Lucy Rogers

Head of Community @lfg_uk

[Lucy Rogers @r0gerslucy]

Young people are struggling because they can't find a job.

Local shops are struggling because supermarkets are incentivised to open more and more small shops on the high street.

We need to get out of people's way, give them options, and then let them choose for themselves.

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

This post has enraged me.

Small businesses are STRUGGLING like fck to compete against supermarkets and the only window they have of making some money is during Sunday trading!
And these idiots @lfg_uk want to put MORE money into supermarkets who do sod all for communities and kill of British independents even more!!

[Dr Lawrence Newport @lawrencenewport]

Great night at the LFG Summer Party!!

@lfg_uk 🇬🇧🚀

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

Westminster has built a country where we spend more money on the planning paperwork for a single road than it costs other nations to build an entire mountain tunnel.

This isn't a system accidentally strangled by red tape: it is a highly lucrative industry. A vast priesthood of consultants and lawyers is making a fortune they have no interest in the work being done.

It is corruption by bureaucracy, and working-class communities are footing the bill for projects that never even see a spade in the ground.

The absolute paralysis of modern Britain was laid bare in a recent parliamentary committee. A single witness gave them the truth with both barrels, exposing the administrative vampires sucking public money dry while the work goes undone. The details are an insult to every community waiting for homes, decent transport, and cheaper energy.

Take the Lower Thames Crossing. The planning application alone has swallowed more than a quarter of a billion pounds. For that exact same amount, Norway actually constructed the world’s longest road tunnel. We spent it on paper, and we have not even turned a sod of earth.

This is a permission state eating itself alive.

Look at HS2, the most expensive railway line on earth. Part of the reason it cost so much is that we are spending £121 million on a specific "bat tunnel" to protect a few hundred bats living in a nearby wood, a wood the line does not even pass through.

Look at Hinkley Point C, the most expensive nuclear power station in human history. For eight years, developers locked in a multi-million-pound wrangle with regulators over installing an underwater "fish disco", an acoustic deterrent to stop fish swimming into the pipes. 20 years ago, we built nuclear fleets at a fraction of the cost. Today, we sacrifice national infrastructure to the gods of endless compliance.

The final absurdity is the plan to reopen just 3.3 miles of an existing railway line between Bristol and Portishead, a route already built but closed during the Beeching cuts. The planning application is 80,000 pages long. Over one thousand of those pages are about bats.

We have created a system that trades in paper while the real economy rots. The working class pay the price for this institutional cowardice. They pay for it in soaring energy bills, missing homes, broken transport links, and a country that cannot build the future it keeps promising.

Protecting the environment is vital, but drowning ourselves in paper is not environmentalism. A system that takes 80,000 pages to clear three miles of existing track is broken. It is not governance: it is managed decline with a clipboard.

It's the bureaucratic vampires drinking the country's wealth...

[Dr Lawrence Newport @lawrencenewport]

This is for a consultation concerned about *misinformation*

I wonder how they'll report these results...

[Dr Lawrence Newport @lawrencenewport]

Bully XL owners no longer have to insure their dogs.

Why?

Because the Dogs Trust stopped offering the insurance and no one else will... so DEFRA is just cancelling the requirement.

Why won't Dogs Trust insure them? Too many claims, the insurance wasn't viable.

I wonder why.

[LFG_Cambridge @LFG_Cambridge]

Next LFG Cambridge meetup - this Wed 24th June. Join us for a chat and drinks. We'll be discussing everything from EWR to start ups and what we can do to boost Cambridge. 🚀 https://t.co/eGrc6rS82N

[Lucy Rogers @r0gerslucy]

@lfg_uk Generation defining stuff.

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

Britain is in an Energy Emergency.

But the Government is FAILING TO ACT. They have no plan, no idea what to do, and they’re leaving us exposed.

So today we’re launching The LFG Emergency Energy Bill to SAVE OUR INDUSTRIES and GET BILLS DOWN

Here’s how it would get bills down IMMEDIATELY:

1️⃣ SCRAP all levies on energy bills. These stealth taxes on the British people are unnecessarily hiking up their bills by hundreds of pounds.

