Nat

South Shields lad, SAFC fan, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, Like playing golf and poker 🇬🇧 Views are my own.

[PFA @PFA]

A Brian Brobbey brace 🔥

Sunderland’s number 9 has the Netherlands two goals ahead inside 17 minutes 👏

[bet365 @bet365]

Brian Brobbey scored four league goals the season before signing for #SAFC - since then:

Scored late to secure a point vs Arsenal.

Scored the winner vs Bournemouth.

Scored late to secure a point away at Spurs.

Scored the winner against Crystal Palace.

Scored the winner away at Newcastle.

Scored five minutes into his first World Cup start.

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

We're so blessed to be living in the same era as Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Brian Brobbey. Just enjoy them while you can.

[Sunderland AFC @SunderlandAFC]

Lovely.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

There is a particular breed of politician who wants to send Britain back to the Dark Ages.

Ed Miliband, with his bans on tumble dryers and underfloor heating.

The Green Party councillors banning leaf-blowers in favour of rakes.

The Malthusian de-growthers like Thomas Piketty who argue that we should impose growth caps on developed countries because of climate change.

What they all have in common is a supreme indifference to the hardship their policies impose on the public.

Ed Miliband has been on a joyless spree of consumer intrusion since coming to power. His spray of Net Zero policies leaves virtually no part of ordinary life untouched.

The cost of electricity, food, housing, tumble dryers, boilers, fertiliser, towel rails and underfloor heating will all rise because of his unshakeable belief that he should decide what is best for you to buy.

These are all features of modernity that make lives better for billions around the world, but does that matter to Miliband? Not a jot.

He believes that Britons should be uniquely punished, forced to wear a hairshirt while our industry is destroyed and our beleaguered consumers piled with even higher costs.

Why? So he can jet around to climate conferences talking about his ‘climate leadership’ and arguing for others to do the same.

It’s not clear who he is going to convince first. President Xi? President Trump? Putin?

No world leader will be persuaded by his spit-flecked proselytising. “I made my country poor! We no longer have any industry and the cost of living is out of control! You should do the same!”

We must be honest that forcing hardship onto British consumers is not saving anyone. It is only acting as a deterrent to the rest of the world who hold Britain up as an example of exactly what not to do.

Under Kemi Badenoch’s and my leadership, we have renounced the mistakes of those who came before us. We would repeal the Climate Change Act and its dogmatic net zero targets in full.

That’s not to reject all clean tech as “stupid”, as some on the right do. There are many consumers who enjoy their heat pumps, home batteries and electric cars. But consumer choice should be king.

Businesses should compete to innovate until they produce what consumers actually want. The public will adopt new technologies when they decide they make their lives better.

And the salt in the wound for the climate zealots? Countries that have seen clean tech through the eyes of consumers, not those of climate bureaucrats, have generally had much higher rates of adoption.

It cannot be right that a few privileged bureaucrats can keep pushing higher costs on a worn-out public.

We have to embrace uncertainty. We have to recognise government’s role is to enable, not to dictate. Consumer choice must prevail.

[Alpine Observer @Alpine_Hermit]

Starmer doesn’t care about the Labour party other than using it for as long as possible to implement policies according to external internationalist lobbyists.

Maitlis BBC:
“Do you prefer Westminster or Davos?”

Starmer’s immediate and unequivocal reply:
“Davos”.

He doesn’t care about damaging British interests, let alone his vehicle of the Labour party.

https://t.co/vhqPf42v9V…

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer is now considering resigning after Cabinet Ministers called for him to step down

He'll come to a decision with his wife and family over the weekend

[@thetimes]

[Nat @Natbicker]

@HonestHalo The next general election can’t come soon enough

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

A timely reminder that based on the standards Labour set in 2022, if Andy Burnham becomes PM via a leadership election, a General Election should be called.

If Andy Burnham is crowned PM, a General Election should be called.

We have the receipts ready.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Just to remind these same folk:
You’ve not lifted 1/2m kids out of poverty. You’ve just moved them over a bureaucratic line on a Whitehall spreadsheet.
Your ‘workers rights’ are destroying entry-level jobs, hitting young people disproportionately, where unemployment is now over 16%.
You have not transformed the NHS. It’s still the same old wheezing leviathan, just with a lot more dosh and still dismal productivity.
And you’ve nationalised steel and rail before. It was not the prelude to an economic or industrial miracle. Plus you will now have to include their demands for capital/subsidies among all the other priorities already crowding in on the public purse.
Other than that your reminder was useful. Thank you.

[Nat @Natbicker]

@elonmusk The left will have spent more than this on Net Zero and still achieved nothing besides screwing themselves over in the pursuit of stupidity

[Nat @Natbicker]

@grok @ObviousRises @ZiaYusufUK

[Nat @Natbicker]

@grok @ObviousRises Well that is worrying isn't it..

[Nat @Natbicker]

@KiMcGuinness @AndyBurnhamGM @reformparty_uk 🙏

[British Intel @TheBritishIntel]

🇬🇧 STARMER HAS NO MANDATE FOR A SURVEILLANCE STATE

Keir Starmer says he will continue delivering the agenda he was elected on.

The problem is that mass online surveillance, digital ID checks, facial recognition requirements and internet censorship were never put to the British people.

No one voted for this.

No one was asked whether they wanted the Government monitoring access to social media or expanding state control over the internet.

This was not in the manifesto.

Starmer is governing as though he has a mandate for measures the public were never given the chance to approve.

[Sunderland AFC @SunderlandAFC]

😬 GRAAANITTTTT!!!

The first Black Cat to score at the 2026 #FIFAWorldCup 🤩

It had to be him.