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The fact is we need to drill the north sea. It won't bring bills down. It's not about that! It's about Energy Security for years to come and job creation NOW. If you want growth we need both NSO&G and Net'almost'Zero. NetZero is a Phantasy without major storage investment.

Our Reformed National Pricing plan will lower energy bills by changing how the electricity system is planned, built and run. This will cut waste from the system, help upgrade the grid faster, and make sure clean power benefits households and businesses instead of being paid to switch off.  Find out more: gov.uk/government/pub…

@BytewareAI @theSNP They will need many rounds of studies by external consultancy firms to assist with pre planning the planning phase. Don't forget all the enquiries later to find out why the public has funded millions for this project for a handful of private jets and a couple of mansions!

@ForexNorthStar @theSNP The will probably have to set up an entire quango with its own office to administer it...

A re-elected SNP government will introduce a Private Jet Tax and a Mansion Tax on homes worth over £1 million, making the wealthiest pay more to help support local services across Scotland. Make it #BothVotesSNP on May 7 for a government that’s on your side.

@ClaireCoutinho "Fuel Mix Disclosure - Rest of UK" Renewables (45%): Record highs in 2025, led by wind and a surge in solar. Natural Gas (26% - 30%): used to balance the grid. Nuclear (10% - 12%): Providing a steady "baseload". Imports (11%): Power brought in from Europe via sea.

@ClaireCoutinho The true figures: Wholesale costs (~40%) Network costs (~24–28%) Operating Costs (~18%): Your supplier's costs. Environmental & Social Levies (~12%): Funds for green energy subsidies (like the Renewables Obligation) and social support schemes. VAT (5%) > see Ofgem. 2025–2026

Ed Miliband has announced plans to ‘break the link’ between gas and wholesale electricity prices. Once again he has NOT come to Parliament to announce these plans… no doubt because someone might ask him some questions… Here’s why they are red herring 👇🏾

@ClaireCoutinho Wind (~75% - 80%): The backbone of Scottish power Hydro (~10% - 12%): A stable source of power, particularly prominent in the Highlands. Nuclear (~5% - 8%): Lower than the UK average as older plants move toward decommissioning. Gas & Others (~5%): Used sparingly in Scotland

Britain is facing its most serious energy shock in years. The International Energy Agency has called the disruption to the Strait of Hormuz the largest supply crisis in the history of the global oil market. Oil has surged close to $100 a barrel. Mortgage rates are rising sharply. Inflation is climbing again, with forecasters warning it could go significantly higher. Millions of households are about to feel another squeeze. And British politics is consumed, once again, by a scandal of its own making. What a disgusting spectacle. Here we go again... inquiries. Committees. Resignations. Front pages. Another full display of political crisis at exactly the wrong moment. There is something tragic about a country facing genuine threats to its security and living standards, and finding that the people elected to deal with those threats cannot stop generating crises of their own making. What a s**tshow!

@energygovuk Since 2003, NSO & Gas lost +200,000 jobs, while just 300+ FT Perm jobs were created at 3 of the largest wind farms, despite massive curtailment fees for energy that could have powered Scotland thirty times over in a year. NetZero before jobs! We need both to fuel growth!

Ed Miliband live speech at National Growth Debate x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Ed Miliband is set to reject warnings he is going “too far and too fast” and instead vow to speed up the construction of renewables across the country. This will include a “massive” expansion of net zero infrastructure on the public estate, as well as allowing large electricity substations to be built without planning applications. The public aren’t buying that it's time to double down, Britain wants Net Zero scrapped. #CostOfNetZero

@Ed_Miliband @GoodGrowthFdn "financial security, energy security and national security" HIGHER BILLS: while £1.5b is paid by everyone to Generate Electricity TWICE. Highlands pay the most per kWh, More than London & South JOBS LOST: OVER 200,000 from the NSO&G industry IN 10 YRS. DEFENCE: NONE EXISTS

Clean energy is the only route to financial security, energy security and national security. I'll be speaking at the @GoodGrowthFdn's National Growth Debate tomorrow, outlining how we're doubling down on our clean power mission. 🎥 Watch live at 11am.

