HS2 has burned through £40 billion of taxpayer money.
The northern legs scrapped.
Costs still rising.
Completion nowhere in sight.
This isn’t infrastructure.
It’s a case study in how Britain wastes money at scale.
Pray, let us savour the sight of this condemned soul’s final dance… here come the war mongers.
Alright Kev. Hit us.
Oh do fuck off with your sanctimonious little keyboard warrior routine, Kevin Maguire you pompous, perpetually outraged relic of a bygone era when being a lefty meant something other than virtue-signalling from the safety of your Guardian-subsidised armchair.
Epic Fail? Really, Kev?
You slap that tired caption on a live blog about the US and Israel methodically dismantling Iranian military assets, command centres turned to rubble, missile sites reduced to smoking craters, nuclear-adjacent facilities getting the precision haircut they’ve long deserved and you call it a failure?
What a deliciously predictable tantrum from the man who’s spent decades rooting for every tin-pot tyrant who hates the West.
Iran’s proxies are shitting bricks, their terror chequebook is running dry, the mullahs are reduced to lobbing fireworks while their economy chokes on sanctions, and you’re over here crying “war mongers” like a toddler who dropped his ice cream.
How fucking brilliant.
The strikes are surgical, civilian casualties are minimised compared to any comparable operation in history, and the region’s biggest state sponsor of murder is getting a long-overdue spanking.
Yet here you are, Kevin, clutching your pearls, sneering at strength, equivocating like the moral coward you’ve always been.
Ukraine? You tutted at aid.
Gaza? You wailed about “both sides.”
Now Iran? Same old script: blame the good guys, shield the savages, pretend your defeatist drivel is principle.
The British public loathes you, mate. Always have.
The working-class folk you pretend to champion see straight through your champagne-socialist bollocks; the patriots who still give a damn about civilisation view you as a walking useful idiot for every bearded bastard who wants us gone.
You’re the human equivalent of a soggy crisp packet at the seaside, crumpled, useless, and faintly embarrassing.
So do one, Kev.
Piss off to Bluesky where the cocks-in-frocks brigade will lap up your desperate attention-seeking like cats at a saucer of cream.
They adore a man so starved for relevance he’ll tweet “Epic Fail” while real nations actually confront evil instead of wanking over their own moral superiority.
The rest of us will carry on cheering the thunder without your eternal, whiny soundtrack.
Britain First. No Surrender. 🦁🇬🇧
Can someone tell me what I’m actually paying for?
My latest council tax bill has arrived. £330 a month.
For what?
We still have to pay extra just to have the garden waste collected.
The roads are knackered, the drains are blocked, and every time it rains the streets flood.
The local town is now devoid of shops because business rates and parking charges have made it almost impossible to trade and expensive for people to visit.
So where is the money going?
Councils spend tax revenue on vanity projects like cycle lanes that might see a bike once a decade and disability parking bays that sit empty most of the time.
Meanwhile the services we actually rely on continue to decline.
We are expected to pay more and more for less and less.
And at the same time we all see public money being spent on people who entered this country illegally and have never contributed.
So I’ll ask again.
What exactly are we paying for?
The whole system is broken.
🚨BREAKING: IT HAS BEEN REVEALED THAT DAVID LAMMY LIED REGARDING THE APPOINTMENT OF PETER MANDELSON AS AMBASSADOR
Lammy claimed he warned Starmer NOT to appoint Mandelson
Now it has been revealed on OFFICIAL RECORD he APPROVED of the appointment
Labour always lying
100% this, everything they touch goes wrong.
Yet the dafties will still vote them back in in May.
We deserve better than another 5 years of these clowns running Scotland
Think about who and more importantly what you are voting for come May
Every football club on earth exists because of this island. 🇬🇧
Kings banned it. The richest schools in England claimed it. They wrote the rules and locked the gates.
Then the working class stole it back.
In 1850, Parliament passed the Factory Act. Work stopped at two on a Saturday. Working men had free time. And they chose football.
Churches formed clubs to keep men out of pubs: Aston Villa, Bolton, Everton.
Factories formed teams from their own workers: West Ham from the Thames Ironworks, Arsenal from a munitions factory.
The FA Cup Final. Blackburn Olympic: weavers, spinners, a plumber. They beat the Old Etonians 2-1. No private school team ever reached the final again.
Then British workers carried it everywhere they went ⚽🌍
Scottish miners in Spain founded its oldest club. A Nottingham lace trader gave Juventus their black and white stripes.
A butcher's son from the same city founded AC Milan. British railway workers in Uruguay named their team after Stephenson's Rocket.
Cornish miners founded Mexico's first football club. A schoolteacher from Kent taught the game to his students in Argentina. His school produced Lionel Messi.
A boy from Southampton brought two footballs to Brazil. They call him the father of Brazilian football.
Real Madrid are said to wear white because of an English amateur team.
From Lancashire cotton mills to every continent on earth.
Three and a half billion people watch football. The most popular sport ever created. And it was created here. By the British people.
Every Saturday, three o'clock. That kickoff time exists because of the Factory Act of 1850. The moment working men were given an afternoon off.
They chose football. And the world followed.
No owners. No sponsors. Just supporters.
Be part of us. 👉 https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf 🙏
Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
Activist: "Every time a cow breathes out it's contributing to climate change."
Farmer: "That's not quite how it works."
