![JChimirie66677's tweet photo. Criminally Negligent. Andrew Neil's Words. Britain's Reality.
Andrew Neil does not use language carelessly. Writing in the Daily Mail this morning, he describes Britain as stuck in an energy emergency with an oil and gas policy bordering on the criminally negligent, delivered by a bunch of clueless inadequates at the tiller. He is not reaching for effect. He is delivering a verdict. And the evidence he marshals is unanswerable.
The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for the first time in history. Oil is heading toward two hundred dollars a barrel. Britain is facing the worst energy crisis since the Yom Kippur War of 1973. The International Energy Agency has described the supply disruption as the largest in history. And the government overseeing this catastrophe has spent the past year doing everything in its power to ensure Britain would be maximally exposed when it arrived. It closed North Sea oil and gas production. It borrowed against already strained public finances. It built an economic strategy on OBR forecasts that the energy crisis has already rendered obsolete. And it put the man most responsible for Britain's energy vulnerability, Ed Miliband, in charge of the response.
The Miliband contradiction has been hiding in plain sight for months. He stood at the despatch box during the energy debate last year and warned that Britain was a price taker not a price maker in international fossil fuel markets, leaving it exposed to their volatility. He was right. He was also the man who ensured that exposure would be as severe as possible by closing down the domestic production that could have cushioned the blow. The North Sea fields that could have been producing. The coal beds that remain untouched. The nuclear capacity that was decommissioned in pursuit of net zero targets that now look like a luxury policy designed for a world that no longer exists. Miliband diagnosed the disease and administered the poison.
Rachel Reeves now faces the consequences. The fiscal headroom she has been defending against every request for defence spending, every demand from the Treasury and every warning from military chiefs, is being wiped out not by defence costs alone but by the energy price shock her own government's choices made inevitable. Her foundations, as Neil puts it, are built on quicksand. The borrowing costs are rising at the fastest pace since the Liz Truss mini-budget. Foreign creditors are watching. The bond markets are watching. And the Chancellor is discovering that the numbers she has been citing as proof of fiscal responsibility were always dependent on a stable world that this government's foreign policy paralysis helped to destabilise.
Neil makes one observation that connects the economic catastrophe to the political one with surgical precision. A stronger Prime Minister would have fired Miliband. He is right. The man who led the Cabinet revolt against supporting America, who blocked the use of Diego Garcia, who has spent a year dismantling Britain's energy independence and who stood at the despatch box admitting British households would pay the price, is still in his post. Still in the Cabinet. Still in the room. The reason Starmer has not fired him is the same reason he needed a drone on his own runway before he would act, the same reason he consulted his team on minesweepers and the same reason Britain is now a diminished, exposed and strategically paralysed country being described in its own press as a nation of clueless inadequates. He cannot afford to. The coalition that put him in power will not allow it. And so the inadequates remain at the tiller while Britain heads for the rocks.
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@MichaelVaughan @StickToCricket Vaughnie, who is the person exactly who decides this? Who is THE person who decides and signs it off. And please don’t say it’s a committee. I would like to know a name. Then I would like to ask that specific person, why? #crazy
Two of England’s greatest unveiled at Lord’s this evening.
Painted by artist Jamie Routley, James Anderson and Stuart Broad stand side by side in the Lord’s Long Room.
A portrait befitting of two absolute legends of the game.
MCC should recognise England hero Harold Larwood with Lord’s portrait. Along with @NHoultCricket I make the case for Larwood in the week that James Anderson and Stuart Broad will be, rightfully, honoured
https://t.co/kFdsBZjpIq
The Test Pitch at Headingley was another belter … it’s now the best pitch in the country … but the ground won’t host a Test until 2029 !!! That can’t be right … England would love to playing an Ashes Test in Leeds …
Michaela has two grammar schools nearby - one for boys and one for girls.
At 11, top set kids don’t get in. The ones who might have had a chance, sit the exam and don’t pass it.
Then they attend Michaela: we are their consolation prize.
But 5 years later, they get, on average, more than 2 grades higher on their GCSEs thanks to what they and their teachers do: work hard, no excuses, traditional values and teaching, warm/strict discipline, drive, ambition, and above all, the ability to ignore the haters.
They get GCSE grades that compete with Eton that costs over 50k per year.
