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Plagemonster retweeted
See the next Andrew Neil Report. Net zero will be revealed for the scam it is.
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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/e…
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Just wondering when we're going to hear from @bphillipsonMP and @LucyMPowell about this one 🤔
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 £50,000 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!🧵
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1,999. That is where the cap lands on 1 January, up £276, the steepest jump since January 2023, in the month the heating goes on. In July 2024, the month of the election, it was £1,568. Bills will sit £431 above the figure they asked you to vote on.
The action being taken is £100. One off, council tax bands A to D, and less than a third of the January rise. The VAT cut on electricity is worth £50 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 £300 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.
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This article passed me by at the weekend.
As it concludes:
"Until now, National Grid’s role in rising bills has largely escaped scrutiny. But as its debts – and our bills – spiral, that may not be the case for much longer."
Indeed! 🤨
Yes it’s true … British tax payers are going to be forced to bail out the National grid.
Just so you know the ‘National Grid’ isn’t owned by us. Er no….
It’s a privately owned company with international shareholders, with almost £49 BILLION of debt, forecast to reach £60–70 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 Government’s Net Zero targets.
And if it gets into serious financial trouble, the law even allows government financial support (paid for by taxpayers)
It’s 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 they’re over 18 to switch it OFF.
The EU has been pushing similar proposals under “Chat Control”.
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 ‘hate’ speech and other text content. It confirmed it would consider wider uses.
Which means, with Ofcom’s new rules on responding to ‘crisis’ 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 🙄
🚨WARNING 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 “accredited technology” notices. The EU has been pushing similar rules through its Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, known as “Chat Control”.
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 “harmful”.
And that's how you go from child safety to state approved speech.
TA DAAAA 🚨
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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.
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𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐔-𝐔𝐊 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐭, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭?
Here are 8 things you should know:
𝟭. 𝗜𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆?
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.
𝟮. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗣𝗦 𝗔𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁
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?
𝟯. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁
The Government wants to join the EU’s 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 we’ll be saving a sliver on just 10% of our electricity costs, yet having to pay a fee each year for joining the market.
𝟰. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨 𝗖𝗼𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱
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?
𝟱. 𝗘𝗧𝗦 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗕𝗔𝗠
Joining the EU’s 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.
𝟲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗲
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.
𝟳. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽
The Security and Defence Partnership essentially says the UK and EU will coordinate on everything up to and including "space security". There’s also no plan to tackle illegal immigration, just a promise to work together.
𝟴. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝘁
There’s been no official cost attached to this Reset, possibly because the Government knows this will affect people’s opinions. And it wasn’t 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?
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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. It’s 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 £91.20/MWh based on 2024 prices — indexed linked for 20 years. That guarantee is already worth £97/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 £1 billion of the £12 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 Chancellor’s Budget pledge to ‘only build new projects when they lower prices’. This does the opposite — 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 EU’s youth mobility scheme.
Reports confirm Brussels wants a “Youth Experience Scheme” 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:
“Do you think your constituents in Wigan would be happy with 150,000 Europeans being able to come and live and work here?”
Nandy: “That’s precisely the reason that we need to have those honest conversations about what the choices are ahead of us.”
Kuenssberg: “So with that, be honest. Be honest. Be honest then.”
Nandy claimed she will be, but only after first talking to European counterparts about the “choices and trade-offs”, then eventually taking it to the public.
Kuenssberg said you’re having those conversations NOW. So if you’re being honest, do you think your constituents in Wigan would be happy with that?
She knows they won’t 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. That’s the plan.
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A hundred jobs. That is the permanent number, buried in the National Wealth Fund's own release under the phrase "over 100." The 2,300 is job-years across a supply chain while it is built.
The £12 billion is not the government's. RWE is German, KKR is American private equity, and they own the two projects fifty fifty. The state put in £1 billion, which is debt, sitting inside a £13 billion facility alongside thirty five international banks. Lending. It buys no share of the turbines and no share of the output. Three million homes is nameplate capacity, not delivery, and not before 2030.
