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Ian Smith retweeted
Over the last decade hard working Russian farmers have increased food exports by 250% and Russia is now in the World’s top 20 food exporters.
All this despite massive sanctions against them.
So the man we are told wants to invade Europe and destroy our way of life is actually feeding us while our own politicians in the legacy political parties attack our own farmers and food production.
In the UK we produce less than half of the food we consume leaving ourselves vulnerable to food shortages via weather, political or logistical disruption. A vulnerability which was exploited by our enemies in both WWI and WWII.
If Russia were planning on WWIII they would be stockpiling food at home not exporting it and feeding those who irresponsibly don’t produce enough food to feed their own population while importing ever more mouths to feed into their countries.
The next time you see, hear or read pro-war with Russia propaganda please think about this.
#NoFarmersNoFood.
Ian Smith retweeted
Update:
In the 27 months since Labour came to power, we've seen;
• Employer National Insurance increased from 13.8% to 15%.
• The employer NI threshold cut from £9,100 to £5,000.
• The freeze on Income Tax and National Insurance thresholds extended to 2031.
• Capital Gains Tax increased from 10% and 20% to 18% and 24%.
• Business Asset Disposal Relief increased from 10% to 14%, then 18% – and now its lifetime limit halved to £500,000.
• Investors’ Relief raised to 18% and its lifetime limit cut from £10 million to £1 million.
• CGT relief on sales to Employee Ownership Trusts halved.
• Carried interest taxation increased and moved into the Income Tax regime.
• Dividend tax rates increased by two percentage points.
• Savings-income tax rates increased by four percentage points.
• Property-income tax rates increased by four percentage points.
• VCT income tax relief cut from 30% to 20%.
• Most unused pension funds brought into the Inheritance Tax net.
• Agricultural and Business Property Relief capped.
• Inheritance Tax thresholds frozen until 2031.
• The non-dom regime replaced with a tougher residence-based system.
• VAT imposed on private school fees.
• Business-rates relief removed from private schools.
• The Stamp Duty surcharge on second homes and buy-to-let raised from 3% to 5%.
• The Furnished Holiday Lettings regime abolished.
• A new annual surcharge on homes worth £2 million or more.
• Pension salary-sacrifice NI relief capped at £2,000 a year.
• The bank surcharge doubled.
• Capital allowances for plant and machinery cut twice.
• Online gaming duty almost doubled.
• The Energy Profits Levy increased and extended, and its investment allowance scrapped.
• Vaping Products Duty brought in and tobacco duties increased above inflation.
• Vehicle Excise Duty increased for many new cars, with electric vehicles brought in.
• A pay-per-mile tax on electric and plug-in hybrid cars legislated for 2028.
• Air Passenger Duty increased.
• Making Tax Digital extended to more landlords and self-employed people.
Together they represent one of the biggest transfers of wealth from households and businesses to the Treasury in decades – with little to show for it in public services.
Whether you're a business owner employing staff, a parent paying school fees, a farmer planning succession, an entrepreneur building wealth or simply someone trying to save for your family’s future...
- You keep less of what you earn.
- You keep less of what you invest.
- You leave less for your family.
Death by a thousand cuts.
Ian Smith retweeted
THANK YOU, CHANCELLOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH. 🇬🇧❤️
I’ve been reading today’s Budget and I’m considering cancelling my direct debits. Financial independence is finally within reach.
🥒 Cheaper gherkins, baked beans and chocolate. Potential savings of £21 a year - that’s 40p a week. I’ve already rewritten my will. My son gets the house, but the gherkin fortune is going into a trust fund. I’m not having the little bastard blow my life’s savings on cocaine and scratchcards.
🍬 Import tariffs scrapped on boiled sweets and toffees. Thank Christ. I’ve seen pensioners outside Aldi exchanging sexual favours for a bag of Werther’s Originals.
🍊 Cheaper marmalade. Excellent, ‘cos I’ve been spreading Vaseline on my toast since March. Paddington Bear’s probably knocking one out behind King’s Cross.
🧄 Cheaper garlic. Fantastic!! I’ve been buying it one clove at a time from a bloke behind Aldi. Last week he offered me three bulbs and a handjob for £20.
