«¡NO VAMOS A CONSENTIR QUE LA BIBLIOTECA CIERRE A LAS DIEZ!»
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この写真は2021年にスウェーデンで撮影されたギャング抗争のもので、フランスの抗議活動とは全く関係がありません。 samnytt.se/se-hela-klankr…
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Reminder to Tory members who will soon start voting for either Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick. Badenoch openly boasted in parliament about lobbying to loosen immigration rules to import more people into Britain.
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If only the French want to do it
J’ai entendu dire que la France était finie, qu’il était trop tard pour la sauver. Mais la France est toujours aussi belle, enviable même. Sa grandeur n’a pas disparu, elle ne demande qu’à renaître. Nous avons surmonté en un an un problème cent fois plus grave, sans avoir les moyens dont dispose la France. La France pourrait y arriver en une semaine.
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Shame Welsh Whiskey is cheaper in England
Christmas will soon be here KD🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Time to stock up The Welsh Whisky🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😁👍
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Farage apparently thinks the question of Englishness is an “academic debate”, in his words, that is not worth engaging in - a simply extraordinary thing to say. We are witnessing profound demographic change across Britain, and the leader of Reform thinks the meaning of English identity is a subject to be brushed aside because he’s scared of being called a few unpleasant names. Englishness is NOT an academic debate. The English are a historic people. We have our own ancestry, heritage, culture, traditions and national identity. Incredibly, Farage disagrees with that. My view, and Restore Britain's view, is clear. We are not simply a collection of passport holders living within a geographical boundary. And acknowledging the existence of the historic English people does not mean denying that others can develop a genuine attachment and belonging to our nation, but that does not make them ethnically English. A government can print a passport, sadly we all know that - it CANNOT falsely manufacture centuries of history or ancestral roots. The historic English people have a home - it’s called England, and we have nowhere else to go. And yes, in that home, the English are being demographically replaced. That’s just a fact. It’s happening all over Britain, it’s happened all over Britain. Go to East London, Rochdale, Luton, Birmingham, Blackburn, Bradford. I could go on. This is NOT an academic debate. This is our home, or at least it was. Farage is simply not the man to save it. You cannot claim to defend a nation when you refuse to even acknowledge its historic people because you might get your feelings hurt. The hour is simply too late for that pathetic level of gutlessness. The English are not an academic abstract afterthought. We will not have our history and entire existence erased because cowardly politicians don’t have the courage to state the truth. We are a people, and England is our home. Restore Britain will defend it.
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