Mike Butler

@PJTheEconomist Another thing in common with the Corbynista and the Greens. Spend spend and tax the rush. They love China and Russia and despots like Venezuela but can’t produce the economic model.

Generous and attractive promises for additional spending with neither a plan, nor indeed the means, for funding them.

The nut zealotry of Ed Miliband A new occasional series — No 2 At a time when global supply chains are vulnerable and we should be producing much more of our own food, E Miliband has today approved Springwell Solar Farm. It will cover seven square miles of prime Lincolnshire farmland. And the solar panels are likely to come from China (so much for green manufacturing jobs). Mili-Madness on stilts.

Implies overall we will be paying more and profiteering? Supermarkets are adding digital labels. Will surge pricing follow? thetimes.com/article/221089…

Right decision. Iran war ‘will not sway’ Rachel Reeves on public sector pay rises thetimes.com/article/a9b74c…

Financial markets and supply chain profiteering and gov on fuel tax and levy. Why does media not investigate? Repeat of last cost of living crisis when prices did not go back dow to pre crisis level. thetimes.com/article/414519…

Profiteering as ever. Hopefully independent research done on supply chain profit. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Ed Miliband says drilling our own gas in the North Sea (as opposed to paying Norway billions for theirs) makes no difference. He’s lying 👇 North Sea gas ‘saves Britain billions a year’ telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

It’s time to axe net zero. The public have had enough of being handcuffed by Ed Miliband’s lunacy that threatens British energy security. 60% of the public support North Sea oil and gas extraction .

Strike has no regard for patient care and all about money incl charging exorbitant amounts for cover which should not be allowed. Patients suffer because of champagne socialist left. Not just £3bn but suffering of patients. Doctors’ strikes have cost NHS thetimes.com/article/fe3c5a…

🚨BREAKING: For the FIRST TIME in British History the UK WELFARE BILL now exceeds INCOME TAX This is insane Keir Starmer is driving us off a cliff Income Tax revenue - £331 BILLION Benefits & welfare - £333 BILLION

Last year we lost a third of our refineries. That means we head into another global supply shock less able to make our own petrol, diesel and jet fuel and more reliant on imports from abroad. This is likely to cause us real difficulties in the weeks and months ahead. Why? The spiralling cost of the little-known Carbon Tax which has been hammering British business. Some refineries now spend as much on the Carbon Tax as on their own wage bill – and yet their competitors in the Middle East, the US and India do not face this extra cost at all. And it’s not just refineries – our chemicals, plastics, cement, and ceramics industries are all struggling too. We are importing more goods with higher emissions from countries with lower environmental standards, all in the name of tackling climate change. This is mad. That’s why last week the Conservatives announced one of our most important policies yet. We pledged to axe the Carbon Tax entirely to save British industry. As the world gets more dangerous and the consumer gets more squeezed, we have to halt the deindustrialisation of Britain and cut bills. The Carbon Tax increases the cost of using energy and effectively acts as a tax on the production of British goods. It has placed an immense burden on the shoulders of British industry. The Carbon Tax regime, or ETS, was introduced by the European Union in 2005 and was supposed to encourage manufacturers to decarbonise with the assumption that countries around the world would follow suit with their own Carbon Tax. However, that simply has not happened and we are instead taxing our foundational industries out of existence. And under Labour, the tax is set to soar. Some plants – like the Pembroke refinery that I visited in Wales recently – already face a Carbon Tax bill in the tens of millions each year, and they expect that bill to double as Labour have chosen to surrender control of our Carbon Tax scheme to the EU. I believe it’s a profoundly Conservative principle to protect the environment. However, we lost the cleanest ammonia plant in Europe because our energy prices and the Carbon Tax made it uncompetitive. The result? We now import ammonia with higher emissions than if we made it here. Who is that helping? We are losing the ability to make things in Britain. Deindustrialising our economy in the name of Net Zero is making us a warning, not an example, to the rest of the world. Our industrial power is our hard power – it is the power we turn to in times of crisis or conflict. Our refineries, chemicals and ceramics industries are critical for our national as well as our economic security. Replacing British production with dirtier foreign imports in the name of our domestic Net Zero targets is lunacy. We must reject decarbonisation by deindustrialisation. Nowhere has this been clearer than our fight to use our own resources in the North Sea. Keir Starmer needs to put his ideological Energy Secretary back in his box and get Britain drilling again. Ed Miliband says North Sea production can’t cut bills, but that is total nonsense. We can use the £25 billion of tax revenue the North Sea could generate to cut the green levies and taxes that he has been loading on to everyone’s energy bills. Without the North Sea, we will just be more dependent on imports – again, with far higher emissions. It simply does not make sense. We have to change course. The Conservatives would axe the Carbon Tax to save British industry and Get Britain Drilling in the North Sea. Our new Cheap Power Plan will cut household bills by an average of £200 and cut business electricity costs by 20%. If we want people to use electricity, then we need to make it cheap. We are the only political party with a properly funded plan to cut bills, axe the Carbon Tax in its entirety, and to have written the legislation needed to open up the North Sea. Our plan is better for the economy, better for our security and better for the environment too.

This is embarrassing, Delete it, President ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ - unless you want everyone to think you’ve lost your marbles.

🚨This is DAMNING for Ed Miliband. After 20 months of religiously pushing Net Zero, a poll has revealed that about 60% of the public (including 51% of Labour voters) think we should drill for oil in the North Sea. We need to SCRAP Net Zero and SACK Ed Miliband. It's over.

You are aware that oil and gas together still account for 73–75% of the UK's total primary energy consumption (which covers all energy needs across electricity, heating, transport, industry and other sectors, measured in primary energy terms)? So explain to me exactly how ‘you will make it happen’ that we don’t use fossil fuels.

British airways simply shocking. Flight arrived at Heathrow 25 hours behind schedule - little comms and left people to own devices. Finally arrived and apparently plane in wrong place to get luggage and now can’t get door open. Truly shocking.

@AllisonPearson @Tony40335450 You have to have affordable plan with a transition to your world made Ed

We cannot allow this idiot to wreck our country 👇

‘Those people’ who back more drilling in the North Sea now include: Rachel Reeves John Swinney Renewable UK The Chair of *** Great British Energy *** and everybody else with at least half a brain cell. How many more before Ed admits he’s got this badly wrong?

For the first time ever, the true cost of the Chagos Islands Deal is now in legal writing UK taxpayers would pay at least £50bn to give away the Chagos Islands and rent back our own territory of Diego Garcia Not Starmer's £3bn Not £36bn Not £46bn But £50bn+ Let that sink in