Fat Cheque UK #FBPE 🇪🇺

Ex IT professional. Grandfather, Musician, Brewer. Less (acceptable) musician once the brewer kicks in. #woke

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

"Andy Burnham in his Makerfield by-election "an overwhelming case for public ownership of Thames Water."

Please RT this until Burnham's Labour Govt not only FULLY re-nationalises Thames but ALL the companies being allowed to perpetuate this fraud & pollute our waterways.

Thanks

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The America vulture capitalists now running Thames Water are trumpeting Liz Barber, former CEO of Yorkshire Water, as the new saviour of the company.

Would that be the same Liz Barber who put up customer's bills by 41% and then refused to give up her own bonus? Of course it would.

Liz Barber was paid £1.32 million in her final year as CEO of Yorkshire Water.

https://t.co/notyxQXAGB

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Reminder
Jeffrey Epstein in an email to Peter Thiel wrote -
‘Brexit, just the beginning’

[Fat Cheque UK #FBPE 🇪🇺 @dcpart]

@BornToReform That's not loyalty that's head in the sand denial

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Government can just nationalise it. But then taxpayers will not only face years of legal cases and end up paying the fines owed to themselves; they’ll also still have to find billions to fix leaks, stop sewage dumping and build drought-proof infrastructure".

The LIE, the damned lie that's told over and over and over.

Over the next 5 years 99% of the funding to fix the leaks, stop sewage dumping, build infrastructure is NOT being provided by shareholders, it's coming from you and me and everyone else via those recent bill increases. The shareholders' contribution is actually less than 1% of the total spend. You should know better @CitySamuel

PS. Water company "fines" rarely if ever paid, at all, and certainly not by shareholders.

https://t.co/pfYMssUYzL

[Fat Cheque UK #FBPE 🇪🇺 @dcpart]

@SimonDanczuk @ohwellmeh He takes questions when it suits him. When things get awkward, like the £5M pocket money issue, he's no where to be seen. Other politicians may "get frustrated" Farage simply runs away.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 Former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger delivered brutal Brexit truths last year:

“Putin would’ve been absolutely delighted by our decision [to leave the EU] and so would Xi.”

“We’ve made ourselves irrelevant.”

“France has effectively eclipsed us.”

“Brexit has marginalised us.”

Brexit wasn’t Britain taking back control. It was Britain voluntarily surrendering influence, while Putin and Xi watched with delight.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

2026 Conservative Claire Coutinho claims the UK's pursuit of Net Zero is driven by ideology, and that using less wind and solar could save the equivalent of around £500 per household a year

2023: Conservative Claire Coutinho, "Nothing will distract us from achieving Net Zero or driving forward with renewables"

The claim that less wind and solar would save every household £500 a year is deeply misleading.

Coutinho is effectively taking the result of a model that changes almost the entire future electricity system—less wind and solar, much more nuclear and gas, different grid requirements and, crucially, no carbon price—and presenting the resulting £500-plus difference as though it were the cost of renewables.

The research simply doesn't establish that.

The figure does not come from evidence that renewables currently add £500 to household bills. It comes from a Conservative-backed modelling exercise comparing two hypothetical energy systems and turning £320 billion of estimated economy-wide savings between 2030 and 2050 into an annual equivalent per household.

Crucially, the supposedly cheaper alternative doesn't simply build less wind and solar. It assumes far more nuclear power, substantially more unabated gas, lower spending on networks and balancing, and the removal of carbon pricing from electricity generation. Of the £320 billion headline saving, £137bn comes from assumed lower network costs, £67bn from balancing and ancillary services, £22bn from subsidies and capacity costs, and £94bn from lower wholesale prices.

That £94 billion is particularly important because much of that supposed saving is created by changing the rules of the comparison.

The existing-policy scenario assumes generators continue paying a carbon price which rises substantially towards 2050; the alternative effectively abolishes that carbon price from 2031. Unsurprisingly, a model in which gas-fired electricity no longer carries that cost produces cheaper wholesale electricity.

But that isn't evidence that wind and solar made electricity £94bn more expensive.

It is principally the consequence of assuming a major carbon-pricing policy is abolished.

