Ian Teare

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

If there are ‘shy’ Reform voters this could be closer than 5 per cent. And if Reform still loses this suggests it will be because of Restore.

[Annunziata Rees-Mogg @zatzi]

God save us.

What on earth have we done to deserve this horror story?

“Miliband front-runner to be Burnham’s chancellor” https://t.co/okkQSPUK68

[sandieshoes 🇬🇧 @sandieshoes]

The sheer scale of this intervention is staggering - Miliband under the guise of saving the planet, is launching market controls to ban more than a third of “space heating systems”from British shops. 

The Telegraph has the details..

“Ed Miliband will ban the sale of underfloor heating systems deemed to be using too much power in his latest net zero drive.

The Energy Secretary has also set his sights on electric towel rails, gas fires and storage heaters, with plans for new market controls designed to cut carbon emissions.

He wants to bring in new energy efficiency requirements that will result in more than a third of so-called “space heating systems” becoming illegal to sell”

Miliband plans to completely outlaw..

*48% of electric underfloor heating models 
*Over 50% of electric towel rails 
*Up to 27% of standard gas fires.

And what do we get out of this ?

The Government’s own impact assessments admit the average household will save a grand total of just £8 to £10 a year on energy bills.

Shadow Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho hit the nail on the head, calling it “Soviet-level intrusion” where the state dictates how long your towel rail can run.

Instead of fixing the grid or lowering baseline energy costs, the state is policing our bathroom floor.

Someone has to stop this mad man.

[Alex Deane @ajcdeane]

Person 1 sees someone flourish and says… good for him. I’d like to succeed like that and see others do so too. His taxes will pay for a lot.

Person 2 sees someone flourish and says… why does he have that and I haven’t? It’s bad. Take it from him.

Which do you wish to be?

[Kevin O'Sullivan @TVKev]

Crazy Ed Miliband is tipped to be incoming PM Andy Burnham's new Chancellor. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...

[Alex Armstrong @Alexarmstrong]

This is beyond desperate. Keir Starmer has brought back a man he sacked for wrecking his government.

Then Boris Johnson days never got this bad. The government is literally a joke that’s gone on for too long.

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

Many forget how dire Britain’s decline was in the 1970s—economic stagnation, union paralysis, and national malaise. It took Margaret Thatcher to break the grip of the socialist state, revive the economy, rebuild British strength, and stand alongside Ronald Reagan in defeating the Soviet Union. Britain needs another Thatcher.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

Keir Starmer: “We are reforming welfare.”

Sorry?

5,000 new claimants for Disability benefit every day.

EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

Benefits bill is now higher than the entire income tax take.

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

The most worthless statement in international diplomacy:

“Iran: we promise not to build or acquire a nuclear weapon.”

[Chris Newton @drchrisnewton]

Can we put to bed this nonsense that the one thing that Starmer was good at was being on the world stage? It was always bollocks, and anyone who knows anything about defence knew that.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

We very nearly lost the brilliant and irreplaceable Kathryn Porter because of the dire state of @NHSWales.

It’s appalling. The ambulance service would shame a third world country. My mother’s elderly Welsh neighbour fell and waited 17 hours on the floor.
How much longer can the British people stagger on with this appalling health service?

I’m so glad @KathrynPorter26 lived to tell the tale.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

This really worries me

A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood

But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one

I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x

One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency

Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home

He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E

He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor

As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit

If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't

I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system

This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal

My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption

A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus

It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad

Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention

Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do

https://t.co/RMi7L44fUy

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Blunt resignation letter to PM from Healey. Says proposed increase in defence spending falls far short of what’s required. And reveals defence spending would still only be 2.68% by 2030 (currently circa 2.5%). A quite pathetic increase.
This is a devastating blow for Starmer at a time when he couldn’t be more vulnerable. Interesting to see what Andy Burnham says. Not said a dickie bird about defence so far.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

UK Defence Secretary John Healey has resigned. I said his position was untenable and advised him to resign on @timesradio this morning. He must have been listening 😜

[Chris Newton @drchrisnewton]

Damning words. https://t.co/mNAt3S2J53

[Benedict Spence @BenedictSpence]

Rather than address the concerns of the electorate, the politicians are prioritising silencing them. They will then feign surprise when disorder escalates.

[Chris Newton @drchrisnewton]

'Clearing the backlog' always meant 'just let people in without remotely checking who they are and whether they might pose a threat to society'. We have an elite that doesn't care about the safety of the people. https://t.co/sd1TPUvwrk

[Planesanity @planesanity]

In 1979, The Concorde 001 chased a Solar Eclipse by flying at 56,000 ft. over the Sahara Desert at a speed of Mach 2. The jet stayed in the umbra of the moon for a record of 74 minutes.

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

What possible justification can there be to incentivise firms to employ foreign workers when we have an unemployment crisis among British citizens, especially the youth?

[sandieshoes 🇬🇧 @sandieshoes]

This is an issue that isn’t being taken seriously enough.
The Telegraph has an article about it.

‘While Middle East conflicts drive up fertiliser and fuel costs, Keir Starmer’s government is sitting on its hands.

The NFU is warning that growers may stop planting crops entirely because they cannot afford the soaring input costs.

Farmers are seeing fertiliser prices jump by 40% to 50%, alongside severe spikes in the cost of natural gas and red diesel used for machinery.

Instead of protecting our domestic food supply, Labour’s inaction is pushing British farming to the brink of collapse.

Food production is national defence - when will this government wake up, step in with emergency support, and protect our supermarket shelves from empty supply chains’

Given Ed Miliband’s policy that includes us eating less meat and dairy - you wonder if Labour is deliberately throwing some of these farmers to the wolves.