Robert Thomson

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

China emits as much CO2 in 16 days as Canada emits in an entire year. Australia's annual total takes China just 12 days to emit. Britain's takes barely 9 days.

Combined, Canada, Australia and the UK emit about 1.23 billion tonnes a year. China emits that much in roughly 37 days.

So, even if all three countries eliminated every tonne of CO2--closing every factory, power station and banning every gas vehicle--China would replace the entire annual reduction in little more than five weeks.

Yet, Western governments are deliberately making energy scarcer and more expensive, by dismantling dependable sources, restricting oil and gas exploration and loading industry with carbon taxes and net zero mandates.

Steel, chemicals, fertilizers, refining and manufacturing are driven overseas -- often to countries burning more coal. So the emissions do not disappear. Only the jobs, tax revenues and energy security do.

The West impoverishes itself.

China profits.

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 ANDY BURNHAM ADMITS TAX RISES AND A 10 PERCENT DEATH TAX ARE ON THE TABLE.

After Number 10 spent days denying it, Andy Burnham just went on television and admitted that tax hikes and a 10 percent death tax are actively on the table to fund his 18 billion pound care plan. 🤡

Officials are already drafting an 1.8 percent income tax levy on working people, while elderly citizens face losing up to 45 percent of their personal assets and family homes to the state.

Burnham says he is ready to be unpopular and burn through his political capital.

He does not care about working class families struggling with high mortgage rates, soaring food prices, and record tax burdens.

They lied about tax hikes on the campaign trail, and now they are preparing the biggest state wealth grab in modern British history.

They want to tax you while you work, tax you while you save, and rob your family when you die.

RT if you demand an end to Burnham's tax hikes and reject the death tax! 🇬🇧🔥

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

Stamp duty dodger Angela Rayner pocketed a handy £180K ( speeches and book advance) in the year between pushed out by one PM and rehired by another, so why didn’t she refund her £17K severance?
She could afford it, but she looks on taxpayers like she looks on voters - mugs to be exploited.
Sickening.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Rayner's £182,000 Masterclass In Hypocrisy

Angela Rayner spent years telling the country that MPs' second jobs were a racket. In March 2023 she wrote that being an MP "isn't a second job. It is the job." Labour, she promised, would put an end to the practice. Eighteen months later she resigned from Cabinet in disgrace over her own financial affairs. Within a year she had earned £182,376 from speeches, book advances and a severance payment she had no obligation to keep. Then she walked straight back into the job she had left.

The figures are not subtle. She earned £104,000 from speaking fees in ten months, on top of an MP's salary that rose to £98,599 in April. She took £61,500 as a book advance for a memoir about her own life. She kept a £16,876 exit payment while Wes Streeting, reappointed to Cabinet the same week, is serving his first three months for nothing.

One fee stands apart from the rest. Propertymark, a trade body representing the property sector, paid Rayner £20,000 for a two-hour speaking engagement. That is £10,000 an hour, from an industry lobby group, paid to a former Housing Secretary weeks before she was reappointed Housing Secretary. Nobody pays that rate for after-dinner charm. They pay it for access, and they got exactly what they paid for. This is not a speaking fee. It is a retainer with a lectern attached.

The woman collecting these cheques left the department with a housebuilding record to be ashamed of. Official figures published by the Ministry of Housing in November show England delivered 208,600 net additional dwellings in 2024-25, a fall of 6 per cent on the year before. New build completions dropped from 198,610 to 190,600. Labour's manifesto promised 1.5 million homes over the Parliament, a rate of 300,000 a year. Rayner delivered barely two-thirds of that. Housebuilding did not accelerate under her stewardship. It slowed.

She has an answer ready for all of it. The severance payment was earned, she told BBC Radio 5 Live, because she had genuinely left government for a period of time. That defence collapses under its own logic. The payment exists to cushion ministers against sudden unemployment. Rayner was not unemployed. She was the best-paid backbencher in Britain, drawing more from four speeches than most of her constituents earn in three years.

Joanna Marchong of the think tank Onward put it plainly: Rayner built her brand attacking Tory sleaze and demanding a ban on MPs' outside earnings, then pocketed £180,000 the moment the rules stopped applying to her. Lee Anderson called her year out a good little earner. Both are right, and neither goes far enough. The deeper failure sits in the housing numbers, where the gap between rhetoric and delivery is measured not in pounds but in homes that were never built.

