Vicky Dilcock

A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water - Eleanor Roosevelt.

[Peter Dilcock @dilcock_peter]

@FreespeechShell @TRobinsonNewEra @bb_media_uk @benonwine @ESpeaksFreely @georginalibbie @HoodedClaw1974 @POB4LIFE @SeanyBoyy89 @AyAudits_c4n @AllisonPearson @BROKENBRITAIN0 Start talking about SECTION 25 IMMIGRATION ACT 1971..the offence of assisting illegal immigrants for which there is a power of arrest and a penalty of imprisonment. People in power committing this offence

[Vicky Dilcock @VickyDilcock]

@RWTaylors Happy blessed Birthday🎂
Have a fab peaceful day🥂

[Alan D Miller @alanvibe]

Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID

Well done everyone!

Keir Starmer has abandoned plans for mandatory digital ID for workers amid concerns that it will undermine public trust in the scheme.

The prime minister had previously announced that the IDs would be compulsory to verify someone’s right to work in the UK.

Instead, they will be optional when they are introduced in 2029, with workers given the choice of whether to use other documents to verify their identity digitally instead.

A government source said that the compulsory element “was stopping conversation about what digital IDs could be used for generally”.

What this means is

A) all of YOU, we all pushed back & stopped compulsory - huge win well done everyone!

B) one login still being used to try to make this happen & full of issues

We stay vigilant but we also take the wins! This would not be happening if we did not all stand up across Britain, campaign , lobby, protest, rally & stand #together #notodigitalid

[Andrew Montford @aDissentient]

Two new @netzerowatch papers: John Constable shows that fossil fuels created a virtuous circle - of growing wealth, growing freedom and growing energy use. @SteveBakerFRSA shows that the shift to renewables has turned it into into a spiral of decay. (Link below)

[Christopher Talbot @Lord_Talbot64]

Electricity bills could be almost halved over night if net zero was scrapped.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Second energy transition hidden in plain sight
The world is sleepwalking toward a multi-trillion dollar industrial bottleneck that most net-zero plans ignore. From ~2038-53, fully 85–90% of the ~600,000 wind turbines operating today (GWEC 2025) will reach end-of-life. They will need full replacement — in a 15-year window that straddles the 2050 deadline. That’s roughly 35,000–40,000 turbines per year to be decommissioned, recycled (or landfilled), and replaced — effectively a second, even larger build-out on top of the one we’re already struggling to finance and permit. At the same time, 5–10 billion solar panels (~2 TW installed today) will also retire, triggering hundreds of billions in scrapping and replacement costs.

Wind decommissioning alone will cost $90–150 billion globally ($150–250 k per turbine, offshore double). New turbine costs (2025–2050) could easily hit $3–4 trillion in capex — on top of what we’re already spending.
As for the blades, 1.5–2 million composite units, mostly non-recyclable today, will be heading to landfill or incineration. As for critical minerals, each 3–5 MW turbine needs ~2 tonnes of rare-earth permanent magnets (NdPr, Dy). Demand could triple while China still refines >80 % of global supply.

All of this must happen as public subsidies fade, fossil-fuel restrictions tighten (diesel still powers 86% of mining equipment) and private capital becomes pickier, after years of thin or negative returns in renewables.
We pulled off the first energy transition with heroic policy support. The second one — the 'replace-everything-again' phase — will demand a WWII-scale industrial mobilisation with far less political goodwill and cheaper money.

It is still doable, but only if we start treating recycling, strategic mineral reserves and circular supply chains as urgently as we once treated deployment subsidies.
Otherwise 2038–2053 could become the decade the lights flicker — not from too little wind and sun, but from too little steel, copper, neodymium… and not enough time.

What you’re looking at in the photo isn’t just today’s clean energy. It’s tomorrow’s multi-trillion-dollar replacement.

[Rebecca Butler @rebeccabutlerm2]

If state pension recipients have been fiscally dragged into paying tax, please tell me why benefits recipients shouldn’t.

[Guido Fawkes @GuidoFawkes]

Panicked Labour Delay Chagos Surrender Bill Until Next Year https://t.co/LT0nFrGMJp

[Catherine McBride OBE @CeeMacBee]

USAID funding the BBC, how much influence did this give them over editorial decision makers?

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Not content with flying to COP once, Ed Miliband is going TWICE.

He’s flying back to Brazil for part 2! Meaning in under a week he’s clocked up 24,000 miles and about 10 tonnes of carbon emissions.

Shh… he’s saving the planet 🤡

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Wiltshire Police has been taken to court for marching under the Pride flag. Officers didn't simply attend a local event; they marched in uniform, wore trans-themed lanyards, and ran stalls under political banners. This was not policing. It was participation in an ideological campaign. And that distinction matters more than most people realise.

Because what's unfolding here is part of a toxic revolution that has spread through every British institution – one that preaches equality but demands obedience. What used to be the impartial machinery of state has been captured from within by a new orthodoxy: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion – the soft language of the hard Left.

