@PeregrinePulp @BjornLomborg You are conflating the physical installation of a turbine with the entire process. Near Hull they have spent years building a hub to get that power into the grid. Without it you can’t expand wind generation.
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Joe Whelan
@sergeantdixie
40 years in the Military & Police. Specialist detective & proud of my service. I fight for what I think is right not following the crowd.
Uk, USA, Ireland & Italy. 가입일 Ocak 2011
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That's what I say. So then look at wind production in Europe. Industry reporting suggests a single large offshore turbine in Europe can be erected in two or three days and a medium-sized wind farm of 50MW is typically constructed in about six months. Europe installed almost 7GW of new wind power in the first half of 2025 and is set to add another 178GW of new wind power between 2026-2030.
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The cheap green lie
You are told that solar and wind are cheap
But you need near-100% backup when no sun or wind, paying for two systems
Data for 2024 shows that
cramming in more solar and wind makes electricity overall more and more costly
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@LittlePigL666 @ramonagusta So you agree that once citizenship is given there can be only one standard.
But the idea no one can ever be a citizen unless they are born in the UK is barmy. Boris Johnson wasn’t born in the UK.
I’m sure your reply will be to change your criteria yet again.
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@sergeantdixie @ramonagusta Citizenship only for People born here, possible exceptions for Anglosphere or military service.
Something given out like Confetti is Worthless and cannot buy allegiance.
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To be in govt, both parents should be born in Britain as well…
Connor Holland@ConnorHollandUK
Why do we allow people with a foreign birthplace or ancestry to make decisions for us. They resent us and are working towards the destruction of Great Britain.
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@TonyDowson5 Doh, I’d forgotten about that. Thanks for the correction.
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@sergeantdixie Infanticide acts as specific offence for child killing when the child is under 1.
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"If she was to do this at home (wholly unprecedented) and the fetus was viable, it would come under infanticide."
Not true - what's being decriminalised is section 58 of the Offences Against the Person Act.
Infanticide doesn't apply to destruction in the womb.
Madelaine Hanson@MadelaineLucyH
Wrong. There is NO legal pathway or clinical precedent for a healthy woman with a viable pregnancy to obtain an elective abortion at 9 months in the UK. Late-term abortions are tightly restricted and only permitted in serious medical circumstances. If she was to do this at home (wholly unprecedented) and the fetus was viable, it would come under infanticide.
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@DPJHodges It’s odd that Imans across the Muslim world preach about doing exactly this as part of a process of Islam taking over non Muslim states. We regularly see Muslims praying in public blocking public access in line with those sermons. But apparently pointing this out is Islamaphobic.
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@LittlePigL666 @ramonagusta That makes it completely bizarre. If you advocate for citizenship being meaningless what allegiance to the country can you expect migrants to have.
Why is a Canadian different to an American? Both in the Anglosphere. Both are citizens of foreign states?
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@ramonagusta @sergeantdixie American with British Ancestry
Jerome - Norman
Hall - Anglo/Norse
Murray - Scottish
Wilcox - Anglo/Saxon
Which is why I made the exception for Anglos
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@iancharris @ColinBrazierTV There are always far more who aren’t boots on the ground than are. The point is, 10,000 troops is a lot. It’s not insignificant & Afghanistan was in fact ultimately a far bigger commitment than Iraq because of the length of the conflict.
That was the my point.
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@sergeantdixie @ColinBrazierTV That is a fair point. There were additional troops who didn't need to go ashore in the Falklands available.
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Today is the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq in 2003. As we crossed the border in darkness, military and media alike, we little knew this would be - as now looks certain - the last time the British Army could deploy meaningful numbers to fight a war.
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@_BoldPolitics @DrAmirKhanGP This is a moronic example. Without the facility to use a private operating theatre less operations get done. More patients left in pain, more chance of aggravating the condition. Longer recovery. Longer off work. A greater cost to society.
It’s idealogical waffle.
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@realMaalouf I think saying “He sits there terrified not knowing what to do” is an exaggeration.