💷 Income Tax thresholds frozen until 2031. Absolutely beautiful. Earn a bit more, get dragged into paying more tax, then watch the Chancellor congratulate himself for helping working people. It’s the financial equivalent of being mugged, having your trousers stolen and being handed a 40p voucher for gherkins as compensation.
🍫 Cheaper chocolate-covered wafers. I’ve already ordered a reinforced safe, appointed three trustees and instructed my accountant to establish an offshore wafer portfolio in the Cayman Islands. Apparently, HMRC wants to know why I’ve declared a KitKat as a dependent.
🚌 Bus fares capped at £2. If my business ever collapses, I can now afford to travel to the Jobcentre and explain that I went bankrupt despite unprecedented savings on fucking marmalade.
💡 Gas standing charges being scrapped. Lovely news, until you find out the cost is being transferred to the price of the gas itself. That’s the financial equivalent of a burglar returning your television and charging you £45 to watch it.
Anyhoo… the government calls some of these its FIVE EVERYDAY FIXES.
I’ve calculated that if I save 40p every week, I could afford a second-hand Ford Fiesta in approximately 400 years…. Assuming nobody’s eaten the fucking gherkins.
Ian Smith retweeted
🇬🇧 The OBR just dropped 200 pages on Healey's first Budget.
I read it so you don't have to.
Tax is at a record 37.9% of GDP by 2027-28, past the old high of 37.2%.
Then it climbs every single year to 38.6%.
Frozen thresholds are doing way too much to workers since they get a pay rise, hand more of it over.
1.8x the national minimum wage now classes you as a higher tax rate payer - what the fuck?
Borrowing @ £133bn this year. In March they said £115bn. Seven months later it's £18bn worse. And it's higher than March in every year of the forecast because neither the OBR nor treasury has a clue what they’re doing.
Debt interest at £39bn in 2019-20.
£109bn last year 😩
£160bn by 2031-32 😩😩£15bn of this year's bill is extra bc inflation's pushing up index linked gilts, and we know the uk has a structural inflation problem, partly due to the relationship between treasury and BoE.
Headroom is £14.5bn, down from £21.7bn at the last Budget.
Keep the fuel duty freeze going and it's £10.2bn.
The OBR gives Healey a 56% chance of hitting his OWN FUCKING rule.
Debt will peak at 97.3% of GDP, still 95.6% in 2031-32. Five years and it barely moves which is completely against his fiscal demands.
How it affects you?
Growth 1% next year with gdp per capita basically the same as it has been since 2019
Inflation 3.4% when March said 2%.
Zero real pay growth in 2027.
Living standards in 2030-31?
Just 2% above pre-pandemic.
But don't worry. You're getting a £100 council tax rebate.
Jesus Christ.
Ian Smith retweeted
Something doesn’t sit right with me.
For months now, the government has been pushing warning after warning about being prepared for disruption. Keep supplies in. Be ready. Have food and water at home.
I’ve never given it much credence because, frankly, I don’t trust them.
But today I’ve been into both Asda and Morrisons and the fresh produce sections weren’t just a bit low.
They were bare.
And when the shelves are bare, something else becomes very obvious: the prices.
Now, I might be completely wrong here. This is a theory, nothing more.
But pound to a penny, food supply will be one of the first things used to squeeze people if things start going seriously wrong.
And no, I’m not saying somebody in Whitehall is personally hiding the cucumbers.
I’m saying I no longer trust this government enough to dismiss the possibility that shortages, disruption and rising prices will eventually be used to push whatever political solution they already wanted in the first place.
And I’ll make another prediction.
If this gets worse, somewhere down the line we’ll start hearing:
“This is why Britain needs closer alignment with Europe.”
Then “closer cooperation”.
Then “single market access”.
Then eventually the inevitable:
“Perhaps Brexit needs revisiting.”
Maybe I’m wrong.
I genuinely hope I am.
But when a government is already driving the country further into debt, constantly warning us to prepare for disruption, and ordinary people are suddenly looking at empty shelves and higher prices, I think we’re entitled to ask questions.
Because I trust these fuckers about as far as I could throw Westminster.
And right now, I’m watching very carefully.
Ian Smith retweeted
🚨EL VÍDEO MÁS PODEROSO QUE VERÁS HOY.
💥SE LE COMPLICA LA COSA A GATES Y A SUS CAMARADAS 🔥
Bill Gates, el CEO de Pfizer y Mark Rutte están AHORA en un tribunal holandés por lesiones causadas por la vacuna contra el COVID.
