Anarchist. Love Europe.🗽
SW France & Cotswolds.
Joined January 2009
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Are the UK people going to be fooled by the hapless Burnham 'vibes offensive'?
He is clearly planning an imminent General Election. #bbcbreakfast #r4today
Like the failed Starmer, the progressive media are not scrutinising Burnham, we saw how that went. Starmer was so bad, the Labour Party had to throw him and Reeves overboard, in two years.
Be very clear, Burnham will have a hard left agenda, which like in France, will destroy the UK economy, in short order.
Senior doctors to strike for two days as NHS faces fresh disruption
#wato #politicslive
The walkout will begin at the end of November
gbnews.com/news/senior-docto…
Calling Cooper!
Kemi winning #politicslive #wato
Party Leader Satisfaction Ratings:
Kemi Badenoch (CON): 35% (+7)
Andy Burnham (LAB): 35% (+4)
Nigel Farage (REF): 22% (-2)
Ed Davey (LDM): 20% (-3)
Zack Polanski (GRN): 17% (-1)
via @Ipsos_in_the_UK, 15-22 Oct
(Changes with 15 Sep)
Damien Hinds: Streeting announced the abolition of NHS England a year ago – today the NHS is in Labour’s limbo #politicslive #wato conservativehome.com/2026/10… Staff involved in the process of the merger which is supposed to be completed in just 6 months have described the process as ‘utter chaos’.
Architect is struck off after calling her neighbours racist
#Politicslive #wato dailymail.com/news/article-1…
What is it with white, liberal, progressive women!!
Hang on to your hats everyone, because Burnham’s going to risk it, and go early #politicslive #wato conservativehome.com/2026/10…
Net zero added £140.3bn to our electricity bills. Nobody official counts it. #PoliticsLive #wato richardlyon.substack.com/p/n…
The first Affordable Energy report prices Britain's electricity twice, and asks Parliament to make the Government do the sum every year.
Unreliables are why our UK electricity is the most expensive in the world #POliticsLive #wato
The cheap green lie
You are told that solar and wind are cheap
But you need near-100% backup when no sun or wind, paying for two systems
Data for 2025 shows that
cramming in more solar and wind makes electricity overall more and more costly
Sources:
Electricity prices, households and industry, 2025
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
Solar and wind generation, electricity use and consumption weights
iea.org/data-and-statistics/…
Solar and wind for countries without IEA 2025 data
ember-energy.org/data
Electricity trade partners, plus industry prices for Norway, Albania, Iceland and Kosovo
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/en…
US industry price
eia.gov/electricity/annual
Australia, IEA 2021 prices updated with official price indices
abs.gov.au/statistics/econom…
South Africa industry price
eskom.co.za/wp-content/uploa…
Taiwan industry tariff
taipower.com.tw
Egypt industry tariff
egyptera.org/en/TarrifAug202…
Tunisia tariffs (archived copy, the STEG site is unreachable)
web.archive.org/web/20250614…
Azerbaijan industry tariff
regulator.gov.az/en/istehlak…
2025 tariff changes applied to IEA 2024 prices
Pakistan: nepra.org.pk
Thailand: erc.or.th
Ghana: purc.com.gh
Paraguay: ande.gov.py
Kazakhstan: stat.gov.kz/en/industries/ec…
GlobalPetrolPrices 2025 averages for 18 countries, read from archived 2025 pages
globalpetrolprices.com/elect…
web.archive.org
Sri Lanka 2025 tariff changes
pucsl.gov.lk/end-user-tariff…
Indonesia solar and wind estimated from official 2025 capacity
esdm.go.id/id/media-center/a…
Statista 2025 averages for China, Mexico, Brazil, Russia, Singapore, Peru, Argentina and South Africa (data from GlobalPetrolPrices)
statista.com/statistics/1369… (business prices worldwide)
statista.com/statistics/1461… (household prices worldwide)
statista.com/statistics/1173… (Latin America business)
statista.com/statistics/1123… (Latin America households)
statista.com/statistics/1373… (China business)
statista.com/statistics/1372… (Mexico business)
statista.com/statistics/1372… (Mexico households)
statista.com/statistics/1617… (South Africa households)
Budget 2025 interactive: How is the UK government spending your taxes? telegraph.co.uk/money/intera… #PoliticsLive #wato
Youth unemployment worse in some parts of England than Bulgaria or Slovenia as 'benefits bill rises'
#politicslive #wato
Around one million young people across the UK are not in employment, education or training
gbnews.com/money/budget-yout…
John Smith🗽Israel 🇮🇱 must prevail retweeted
This post goes some way to explaining the dire financial straits the UK is in...