2️⃣ REOPEN THE NORTH SEA, and directly deploy the tax revenue generated to GET BILLS DOWN.

3️⃣ Stop new CfD contracts and launch an investigation into the system that signed them off. Last year, billpayers paid £1.5 billion for big renewable corporations to THROW ENERGY AWAY. By 2030, it’ll be £8 billion. The existing settlement is a national scandal.

4️⃣ Scrap Clean Power 2030 targets. These needless constraints have pushed civil servants to procure wind at any cost – and at huge expense to the British people.

5️⃣ DITCH the duties of energy regulators, NESO and Ofgem, towards Net Zero goals, so their only focus is to MINIMISE ENERGY COSTS, subject to security of supply.

6️⃣ Hold auctions for connecting to the grid, and directly deploy the revenue generated to GET BILLS DOWN

Our Emergency Energy Bill has cross-party support. It is ready to PASS IMMEDIATELY. It does what governments for the past 20 years didn’t – it takes RADICAL ACTION to SAVE OUR INDUSTRIES and GET BILLS DOWN.

There’s no excuse. Last week, the US suspended access to some of the world’s leading frontier AI models. Britain is vulnerable - and our energy prices are strangling our national security. We cannot afford to be at the mercy of other countries or events beyond our control any longer.

The Government needs to GET BILLS DOWN NOW or explain why they’re still letting this emergency destroy our future.

Force Westminster to ACT. Send our Bill to your local MP and sign our letter to the Prime Minister and Ed Miliband. GET BILLS DOWN, NOW!

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

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[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

Last week, we revealed that the Chair of Natural England, Tony Juniper, signed a petition to block the development of Hinkley Point C – the same nuclear power plant they are now attempting to halt the construction of.

So what’s the truth about Natural England and Tony Juniper? Are they simply a taxpayer funded branch of the anti-nuclear body?

Well, Juniper’s activism extends back decades – to his time as director of ‘Friends of the Earth’.

In 2005, he wrote an article entitled “Say no to Labour’s nuclear nightmare”, arguing that “investment in a programme to construct new nuclear power plants is not justified” and it “would greatly increase the risk of nuclear proliferation”.

At the next election, he was selected as the Green Party’s parliamentary candidate for Cambridge, standing on a platform to “phase out nuclear power and resolutely oppose any new nuclear power stations”.

Though he failed to win a seat, Juniper continued to fight against nuclear energy. He argued that “renewables, not nuclear, is [the] way forward”, even going on to say that “nuclear simply does not work in the context of modern energy economics”. After a quarter of a century of “following”, he once told his followers, “we can do without nuclear”.

In 2016, Juniper signed the Greenpeace petition to stop the development of Hinkley Point C and promoted articles opposing the development on his [then] Twitter account.

Three years later, the Conservative Government appointed the former Green candidate and anti-nuclear Juniper as the Chair of Natural England. He has since been reappointed in 2022, again by the Tories, and in 2025 by the Labour Government.

In that time, Natural England have repeatedly tried to delay development and increase costs, infamously insisting upon the £700 million fish disco that will save one salmon every decade. They’ve even blocked kite festivals, new housing, road expansions, and new train lines.

Under Juniper’s leadership, Natural England has stopped at nothing to block developments that would improve the lives of millions. It seems they prefer bats, newts, salmon, and hairy spiders over British industries, which have been decimated by the highest energy prices in the developed world.

It begs the questions: why are we making it so hard to build in Britain? Why does the British state promote degrowth?

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

Natural England: "We'd never attempt to halt Hinkley Point C, we promise!!!!"

Chair of Natural England:

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

How much should it cost to protect one salmon every ten years?

Natural England think it should cost more than £700,000,000

At Hinckley Point C, the "fish disco" is set to cost EVEN MORE.

The result?

The highest energy bills in the developed world.

Is this acceptable?

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

"There's almost a complete disconnect now between... the success of British companies and how the average person is affected by that."

Watch the full podcast with Stephen Fitzpatrick, founder of @OVOEnergy, and Eva Barboni, Executive Director of @EnterpriseBrit.