Mark

Retweet≠endorsement. British/Northern Irish. Pro integrated education. Pro choice.

[Mark @markbtuk]

Going to take a punt here. Investigation into Garvaghy protests will be strung out to near next election.
If there's even a sniff that there might be no prosecutions, SF will play up the lawbreaking aspect to trigger pressure FOR prosecutions.
Pre-election martyrdom.
We'll see.

[Mark @markbtuk]

Northern Ireland is screaming for more integration & an end to segregation with its duplication of costs.
Sinn Fein is sponsoring an Irish Education Bill that creates third strand of segregation & leads to triplication of budgets.
Utter madness & parties are right to block it.

[Mark @markbtuk]

@BelfastLive @thedissenter Until MLA's balance the books and agree a budget, they're spending £20m they haven't got. And they want a pat on the back for that?

[Mark @markbtuk]

@JamieBrysonLLB He briefed board members against the interpretation and line of enquiry adopted by PSNI? Did that briefing include senior officers? If so, is this a case of an associate of the Policing Board prejudicing live investigations?

[Mark @markbtuk]

Incisive analysis, well worth a read.

[Steve Scrase @StevenScrase]

This is not a sensible regulatory tweak; it is the panicked, humiliated collapse of state-mandated central planning colliding at full speed with physical and economic reality.

Under the Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate, Whitehall bureaucrats constructed an administrative extortion racket. They decreed that car manufacturers must hit ruthless annual electric quotas, stepping up toward 80 percent by 2030, or hand the Treasury a statutory fine of up to £15,000 for every single non-compliant car sold. The British public looked at £50,000 showroom prices, catastrophic battery depreciation, surging insurance costs, and an unreliable public network, and simply refused to buy. Faced with ruinous fines, carmakers were forced into madness: actively choking off the delivery of petrol and diesel cars to British forecourts just to rig their sales percentages. Stellantis, Ford, and Nissan gave Downing Street an ultimatum: dismantle these unworkable targets, or watch UK car plants shut down and thousands of industrial jobs disappear overnight.

Labour did not retreat out of sympathy for ordinary families. They blinked because they were staring into an industrial wipeout engineered entirely in Westminster.

Cutting the target down toward 50 percent does not save the British motorist. It traps millions of drivers in a deliberate no-man’s-land. The legal ban on the sale of new pure petrol and diesel cars remains on the statute books. Because the state spent years terrifying automakers into starving combustion production lines, the pipeline of reliable, affordable engines has been dismantled. The used car market is being bled dry of affordable family vehicles, forcing working households to hold onto aging cars while local authorities punish them through expanding Clean Air Zones, punitive parking permits, and soaring vehicle excise duty.

The entire electrification project was sold on an infrastructural lie. Over 40 percent of households across Britain live in terraced housing or flats with zero private off-street parking. Trailing high-voltage charging cables across public pavements is illegal. The country has barely a third of the public charge points required for mass transition, and the local low-voltage distribution substations buried beneath British streets cannot handle whole neighbourhoods plugging in simultaneously at tea time. The copper in the ground will blow before the physical grid ever supports the spreadsheet fantasies of Whitehall.

The trap is already set. As fuel duty receipts inevitably crater, the Treasury will never write off a £30 billion annual hole in the public finances. The inevitable conclusion to this botched transition is universal satellite surveillance and mandatory pay-per-mile road pricing.

They engineered a vehicle famine, devastated domestic manufacturing, failed to lay the copper for the grid, and now intend to tax your basic right to travel by the yard.

Managed decline is no longer an administrative accident. It is government policy.

#EVtargets #ZEVMandate #WhitehallAudit #CostOfLiving

[Trafficwatch NI @TrafficwatchNI]

M2 - Road users are advised of a four vehicle collision City bound on the M2 at J6 Rathbeg - The outer lane is blocked with delays building, please allow extra time for your journey this AM until this incident has been cleared (07:54)

[Niyak Ghorbani (نیاک) @GhorbaniiNiyak]

We are IRAN not Islamic Republic!

[Mark @markbtuk]

@ARMANDCOFFlN @fenianhecox That"s not how CMC spelt gaeilge though. Hence the tweet.

[Mark @markbtuk]

@fenianhecox @ARMANDCOFFlN Is that pronounced any differently to when it's spelt correctly?

[Mark @markbtuk]

Sean has done a runner because answering the questions was going to make him look like a complete headcase.

[Mark @markbtuk]

@Uinseann13 @MrRCain2 @moneillsf @DeirdreHargey @MaryLouMcDonald @sinnfeinireland Just waiting for the rest of it now.....

[Mark @markbtuk]

@Uinseann13 @MrRCain2 @moneillsf @DeirdreHargey @MaryLouMcDonald @sinnfeinireland Just waiting for the rest of it now.....

[Mark @markbtuk]

@Uinseann13 @MrRCain2 @moneillsf @DeirdreHargey @MaryLouMcDonald @sinnfeinireland A partial answer is a great start.

[Mark @markbtuk]

@Uinseann13 @MrRCain2 @moneillsf @DeirdreHargey @MaryLouMcDonald @sinnfeinireland How far is McClure St from the point where the parade was directed to start? And where did the parade start?

[Mark @markbtuk]

@Toibin1 You remember the judge told the Drumcree Orangemen "you have the right to have this parade, but just because you have the right to do something doesn't mean you have to do it"?
Did that fly right over your head?
Never mind - we're flush, we'll pick up the tab for your stunt.

[Mark @markbtuk]

@ConnorsDea66475 @PhillipBrett21 Have a good day.

[Mark @markbtuk]

@ConnorsDea66475 @PhillipBrett21 Oh, I got your point. The crassitude of where and why you made it is clearly over your head though.

[Mark @markbtuk]

@ConnorsDea66475 @PhillipBrett21 The stench of that reply is more than any normal person could tolerate.

[Mark @markbtuk]

@GreenMoville @BBCNolan @SorchaEastwood Just filling in the gaps you left.

[Mark @markbtuk]

@GreenMoville @BBCNolan @SorchaEastwood And to be accurate, one stood on a road after also having wasted half a billion of tax-payer money. Remember....

[Mark @markbtuk]

@GreenMoville @BBCNolan @SorchaEastwood What value do you put on legislators who abide by the laws that apply to everyone else?