"Britain has almost run out of taxpayers, or at the very least, it’s slowly running out of people who pay enough taxes to plausibly finance the state."
"...in 1998, about 43 per cent of British earners paid sufficient tax to cover the Government’s average per-capita spending. During Covid, that figure fell to an absolute low of circa 20 per cent, then by 2025 recovered modestly to 26.6 per cent."
No wonder if fewer than 27% of people are net contributors to the state
It's stats like this that make me want to leave. Big new project in the US in the next few months might be just the springboard I need
@griffitha @LiamHalligan
open.substack.com/pub/ieains…
Even The Economist Comes to Terms With Scale of Sexual Offences by Migrants
#PoliticsLive #wato order-order.com/2026/10/26/e…
After attempting to control for all factors including age and population numbers, Afghans commit sex offences at about seven times the British rate.
The former head of the Directorate-General for Foreign Intelligence gives an initial assessment of the October riots. He dissects the alliance between the ultra-left and the youth of the neighborhoods, against a backdrop of demographic shifting. #PoliticsLive #bbcnews
Le Figaro - à lire : « Des éruptions de violence devraient se reproduire, avec une fréquence et une intensité accrue » : l’analyse de Pierre Brochand, ancien patron de la DGSE lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/des-…
Britain's Renewable Energy Boom Is Hitting a Grid Bottleneck | OilPrice.com #bbcnews #itvnews share.google/spTJrcsDcBINQ8S…
Britain's power grid balancing costs reached £47.9 million on October 14 as transmission bottlenecks forced renewable generators offline while gas plants supplied electricity elsewhere. Its already £14 million today!!
Net zero added £140.3bn to our electricity bills. Nobody official counts it. #bbcLauraK #skynews richardlyon.substack.com/p/n…
The first Affordable Energy report prices Britain's electricity twice, and asks Parliament to make the Government do the sum every year.
John Smith🗽Israel 🇮🇱 must prevail retweeted
And there you have it, the Green Party tone deaf in extremis, doubling down against this nationally recognised representative organisation...
Board of Deputies of British Jews declares Greens to be racist party
The Green Party of England and Wales has been declared a racist organisation by the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
The Jewish body, which is the largest in the UK, was responding to the "Zionism is racism" policy motion passed at the Green Party's conference earlier this month.
Board of Deputies president Phil Rosenberg said a vote passed by 118 votes to one to declare that the Greens had, "by adopting an antisemitic platform, become a racist party".
A spokesman for the Greens insisted the party does not discriminate against people who hold Zionist views and said it rejected the Board of Deputies' "characterisation of this motion and our party".
They added the decision "will not stop us from speaking out against the genocide in Gaza and pushing for stronger sanctions against the Israeli government and its leaders". Israel has repeatedly denied its actions in Gaza amount to genocide.
The motion passed by the Board of Deputies urged other parties not to do deals with the Greens unless they rejected the policy.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckx2…
John Smith🗽Israel 🇮🇱 must prevail retweeted
Net zero added £140.3bn to Britain's electricity bills in 2002–24: £2,286 for the average household. Modelled, in 2024 prices. Nobody official counts it. Parliament should require a yearly statement, with data anyone can check.
richardlyon.substack.com/p/n…
Architect is struck off after calling her neighbours racist dailymail.com/news/article-1…
What is it with white, liberal, progressive women!!
Senior doctors to strike for two days as NHS faces fresh disruption
#bbcnews #itvnews
The walkout will begin at the end of November
gbnews.com/news/senior-docto…