Floxilox

comms consultant, humanitarian and development sector, gardener, amateur potter, servant to a Weimaraner. Views my own.

[Floxilox @floxilox]

Day 2⃣. 10 days. 10 questions demanding the truth about the UK’s solar strategy. 🌾
Q2⃣: @Ed_Miliband @energygovuk keep repeating dated figures that “only 0.1% of UK land” is used for solar energy. Why are you keeping us in the dark about how much farmland we are losing to solar?

[R.E. Palmer @R_E_Palmer]

Before you destroy 1000s of acres of prime farmland @Ed_Miliband, we'd like you to answer some serious questions. #ask_edmiliband @ClaireCoutinho @JamesMelville @bbcnews @skynews @gbnews @TalkTV
Download the letter here ==> https://t.co/EnIpLAXBV0

[Love the UK - Bring back common sense @UKwantsmore]

@DrAseemMalhotra Write a letter to the Parliamentary Standards Commission asking for a correction and written apology.

Their emails is: [email protected]

Members of Parliament are now allowed to misdirect the house, especially when it is being televised.

[Floxilox @floxilox]

Dear god, how did we need a review to realise this?! 😫

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

Somehow it took a panel of scientists to figure this out 🤦‍♂️

[Darren Grimes @darrengrimes]

Somehow it took a panel of scientists to figure this out 🤦‍♂️

[Clive Bailye @TWBFarms]

Terrified ? ……… you should be !

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

If offshore wind prices above £80-85 /MWh it will not only be more expensive than generating electricity using gas, it will lock in these higher prices for 20 YEARS!!

We need to make it clear consumers don't accept this.... Our appetite is much lower than the £113 /MWh @Ed_Miliband has decided to accept on our behalf

If this was a regular tax HMT would decide if it was acceptable. But Miliband gets to set stealth taxes with little to no accountability. There won't be a £300 reduction in bills, that's for sure

@Keir_Starmer @KemiBadenoch @ClaireCoutinho @AndrewBowie_MP @DavidGHFrost @NJ_Timothy @Malcolm_Offord @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @jonathan_leake @afneil @mattotele @DavidRoseUK @mattwridley @ofgem

[Floxilox @floxilox]

Memories of my childhood before dad gave up dairy farming and switched to beef.

[James Robinson @JRfromStrickley]

Strickley Goldie 292nd and her brand new heifer calf. The future of our dairy herd, right there, only 10 minutes old 💚

[Jeremy Squirrell @Jes_Squirrell]

After #Groundswell, usually I come away from it feeling inspired, and full of aspiration and drive for another year and a bright future. This year however, I haven’t.
Government policies have completely changed my thought process.
A thread 🧵@SteveReedMP @RachelReevesMP
1/19

[Doc Malik @DocAhmadMalik]

The Irony Of Saving The Fucking Planet

To save the fucking planet
We will blanket the fields with solar panels
We will blight the hills and coastlines with wind turbines
And the sea
We will tear up meadows, wetlands, and farmland
We will plant monoculture crops and spray them with poison
We will destroy the biosphere and erase biodiversity
We will crush coral reefs with offshore infrastructure
We will shred bird life in turbine blades
We will silence the hum of insect life
We will poison the soil with heavy metals and glyphosate Why?

To save the fucking planet
We will mine cobalt and lithium in child-labour pits
We will strip the earth for rare minerals, often in war zones
We will pollute rivers and water tables beyond repair
We will import concrete and steel from China
We will close our power plants in the name of virtue
While China builds 2 to 3 new coal plants every week
To power the factories that make our “green” tech
The solar panels and wind turbines we pretend are clean Why?

To save the fucking planet
We will become poorer, colder, and hungrier
We will ration energy, not production
We will cut down ancient forests for biomass
We will call tree-burning renewable
We will turn national parks into battery farms
We will desecrate sacred lands and natural beauty
We will hand control of energy to unelected technocrats
We will obey
We will comply Why?

To save the fucking planet
We will forget what it feels like to be free
We will destroy nature
In the name of protecting it

But can't you see, it was never about saving the fucking planet,
It's about enslaving, controlling, and culling us, damn it.

