John Souter

[John Souter @JohnBSouter]

Every politician should be required to watch this over and over until they understand, no matter how long it takes. For ever, if necessary.
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https://t.co/cDSmwJGsWV via @YouTube

[John Souter @JohnBSouter]

Madness!

[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

A hundred jobs. That is the permanent number, buried in the National Wealth Fund's own release under the phrase "over 100." The 2,300 is job-years across a supply chain while it is built.

The £12 billion is not the government's. RWE is German, KKR is American private equity, and they own the two projects fifty fifty. The state put in £1 billion, which is debt, sitting inside a £13 billion facility alongside thirty five international banks. Lending. It buys no share of the turbines and no share of the output. Three million homes is nameplate capacity, not delivery, and not before 2030.

Nor is any of this new. The consents were held, the seabed rights granted, the subsidy won in January at £91.20 a megawatt hour, index-linked, for twenty years. RWE bought the sites from Vattenfall in March 2024. Today the financing was signed. Financial close is the least newsworthy moment in a project's life, which is why it has been dressed as a triumph.

Power under British control, says the Prime Minister. German owners, an American fund, thirty five banks, and a guaranteed price underwritten by British bill payers.

[Felicity Campbell @feli_campbell]

I have absolutely no idea why my timeline is completely ignoring the suspension of Labour MP Perran Moon today. He was just caught trying to dissolve his private company without paying back a £50,000 taxpayer-funded Covid loan. Right as this government prepares to hammer ordinary families with tax hikes in the Budget.

Here is what they desperately hope stays quiet!🧵

[John Souter @JohnBSouter]

So clueless they are having their pockets picked by consultants!

[June Slater @juneslater17]

The Mayor of Britain has outsourced his 10 year plan to a profit driven US consultancy firm. 🤦🤦🤦

The man told us he was going to end outsourcing and end 40 years of neoliberalism.

Now Boston Consulting Group are in No10 writing his big plan for the country.

Government says "it's only one consultant".
We pay taxes for a government not a consultancy !

It's the same gravy train with a different tie on.

It stinks. Rudderless and inept, just .
25,000 people in Makerfield gave us this, thanks a bunch!

[TR @Tony_Royle]

The insanity rumbles on ... different clown, same relentless net zero bullshit.

I can picture the conversation at Number 10 when the UK is battered by the next severe winter blizzard:

PM: How's the grid holding up, chaps?

Miatta: Not too well, I'm afraid Prime Minister.

PM: What about all those bloody windmills we built?

Miatta: Had to turn them off, sir .... it's too windy.

PM: Damn, good job we turned all our green fields into solar farms then, eh?!

Miatta: umm ... it's dark outside, sir, we have no solar. Oh, and apparently they won't work much at all even during the day until we clean off all the ice and snow.

PM: So where is all the power coming from then?

Miatta: well a few of the nuclear, oil, and gas plants we are allowing to fall into disrepair are still working 24/7 flat out, and, umm, ... from Norway.

PM: How does Norway have spare power to give us?

Miatta: well, umm, they are not exactly giving it to us ... umm ... they are using the cheap and abundant oil in the North Sea that we are not extracting and using it to help generate power to sell back to us at a huge profit when we are desperate.

PM: What's your PhD in again?

Miatta: Economics, sir ...

PM: What about the guy we picked before you to be the energy expert?

Miatta: Economics as well, sir ...

PM: So, do you in fact know anything at all about power generation and grid integrity?

Miatta: No, sir, but I can work out how much importing energy at premium rates is costing the British taxpayer ... and the cost to the economy of a complete weather shutdown due to no grid power.

PM: Remind me again why we built all the windmills and solar thingies ...

Miatta: Those guys at the UN and WEF told us we had to be the world leaders in the net zero fraud ... or else ...

PM: Ah, yes, now I remember, Mr S told me about that during our handover ... do the net zero thingy or they will tell the world about blah, blah blah ... So, everything is going to fine then!

Miatta: Well, not exactly, sir ... the Norweigians have decided they need their own power to keep their own grid running.

PM: What about the French?