They (and other lower ability Michaela kids) then do their A levels, do so well to compete with Winchester and other big boarding schools that cost a bomb.
In a school building with no trees, no grass, no sports hall, no car park for the staff to park their cars! With the trains so loud next to us that the heads of year can barely be heard in the asphalt yard.
Then their headteacher posts a ‘Hooray’ online with a few videos of them getting their results.
Happy kids. How lovely. 🥰
But what do the haters do?
ATTACK!
Over and over.
How dare I be happy our kids have done well! Apparently saying ‘hooray’ is ‘crowing’ and ‘over the top’ and I should shut the hell up. How dare I say anything: I should hang my head in shame apparently.
Without irony, these same people post about Jason Arday and how the hate sent his way was unforgivable.
But your hate for me has no bounds.
I said ‘Hooray’.
ONE WORD. ONE F’ing WORD.
You people are the worst hypocrites imaginable.
Inner city kids do incredibly well and you dare to criticise this as some kind of abomination.
Do some inner soul searching.
God knows, you need it.
When our GCSE results come out on Thursday, I expect the hate to come again. That will be despite the comprehensive intake given to us by the council like any other school, kids starting below their chronological reading ages etc.
The hate is always the worst in August: because that is when results come out.
Nothing you all hate more than seeing inner city kids succeed. Videos with brown and black kids celebrating.
You just can’t stand it.
Depraved and disgusting.
That’s what you are.
Thanks to everyone who reposted this post and the clip of Lord Monckton dismantling the climate narrative.
This is probably the most important post I’ve ever made. It cuts through the noise and exposes how climate policy has been shaped and driven by the UN, EU and successive UK governments—with Blair and Obama playing pivotal roles in taking the agenda global.
The implications are enormous.
If the public has been sold a narrative rather than the full truth, we have every right to ask who constructed it, why, and who ultimately benefits.
Keep sharing it. The more people who see the evidence, the harder it becomes to ignore. 👊🏽
QUENTIN LETTS: Miliband is a gauche and dangerous nincompoop https://t.co/HSwQxh5mx5
Ann Widdecombe:
"No one has the right to live their lives being protected from offence or hurt feelings - it is an occupational hazard of living in a society. If you can't take it, become a hermit."
May she forever rest in peace.
@AnnaClarke_____ You just can't build a high speed railway through the Chilterns without tunnelling. HS2 knew that much.
However, the ludicrous design had the tunnel climbing at a steep gradient to emerge close to the highest point on the route.
Chipping Warden is nowhere near the Chilterns.
@sainsburys any chance of getting this sorted? Gatehouse Aylesbury.
Best thing to do is to remove them so it doesn't encourage this fly tipping.
Thank you.
@BucksFlyTipping can you help please?
Can anybody from Burnham's press team please explain to us why Quentin Letts was banned from Burnham's speech yesterday? Or are rhey not answering questions either?
Clusters, missions, place-based collaboration, 'powering up', a rewired Britain...it's all a little amorphous. Abstract. A Jackson Pollock sort of speech. A load of Pollocks, perhaps.
Bloody depressing about Stokes retirement. Looks as if the drudges and puritans of cricket management have won.
🚨The global LNG industry has 494 MTPA of liquefaction capacity and 1,188 MTPA of regasification capacity.
The world built x2 as much receiving infrastructure as sending infrastructure.
That gap is the entire European energy security story.
2025 global LNG infrastructure:
→ 22 exporting markets
→ 48 importing markets
→ 494.4 MTPA liquefaction capacity
→ 1,188 MTPA regasification capacity
→ 411 MT actually traded
The world can receive 2.4x more LNG than it can currently produce.
The constraint is always on the export side.
📍Look at the map and follow the orange dots westward.
🇺🇸US Gulf Coast: Sabine Pass, Corpus Christi, Freeport, Cameron, Cove Point — all loading, all running near capacity.
Middle East: Ras Laffan is the orange cluster that's currently disrupted. Das Island, Jebel Ali, Fujairah the terminals the IRGC just drew a military control map around.
Asia-Pacific: the world's largest concentration of import terminals Japan, South Korea, China all competing for the same cargoes Europe needs.
Europe's blue dots tell the post-2022 story: South Hook, Isle of Grain, Gate, Zeebrugge, Dunkerque, Montoir, Barcelona a continent that spent decades avoiding LNG dependency, now racing to build receiving capacity.
