D W Ball Project Man

Project Management & Construction company specializing in New Builds, Barn Conversions, Home Extensions, Kitchens, Bathrooms.

[D W Ball Project Man @DWBallProMan]

Well done to all. A great achievement

[Selston FC @SelstonFC]

🥈 𝙋𝙄𝘾𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙐𝙋 𝙎𝙄𝙇𝙑𝙀𝙍𝙒𝘼𝙍𝙀

Big well done to our Under 14s team, who picked up their Runners Up medals yesterday at The YEL Presentation. Finished 2nd in the Spring Premier Division!

Congratulations to all, great improvement year on year 👏🏼

#SFC

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

This past week, on a test bed in Britain, a Rolls-Royce jet engine ran at full take-off power on pure hydrogen, putting out water vapour instead of carbon.

Nobody on Earth had managed it before. It is the sort of thing that ought to stop the country in its tracks, and it will be forgotten by the weekend.

Leave aside the recent paroxysms of renewed net-zero insanity from Derelict Ed and the pervasive atmosphere of offended envy that greets much homegrown achievement nowadays in Britain. This engineering is a wonder, and it's British to the bone.

We gave the world the jet engine in the first place - Frank Whittle, a Coventry man and an RAF officer, patented it in 1930 while the Air Ministry assured him it was a curiosity. Rolls-Royce is today one of perhaps three firms anywhere that can build a large aero engine at the outer edge of the possible, and it has just done what most of the industry swore was twenty years away.

As usual, you marvel at how little the people who govern us had to do with it. The engineers in Derby are world-class; the stewardship above them is third-rate. They pulled off a global first while paying the most expensive industrial electricity in the developed world to keep the power on over the bench - a weight no German, American or Gulf rival has to carry. We produce frontier brilliance on the shop floor and fritter it away at the despatch box, and we have done for two generations.

That is the maddening shape of modern Britain: brilliance from below, sub- (or, indeed, ultra-) mediocrity from above. The people here who actually make things are still among the best in the world; the state that is meant to back them treats a firm like Rolls-Royce as a photocall today and a takeover target tomorrow, and prices its energy as though it would prefer the next plant were built in Texas.

Progress starts from the other end. Give these people what every rival government gives its champions and we beg ours to do without: the cheap, abundant power their competitors already enjoy, a supply chain built around them, and a state that guards a national asset rather than auctioning it. The hard part of a British revival - the talent, the nerve, the engineering - is already done, and was done again this week, by people who deserve a far better country than the one currently sitting above them.

We just taught an engine to breathe fire and exhale water. The least we owe the men and women who managed it is a government and a state as brilliant as they are.

[D W Ball Project Man @DWBallProMan]

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[D W Ball Project Man @DWBallProMan]

@ErfinderRotwang it’s hard to know who or what to believe and didn’t particularly believe this guy but a quick google search confirms this. My question is why are the USA not part of the global pricing that we seem to be.

[Richard Tice MP 🇬🇧 @TiceRichard]

🚨Miliband misled the Commons again.

US gas prices are some 80% cheaper than the UK's because they produce & consume gas domestically!

When will the Government grant North Sea licences at Rosebank, Jackdaw and elsewhere to increase domestic supply and bring down our bills?

[Margaret Thatcher @realmrsthatcher]

To be soft on crime is to betray the law-abiding citizen. And to make excuses for the criminal is to offer incentives to dishonesty and violence. Crime flourishes in a culture of excuses.

We Conservatives know, even if many sociologists don't, that crime is not a sickness to be cured—it is a temptation to be resisted, a threat to be deterred, and an evil to be punished.

[D W Ball Project Man @DWBallProMan]

@ThaStippaman @rsmithfoot That’s how stupid it’s got mate.

[D W Ball Project Man @DWBallProMan]

@ThaStippaman @rsmithfoot I’ve just bought the new red England shirt and it’s lovely. Not sure if I can go out in it without being arrested though 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[D W Ball Project Man @DWBallProMan]

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit 👍🏻

[TRUTH🕊️ @HonestHalo]

Why is it so rare to hear people say they’re proud of Keir Starmer?
The UK economy is showing clear signs of stabilisation under Labour, yet praise remains quiet.
Is it classic British cynicism? Or are we simply not used to a Prime Minister who focuses on the day job instead of chasing headlines?🇬🇧

[D W Ball Project Man @DWBallProMan]

@ErfinderRotwang Lots of people saying it would be cheaper. Could it be something to do with supply and demand perhaps. If we produce our own and supply increases then it would drive the global price down 🤷🏼‍♂️. Oil rich nations always stop producing as much when prices are lower to drive up prices

[D W Ball Project Man @DWBallProMan]

Translation: what’s this politician doing speaking common sense and telling the general public the truth. This simply won’t do. Must ring kier to send the social media police round and silence her immediately 🙄

[Tris Osborne MP @TrisOsborneMP]

This is the reason her party hasn’t recovered in polls.