Nor is removing carbon pricing simply £94bn of free money.

Carbon pricing is deliberately intended to make polluters account for their emissions, discourage fossil-fuel generation and encourage cleaner alternatives, while carbon allowances also generate government revenue.

Removing it means accepting considerably greater emissions and losing those revenues and incentives. The alternative model consequently produces hundreds of millions of tonnes of additional CO₂.

The model also assumes Britain can successfully build around 20GW of nuclear capacity, while retaining much greater dependence on gas.

Whether nuclear can be delivered at the assumed cost and timetable is far from guaranteed, while greater reliance on gas leaves households more vulnerable to international gas-price shocks—the same exposure that played such a large role in Britain's recent energy-price crisis.

There is a legitimate argument about the costs associated with large amounts of wind and solar.

An electricity system dependent on intermittent generation requires substantial investment in transmission, balancing, storage, interconnectors and backup capacity, and those costs shouldn't be ignored.

But that is very different from demonstrating that wind and solar cost every household £500 a year.

Nearly £100bn of the supposed saving comes from the decision to remove carbon pricing, not from discovering that wind and solar are £100bn more expensive.

Coutinho has taken a £500-plus headline generated by a Conservative-backed model containing a whole package of assumptions—less wind and solar, much more nuclear, more gas, less grid investment and the abolition of carbon pricing—and presented it to the public as evidence that Britain's reliance on wind and solar is costing households hundreds of pounds.

That's misleading because the model doesn't establish that. It establishes that, if you change the entire future energy system and the taxes imposed upon it, its authors calculate a lower overall system cost.

Turning that into “less wind and solar will save your household £500” strips away the assumptions that actually produce the number.

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

I'll save everyone some time.

No. It does not.

[ZippiddyDo @ZippiddyD]

Oh look, it's Danny Kruger

Danny made do with a £60,000 a year education at Eton College before progressing to Oxford University. On to a right-wing think tank and finally into parliament.

We're blessed to have another individual taking the fight to the elites.

#BBCBreakfast

[Hugh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @HughEdw31897368]

@BBCBreakfast have I got this right?

You’ve interviewed Danny Kruger of Reform UK, a party with only 8 MPs.

You’re not interviewing Matthew Pennycook, the Housing Minister?

How are viewers meant to know what the govt is doing?

#bbcbreakfast

[Fat Cheque UK #FBPE 🇪🇺 @dcpart]

@AliJaneMoore I can give you 5M reasons

[Clara Belle @Clarabellepip]

@soniasodha You spent countless column inches gleefully mocking Arday and the enjoyed the pile-on that humiliated him. Now you profess sanctimonious concern about people who might feel despondent and prone to self-harm. You were part of the media circus that hounded him.

[Fat Cheque UK #FBPE 🇪🇺 @dcpart]

@malonebarry Desperate deflection to take the real story away from £5M Nige

[Skew Spew Barmy Hairdo Curmudgeon Bigot and Smug @SkewSmug]

No doubt whatsoever that @AllisonPearson is a truly vile cunt.

[⎝ ༺drew༻ @drewsnx]

@JuliaHB1 Well done to Talk TV social team for swiftly deleting all references to Jason from before his death, including the award of Plank of the Week with him pictured in the scene.

We wouldn't want that stuff hanging around in case it suggests that maybe media coverage was a factor.

[Fat Cheque UK #FBPE 🇪🇺 @dcpart]

@aquitainexox An MP that accepts payment to express support for the IRA and openly states an admiration for Putin. Total traitor

[Fat Cheque UK #FBPE 🇪🇺 @dcpart]

@Wakethefitup That's a fair assessment

[Fat Cheque UK #FBPE 🇪🇺 @dcpart]

@Peter1034029 @David__Osland Peter, the tweet is about Rod Liddell, beating his pregnant girlfriend (amongst other matters), and the subsequent press eulogy exonerating his abhorrent behaviour. However, a black Proffesor enhances his CV??

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

It's a pity Jason Arday wasn't a rightwing journalist arrested for beating his pregnant girlfriend. The obituaries would have been somewhat more sympathetic then.