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Plagemonster retweeted
Does anyone know what the cost will be?
1. The cost to businesses for compliance with EU regulations?
2. The cost to universities from capped fees for EU students?
3. The cost for paying for the EU's policy work in their food and agricultural regulations?
4. The cost to electricity companies and manufacturers of paying 20% more for EU ETS allowances?
5. The cost to taxpayers of subsidising poorer EU countries.
6. The cost of paying towards the running cost of the EU's Interal Electricity Market.
7. The costs to UK youths of having to compete with unemployed EU youths for UK jobs?
Ahead of the EU/UK summit the Chancellor has warned that any deal must deliver benefits that outweigh costs.
The Chancellor has said the UK will not rejoin the EU in his lifetime.
During a cost of living criss we cannot send billions to Brussels.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/eโฆ
With Labour taking a wrecking ball to business resulting in unemployment rising, where exactly will this lost generation get jobs?
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Out depth mayor anxious for something, jeopardising Britain mol.im/a/16288863
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Plagemonster retweeted
Just wondering when we're going to hear from @bphillipsonMP and @LucyMPowell about this one ๐ค
I have absolutely no idea why my timeline is completely ignoring the suspension of Labour MP Perran Moon today. He was just caught trying to dissolve his private company without paying back a ยฃ50,000 taxpayer-funded Covid loan. Right as this government prepares to hammer ordinary families with tax hikes in the Budget.
Here is what they desperately hope stays quiet!๐งต
Plagemonster retweeted
1,999. That is where the cap lands on 1 January, up ยฃ276, the steepest jump since January 2023, in the month the heating goes on. In July 2024, the month of the election, it was ยฃ1,568. Bills will sit ยฃ431 above the figure they asked you to vote on.
The action being taken is ยฃ100. One off, council tax bands A to D, and less than a third of the January rise. The VAT cut on electricity is worth ยฃ50 off the annual cap and expires in July. Gas standing charges go in 2027, folded into unit rates, so anyone who actually heats a house pays it straight back.
A rebate against a wholesale gas price moved by a war in the Middle East is not a policy. It is a receipt.
And "for good" is a date, not a claim. 2030 is when the ยฃ300 was promised. GB Energy generates nothing until the 2030s. Four years out, the cap is climbing 16 per cent and the party account is claiming the future in the present tense.
Down for good. Ask them again in January.
Plagemonster retweeted
This article passed me by at the weekend.
As it concludes:
"Until now, National Gridโs role in rising bills has largely escaped scrutiny. But as its debts โ and our bills โ spiral, that may not be the case for much longer."
Indeed! ๐คจ
Yes itโs true โฆ British tax payers are going to be forced to bail out the National grid.
Just so you know the โNational Gridโ isnโt owned by us. Er noโฆ.
Itโs a privately owned company with international shareholders, with almost ยฃ49 BILLION of debt, forecast to reach ยฃ60โ70 BILLION by 2031.
The massive costs of upgrading the grid including financing costs and shareholder returns (obvs) , is paid through increasing OUR energy bills.
Much of this investment is because of the Governmentโs Net Zero targets.
And if it gets into serious financial trouble, the law even allows government financial support (paid for by taxpayers)
Itโs a bloody brilliant private investment where the investors never lose. And ordinary people always pay.
Now watch what they do with nature.
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WARNING - Remember when I told you about Client side scanning? (Original post below)
On 9 November, the government confirmed it is preparing legislation to put this technology into smartphone operating systems, switched ON by default.
existing phones will receive it through software updates. Adults would have to prove theyโre over 18 to switch it OFF.
The EU has been pushing similar proposals under โChat Controlโ.
It means software will inspect images and content on your device, before you send them or even view them.
In June, the government was asked whether this technology could also be used to detect and block โhateโ speech and other text content. It confirmed it would consider wider uses.
Which means, with Ofcomโs new rules on responding to โcrisisโ situations, the technology could be expanded to prevent you from sharing content the authorities decide is unacceptable.
Instead of censoring you after you post it, they could stop you posting it in the first place.
But you still have free speech obvs ๐
๐จWARNING the bit Starmer isnt telling you is... this sort of device technology is called Client-Side Scanning.
It is already built into the Ofcom regulated Online Safety Act through โaccredited technologyโ notices. The EU has been pushing similar rules through its Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, known as โChat Controlโ.
It basically means phone companies and platforms can be pushed to scan messages, images and content BEFORE you send them, then either allowing them to be sent or blocking/reporting them.
Once the precedent is set, "to protect children", it can easily be widened to block whatever government decides is โharmfulโ.
And that's how you go from child safety to state approved speech.
TA DAAAA ๐จ
Too little, too late. It remains a huge error of judgement. Time to go Ed mol.im/a/16285451
Wouldnโt that have gone a long way to stopping the deaths of 1600 people on trolleys in the failing NHS?