Labour came to power promising a government that would look different from what came before it. Rayner's year off shows how quickly that promise curdles into the same old story: rules for the public, exemptions for the powerful, and a lobby group's cheque book standing in for genuine accountability. She missed her housing target by a third and was rewarded with reappointment. She broke her own stated principle on second jobs and was rewarded with £182,376. The voters who elected this government on a promise of change deserve to know that the change stopped at the Cabinet door.

"Rayner's year off shows how quickly that promise curdles into the same old story: rules for the public, exemptions for the powerful"

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

MEET JONATHAN REYNOLDS. THE MAN NOW IN CHARGE OF THE ENTIRE BRITISH ECONOMY.

This is the UK's new Business Secretary. He has never run a business. He has never even worked for one. 🤡

He knows absolutely nothing about risk taking, entrepreneurship, or meeting a payroll.

He has never had to hire staff, remortgage his house to provide working capital, or skip his own salary so his employees could have theirs!

In fact, he could not even manage to finish his basic training to become a solicitor. Yet the Westminster elite think he is qualified to dictate how British businesses are run!

How can we expect our economy to grow when the people running it have never spent a single day in the private sector? They are career politicians who have spent their entire lives living off the taxpayer.

RT if you are completely sick of clueless career politicians running our country into the ground! 🇬🇧🔥

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 LEAKED: THE NEW LABOUR CABINET OF NIGHTMARES.

Good morning to the millions of everyday, hardworking Brits. The details of Andy Burnham’s incoming Cabinet have just leaked, and it is a total Westminster horror show! 🤡

He is preparing to bring Angela Rayner back to dictate housing and is lining up Ed Miliband to be your new Chancellor.

Think about the absolute insanity of this lineup.

The same Ed Miliband who just restricted underfloor heating and towel rails in your own bathroom will now have full control over the Treasury.

Their first major policy is to give local mayors unchecked powers to set their own taxes and hike business rates.

They are planning to replace council tax with a devastating property tax, penalising homeowners in the South East with bills designed to fund their socialist projects in the North.

They are going to tax your home, tax your business, and wipe out your private pensions to pay for their state-controlled takeover of our economy.

We do not want Starmer, we do not want Burnham, and we certainly do not want this unelected cabinet of far-left ideologues.

RT if you see right through this uniparty coup and demand a General Election NOW! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[Robert Midgley @RobertMidgley07]

For the first time ever, the true cost of the Chagos Islands Deal is now in legal writing

UK taxpayers would pay at least £50bn to give away the Chagos Islands and rent back our own territory of Diego Garcia

Not Starmer's £3bn
Not £36bn
Not £46bn

But £50bn+

Let that sink in

[Robert Thomson @WimbleDee]

@AllyThomsonnn @KRB_Vlogsyt Agent Cameron helping us to an historic away win 😂

[Robert Thomson @WimbleDee]

@SoultownDee @DundeeFC It looks tangerine to me! 😳

[Robert Thomson @WimbleDee]

@DundeeFC Fucking dismal Dundee!

[Comrade Chris 🦖 @SteelWeasel_]

@afneil I thought @thesundaysport (not necessarily *the* newspaper of record) had an amusing take;

[Robert Thomson @WimbleDee]

@DundeeFC He must have been watching a different game!

[Robert Thomson @WimbleDee]

@DundeeFC Get him in the team!

[Robert Thomson @WimbleDee]

@DundeeFC Good enough for the national team, but we don’t play him 🤷‍♂️

[Robert Thomson @WimbleDee]

@DensParkChoir LIV-ID!

[Robert Thomson @WimbleDee]

@rodgers_rodgers @DanNeidle I’ll be kind and assume you haven’t read the details of the situation… this is nothing remotely like a normal house purchase in terms of stamp duty because of her complex personal financial circumstances

[Robert Thomson @WimbleDee]

@DundeeFC So they bloody should be after that performance last weekend

[Robert Thomson @WimbleDee]

@di_cranio Thank god - would likely have spent half the season on the treatment table

[Robert Thomson @WimbleDee]

@DundeeFC Who was the biggest character in the dressing room during your time at Dens