@iainmartin1 Once you consider the possibility that Ed Miliband is working for the Kremlin it makes more sense
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Ciaran Coyle
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Ciaran Coyle
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Studies 中文. Lived in Wuhan for 12 years, including thru Covid. Now back in my 2000s home of Thailand. Old school raver. YIMBY.
Chiang Mai Katılım Ocak 2012
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The more you read about the energy crisis the more you realise everyone else, every serious country, is going flat out increasing production, more oil/gas, prioritising domestic production where possible,
ripping up policy assumptions, Uniquely, one major country is pressing on in the opposite direction. It would have to be us, wouldn’t it? Banning new oil and gas exploration and fields, by law! It is quite mad. Future historians will be astonished. Like looking back on Tony Benn’s policies in government decades later and thinking how on earth was that allowed to happen?
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Ciaran Coyle retweetledi
This tweet is a fascinating insight into the dire state of the U.K.
Mostly it’s people who find it morally abhorrent for people to be on minimum wage serving coffee.
If you can’t use the minimum wage for entry level unskilled work. What can you use it for?
Many seem to think Peter should divert his savings to subsidise higher wages effectively operating at a loss. An economically irrational thing to do. Why would you pay (and work) to lose money?
Many seem to think he should shut the coffee shop down completely, removing those jobs from the market all together. Presumably no jobs is a better outcome than minimum wage jobs.
The minimum wage is now roughly £26k a year. About what I started on as a mathematics lecturer in 2010 after I completed by PhD. I worked 60-80 hours a week.
Your take home pay on the national average wage is only £170 a week more than someone on a minimum wage job. Which in order to get you’d need to have a profession and about a decades worth of experience in that profession.
That’s like one family meal and maybe a trip to the cinema. Hardly worth a decades hard work is it? And if you’re trying to save for a property, you won’t be able to have that.
It also means that the median UK worker is a family meal and some mild entertainment away from morally objectionable abject poverty.
What a mess
Peter McCormack 🏴☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪@PeterMcCormack
A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses. I’ll explain for the economically illiterate. Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add: - 12.07% holiday - Sick pay - Maternity pay if and when required - National insurance - Pension contributions These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up. Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t. Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics. Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs. There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay. So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost. Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes. The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.
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@MarcherReborn Previous owner left a note: 'after midnight is when they like to play'. Not sure what she means by that?
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Don’t have nightmares kids…🫣🫣
rightmove.co.uk/properties/169…
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Just finished watching the 1969 movie "The Battle of Britain"
It was filmed in the same skies & airfields where the actual skirmishes took place
Epic dogfight scenes. Amazing cast: Lawrence Olivier, Michael Caine, Ian McShane...
The actual battle, which lasted for months, was an absolutely crucial victory that likely spared England from being invaded by the Germans
And it was a victory against the odds: just ~725 RAF plane vs the Luftwaffe's ~2,500 fighters & bombers
As Churchill immortalized: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
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@meadwaj Why stop at ten times? Why not five times? In fact, just make it the law that all salaries must be equal. The perfect utopia!
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Of course they do. It's a good idea.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: 65% of Brits support the Green Party's policy of capping CEO pay at ten times the pay of the lowest paid employee
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@RollingHedge The best part is that passengers boarding in London only have one destination to choose from now which is essentially a big pile of rotting rubbish.
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Ianucci himself could not conceive of something THIS batshit mental.
Now they propose, and wait for it cos it if it doesn’t make you laugh you’ll cry, to have…
Wait for it…
SLOWER TRAINS TO SAVE MONEY
Fuck all the way off you retards. Everyone connected to this should be fired.
What a joke.
GBTT — Great British Think Tank@GreatBritishTT
🔴 HS2: £46.2bn SPENT. NO TRAINS. £43.6bn on the surviving route. £2.6bn on cancelled Phase 2. Up £6bn in 6 months. Now considering slower trains to save money. Source: DfT, Feb 2026 gbtt.info/hs2.html
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@PeterMcCormack The electorate don't understand it either, that's why they'll keep voting for idiots.
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How U.K. is cooked.
At some point we need people who understand economics to be running the country.
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@CharlotteCGill Look into high dosage B1 (Benfotiamine). It fixed my fatigue m.youtube.com/watch?v=FSh_5A…
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ME is utterly horrible.
I know because I have a moderate version of it (nb. people call it different names - post-viral fatigue, ME).
I used to be very fit; I could do tons of press ups, boxed, ran & did gymnastics. Now I have to be careful.
The NHS is terrible at diagnosing it. Something I feel quite cross about because you get worse if it's not identified quickly.
Also, if you are a very busy person, BE careful. Take relaxation seriously.
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
Our son loved the outdoors – invisible illness means he now can't walk or talk bbc.in/4sxUCVW
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@faisalislam Why do you think Norway bother exploring for and extracting gas then, given that as you've explained, there's no reason to?
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“A wake up call” the CEO of Britain’s biggest domestic energy firm told me last night about the possibility of long term impact to global gas and oil infrastructure… but he pointed to electrification as the main lesson, while domestic gas would be preferable to shipped gas:
“wake-up call that gets us to electrify more of our economy and get more of our energy from homegrown sources.”