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Plagemonster retweeted
When it comes to net zero and climate policy I have never accepted the official narrative, spoon-fed or otherwise. And as time goes on I believe events vindicate my analysis rather than the official one.
Plagemonster retweeted
๐๐จ๐ฎ'๐ฏ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐-๐๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ญ, ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ข๐ญ?
Here are 8 things you should know:
๐ญ. ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐?
The UK already has zero-tariff trade with the EU under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, which both the EU and UK said is working effectively. This undermines the claims that Brexit has hurt UK trade with the EU, and the subsequent need for a Reset.
๐ฎ. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐
The SPS agreement says it will remove the need for border checks and health certificates on agrifood products, but this will only invite EU plant and animal diseases into the UK. Food and live animals are also just 1.3% of UK exports, so why are we so eager to join the EU's SPS Area?
๐ฏ. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ฒ๐
The Government wants to join the EUโs Internal Electricity Market to save a bit of money on electricity imports. But the UK only imports 10% of its electricity from the EU, so weโll be saving a sliver on just 10% of our electricity costs, yet having to pay a fee each year for joining the market.
๐ฐ. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐จ ๐๐ผ๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐๐ป๐ฑ
For whatever reason, the EU has said that if we want to join its IEM, then we must pay into its Cohesion Fund to support its poorer member states. First of all, that money should probably go to poorer areas of the UK, and second, the amount of money we will be paying into this fund is expected to dwarf the amount we save on electricity costs, so why should we join the IEM at all?
๐ฑ. ๐๐ง๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐๐๐
Joining the EUโs Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is going to raise the cost of UK manufacturing and force what remains of British industry into closure. Either that or British companies will send their production to other countries with lower costs of manufacturing. In both cases, British jobs will be lost.
๐ฒ. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ผ๐๐๐ต ๐ ๐ผ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ
The Youth Mobility Scheme (YMS) will apparently allow "unlimited" EU students to attend British universities at the same fee paid by UK students (where they previously paid higher international tuition fees). The EU has also demanded that anyone living here under the YMS will get free access to the NHS and will also get to bring their families with them.
๐ณ. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฒ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ
The Security and Defence Partnership essentially says the UK and EU will coordinate on everything up to and including "space security". Thereโs also no plan to tackle illegal immigration, just a promise to work together.
๐ด. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐
Thereโs been no official cost attached to this Reset, possibly because the Government knows this will affect peopleโs opinions. And it wasnโt mentioned in the Budget either, which begs the questions, where are they going to get the money to pay for it all?
Knowing this, do you support the Reset?
Labour always creates unemployment
thesun.co.uk/money/40987309/โฆ
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Plagemonster retweeted
Jess Phillips says it is 'hard to believe' no-one knew the suspicions about David Walliams' behaviour with young girls - after taking her children to meet the 'legend' during election campaign trib.al/uYmDiv2
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This is government gaslighting to a high degree.
1. Itโs not a new announcement. The Norfolk East and West offshore wind projects were announced earlier this year as part of the AR7 round of contracts.
2. No way does it bring down prices. Those behind it, energy giant RWE + global investors KKR, were guaranteed an above-market strike price of ยฃ91.20/MWh based on 2024 prices โ indexed linked for 20 years. That guarantee is already worth ยฃ97/MWh in 2026. This is v expensive energy.
3. What is new is that the costs of developing offshore wind have soared. So the government has now had to chip in ยฃ1 billion of the ยฃ12 billion investment needed from the National Wealth [Destruction] Fund. So more state subsidy on top of the massive subsidies for two foreign companies implicit in the price guarantees embedded in AR7.
4. Far from cheaper electricity this embeds high-cost electricity in the system for 20 years.
5. So much for the Chancellorโs Budget pledge to โonly build new projects when they lower pricesโ. This does the opposite โ and at enormous expense to the taxpayer and electricity user.
Gaslighting indeed.
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Laura Kuenssberg lashed out at Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy for flat-out refusing to be honest about the EUโs youth mobility scheme.
Reports confirm Brussels wants a โYouth Experience Schemeโ that would let roughly 150,000 young Europeans a year live, work or study in the UK. @bbclaurak asked Nandy if her constituents, which voted overwhelmingly to Leave, would be happy with this:
โDo you think your constituents in Wigan would be happy with 150,000 Europeans being able to come and live and work here?โ
Nandy: โThatโs precisely the reason that we need to have those honest conversations about what the choices are ahead of us.โ
Kuenssberg: โSo with that, be honest. Be honest. Be honest then.โ
Nandy claimed she will be, but only after first talking to European counterparts about the โchoices and trade-offsโ, then eventually taking it to the public.
Kuenssberg said youโre having those conversations NOW. So if youโre being honest, do you think your constituents in Wigan would be happy with that?
She knows they wonโt be, and she is not going to listen to them. Burnham is pressing ahead with closer alignment and these deals without any real consultation of the British people. Eventually he is going to try and fully rejoin the EU. Thatโs the plan.