SamTrouble

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

I need the government to lock up criminals, defend the nation, build infrastructure, collect the bins, and a few other services - basic research etc. I’m not an anarchist or anything.

What I don’t need from the government is moral instruction. I don’t need them to tell me how to raise my kids. I don’t need them to nudge me into better dietary choices. I certainly don’t need them hamfistedly backdooring my devices to check I’m not doing anything they don’t like.

GTFO of my life, thank you. You’re not smarter than me, you aren’t qualified to manage me, please leave me alone.

[SamTrouble @TroubleOnTrend]

@ECOWARRIORSS

[SamTrouble @TroubleOnTrend]

@PolitlcsUK COBRA stands for
Cabinet
Office
Briefing
Room
A
So whilst it sounds impressive what he has actually 'done' is have a meeting in the big meeting room at which an admin took notes.
The 'action' will be a statement then lots of talk about hate speech or banning knife sales.

[SamTrouble @TroubleOnTrend]

@MarkHeath45 @CommunityNotes

[Mark Thompson @METhompson72]

If you were to create list of people in the UK who really understand metal supply and demand, have built mines, know commodity economics, large scale industrial investment, project feasibility, permitting, development and finance: then it would not be a long list, but my name would be on it.

For all of the people who know that electricity is the future and that hydrocarbons are dying, that we don't need diesel, or gas, or liquid fuels:

Tell me where the copper is coming from.
Now do silver, tin, lithium and batteries.
For those of you say the future is nuclear, tell me where the uranium is coming from.
Tell me what price these would be at, and when it could be delivered.
Tell me how you are going to build grid resilience and more importantly grid inertia from renewables.
Tell me what your plan is for windless, cloudy days in the middle of winter.
Tell me what you will do to decommission and replace wind and solar every 10 to 20 years - and where you will dump all those unrecylcable turbine blades.

For every GW of renewables we have to build a GW of conventional back-up, or rely on the kindness of foreigners.

There is no magic metal shop.

There is no new physics that makes a 100% renewables grid work.

The greatest threat to humanity is not global warming, it is energy poverty.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

1. The price cap is not a response to the war in Iran. It existed anyway (based on incorrect analysis by the CMA)

2. If you cared about the cost of living you would...

(i) lift the drilling ban and cancel the EPL.
And create incentives for opening new fields ASAP

(ii) call for gas companies and suppliers to import on long term fixed price contracts rather than doing everything on a just in time basis

(iii) cancel the RO, AR7 and future renewables auctions until prices are under control

(iv) abolish carbon taxes... They serve no purpose and just make energy expensive and industry uncompetitive

(v) cut the fuel duty... Half the pump price of petrol is tax. It's greedy profiteering by the government

But you won't because you actually care more about your net zero ideology than the cost of living or anything else

[Lucy Connolly @LucyTCWife]

But remember our Prime Minister and our Attorney General knew nothing of my case!!

Funny because on the 10th of August, a day after I was remanded in custody and refused bail the Attorney General signed off my prosecution.

No wonder the CPS tried to tell me all information on me had been destroyed.

[Graham Linehan @Glinner]

You fight to chemically castrate gay teens because Ferring Pharmaceuticals gave the @LibDems £1.5 million to do so. You're trying to shut Elon Musk up to cover up the child abuse you're complicit in. We see you, @EdwardJDavey

[Andrew Bridgen @ABridgen]

These are the words of the first 16 scientists of 46 that have left the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) due to the corruption of science within the organisation.

Dr Robert Balling: The IPCC notes that “No significant acceleration in the rate of sea level rise during the 20th century has been detected.” This did not appear in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers.

Dr Lucka Bogataj: “Rising levels of airborne carbon dioxide don’t cause global temperatures to rise…. temperature changed first and some 700 years later a change in aerial content of carbon dioxide followed.”

Dr John Christy: “Little known to the public is the fact that most of the scientists involved with the IPCC do not agree that global warming is occurring. Its findings have been consistently misrepresented and/or politicized with each succeeding report.”

Dr Rosa Compagnucci: “Humans have only contributed a few tenths of a degree to warming on Earth. Solar activity is a key driver of climate.”

Dr Richard Courtney: “The empirical evidence strongly indicates that the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis is wrong.”

Dr Judith Curry: “I’m not going to just spout off and endorse the IPCC because I don’t have confidence in the process.”

Dr Robert Davis: “Global temperatures have not been changing as state of the art climate models predicted they would. Not a single mention of satellite temperature observations appears in the IPCC Summary for Policymakers.”

Dr Willem de Lange: “In 1996 the IPCC listed me as one of approximately 3000 “scientists” who agreed that there was a discernible human influence on climate. I didn’t. There is no evidence to support the hypothesis that runaway catastrophic climate change is due to human activities.”