1,188 MTPA of regasification globally.
More than enough to absorb every molecule the world can produce.
The bottleneck was always liquefaction.
The 8 stocks best positioned to own that bottleneck are in my latest article.
Link in the comments 👇
Criminally Negligent. Andrew Neil's Words. Britain's Reality.
Andrew Neil does not use language carelessly. Writing in the Daily Mail this morning, he describes Britain as stuck in an energy emergency with an oil and gas policy bordering on the criminally negligent, delivered by a bunch of clueless inadequates at the tiller. He is not reaching for effect. He is delivering a verdict. And the evidence he marshals is unanswerable.
The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for the first time in history. Oil is heading toward two hundred dollars a barrel. Britain is facing the worst energy crisis since the Yom Kippur War of 1973. The International Energy Agency has described the supply disruption as the largest in history. And the government overseeing this catastrophe has spent the past year doing everything in its power to ensure Britain would be maximally exposed when it arrived. It closed North Sea oil and gas production. It borrowed against already strained public finances. It built an economic strategy on OBR forecasts that the energy crisis has already rendered obsolete. And it put the man most responsible for Britain's energy vulnerability, Ed Miliband, in charge of the response.
The Miliband contradiction has been hiding in plain sight for months. He stood at the despatch box during the energy debate last year and warned that Britain was a price taker not a price maker in international fossil fuel markets, leaving it exposed to their volatility. He was right. He was also the man who ensured that exposure would be as severe as possible by closing down the domestic production that could have cushioned the blow. The North Sea fields that could have been producing. The coal beds that remain untouched. The nuclear capacity that was decommissioned in pursuit of net zero targets that now look like a luxury policy designed for a world that no longer exists. Miliband diagnosed the disease and administered the poison.
Rachel Reeves now faces the consequences. The fiscal headroom she has been defending against every request for defence spending, every demand from the Treasury and every warning from military chiefs, is being wiped out not by defence costs alone but by the energy price shock her own government's choices made inevitable. Her foundations, as Neil puts it, are built on quicksand. The borrowing costs are rising at the fastest pace since the Liz Truss mini-budget. Foreign creditors are watching. The bond markets are watching. And the Chancellor is discovering that the numbers she has been citing as proof of fiscal responsibility were always dependent on a stable world that this government's foreign policy paralysis helped to destabilise.
Neil makes one observation that connects the economic catastrophe to the political one with surgical precision. A stronger Prime Minister would have fired Miliband. He is right. The man who led the Cabinet revolt against supporting America, who blocked the use of Diego Garcia, who has spent a year dismantling Britain's energy independence and who stood at the despatch box admitting British households would pay the price, is still in his post. Still in the Cabinet. Still in the room. The reason Starmer has not fired him is the same reason he needed a drone on his own runway before he would act, the same reason he consulted his team on minesweepers and the same reason Britain is now a diminished, exposed and strategically paralysed country being described in its own press as a nation of clueless inadequates. He cannot afford to. The coalition that put him in power will not allow it. And so the inadequates remain at the tiller while Britain heads for the rocks.
"Miliband diagnosed the disease and administered the poison. [...]. Rachel Reeves now faces the consequences."
![JChimirie66677's tweet photo. Criminally Negligent. Andrew Neil's Words. Britain's Reality.
Andrew Neil does not use language carelessly. Writing in the Daily Mail this morning, he describes Britain as stuck in an energy emergency with an oil and gas policy bordering on the criminally negligent, delivered by a bunch of clueless inadequates at the tiller. He is not reaching for effect. He is delivering a verdict. And the evidence he marshals is unanswerable.
The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for the first time in history. Oil is heading toward two hundred dollars a barrel. Britain is facing the worst energy crisis since the Yom Kippur War of 1973. The International Energy Agency has described the supply disruption as the largest in history. And the government overseeing this catastrophe has spent the past year doing everything in its power to ensure Britain would be maximally exposed when it arrived. It closed North Sea oil and gas production. It borrowed against already strained public finances. It built an economic strategy on OBR forecasts that the energy crisis has already rendered obsolete. And it put the man most responsible for Britain's energy vulnerability, Ed Miliband, in charge of the response.
