We know what’s coming and we are prepared.
🇬🇧 "The Uniparty has nothing to offer me" --Anonymous Zoomer
🔶️ But in reality the appeal of national populism to Zoomers like me owes less to what we’re witnessing on social media and more to what it is actually offering. One of lower taxes, sharp reductions in immigration, stronger borders, unambiguous opposition to woke ideology, and a smaller welfare state, changes that will make us richer and safer.
🔶️ We also see, clearly, many other things the left denies, like the fact that mass legal immigration and concomitant amnesties for illegal immigrants are now a major cause of our country’s housing crisis. We see too that the fiscal burdens imposed by our new low-skill, low-wage, non-western immigration policy are further hollowing out our already weak ‘Deliveroo economy’ and worsening young people’s lives. And we see how, under the current Uniparty regime, any promised social housing, if it is even built, would be almost immediately occupied by immigrants and asylum-seekers before it is made available to young British people like me. Neither left nor right have any serious interest in embedding the principle of national preference in our politics.
🔶️ At the same time, the abolition of the prisons or ‘rehabilitative justice’ combined with continuing high levels of illegal and legal immigration will make safety on Britain’s streets even worse —just look at what’s happened in Democrat-run cities in America. Contrary to the view that it’s mostly pensioners who are scared of ‘broken Britain’, it is routinely young people like me who now bear the brunt of violent crime.
🔶️ While young Zoomer men in this country are the most likely to be the victim of armed robbery, stabbings, and beatings, young Zoomer women are now the most likely to experience street harassment, sexual assault, and menacing glares from newcomers who, to be frank, come from completely different and incompatible cultures. Polling consistently shows young people are more worried about violent crime than older people, who tend to live in rural and suburban areas which have less crime.
🔶️ Personally, I don’t think Nigel Farage and Reform have all the answers to these problems but what they represent, to Zoomers like me, is what many of us now see as a final chance for the under-40s to actually push for, if not demand, something close to the standard of living our parents and grandparents enjoyed. By rejecting Net Zero, by tearing up the expanding welfare state, by stopping millions of mainly low-skilled immigrants from moving to Britain to absorb more of the rapidly shrinking pie, and by actually prioritising British people, they do offer the kind of radical alternative that simply does not exist anywhere else on the political landscape.
https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/the-uniparty-has-nothing-to-offer
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🇮🇷🇮🇱 - 14 wounded in Iranian missile strike in central Israel, according to Israeli media.
🇬🇧🇮🇶 - A drone struck British Castrol oil warehouses in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, causing extensive damage.
🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Iran launched 9 missiles towards Israel this morning alone, with at least 3 of them being cluster missiles.
🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Over the past 12 hours, Hezbollah launched counterattacks in Khiam and Qantara, in the Nabatieh direction, southeast Lebanon. Hezbollah recaptured northern Khiam, with fighting ongoing for the south of the town. Hezbollah units also re-entered Qantara; frontline sources reported clashes in the center of the town last night.
🇱🇧🇮🇱 - 48 IDF soldiers have been wounded in clashes with Hezbollah over the last 24 hours in southern Lebanon, according to the Israeli Army.
🇱🇧🇮🇱 - "The Israeli army is barely catching its breath in southern Lebanon, and its resources are less than in the previous round of fighting," - Haaretz....
🇺🇸 Blue Owl Capital just disclosed that investors tried to pull 40.7% of one fund and 21.9% of another in a single quarter, and both funds gave the same answer, you can only have 5% back, and everyone else waits in line.
This is a bank run, not a normal withdrawal.
Wall Street spent the last decade selling millions of investors on something called semi-liquid private credit, higher yields, steady income and the promise you could get your money back every quarter if you needed it. What they buried in the fine print was what happens when too many people try to leave at the same time.
Analysts who have covered private credit for decades say nothing on this scale has ever been reported before at any major private credit manager.
These funds do not hold stocks you can sell on a Tuesday afternoon, they hold private loans to mid sized companies that cannot be liquidated quickly without destroying the price for every investor still trapped inside.
This product was originally designed for ...
🇺🇸 President Trump wants to switch to war economy in 2027 with massive increase in military spending and massive cuts to healthcare and other domestic agencies
Once a deficit hawk — he said in 2016 that he thought he could balance the budget in five years — Trump ended his first term with $7.8 trillion in added debt. His 2027 proposal is expected to give an update on 10-year deficit projections currently estimated at around $16 trillion.
The GOP's message for the Midterms will be focused on the "need" for a massive defense build up while the Democrats' message will be focused on affordability.
The fiscal 2027 budget will be the first time Trump puts his second-term governing agenda into one comprehensive document — with the numbers to back it up. The budget he released last year lacked detailed line-by-line spending targets and the economic assumptions necessary to project the long-term cost of his proposals.
Investors in US Treasuries will be looking to see if the debt and ...