Miatta: I did ask sir but they really don't like us because of the illegal migrant stuff we are running out of their coastal towns.

PM: So, you're saying the lights are going out shortly?

Miatta: yes ... umm ... and everyone's heating ... we banned the wood burning thingies and converted everyone from gas you remember ... and their electric cars won't work ... nor will our electric ambulances, fire engines, buses, lorries, or the trains ... and people won't be able to cook stuff ... and the water supply might freeze in some places ...

PM: yea, yea, yea, but apart from those minor inconveniences, I can go on TV now and reassure the voters that our energy policy makes sense, and announce we are building even more windmills in the sea ... yay!

Miatta: well you could do ... apart from all comms will be down shortly as well, sir

PM: ... apart from ours, of course?

Miatta: oh, yes, sir, we will continue to have all facilities due to the back up diesel generators we are allowed to have ... you won't notice any difference apart from a brief blink of the lights ... it's only the voters who will lose everything and maybe freeze or starve to death.

PM: Great! Put the kettle on ... us northerners love a hot brew in a blizzard!

[John Souter @JohnBSouter]

Madness all around us.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

The EU Reset is insane

Making your food more expensive for the benefit of foreigners.

[John Souter @JohnBSouter]

More madness! Why hasn’t the Chief Constable resigned in disgrace?

[The English Crusader @andrewc44104127]

🚨TWO TIERED POLICING

This is Emily Geer. She captured her own assault on camera and handed it to Greater Manchester Police, only to be told officers dropped the case because the suspect simply ignored their letters and knocks at his door.

Emily Geer, 33, was walking along Oxford Road on her way to study at the University of Manchester when she noticed a man following her and another woman.

When the man kept stopping and looking back at her, the Master's student started filming on her phone and asked him why he was staring.

The video footage captured the man appearing to lash out and strike her.

Emily handed the video over to Greater Manchester Police immediately, gave a full statement from her home, and received a crime reference number.

Officers initially told her they were pleased with the footage and spoke positively about the evidence.

Yet seven months later, Emily received a text message from the investigating officer confirming the entire case had been closed with no further action taken.

The force explained that they had tried to set up a voluntary interview without arrest, but the suspect refused to engage with letters, phone calls, or visits to his house.

Officers then requested his arrest, but told Emily that "ongoing operational demand and resource pressures" meant those attempts were limited and unsuccessful.

The six-month statutory time limit to prosecute the offence then ran out, forcing police to shut down the file entirely.

Emily says the decision has left her terrified because the man knows she tried to have him arrested and still frequents the area.

"It just seems as though they have just given up," she said.

Greater Manchester Police admitted the case fell short of acceptable standards, stating: "We acknowledge that in this case, the investigation fell short of the standards our communities should expect. Learnings will be taken from it to ensure that investigations are progressed quickly to ensure the best possible outcome for victims."

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Peak Marie Antoinette from Miatta;

“Let them pay £300 a month energy bills while I commission more heavily-subsidised “cheap”windmills and count myself virtuous.”

British people need to call time on this elite fantasy.

[John Souter @JohnBSouter]

Sleaze all round Burnham. This has to be his downfall, eventually…

[ben rose @benrose1976]

So how did a property adviser end up posting about Andy Burnham and Abu Dhabi?

All we wanted was a planning permission.

It took Manchester City Council over nine years to give us one. In that time Renaker put up about a dozen towers, seven of them around our site.

My client has owned a site on Great Jackson Street in Manchester for 40 years. In October 2017 we started work on planning for 1,037 flats there. We are Manchester born and bred. Friends in London warned us that development in Manchester was "the Wild West". We didn't know how right they were.

We were told we had to provide £28.8m of affordable housing. So we asked what Renaker's Deansgate Square next door had paid. The answer:- Nothing. Zero. Nada. Zip. 1,508 flats and no section 106 agreement at all. Nobody at Manchester City Council could explain why. On four Renaker schemes MCC has "lost" the viability files.

