Elizabeth A Mathie

Most likely to block people who are tiresome

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

@cokeahi Fake news

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

@AlselfLori @SarahMillican75 Why would she lie?
Why would she say she was older than she is, which is what I presume you are implying

Happy Birthday Sarah, hope it's fun & cake-filled

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

@ArlaFoodsUK @Myprotein & any other #ProteinPuddingProducers can we please have some not chocolate mouses & puddings? Rum & Raisin, Tiramisu, Apple Crumble, Rhubarb & Ginger sponge, Cherry Bakewell just something that isn't bloody chocolate

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

@Helen_Whately It's less expensive to the benefits bill is the payment is calculated as a polygamous marriage than if it was one couple and 3 single individuals. As Shadow SoS for DWP you really should know this https://t.co/ffOo1uNUzr @implausibleblog

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

@Conservatives it's just pissed it down, job done ...

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

@typesfaster Don't chat shite when you're a guest in a country David, it just isn't form

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

Conservatives conveniently for this news cycle forget they're the ones who introduced the regulations which make single split air conditioning systems a last resort after all passive options have been explored, or that systems operating on low-GWP refrigerants are permitted

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Britain’s miserabilist view of energy policy is never as clear as during a heatwave.

That’s because, unlike virtually every other civilised country, British housebuilders are de facto banned from installing air conditioning.

Our building regulations say that housebuilders must exhaust every other “passive” option for cooling buildings – from airflow to shutters to awnings – before local council pen pushers will let them install air con. The result is that most of our homes are built without it.

That’s why 3% of British homes have air con, compared to 90% in the US, Japan and Korea.

Why do we have this mad ban in place? Because our political class, including erstwhile Conservatives such as Robert Jenrick, said it ‘used too much energy’.

This is an anti-growth mindset that must be rejected.

Cheap, abundant energy is the foundation of prosperity, but the problem with the net zero ideology is that it turned this fundamental truth on its head.

Energy use became a bad thing to be demonised, and the result is that we made electricity scarce and expensive by focusing on decarbonisation over cost and security of supply. Prices went through the roof and fewer and fewer people now use it.

But as energy demand has collapsed in the UK, so have growth and living standards. That’s why two years ago I made a speech saying we would need to prepare for more energy demand to fuel AI and air con, or risk becoming poorer and less prosperous.

The fact that we are one of the only major economies that has decided the solution to hot days is to “sweat it out” tells you everything you need to know about our warped energy ideology.

All the evidence shows that in heatwaves people sleep far fewer hours, productivity plummets and children struggle in school.

Why would we limit access to a technology that is proven to save lives, boost productivity and make people more comfortable?

It is even more absurd when you consider that Ed Miliband is carving up the countryside for masses of solar farms – solar farms that we are going to be paying millions of pounds to switch off when it’s too sunny in the summer.

Yet air conditioning demand peaks in the summer at exactly the same time as those solar farms are generating more electricity than the grid can use.

That’s how mad our energy policy is – we are now building energy generation that we want to stop the public from using. We really are through the looking glass now.

This is all part of the mind rot that has infected all echelons of government, which sees UK energy usage as uniquely bad and will do everything it can to drive it down – even when that means transferring our industries’ emissions to coal-powered China, or blocking our households from enjoying the growth, prosperity and consumer benefits that other countries allow.

That’s why rather than embrace AI, Labour are currently agonising about whether it’s compatible with net zero - and why they would rather use Putin’s oil than back our British industry in Aberdeen.

Under Kemi Badenoch and my leadership, we Conservatives are taking a new approach. We need to get back to energy realism by repealing the Climate Change Act.

We need to prioritise cheap, abundant energy by backing the North Sea, doubling down on nuclear and adopting our Cheap Power Plan to make electricity cheap.

Energy policy should serve the needs of the British public, not the other way around.

That’s why we would axe the outdated building regulations that are blocking air con and build an energy system which puts consumers first.

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

@CaptainCave11 @ToryWipeout @KemiBadenoch Also it's highly unlikely if they did we'd see a reduction in household fuel prices unless they didn't trade the oil on the open market. It's complex but worth looking into how it works to understand just how much bollox politicians spout about it.

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

@CaptainCave11 @ToryWipeout @KemiBadenoch It's really Kemi who should be answering that. For my part I doubt we'd want to spend what it would cost to try to buy the rights to drill it out etc even if the multi billion dollar international corporations were willing to sell.

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

@implausibleblog What does he know of immigration living in Ash Vegas?

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

@premnsikka Would you buy a used car from him? No you wouldn't because his face tells you he's out for himself - this "advice" isn't going to not have some manner of opportunity in it for him

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

@CaptainCave11 @ToryWipeout @KemiBadenoch If there is the money and the will to do it but it would be much more difficult than the railways (and that won't go like a dream however hard they try) This wiki page describes what happened to water Chamberlain had it right https://t.co/k6g57iVlPK

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

@CaptainCave11 @ToryWipeout @KemiBadenoch Water started out as private, was nationalised and then re-privatised by everyone's favourite Tory

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

@CaptainCave11 @ToryWipeout @KemiBadenoch Thatcher’s government privatized state-owned oil & gas assets in the North Sea. Through the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982, she broke up & floated the British National Oil Corporation (BNOC) on the stock market as Britoil, shifting North Sea production into the private sector

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

Do you mean this @Conservatives ? When Jenrick was in Boris Johnson's Conservative Government https://t.co/chQ7H5mfST
So you want us to use more power to run aircon, while the prices are due to rise and Kemi's advocating drilling in the North Sea too
#JoinedUpGovernment

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

It's way too hot out there.

The next Conservative government will reverse the aircon ban created by @RobertJenrick, which blocks new homes from being built with air conditioning.

That's the one he's talking about here ⬇️

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

@KemiBadenoch In what timescale? You make it sound (if it were actually possible to do) as easy as opening a pop-up market stall and we'll all be better off by next Tuesday. You can't possibly believe that's going to happen so why are you trying to sell it?

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

@CaptainCave11 @ToryWipeout @KemiBadenoch It's different from the railways because Network Rail is an arm's-length public body sponsored by the Department for Transport. Passenger Trains Operators are franchise contracts leased from DfT Operator Limited

[Will Black 🍓🍄 @WillBlackWriter]

People are saying that Nigel Farage has asked Elon Musk to ban people from X for sharing this clip of him attacking his crony Robert Jenrick.

Surely free speech champion Nigel Farage isn't that petty? But just in case, THIS is the video that you mustn't download or share

[Elizabeth A Mathie @BetNav]

@archer_rs Has he been to pick up his EU pension?