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Chris Morgan 🇺🇦 🏴 retweeted
Another @carlsberg Player of the Match performance from Ronald Araujo 💪
ALT Carlsberg Player of the Match graphic for Ronald Araujo vs Brighton.
Chris Morgan 🇺🇦 🏴 retweeted
Bruhhh
See Araujo tackles today. The real definition of kusibe.
When he used his head to prevent a shot on the ground, that’s when I called Deco to increase the money to £85m.
Let me tell you why Araujo is doing well at Liverpool.
Jordi Cruyff left Barcelona to join Man United in the 90s.
He was coming from Spain where if you dribble a player or do a skill, the fans get off their seats.
He said when he came to England, Giggs could make a dribble and the fans were happy, but Roy Keane makes a tackle and the whole stadium erupts. It was his biggest shock, to find out that tackles are more celebrated in that part of the world.
Araujo did well for Barcelona under Xavi, we were not the best of football this period, not the usual Barcelona, we were having lots of 1-0 wins and scrappy wins, he did well because he’s a passionate defender, most South American defenders are modelled the same way. I’ll describe him as a “kusibe” kind of player. Ask your Yoruba friend to translate.
When it got to a coach that required defenders to play and be good on the ball, he’s decent but he’s not that guy. Very error prone and that implied that you’re not playing to his strength, hence, his struggles under Flick.
He’s now come to the premier league, a league made for mad people, intensity personified. What a match-made in heaven. The marriage has been beautiful. Every tackle is rewarded with cheers from the fans, which gives Araujo more and more confidence.
Can you see that sometimes even in today’s game, you probably expected him to calm and clear the ball towards a mate, but he just puts it out or drops a slide, guess what, the fans love it…but in a Barcelona, you cannot turn over possession to your opponents even if you’re making a clearance.
It is different here, Araujo is intense, he can tackle, he can pull, he’s strong, a proper beast. This is the league made for him. League of madness😂
Chris Morgan 🇺🇦 🏴 retweeted
Reddit again hits the nail on the head on the ridiculous VAT threshold.
Number of UK founders choosing to sell not scale hits eight-year high ft.trib.al/GJpNTBH
Chris Morgan 🇺🇦 🏴 retweeted
Number of UK founders choosing to sell not scale hits eight-year high ft.trib.al/GJpNTBH
Chris Morgan 🇺🇦 🏴 retweeted
That's funny because at my last strategy meeting with my accountant, they informed me I must use HMRC-recognised Making Tax Digital compatible software, creating an oligopoly for firms like Xero.
I must now also report my company's income every three months rather than once a year, as well as a final report at year end.
So I now have to pay for a Xero subscription.
And pay my accountant more for the increased submissions.
And fuck about with reconciling every three months, rather than once a year.
For HMRC to end up with the same amount of income from me as before.
Fuck off.
Just fuck off.
Fuck off all the way back to Yorkshire, then fuck off some more.
Chris Morgan 🇺🇦 🏴 retweeted
You've just introduced the legal requirement for a sole trader to make four quarterly tax returns per year, plus a final annual one, plus four VAT returns.
Liars and gaslighters, the lot of you.
Chris Morgan 🇺🇦 🏴 retweeted
BANK TAX is set to be Healey's main Budget revenue-raiser. But it is possible that it will actually lose money as well as harming investment.
Wide Treasury briefings say Healey will reverse the 2023 surcharge cut to take it from 3% back to 8%. This from a chancellor who told the IMF in Bangkok that banks are the “jewel in the British economic crown."
Bank taxes in Britain are already incredibly high. PwC puts the total tax rate for a model bank in London at 46.4% versus 27.9% in New York, 28.9% in Dublin and 38.9% in Frankfurt.
Crucially if just 7.4% of Britain’s internationally mobile banking business now leaves, a £2 billion tax rise will raise nothing at all and will actually be a cost. This is because losing 10% of mobile banking would cost £2.7 billion a year in tax, £5.8 billion in output, and 25,000 jobs. £700 million a year down the drain…
£24.1 billion out of banking’s £43.3 billion tax bill comes from employment taxes. The bank surcharge raised £1.2 billion last year. Which means if staff leave you lose much more in revenue too...
In addition a study of 23 EU countries found bank levies were shifted mainly onto borrowers through higher lending rates. When Spain moved a mortgage tax onto banks, the rise in mortgage rates was largest for lower-income borrowers and those with fewer banks nearby.
Revolut, Monzo, Shawbrook, and other smaller challenger banks have already warned that a higher surcharge would hit mid-tier and specialist banks hardest. Which provide 60% of British lending to small firms. SMEs are set to take a big hit.
The main point is that even if a relatively small proportion of internationally mobile banking activity starts to shift out of the UK, the revenue consequences of an increase in the bank corporation tax surcharge could quickly become negative. Good luck…
Chris Morgan 🇺🇦 🏴 retweeted
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared on Meet the Press and asked “Where is Germany?” when discussing Patriot fire units and missiles for Ukraine. The ignorance on display demanded an immediate fact check.
