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Jonathan Curry retweeted
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/…
Jonathan Curry retweeted
Unbelievably, Iran (yes, Iran) has just been elected to the UN Committee that sets the priorities for women’s rights, counter-terrorism and peacekeeping. This, the country with an almost uniquely violent record of brutalising women, executing peaceful female protesters and of course sponsoring very widespread terrorism.
Equally unbelievably, the UK nominated Iran and although the voting is secret, we must assume it subsequently voted for Iran in the General Assembly. This is the same UK that is nominally run by PM Andy Burnham who declared only a few weeks ago that “we will always stand with the underdog and take what action we can to support them.”
If the young women of Iran who dare to remove their headscarves, or sing, or engage in peaceful protest to press for basic democracy aren’t the underdog in their battle with a vicious and murderous regime… who then is an underdog?
I can’t exaggerate how ashamed I am of my country. I’m sickened and repulsed by what it has become. I barely recognise it. Burnham should hang his head in utter shame.
And as for the UN, it has come to embody institutional corruption and gaslighting on a global scale.
It put China, Qatar and Cuba in charge of the body charged with protecting human rights worldwide.
It put China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan (all of which crush/ban NGOs in their own countries) in charge of the body that decides which civil-society groups and NGOs get UN accreditation and access.
It put Syria (under Assad) in charge the body that promotes education, culture, and press freedom.
How long must this continue? The UN has no credibility whatsoever and should be stripped back to the basics- a debating chamber for the big global issues of the day. And nothing more.
How can anyone defend this?
Jonathan Curry retweeted
THIS 👇👇👇👇
The proposed Conversion Practices bill risks an authoritarian government usurping the role of parents in their children’s lives. It may also be the biggest threat to gay rights since Section 28: my column in @heraldscotland
heraldscotland.com/politics/…
Jonathan Curry retweeted
It still beggars belief that Burnham’s destructive EU Reset Deal will ultimately destroy the UK’s agritech industry that’s currently worth £28bn in a hope to get a marginal increase in our £12bn in food exports to the EU
It’s like selling a Fabergé egg to pay for a service on your 2016 BMW 3 Series
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
Jonathan Curry retweeted
Hamas released a video showing them digging up Gaza’s water pipes and electricity lines—to turn them into rockets.
If you’re upset about Gaza’s lack of a sewage system, direct your outrage where it belongs: at Hamas.
Jonathan Curry retweeted
I read the reports coming out of Manchester this morning and I am genuinely speechless.
Andy Burnham’s old political machine has just been caught secretly intercepting and censoring emails sent by the public to elected politicians.
What were those emails actually about? A resident was asking hard questions about the £55 million in taxpayer loans Burnham handed to Abu Dhabi property developers when he was Mayor, with zero affordable housing requirements.
Instead of letting elected councillors read the concerns of their constituents, unelected bureaucrats quietly diverted the emails straight to the legal department to be buried.
The politicians had absolutely no idea their personal inboxes were being filtered by the state.
The council claims they had to intercept the messages because of potential litigation. It is a complete lie.
Internal correspondence proves the city solicitor asked for this specific resident to be blocked months before any legal threat even existed.
You vote for local representatives to hold the system accountable. But the second a citizen asks where Burnham sent public money in a Gulf state property deal, his political syndicate builds a secret digital firewall to protect the investment.
This is not a functioning democracy. This is a captured corporate cartel running a cover-up for the Prime Minister, and the national media is letting them get away with it in broad daylight.
Jonathan Curry retweeted
THIS IS PCSO ALICE DOBSON,
A 31-YEAR-OLD POLICE COMMUNITY SUPPORT OFFICER FROM BRADFORD WHO HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF PASSING CONFIDENTIAL POLICE INFORMATION TO A MAN INVOLVED IN A BRUTAL MACHETE ATTACK THAT LEFT A VICTIM WITH HIS HAND SEVERED.
DOBSON WAS FOUND GUILTY OF SHARING DETAILS OF A POLICE INVESTIGATION WITH RAHEES KHAN, 43, ONE OF FIVE MEN CONVICTED OF CONSPIRACY TO MURDER TWO MEN.
A MAN LOST HIS HAND IN THIS HORRIFIC ATTACK, WHILE A POLICE EMPLOYEE WAS FEEDING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION TO ONE OF THOSE BEHIND THE PLOT.
SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO HELP PROTECT THE PUBLIC, NOT BETRAY THE TRUST PLACED IN HER.
AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE TO THE UNIFORM!
Jonathan Curry retweeted
Sir John Cowperthwaite ran Hong Kong's finances from 1961 to 1971 and treated regulation like a tax on discovery. Nobody in government can know which business will work, so he refused to pick, plan, or protect.