El abogado holandés Peter E. Stassen, sobre el caso contra Bill Gates y los cómplices:
«Los jueces lo han visto. Saben que la 'vacuna contra el COVID-19' no es una 'vacuna', sino un arma biológica, y hemos aportado las pruebas».
Muchas personas han muerto o han quedado con discapacidades graves debido a él y su compañía!
Esto no es noticia en los grandes medios de comunicación COMPARTE por todas partes🔥
Ian Smith retweeted
UK GOVERNMENT SACKED ITS OWN BORDER WATCHDOG
David Neal was the man the government hired to inspect UK borders and make sure they actually worked. He did exactly that. What he found was not good. He wrote it all up in official reports. The Home Office locked those reports in a drawer.
When he finally went to a newspaper to warn the public that private planes were landing in the UK with almost nobody checking who was on them, the Home Secretary James Cleverly @JamesCleverly fired him.
Here is what Neal actually found.
At London City Airport, only 21% of flights flagged as high risk were checked by immigration officers.
Not some of the time. As a yearly average.
He said it was a scandal and dangerous for the country.
The Home Office said he had the numbers wrong. Then they fired him.
At the moment he was sacked, the @HomeOffice was holding back 15 of his finished inspection reports. Some had been sitting there for 18 months without being shown to the public.
The agreed deadline for publishing them was eight weeks. Not one report met that deadline across his entire three years in the job.
When they finally released 13 of the reports, they chose to do it on the same afternoon that a separate major inquiry published its findings... Draw your own conclusions.
What was actually in those reports? Border control posts left with nobody manning them. Officers at e-passport gates described as distracted and without basic radios. The whole airport border operation rated as neither effective nor efficient.
Neal told MPs directly: I have been sacked for doing my job.
He also told @BBC the Home Office is dysfunctional and described senior officials rolling their eyes when he brought them his findings.
He said the government contacted him three separate times warning him not to speak publicly about the unpublished reports.
He had almost no other way to get the information out.
The people who fired him for raising border security concerns were the same people who spent years promising the public they had taken back control of the borders.
Sources: @BBCNews @guardian @DailyMail @CommonsHomeAffs
Ian Smith retweeted
For those who think Agenda 2030 is a conspiracy theory. Here is the link to it on the Gov.UK website.
Please share with those who need to see it to believe it.
gov.uk/government/publicatio…
Ian Smith retweeted
BSV - The Most Important Money Conversation since 2009?
Well, it's intriguing enough to me for us to hold a LIVE event on the subject in the West of Ireland at Frybrook House on 5th November.
A fully immersive day in this potentially society-changing and highly contentious subject.
If Bitcoin was really highjacked by the cabal to create BTC, it's our duty to dig into the Satoshi vision because the implications are profound for all our lives.
Watch this and make your own mind up.
Links to the live event and livestream are in the comments
@garykealy2 @thecoastguy @SirToshiTV @The_f_in_Farmer @kurtwuckertjr
Ian Smith retweeted
Florida sues Pfizer for making false claims about the safety of their Covid shots. But in 2022/23 and 24 our then PM Rishi Sunak told me and the nation repeatedly from the despatch box in the House of Commons that the Covid 19 ‘vaccines’ were safe and effective.
Perhaps Sunak will update us in his weekly Sunday Times column as to why he lied to us repeatedly about the Covid shots?
Sunak, Hancock, Zahawi, Whitty et al will all be held to account for their crimes against the people. Thanks to Florida they won’t get the 20 year cover up they were banking on.
Go Florida go !
Weeks ago we learned Fauci and the biomedical state knew the COVID jabs were dangerous but hid it from us.
While that investigation continues, today we sued Pfizer for deceptively marketing the products as safe—making billions—while pregnant women were miscarrying their babies and teenagers were having heart attacks.
Ian Smith retweeted
“The fasten seat belts sign is on”.
This is a message I received early this morning from one of the UK’s most experienced, savvy and respected financial traders. Someone I have come to know and trust for the last 25 years.
10-year bond yields are now almost 4.5pc - up some 50 basis points over the last month.
30-year yields this morning went above 6pc - a 28-year high.