Germany has delivered more complete MIM-104 Patriot fire units to Ukraine than the United States. Roughly half of all Patriot systems now defending Ukrainian skies came from Bundeswehr stocks. Between 2023 and 2025 Berlin transferred five fully equipped fire units, plus additional launchers and what is believed to be a spare radar. Germany began supplying Patriots at the same time as the US and has never stopped. Washington halted those transfers long ago.
The interceptors tell an even clearer story. With every fire unit Germany shipped dedicated missile packages, including one of 100 and another of 64. These kept the systems operational in the critical early phase. In February 2025 the German Ministry of Defence confirmed it had already delivered 328 Patriot missiles of various types. That figure came before the final two fire units, before multiple PURL and JUMPSTART tranches, and before several smaller direct transfers from German stocks. The total number of financed and delivered Patriot interceptors from Germany now easily exceeds 500.
Since President Trump took office Germany has repeatedly taken the lead in organising, financing, and delivering new Patriot munitions to Ukraine. In February 2026 Berlin spent weeks negotiating with multiple partners until more than 30 PAC-3 missiles reached Ukraine. German officials have also conducted high-level talks with Spain and Greece to unlock additional stocks.
Berlin does far more than broker transfers. It pays Washington directly for American-made missiles. In June 2026 alone Germany committed 200 million dollars through JUMPSTART and another 200 million through PURL for PAC-3 and other variants. Total German contributions across these channels now surpass 1 billion dollars. In other words, Sec. Bessent, we are the ones funding the very missiles you claim America is generously providing.
In April 2026 Germany announced its largest single commitment yet: 3.2 billion euros to procure and deliver 600 PAC-2 GEM-T interceptors for Ukraine’s Patriots. These missiles are manufactured in Germany.
The numbers are clear. Germany has outdelivered the United States on complete Patriot fire units. Germany has supplied the majority of the missiles keeping those systems alive. Germany continues to organise urgent packages when Washington does not. And Germany pays Washington hundreds of millions of dollars for American missiles that are then sent to Ukraine.
So the next time a senior American official asks “Where is Germany?” on national television, the answer is simple. Germany is doing more for Ukraine’s air defence than the United States, while simultaneously paying your bills. The question now is where Germany stands. The question is why Washington keeps pretending it is carrying a load it long ago dropped.
Chris Morgan 🇺🇦 🏴 retweeted
西方部分政客一直在私下劝乌克兰：把东部的顿巴斯让出去，战争不就能停了吗？
“土地换和平”，听上去像是一笔务实的妥协。
泽连斯基在布鲁塞尔的新闻发布会上，说出了自己的逻辑，各位且听，有没有道理：
如果普京真的只想要顿巴斯，2022 年 2 月全面开战的第一天，俄军装甲部队为什么要直扑基辅？
基辅在乌克兰中北部。
离顿巴斯前线有六七百公里。
那里既不是俄语区争议的核心，也没有东部的煤矿工业带。
那是首都。
一个国家的神经中枢。
当时俄军精锐伞兵强行突降安东诺夫机场，几十公里长的机械化纵队从切尔诺贝利一路向南狂飙，目标只有一个：
斩首政府班子，瘫痪全军指挥系统，彻底抹掉这个国家的主权。
没有首都，就没有国家。
今天俄军为什么把大部分主力压在顿巴斯打残酷的阵地战？
不是因为莫斯科的胃口变小了。
是因为他们在基辅城外被打崩了，后勤补给全线断裂，不得不狼狈撤退。
打不下首都，才被迫缩回东部，靠漫无止境的炮火犁地打消耗战。
把军事失利后的被动收缩，说成自己自始至终只要东部，这本身就是战场受挫后的包装。
如果乌克兰真听了那些政客的劝告，主动从顿巴斯撤军，接下来会发生什么？
很多人不知道顿巴斯在军事防御上意味着什么。
从 2014 年起，乌克兰依托当地密集的重工业城市群和高地，修筑了整整十年的坚固防御带。
斯拉维扬斯克、克拉马托尔斯克，地下工事纵横，全是最坚固的钢筋混凝土支撑点。
这是挡住俄军向西推进的最厚一道装甲盾牌。
一旦乌克兰为了换取一纸停火协议把这些阵地拱手让出，整条防线就必须向西后撤数百公里。
防线后面是一马平川的平原，无险可守。
这等于自己走出修了十年的堡垒，站在开阔地上，把命运押在侵略者的信誉上。
面对一个公开宣称乌克兰根本不配算作一个国家和民族的对手，让步换不来满足。
割让土地只会向对方发出最危险的激励信号：暴力吞并确实有效。
停火只会给对方提供宝贵的喘息期，重组军工产能，补充前线兵员，把重炮和装甲集结地直接前移到乌克兰毫无遮拦的腹地门槛上。
等下一轮攻势再次打响，乌克兰已经失去了最后一道天然屏障。
那些在布鲁塞尔催促乌克兰早点签字妥协的人，总觉得这是花最少代价结束冲突的捷径。
泽连斯基把欧洲一直避而不谈的后果直接摆上了台面：
如果乌克兰的防御彻底崩塌，国家解体，会发生什么？
两千万难民将直接涌入欧洲。
欧洲各国的边境管控、财政预算、社会治安和福利系统，会在几个月内被彻底冲垮。
为了看守多出来的两千公里高危边境，北约必须把几十万正规部队永久前移，常年维持战备。
现在省下来的每一笔防务预算，日后都会变成整个欧洲不得不掏出十倍代价去填的安全黑洞。
在残酷的地缘现实面前，最致命的幻想就是拿生存底牌去喂侵略者的胃口。
停火线从来不是靠善意画出来的。
面对一个旨在消灭你国家地位的对手，你主动让出的每一寸阵地，最后都会变成刺向你胸口的下一柄刺刀。
Chris Morgan 🇺🇦 🏴 retweeted
A historic video – November 22, 1994:
The U.S. President thanks Ukraine for giving up its nuclear weapons. In return, the U.S. promises to stand by Ukraine’s side to safeguard its independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity well into the future.