Dr Chris de Freitas: “Government decision-makers should have heard by now that the basis for the long-standing claim that carbon dioxide is a major driver of global climate is being questioned; along with it the hitherto assumed need for costly measures to restrict carbon dioxide emissions. If they have not heard, it is because of the din of global warming hysteria that relies on the logical fallacy of ‘argument from ignorance’ and predictions of computer models.”

Dr Oliver Frauenfeld: “Much more progress is necessary regarding our current understanding of climate and our abilities to model it.”

Dr Peter Dietze: “Using a flawed eddy diffusion model, the IPCC has grossly underestimated the future oceanic carbon dioxide uptake.”

Dr John Everett: “It is time for a reality check. The oceans and coastal zones have been far warmer and colder than is projected in the present scenarios of climate change. I have reviewed the IPCC and more recent scientific literature and believe that there is not a problem with increased acidification, even up to the unlikely levels in the most-used IPCC scenarios.”

Dr Eigil Friis-Christensen: “The IPCC refused to consider the sun’s effect on the Earth’s climate as a topic worthy of investigation. The IPCC conceived its task only as investigating potential human causes of climate change.”

Dr Lee Gerhard: “I never fully accepted or denied the anthropogenic global warming concept until the furore started after NASA’s James Hansen’s wild claims in the late 1980s. I went to the [scientific] literature to study the basis of the claim, starting with first principles. My studies then led me to believe that the claims were false.”

Dr Indur Goklany: “Climate change is unlikely to be the world’s most important environmental problem of the 21st century. There is no signal in the mortality data to indicate increases in the overall frequencies or severities of extreme weather events, despite large increases in the population at risk.”

Dr Vincent Gray: “The [IPCC] climate change statement is an orchestrated litany of lies.”

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

🚨BREAKING: The UK government is now trying to take down https://t.co/d8TYS3bX5u — the website that lists every convicted paedophile linked to the Labour Party.

It would be an absolute tragedy if it got shared and went viral.

You know what to do 👇

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

Today, President Trump announced the U.S. is leaving 66 anti-American, useless, or wasteful international organizations. Review of additional international organizations remains ongoing.

These withdrawals keep a key promise President Trump made to Americans - we will stop subsidizing globalist bureaucrats who act against our interests. The Trump Administration will always put America and Americans first.

More: https://t.co/VnKtITGOfS

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

There's a sickness in Britain's public life: we have replaced judgment with performance. We have handed moral authority to the stage and let actors decide who belongs in this country. Olivia Colman, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Judi Dench, Brian Cox – a roll call of national treasures who lined up to read script lines and wept on cue for a man they barely understood. They weren't defending justice. They were auditioning for sainthood.

Alaa Abd el-Fattah called Britons "dogs and monkeys." He said he "fucking hates white people." He wrote that killing Zionists, "especially civilians," is heroic. He praised Bin Laden. He dreamed of our streets on fire. These weren't stray remarks. This was a worldview. A creed of racial contempt and revolutionary bloodlust. And Britain's cultural class didn't bother to look. They didn't want to look. Because the point was never him. The point was them – proving their virtue to each other like teenagers comparing scars.

Keir Starmer called Abd el-Fattah's return a "top priority." He said he was "delighted" when the man landed in Britain. Delighted – as if a racial arsonist was a trophy of moral progress. As if British Jews didn't exist. As if the names Westminster, London Bridge, Manchester and Birmingham had been whitewashed from the national memory. Starmer isn't conflicted. He is consistent. His politics is powered by applause from the international set, not the safety of his own citizens.

Celebrity pity replaced national judgment. Emotional theatre replaced due diligence. The Home Office didn't vet – or didn't want to. The civil service looked away. Westminster saw a cause, not a threat. In modern Britain the question is never "Is this man safe?" It's "Will supporting him make me look virtuous to the right crowd?" Conscience has been turned into a prop. The country has been turned into an audience, expected to clap on cue.

Name them. Olivia Colman, whose trembling voice lent saintly gravitas to a man who spat on her country. Emma Thompson, forever the moral matron of the luvvie class, too busy basking in applause to read the record. Stephen Fry, who will condemn intolerance at home but clasp the hand of a man who wanted Zionists dead. Mike Leigh. Mark Ruffalo. Emily Watson. Rebecca Hall. Joseph Fiennes. Harriet Walter. Sir Bill Nighy, beard grown for gravitas, telling the Prime Minister to "make the call" – and the Prime Minister did. They summoned a man who would happily see the country that knighted them burn.

This wasn't a mistake. It was a ritual. The ruling class performed virtue, the celebrities performed conscience, and Britain paid the bill. They needed him to fit a story: the "political prisoner," the "prisoner of conscience," the symbol of everything they think makes Britain look enlightened. They didn't check who he was because the truth would have broken the spell. Violence abroad is romantic in their eyes. Violence at home is a misunderstanding. Hatred is fine, as long as it is directed at the right targets.

