Jonathan Edgar🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Family man. Work in aviation. Enjoy travelling 🇺🇸

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Another great early 2000’s mix from James Edgar

AR002 - DJ MIX 11/01 (Tracklist in description) https://t.co/4MRuD0fPVS via @YouTube

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Happy St George’s Day

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If you like a bit of early 2000’s house this is a great mix. Was it so long ago!

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AR001- DJ MIX 06/01 (Tracklist in description) https://t.co/JWE6orkaCz via @YouTube

[⚜️Statler Reimagined⚜️ @ElCapitan_Chaos]

Starmer in the Middle East peace talks

[Britain's Lost & Living Pubs @Britains___Pubs]

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[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Unrealized gains tax for Gen-Z:

You buy a Pokémon card for $50.

Someone offers you $500 for it. You say no. You love that card. You're keeping it.

The government says: "Cool, but that card is worth $500 now. You owe us $100 in taxes."
You: "…I didn't sell it."

Government: "Don't care. Pay up."

You don't have $100 lying around. So you're forced to sell the card you love just to pay a tax on money you never received.

Next month? That card drops back to $50.

Your card is gone. Your money is gone. And the government shrugs.

That's a wealth tax on unrealized gains. They don't pay you back the tax...

Now picture this.

Your mom calls you crying. She has to sell the house she raised you in. Not because she can't afford it. She's lived there 30 years. It's paid off.

But some website says it's worth more now and the government says she owes $15,000 she doesn't have.

So she sells your childhood home. The kitchen where she made you breakfast. The doorframe where she marked your height every birthday.

Gone.

To pay a tax on money that was never real.

Now picture the opposite.

Your dad put everything into his small business. For 20 years he built it from nothing. One year the business is "valued" at $2 million on paper. He owes a massive tax bill. He empties his savings. Sells his truck. Borrows money. Pays it.

Next year the market crashes. His business is worth $200,000.

He lost everything to pay a tax on a number that doesn't exist anymore.

Does the government give him his money back?
No.

Does the government give him his truck back?
No.

Does the government care?
No.

They sold this idea as "taxing billionaires." But billionaires have armies of lawyers, offshore accounts, and trusts. They'll be fine.

You know who won't be fine? Your mom. Your dad. Your neighbor with a small business. The farmer down the road who's had the same land for four generations and now has to sell it because dirt got expensive.

You're not taxing wealth. You're taxing people for owning things.

It's like getting a parking ticket for a car you might drive somewhere someday.

They want you to own nothing and be happy. To fund the fraud, waste and abuse of the welfare state they created.

There is enough money. More tax isn't needed. It's all a lie. But you've been gaslit into believing this is a rich vs poor debate.

I hope you understand what's at stake.

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@Skyebrows Only found out today that it was available on iTunes. Got it straight away. Bloody fantastic tune. Thanks Skye.

[A View From Yorkshire @models_by_Russ]

The BBC Doesn’t Want Viewers — It Wants Hostages

So let me get this straight.

I pay Netflix for Netflix.
I pay YouTube for YouTube.
I do not watch the BBC.

And yet the BBC still thinks it has a divine right to rummage around in my wallet?

This isn’t public service broadcasting anymore.
It’s institutional arrogance wrapped in nostalgia.

The licence fee was built for an age of three channels, static screens and enforced national attention.
That world is dead. Buried. Gone.

Instead of competing like everyone else, the BBC’s response to losing relevance is essentially:

👉 “If people won’t choose us, we’ll force them.”

Charging people because they watch Netflix or YouTube isn’t modernisation —
it’s a state-backed shakedown.

And what really grates?
The moral superiority.

This organisation still talks down to the public like it’s the nation’s conscience, while repeatedly failing to get its own house in order.
Maybe before demanding more compulsory cash, it should stop posturing as the moral compass of Britain and start asking some very hard questions about itself.

How many scandals does it take?
How many internal failures quietly managed, minimised, or brushed aside?
How many times does the public have to be told “lessons have been learned” before trust is completely gone?

You don’t get to lecture the country, alienate huge swathes of the audience, pump out bias, repeats and self-regard…
…and then demand payment from people who’ve actively walked away.

That’s not public service.
That’s monopoly thinking on life support.

Imagine Tesco billing you because you shopped at Aldi.
Imagine Spotify invoicing you because you bought a CD.
You’d call it insane — because it is.

If the BBC’s content is good, people will pay voluntarily.
If they won’t, you don’t get to threaten, guilt-trip, or criminalise them for refusing.

The future is choice.
The BBC hates choice — because choice exposes irrelevance.

No more reverence.
No more compulsory funding.
No more pretending this is about anything other than control.