"The irony is, right now, we're emailing millions of customers saying their energy prices are going to fall..."
"You can't protect yourself against these global markets forever."
"Traders are really worried about how long it's going to take these facilities to get back online."
"Our electricity system's too inefficient. We need to reform that markets so that people get the benefits of our homegrown resources."
“my own view is that shipping gas around the world is more inefficient and has more leaks of methane than if you use local gas. But we shouldn't kid ourselves. North Sea gas wouldn't meaningfully bring the price down because we're paying the global price. If we got more out of the North Sea, it would simply be sold to other countries at these very high prices or here at these high prices. And we can't kid ourselves we're going to be self-sufficient in gas again. What we can do is have a much cheaper approach to electricity than we have today. Our electricity system's too inefficient. We need to reform that markets so that people get the benefits of our homegrown resources.
BBC Newsnight@BBCNewsnight
"The irony is, right now, we're emailing millions of customers saying their energy prices are going to fall..." Greg Jackson, CEO of Octopus Energy, says energy prices could be impacted if disruption in the Strait of Hormuz "is not over quite quickly". #Newsnight
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@meadwaj All oil companies should just donate all profits to charity as soon as any war starts then, right?
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@afneil Presumably all British overseas territories are now up for grabs as there is essentially no navy to defend them?
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Well there’s a surprise! Of course it can’t head into a theatre of war. The Royal Navy has zero surface ships to escort and protect it. We are incapable of forming a carrier group. It’s proving enough of a struggle to dispatch one destroyer to Cyprus!
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
HMS Prince of Wales unlikely to head to the Middle East bbc.in/3NszUaH
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@itvpeston When will they understand
1) We do NOT eat GDP growth: we cannot pay at ASDA with it, nor the greedy gas/electricity or the water
2) even if the GDP grows, it all goes to the #Weatlhy and tax havens.
Trickle down economics has NEVER worked.
#VoteGreen @TheGreenParty
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@LBC Just put fucking Chat GPT in charge at this point, it is far more capable of making rational decisions
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Failed asylum seeker families to be paid up to £40k to leave UK within 7 days under radical trial lbc.co.uk/article/failed…
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@MrWinMarshall This may be the most accurate description of him I've ever seen
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@meadwaj Given that there has never been more than very minor exploration and anything since then has been banned, how on earth would you know?
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These fantasies depend on the peculiar belief that Lancs, Lincs and N Yorks are comparable in size and - critically - lack of population density to, say, the Permian Basin.
They are not. If we want an energy future, it'll be with renewables.
Matt Ridley@mattwridley
If we had allowed shale gas development in Lancs, Lincs and N Yorks, our chemical industry would not be dying, we would not be falling behind in AI, heating pensioners’ homes would be cheaper and extra revenues would be pouring into the pockets of both working-class people.
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@SamCoatesSky Green's plan for spending is MMT, seen by 99% of economists as crank science, like doing homeopathy if you have cancer instead of seeing a doctor. Hyperinflation is the likely outcome, followed by societal collapse. Green voters never study economic history so don't grasp this.
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YouGov / Sky News / Times voting intention
*Greens leapfrog Labour into second place*
RefUK 23% (-1)
GRN 21% (+4)
LAB 16%(-2)
CON 16%(-2)
LDEM 14%(nc),
Pollster note: This is the highest we've had the Greens, the first time we've had them in second. It is also the lowest we have had Labour.
In terms of how meaningful this is, it is obviously likely driven to a significant extent by the publicity from the Denton & Gorton by-election, as well as any impact it has from the Greens appearing a more viable option and less of a wasted vote. It remains to be seen to what extent it sticks, or whether it fades again as the immediate publicity boost recedes.
Sunday/Monday
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@GuidoFawkes He has never demonstrated any thought-through plan for anything
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STARMER: "We all remember the mistakes of Iraq, and we have learnt those lessons. Any UK actions must always have a lawful basis and a viable thought-through plan."
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@TrussellUK @friends_earth I see you've switched on the random woke sentence generator
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❗BREAKING: A greener future can help end hunger.
Resilient homes, green energy, decent jobs and community support can protect people from hardship driven by climate change.
Together with @friends_earth we're calling for a greener future that's good for people AND the planet.
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@Channel4News Just indoctrinating people with a constant stream of backwards nonsense. The next government should make it a priority to sell off Channel 4.
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The 12 richest billionaires own more than the four billion poorest, and this "inequality is soaring" due to capitalism - explains economist Clara Mattei on Ways to Change the World.
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Ciaran Coyle retweetledi
One thing the situation in Iran has made crystal clear is that whichever country, regime, group or political ideology, no matter how vile, disgusting or repressive, however many people are massacred or exterminated, as long as they are anti-West, specifically anti-US (and by extension anti-Israel), they will have the unquestioning support of the majority of the liberal left and the entertainment world.
The same “progressive left” who happily live in the west, profit from its relative freedoms, yet turn their activism on and off like a switch, or in some cases, even make a living out of it.
It is disappointing and exhausting.
But grateful to all those who have spoken out. Especially in the comedy community. It takes a lot of guts to do so when everyone around you is looking the other way.
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