Robin Alexander

Former traveller amongst unknown men. Patriot, Father & Outdoorsman. Veteran w mild TBI & cPTSD. Tweets on the move.

[Andrew Griffith MP @griffitha]

You are Prime Minister. Do you:

(a) Invest in unbelievably good research in areas like quantum, photonics and AI in the Harwell Campus with world class facilities like the Diamond Light Source.

(b) Spend £2.5 billion subsidising fundamentally unprofitable steel making?

[Robin Alexander @jedi42c]

@NirvanaCraig @thetimes @andyburnham The question to ask and the audit yet to occur is how on earth can the Uk spend what it does yet have so little to show for it compared to everyone else.

[Robin Alexander @jedi42c]

@Mr_Andrew_Fox @09EA63 That was his way!

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

More economic insanity … Labour wants to give 30 hours a week free childcare to parents on benefits who are … at home?

In what universe does that make sense? Morally or economically?

[Robin Alexander @jedi42c]

@thinkdefence RG35 Family. Yes - indeed. 15-20 years ago

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

This used to be Little Lyntus an ancient woodland in Staffordshire. It had stood for 400 years, part of our beautiful and vital nature.

So it was chopped down for HS2 …. Which was then cancelled!

Don’t lecture me about net zero & the environment when we are destroying the irreplaceable for profit 🔥

[Robin Alexander @jedi42c]

Wow.

[Auguste Prompt @augusteprompt]

That’s genuinely insane. My “favourite” UK-China comparison is Hinkley Point C vs the city of Shenzhen.

> 1980 Shenzhen SEZ announced
> 1981 Hinkley Point C announced

Today Hinkley Point C is still incomplete with yet more delays. Unit 1 expected to come online in 2030 (I highly doubt it).

In comparison Shenzhen went from a network of fishing villages with a GDP of $37 million to a mega city with a GDP of $557 billion. It has two operational nuclear power plants.

It is genuinely hard to describe the state of Britain if you have not visited newly developed parts of the world. Practically nothing has been built in Britain in the last 50 years, it isn’t just stagnating, it’s dying.

[Robin Alexander @jedi42c]

@defencewithac It follows UoR-brain which morphed from COINhead, that killed the last Sensible Defence Review (SDR) in 1997. A stumbling mess for 25 years

[DT1981🦁 @HKDavo1981]

@OnthisdayRN @HMNBDevonport @RoyalNavy Before the days of subcontractors?

[Robin Alexander @jedi42c]

@RidgeandFrost @LukePollard @SophyRidgeSky Another Labour train crash

[David Shaw @David90shaw]

🚨 THE BRUTAL BUSINESS REACTION TO BURNHAM'S PLOT.

Yesterday I warned you about Andy Burnham’s master plan to crash our economy and drag us straight back to Brussels.

Now, the actual backbone of the British economy has just delivered a devastating response. 🤡

Over 30 top British business owners and economists have signed an urgent open letter warning the Prime Minister-in-waiting not to give the EU a single inch.
The data they are exposing is absolute gold.

Only 8% of UK companies export to the EU single market.

By surrendering our sovereignty, Burnham would force the remaining 92% of domestic British businesses to be completely strangled by EU red tape.

They are actively trying to destroy the exact business model that made our country work, leaving the UK economy broken and defenceless.

RT if you see right through this globalist trap and demand we stay completely OUT! 🔁🇬🇧🔥

[Robin Alexander @jedi42c]

@ClarksonsFarm1 He’s too good for them. Like so many of the good ones all the rest of the dross keep them firmly on the back benches

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Remember last week when Starmer said “I believe Britain is better off than it was two years ago” ?

Well that was a bit misinformationy! Because lookie here … we’re winning at becoming poorer 🤡

[GB News @GBNEWS]

'The thing that I hate about this is that we're not even going to do up the homes of the 75,000 troops we have.'

Former editor of The Sun Kelvin MacKenzie says the Government's call to house asylum seekers in new-build Shropshire homes 'disgraceful'.

[Michael Reiners @MCRReiners]

‘Manchesterism’, a decidedly undefined term, can be best explained by this clip.

Most things can be best explained by a clip from Yes Minister.

[History With Jacob @HistoryWJacob]

There was a small unit in World War II that operated deep behind Japanese lines more than a hundred times and never lost a single man.

They were called the Alamo Scouts.

Formed in late 1943 by General Walter Krueger, these men were hand-picked for one job: go where no one else could and come back with intelligence.

More than seven hundred volunteers tried out. He kept just 138. In teams of six or seven they slipped through the jungles of New Guinea and the Philippines, living for weeks inside enemy territory, mapping Japanese positions and sending back the intelligence that shaped entire invasions.

They did not just watch. On multiple missions they went in and brought people out. In New Guinea they freed dozens of captives the Japanese were holding.

Then came their most impressive mission:

American prisoners were starving in a camp at Cabanatuan, twenty-five miles inside Japanese-held Luzon. Before the Rangers could raid it, someone had to know exactly what was waiting. Two Alamo Scouts dressed as farm workers and set up a hidden observation post just a few hundred yards from the Japanese guards. For days they counted men and mapped the ground inch by inch.

The raid that followed freed more than five hundred Allied prisoners in a single night.

In total the Alamo Scouts ran 106 missions behind enemy lines across 1,482 days of sustained operations. Not one man was killed. Not one was captured.

The men who made it possible got almost none of the credit. Their work was secret, and secret men cannot be celebrated. When the war ended the Army no longer needed them, and the unit was quietly disbanded and forgotten.

The finest small-unit record of the war belonged to men most Americans have never heard of.

Now you have.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

This is how the Net Zero bollocks works …

The “green” ferry project in Scotland was supposed to cost £97 Million. And has actually cost taxpayers about £500 MILLION! … and now they will fund another £600,000 for specialist consultants because ferry staff need training to handle imported LNG.

And that LNG is imported via Kent before being transported hundreds of miles to Scotland…. Using diesel.

After all of that, the CO₂ saving is less than 9% er …. And that’s optimistic!

The entire exercise has been a pointless waste of Taxpayers money for private companies profit! … 🤡

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"You're spending something like £65 billion on defence and £360 billion on welfare. Lucky you, you must not feel any danger..."

Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski on Britain's defence spending.

#Newsnight

[Alan @A1an_M]

So...

We're not allowed to buy air conditioners for our houses to cool them in hot summer weather, because we don't have enough electricity to power them, because the solar panels and wind turbines we installed to stop the planet getting hot in summer, don't work when it's hot and windless in summer, so we'd need to burn gas, oil and coal instead to power the AC to cool our houses, but we blew up the oil, gas and coal power stations to stop the planet getting hot in summer, but it's still hot in summer.

But it's still ok to install heat pumps in winter, heat pumps which are also air conditioners and use the same amount of electricity or more, but we still won't have enough electricity to power them on cold, dark, windless winter evenings, because solar panels and wind turbines don't work then either, and we blew up the gas, oil and coal fired power stations because they were making the planet too hot in winter as well as summer.

Have I missed anything?

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