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Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
So, let me flag a few things, traitor.
1. "European security architecture" is a phrase the Kremlin uses. We already have one: it's called NATO.
2. You conflate (as you always do) the victim of this war with the aggressor. The aggressor is Russia.
3. "Root causes" is Russian for "do it our way" and you know it.
4. Nothing a word about Russian withdrawal, the occupied territories, POWs or deported children. Weird.
5. Lavrov wrote this for you.
6. Fuck Putin, fuck Russia, and fuck you.
President Trump today advanced an important discussion with several European leaders about the need for a broader European security architecture that can help establish the conditions for lasting peace.
Building on his leadership and the substantive work undertaken this week in Brussels with Ukraine, NATO, and our European partners, @SEPeaceMissions and I wanted to share some of the objectives guiding our ongoing discussions.
For more than 30 years, Europe and Russia have struggled to establish a sustainable security framework. Decades of mistrust, competing security concerns, and the devastating consequences of this war make this an extraordinarily difficult challenge, but one that is essential to lasting peace.
Our objective is to develop practical arrangements that address the security concerns of all sides, reduce the risk of future conflict, and create a more stable and predictable security environment.
We are exploring five principal goals: permanent security consultations, reliable crisis communications, greater military transparency, reciprocal measures to reduce escalation risks, and an enduring framework for long-term European security and stability.
Any arrangements must fully respect the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and independent decision-making of every nation. Each country will retain authority over its own security and alliances, and no country would have a veto over another’s sovereign choices. NATO will remain central to European collective defense, and this initiative would build upon existing institutions and commitments.
We will continue consultations through the Shell Bay format with Ukraine, NATO, the EU, and our European partners, expanding engagement to ensure that all relevant perspectives and ideas are considered. We will also engage Russia as part of the peace negotiations.
Next week in Abu Dhabi, the United States will convene the first trilateral peace discussions with Ukraine and Russia since February. All parties remain intensely engaged in preparing for substantive and productive negotiations. We will consult closely with our European partners on the sidelines and, if progress is made, aim to move toward a broader multilateral format with their direct participation.
These ideas continue to evolve, and we welcome thoughtful input. Creating the right structure will be critical to ending this war and transitioning from conflict toward conditions that make possible a durable peace.
This is difficult, detailed work. There are no easy solutions. But the opportunity to help end this devastating war and build a foundation for a more peaceful, secure, and prosperous Europe for generations to come makes it a challenge well worth undertaking.
We will see how these discussions develop and continue working intensively with all parties toward President Trump’s objective of a comprehensive and lasting peace.
Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
I had running battles with this vile shit
He led the protest against landing migrants in Portsmouth
Caused our RNLI station to close
Besieged a hotel mistaking a Pakistan cricket team for migrants
Losing us our City of Culture bid
& now this 👇
Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
And there is your proof.
82% of Democrats support Ukraine over Russia. So do 52% of Republicans and even 50% of MAGA supporters. Support for Russia? A miserable 1%, 4% and 5%, respectively.
Trump, Hegseth and JD Vance do not represent the American people on this issue. They represent their own interests.
They represent themselves, their egos and a peculiar little faction that seems determined to mistake loyalty to Putin for patriotism.
The most remarkable thing about these figures is that even MAGA voters are ten times more likely to support Ukraine than Russia.
America has not become pro-Russian. Its leadership has simply become spectacularly unrepresentative of the country it claims to speak for.
Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
So much for “Brexit will make food cheaper”.
Food prices are now dramatically higher than five years ago.
LSE researchers estimated Brexit food barriers cost households about £250 each by 2023.
And now British food production is under pressure while imports and the food trade deficit rise.
Cheaper food was one of the great Brexit promises. The reality has been the opposite.
🥩🥚 STEAK AND EGGS — NOW A LUXURY MEAL IN BRITAIN?!
Food prices have surged 38.2% over the past five years.
But look at some of the increases:
🔴 Beef and veal: +60.4%
🔴 Eggs: +56.1%
🔴 Lamb and goat: +55.0%
🔴 Pork: +51.8%
🔴 Olive oil: +109.7%
A weekly food shop costing £60 in 2021 would now cost around £83.
That's almost £1,200 EXTRA a year for the same groceries!
