Hi @rickygervais — my dad (73) is doing a wingwalk to raise money for Parkinson’s after his diagnosis.
Blame you for the inspiration after Karl’s attempt 😅 and couldn’t get him into Karl’s club 😂
Any chance of a RT to help him smash his target? 🙏🏻🙌 https://t.co/YrFL40SZyC
ED MILIBAND'S LUXURY CLIMATE JAUNT TO BRAZIL
£800,000+ TAXPAYER SPLURGE!
Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband took a huge entourage to COP30 in Brazil, blowing over £800,000 of public money.
This included £210k on flights (plus carbon credits), £600k+ on private apartments after prices skyrocketed, luxury hotel rooms and more.
While he lectures British families to cut heating, drive electric and eat bugs, his team lived it up in five-star comfort halfway across the world.
Elite hypocrisy at its finest!
“Iran war is a wake-up call for Ed Miliband, says Sir Jim Ratcliffe”
Ratcliffe is a successful industrialist who knows what he’s talking about.
Miliband is a socialist dunce.
It’s time the socialist dunce was removed from office & replaced by a grown up https://t.co/JXaZYWrz0H
Ed Miliband is taking the public for fools.
Yesterday, he claimed to be cutting energy bills for millions of families. The truth is that like so much of what Labour do, it is simply a con.
At the election, Ed promised to cut our energy bills by £300. Yet under Labour bills soared from £1,568 a year to £1,849.
He says the Government has now taken some costs off bills, but the truth is that even after yesterday’s announcement bills are still over £70 higher than at the election.
And he hasn’t actually lowered the cost of energy, he’s just moved some of the cost from your energy bill and put it straight on to your tax bill, hoping that you don’t notice.
It’s a cynical sleight of hand - you’re still paying for it, just from a different pocket.
The truth is that Ed Miliband’s made-up promise to cut bills by £300 has become a national embarrassment for the Labour Party, so they turned to the already struggling taxpayer for a £7 billion bailout.
They’re asking for our gratitude for ‘lowering’ bills, but it’s your money that he’s using to do it - and all of that cash is going into the hands of multi-million-pound energy developers.
Ed said he’s proud that he’s paying for it by ‘raising taxes on the wealthiest’, but he must think the public are stupid.
Everyone knows they have raised taxes on pensioners, graduates, farmers, small businesses, pubs, even families taking a well-deserved holiday.
Labour’s Jobs Tax and freeze in income tax thresholds are hitting ordinary families up and down the country.
Every week factories are shutting down and we’re losing more and more jobs abroad.
Struggling businesses like pubs, restaurants and manufacturers tell us how their energy bills are going through the roof, yet Labour has no plan for them.
That’s why the Conservative Party’s priority is to make electricity cheap. For a stronger economy, growth and living standards, we have to bring bills down.
We are the only party with a Cheap Power Plan to cut electricity bills for businesses and households by 20% without costing hard-up taxpayers a penny.
If Ed had any sense, he would back it.
@LBC@HenryRiley1 It’s pathetic, is this your justification for Labour’s continuous failings, does this make Kier’s actions ok if you can say ‘look what they did’? Like children in a playground. Politics and what ever this is, is broken along with this country. Shame on you. Embarrassing
@Philrhyl@TheSirRobotto Yeah and that’s what starts people or at least me, thinking they pick and choose. Or maybe be it just utter incompetence. Spoils what was otherwise an entertaining game. Anyway, good luck for the rest of the season, 3 very well deserved wins on the bounce, some turnaround👍
@Philrhyl@TheSirRobotto No, I totally agree and called it at the time watching Utd v City. It’s the inconsistency that drives me mad. They make it up as they go along and VAR re-reffing the game. It’s not acceptable for football to be this bad.
@KemiBadenoch@john4brexit@Conservatives John Terry will be claiming credit for it next 🤦🏻♂️ do you’re own work rather than trying to piggy back what someone thousands of miles away did. Can’t believe it’s come to us having to rely on leaders of other countries to look after our own interests!
Crypto Predictions from @MonicaLongSF, @Ripple President, January 20 article.
1. Stablecoins: The Default for Global Settlement
➡️Within the next five years, stablecoins (like RLUSD) will become fully integrated into global payment systems—not as an alternative rail, but as the foundational one.
➡️By 2027, I fully expect financial institutions to tap into the power of regulated stablecoins for 24/7 collateral mobility in capital markets use cases.
2. Institutional Crypto Exposure Goes Mainstream
➡️By the end of 2026, balance sheets will hold over $1 trillion in digital assets, and roughly half of Fortune 500 companies will have formalized digital asset strategies.
➡️As crypto exposure becomes normalized, capital markets will follow. In 2026, collateral mobility will emerge as a top institutional use case, with custodian banks and clearing houses adopting tokenization to modernize settlement. Expect 5–10% of capital markets settlement to move onchain, driven by regulatory momentum and the adoption of stablecoins by systemically important institutions.
3. The Great Custody Consolidation
➡️I expect more than half of the world’s top 50 banks to formalize at least one new custody relationship in 2026.
4. The Convergence of Blockchain and AI
➡️Stablecoins and smart contracts will enable treasuries to manage liquidity, execute margin calls and optimize yield across onchain repo agreements, all in real-time without manual intervention. Asset managers will use AI models alongside blockchain infrastructure to dynamically rebalance exposure to tokenized assets and stablecoin yield protocols, fully leveraging the 24/7 nature of onchain markets.
A Defining Year for Institutional Crypto
The industry has leveled up. And this time, the momentum is being driven by finance leaders that are building for the long term.
Stablecoins will power global settlement. Tokenized assets will sit on institutional balance sheets. Custody will anchor trust. And blockchain — increasingly paired with AI — will automate operations that today hold markets back.
Ultimately, 2026 will be remembered as the year crypto became foundational to the world’s financial infrastructure.
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“Let’s spend £4.5trillion on net zero over the next 25 years. Let’s ban new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but spaff away £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway. Let’s buy coking coal shipments from Japan but ban UK coal mining. Let’s plaster thousands of acres of farmland with solar panels but spend £50million on sun dimming experiments. Let’s give Drax an estimated £1.8billlion in taxpayer funded subsidies on top of the £11billion it has already received despite Drax burning an amount of wood equivalent to 300 million trees. Let’s give £1.5 billion of taxpayers’ money this year alone to wind power companies not to generate power from their wind turbines. And let’s spend £30billion of taxpayers’ money on carbon capture machines but put pensioners, farmers and the disabled into financial peril by falsely claiming there’s a £22bn black hole.”
@Keir_Starmer You are so far out of touch with this country, you don’t represent the British people and you’re not fit to be part of it let alone run it. You should be thoroughly embarrassed and ashamed, like we are of you.
@Ed_Miliband What a f’king idiot 😂 the only person you’re looking after is yourself. We have one of if not the highest retail energy prices in the world killing business and families all in one