bobby ghesboro

et moi, je viens pour le gaz

[bobby ghesboro @jamiemannersRIP]

Remember folks, Brexit was necessary because Sovereignty

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

Further to Blair. Literally every honest sensible person in all the main parties privately agrees with all these propositions:

- welfare spending is too high and is throwing good people on the scrapheap
- defence spending is too low
- the triple lock is unsustainable
- without cheap energy we cannot exploit the AI revolution
- we should be investing in EVERY form of energy: renewables, nuclear and the North Sea
- migration needs to be controlled to boost social cohesion and because the boats look like a huge failure of the state
- any new relationship with the EU will be imposed on us until we are stronger and cannot involve the closeness some desire without freedom of movement
- we are deeply embedded with America in ways which the public does not understand and cannot be told and however joyous it makes us feel to hate Trump, disengagement at the deep state level is not only wholly unrealistic but also undesirable
- Whitehall needs a total overhaul so specific project expertise and political appointees can be brought in quickly

Blair basically says all that.

The one thing he doesn’t say and which the same group of people agree on is this and it’s something Blair left behind:

- judges and quangos have too much power, are unaccountable and without redressing the balance in favour of parliament it is very difficult to do anything big fast
- the bare minimum that needs to change in this regard is to reform judicial review and planning law so we can put building and economic growth ahead of newts and NIMBYs

None of that above really ought to be up for discussion. It is all common sense but not one of our politicians will publicly say all of it

Whatever you think of Blair, engage with what he’s saying not how he makes you feel. The bare minimum we should expect from any leader is that they have an analysis of the current situation and a plan to deal with it which is as coherent and realistic as his intervention. Pretty well every critique I’ve read so far has failed to meet this requirement.

Over to Andy and Keir and Kemi and Nigel and Zack and all the others

[bobby ghesboro @jamiemannersRIP]

She had a floor? The height of luxury! When I was a kid we had to cling by our fingertips all day to a ledge above the fires of hell

[Elias Graves Writes @EliasGravesLit]

Dear Gen Z: My mother ate LARD sandwiches when she was a girl. She lived in a dirt floor shack with no electricity or indoor plumbing. She wore dresses made from flour sacks. Fuck you and your whining about the cost of a mocha latte.

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

I thought this was petty and snobbish but I have now seen people who I've known for years without ever hearing a football-related syllable from them posting videos of themselves celebrating in Holloway Road wearing Arsenal kit which is just abominable in a way I can't describe.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

It’s really something how billionaires have rigged the rules to let them vacuum up all of society’s wealth & then fund think tanks and buy media properties that blame poverty and homelessness and despair on literally everything other than billionaires vacuuming up all the wealth

[Ostap Yarysh @OstapYarysh]

Horrific. Morning footage from Kyiv Ukraine after Russia poured ballistic missiles on civilian neighborhoods, targeting apartment buildings, schools, markets, and bomb shelters full of people.

Video: @radiosvoboda's reporter Serhii Nuzhnenko.

[RopesToInfinity @RopesToInfinity]

Fascinated by the way right-wingers have convinced themselves they're the only people who have jobs. Like do you want a fucking medal or something

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Shocking footage of the destruction in Kyiv following Russian attacks last night.

Russia has once again targeted only civilian objectives.
Russia is a cancer.

[bobby ghesboro @jamiemannersRIP]

@jimtgreer Hopefully he goes for £50m and Linfield have a 20% sell-on clause, but I'm not sure it would be enough for us to win the league again

[brian @brianonhere]

fragment of journal entry found in abandoned bunker level of video game

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

Farage risks having 60% of the country’s newspapers telling the public that he is exactly the bloody good bloke Britain needs to bash and get our Bing-Bong Brexit for Blighty and Big Ben, while 100% of them spend two years screaming relentless abuse at his opponents

[bread and poses @breadandposes]

It absolutely bizarre how PMQs had devolved into a sort of comedy roast style event where the prime minister doesn't try to answer the questions but just pivots to an unrelated jibe about the questioners party

[Joshua Garfield @JoshuaGarfield]

How it’s started. How it’s going.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

UK-based bank to replace 'lower-value human capital' with AI

https://t.co/7XhrYwPaOG

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

Norway and the UK drilled the same North Sea.

🇳🇴Norway got $2 trillion.
🇬🇧The UK got tax cuts.

Same basin,Same era.... Completely different outcomes.

Norway captured $30 per barrel in government revenue. The UK captured $11.

That gap, compounded over 50 years of production, is the entire difference.

Norway's model was simple: tax heavily (78% marginal rate), take direct equity stakes in fields via the SDFI, own part of Equinor, and put everything surplus into a fund invested abroad.

The Government Pension Fund Global now holds over $2 trillion in assets.
That's $390,000 per Norwegian citizen about 1.5% of all listed equities on earth.

The fiscal rule: only spend the 3% annual real return. Never touch the principal.

The UK started producing earlier, at lower prices, with a lower tax rate (40%) and no saving mechanism.

North Sea revenues flowed straight into the general budget.

Economists estimate the UK missed out on roughly £400 billion compared to a Norwegian style regime.

The windfall largely financed tax cuts in the 1980s rather than a fund.

Where things stand in 2026?

Norway's petroleum sector will generate $63 bn in net cash flow this year alone feeding a fund already large enough to cover 10-15% of the national budget from returns alone.

The UK is a net energy importer.
Since 2021 it has paid countries like Norway more than £100 billion for gas.

One country treated oil as a finite resource to convert into permanent financial wealth.

The other treated it as income.

image source:eia

[bobby ghesboro @jamiemannersRIP]

@TreborRhurbarb Roars of approval from the Labour backbenches as the new PM declares that every primary school child will receive a Beatles CD and a curry

[bobby ghesboro @jamiemannersRIP]

September 2026: Andy Burnham is squatting over Westminster like a giant toad and will be PM for at least 1000 years

March 2027: I, a politics expert, am uniquely qualified to explain why they are calling him "the worst Prime Minister ever"- Reform voters think he's a communist &

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham says he doesn’t want to rejoin the EU

“Brexit has been damaging, but the last thing we need right now is to re-run those arguments”

[Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo]

I went to the same nursery school as Wes Streeting and grew up on the housing estate opposite his.

Here is a little thread on what the East End was like at that time.

Take it as the East End equivalent of those Johnson / Cameron era Old Etonians explaining what Pop was like.

[bobby ghesboro @jamiemannersRIP]

More coke than The Power Station

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Tommy Robinson has called for British men to get fit and "to get fight ready because a fight is coming to this country."

When he says British men. He means white British men.

[bobby ghesboro @jamiemannersRIP]

@TreborRhurbarb In the group of death with Treviso Spritz, Slivovitz Bratislava and Dinamo Zubrowka