Yet the UK’s political and media class continues to focus on party posturing and folksy rhetoric, ignoring the slow-motion disaster that has been happening on the UK’s sovereign bond markets for at least the last 18 months - a disaster that will inevitably, unless we drastically change course, turn into a fully blown market meltdown.
At that point, the UK government won’t be able to borrow enough money to finance our already spiralling debt interest bill.
Britain’s financial management will be taken over by overseas technocrats - that will be the condition of additional borrowing, to maintain the basic functions of the state, as happened in Greece and Italy back in the early 2010s and here in Britain 50 years ago this year (when we were forced in 1976 to apply to the IMF for a bailout).
The austerity then imposed on Britain would make 2010-2019 feel like a picnic - far, far worse than it would be if we took serious action now to control our public finances.
Lower-income households would suffer most - and there would be serious damage done to the UK’s already rapidly-fraying social fabric ….
I have been warning about these looking fiscal dangers publicly, in my newspaper columns and elsewhere, since at least early 2024.
Doing so hasn’t been easy or fun. I have been dismissed and derided by numerous economists, “economists”, officials and policymakers - as well as lots of journalists.
I absolutely don’t want a disastrous 1976-style outcome - which is why I’ve taken the blows and issued the warnings.
The state is too big. Public spending is out of control. Our fiscal rules are a convenient nonsense - designed to kick the can of financial reality into the future. We need to get real … and take bold action to tame the growth of spending, push back a now totally over-bearing state and snap the British economy out of today’s high-tax-high-borrowing-low-growth doom loop - the result of myopic, counter-productive policy-making by successive governments for the last decade and more …
Other prominent economists who agree with me - ie who are financially-literate, can read a yield curve, have a passing interest in economic history and who understand the dangers of some 80pc of UK government borrowing going on debt interest as it currently is - need to chuck “career risk” in the bin, and start saying publicly what so many of them have, for quite a while now, only had the bottle to say to me in private …
Remember: “The fasten seat belts sign is on”
Ian Smith retweeted
The Great British Rip Off.
We pay more for everything and what we get back is falling apart.
Food is nearly 40% more expensive than five years ago and on track to be around 50% higher than mid-2021 by the end of this year.
Olive oil has more than doubled. Beef, eggs, pasta and chocolate are all up by half or more.
Diesel has just hit a record £2 a litre. Petrol is around 174p. A typical energy bill is £1,723 under the October price cap - 58% higher than winter 2021/22.
£billions spent on importing oil and gas from Norway and the North Sea, while the government turns off the taps on new UK oil and gas licenses from the same sea.
Gas rates are roughly 140% above mid-2021.
One of the highest electricity rates in the world.
The tax burden is at the highest since records began in the late 1940s and still forecast to climb even further.
Employer National Insurance went up. Business rates land on the local independent shop. Retailers now hand over about 72p in business taxes for every £1 of pre-tax profit.
Walk the high street and you can see where that money did not go. One in seven high street properties is empty. Hollowed out streets where proud local businesses used to stand bringing communities together.
Over 70,000 UK shop closures since 2020. Retail jobs fell by 122,000 in two years.
The UK hospitality sector has suffered a net loss of more than 16,000 licensed venues (including pubs, bars, clubs, and restaurants) since the start of the Covid in March 2020.
A record 6,365 UK agriculture, forestry and fishing businesses closed in 2025 alone.
Familiar names keep shrinking or vanishing - boarded windows, “to let” signs a vape shop where the butcher or the bank used to be. The places that held a town together are being taxed and costed out of existence while you are told the economy is being “supported.”
The roads tell the same story. Councils in England and Wales face a record £18.6 billion backlog of carriageway repairs - twelve years of work. Only about half the local network is in good structural condition. More than 32,500 miles have less than five years of life left. Roads are resurfaced, on average, once every 97 years. 1 million potholes. Road drains left without regular cleaning.
We pay record fuel prices to drive on roads that wreck tyres and suspension.
Water is no better. Pipes leak, rivers take the sewage bills still rise. No major new reservoirs were built in England for over 30 years. Dozens sold off. And we end up getting told that we have a hosepipe ban when there’s a few days sunshine in July.
Schools, hospitals and rail carry the same pattern: maintenance deferred, promises announced, yet more decay.
But meanwhile data centres, solar panels and wind turbines are being plastered across prime farmland reducing our food supply, natural habitats and resources.