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Amelia🇬🇧

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Modern UK Schools 🤣🇬🇧

Watch till the end👏👏👏

[Kathy Gyngell @KathyConWom]

Dear @bbclaurak,

On your show, Chris Packham repeated the false claim that the sooner we get most of our electricity from renewables the better because it will be cheaper. That is wrong, not least because solar and wind intensity can be negligible for two or three weeks a year, when conventional power generation plant must be available to keep the lights on. Conventional power plant does not need such back-up.

Try adding the capital, operation, maintenance and replacement cost of that back-up power plant to that of solar and wind to get the correct total. At around £5billion per GW, that would incur a further £200billion of capital. But sadly there was no one on your programme to challenge Mr Packham’s narrative, so here are some facts that you should feed back to him and to your viewers.

In September 2024 the Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero said that bill payers ‘are to spend between £100 and £150 per household on new wind turbines’. But at £2.7 and £1.2billion/GW respectively, the capital cost of wind capacity, would be well over £200billion. That equates to more than £7,000 per household, ie around £700 per household pa over ten years, plus the cost of subsidies, but that was not challenged by the BBC.

So far this century, over £200billion in green levies has been paid out (more than £6,000 per household) to promote solar and wind energy. Any further efficacy improvements will be marginal and throwing further subsidies at the technology is not likely to reduce costs much further. It will just drive even more UK industry to the likes of China, thereby accelerating global emissions.

You clearly failed to notice that wind turbine Capacity Factors (CFs) have recently been reduced from 61 per cent to 43.6 per cent for Offshore and from 48.7 per cent to 33.4 per cent for Onshore wind farms. As a result the energy delivered by the 86 and 36 GW of UK wind farms planned for 2035 will be about 30 per cent less than expected, down from 611 to 433TWh (the CF is a measure of the Average Power Produced in GW divided by the rated power).

Assuming an average cost of 25p per kWh, the value of the shortfall of around 180TWh is around £45billion pa, ie around £1,500 per household. That shortfall could be plugged by an extra 20 and 35 GW of Off/Onshore wind farm capacity at £2.7 and £1.5billion per GW, totalling about £110billion more in capital cost, ie well over £3,000 per household.

Added to that is the cost of 3,000 miles of vulnerable offshore submarine cable connections, plus 600 miles of HV overhead lines, along with substation costs, which together will add more than £3billion to the capital cost of wind farms. That neglects the extra transmission power losses and the eye watering subsidies, which have been rising year on year, now comprising around 30 per cent of electricity costs.

Of course wind farms are not maintenance free and assuming £50million/GW pa, the Operation and Maintenance (O&M) cost for 135GW of wind capacity the O&M cost equates to more than £6billion pa. The wind turbines have to be replaced at intervals of around 20 years (gearboxes more often) and their energy output will never be free. You will also need to grasp the causes of the Iberian power failure to see that our grid is not left unfit for purpose by ideological forces.

In case you missed it, the capital plus the O&M cost of the backup power capacity, will need to be added to the cost of wind and solar. If your verifying department needs any help in scrutinising this information, then please let me know.

Regards,

Roger J. Arthur, CEng, MIEE, MIET.

https://t.co/owhdxfFXQf

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Interesting to watch from the outside.
Efforts to make the BBC live up to its duty of impartiality (on Trump, Transgender issues, Gaza et al) are met with the BBC unleashing its flagship @BBCr4today show + allies elsewhere in the Left media to smear it all as an ‘attempted right-wing coup’ of the BBC (which only proves even the BBC is not immune to ridiculous conspiracy theories).
If efforts to improve impartiality (without which there is no future for a publicly-funded BBC) = right-wing coup in the eyes of leading BBC editors and journalists then the impartiality deficit is even more systemic/fundamental than Michael Prescott’s damning report on BBC bias indicated.

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@PatrickChristys That’s wonderful.

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Rift #music https://t.co/t0siBHG9UU via @YouTube

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

Actually Ed. You’re out of date with your smears. “Far-right extremism” is a little yesterday.

Today’s ‘all the rage’ smear is “terrorism”.

And apparently that’s what buying a ticket on the day, driving a nice car & refusing to give police your PIN number allegedly is..

🤯🤦🏼‍♀️

Instead of rocking forward & back chanting “far-right” every time Tommy Robinson crosses your mind, you might like to instead push back against egregious State over-reach…

Just a thought 🤷‍♀️

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

By long a long way this should be the most important story of the day & possibly of the year. A minister lied to the house to obscure the fact that the Labour go’t deliberately collapsed a treason trial in order not to offend China, which had been caught red-handed spying on us.

[MinistryofWit @MinistryofWit]

#littlepolitics #clowningstreet Farage and Lammy, Labour and Reform at it again!

[Crewkerne Gazette @CrewkerneGaz]

Very Britcard Problems.

Very 1984, lots of Daleks - this is Labour’s Britain. 😡