@NeilDotObrien FOI’s were designed to generate work for the quangocracy, not to question the programme.
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GreatSleighRider
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*Tries to fire off one last FOI before the Starmtroopers swing in the windows*
𝙏𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙑𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖 🏴🇬🇧@tempestvista
BBC running outright propaganda on The Capture tonight Making FOI requests is now adjacent to extremism? "He accused the Government of covering up the true stats on undocumented migrants"
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@minordissent The ‘progressive’ moment is fundamentally an effort to arbitrate every human activity. The justification for their arbitration (equality/poverty/climate) is secondary. Parasitic.
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It is deeply Orwellian that the ideology nominatively predicated on the concept of "progress" sees the guy singlehandedly driving the vast majority of it as one of their greatest enemies.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
Mass drivers on the Moon!
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@realhansard It’s a real mask-off Uniparty policy; a tax levied on domestic suppliers of a commodity when it was in high demand, so we could have another ‘global solution’ - overseas LPG and Chinese tech.
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Where is the apology for introducing them in the first place?
The Telegraph@Telegraph
🗣️ 'The Conservatives would scrap green taxes that are rapidly deindustrialising Britain' @KemiBadenoch offers her latest take on the UK's energy crisis heightened by the US-Iran war ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…
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Hi chemist here 👋
Oil and gas isn’t just fuel.
It’s the backbone of modern life.
Fertilizers → feed billions.
Plastics → sterile medicine, safe food.
Materials → phones, insulation, clothing.
Give A Shit About Nature@giveashitnature
How stupid is it that we’re fighting even more wars over oil when we could have spent the same amount of money and transitioned the entire goddamn planet to renewables?
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@Empty_America “Shall I plant my flag, dig my well and build my cabin here”
Spanish authorities: “No”
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If I had 1,000 lives to live, surely one would be spent pioneering in empty Iberia.
Magical Spain@Magicalspain
Across Europe, only Lapland —northern Scandinavia— has a lower population density than these highlighted regions of Spain. It's really crazy if you think about it.
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@mpwarwick @FUDdaily The British navy has demonstrated the ability to shoot down ballistic missiles (accepted, it is too small to provide reliable cover).
Also, if non-nuclear warheads… we do have nukes. An unprovoked attack by a non-nuclear player would be a mistake, for them.
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Genuinely astonished at how many people seem to think that the UK not having an ability to intercept a threat is irrelevant because:
a) the island of Great Britain itself has not yet been shot at by said weapon.
b) the Americans will always be on hand to intercept them for us.
Matthew Warwick@mpwarwick
London is closer to Iranian territory than Diego Garcia is. Iran has fired ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia. The United Kingdom's ability to intercept these ballistic missiles is ... nothing.
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@nwnatur @Fox_Claire Former members of the Revolutionary Communist Party sing from the same sinister hymn sheet. Seriously, look them up.
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@Fox_Claire You have a very warped morality if you think ripping up a full term baby is justifiable
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I'm being named & shamed for my views on abortion. Let me be clear. Name away. But I won't be shamed for sincerely held views & trying to win arguments last night in Lords & more broadly in public for years. PS online version of putting opponents in stocks weakly avoids argument
Debi Evans@DebiEvansMatron
#Abortion #Lords named and shamed. I’m appalled at the lot of them, Especially surprised and disappointed to see Baroness Fox name on the list of shame 😔😥
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In light of this, todays abolition of the British Lords and most of postwar history, it is apparent that ‘The community’ of nations orbiting the US, get the same system regardless of public wishes.
🇯🇵 Colonel Otaku Gatekeeper 🇯🇵@politicalawake
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's approval rating has plummeted from a record high of 79.5% to 56.0% with disapproval skyrocketing from 15.0% to 35.9%. This comes after she refused to establish a cap on immigration despite winning a supermajority on an Anti immigration platform.
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David Lloyd George led the charge to emaciate the Lords, only to be undone by a "price for peerages" scandal.
Tony Blair exchanged the bulk of hereditary peers for cronies and donors.
The "House of Lords" only exists now as a testament to corruption - and it's being celebrated.
Cabinet Office@cabinetofficeuk
This is the biggest reform to our Parliament in a generation. 🇬🇧 This morning, the 700-year-old system of hereditary membership in the House of Lords was abolished. Membership is now earned through public service and merit, not granted by an inheritance. ✅
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They will kill every baby they can, and every old person. Then not just old people but anyone who is struggling and makes the request (see Canada).