The Miliband contradiction has been hiding in plain sight for months. He stood at the despatch box during the energy debate last year and warned that Britain was a price taker not a price maker in international fossil fuel markets, leaving it exposed to their volatility. He was right. He was also the man who ensured that exposure would be as severe as possible by closing down the domestic production that could have cushioned the blow. The North Sea fields that could have been producing. The coal beds that remain untouched. The nuclear capacity that was decommissioned in pursuit of net zero targets that now look like a luxury policy designed for a world that no longer exists. Miliband diagnosed the disease and administered the poison.
Rachel Reeves now faces the consequences. The fiscal headroom she has been defending against every request for defence spending, every demand from the Treasury and every warning from military chiefs, is being wiped out not by defence costs alone but by the energy price shock her own government's choices made inevitable. Her foundations, as Neil puts it, are built on quicksand. The borrowing costs are rising at the fastest pace since the Liz Truss mini-budget. Foreign creditors are watching. The bond markets are watching. And the Chancellor is discovering that the numbers she has been citing as proof of fiscal responsibility were always dependent on a stable world that this government's foreign policy paralysis helped to destabilise.
Neil makes one observation that connects the economic catastrophe to the political one with surgical precision. A stronger Prime Minister would have fired Miliband. He is right. The man who led the Cabinet revolt against supporting America, who blocked the use of Diego Garcia, who has spent a year dismantling Britain's energy independence and who stood at the despatch box admitting British households would pay the price, is still in his post. Still in the Cabinet. Still in the room. The reason Starmer has not fired him is the same reason he needed a drone on his own runway before he would act, the same reason he consulted his team on minesweepers and the same reason Britain is now a diminished, exposed and strategically paralysed country being described in its own press as a nation of clueless inadequates. He cannot afford to. The coalition that put him in power will not allow it. And so the inadequates remain at the tiller while Britain heads for the rocks.
"Miliband diagnosed the disease and administered the poison. [...]. Rachel Reeves now faces the consequences."](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HD-PXr-X0AAah61.jpg)
For the second year running, the National Audit Office has been unable to sign off the UK's Whole of Government Accounts.
The auditor could not form an opinion on whether the figures were free from material misstatement.
This has only happened twice in the WGA's entire history. Both times in the last two years.
The reason for this is local audit. Just 1% of councils and other local bodies published audited accounts on time for 2022/23. By the time the NAO went to compile the Whole of Government Accounts, only 10% of English councils had submitted reliable data. For 2023/24 that fell to 4%. £73 billion of public sector spending in the latest WGA sits unaudited. Net debt and net income are out by tens of billions.
The Chair of the Public Accounts Committee called the UK public finances "virtually a closed book." You have to ask yourself how bad the real picture is.
This is not a technical accounting story. The state has lost the ability to verify its own books, at the moment that verification matters most.
The OBR forecasts against data the auditor cannot verify. The Treasury sets fiscal rules against it. Gilt markets price sovereign risk against it.
We argue about headroom. We argue about debt sustainability. We argue about tax envelopes. The numbers underneath those arguments aren't even signed off. The auditor general has said so. Twice.
How bad are the public finances?
We don't know. The OBR doesn't know. The Treasury doesn't know. The people sitting in Number 11 don't know.
That's the real story. What a mess.
@Penny_Gaines @Outoftweet123 Adonis was a historian. The HS2 Technical Director didn't understand basic maths or physics. Civil servants place value on unnoticeable time savings & ignore the environment. Lobbyists lobby. Wrong decisions get made. No-one wants to say they got it wrong. £100bn+ wasted.
Here are 4 things that happened to the UK in the last 24 hours:
1. The Labour government confirmed it will remove the right to a jury trial. Cases will be tried by a judge alone.
2. The Labour gvt confirmed it will impose Digital ID despite it never being included in Labour's manifesto and nearly 3 million Brits signing a petition against it.
3. The Labour gvt confirmed we will "align" with the European Union, directly going against the 2016 democratic vote for Brexit & forcing the British people to pay billions for laws they'll never be able to influence.
4. The Labour gvt confirmed that while Islamist sympathisers & antisemites are free to march on the streets of our capital city, & while it welcomes former allies of al-Qaeda into Downing Street, it has banned conservative activists from joining a peaceful protest against mass immigration in London.
Put all these things together and you get a sense - just a sense - of how hideously authoritarian and illiberal this Labour government really is.
If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.
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