Ed Donald

Scottish but heavily modified by a Welsh girl for over sixty years. Retired from the international construction industry. Just a sinner saved by grace.

[Ed Donald @EJSDonald]

@SqSehrish I don’t think your tweet makes much sense nor does my twin, he thinks you are talking twaddle, but I admit that he is a twat sometimes.
I’m just off to twist some twine around twigs before twilight.

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@sharrond62 @Lakesman5 Actually most of us are on METERS.

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@JamesMelville Thrawn
Moudiewort
Stovies
Glaikit
Sonsie
Minging
Lousin time
Haflin
Bridie
Garron

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@MariaCrouch18 @YossiBenYakar This march was perhaps aimed specifically at Muslims but it certainly was not aimed pacifically.

If you want to put a point to English people it is probably useful to learn the language first.

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@takeiteqsy @PolitlcsUK @thetimes And I’d take Keir over Kier and Wes.

[Alan @A1an_M]

If you've followed this account for a while, you'll know that when surveying the UK political landscape I reserve my deepest contempt for the Conservative Party.

You might wonder why that is. After all I'm a small c conservative. Patriotic, keen on the nation state, understanding the importance of law and order and strong armed forces ready to defend our nation. A fan of low taxes, low public spending and a balanced budget. On benefits, giving a hand up for people when they need it, not a handout. Keen to encourage the private sector and especially small businesses. Suspicious of state bureaucracy. Happy with a small amount of selective immigration of people who will add something to our society, not detract from it.

The problem is, the Conservative Party isn't any of these things any more.

You might say: "Ah, but the Labour Party are even worse". And they are. But I don't expect anything better from them. I expect better from the Conservative Party - because I am a conservative, and expect them to be too.

When Margaret Thatcher was in power, I was young and foolish and had all sorts of kind, but naive, liberal ideas. Decades have passed, and I have been cured of most of those, as a result of experiencing the world as it is rather than as I might like it to be. But just at the moment in time when I was ready to vote for a small c conservative party, the Conservative Party sailed past me in the opposite direction, en route to a kind of lily-livered, globalist, unpatriotic social democracy little different from the Blairite Labour Party.

Not only that but I've watched the Conservative Party for 14 years break its promises over cutting immigration, seen it doing its best to obstruct Brexit, seen it do nothing to reverse the worst mistakes of the Blair government and its march of cultural Marxists through our institutions, watch it increase the tax burden on us, deplete our armed forces (while at the same time getting us embroiled in wars which didn't concern us), fail to deliver energy security, and get us involved in all sorts of liberal virtue signalling about the climate and overseas aid. Practically the only thing I can think of that they did well is the school reforms they introduced, but even those were somewhat scuppered by shutting schools in 2020 to hide from a virus which wasn't even a deadly threat to most adults, never mind children.

So, when it comes to politics, I reserve my deepest hatred and vitriol for the Conservative Party. For 14 years of betrayal and broken promises. For failing to be the centre right party that Britain needed. For persuading Nigel Farage to stand down Brexit Party candidates in 2019 and then delivering a half-arsed Brexit, and an enormous wave of low skills immigration as a punishment for Brexit.

I'll be happy if the Labour Party withers and dies in the next few years, but I'll be absolutely over the moon if the Conservative Party dies - because they betrayed me and so many people who voted for them - and the death of the party will mean that can never happen again.

[Ed Donald @EJSDonald]

@TERRYSA01766532 @SJP74 @PolitlcsUK He is also a dimwit.

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@StevePaul63 @mattletiss7 I agree Steve, introduce another tax, that ought to solve it.

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

In 2016, South Australia learned what happens when a grid leans too hard on the wind.

The Aussie state led the world in renewable dependence, with about 40% of its electricity coming from wind.

Then a strong storm hit, and no less than nine wind farms cut their output, removing more than 450 megawatts in a matter of seconds.

That cumulative loss tripped the Heywood interconnector, and the entire state went dark - about 1.7 million people without power.

An official AEMO report found the sudden reduction in wind output was the key driver of the system collapse.

South Australia had to restart the grid using diesel black-start generators and gas power plants.

A weather-dependent grid died in seconds, and only fossil fuels brought it back.

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@Slfc05 @triffic_stuff_ I think they know it’s over as well.

[Net Zero Watch @NetZeroWatch]

The brilliant @KathrynPorter26 obliterates the myth of ‘free electricity’ with @FraserMyers for @spikedonline.

“It's very frustrating actually, to see people celebrating this… what it means is you're breaking the grid.”

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@StiffNips2 @Bumpydog3 @stuey_beef No, I think he messed around with pensions to.

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

The state pension is not a random government favour, it’s the back end of a 35–40 year compulsory “contract” where people are forced to hand over National Insurance on the clear promise of a basic pension at the end.

Politicians and think tanks helped design an unfunded, pay‑as‑you‑go system where today’s workers pay today’s pensioners, then have the gall to call it “unsustainable” as if the public dreamt it up.

If a private firm sold you a retirement product on fixed terms, took your money for four decades, then announced at 66 that you “didn’t really need it” and would henceforth be means‑tested or frozen, they would be in court for mis‑selling and fraud.

The crisis here is not pensioners “leeching off the young”, it’s a political class that built a Ponzi‑style NI system, diverted the proceeds for other spending, and now wants to default on the people who kept their side of the bargain.

You do not blame the victims of a defective product for believing the brochure; you go after the people who wrote it.

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@MattWardel @afneil I’m definitely panicing.

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@Jaswanarth @DPJHodges @narindertweets Who caned her in The Strangers Bar?

Just typical of the media, they never give masochists a fair crack of the whip.

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@emma_ese67 @PaulBrandITV Probably a word salad as well.

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Sarah Smith just said that the comments by our US ambassador were a diplomatic ‘SNAFU’!
Does she know what that means? 😊

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@StopEUOVERFISH @timmyvoe @YvetteCooperMP She has banned him as well.

[Orla Minihane @orlaminihane]

I had to share this. If you haven’t seen this lady in action - you soon will !!! What a legend!!! THIS is the passion and honesty we desperately need in British Politics!! @SorchaEastwood 🇬🇧 I solute you Sorcha !

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@maitlis @AllegroEddie Sir Olly Robbins said that his guiding principles came from two sources; the civil service code of conduct and the Book of Common Prayer. Both of which he had memorised.
Does anyone else prefer these to the Fabian Society and the playbook of Peter Mandelson?