That future has arrived—yet today, Trump and his circle act as if none of this ever happened.
t.me/MirovichMedia/15617
Chris Morgan 🇺🇦 🏴 retweeted
BREAKING: Trump suspends new sanctions targeting Russia’s economy a week after making a diesel deal with Putin. nbcnews.com/politics/trump-a…
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“The war will end without Ukraine’s president. Zelensky is not someone worth dealing with.”
“Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries are a disgrace.”
“Ukraine sold off missiles it received under Biden.”
“Zelensky says he wants a deal, but he doesn’t really want one.”
“Ukraine needs elections. People are unhappy because missiles are hitting their apartment buildings.”
If you thought these were quotes from Putin, well, no. These are statements from Trump in his latest interview.
At this point, I genuinely wonder whether Trump’s briefings on Ukraine come straight from the Kremlin’s propaganda department.
Chris Morgan 🇺🇦 🏴 retweeted
Overnight, the Russians used 39 ballistic missiles and more than 120 attack drones and loitering munitions against our energy and critical infrastructure in Kyiv, the Kyiv region, and Kharkiv. A targeted Russian ballistic missile strike specifically against energy infrastructure – the very infrastructure covered by the ceasefire announced by the American President. The strike was entirely deliberate and demonstrative in its scale – Russia has never before shown such ostentatious disrespect toward the United States. Russia does not consider the American President’s statements strong. Unfortunately, at least 600,000 people are now without power. Outages could become even more widespread. Unfortunately, there is significant damage to facilities and equipment – at 26 facilities of our power system and four facilities in the oil and gas sector. I am grateful to the repair crews, all Ukrainian energy workers, and the personnel of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine for all their efforts to address the aftermath of this Russian strike. Tragically, there have been fatalities and injuries.
We ask America and EVERYONE in the world who does not turn a blind eye to reality to respond – and to respond forcefully. Russia has squandered the opportunity for de-escalation and has clearly chosen to continue its insane war of annihilation. We ask President Trump to impose STRONG sanctions on Russia, especially since the Lindsey Graham bill, which was recently passed and signed into law, authorizes and regulates such measures. The American President has all the effective and necessary tools to bring peace closer through strength, justice, and pressure on the aggressor. We ask for additional packages of Patriot missile interceptors for Ukraine. It is entirely fair for us to tell the United States, Europe, and all our partners that no country in the world should be left alone to face such a deranged and pro-war actor as Russia. I am grateful to everyone who helps Ukraine! Peace can only come through strength, and we ask America to remember this principle of Reagan’s. Glory to Ukraine!
Chris Morgan 🇺🇦 🏴 retweeted
Andy, if you want to help, scrap Labour’s upcoming fuel duty hike.
Diesel has already hit £2 a litre. As the RAC has highlighted, 43% of the price is tax.
Give people a break, not more taxes!
I know people are worried about fuel prices. And I get it. You get to the pump, watch the numbers climb, and wonder why it's costing so much more than it used to.
The reality is that global events are pushing up costs, and families here at home are feeling the impact.
But I won't accept that there's nothing I can do to help.
That's why from today, you'll be able to see petrol and diesel prices on Google Maps, compare nearby stations and find the cheapest option before you fill up.
It's a small change, but if there's a practical way to help people keep more money in their pocket, I'll do it.
Chris Morgan 🇺🇦 🏴 retweeted
Andy Burnham has posted a misleading tweet trying to claim credit for the fact that Google Maps lists petrol prices. "I won't accept that there's nothing I can do to help," he says, ignoring the fact that his government has already hoovered up another £110m in additional tax revenue on higher fuel prices since the 1st of August and that tax constitutes 47% of the price of petrol.
If fuel prices stay at their current levels, the full extra amount that Labour will rake in from VAT on fuel by next August is £1.2bn.
Moreover if Labour's planned 3p fuel duty increase on 1 January 2027, followed by 2p on 1 March 2027 and an April RPI uplift go ahead, then another £1.7bn of revenue will be raised in the first 7 months of 2027, meaning a total tax increase of £2.95bn over the Aug 26 to Aug 27 period.
If Burnham really wanted to make fuel more affordable, the least he would do is to reduce the level of tax so the government was no longer raking in even more cash from higher fuel prices.