She knows the rise is largely due to the Iran war and wholesale costs; so do the public of course, and the market.

And yet she persists in this puerile partisan gesture. Sleepwalking into irrelevance.

[D W Ball Project Man @DWBallProMan]

@ErfinderRotwang Probably more expensive than the cost of producing ourselves. Just quoting what keeps being reported. It’s also reported staff from Aberdeen who have lost jobs in the industry now fly to Norway so there’s also the environmental impact there not to mention lost tax revenue

[D W Ball Project Man @DWBallProMan]

@ErfinderRotwang Is it common sense both from an environmental point of view in terms of transportation and an economic standpoint to buy oil and gas from Norway at reportedly twice the price. ?

[D W Ball Project Man @DWBallProMan]

@ClassicalAegis Florence is such a beautiful city ❤️

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🚨 BLAIR BOMBSHELL: SCRAP NET ZERO NOW! “THERE’S NO LOGIC TO IT!” 🔥

Tony Blair Demands Starmer Scrap Milibands Mad Expensive Green Agenda Immediately‼️

Blair has just shredded mad Miliband and the entire net zero agenda. There’s zero logic to it!

Asked directly for total clarity: “For total clarity, are you advising Keir Starmer to rip up Ed Milibands green energy targets?”

Blair bluntly replied: “Yes I am!”

He explained that the 3 biggest emitters in the world today are China, America and India. Together they “account for just over 50% of global emissions.”

All are pursuing cheap energy. They still do renewable energy. “China for example builds more renewable energy than the rest of the world put together.” “It just means that the lens from which they judge policy is cheap energy.”

He rightly points out Britain’s emissions are “under 1% of global emissions” so we can’t solve climate change.

And says he “doesnt understand the logic behind” imposing costs on businesses and consumers to pursue net zero when the rest of the world is not doing so.

He says again he doesnt understand why we’re shutting down North Sea oil and gas industry in circumstances where no other country in the world is doing that if “they’ve still got a requirement to import energy from oil and gas”.

It costs way too much and “is not the right priority!”

Net zero is not saving the planet. It is economic self-harm. Blair has just blown the entire agenda apart.

[M.A. Rothman @MichaelARothman]

𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍 𝐏𝐀𝐘𝐒 𝐔𝐏 𝐓𝐎 £𝟏𝟕𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐀 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐅𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐖𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐒

Conservative MP 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐦 was asked on GB News about her colleague Helen Watley's call to ban benefit payments to men with multiple wives. The numbers Lam laid out are not a typo.

Four wives: £𝟕𝟖,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐚 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 in UK benefits. Eleven wives: 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 £𝟏𝟕𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐚 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫.

Lam didn't dodge: “𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘺𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴.”

Her conclusion was the obvious one. Taxpayers — people working forty-hour weeks — are funding the legally-impossible household structure of new arrivals, at six-figure rates per household. “𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨.”

𝐈𝐟 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐲𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐭.

𝘝𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 @𝘎𝘉𝘕𝘌𝘞𝘚

[D W Ball Project Man @DWBallProMan]

No wonder we are disenchanted with all current politicians. Does he seriously think if he comes on social media and slags another politician off, that we will want to vote for him 🤷🏼‍♂️. Does the lack of them telling us what they would do differently suggest they don’t have a clue

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

While Farage pockets millions as a "reward" for Brexit, the rest of us are left with soaring energy bills, political chaos and a broken economy.

He only cares about himself and his wealthy donors. It is up to all of us to make sure he never becomes prime minister.

[Selston FC @SelstonFC]

🔢 𝗦𝗙𝗖 𝟭𝟱𝟬 𝗖𝗟𝗨𝗕

A reminder to get your payments in for the May draw this coming Thursday.

We currently have three available numbers if you'd like to claim one and be in with a chance of winning up to £400 every month. Contact details below or drop us a message.

#SFC

[Selston FC @SelstonFC]

⚽️ 𝙁𝙊𝙊𝙏𝘽𝘼𝙇𝙇 𝘾𝘼𝙍𝘿 𝘿𝙍𝘼𝙒

The largest football card draw known to mankind that has been running most of the season was finally drawn at Presentation Day.

Take a look at the winners below. Massive thank you to everyone who entered! 💙

#SFC

[Selston FC @SelstonFC]

🗳 𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙎𝙀𝙉𝙏𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 𝘿𝘼𝙔 𝙍𝘼𝙁𝙁𝙇𝙀

Our huge raffle was also drawn at Presentation Day. See a list of all the winners below.

A big thank you to every person or company that donated a prize, and everyone who sold and bought tickets.

💙 #SFC

[Selston FC @SelstonFC]

🙋🏻‍♂️💁🏼‍♀️ 𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐈𝐓

Two of our junior teams are looking for players this coming season.

Interested? Drop them a message on the details below or a private message to our social media channels.

Please share.. #SFC