Daddy Beans PhD

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! - Tom Lehrer 1928

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Really? Your lot didn’t show up to help until 1942, when we’d already repelled German efforts to invade in 1940. Maybe you should stick to the local politics of your own Florida backyard. You’re clearly out of your depth on historic and geopolitical matters.

[Daddy Beans PhD @NextGenBeans]

@garyseconomics has a misunderstanding of the fundamentals of the British tax system. Is this an indictment on the standard of education of @lsenews

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

So things are so bad after fewer than two years of Labour that we now face wartime price controls and rationing?! Policies introduced then when we faced genuine shortages of essentials. Is that where we’re heading again? If so, Labour is heading for the knackers yard, never to return.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Nice to hear from you, Andy. Thanks for the by election. We live for such things.
I’m in no doubt life is tough for lots of folk in Makerfield. But it’s hardly a poster child for urban squalor/deprivation.
Thatcher left power in 1990. She was followed by seven years of unThatcher Major and 13 years of Labour government, of which you were a part. So it’s quite a stretch to blame her for any continuing woes. Unless we blame Labour for failing to put anything right.
On the other hand the houses you were walking past were bought by the tenants under Thatcher’s right to buy scheme, which has given them some pride in place and some wealth they once could only have dreamt of accumulating.
I assume your pledge to ‘renationalise housing’ does not include taking these homes back into public ownership ... even if that would constitute a proper, radical reversal of the Thatcherism you’re (some what bizarrely) campaigning against.

[Daddy Beans PhD @NextGenBeans]

I've been trying to validate https://t.co/jxFQ7EFKZB I'm running an AdWords campaign that is getting a few impressions but not many clicks and I'm cold emailing but had no conversations. What are the best ways to validate?

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

🚨A teenage boat migrant rapes a girl then brags online she deserved it.

The judge’s sentence? Zero prison time — just “consent lessons.”

Sack this judge. https://t.co/AVZ5GiTC0s

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Thank you for your official endorsement, President Trump 🙏🙏🙏

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

A reminder of what wind power actually looks like...

We have 32 GW installed, hence the size of the scale on the y-axis

Over the weekend output fell to 0.6 GW - this happened overnight when demand was low but when solar output was zero - so functionally we had no wind or solar on the grid

The length of the lull when wind was below 3.2 GW (a tenth of the installed amount) was far longer than any battery can bridge)

THIS is why wind and solar do not provide energy security. In the winter periods of zero solar are longer and coincide with times of peak demand, not just for the day but for the year

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

This is Zack Polanski,

Zack regularly accuses the Right of being fascists.

Below is a video of Zack saying he wants to build a society which excludes half the population… because they don’t conform to his political ideology.

Zack is a fascist.
Keep this cretin out of power.

[THE GREEN PARTY EXPOSED @ExposedGreens]

🚨GREEN CANDIDATE: Mohammad Suleman.

Newcastle Greens Arthurs Hill candidate is a director of Fenham Properties Ltd.. convicted for environmental vandalism.

In Dec 2024 his firm burned waste in a skip at Grade II listed Pendower Hall to “cut costs”.

Council prosecuted: illegal waste disposal + operating without environmental permit.

Suleman admitted the offences. Company fined £8,500+ in June 2025.

Still their candidate for May 2026.

The Green Party … self-proclaimed champions of the environment … happily fielding a candidate whose company was guilty of illegal burning and pollution.

Peak hypocrisy from the environmentalists.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Islamic Republic of Iran has just been nominated to the UN Committee for Programme and Coordination to shape policy on women's rights, human rights, disarmament and terrorism prevention.
The British government, of course, did not object to Iran’s appointment — even though the Iranian regime has been massacring thousands and thousands of protestors this year.
At least it shows satire is not dead.
NEXT UP> Satan nominated to investigate sin.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

OMG still peddling this nonsense

Renewables are MORE EXPENSIVE than generating electricity with gas. You're literally celebrating the thing that causes us to have the HIGHEST electricity prices in the developed world

Did you ever listen to or read what the supplier CEOs told the DESNZ Select Committee last year? You really should...

