John Powell

Property developer & Residential Landlord. Family man who likes football, rugby and mountain biking.

[John Powell @Pow3y]

Penallta colliery closed 1991. Still standing.

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more.

This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead.

Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards.

What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning.

Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to.

I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Let’s pause net zero for a decade and see who cares about putting defence above Ed Miliband’s expensive energy obsessions.

[John Powell @Pow3y]

Tom Jones

[ຸLaura Bennett @NefflynB]

Aparentemente, si usas el cerebro derecho ves un conejo, y si usas el cerebro izquierdo ves una tortuga.

¿Qué ves?

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

At what point is a government held to account for not spending their tax payers money on things that improve the lives (or roads even) of the actual tax payer?

[John Powell @Pow3y]

What you doing Reporting live from the Chartist Bridge in Blackwood, thought you lived in Bath.

[Dan Thomas MS @DanWalesReform]

After a week of Reform winning big, the establishment are rattled.

So here’s the truth. 👇

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

They're still not listening 😂

[John Powell @Pow3y]

@ElectionMapsUK Why hasn’t Plaid got a candidate in Leeswood, Flintshire.

[John Powell @Pow3y]

@RedPillCzar Our rail network is a lot better than yours but most of the time it’s cheaper to take the car than catch the train.

[John Powell @Pow3y]

In the U.K. we pay $6.88 for the equivalent of a US gallon. £1.4 per litre x 3.785.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

The average price of gas in America is $2.82 per gallon.

There are 19 states where you can find gas under $2.

Here in Los Angeles, it’s over $4 and you get to step over homeless people while you fill up.

Californians are being ripped off.

This is theft.

[John Powell @Pow3y]

If you get the money you wouldn’t build new railway lines.

[Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Plaid_Cymru]

🤯 It can take 6 hours to travel across Wales by rail

Meanwhile, in England, billions are being spent on huge railway projects that Wales is effectively paying for and getting nothing in return

A Plaid Cymru government will fight for the money we are owed from Westminster 🏴󠁧

[Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Plaid_Cymru]

🤯 It can take 6 hours to travel across Wales by rail

Meanwhile, in England, billions are being spent on huge railway projects that Wales is effectively paying for and getting nothing in return

A Plaid Cymru government will fight for the money we are owed from Westminster 🏴󠁧

[Rush @exRAF_Al]

Glorious, this BBC hack, pontificating about net zero, gets annihilated by Guyana president Irfaan Ali. The UK was also once covered in forests which could have absorbed CO2 - but we chose to chop it down to build factories and ships.
https://t.co/mS4hnPFFzW

[Cardiff City FC @CardiffCityFC]

Two @CityHospitality tickets are up for grabs on Day 9️⃣ of Bluebirds Crimbo! 🥂

Like and re-post for your chance to win! 💙

#CityAsOne

[John Powell @Pow3y]

Uganda cut down trees to sell to China. Part of the deal is China pays Uganda to plant replacement trees, makes sense. Why are Welsh government paying Uganda to plant trees?

[John Powell @Pow3y]

Uganda is a big supplier of raw timber to China.

[DOGE Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💰 @SeneddWaste]

🚨SENEDD'S AFRICA TREE PLANTING SCANDAL CONTINUES🚨

After we exposed Senedd members wasted our cash planting trees in Uganda, one may have expected them to drop the project. But that would be wishful thinking. They've shamelessly doubled down and vowed to carry on. Disgraceful.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

@standunited Tapp doing better than I expected.

[John Powell @Pow3y]

I think that ship has sailed and won’t be coming back.

[Welsh Labour @WelshLabour]

A new chapter for Wales.

With Labour in Wales and Westminster, we have the partnership we need to keep changing lives for the better.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Of course there are British rapists. OBVIOUSLY. We all know that. That doesn’t mean we have to willingly import even MORE from the third world.

It is really not a complicated principle.

Sadly, we can’t deport the British ones. We can remove the foreign ones.

Let’s do that.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🤔

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Latest YouGov post-Budget poll: Labour’s general approval rating falls to minus 60 (12% approve, 72% disapprove). At this rate most Labour MPs and cabinet ministers will be out of a job come the next election.