Whitehall sent officials to Hong Kong to push for economic statistics, and he sent them home. When Milton Friedman asked in 1963 why he collected so little data, Cowperthwaite answered: "If I let them compute those statistics, they'll want to use them for planning." Numbers give planners a reason to act, and every plan arrives as a rule that tells entrepreneurs what they may not try. Asked what poor countries should do to grow, he said they should abolish the office of national statistics.
He rebuffed tariffs, opposed corporate subsidies, and refused London's push to raise taxes. When a legislator proposed that the government back promising industries, he asked how the government could possibly know which ones those were.
The results arrived without a plan. During his decade as Financial Secretary, real wages rose 50% and the share of residents in acute poverty fell from 50% to 15%. When he took the job, the average Hong Kong resident earned about a quarter of what a Briton earned. By the early 1990s, Hong Kongers out-earned Britons. Britain, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, planned its economy with ministries full of statisticians and fell behind a rock with no resources except a harbor.
Every regulation assumes a regulator who knows which experiments to allow. That regulator does not exist, so each gate he builds blocks the ideas nobody in the room could have predicted. Hong Kong's most valuable policy was the absence of a gatekeeper.
As far as civil servants go, this guy is the GOAT.
Jonathan Curry retweeted
On Friday 6 November, Britain’s electricity system operator spent consumers’ money like a gold digger who just got her hands on a billionaire’s Amex, paying very high prices for additional electricity imports, with interconnector auctions recording clearing prices above £2,500 /MWh
@neso_energy also accepted offers in the Balancing Mechanism at prices approaching £1,000 /MWh.
So why was NESO buying so much expensive electricity when there was apparently plenty of domestic generating capacity available?
My theory - on a low wind day it couldn't afford huge forecasting errors so it bought extra electricity on imports, turned gas generators up to SEL giving quick access to MEL if needed and turned down batteries to balance the market and preserve charge just in case
@Miatsf @mgshanks @AndrewBowie_MP @ClaireCoutinho @HarrietCross_MP @ColinMoynihanUK @drlukeevans @Ashley7Fox @cmackinlay @TiceRichard @mattwridley @DavidGHFrost @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @afneil @CitySamuel @mattotele @Jonathan__Leake @ofgem @energygovuk
watt-logic.com/2026/11/07/wa…
Jonathan Curry retweeted
Who are these "rogue" companies? Name them, I dare you
Because domestic gas and electricity suppliers have their profits regulated. They're not free to charge what they want
Network companies also have their revenues regulated. They also can't charge what they want
So who, specifically has gone rogue??
Or is this just another pathetic tactic to deflect from your failures
You'd do better to worry how we're meeting demand for the next 4 days during a forecast extended wind lull
(I bet you didn't even know about that until just now)
Jonathan Curry retweeted
Hopelessly incompetent
Do we have two more years of this ?
A car crash interview from Angela Eagle, “the lesser of two Eagles”.
Labour’s big announcement today is the introduction of eight new regional water councils, but the Environment Secretary can’t even explain what powers they’ll actually have.
Additionally, which areas will each one cover? Who will lead them? How will membership of these councils be selected? When will they be established? Who will they answer to? Etc, etc…
Another shambolic announcement from a Government which loves a headline, but has zero detail to back it up.
Jonathan Curry retweeted
This makes no sense on any level. They're all mad.
Nationalise Poundland? Yes. A business minister indicates that this could indeed be a possibility, as @DuncanHugo repoŕts
Jonathan Curry retweeted
Labour have given away the farm with their awful agrifood deal with the EU.
No say in the laws, a rubber stamp parliament, and a massive bill. If anything is 'hard Brexit', it's that.
My @Telegraph column tonight.
telegraph.co.uk/gift/65ac678…
Jonathan Curry retweeted
Louise Haigh, the first female, convicted fraudster to do PMQs. Another glass ceiling shattered.
Jonathan Curry retweeted
Absolutely brutal from a BYD spokesman on designing cars for European conditions.
Jonathan Curry retweeted
Salah Sultan, a senior Muslim Brotherhood figure, was recorded calling for Jews to be killed and America’s destruction.
His son, Mohamed Soltan, maxed out donations to Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign. El-Sayed has publicly defended him.
Jonathan Curry retweeted
Andy Burnham wants you to pay for what your ancestors did 500 years ago. So how much is he coughing up for his? Kemi Badenoch has a cold, hard truth for him.
Slavery reparations, but as you’ve never seen them before.
{satire}
Jonathan Curry retweeted
This kind of thing is extraordinary. An MP. We must put a compulsory basic economics/business course in place before these people are allowed to take their seats.
'I don't think employers are working people.'
@CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget.
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Jonathan Curry 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.