Carl French

Business Advisor, Author, Speaker and Specialist in the systematic replication of innovative business know-how

[Lee Hurst @LeeHurstComic]

BREAKING NEWS

HMRC staff seen here working from home.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

Letter sent to Prime Minister Keir Starmer this morning regarding the Chagos Island fraud. Self explanatory. Please read and share.

[Kevin Wright @ninjabridger]

📣 Observe the masses, do the opposite 📣

Most property investors run a mile when they hear these three words…

Short lease. Unmortgageable. Probate.

Here’s the thing - these are exactly the properties I teach my students to buy.

Why? Watch to find out 🤝

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Net Zero is economic suicide. It must go.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Dear Labour

You literally don’t understand why construction companies aren’t building masses of houses! And why they won’t do what you tell them.

Let me help you.

▪️There aren’t enough builders, bricks, or cement. Businesses forecast years in advance for developments. They can’t ramp up in a year.

▪️Developers have cash flow and budgets, unlike the government they can’t print money and double in size in a year. And you just screwed the economy by raising taxes and minimum wage.

▪️From 2027, imported raw materials like steel and cement face a new carbon taxes of up to 24%. Gained can pretend he’s saving the planet) Developers have no idea what the hit will be. And so cannot build blind.

▪️If housing isn’t financially viable, builders won’t build. Labour is demanding cheap entry level homes. But developers make little profit on these, so little that only building these will mean they can’t pay the wage bill! So they have mixed price developments. Higher priced houses aren’t selling because the economy is wankered (technical term)

▪️The state of the economy means huge job insecurity, why would Developers risk over supplying a market that is stagnant?

▪️New house building and completions are down in many places because over supply will see a collapse in prices and developers would make a loss. It would be insane for a business to plan to make a loss.

▪️ net zero targets have left thousands of finished homes unable to be connected to the grid! Brilliant. Why would house builders risk building and not being able to sell because they can’t get electricity.

Had Labour had any business experience or economic knowledge they would know that councils have to heavily subsidise new developments … but they have no money!

Governments can’t force businesses to harm themselves. It’s an idiotic promise made because you don’t understand how profit works.

You’re welcome

[Carl French @CarlFrench]

No surprise.

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

These are the words of the first 16 scientists of 46 that have left the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) due to the corruption of science within the organisation.

Dr Robert Balling: The IPCC notes that “No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected.” This did not appear in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers.

Dr Lucka Bogataj: “Rising levels of airborne carbon dioxide don’t cause global temperatures to rise…. temperature changed first and some 700 years later a change in aerial content of carbon dioxide followed.”

Dr John Christy: “Little known to the public is the fact that most of the scientists involved with the IPCC do not agree that global warming is occurring. Its findings have been consistently misrepresented and/or politicized with each succeeding report.”

Dr Rosa Compagnucci: “Humans have only contributed a few tenths of a degree to warming on Earth. Solar activity is a key driver of climate.”

Dr Richard Courtney: “The empirical evidence strongly indicates that the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis is wrong.”

Dr Judith Curry: “I’m not going to just spout off and endorse the IPCC because I don’t have confidence in the process.”

Dr Robert Davis: “Global temperatures have not been changing as state of the art climate models predicted they would. Not a single mention of satellite temperature observations appears in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers.”

Dr Willem de Lange: “In 1996 the IPCC listed me as one of approximately 3000 “scientists” who agreed that there was a discernible human influence on climate. I didn’t. There is no evidence to support the hypothesis that runaway catastrophic climate change is due to human activities.”

Dr Chris de Freitas: “Government decision-makers should have heard by now that the basis for the long-standing claim that carbon dioxide is a major driver of global climate is being questioned; along with it the hitherto assumed need for costly measures to restrict carbon dioxide emissions. If they have not heard, it is because of the din of global warming hysteria that relies on the logical fallacy of ‘argument from ignorance’ and predictions of computer models.”

Dr Oliver Frauenfeld: “Much more progress is necessary regarding our current understanding of climate and our abilities to model it.”

Dr Peter Dietze: “Using a flawed eddy diffusion model, the IPCC has grossly underestimated the future oceanic carbon dioxide uptake.”

Dr John Everett: “It is time for a reality check. The oceans and coastal zones have been far warmer and colder than is projected in the present scenarios of climate change. I have reviewed the IPCC and more recent scientific literature and believe that there is not a problem with increased acidification, even up to the unlikely levels in the most-used IPCC scenarios.”

Dr Eigil Friis-Christensen: “The IPCC refused to consider the sun’s effect on the Earth’s climate as a topic worthy of investigation. The IPCC conceived its task only as investigating potential human causes of climate change.”

Dr Lee Gerhard: “I never fully accepted or denied the anthropogenic global warming concept until the furore started after NASA’s James Hansen’s wild claims in the late 1980s. I went to the [scientific] literature to study the basis of the claim, starting with first principles. My studies then led me to believe that the claims were false.”

Dr Indur Goklany: “Climate change is unlikely to be the world’s most important environmental problem of the 21st century. There is no signal in the mortality data to indicate increases in the overall frequencies or severities of extreme weather events, despite large increases in the population at risk.”

Dr Vincent Gray: “The [IPCC] climate change statement is an orchestrated litany of lies.”

[Carl French @CarlFrench]

@elonmuskTehh7 Deserve or get. I see the word.

[Carl French @CarlFrench]

I assume this was meant to be ironic. The BBC has become totally untrustworthy.