Activist: "Cows emit CO2 when they breathe."
Farmer: "So do you."
Activist: "Not at the same volume."
Farmer: "The CO2 a cow breathes out came from the grass it ate, which came from the atmosphere."
Activist: "It's still adding to the carbon in the air."
Farmer: "It's returning carbon that was already in the air. Via the grass. That's a cycle."
Activist: "Cycles still add up."
Farmer: "A closed cycle doesn't add up. It goes around."
Activist: "You're being evasive."
Farmer: "I'm describing photosynthesis and respiration."
Activist: "In a way that conveniently excuses your cattle."
Farmer: "In a way that's accurate. The inconvenience is coincidental."
Activist: "I'll look it up."
Farmer: "You'll find it under GCSE Biology. Chapter three, roughly."
As you say governed by idiots.
They really don't have any economic intelligence on how to run an economy.
Every time these clowns get into government they destroy jobs, yet they are supposedly the workers party.
Charlatans, incompetent ones at that.
Norway drills the North Sea & gets richer.
Britain BANS drilling, taxes the industry to death, sacks 1,000 workers a month, then buys the SAME oil & gas from Norway.
Same seabed. Same reservoirs. It's the DUMBEST act of economic self-harm imaginable.
We are being Governed by IDIOTS🇬🇧
The cold light of day after that embarrassment at Ibrox yesterday shows everything that is wrong with the two arse cheeks of Scottish football.
"We had to defend our home" - Shut the fuck up.
"It was all Rangers fans, wasn't us" - Shut the fuck up.
"It was the police and stewards fault
" - Shut the fuck up.
Both sides are culpable. As soon as Celtic fans invaded the pitch, it was obvious that would bring the Rangers fans on. The Rangers fans were then absolutely ridiculous, attacking female police officers, throwing flares into the Celtic end. The destruction of the away end, embarrassing.
Whatever ramifications come, they better effect the pair of them only and not the rest of Scotland. This is a them problem.
The scenes in Glasgow city centre are horrific. I dread to see what tomorrow will bring. These beautiful buildings, gone. The history, gone. For what? Vape shops ran by foreign leeches.. This needs to end.
It shouldn’t have taken an Iranian attack on the world’s largest gas export facility in Qatar for us to realise the benefits of being able to produce our own oil and gas.
As the world gets more dangerous, we must ditch fantasy Net Zero thinking and prioritise our own energy resilience.
All of this has shown up our luxury belief that we in Britain are better off keeping our own oil and gas in the ground while making ourselves more reliant on Qatari LNG imports.
First, let’s get the worst of the climate change lobby’s arguments out of the way.
Destroying our own oil and gas production does not mean we will need any less oil and gas.
Even the captured Climate Change Committee acknowledges that we’ll need oil and gas for decades to come.
If we are going to need it, then of course we should get as much as possible from Britain. That is just common sense.
Instead of maximising our own production, we’ve been sleepwalking into disaster and allowed the powerful green lobby to demonise an industry that is vital for our national resilience.
Yesterday, Rachel Reeves missed an opportunity at the Spring Statement to reverse the damage that has been wrought on the North Sea.
The Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband, is a dangerous fantasist who has been hellbent on sacrificing our oil and gas production on the altar of Net Zero.
He’d banned new oil and gas licences and charging effective marginal tax rates of over 100% on some companies.
And for what? So we can increase our imports of higher-emission LNG from the other side of the world by 40% while British production is in freefall.
The green lobby argue that there is no point drilling more in the North Sea, because ‘all of our gas is sold on international markets’. This is nonsense.
Every single molecule of gas we extract from the North Sea goes into our pipes, making up half of our supply.
We are losing 1,000 jobs a month, squandering £50 billion of investment and becoming less secure. Not a single exploration well was drilled in British waters last year – for the first time since 1964.
Labour trumpet that the basin is just in natural decline. But Norway, which shares the exact same basin, tells a different story – last year they drilled 49 exploration wells and made 21 new discoveries.
Admittedly, my own party have not been perfect. Policies like the windfall tax or mandating the electrification of oil rigs have not helped.
When I was Energy Secretary, I signed off Rosebank, legislated to protect oil and gas licences and fought against windfall taxes – all in the face of great opposition.
The Conservatives are clear that the oil and gas industry is a national asset and we must do all we can to maximise economic recovery of our own resources.
So what should Rachel Reeves have done yesterday? First, end the ban on new licences, end the windfall tax, and scrap the Net Zero duties which are hammering our oil and gas sector. Fast-track permissions for Rosebank and Jackdaw.
Downstream, our heavy industry and refineries are in crisis. We lost a third of our refineries last year alone. We have to stop imposing crippling, escalating Carbon Taxes that are killing British industry.
We need to double down on nuclear which has the most secure energy supply chain, streamline regulations and reverse Labour’s decision to cancel my plan for another large nuclear plant at Wylfa.
We must be clear-eyed about the fact that Ed Miliband is making us dangerously exposed to China’s dominance of critical mineral and renewable supply chains.
We need to repeal the Climate Change Act that forces us to subordinate the priorities of energy security and affordability to decarbonisation.
And if we want lower reliance on oil and gas, growth, and better living standards, then we must make electricity cheap.
Our Cheap Power Plan to cut electricity bills by 20% for households and businesses would be a start.
As the world gets more dangerous, we need to prioritise our energy and industrial resilience.