And the people in charge? An MP’s basic salary is £98,599 - up 5% this year, more than 20% since the £81,932 they were on in 2021. Ministers take a second salary and huge expenses on top. Their pay is increased while our taxes continue rise - which helps to fund them to manage our decline.
What is overdue is a massive, sustained cost-of-living protest - visible, peaceful, organised, impossible to shrug off by the government - until tax rises, food, fuel and energy prices and sense general decay stop crushing ordinary households and until the country we pay more and more for stops being left to rot by local and national governments.
Ian Smith retweeted
The average price of diesel in the UK has reached a record-breaking high of 199.18p a litre.
In cash terms, Britain has never paid more for the fuel that moves the supply chains of the country. Some pumps are at 200.9p. Some at 203.9p. A 55-litre tank is more than £112.
Petrol sits at 174.13p. A few years ago that number alone would have been a scandal in itself.
Since the end of February, diesel has risen 56.8p a litre, almost 40% in seven months. The same vehicle fuel tank that cost about £78 then now costs £109.55. Thirty-one pounds extra. Every fill. Same van. Same job. Same miles.
People blame the oil price. The oil price is real. It is not the whole story. Far from it.
Fuel duty is 52.95p a litre. VAT at 20% on a 199.18p litre is 33.20p. Together that is 86.15p of tax on every litre - 43% of the pump price.
Then comes the detail that should outrage every single motorist. VAT is levied on the duty as well as the fuel. The government slaps 52.95p of duty on the litre, then takes 20% VAT on its own levy. At today’s price that is 10.59p of VAT on duty. Tax on tax.
No private firm could invoice a customer that way and keep its reputation. When the government does it, it is called policy. And the government don’t give a shit. They are fleecing us into the ground.
There is a second number. In 2025 the Competition and Markets Authority looked at fuel retailers and found their margins “far above historic levels.” Supermarket fuel forecourts were taking 8–9.1%. In 2017 they took about 4%. Up like a rocket when wholesale rises, but only marginally down when it falls. Watch how fast this record only marginally retreats if crude prices eventually fall.
In the three months to the end of June, ExxonMobil made $14.5 billion - its strongest quarter in four years. Chevron made $12 billion - its best in six years. Shell’s profit more than doubled to around $10 billion. BP more than doubled to $5.73 billion. The five big Western major fuel corporations together hoovered up close to $50 billion in a single quarter.
Same war. Same crude. On the driver’s side, a record litre. On the government and fuel corporations side, a bumper harvest at our motoring expense. The Treasury takes 86p of every litre and charges VAT on its own tax. The fuel giants post bumper profits.
Diesel is not a lifestyle choice. It is the engine room of the supply economy. Lorries, tractors, delivery vans, buses, boats. When diesel rises, the cost of almost everything that moves rises with it. The record at the pump reappears later in the shopping basket, the delivery charge and the invoice - with VAT on some of that too.
If you think VAT-on-duty is a racket or that fuel duty should be cut before the next global shock becomes the next bill, tell your local MP who votes on it before the October Budget.
Enough is enough. We are being treated like suckers by the government and the vulture corporations.
Ian Smith retweeted
A simple but effective way of explaining how we are being completely tax fleeced by the government. Credit to @robprogressive.
Ian Smith retweeted
@AngieRayner007 has found this clip from Janice Atkinson in 2018.
Please watch it and you will see a perfect prediction of where we are today. Our then PM was Treason May who betrayed our country in many ways. While in Parliament some of us were blocking her vassalage deal with the EU she was signing us up for unending migration and replacement.
Only @RestoreBritain will reverse this.
Vote @RestoreBritain vote @RestoreBritNWL
Janice Atkinson warned us in 2018 what the @UN were planning, 59 million migrants imported to REPLACE US. We never had a chance with Brexit it was all about the United Nations pact. @RupertLowe10 @andyburnham @RestoreBritain
Ian Smith retweeted
BSV...a subject we wish to explore in depth as it's potential is so vast.
Also, a bloody good day out.
Thursday 5th November:
BSV: What Can It Do For Humanity?
Mark Attwood hosts Neil Oliver, Sir Toshi, Gary Kealy, The F-In Farmer and more to discuss the Satoshi vision of Bitcoin and what it can do for your family’s future.
