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[Andrew Neil @afneil]

UK energy policy just got even more bonkers:
The Burnham Government is considering investing billions of pounds in new facilities to import foreign LNG, even though it refuses to issue any new licenses for North Sea gas, which emits 3/4 times less CO2 than imported LNG. Madness.

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

Why the delay from Mr Burnham in agreeing the Jackdaw gas field? Replacing imported LNG with UK gas down a pipe cuts world CO 2. It brings extra tax revenue and well paid jobs to the UK. Not doing this is self harm on a big scale.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Stupid headline. Britain isn’t “running out of gas”.

What’s actually happening is even more ridiculous.

The government is deliberately driving down gas use under Net Zero… even though gas will be essential for heating, industry and electricity for decades!

the infrastructure needed for emergencies is commercially unviable. So obviously…

taxpayers have to spend £ BILLIONS subsidising gas storage and LNG backup… just in case the Net Zero bollocks leaves us short of gas 🤡

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

It now costs the UK government 5.8% to borrow money for 30 years, compared to less than 4% in 2022 when Labour attacked the rate rises. Labour’s high spend policies have driven our borrowing costs much higher. We will now face higher taxes to pay all the extra interest charged.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Look at the greedy colonialist Jews (in red) expanding into the small territory of the Muslims (in green). Remember, Israel is a colonizing project but Islam is a peaceful religion that did not spread via colonialism.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Wind providing a mere 3% of UK electricity this morning. So we’re having to import 10 times that amount at massive cost. Plus generate almost the same from gas-fired stations expensively kept for this sort of back up. As a result we’re paying an average £136/MWh. Our energy policy is a costly shambles.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

The income of Food Bank charity Trussell has ballooned almost 10-fold since 2018 to £63m, with the number of staff on over £60k rising from six to 190. Why, asks Mary Gilleece, when the number of food banks is unchanged?
https://t.co/e7PmkyCaxe

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Please remember:

When Islamic terrorists commit 48,000+ attacks in 70+ countries since 9/11 alone, not a single Muslim is to blame (including the terrorists themselves).

When Israel inadvertently kills innocent people whilst engaged in an existential war against maniacs, every single Jew is to blame including 3-year-olds in Australia and 90-year-olds in Lithuania.

Questions?

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

With green subsidies now accounting for three quarters of the price of electricity, the cost of Net Zero to the public is much higher than politicians are willing to admit, say Professor Gordon Hughes and Dr Lee Moroney.
https://t.co/3E7WPCCJP9

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

We need to end democracy in order to protect democracy.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

I'm in a pissed off mood. The more that I fight to wake people up, the more that I feel that we are being drowned by a tsunami of parasitic thinking and associated suicidal empathy.

[Shunya @Shunyaa00]

Sunny Islam, a practising Muslim, dragged young white girls and women off the streets of east London at knifepoint, bound them with plastic ties, and raped them to “teach them a lesson for being out late at night.”

He was given an indefinite prison sentence. The minimum term of 11 years expired in 2021. He will walk free in September.

One of his victims applied for the parole hearing to be held in public so the country could see how the system deals with men like him. The application was refused.

The reason given: the mere thought of a public hearing had caused Islam “a dramatic increase in his anxiety” and sleep disturbance.

Britain’s justice system and government care more about a rapist’s sleep than the lives of young girls and women.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The SNP runs into the Laffer Curve: its 48% top rate of income tax (NICs on top) results in £22m LESS in tax revenues.
Don’t they teach economics in the land of Adam Smith any more?
Or does left-wing virtue signalling — I’m ‘taxing the rich’ more than you — trump everything?