To understand why, I recommend C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man, and That Hideous Strength.
TLDR they are evil.
ben weller 🪴 ✟@flowerpotweller
The House of Lords have voted narrowly in favour of allowing abortion up-to-birth in England & Wales. The only solace is that one day they will meet Jesus.
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Apparently only 10 of the 26 bishops in the House of Lords showed up to vote against decriminalising abortion.
Appears to confirm the feeling that the Church of England is largely progressives using Christianity as a skinsuit.
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@churnwell @realhansard Mmm I love to season already salt-and-smoke cured pork /s
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American cookery videos have taught me that real cooking means emptying massive bags of ingredients into a huge bowl, then pouring a shop-bought sauce and some onion graduals on it.
Beesus@Lord_Beesus
American obsession with “seasoning” (flavour you can see) is an actual brain disease
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Civilisation destroyed itself 1914 - 1945 and transitioned to a fraudulent monetary system. Governments commit generational fraud (alongside base bribery) to get elected. Fraud is endemic, the Who/how’s are not ‘news’.
We know it intuitively.
Erich Hartmann@erichhartmann
Has there ever been an issue served up on a silver platter like this for Republicans? Where are they? Why is nothing being done?
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- pressured the U.K. to give up its dominions post WWII
- Suez betrayal
- little to no assistance during the Falklands War, and voted for a resolution encouraging Argentine-UK sovereignty negotiation
- invaded the Commonwealth realm of Grenada without consulting Britain
Fuck off
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump says the UK-US relationship was "always the best" until "Keir came along" "I like him... but he doesn't produce"
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Weekly reminder nobody sent any ships or soldiers to help Britain get the Falkland's back...and we didn't even start that war.
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@DanDavisWrites Reject Modernity, Embrace Tradition, Return to Ediacaran fauna
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The Cambrian Explosion was a mistake, we must return to being strangely shaped invertebrates attached to the sea floor.
News from Science@NewsfromScience
About 570 million years ago, life was confined to the seas. Large, strangely shaped invertebrates attached themselves to the sea floor, their fleshy fronds collecting nutrients that drifted by. These bizarre life forms, known as the Ediacaran biota, eventually disappeared. But researchers have long debated whether their die-off was truly cataclysmic. New research now offers a reappraisal of the extinction that claimed many of these creatures, known as the Kotlin Crisis—and reveals that it may have been far more extensive than previously thought, extinguishing a similar percentage of species as the asteroid-driven calamity that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Learn more: scim.ag/4rvnOvh
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I will always make decisions in the national interest. That’s why we did not join the offensive action against Iran.
Reform and the Tories would’ve rushed us into war without a plan to get us out.
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@afneil @hiltonholloway The Guardian’s smudging of tax/subsidy has spread far and wide.
They believe oil and gas is a subsidised industry because there is some tax relief for specific expenditure (decom), whereas a renewable company awarded a CfD is ‘making money’.
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Usual bollocks from Big Green which now just makes things up. Fossil fuels in UK are taxed to the hilt, unlike renewables, and get no subsidies, unlike renewables. They get usual tax credits for investment, like all corporate investment. But UK government doesn’t want their investment, so they don’t invest in UK.
Jonathan Bartley@jon_bartley
Annual UK fossil fuel subsidy estimate from the OECD Reduced Rate VAT – gas/other fuels 6bn Fuel Duty Relief 4.7bn Tax reliefs – oil/gas producers 2.7bn Climate Change Levy exemptions/reductions 1.6bn Reduced Rate VAT – electricity 0.9bn CCS 0.9bn Other 0.7bn Total 17.5bn subsidy per year. The IMF puts the annual fossil fuel subsidy at 13.7bn but does not factor in undercharging for environmental costs and forgone consumption taxes Also found some more up to date data from the OECD (Dec 2025) which puts total (explicit and implicit) UK fossil fuel subsidies at $36bn a year imf.org/-/media/files/…
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@cjsnowdon @K_Niemietz You could (and should) achieve a ‘cap’ by adjustments in duty and VAT… doubt he means that though.
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The former economics editor of Newsnight, ladies and gentlemen.
Paul Mason@paulmasonnews
National price cap on petrol now! Why not?
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