We were told we had to pay just over £1m as an upfront payment. Exactly £1,000 per flat. Across 20 Renaker towers and 8,543 homes, Manchester City Council took just £487,000. That is £57 a home.

So we kept looking. We found £598m of public loans from Andy Burnham's GMCA to Renaker. Add in the other public sources and it is £868m, to companies controlled by one man. None of these loans were ever publicised and the loan terms remain almost entirely hidden.

It took nearly four years just to get to the planning committee. Over nine years on, nothing is built.

We then asked MCC for permission to knock down our own empty warehouses. It refused, giving ten flimsy reasons. So off to court we went. In January 2026 a High Court judge rejected all ten and held that MCC had "acted unreasonably". That case cost MCC over £200,000 of public money. And for what?

My client also owns the main Royal Mail depot on Oldham Road. MCC has since told us that land sits inside its joint venture with Far East Consortium. It has kept over a third of that agreement hidden, including the plan, and won't show it to us. Why?

So we carried on asking questions.

Then they blocked my emails.

We never set out to investigate anyone. We asked one question, got no answer, and kept digging.

We still are.

#ProjectCleanCity
@SianReform @NathanEvansTeam @JoshHalliday @rbrooks45 @DeclanGCarey @jackdulhanty

[Enough’s Enough @Enoughsenough00]

🚨Shareholder-Owned National Grid’s £50bn Debt Already Being Loaded Onto Household Bills While Investors Profit

On Wednesday in Parliament, Andy Burnham claimed he is “acting to get people’s energy bills down.”

The claim is a glaring contradiction of what is happening in reality.

National Grid is owned by private shareholders and institutions. It has built up £48.6bn of debt—on track for £60-70bn by 2031—largely to deliver the government’s Net Zero grid upgrades now underway.

The costs of that borrowing, plus the returns paid to shareholders, are already being recovered through higher energy bills which are set to continue rising.

The company calls the debt necessary and secure. In reality the structure shields investors from risk while ordinary households fund the entire programme.

UK law even allows government financial support if the company later runs into serious trouble.

It is a perfect racket: private investors collect the returns, the government claims the green targets, and ordinary households are left to pay the bill with no escape — while Andy Burnham stands in Parliament and insists he is cutting energy bills.

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Did she ever protect a woman?

[Andrew Montford @aDissentient]

5⃣Here are the assumptions.

[Andrew Montford @aDissentient]

4⃣So much for the government bringing bills down.

[Andrew Montford @aDissentient]

3⃣Because we face increasing curtailment due to system imbalances (as opposed to grid constraints), a 40% lifetime capacity factor is probably very optimistic. That being the case, the fuel savings would be even lower.

[Andrew Montford @aDissentient]

2⃣That will save 20TWh of gas at a thermal efficiency of 48%. At a lifetime average price of 100p/therm, that's a saving of £695m. So the consumer is out of pocket by £405 million per year.

[Andrew Montford @aDissentient]

1⃣I did some rough sums on Mad Miatta's new windfarms. I reckon at lifetime average 40% capacity factor they will generate, each year, 9.8TWh at a cost of £1.1 billion (excluding financing).

[John Souter @JohnBSouter]

Just when you thought that Labour politicians could get any fouler - I give you Bridget Phillipson! 🤮🤡🤮🤡🤮

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

It takes astonishing gall for Bridget Phillipson to lecture anyone on financial integrity and political sleaze.

This is the very same Cabinet minister who had her lavish 40th birthday bash funded by a £14,000 cash handout from Lord Alli, happily pocketed VIP concert freebies, and defended it on national television while Starmer was quietly trying to repay his.

Labour spent years moralising from opposition, only to walk into government and immediately hand party mega-donors unrestricted Downing Street passes in exchange for designer suits, penthouse holidays, and luxury events.

While she wages ideological class warfare on working parents by taxing education, and ignores tens of millions in squandered public funds right across the country, she spends her afternoon running PR deflection on X.

Bridget, before you preach about donors and ethics, remind the electorate who picked up the tab for your birthday party.

