Mr Cynical

Hopefully and occasionally a tweet I make might resonate with you. Family first.Then “Mix me a Molotov”

[Mr Cynical @mark___austin]

Very much worth a watch re immigration!

[Mr Cynical @mark___austin]

😂

[Dweller @One_Way_Home]

Brilliant move dude…

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A tenant farmer in the Cairngorms says land that sold for £500 an acre a few years ago now goes for £5,000. He is being moved off ground his family has worked for generations, because he cannot outbid the people buying it. The buyers are corporations, and they have no intention of farming a single acre of it.

Here is how the trick works. A company keeps emitting carbon exactly as before. Same factories, same flights, same supply chain, same product. Then it buys a Scottish hillside, plants some trees, and announces to the world that it is now carbon neutral, or, if it is feeling brave, carbon negative. The emissions never fell. It simply bought a landscape to point at.

Take BrewDog. In 2020 it bought a 9,300-acre Highland estate, propped up with public grant money, and promised a million trees and the crown of the world's first carbon negative beer business, removing twice the carbon it emitted, forever. By 2023 roughly half of the 500,000 trees it had managed to plant were dead, killed by drought, with critics noting the planting was drying out the peat and releasing carbon of its own. The advertising regulator ruled its carbon-negative claims misleading. In 2024 it quietly dropped the badge and dismissed the entire carbon credit market as a flood of cheap schemes whose benefit was "questionable, maybe even non-existent." Then it sold the estate to a firm whose actual business is selling carbon offsets.

That is the whole model in one story. Public money in. Dead trees out. A green halo worn for four years and then dropped. The farmer who used to be on that land, gone. The hillside passed to a company that exists purely to sell other people the right to keep polluting.

This is no fringe case. In one recent year, half of every estate sold in Scotland went to investment funds, corporations and charitable trusts rather than anyone who would farm it. A third of the deals for plantable land are now done off-market, in secret, precisely so the local community never gets the chance to bid.

So this is what net zero looks like on the ground. A man who produced food is priced out of his own glen. A corporation that produced emissions buys the glen, calls itself a force for good, and sells the carbon. The land stops feeding anyone. Nobody's emissions actually went down by a gram.

The food was real. The farmer was real. The carbon saving is a line in a slide deck.

And we have somehow decided the villain in all this is the man with the sheep.

[SOI media 🇬🇧 @MediaSOI]

A large hovercraft like this could carry around 400 illegal migrants back to France in 25 minutes. It doesn’t need to dock, it could drop them right back on the French beach they embarked from.
To hell with French opinion.

[Mr Cynical @mark___austin]

Young man got a degree in computer science can’t get a job and should now really think about retraining maybe a skilled construction job ? #bbcqt

[Mr Cynical @mark___austin]

@kelvmackenzie @PatrickChristys look into this maybe !!

[Kelvin MacKenzie @kelvmackenzie]

Congrats to the duplicitous Andy Burnham on making a success of being a landlord ( what would his lefty mates say? ) having bought a 2-bedroomed flat in London 20 years ago , seeing it double in value to £500K and now being rented out for a handy £3K-3.5K.
Where Burnham was fortunate and other landlords weren’t, is that for years the interest on his mortgage was paid through his expenses because he was an MP.
But he took an even bigger advantage by renting out his place in Kennington and instead rented a place nearby and sent the whole bill to the taxpayer.
That’s now illegal but basically he took advantage of an Xs racket in Parliament making him, in my view, unsuitable to be an MP.
He’s a creep and he wants to bring that thought process to Downing Street.
The more you hear of Burnham the more you know the good people of Makerfield won’t be voting for him.

[Holistic Fitness @HolisticFitnes_]

this is mind blowing

[Mr Cynical @mark___austin]

@KemiBadenoch wake up & smell the coffee.
You should stand down in Makerfield let Reform win the seat it can be precursor to a deal at the next GE - otherwise Burnham wins ,Labour reset and you will never be back in power,this is the last chance for this country don’t blow it

[Tony @EvacTony]

After October the 7th when they celebrated on the streets with their Palastine flags he said NOTHING.

When people drove through London threatening to r@pe Jews he said NOTHING.

When British school girls were r@ped by immigrants he said NOTHING.