The ECHR forced the door open. Successive governments refused to close it. Its architects still pretend it's the noble post-war shield it once was, even as foreign judges veto laws passed by the people who live with the fallout. A serious country would have walked the moment protecting its own became "unlawful." A serious country would say: glorify terror and you lose your passport; call for blood and you're gone. But Britain isn't serious. Britain is obedient – to treaties, to NGOs, to foreign approval, to the moral vanity of its own elite.

What we are watching is national self-harm dressed as progress. A country apologising for existing. A cultural class so besotted with its own virtue it can't tell a dissident from a fanatic. They think they are rescuing a hero. They are opening the gates. They think they are proving virtue. They are advertising weakness.

"The point was never him. The point was them – proving their virtue to each other like teenagers comparing scars"

[Neil Oliver @thecoastguy]

If you work. If you aspire. If you save. If you ask for nothing and want peace and freedom to get on with providing for your loved ones, the British state despises you and will do anything and everything to take you down.

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

This is utterly damning.

[Watchdog Scotland @WdgScotland]

Ed, this is nonsense and you know it.
Under your policies, Britain now has some of the highest energy prices in the world — higher than the US, higher than Norway, higher than Canada, and higher than every major fossil-fuel-producing nation. Families aren’t paying high bills because of “fossil fuels”, they’re paying high bills because of your net-zero dogma, endless subsidies, grid charges and the windfall tax that throttled our domestic production.

FACTS:
•Since your Energy Profits Levy came in, North Sea investment has collapsed and companies like Harbour, BP and EnQuest have cut thousands of UK jobs.
•The UK is now importing record levels of LNG at 3–4× the cost of domestic production.
•We spent £10.4 billion last year importing foreign gas while you cheerlead shutting down our own fields.
•Your windfall tax has wiped out investment, forced rigs to shut early and even scared off new development like Cambo and Rosebank.
•Offshore workers and chemical plants in Scotland are being hammered because of policies you personally championed.

What kind of “energy security” is it when Britain cuts its own oil and gas but sends billions to Qatar, Norway and the US for the same product at a higher price?

If you actually cared about bills, you’d:
✔️ Scrap the windfall tax
✔️ Back new domestic fields linked to a real transition
✔️ Prioritise Scottish gas for UK consumers at a lower cost
✔️ Stop forcing households to subsidise renewables while your friends pocket guaranteed profits

Instead, you’re making us poorer, destroying Scotland’s oil, gas and chemical industries, and pushing an ideological experiment that has failed everywhere it’s been tried.

The truth?
Your policies are the reason families can’t afford to heat their homes.
Not Russia. Not global markets.
You.

The cost of Miliband crisis

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The red line for plant death on earth is around 150 ppm, implying a critical lower limit for CO₂ concentrations below which life would struggle to survive. The optimum CO₂ level for photosynthetic plants & algae is around 1,000 ppm, which last occurred when the first primates arose. Since then, CO₂ levels have been steadily declining. Yet it is still significantly higher than today's 400 ppm, after recovering from a low point of 180 ppm during the glacial optimum 26,000-20,000 years ago. CO₂ has been trending downwards from 2,750 ppm 160 million years ago, when a coral diversity explosion occurred & when CO₂ levels were significantly higher. This downplays claims that higher CO₂ levels will damage coral reefs.

[Angela Rayner @AngelaRayner]

Thanks to those who keep pointing out the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion, I tend to concentrate on tax evasion

[SamTrouble @TroubleOnTrend]

@Heccles94 'Rights' 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 13 were removed during Covid with zero recourse or consequence (or any admission that this was wrong).
If the government can switch off 'rights' for anything deemed an emergency then there is nothing to lose here anyway.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

You are a consultant at the Evelina London - a specialist NHS children's hospital. I've been hearing a lot about that.

A family friend has a five year old who has been in the NHS for over TWO YEARS trying to get the appropriate treatment on the NHS.

They were FINALLY referred to the Evelina, and had to wait FOUR MONTHS for a scan.

They have just been told they have to wait a further two months before a doctor can even discuss the results.

Treatment after that? Who knows.

Why should they be pushed even further back an already offensively and dangerously long queue? Behind people who have never paid in, and likely never will?

Quite frankly, you should focus on treating sick British children rather than attempting to ridiculously help the millions and millions of ill children all around the world before our own.

British children first. Always.

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

The World is laughing at us, they know that Labour are turning us into a 3rd world country.

@coinbase , I should be angry at your advert, but it’s so frighteningly true, it’s depressing.
Thanks for showing everyone what Keir Starmer & Co are doing to us.