The Farmer's Share: Who Carries the Risk vs. Who Gets the Reward?

There is a lot of this ignorance bouncing about following the Fulton Four conviction. “Inflicted those blows without intent” doesn’t capture what happened at all. 🧵 A short thread for those at the back —

‘At the Midland Hotel in Derby, a Grade II listed building housing around two hundred asylum seekers, a whistleblower described the daytime scene. The hotel is not busy, they said, because everyone is out at work. Delil, an Ethiopian asylum seeker staying there, put it plainly. "I work for Deliveroo like a lot of my friends. I want to work, that's why I came to the UK”.’

Just a truly unbelievable return on investment here. For £13k, British Government (with AISI and NCSC) used frontier AI to scan public code repositories across govt. 407 findings in total, “including critical weaknesses exposing services to authentication bypass, data exposure and remote code execution.”

Work harder PEASANTS

Elon Musk got rejected by Netscape. He walked into the lobby, was too shy to talk to anyone, and walked out. Never got the job. At his first company Zip2, the board demoted him. Twice. They refused to let him be CEO. He got fired from PayPal as CEO while flying to his own honeymoon. The board voted him out mid air. He almost died of malaria in 2000. Ten days in intensive care. Lost 45 pounds. A day from death. His first child died at 10 weeks old. His first rocket exploded. Falcon 1, flight one. Burned on the pad. His second rocket exploded. His third rocket exploded. The last of his money was nearly gone. Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008. The closest he ever came to a nervous breakdown. Both companies almost died on the same Christmas Eve. He was sued by investors. Mocked by the people who built cars before him. His childhood heroes, the astronauts who inspired him, testified against his company to Congress. The Cybertruck window shattered on live stage in front of the world. He overpaid for Twitter by his own admission and watched its value collapse. He was beaten unconscious as a child and thrown down a flight of stairs. He has said he goes to sleep alone and it kills him. He failed in public, over and over, for thirty years. He is the richest man in the history of the world. The difference was never the absence of failure. It was the refusal to stop after it.

Clapping like seals thinking the dark web that they’ve now sent kids to is better!!

There is another contract for £711 million for school transport. £1.5 billion spent on taxis

La vuelta de Ayrton Senna en Mónaco 1990 en 4K. Considerada la mejor vuelta del circuito por su perfección; el auto tenía una caja manual, lo que lo obligaba a soltar 3.000 mil veces aproximadamente el volante durante toda la carrera, en un auto que parecía un potro sin domar.

HOW BRITAIN REWARDS PEOPLE WHO TRY TO SAVE TAXPAYER MONEY: FIRE THEM Mike Kiely spent 22 years inside BT (@BTGroup). He knew how the telecoms industry operated. So when the government hired him as a consultant to oversee the £2.5 billion rural broadband rollout, he knew exactly what he was looking at. BT had won all 26 government contracts. All of them. Kiely did the maths. Installing a street cabinet in Northern Ireland cost around £13,000. On the mainland, BT was charging the government between £61,000 and £80,000 per cabinet. Public money covered roughly 77% of every single one. He suspected BT was simply inventing tasks and inflating charges to absorb as much public funding as possible without doing more work. So he shared his analysis with local councils. The people whose job it was to negotiate these contracts and spend public money responsibly. Then his document leaked to a broadband blog. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport trawled his internal emails, found what they needed, and sacked him. The man who tried to protect public money. Margaret Hodge (@margarethodge), chair of the Public Accounts Committee, told the Guardian (@guardian) she was getting increasingly concerned at the way whistleblowers were being bullied. She pointed out that hiding behind commercial confidentiality was denying the public the right to know how their money was being spent. Her committee later confirmed what Kiely had warned all along. Taxpayers had been ripped off. £1.2 billion had gone to BT shareholders. Kiely was eventually vindicated when a community in Oxfordshire paid £28,000 per cabinet. Exactly in line with what his numbers predicted was fair. He lost his job for telling the truth. BT kept every contract. This is what accountability looks like in Britain. The consultant who raises the alarm gets sacked. The company he raised the alarm about gets the cheque. Support whistleblowers. They are the only audit most public spending ever gets. SOURCES @BBCNews @TheRegister @guardian @margarethodge

Hi Mary, in our county we have 10,000 on a social housing waiting list and, at most, around 3,000 properties. Can I ask why you would prioritise foreign nationals for that housing over the vulnerable or young families? Is virtue signalling really that much more important to you?

Under these proposals at 17 you’ll be able to vote, join the army and drive a car but not allowed to watch premier league highlights on YouTube on a Saturday night. What an absurd idea.

Elon Musk breaks down the exact playbook legacy media uses for propaganda and how they intentionally shape false narratives: “Unfortunately, what I’ve learned is that legacy media propaganda is very effective at making people believe things that aren’t true An example is people calling me a Nazi over a random hand gesture at a rally, when all I was saying was, ‘My heart goes out to you,’ while talking about space travel” They do it on repetition all at once; essentially, that will end up outweighing the reality Repeat a narrative enough times, amplify it across headlines, television, and social media, and millions will believe it without ever examining the full context or even the actual reality

The council house swapping Facebook groups and websites are very eye-opening. There are 6- and 7-bedroom properties on offer in Zone 2 at ~£750 a month. Private rents for similar properties would be £6,000 . Enormous subsidies are being distributed in the worst possible way.