[Emily Thornberry @EmilyThornberry]

Across the world, the BBC is recognised as the best source of impartial news reporting.
It's not perfect, because nothing made by people ever is.
However, in these days of deliberate lies, manipulation & populism, it's a beacon of truth. Britain should be proud of it.
And we are

[Carl French @CarlFrench]

The attack was the other way around!

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.

The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

[Carl French @CarlFrench]

Has "soon" got a new meaning such as not for ages?

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

New roads, railways, airports and reservoirs are coming to Britain, and they are coming soon.

That’s national renewal.

[Carl French @CarlFrench]

Next time there is an import problem, as there was in WW2, and people are starving, I hope the idiots who are treating our farmers so badly will be held accountable.

[James Harvey @JamesHarvey2503]

🚨 FARMER explains the UNFAIRNESS of British Farming.

"I could have left this 13 acre field BLANK, and I BET I would have been BETTER OFF."

Isn't it funny how supermarkets and manufacturers are making RECORD profits while consumers are paying more and farmers are making less.

[Kobo @kobo]

The LATEST from the #KoboBlog: eReader vs. tablet: which screen should you be reading on? https://t.co/7O0edwJfGI

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

I'm immensely proud of my friend and #PlanetNormal Co-Pilot @AllisonPearson

She has been through absolute hell over the last two weeks - as she rightly pushed back against the chilling insanity of two uniformed cops from Essex Police turning up at her door unannounced, in full view of her neighbours, on the morning of Remembrance Sunday, calling her out for something she momentarily posted on social media a year ago which DIDN'T EVEN COME CLOSE to breaching any kind of legal threshold.

Essex Police responded to Allison's totally justified protests by reporting the @telegraph to IPSOS, leaking a redacted transcript of the doorstep conversation to a rival paper (why the redactions?) and then absurdly convening "Gold Command" - normally used for terrorism and major national incidents - to investigate her actions. This strikes me, and I would suggest the vast majority of the country, not only as a pitiful waste of police time and resources but as bullying and intimidation - which Essex Police will obviously deny.

A few journalists, like @suzanne_moore, did the right thing. Suzanne wrote a powerful column making the cardinal point upon which our democracy, all democracy, should be founded: "I don't always agree with Allison Pearson but I will defend her right to free speech".

This is, of course, an expression of decency and common sense, rooted in the values of Magna Carta and the Enlightenment.

But most journalists, witnessing one of the UK's most distinguished and long-standing national newspaper columnists get publicly duffed up by the rozzers – again, Essex Police will deny that - took the easy route, sitting in awkward silence.

Others, though, did something even worse -unbelieveably deciding this was a moment to have a bit of fun at Allison's expense - by using their platforms to chide and attack her, accusing her of having a "persecution complex", as she lived and tried to function while enduring not only extremely public accusations of vile sentiments but the genuine threat of arrest and criminal prosecution.

I suggest, @jonsopel @maitlis and @lewis_goodall, that you grab yourself an expensive latte each and have a good, long think about your actions.

I advise you to - at the very least - publicly apologise to Allison. You might find it's in your best interests.

@adamfleming - you might want to do the same, for the way you so arrogantly chuckled and guffawed on @newsnight when it was suggested to you that Allison was "scared". She wasn't only scared - she was absolutely terrified. You have no idea - NO IDEA - of the pain your mindless aside caused her.

I also think that Allison is also owed a public apology by Essex Police – and, judging by the thousands of #PlanetNormal listeners who have written in support of Allison during this ghastly ordeal, I suspect a lot of the general public would like to see that happen.

Allison has, of course, now thankfully been cleared of all charges. "No further action" said Essex Police yesterday - having no doubt convened a series of fraught meetings full of top brass and expensive "crisis management" PR consultants, all of them there at the taxpayer's expense, those resources obviously diverted from fighting actual crime.

But on Wednesday, the day before she was cleared, with the threat of arrest and prosecution still very much hanging over her, Allison and I recorded the 226th episode of our weekly #PlanetNormal podcast.

If anyone is in any doubt of the principals that were at stake during this disgraceful episode – or of the pain and distress she was experiencing – I suggest you take a listen

https://t.co/Fh3UGnVJEE

[Carl French @CarlFrench]

Amazing shot. The Jay is "the oak tree's friend" because of all the acorns it burroes and forgets.

[Andrew Fusek Peters @2peters]

It took me 12 years to finally get a Jay with an acorn. They are such shy birds! This is a final shot for my garden wildlife book. @graffeg_books @Natures_Voice @BTO_GBW @ShropsWildlife @WildlifeMag @BBCSpringwatch #Autumnwatch

[Carl French @CarlFrench]

@YAlexandrovski @The_Millions And it was rubbish!

[Carl French @CarlFrench]

I just signed the petition calling on Paula Vennells, the former CEO of the Post Office to be stripped of her CBE. Will you sign too? #MrBatesVSThePostOffice https://t.co/1pY1NRywSB via @38degrees

[Lacey London @thelaceylondon]

A little encouragement for EVERY writer today...

#amwriting #WritingCommunity #WednesdayThought

[The Endless Bookcase @endlessbookcase]

Buy-Refurb-Refinance released on kindle today with a ONE-DAY-ONLY offer of £1.99! (Usually £29.81) https://t.co/fDOv1c3dQx

#property #propertymarket #propertyportfolio

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

There are so many green spaces in our towns and villages that are over-mown or sprayed, but which could instead be boosting biodiversity and bringing nature back into our lives like this corner of Cambridge. RT if you agree 🐝

[Carl French @CarlFrench]

Do get involved with #SillyVerse23 which formally starts on 1st Feb but is already live https://t.co/SaAjZWt2Yj