Its the hope that kills you...
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Stephen Whyte retweeted
Norway is now richer per person than Britain, Germany, France and Sweden thanks to North Sea oil & gas. Britain has 7.5 billion barrels of oil beneath its own waters and yet imports a third of its gas from Norway instead….this decision is utter madness!
UK government to outlaw new North Sea drilling bbc.in/4iyVSUO
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The President of Guyana, Dr. Irfaan Ali, points out some inconvenient truths to BBC journalist Stephen Sackur on oil and CO2 emissions in Guyana:
“Let me stop you right there. Are you aware that Guyana is home to a forest the size of England and Scotland combined? A forest that stores 19.5 gigatonnes of carbon? A forest that we have preserved?”
Sackur then asks, “Does that give you the right to release all this carbon?”
Dr. Irfaan Ali:
“Does it give you the right to lecture us on climate change? I am going to lecture you on climate change because we have kept this forest alive that stores 19.5 gigatonnes of carbon that you enjoy, that the world enjoys, that you don’t pay us for, that you don’t value, that you don’t see a value in, that people of Guyana has kept alive.”
Stephen Whyte retweeted
Slavery was an evil in which people from every continent and region participated. We should be honest about the whole history, not select the parts that are politically convenient today, especially given Britain's leading role in ending the transatlantic slave trade.
If Caribbean countries are asking Britain for a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, will they also be asking the same of the descendants of African kingdoms, rulers and merchants who captured, sold and profited from the trade?
On demands for reparations, whether through cash or debt relief, we have been down this track before. Twenty-five years ago, Jubilee 2000, Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History argued that cancelling the debts of poorer countries would give them a fresh start. More than $100 billion of debt was eventually written off, but many of those countries have since built up even bigger debts. Labour are already spending too much on Britain's welfare state, now is not the time for Andy Burnham to be providing global welfare.
There is no reason British taxpayers today should be held financially responsible for things that happened generations before any of us were born. And I have even less patience for political elites in commonwealth countries who don’t know how to make their own citizens prosperous now looking for another opportunity to blame Britain.
As Prime Minister, Andy Burnham should be Britain’s greatest defender. Instead, he is writing articles saying we need to confront our history (as if we haven't done enough of that) and considering another formal historical apology. Tony Blair already expressed Britain’s deep sorrow and regret for our role in the slave trade nearly twenty years ago. There is no need to do so again.
This is all another navel-gazing distraction. The Commonwealth should be looking forward, not endlessly backwards. That means economic partnerships to make us all richer and deeper military and security cooperation against common threats. If every Commonwealth summit becomes an exercise in presenting Britain with demands for cash then we need to start asking if it is worth the effort.
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Where is the outrage from the media and the City?
Why is Burnham not being hounded out of office with ‘lettuce’ comparisons?
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🚨SPOT ON: Elon Musk summed up Charlie Kirk in one line, and it still hits just as hard.
"He was killed because his words made a difference. He was showing people the light, and he was killed by the dark."
Charlie never needed a weapon. He had a microphone, a folding table, and the courage to debate anyone who walked up.
That's what scared them.
They thought silencing him would end it.
Instead, millions more picked up where he left off.
The light is still winning.
JUSTICE FOR CHARLIE. 🇺🇸
Stephen Whyte retweeted
When is the magic cut off point for ‘stealing’ land?
Because the Romans stole this land. Then the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons. The Vikings stole a chunk of it too. Then the Normans.
What is it about the 1600s that makes land magically stolen, whereas 550 years earlier it wasn’t?
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What’s happening in France should be a WAKE UP CALL. This is what happens when you import the Third World.
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The Drax net zero con-trick - where a massive polluter has become a net zero manipulator. Yet more net zero environmental destruction masquerading as “saving the planet”.
The Labour government is trying to force through an extension that would give Drax an estimated £1.8bn in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11bn it has already received.
Drax has burned an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Burning wood creates 18% more CO2 emissions than coal.
And here’s the con trick: Drax is a sneaky way of exporting our CO2 emissions. We pay billions of pounds to cut down ancient forests in the US and Canada, ship the wood across the Atlantic in diesel tankers, then burn it in a Yorkshire-based power station.
And here’s the kicker - the CO2 emissions tally is not counted against the country that burns it, but the country that grows it. So Drax emissions are counted against the countries who grow and export the wood for Drax - like Canada and USA…not UK who burn it. So the UK can reduce CO2 figures by importing the burning wood grown elsewhere.
A gigantic net zero con-trick.
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As a West Ham fan I don’t see this as cheating - the system was put in to protect the top 6 and for no other reason - City should be celebrated
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For two weeks all we’ve heard is how its perfect the first game is at Anfield. You media lot were stoking it up all week.
Nothing. Usual “YNWA” through the speakers and then NOTHING.
Cherki at 30m just owner Wirtz at £125m and Barcola at £130m. But City ruin football 😂
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🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage claims Ann Widdecombe would still be alive if the police had checked CCTV of the alleged firebombing on his home
"The bloke given the CCTV didn’t look at it. Why not? Because it’s me. Who gives a fuck about me?"
Stephen Whyte retweeted
I have ADHD
Professionally diagnosed not the self diagnosed Tik tok edition
There is no reason for someone with ADHD to claim Pip or sickness benefits for their ADHD
Stephen Whyte retweeted
Newcastle went from relegation candidates to Champions League in one year. They spent a lot of money to transform that relegation squad into one that won the Carabao Cup and qualified for the Champions League twice in three years. They had no quality players to sell, it was a bad team, so…
They were forced to sell players they didn’t want to lose to comply with PSR rules, including their best academy player in Elliot Anderson for £35m as it was “pure profit.”
But it is the wages that really kill them. Newcastle can’t offer the same wages at the Big six with their ingrained financial advantage. SCR has baked this in,
So when they get an elite talent, they can’t keep hold of them. Hence Isak, Gordon, Tonali and Bruno all leaving in the space of 12 months. All but one of them went to a domestic rival.
Newcastle “competed” for a short period of time and then, like Aston Villa, they were forced to sell or players demanded to leave. And this process is now repeated every summer. Well run clubs like Brighton, Brentford and Bournemouth are perfect to keep the eco system running. They identify and develop players for the richer clubs to buy. It’s their business model and it’s pretty much the same business model #nufc have had to switch to now.
There has always been a food chain in football in my lifetime but that food chain is now enshrined by the financial rules
Unregulated spending is not what we need either. Nobody serious is saying that. No club should just be able to spend what they want based on the wealth of their owners, but the rules need to be looked at.
This isn’t a dig at @RorySmith either. He has raised another strand to the debate in his usual eloquent style. I’m just offering my view.
Stephen Whyte retweeted
🙏 "It's created hope, created optimism and created achievement!"
😡 "But how are they going to [win the title] with restrictions that are unfairly put upon them?"
Simon Jordan examines the Saudi's ownership of #NUFC so far and their hopes of winning the title by 2030! ⚫️⚪️🇸🇦
Stephen Whyte retweeted
🎙 "The rules were concocted by Arsenal, Liverpool & Man Utd that decided nobody else was joining their club" 😡
"The cartel came and said, we dont like this! We can't have #ManCity coming in and doing the same"👏
"We need to get rid of these obscene, anti-competitive rules" 👀