[Adam Smith Institute @ASI]

Since you mentioned the 1980s, @andyburnham, here’s a reminder of what was achieved:

• Top rate of income tax: 83% → 40%
• Savings income taxed at up to 98% in 1979 — surcharge abolished
• Basic rate: 33% → 25%
• Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)
• Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)
• Real take-home pay for the average earner: up by a third

• Right to Buy: over a million council tenants became homeowners
• Home ownership: 55% → 67%
• Individual shareholders: 3 million → 11 million — one in four adults

• Foreign holidays: roughly doubled
• Homes with a telephone: two-thirds → nearly nine in ten
• Pensioners’ average incomes: up around 30% in real terms
• Infant mortality: down almost 40%

• Real GDP: up by almost a third
• GDP per head outgrew France, Germany and Italy in the 1980s
• Manufacturing productivity: slowest growth in the G7 in the 1970s → fastest in the 1980s
• Self-employed: 1.9 million → 3.5 million
• Nissan to Sunderland, Toyota to Derby, Honda to Swindon
• Britain became a net oil exporter
• London restored as the world’s financial capital in 1986

• Budget surpluses three years running — Britain repaid debt, 1987–90
• National debt: 47% of GDP → 28%
• State spending: ~45% of GDP → ~39%
• The civil service: 732,000 → 565,000

• Corporation tax: 52% → 35%; the small firms’ rate: 42% → 25%
• Personal tax allowances: up more than 25% in real terms
• Higher rates of income tax: nine → one
• Death duties: fourteen rates → one
• Exchange controls scrapped after 40 years

• 40+ nationalised businesses privatised — 600,000 employees moved to the private sector
• The 33 big state industries: took ~£500m from taxpayers in 1980 → paid £8.4bn to the Exchequer by 1987
• British Steel: world-record loss-maker (1980/81) → £733m profit (1989/90)
• BT, 1984: the largest share offer the world had ever seen
• “Tell Sid” broke the record again in 1986
• British Airways: nationalised loss-maker → profitable, private, “the world’s favourite airline”
• The Channel Tunnel launched and entirely privately financed

Over to you.

[Eamonn Butler @eamonnbutler]

A reminder, Andy, of the Thatcher era:
•⁠ ⁠Income tax: 83% → 40%
•⁠ ⁠Basic rate: 33% → 25%
•⁠ ⁠Inflation: 21.9% peak (1980) → 2.4% (1986)
•⁠ ⁠Days lost to strikes: 29.5 million (1979) → 1.9 million (1990)
•⁠ ⁠Real pay for the average earner: up by a third

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

Why does he think Mrs Thatcher caused today’s problems when we have had 15 years of Labour governments under 3 PMs who made plenty of bad changes? Why did they remove the crucial Golden shares in our utilities put in to stop foreign takeover?

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

This is a shocker. A mother of three from Gaza who came to the UK as a refugee has just won a human rights challenge to bring in 18, yes18, of her relatives - both parents, a brother, his wife and four children, a sister and her four children and another sister, her husband and their three children.
None of them speak English and the mother only has room to house her parents with the rest taking up social housing away from British families.
Not to mention the the cost of the 18 filling our schools and NHS clinics.
Plus the signal it gives tens of thousands of Palestinian families that the UK courts are an easy touch and they should head here.
Another bloody awful and costly decision by our courts. Labour won’t do anything about it as they look on the people as Labour voters of the future.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Aren’t you the minister for safeguarding women against violence?
And you have to apologise for what you tweeted after a fellow female politician was violently murdered?
Isn’t that a resigning matter?

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

9 tweets today, one about f***** beavers.
Not one about Moroccans rioting, hurting police officers or intimidating women in London last night.

YOU ABSOLUTE FRAUD

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

Watch this.

We currently pay £1.5 billion a year to switch wind farms off when it's too windy.

Rachel Fletcher from Octopus Energy has just told Parliament that could soar to £10 BILLION by 2030.

Ed Miliband is writing cheques for wind farm developers before the grid can move their energy to where it’s needed.

This is a political choice and it is making electricity expensive.

Government needs to wake up to what their plans are doing to our energy prices and make electricity cheap.