This is how a nation is hollowed out. Not by riots or coups, but by bureaucrats with clipboards and slogans. It begins with the soft phrases – "be kind," "celebrate difference," "diversity is our strength" – the moral lullabies of a movement that masks coercion as compassion. Then come the symbols – rainbows painted across patrol cars, the oath replaced by the lanyard. And finally, the inversion: neutrality becomes "hate," disagreement becomes "extremism," and those who refuse to accept the creed are cast out as enemies of progress.

Pride has become the state's moral test. Refusal to affirm it is treated as heresy. When police forces sponsor Pride zones and hand out stickers, they aren't serving the community – they're serving the creed. They're telling every citizen with gender-critical, conservative, or religious beliefs that their views are now beneath protection.

Sarah Phillimore, a family law barrister and co-founder of the free speech group Fair Cop, has spent years exposing how British policing has drifted from enforcing the law to enforcing ideology. Her challenge to Wiltshire Police is about more than one parade. It's about who governs Britain – the law, or the ideology that has replaced it. When judges have to remind police forces that impartiality is a legal duty, not a lifestyle choice, you know the system is rotting from within.

Every captured institution follows the same pattern: moral cause becomes policy, policy becomes dogma, and dogma becomes law. The NHS waves flags. The BBC manufactures narrative and calls it news. Our universities churn out zealots instead of thinkers. The police enforce feelings. A state once anchored in reason now runs on emotional coercion.

This is what capture looks like in the twenty-first century – not uniforms and salutes, but hashtags and training slides. It's control sold as compassion. And every time the police march under a political banner, the message is clear: allegiance to ideology now outranks allegiance to law.

The revolution happened in daylight. Most people mistook it for kindness. But behind the rainbows lies something colder – a bureaucracy that no longer serves the public, only itself.

It can still be undone, but only if the public stops apologising for wanting neutrality. The police have no business picking sides in moral crusades. Their badge should mean justice, not fashion. Because when the state kneels to ideology, the citizen kneels next.

"Sarah Phillimore, a family law barrister and co-founder of the free speech group Fair Cop, has spent years exposing how British policing has drifted from enforcing the law to enforcing ideology."

[David Kurten @davidkurten]

EU to prohibit cash payments over €10,000 from Jan 2027 in the name of 'anti-money laundering'.
In addition, digital ID verification will be required for customers making cash payments over €3,000.
This is a totalitarian attack on freedom and should be roundly condemned.

[Sydney Jones @SydneyJones_]

Upton’s Remembrance Parade was cancelled due to ‘health and safety concerns.’

This did not stop the public from attending the service 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Since 2016, 1,367,942 foreign drivers have been issued a driving licence without taking a UK test - stats I've extracted from the Department for Transport.

Madness.

Many foreign drivers simply do not understand our road system.

I am pushing for a significant tightening.

[Martin Daubney 🇬🇧 @MartinDaubney]

🚨LABOUR'S TOTAL CABINET WIPEOUT🚨
Yesterday's @FindoutnowUK shows EVERY Labour Cabinet Member would lose their seats – including Keir Starmer
➡️12 to Reform
🟩7 to the Greens
🇵🇸2 to Your Party

This has never happened in British political history

A sitting Prime Minister has never lost their seat in British political history

Cabinets typically hold safe seats, making a complete rout unprecedented

BUT FOR STARMER'S CABINET, THERE ARE NO SAFE SEATS 🧵

[Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant]

🚨Tommy Robinson acquitted of all charges under the Terrorism Act.

The judge was blistering in his criticism of the police, saying their testimony lacked “credibility” and that they had in fact targeted Tommy for political reasons, which is illegal.

Incredible outcome.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

This is the one I’ve prayed for. Bring this weasel to the bar.

[Neil McCoy-Ward @NeilMcCoyWard]

💸 What I just found in the UK Foreign Aid logs will shock you...

I’ve just spent hours digging through the UK’s official aid logs…
and I’ve never seen anything like this.

We send £14.1 billion abroad every single year, and when you see where it’s going, you’ll be furious. 👇

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

Chart of the Day 🤓

Here's what's happened to GDP per capita in Europe's Big 4 since 1999, with the major shocks marked...

A = GFC
B = euro debt crisis
C = Covid
D = global energy crisis

(sorry, I couldn't see a Brexit effect worth noting here 😉)

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

🚨🚨NEW: Ed Miliband has just published the budget for his botched wind auction.

When Miliband promised to cut your bills by £300, the market price was £72/MWh. This year he’s said he’s willing to pay £117/MWh for offshore wind AND he’s extended the contracts to 20 years.

Surely with prices this high, you wouldn’t sign up to record-breaking amounts, locking us into paying such expensive energy prices for decades?

Oh dear. This year the budget is around £1 billion. Highest on record at this stage (Ed bumped up last year’s at the end).

Ed Miliband is in a mess. He told multi-million-pound wind developers he had to buy whatever they were selling, no matter the price, because of his scramble to meet self-imposed unrealistic Clean Power 2030 targets.

He cancelled my systems cost analysis to reveal the true cost of renewables.

It’s so bad that energy bosses told Parliament that if wholesale prices went to zero, bills would still RISE by 2030 because of all the extra costs Miliband is piling on our bills.

Labour must back our Cheap Power Plan to cut electricity bills by 20% NOW.

If you want growth, living standards to improve, data centres to flourish or for people to use electric cars - we have to prioritise cheaper electricity.