£88.6m paid to 3 wind farms to stop producing energy 2025. "heavily over-produced & overkill for the population density" So whats the plan? EGL2 - due online in 2029 all of this energy will go directly to England. While we cont to pay for it!! the highest ££ per kWh in GB @theSNP

@NetZeroWatch Look at Moray East £60m & West £19m =£88.6m just these 3 could produce enough electricity for the highlands 20 to 30 times over per YEAR. Jobs LOST = More than halved from 441,000 in 2013 to 214,000 in 2023 → ~227,000 FT Jobs:330 EGL2 2029 it will all go to ENGLAND

Owners of the Viking windfarm in Shetland are paid £10 million per year to turn off turbines during gale force winds - while locals living in its shadows are forced to pay some of Britain's highest energy bills. Some people are making a fortune out of Net Zero and it’s not the British public.

Let me walk you through the financial reality of the average person in Britain. Because the numbers tell a story that most people feel but have never seen laid out. Start with net worth. Everything you own minus everything you owe. The median household net worth in the UK is £293,700. That sounds reasonable. Until you break it down. According to the ONS, around 40% of that is property wealth. Money locked inside a house you live in that you can only access by selling it or borrowing against it. 35% is private pension wealth. Money you cannot touch until age 55 under current rules, rising to 57 from 2028. 10% is physical possessions. Your car, your furniture. And 14%, roughly £41,000, is net financial wealth. Savings, investments, and ISAs, minus any financial liabilities like credit cards and loans. So the typical British household has a net worth of nearly £300,000 on paper. But only around £41,000 of that is financial wealth, and even that is not the same as cash in the bank. It includes investments that may take time to sell and ISAs that may be locked in fixed terms. Most of Britain's "wealth" is theoretical. It exists on a spreadsheet. It doesn't exist in anyone's bank account. And that's the median. Half of households have less than that. Now look at what people actually have saved. The FCA's Financial Lives survey found that one in ten UK adults has no cash savings at all. A further 21% have less than £1,000 to draw on in an emergency. One in four UK adults has been classified as having low financial resilience. Commercial surveys paint an even starker picture. A nationally representative 2026 Finder survey found that 16% of adults, around 8.9 million people, reported having no savings. Two in five said they had £1,000 or less. A quarter had £200 or less, which is less than the average person spends in a single week. Average savings for under-55s were just £9,888, dragged up by a small number of higher savers. The Money and Pensions Service reports that 11.1 million working adults on modest to low incomes do not regularly save at all. Now break it down by age. Because this is where the generational divide becomes undeniable. If you're aged 16 to 24, the median household net worth is £15,200. If you're 25 to 34, it rises to £109,800. But most of that is property equity if you've managed to buy, or pension wealth you can't access for decades. If you're 35 to 44, it's £209,600. Getting better, but again mostly locked in housing and pensions. If you're 55 to 64, median household wealth is £496,500. If you're 65 to 74, it peaks at £502,500. That peak is 33 times higher than the youngest group. Thirty-three times. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that there has been no substantial generation-on-generation wealth increase for anyone born from the 1960s onwards. The escalator that carried the post-war generations upward has stopped. Millennials are less likely to own a home by their early 30s than Gen X were at the same age. And Gen Z is entering adulthood into the most expensive housing market, the highest tax burden, and the weakest wage growth in modern history. Now look at the divide that sits underneath all of this. Property. The ONS reports that households who own their home outright have wealth more than 15 times higher than those who rent privately or from a social landlord. If you got on the housing ladder, your wealth accumulated almost automatically through rising property prices. If you didn't, you have almost nothing. Homeownership is the single biggest determinant of whether someone in Britain builds wealth or doesn't. And homeownership among young adults has collapsed. Then there's the regional picture. Median household wealth in the South East is £489,800. In the North East it's £179,900. The South East is 2.7 times wealthier. Same country. Same tax system. Same government. Fundamentally different economic realities. And at the extremes, the picture gets sharper. The wealthiest 10% of households hold assets of £1.2 million or more. The bottom 10% have £16,500 or less. Around 8% of households have negative net worth. They owe more than they own. And the top 1% hold at least £3.1 million. Now put all of this together. The typical British household has £293,700 in net worth, of which only about £41,000 is net financial wealth and even less is actual cash. The FCA says one in ten adults have no cash savings at all and a quarter have low financial resilience. The generational wealth escalator has broken. Renters have a fraction of the wealth of homeowners. The North East has a third of the wealth of the South East. And real wages have barely grown in fifteen years. The Resolution Foundation has described this period as one of severe economic stagnation. But the most striking thing about these numbers is not what they say about people who aren't working. It's what they say about people who are. The median full-time salary in the UK is about £37,400 a year. For someone paying income tax, National Insurance, a workplace pension contribution, and student loan repayments, take-home pay can be around £2,300 a month. ONS data shows average household spending is roughly £2,700 a month. Those aren't directly comparable figures, one is an individual earner, one is a household. But they help explain why, for the growing number of households relying on a single income, or where both earners are on modest salaries, there is almost no margin left. And where there is no margin, there is no saving. And without savings, there's no investment. Without investment, there's no compounding. Without compounding, there's no wealth. The cycle never starts. This is not a picture of a wealthy country. It is a picture of a country where wealth is concentrated in property and pensions, locked away from the people who need it most, distributed unevenly by age, region, and tenure, and increasingly inaccessible to anyone born after 1970. And the next time someone tells you Britain is the sixth richest country in the world, ask them where the money is. Because for millions of people it's nowhere. For a quarter of the population it wouldn't cover a month's emergency. And for the working people in the middle, it's mostly locked inside a house they can't sell and a pension they can't touch. The "fifth richest country in the world". Where a quarter of the population couldn't survive a month without income. Where real wages haven't grown in fifteen years. And where the average working person's actual accessible wealth would barely cover three months' rent. That's not wealth. That's the appearance of wealth. And the gap between the two is the story of modern Britain.