When people were murdered by those they let in on the boats he said NOTHING.

Two years of antisemitic hate marches every weekend and hes said NOTHING!

Now people like me gather to peacefully but vocally push back and as he did after Southport, he brands us all racist thugs!

I know some of those organising tomorrow, I go every year. Colourful characters yes, racists no! Racisms got nothing to do with #UniteTheKingdom.

Your attempts to use us as a distraction from your own problems sickens me #KeirStarmer, you know nothing of real British people, you know nothing of #TommyRobinson, you know nothing of us.

We're just normal patriotic people who are worried for our families because of what you're doing to our Country.

I've heard people say although you're a useless PM you're a decent man. I know you to be exactly the opposite.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

It’s quite an achievement to suffer a catastrophic kicking at the local elections and decide what the people really want is:

* Rejoin the EU

* Digital ID

* Don’t mention immigration whatever happens

Labour are dead and buried.

[@ChatsWithEm @chatswithem]

Who are these far right agitators this evil man speaks of ??

He's banned conservative speakers, none of who have been in trouble or done anything wrong or extreme

He's banned a Belgian politician! And a sitting MEP from Poland!!!

Yet he allows actual hate marches every weekend that shout vile rhetoric against our Jewish friends

He shakes hands with an ex leader of ISIS ffs!!!

He allows the IRGC - a proscribed terrorist regime and the Muslim brotherhood to operate in the U.K. !!

And yet he calls normal and decent British people of all colours and creeds who love this country and care for it . "Far right"

Again

This man is the most anti British, hateful and divisive character in our political history

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇨🇳 Chinese car tech is getting harder to dismiss.

The West spent decades laughing at Chinese cars. That era is over.

[Earth_Wanderer @earth_tracker]

Mountain goat casually parkours across a sheer cliff like it’s nothing. Nature’s real-life superhero. 🐐⛰️

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

Asylum seekers make up 0.08% of Dorset’s population

And 44% of alleged sex offences

[Laila Cunningham @policylaila]

Two men live in Zone 2 London.
Both are around 30. Both sleep in a one-bed flat.

But only one believes he has a future in the city.

James was born in London.
He went to university, got a degree, found a decent job and now works at a marketing firm near Old Street.

He earns just under £60,000 a year.
On paper, he is doing well.

But every month James opens his payslip and watches a third of it vanish before he ever sees it.

Income tax.National Insurance.Student loan.Then comes the rent.

Nearly £2,000 a month for a small one-bed flat with mould around the windows and a landlord who only renews the tenancy six months at a time.

Every evening James scrolls Rightmove looking at tiny flats he cannot afford in the city he grew up in.

Even the cheapest one-beds near him now cost around £400,000.

The deposit alone feels impossible despite earning more than most people in Britain.

His parents bought their first home younger than he is now.
James still does not know if he will ever own one.
So he keeps renting.Keeps waiting.
He watches friends delay children.

People earning what used to be considered “good money” still checking every direct debit before payday.

Now meet Shaheed.
He arrived in Britain recently and was granted refugee status.
He does not work.

He lives in a one-bed flat in East London. His housing costs and council tax are largely covered through the welfare system.

He qualifies for free prescriptions, dental treatment and eye tests.

He does not spend his evenings worrying whether the next rent rise will wipe out what little he has left at the end of the month.

And this is the part driving so much public anger.

James works full time, pays a fortune in tax and still cannot see a long-term future in the city he was born in.

Shaheed does not work, yet has more housing security than the man whose taxes help fund the system.

That is how a city loses its young people, because they stop believing hard work leads anywhere.

London has to become a city where the people who work, contribute and build lives here can realistically afford homes, raise families and feel secure again.

[SOI media 🇬🇧 @MediaSOI]

Who’s it gonna be?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "Where did they get it?"

Activist: "What?"

Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."

Activist: "From... eating?"

Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."

Activist: "The soil?"

Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."

Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."

Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."

Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."

Activist: "It's not that simple."

Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

[Mr Cynical @mark___austin]

People cant understand why Starmer won’t resign but it’s obvious ,he’s holding out simply for the money .
Historically ex PMs go on to t o the speaking circuit and get paid well - who the f#ck is going to pay to listen to that t#at !!