[Enough’s Enough @Enoughsenough00]

🚨Burnham Promised to Deport Rochdale Gang Leader Before Becoming PM – 132 Days Later He’s Still Here

On 1 July, before he became Prime Minister, Andy Burnham said “nothing is off the table” to deport Shabir Ahmed, the Rochdale grooming gang leader convicted in 2012 of raping girls as young as 12.

One hundred and thirty-two days later Ahmed remains in Britain under a 1971 law, and Burnham’s spokesman admits there is still “no update.”

The promise that helped him win power remains completely unfulfilled, leaving a convicted dangerous sexual predator free to live in and roam the streets of the UK.

[Ramon Agusta @ramonagusta]

THE MAKERFIELD COUP

1. He wasn't even an MP until weeks beforehand.
2. The normal sequence was extraordinarily compressed.
3. The public didn't elect him Prime Minister.
4. His immediate political mandate was peculiar.
5. He arrived with unusually little recent Westminster policy exposure.

... but the really strange part:

It's not that Britain got a PM without a general election. That's quite normal constitutionally. Major, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak all initially became PM without winning a general election as leader.

What's exceptional is the speed and route:

Mayor of Greater Manchester → parliamentary candidate → wins one by-election → Labour leader → Prime Minister, **all within a matter of weeks**.

Highly suspicious.

The sudden "getting closer to EU" is the key clue.

Who enabled his rise? Who funded the troops to get him where he is now? What does he owe these masters?

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Ahhh, if he’d kept to that there would much less ground for complaint. The planet is warming. Global temperatures are rising and there has been ice and glacier loss. My point is not to deny that. It is the catastrophism I object to. You’ve whitewashed it out of the script. Gore specifically claimed:
Kilimanjaro: "within the decade, there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro." Wrong.
An ice-free Arctic: the film suggested Arctic summers could be ice-free within years; in 2009 Gore talked of a 75% chance within five to seven years. Wrong
A 20-foot sea-level rise: Gore presented this as what would happen if Greenland or West Antarctica melted. He implied it was close at hand. In fact sea level has risen about 4 inches since 2006.
Hurricanes: after Katrina, he implied more frequent and stronger storms. There's no clear trend in the number of hurricanes or their total energy.
You also mention coral. Again the picture is mixed. I refer you to the Great Barrier Reef.
As for polar bears — more now than when Gore made his film.
It is for all these reasons and more that in 2007 the High Court (in Dimmock v Secretary of State) ruled the film could be shown in schools only with guidance notes. The judge found it broadly accurate on the main science but identified nine errors or exaggerations, including Kilimanjaro, the timing of the sea-level rise, Katrina and polar bears drowning.

[John Souter @JohnBSouter]

This!

[Felicity Campbell @feli_campbell]

Over the last week, millions of people read my posts exposing how the British entertainment industry covered for Russell Brand and David Walliams. Today, the sheer hypocrisy just shifted from the television studios straight into Downing Street.

Andy Burnham and Lisa Nandy have proudly announced they are hauling senior media executives into a government summit to put a stop to abuses of power.

They want you to believe the political class is finally stepping in to clean up a rotten industry.

So, look at the exact historical record Labour is desperately trying to rewrite right now.

The very politicians staging this moral intervention are the same people who spent a decade aggressively courting these exact predators for political clout.

Ed Miliband literally went to Russell Brand’s flat in 2015 to beg for his endorsement on camera. Andy Burnham was posting public support for him online. David Walliams was a celebrated Labour insider until the party quietly suspended him five minutes ago to save face.

Downing Street is now sending out spokespeople to claim it was a long time ago and nobody in politics knew what was happening behind closed doors. It is a complete insult to the public's intelligence.

Westminster and the media establishment shared the exact same VIP green rooms, the same lavish charity galas, and the same open secrets.

The political class happily turned these men into untouchable cultural idols because it generated cheap youth votes and favorable headlines.

Burnham hauling TV executives into a government meeting today is not an act of moral leadership. It is a panicked political cartel coordinating their alibis.

I'm sorry but they are not convening these summits to protect young women. They are doing it to protect themselves before the public realizes the politicians enabled the exact same monsters.