Rachel Fletcher, Director of Regulation and Economics at Octopus Energy:

“…if we continue on the path that we are on right now, in all likelihood electricity prices for a typical customer are going to be 20% higher in four or five years’ time than they are now. That is even if wholesale prices halve…

The point is that the country as a whole at the moment is paying over £20 billion a year on its electricity bills for policy costs. The projections are that that is going to increase. That is one of the hundred pounds that will possibly be added to electricity bills on the current trajectory over the next four years. It is time that we got this burden under control,”

Simone Rossi, CEO at EDF UK:

“We can compare the cost to serve in France and the cost to serve in the UK. Per point of delivery, the cost to serve in the UK is about £100 per annum. In France, it is €45, which is half, more or less. It is actually less than half. This is not to do with the wholesale price or the gas marginal cost et cetera. It is driven by the fact that we have very complex regulation that has become stratified over the years….

we have in front of us a system where, even if the wholesale price were to halve, as she indicated, the bills will rise. There are two main drivers that we have in front of us in the growth of the bills. One is the demand reduction. We are building infrastructure as if there was more demand, but, in reality, there is less and less demand, so you have a bigger burden on smaller shoulders…”

Chris Norbury, CEO at E.On UK:

“if I look at the non-commodity costs—policy costs and network costs—certainly some of the modelling that we have suggests that you could get to a position by 2030 where, if the wholesale price was zero, bills would still be the same as they are today because of the increase in those non-commodity costs,”

Chris O’Shea, CEO at Centrica:

“When you look at what consumers pay, consumers do not actually pay the wholesale gas price for anything backed by a CfD. When people talk about getting the wholesale gas price down, that is quite a red herring. Consumers pay what the CfD price is. If the wholesale electricity price goes to a pound, the CfD will simply make that back up to the £75 per megawatt-hour or so that wind farms are getting at the moment,”

https://t.co/c9le1ssvcR

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

Predictably, recent events have caused @Ed_Miliband and others to start repeating the rubbish that renewables provide some sort of a hedge against "volatile" gas prices

Let's look at some data to show just how wrong this is...these charts prove that renewables are not an effective hedge against gas price increases since only when gas prices reach historic highs under crisis conditions are they higher than the cost of renewables

And of course, all of this simply looks at the wholesale price / subsidy impact. It ignores the other costs of renewables ie the higher grid infrastructure, grid balancing and backup costs of renewables

1. Total CfD payments (from the LCCC) - we
can see that only when gas prices reached
crisis levels in 2022 did generators repay
anything to consumers and it was small
compared with the money flowing to
renewables operators

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The lack of UK defence preparedness is now a national scandal.
We have five nuclear-powered Astute class subs (different from our subs armed with Trident nuke deterrent). A sixth is in trials.
They cost us £1.65billion a click.
Four have been in refit/maintenance/dry dock for a total of 3,500 days!!
The one we can deploy is in Oz.
I guess events in the Gulf came as a surprise to military planners.
Another triumph from the folks MoD folks who brought the British Army Ajax

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

@DaleVince Again it had to be refuted

Gas. Is. Not. To. Blame.

Gas prices have fallen massively since 2022 peaks but bills have not. Why... Because of net zero

If renewables are so cheap why is your green tariff higher than the price cap??

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Iranians celebrated in the streets following news of Khamenei’s death.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Labour is now so desperate to hold on to Gorton and Denton it’s slumped to outright misrepresentation.
Yes, Labour and Reform in this poll are on 28% and 27%, statistically nip and tuck. But somehow Labour omits to mention that the Greens are also on 28% so have as much chance of beating Reform as Labour. Maybe more.
Because Labour also omits to mention that among those most likely to vote the Greens are on 30%, Labour and Reform 28%.
The Kremlin would pay big money for this sort of misleading fake news. Labour: have thought of offering your services? You are good at it.
For those just interested in the truth:
1. Always beware of constituency polls in by elections.
2. This one has quite a small sample — just over 700 I think. So doubly beware.
3. That said this would seem to be an unpredictable three-horse race.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

@AvonandsomerRob You mean someone who was fined by HMRC for not paying the correct tax on their 3rd home. That sort of ordinary person?

[Daniel ShenSmith (BlackBeltBarrister) @dshensmith]

@zarahsultana @Prisoners4Pal @DefendOurJuries Not ALL charges were acquittals - as you well know. What of the police officer with a broken spine from the sledgehammer? Any words for her? Disgraceful MP

[Matt Gubba @MattGubba]

This is the Laffer Curve in real life.

Rachel Reeves hiked Capital Gains Tax, and CGT receipts fell by £1.4 billion.

Higher tax. Less revenue.

Investors aren't stupid. When taxes get too high, people change their behaviour: they delay sales, move money, or leave the country.

You don't get more revenue by punishing success. You get less.

Rachel Reeves doubled down on wealth taxes in the last Budget and promised it would "raise money." It didn't. It backfired.

This happens when ideology replaces basic economics: you kill investment, scare off capital, and the Treasury ends up poorer.

Britain doesn't have a tax collection problem; it has a tax policy problem.

For growth and revenue, reward people for investing. Don't chase them away.

Raise taxes too far and the money disappears. Every time.