And no, I haven't quite finished, my friends.
The planet might be warming, but it's still cold compared to Earth’s average.
We need CO₂, or should I say, the plants do.
It’s the gas of life, you fools.
The carbon they want to reduce… is YOU, you tools!

The whole green agenda is an inversion
Creating pollution and destroying life while claiming to preserve it.
It is a weapon, to guilt and panic our young, and some of the old
To make us harm ourselves.

We are not the parasites.
It’s the ruling predators.

Love Doc Malik

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Ed Miliband:

"The biggest threat to nature and food security is not solar panels or onshore wind. It is the climate crisis, which threatens farmland, food production and the livelihoods of farmers.”

No Ed. The biggest threat to farmers right now is the Labour government.

[June Cooper @JuneMillward]

Stop the Shepway Energy Park from destroying Romney Marsh - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/0jBNbDZMZJ via @UKChange

[Floxilox @floxilox]

I live in the middle of where this site is proposed and especially close to the 400MW battery storage scheme ‼️⚠️☢️🤬🤬🤬

[BBC Kent @BBCRadioKent]

An energy company is proposing to build a solar farm which would span six sites in Romney Marsh, near Newchurch.

Tap below to read more:

https://t.co/gOEi4k2ucM

[Floxilox @floxilox]

@theruralwriter My house is in the middle of this proposed battery storage and solar plant, surrounded on all sides. It’s devastating. 😢

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

Mad Miliband doubles down

@Ed_Miliband says the British people deserve cheap secure energy while pursuing policies that do the opposite

🔹Replacing domestic oil and gas production with imports

🔹Replacing domestic gas fired power generation with imported wind and solar and electricity imports through interconnectors

🔹Claiming renewables are cheap when the latest subsidies were 13% higher than the gas based power price

That's right, AR6 for offshore wind was £83 /MWh vs an average wholesale power price in 2024 of £73 /MWh

And apparently that 13% premium is too low. @orsted cancelled the flagship AR6 protect, Hornsea 4,on the basis it was uneconomic

So why is @Ed_Miliband ignoring the data and gaslighting the British public and why is @Keir_Starmer allowing it??

@ClaireCoutinho @AndrewBowie_MP @DavidGHFrost @NJ_Timothy @Malcolm_Offord @KemiBadenoch @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @jonathan_leake @afneil @mattotele

https://t.co/YQ7QU6la6l

[Joe Stanley @JoeWStanley]

When the food crisis hits - next week, next month, next year - how will government ever explain that it chose not to prepare?

‘From chicken to potatoes, Britain’s never grown less of its own food’

https://t.co/MSiyaMLNJ6

[David Turver @7Kiwi]

The institutions were out in force claiming renewables are cheap in their evidence to the ESNZ Cost of Energy Inquiry. This amounts to an industrial-scale effort to gaslight the public and mislead Parliament because renewables are much more expensive than gas. A thread 🧵(1/n)

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

▪️Solar panels & wind turbine blades last for 20 to 25 years.

▪️Solar panel waste could total 78 million tonnes by the year 2050.

▪️By 2050, it's predicted that the world will need to dispose of two million tons of wind turbine blade waste every year.

https://t.co/1GIb6PMtUP

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

WATER - Yes, I know we live on an Island where it rains all the time but water bosses need us to RATION water… because ‘Climate change’.

But the truth is a bit different.

▪️Pre privatisation Britain built 100 reservoirs

▪️after privatisation ZERO have been built

▪️Southern water plan to decommission 43 of its 93 reservoirs between 2023 - 2030

▪️In the last 5 years 35 reservoirs have been sold off for housing developments or <checks notes> fishing rights.

▪️water companies lose 3 BILLION litres of water a day through leaks. That’s over 1 TRILLION litres a year.

And now the water companies are pleading poverty and telling us to ration water after paying out £83 BILLION in dividends since privatisation.

What a joke 🤡

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The directors of Moorcroft Pottery has stopped trading after more than 100 years - a major contributing factor was a £250,000 rise in their energy costs over 2 years. The UK currently has the highest industrial electricity costs in the developed world.

https://t.co/HdQl7qo98k