Can we debunk this nonsense? Elon Musk was awarded (note: not given) cost-per-result contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is ~$22B, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc. The deal was simple: put stuff into LEO at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn’t, the company is responsible for the overrun. End result? SpaceX & Elon lowered the cost of getting 1 kg into LEO by 95-97% vs what NASA was paying previously. And for the record, every other company around at the time was offered the same opportunity to bid on the contract - Musk/SpaceX just took it. The handout narrative implies the taxpayer is the patron and SpaceX the dependent. The cost data shows the opposite: before SpaceX, NASA paid Russia’s Soyuz $80-86M per seat; SpaceX delivered at ~$55 million. SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $300M-$465M each year on that alone (the US sends 12-15 astronauts to space each year) On the lunar lander, NASA estimated SpaceX’s fixed-price bid saved $20B-$30B vs the Boeing-preferred cost-plus approach. So: SpaceX saved the US taxpayer more than the total value of contracts it earned on a single project, PLUS provided the US government with the requested services (put stuff in LEO) at the best possible price.

One person we shouldn't be paying too much attention to is General 'Sunset to Sunrise' Carter, who, as CDS the year before the return of tank battles & artilery regiments dominated land warfare once more in Europe, advocated for the retiring of traditional capabilities in a budget exercise leading to the famous 'say-do gap' that has plagued defence since.

SpaceX raised only $12B of capital before going public. With that $12B, they revolutionized the rocket industry, built a global satellite network, and created arguably the most innovative company of all time. The federal government spends $12B every 15 hours and still can’t get its shit together. Prior to SpaceX, NASA was sending astronauts into space on Soviet-era Russian Soyuz capsules. So no, I don’t find Elon’s wealth to be a problem, and I wouldn’t trust Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders to allocate a single dollar of it.

BREAKING: We CAN stop boats in the Channel after all.

I used to work in the ambulance service. . It cannot be fixed. It actively recruited yes men over my 12 year period. It took on too much. It went from accident and emergency plus serious medical refer transfers to a catch all for every social problem in the country. It started with every out of hours GP request. So from 5pm to 9am we took on most those calls. The service then open up the 999 call handling centre to cheaper unqualified staff who followed crib sheets. Previously, older experienced paramedics went into call centres as they got too old to be hauling 25 stone men and women up and down stairs. So more ambulance were sent to "non jobs". Then there was a benefits boom. I had a call to a girl on benefits who didn't have the money to get a taxi to the GP who was 1 mile from where she lived. She didn't want to walk with the push chair. Her child had the sniffles. It was the beginning of the state dependent generation. I had a female with a missing tampon after sex, she lived 400 yards from the local hospital. I drove 20 miles across the county on blues before getting the real story. It was not the reported haemorrhage. Then we started getting everything, Pissed up at the weekend and cut yourself in your beer bottle, call an ambulance to get your pissed up arse 20 miles to the nearest hospital for stitches Having a pissed up mental health crisis at 2am, call an ambulance. Flown in from America for recently diagnosed af, get an ambulance, Need out of hours cancer care, call an ambulance. Every other NHS department closed is doors at 6pm and everything went to the ambulance service. Granny got d&v, call an ambulance. Having your 5th child so you can get a bigger house on benefits, you get an ambulance to take you to hospital. When I started, we used to get 2 to 3 real calls per 12 hr shift. 5 was busy. You worked within an area. When I left there was no such thing as a 12 hr shift. 14 hr became norm, you drive over 3 counties and never stopped. When I started the training was free, in-house and you could qualify within 2.5 years. Now it's A 4 year expensive degree. Plus extra driving licence upgrade costs. No-one I worked with remained within the ambulance service. Everyone has left. The crap you're sent to is astonishing whilst the really sick people die on the streets. All the good staff and managers left. Only the yes men stayed and the decline continues. I'm out of touch now but it doesn't sound like things improved. There aren't more ambulance stations, there are fewer. There were fewer ambulances in my time also. There was always plenty of money for courses in diversity, bed sores, the patients rights when they are attacking you etc. Human resource departments and tick box departments certainly grew more than the front line staff department, in line with every other NHS department. The culture of state dependency is also irreversibly high Everyone feels they are entitled to an ambulance, because we've encouraged everyone that their truth is valid. In the meantime, those that really need it, go without. The population continues to rise, the aging population rises but the amount of ambulances doesn't. For those who think illegal immigrants don't use the NHS , you need to realise they are the first to use it. If you think illegal economic migrant numbers are ok, just wait till you here about the illegal health care migrants. Even before we opened our borders to 3rd worlders, when the EU first opened up to Poland and then Bulgaria, the health care migration was astonishing. I previously had no idea about the mismatch We took in thousands that didn't have access to mental health centres or even deaf support. But that's a story for another day. We're in the mess we put ourselves with prime in charge incapable of turning it around. My advice. If you can get yourself to hospital, do it. You could die waiting for that ambulance to save you.