Nor is any of this new. The consents were held, the seabed rights granted, the subsidy won in January at £91.20 a megawatt hour, index-linked, for twenty years. RWE bought the sites from Vattenfall in March 2024. Today the financing was signed. Financial close is the least newsworthy moment in a project's life, which is why it has been dressed as a triumph.
Power under British control, says the Prime Minister. German owners, an American fund, thirty five banks, and a guaranteed price underwritten by British bill payers.
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Millions of the public thought we could get no one worse than Starmer but unfortunately & unbelievably along comes @andyburnham & proved how wrong we were. He doesn't even look or come across as a PM. He definitely should have stuck to being a Mayor, more within his ability.
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President Erdogan of Turkey spouting utter climate bunkum at the Climate Conference
'The deepest existential crisis in human history' yada yada yada...
Seriously does anyone take such ravings seriously any more?
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Andy Burnham's EU reset will trash 90% of UK goods exports by making them even more expensive while benefitting almost zero. Anyone who cares about British industry must stop this deal, says Catherine McBride. dailysceptic.org/2026/11/10/…
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So how did a property adviser end up posting about Andy Burnham and Abu Dhabi?
All we wanted was a planning permission.
It took Manchester City Council over nine years to give us one. In that time Renaker put up about a dozen towers, seven of them around our site.
My client has owned a site on Great Jackson Street in Manchester for 40 years. In October 2017 we started work on planning for 1,037 flats there. We are Manchester born and bred. Friends in London warned us that development in Manchester was "the Wild West". We didn't know how right they were.
We were told we had to provide £28.8m of affordable housing. So we asked what Renaker's Deansgate Square next door had paid. The answer:- Nothing. Zero. Nada. Zip. 1,508 flats and no section 106 agreement at all. Nobody at Manchester City Council could explain why. On four Renaker schemes MCC has "lost" the viability files.
We were told we had to pay just over £1m as an upfront payment. Exactly £1,000 per flat. Across 20 Renaker towers and 8,543 homes, Manchester City Council took just £487,000. That is £57 a home.
So we kept looking. We found £598m of public loans from Andy Burnham's GMCA to Renaker. Add in the other public sources and it is £868m, to companies controlled by one man. None of these loans were ever publicised and the loan terms remain almost entirely hidden.
It took nearly four years just to get to the planning committee. Over nine years on, nothing is built.
We then asked MCC for permission to knock down our own empty warehouses. It refused, giving ten flimsy reasons. So off to court we went. In January 2026 a High Court judge rejected all ten and held that MCC had "acted unreasonably". That case cost MCC over £200,000 of public money. And for what?
My client also owns the main Royal Mail depot on Oldham Road. MCC has since told us that land sits inside its joint venture with Far East Consortium. It has kept over a third of that agreement hidden, including the plan, and won't show it to us. Why?
So we carried on asking questions.
Then they blocked my emails.
We never set out to investigate anyone. We asked one question, got no answer, and kept digging.
We still are.
#ProjectCleanCity
@SianReform @NathanEvansTeam @JoshHalliday @rbrooks45 @DeclanGCarey @jackdulhanty
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"The Chancellor has already banked the tax revenue, but there's just one problem, Rosebank hasn't been approved…
If it's not going to be approved, why was it in the Budget?"
The Budget was fiction. Revenue from things that don’t exist and big decisions on welfare and defence moved to next year. #PMQs
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Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: “[Ed Miliband] called Rosebank climate vandalism, but then he also thought cosying up to Russell Brand would make him prime minister.”
Labour MPs: “Shame!”
Badenoch: “They're saying shame. They’re right. The foreign secretary should be ashamed.”
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'One minute after the hour. All guns silent.'
At 11am on 11 November 1918, the guns fell silent on the Western Front. This document from IWM's collections visualises the silence, showing artillery activity for one minute before and one minute after the Armistice.
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Peak Marie Antoinette from Miatta;
“Let them pay £300 a month energy bills while I commission more heavily-subsidised “cheap”windmills and count myself virtuous.”
British people need to call time on this elite fantasy.
We've secured £12 billion of investment from @RWE_AG, alongside £1bn public money, for two major UK offshore wind farms off the coast of Norfolk - powering millions of homes and supporting thousands of jobs.
This is another vote of confidence in British homegrown, clean energy.