@RedBrickz26 @Maureen6Johnson@magnusllewellin @SundayTimesSco They are duped by the SNP spin machine.
2007 to date are Scotland's Wasted Years
Wasted lives
Wasted resources
Wasted opportunity
352 rehab beds in 2007
70 rehab beds in 2020
455 deaths in 2007
1182 deaths in 2020
80% reduction in beds
160% increase in drug deaths.
🔴🇮🇹 ALERTE INFO – EN 48 HEURES, MELONI RÉPOND AUX ÉMEUTES.
Après un week-end de violences en Italie, Giorgia Meloni annonce un décret approuvé aujourd'hui par son gouvernement.
« Manifester est un droit, dévaster nos villes, non. »
Voici les mesures adoptées :
- Jusqu'à 5 ANS DE PRISON et 20 000 € d'amende pour participation violente à une manifestation en groupe d'au moins 5 personnes. Peines aggravées en cas de visage dissimulé ou de blessures.
- QUI CASSE PAIE. Si le responsable est mineur, ses parents devront répondre financièrement des dégâts. Le patrimoine familial pourra être mobilisé pour indemniser les victimes.
- RETENUE PRÉVENTIVE étendue aux mineurs.
- 500 MILITAIRES SUPPLÉMENTAIRES déployés à Milan jusqu'au 31 décembre.
Le bilan : près de 200 policiers blessés lors des violences en Italie et environ 1 MILLION D'EUROS de dégâts rien qu'à Milan.
Meloni est catégorique :
« Dévaster et voler, ce n'est pas manifester, c'est de la criminalité. »
Pendant ce temps, en France, l'hôtel de ville de Limoges a été ravagé par les flammes.
Et nous attendons toujours une réponse politique à la hauteur de la gravité de ces événements.
Would you rather have clean electricity or cheap electricity?
What if you could have both?
It's no secret that Net Zero is making Britain poorer and weaker. But now, for the first time, experts have revealed the true impact Net Zero is having on our electricity prices.
@ukonward’s report is the most detailed analysis of our electricity system that has ever been done in British politics.
By crunching the numbers, they have calculated that if we scrapped Net Zero and focused on making electricity cheap instead, we would save consumers over £320 billion on their electricity bills by 2050.
That's the equivalent of around £540 for every household, every year, for the next two decades.
Our electricity would still be nearly 80% clean – some of the cleanest in the world, in fact – by using a bit more gas and a lot more nuclear. But it would also be much cheaper.
We have the highest electricity prices in the developed world – and that's bad for families, businesses, and the environment.
When I was appointed Energy Secretary in 2023, I started to uncover some of the true hidden costs of relying on wind and solar.
We need to pay for back-up power when the wind doesn't blow, and for the wind farms to turn off when it's too windy, and for all the pylons to transport the electricity from the offshore wind farms to where it's actually needed.
I was astonished that these costs, which end up on your bills, were being ignored.
That is when I realised Net Zero had to go.
I commissioned an official analysis of these costs because the public deserves to know the truth, too.
However, when Ed Miliband took over as Energy Secretary after the general election in 2024, he cancelled that analysis.
Why? Because he knew it would expose that his promise to cut your bills by £300 was always a fantasy. In fact, bills have gone up by £300 instead.
This major new report by Onward finished the work I started three years ago, taking into account the extra costs of renewables and showing that making electricity cheap is better for the environment.
Even by their own standards, Labour's Net Zero obsession is failing.
Most of our emissions come from cars and home heating. Yet sky-high electricity bills are making it impossibly expensive for ordinary people to choose cleaner alternatives.
The current approach means higher prices and higher emissions.
That is why Kemi Badenoch and I have changed the policy we inherited from our predecessors and pledged to scrap Net Zero and put cheap, reliable, abundant energy first.
Here is the shocking truth about illegal immigration on the channel
Women and children pushed to the back. People smugglers in charge. Open borders NGOs facilitating.
Andy Burnham is totally out of touch when he says this is fixed
Only the Conservatives have a proper plan to leave the ECHR and deport all illegal immigrants upon arrival. Then the migrants won’t bother crossing the first place
@bagshaw2112 It looks like the famous Fannie Craddock. Her husband, Johny, also cooked and baked, and often claimed he could make his doughnuts turn out like Fannie’s?
Lucy Powell has branded X as ‘toxic'.
The same Lucy Powell who dismissed discussing the Pakistani rape gangs as “dog whistle”.
The same Lucy who initially sided with the thugs against the officers after the Manchester Airport incident.
Labour MPs like Lucy are toxic, not X.
Egypt forgot how to build the pyramids.
Rome forgot how to build the aqueducts. Some still carry water today. What they built still stands. Neither civilization remembers how they did it.
Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.”
Musk: “And the Romans, they built these incredible aqueducts. They forgot how to do it.”
No army invaded them. The knowledge just stopped getting used, and the moment it did, it was gone.
Same collapse. Compressed into fifty years instead of a thousand.
Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon… Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.”
Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.”
Capability doesn’t sit in a vault. It only exists inside the people doing the work right now.
The second they stop, it doesn’t pause.
It disappears.
That should not scare you. It should focus you.
Nobody loses a civilization to war. They lose it the moment they stop building.
Nobody is owed the future. It belongs to whoever keeps building it.
Future PM Andy Burnham enjoyed a full parliamentary coronation today, complete with all the socialist trimmings.
Labour seem utterly besotted with their new messiah and his promised reckoning for Britain.
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