Live Tickets: live5d.samcart.com/products/…
Livestream/Video Recording: crowdcast.io/c/w3gfm9ypx2lu/…
@thecoastguy @garykealy2 @SirToshiTV @The_f_in_Farmer
Ian Smith retweeted
@SenRonJohnson is looking at the hospital protocols that killed so many people during the Covid Scamdemic.
In the US they used Remdesivir as a treatment.
In France they used Rivotril.
In the UK and Ireland they used Midazolam and Morphine (Nice Guideline 163 introduced in the UK 3/4/20 by Matt Hancock ) to treat vulnerable/elderly suspected of having Covid. This is despite a warning reminder to all NHS staff on the 18/3/20 that administering a Benzodiazepine ( such as Midazolam) and an Opiate (such as morphine) together would initiate Fatal respiratory suppression.
NG 163 told staff to ignore the risk of respiratory suppression.
Unsurprisingly everyone put on NG163 died. They had Covid put on their death certificates , no autopsy due to the risk of infection and the bodies were cremated in 24 hrs.
Was this the perfect crime ?
I hope Senator Johnson exposes the truth in the US .
We need justice.
For years, I’ve heard disturbing stories about how patients and their families were treated in hospitals during the pandemic.
On Monday, I’m hosting a roundtable, “COVID-19 Hospital Protocols: Real Stories from Real People.”
Doctors, nurses, survivors, and grieving families will share what they witnessed.
People needlessly died because of these flawed protocols. It’s time to hear their stories and expose what happened.
Ian Smith retweeted
I want to provide an update for the BSV community regarding the current US regulatory landscape and how it applies to BSV.
The CLARITY Act failed to get a vote in the Senate. This happened in spite of a bill that had passed the House in a bipartisan manner, and after more than a year of debate in the Senate. However - this doesn't mean the conversation is over. It means the rulebook is now being written by the CFTC and the SEC, and both agencies have already made it clear they intend to move forward with or without Congress, and are expected to draw heavily on the CLARITY Act as a framework for their rulemaking.
I want to share where BSV stands in all of this, because we've been in the room with both.
At the CFTC, we covered the full picture, financial use cases included. But what they latched onto was the data utility side: blockchain as infrastructure for data at scale. And they were genuinely excited, because this was new messaging for them. Ninety-nine percent of the industry lobbying them isn't talking about that. That positioning is a winning one, and it's helping regulators and legislators understand there's far more to this technology than what they've been told.
Why is this message so new to them? Because the industry has spent over a decade pushing bad narratives, and nearly all of them trace back to one assumption: that these systems don't scale. Every workaround, every "digital gold" story, every excuse for why blockchain can't do real work comes from that mistake.
We walked in with a different message: Bitcoin always scaled. It was designed to from day one in 2009. BSV is just proving it to the world.
At the SEC, we addressed one of the biggest misconceptions in the CLARITY Act: the idea that a blockchain's maturity can be measured by how decentralized its governance is. Decentralization was treated as a coefficient for maturity.
That gets it backwards. There's a fundamental confusion here between decentralized governance and distributed systems. Bitcoin was never meant to be governed by committee. It's a distributed network with defined rules.
What actually matters is a locked protocol. When the protocol is set in stone, anyone can build on top of it without worrying that the rules will change underneath them. That's what enables unbounded innovation. That's why the Association maintains the Network Access Rules and protects the original protocol. The result is maximum "decentralization" where it actually counts: in innovation and application building, not in protocol politics.
We also reinforced something I've said many times: BSV is the restoration of the original Bitcoin protocol. We are rooted in Bitcoin's history.
That matters more than ever. In March, the SEC and CFTC issued joint guidance recognizing BTC and BCH as digital commodities. Our meeting was an education, and they were highly receptive to it. They left understanding why BSV shares the very same fundamental principles the agencies are looking for in a digital commodity, because BSV is that protocol, restored.
The rules are being written right now. We intend to make sure they're written with the original Bitcoin in mind: the scalable one, the regulation-friendly one.
Ian Smith retweeted
It's almost like we are living in some parallel world. The idea that millions of young working-class British lads are going to be rushing to enlist to fight in a manufactured war for a ruling class that has spent the past three decades stigmatising and demonising them is just wild. Have our political and military leaders lost their minds? Do they know the slightest thing about the mood inside the country?