I joined @MartinDaubney to discuss the impact of rising food prices on hardworking Brits.
💬 What's become too expensive for your weekly shop?
Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
I am so tired of Brexit morons trotting out this lie. It’s pure crap, and has been shown to be such for years by countless experts. It’s embarrassing to be so ignorant, and publicise the fact.
Left: Conservative Mims Davies claims we got the covid vaccine because we left the EU
Right: Dr June Raine says UK vaccine program ran while the UK was still legally within the EU and under EU law
My view: Every time a Brexit politician claims Britain got the Covid vaccine first because we left the EU, they run into the same inconvenient fact: we were still bound by EU law when the vaccine was approved.
The UK authorised the Pfizer vaccine on 2 December 2020. The first vaccinations followed on 8 December.
The Brexit transition period did not end until 31 December, so EU law still applied.
And MHRA chief executive Dr June Raine said the approval used Regulation 174, a provision under European law that remained available until 1 January.
The UK had left the EU politically in January, but that did not mean it had escaped EU rules by December. The early approval came through a regulatory route available under those rules.
Brexit politicians are taking credit for a decision made while those rules still governed us, and the regulator was explaining exactly that.
That is what makes this claim so shameless.
They take a genuine achievement by scientists, regulators and the NHS, erase the legal timeline, and sell it as proof Brexit delivered something it did not.
It wasn’t Brexit that made the vaccine possible.
The official responsible for authorising it said the legal basis was European law.
Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
Muppet. Although you might be a Putin Poodle, the rest of us educated folk in the UK understand Putins Russia is an existential threat to our way of life. Money spent in resistance of a man who so casually sacrifices the lives of his own citizens saves us all in the long term
Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
Have you all seen Trump’s announcement of his SUPER PUTIN DEAL? Russia promises to immediately supply more than 300,000 tonnes of diesel to the market, including the US, followed by another 500,000 tonnes in November. Then come promises of EVEN BIGGER volumes. Because the deal has to be HUGE. At least in the post.
OFAC, of course, wasted no time issuing a temporary waiver until April 7 to accommodate the president’s latest “GENIUS” deal.
Except the BIG DEAL is not actually that big. More of a stage prop. Very Trump.
Let’s do the maths. Actual numbers. TERRIBLE, I know.
300,000 tonnes is roughly 2.2 million barrels of diesel.
500,000 tonnes is roughly 3.7 million barrels.
In September, Russia managed to export just 0.1 million barrels. Basically none, as there is export ban.
So Putin has already “sold” Trump a volume 22 TIMES larger than Russia’s entire September exports. Making promises is, of course, easier than rebuilding refineries after Ukrainian strikes. MUCH EASIER. SOME SAY THE EASIEST.
Meanwhile, Russia’s diesel export ban remains in force until October 31: the fuel is needed domestically, and Ukrainian drones have significantly reduced Russia’s ability to produce it. A VERY SUCCESSFUL phone call with Trump is unlikely to have fixed those problems.
Now for another comparison. Russia’s average monthly diesel exports last year were 18.3 million barrels. The promised deliveries amount to just 12% and 20% of that volume, respectively.
So we have a promise that Russia still needs to find a way to fulfil, given the state of its refineries. And even if delivered, it looks considerably less impressive than the presidential CAPS LOCK. Not quite THE GREATEST DEAL IN HISTORY.
The political logic is clear. The war with Iran and high fuel prices are a bad backdrop for the elections. One would hope politically FATAL, at this point. The administration desperately needs a story about how the president is about to FIX EVERYTHING. Preferably IMMEDIATELY. Preferably without explaining how we got here in the first place.
So perhaps the main product of this deal is not even diesel. It is another attempt to calm the market with a BIG, BEAUTIFUL ANNOUNCEMENT. Let’s see how much credibility these announcements still have.
Russia, of course, will sell this as a HUGE VICTORY. And why wouldn’t it? Promise diesel you still need to find somewhere, get a sanctions waiver UPFRONT. Plus another opportunity to tell the world that it simply CANNOT MANAGE WITHOUT RUSSIA.
But what worries me most is that this spectacle could weaken our European partners’ resolve. Trump’s latest “breakthrough” must not become an excuse to ease sanctions pressure on Russia — precisely when that pressure needs to INCREASE.