There are 3 armed protection officers and just one very loud mouth shouting.
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BREAKING: Australian Prime Minister Albanese went to a Sydney mosque for Eid prayers to stand against Islamophobia, only to end up being threatened, with everyone screaming “Allahu Akbar” at him.
He just sits there terrified, not knowing what to do.
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@iancharris @ColinBrazierTV Indeed it is. But don’t forget only around 9k British soldiers landed on the Falklands. I don’t think anyone would argue that wasn’t a full scale military operation.
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@sergeantdixie @ColinBrazierTV Generally no more than 10,000 to 15,000. More a cover for the Americans. Approximately 46,000 in Iraq at the start.
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@ramonagusta His mother was American.
Surely what we need is tighter qualification for citizenship. But my view has always been you can only have one level of citizenship. You can’t tell people they are British but don’t have the same rights as other Brits.
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@sergeantdixie You make a good point. Was his mother born in USA? There has to be some kind of quality test. In your case, I'd say you pass of course... but look at the list... not good.
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@paulwaugh Farage has advocated for health care systems seen across the world many of which operate far more efficiently than the NHS. Idolising the NHS stops reform from happening meaning it simply gets worse.
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This guy is Farage’s *policy chief* and he won’t rule out tearing up the way we fund the NHS.
Listen to the waffle, the dissembling, the back-of-a-fag-packet ideas.
Let’s have him on telly every week please.
Farrukh@implausibleblog
Reform UK's James Orr says the NHS will be free at the point of use What he doesn't tell you is that Nigel Farage has advocated for an insurance based NHS That means, as the UK taxpayer will pay more for the same services, even if the NHS is 'free at the point of use' When Fiona Bruce asks him to explain this, he waffles Exposed and humiliated on #BBCQT
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@OborneTweets I suppose you will be telling us those Imans who preach exactly what he warns us about are Islamaphobic as well?
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Kemi Badenoch's decision to throw her weight behind Nick Timothy is a defining moment. The Tory party under her leadership is a cesspit of Islamophobic hatred and racist bigotry. My new column for Middle East Eye:
middleeasteye.net/opinion/nick-t…
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@DominicFarrell It staggers me how many people claim Iran isn’t an enemy & “it’s not our war”.
Counter terrorist teams have foiled numerous plots originating in Iran. They fire ballistic missiles at allies, threaten British shipping directly & through proxies. They are an enemy.
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@SteveVanquish @Mr_Andrew_Fox That is very true.
My brother was a ships captain who went to the gulf numerous times in the 80’s during the last war & he said it was nerve wracking.
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@sergeantdixie @Mr_Andrew_Fox Which is my point. It is very hard to close off. But also very hard to get through and if you try expect big trouble. Trouble that is quite easy for them to generate.
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I’ve been saying for years now that drone defences should be the number one priority for our defence procurement. This is why.
Tymofiy Mylovanov@Mylovanov
Zelenskyy: War has no distance anymore. Drones already fly 3,000–5,000 km, soon up to 10,000. Ukraine faces 350–500 drone attacks daily. No country could withstand that. There are no safe continents — distance is now a matter of months, not decades. 1/
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It’s worth reminding everyone that President Obama once publicly joked to Prime Minister Cameron during his visit to the US in 2012 about the British burning down the White House in 1812 and everyone just laughed & thought it was great.
Did OBAMA STUN?
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NewsForce@Newsforce
🚨TRUMP STUNS WITH PEARL HARBOR REMARK DURING JAPAN PM TALKS Trump responded to a question asking why the U.S didn't inform Japan about the Iran strikes: “Why didn’t you tell ME about PEARL HARBOR?!” x.com/EricLDaugh/sta…
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@GBNEWS Good old international law. Cyprus & UK sign a treaty giving sovereignty to military bases on Cyprus but now Cyprus & the EU want to scrap it.
This is the organisation Labour wants to get close to. They are not our friends.
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EU backs Cyprus after it demands Chagos-style talks on 'colonial' RAF bases
gbnews.com/news/raf-akrot…
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