@JoePorterUK @KemiBadenoch No Thank You

The sooner @KemiBadenoch becomes British Prime Minister, the better. For the sake of the country. 💙🇬🇧

@YvetteCooperMP "maintain international pressure" and to whom are you attempting to pressure? Trump? Iran? Israel? No I didn't think so. Get back in your cabinet and use zoom like everyone else. Numpty!

As we near the end of the agreed 2 week ceasefire, this is a critical diplomatic moment. For the last 6 days I’ve travelled through 5 countries, speaking to more than a dozen foreign ministers and counterparts, to maintain international pressure on opening the Strait of Hormuz.

🚨🇲🇽🇪🇸 MEXICO JUST REACHED OVER WASHINGTON'S HEAD. Claudia Sheinbaum met Pedro Sánchez in Barcelona. First Mexican presidential visit to Spain in eight years. No permission asked. No blessing is needed. Just two nations deciding their own relationship. The empire is not in the room. Not invited. Not relevant. This is not about the US. This is about Mexico and Spain. Colonial wounds are being addressed. Ties are being rebuilt. On their own terms. Washington can watch. Washington can sulk. The world is moving on. The thaw is real. The message is clear. The days of needing imperial approval for bilateral relations are over. Mexico chooses its own friends. Spain chooses its own partners. And neither asked for permission. That's the new world. The empire is not at the table. And honestly, no one misses them.

60 MINUTES: Iran still has nearly 1,000 pounds of highly-enriched uranium — "enough material, if you enrich it just a little bit more, for 10-11 nuclear bombs." "Iran has been lying about its nuclear weapons effort for over 20 years now."

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