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[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is government gaslighting to a high degree.
1. It’s not a new announcement. The Norfolk East and West offshore wind projects were announced earlier this year as part of the AR7 round of contracts.
2. No way does it bring down prices. Those behind it, energy giant RWE + global investors KKR, were guaranteed an above-market strike price of £91.20/MWh based on 2024 prices — indexed linked for 20 years. That guarantee is already worth £97/MWh in 2026. This is v expensive energy.
3. What is new is that the costs of developing offshore wind have soared. So the government has now had to chip in £1 billion of the £12 billion investment needed from the National Wealth [Destruction] Fund. So more state subsidy on top of the massive subsidies for two foreign companies implicit in the price guarantees embedded in AR7.
4. Far from cheaper electricity this embeds high-cost electricity in the system for 20 years.
5. So much for the Chancellor’s Budget pledge to ‘only build new projects when they lower prices’. This does the opposite — and at enormous expense to the taxpayer and electricity user.
Gaslighting indeed.

[Neal @NealFleming8]

@HumzaYousaf Get real. Glasgow is divided . Has been and always will be.

[Neal @NealFleming8]

@ABridgen How long before you get the ‘treatment of the cabal’ ? Look out.

[Neal @NealFleming8]

@garethicke What other news is being buried ?

[Neal @NealFleming8]

@FemaleActually @TRobinsonNewEra You miss the point that a car has hit pedestrians, instead you are the one rage baiting.

[Neal @NealFleming8]

@Fyrishsunset My question is this , what is being buried in the news whilst this is front page ? Moderna Ebola vaccine perhaps, just a guess.

[Neal @NealFleming8]

Last time I drove past this area all ground works were well underway. The size of 20 football pitches has been landscaped prior to drainage, cabling etc. It’s a done deal. Once again SNP are full of lies.

[Catherine McBride OBE @CeeMacBee]

For the many UK politicians @UKLabour and journalists @BBC who don't know anything about UK trade, here are the highlights:

1. The UK is now predominantly a service exporter. 57% of UK exports are services, which are not affected by EU 'red tape'.

2. UK goods exports have dropped from almost 70% of our total exports in 1997 to just 43% in 2025. This trend began long before Brexit and is tied to Net Zero mandates, high UK energy prices, and EV mandates.

3. Machinery and transport goods, such as cars and aircraft parts, are 42% of all UK goods exports. This is by far the UK's largest export sector, although it is also falling. It was 50% of UK exports in 2000. But if the UK joins the EU's CBAM, companies in this sector will see their imported material costs rise, making their exports even less competitive.

4. Chemicals are the UK's second-largest export sector. They account for 19% of UK goods exports, but this share is shrinking due to UK and EU energy costs and Net Zero regulations. These will increase if the UK joins the EU ETS.

5. Miscellaneous Manufactures account for 11% of UK goods exports. This is still the UK's third-largest export sector, even though it includes many goods the UK no longer makes because of our high Carbon taxes, which will increase if the UK signs up to the EU's even higher ETS on November 20th.

6. Fuels account for 9% of UK exports. This is still the UK's 4th largest goods export sector, even though the current and previous governments are/were trying to destroy it with bans on new exploration and ultra-high taxes.

7. Material Manufactures account for 8% of UK goods exports. This sector includes iron, steel, aluminium, ceramics, and glass manufacturing - industries that have gone, or are going, out of business in the UK because of high UK energy costs, which will rise if the UK joins the EU ETS.

8. These five sectors make up almost 90% of UK exports. The other 5 industry sectors are insignificant. But the government and our journalists think the UK is New Zealand and that the only goods we export are food and live animals to the EU. We don't! UK food and live animal exports to the EU were just 1.3% of the UK's total exports.

9. The government is about to sacrifice all of the export industries listed above to slightly reduce the IMPORT costs of a handful of Supermarkets, at least two of which are privately owned German companies.
These savings will not be passed on to UK shoppers because the government has also increased wages again, and supermarket energy costs will increase if we join the EU's ETS.

10. UK exports of food and live animals will not increase because we are paying farmers to not produce them, this has nothing to do with EU red tape. Instead we are paying farmers to plant trees and wildflowers or plaster their farmland with solar panels. (54% of UK electricity is coming from gas today, 12% from solar and 3% from wind.)

11. Write to your MP and tell him to #StoptheReset.
If you don't stop this, don't complain when all of our goods export industries have closed because of EU higher carbon taxes, EU higher carbon import tariffs, and the cost of complying with the EU's new packaging and process regulations.

[Neal @NealFleming8]

@Fyrishsunset Yup. A third of Scotland are stupid , bigoted, left wing thickos but the whole of Scotland pays the price.

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

The UK growth rate fell after we joined the EEC, slowed more when they imposed the single market on us, and slowed again in the EU after the 2008 banking crash. The proposed EU Re set will slow our growth further.

[Neal @NealFleming8]

@LonsdaleKeith Ban all overt religious symbols from the burka to the cross. Also , Speedo’s only in the swimming pool due hygiene.

[John Redwood @johnredwood]

EU re set will cost UK taxpayers more money, put up energy costs, burden businesses with needless extra rules, slash UK university income from EU students, give away fish we could land and invite in many more young people needing homes and jobs. Why do any of that?

[Neal @NealFleming8]

@JamesMelville It needs a station master. I volunteer.

[Neal @NealFleming8]

Grok Imagine prompt:

[Neal @NealFleming8]

@FinanceLancelot Keep it up.

[Neal @NealFleming8]

@thecoastguy @georgegalloway It’s a forced fear to make the electorate vote Labour. Too obvious.

[Cardiff Council @cardiffcouncil]

Tonight, Cardiff Castle will light up green to mark Dwarfism Awareness Day. 💚

The illumination celebrates diversity and helps raise awareness and understanding of dwarfism. https://t.co/26uce2dzLv

[Neal @NealFleming8]

@JohnHealey_MP @andyburnham Gobshite. Cancel Net Zero and cut benefits and lower taxes .

[Neal @NealFleming8]

@0xLofty My portfolio is northwards !