Of course, this decision will benefit Russia by generating additional revenues. We’ll be watching how much of its export capacity Russia actually manages to restore. One thing is CLEAR: Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries need to INTENSIFY.
Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
Farage and Reform UK are in deep trouble. However, after 3 days, @Verbatim_Media's 37 minute video of their extraordinary year-long undercover investigation into Reform UK's illegal foreign donations has only got 161k views. It should have several million.
So please repost this and then share the video.
youtu.be/RugPik-G1Jw?is=-ikY… – at Brighton, England
Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
Labour have 404 MPs
Tories have 117 MPs
Lib Dems have 71 MPs
You have SEVEN.
And you're not even one of them.
If Andy Burnham is serious about putting politics aside to solve Britain’s biggest problems, it’s remarkable that he’s chosen to ignore Reform.
He is conspiring behind closed doors with the failed political establishment to foist further tax rises on the country.
The fact Ed Davey and Kemi Badenoch are going along with this tells you all you need to know. This is the uniparty in action.
Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
I’m thoroughly enjoying just how much Nigel Farage’s millions of pounds in gifts “for his security” have left him feeling in such a state of insecurity.
Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
Having made the mistake of doing a few interviews and stropping like a petulant child in all of them, please rest assured that I am going straight back into hiding for the foreseeable future.
Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
Victoria Derbyshire, "Keir Starmer telling Nigel Farage he has exploited the Henry Nowak case, is he right?"
Telegraphs' Annabel Denham, "Err, no, I don't think the PM is right"
Labour's Tom Hayes, "I'm just shocked by that, you've got a grieving family going through some of the worst experience anyone can ever know, and they've called on Nigel Farage not to exploit the death of their boy; and he literally did that in the House of Commons"
"Nigel Farage was given the opportunity to condemn the violence, which he himself incited, by calling for protests. He could have condemned the violence"
Annabel Denham, "Do you truly believe that the people in Southampton would have not taken to the streets in response to that sickening footage?"
Tom Hayes, "I spoke to the Southampton MP, the vast majority of people in their city protesting, came from outside Southampton"
"On top of that, Nigel Farage said this evening that there will be more to come"
Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
Farage has achieved his goal — to return from his hiding place with such outrageous statements that he hopes the questions about his £5m donation are now forgotten.
The media are duly obliging by focusing on his racist dog whistles instead of his corruption.
Trumpian.
Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
Over the last 36 hours, we have witnessed the very soul of Nigel Farage — his essence.
It has been over a month since he went into hiding, since serious questions began to be raised over his undeclared £5M donation.
A month since he appeared in front of TV cameras or underwent any questioning at all.
At 8am yesterday morning, Farage released a video, from a field somewhere, calling for rage. Calling for an end to the mythical two-tier policing.
Make no mistake, those were very carefully chosen words — he understood what he was unleashing, and his wish was granted last night in Southampton.
On Tuesday, the Home Secretary made a statement to the House regarding the murder of Henry Nowack. There was, as always, an opportunity to question Shabana Mahmood — was Nigel Farage in attendance?
No, of course not.
Today, Farage was granted a question at PMQs — the showpiece spectacle of the political week in which the country's news and politics fanatics tune in to watch — was Nigel Farage in attendance?
Yes, of course he was.
He had somehow found his way into work after missing 77 separate votes in Parliament because … he would, at least for three minutes, be the centre of the country's political attention.
His question was about the murder of Henry Nowack and the violence that erupted [on his command] last night, but he would not condemn it or call for calm.
Instead, he 'suggested' that this rioting might escalate.
This afternoon, he has performatively written to the BBC because someone on Newsnight dared to accuse him of inciting the violence — playing his perpetual victim card. Again.
And there we see the soul of Nigel Farage — a craven, desperate for attention, evil, petty and pointless man.
END RANT.
Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
Actually, this photo is PROOF that gullible dimwits will believe a Shakira concert in Rio is London and it will be wildly shared and liked because Musk's X is designed to encourage and reward such lies and misinformation.
Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
This is a brilliant investigative piece on Farage, the dark millions behind him and the double standards of so much British journalism. Read and retweet! Nigel Farage pocketing £5m from a donor shows he’s unfit for power app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/s…
Ed H 🇪🇺 retweeted
Hahahahah! Just seen this on FB:
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