Frank
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@FrankBefield @Rod__Mason Energy Frank.
Energy is used.
Power is generated.
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@Boilerboypalace @KemiBadenoch It won’t make it any cheaper, ya numpty.
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@KemiBadenoch Virtually every property in the UK has Gas or oil heating. No one has an issue transitioning over to more environmental products but this will take decades. Its total madness not to drill our own oil and gas.
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Energy bills are rising again. Labour will blame Iran, but you’re paying more because of Ed Miliband’s net zero taxes and refusal to drill our own oil and gas.
Our Cheap Power Plan would cut bills by 20% by scrapping the green taxes, scrapping VAT and drilling in the North Sea.
BBC Breaking News@BBCBreaking
Energy bills for typical household to rise by 13% to £1,862 a year from July, British regulator Ofgem says bbc.in/3PubPBw
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@KemiBadenoch Come on, drilling in the North Sea won’t make any difference to our bills.
You know that but you preach this rubbish and that’s why no one will vote for you.
Breaking the price link to gas would be a good start and removing all of the green tariffs on energy companies.
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We could have seen a nationwide programme of home insulation, going door to door, making sure every home can keep in the heat, so no-one would risk getting sick or dying because they can’t afford heating in the winter.
Why is this Government running from crisis to crisis?
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth
Dan Tomlinson says the govt won't be rolling out a universal scheme to help everyone with their energy bills. Instead it'll take targeted steps. The interviewer asks him who'll receive the targeted help & when it will be available. Dan refuses to say
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The energy regulator Ofgem, has announced the energy price cap will rise to £1,862 a year from July. This will see typical households paying an average of over £220 more each year for their gas and electricity.
Finance journalist Holly Mead shares her tips for what you do now to help with the rising cost of energy.
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@OComedie @GMB @LouisaJamesITV There are plenty of jobs, to name one area - there’s a huge shortage throughout the whole of the construction industry with worse to come.
Avoid the failing tech industry and get manual work.
If you look it’s there, but people are too damn lazy.
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@FrankBefield @GMB @LouisaJamesITV #gmb
Friend, you are not listening.
You are living in the past, take a look outside your window and see the real world today.
The West is falling as we can't compete with the rising rest who use cheap labour with high technology to manufacture everything.
Other jobs not there.
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Sir Tony Blair has warned the Labour party they need a 'fundamental reset' or risk losing power.
The former prime minister said Sir Keir Starmer's government has held back business and growth since winning the election.
@LouisaJamesITV reports from Westminster.
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@narindertweets It is stating the bleeding obvious though, should we need to be told that by the state?
I walked 23 miles in the Peak District yesterday, did Starmer have to warn me to take more water and wear a hat or did I use a little common sense?
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Extreme weather temperatures soar in India too.
People dying.
India President Modi tells people to be kind to one another and offer water.
I'm imagining if Starmer said the same here....
Narendra Modi@narendramodi
Different parts of India are witnessing soaring temperatures and the challenges that come with it. This heat is harsh on all of us and I urge you all to take as many precautions as possible. Please stay hydrated, keep water with you when stepping out. Offer a glass of water to others. In weather like this, such kindness goes a long way.
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UK households to face steepest summer rise in energy charges in four years as government’s energy price cap for Great Britain rises 13%.
The average gas and electricity bill will increase to the equivalent of £1,862 a year from July until the end of September, largely (but not entirely) to take account of the rise in global energy market prices caused by the war on Iran.
The cost of living is now back at the top of the political agenda.
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@OComedie @GMB @LouisaJamesITV It’s a lesson in life.
If we’d tried harder at school we wouldn’t be in this position, but you still have time and that’s where aspiration comes in.
You just can’t expect the state to provide for you.
What did our parents do in the 70s and 80s, cut their cloth accordingly.
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@FrankBefield @GMB @LouisaJamesITV #gmb
H'mmm!🙄
A very large portion maybe the most of the work related benefits are for people in low paid work: retail, hospitality, farm labour, caring security and cleaning and they can't all find better jobs in a falling economy and to call them lazy is disgraceful!
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@OComedie @GMB @LouisaJamesITV Stop it being a way of life by limiting the period you can claim benefit for, force people into work.
If you need more money ask for overtime, look for promotion, change your job, just use a bit of aspiration and better yourself.
The country has become lazy.
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@FrankBefield @GMB @LouisaJamesITV #gmb
Welfare is unfortunately a way of life as incomes cannot keep up with rising costs.
Job investments falling all over the West as money to be made in the rising rest of the world whose economies are thriving.
Nothing to do with government...🤔
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Why is absolutely no one mentioning Super El Niño?
Met4Cast - UK Weather@Met4CastUK
This is insane. Not to be hyperbolic but 30°C being reached this widely at this time of year is unprecedented and extreme. A new all time May record. Some stations have beaten their all time JUNE records. Climate change is not a future problem.
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@sharrond62 A flash car and a motor home on the drive might have been a slight clue.
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Anyone live with a partner than comes in to nearly half a million quid & not notice? No me neither..
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Former Scottish National Party chief pleads guilty to embezzling $540,000 reut.rs/4v3c3yn reut.rs/4v3c3yn
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@antmcguire @metoffice Temps close to that were occurring 80 years ago and it’ll be raining and cool next week.
Big El Niño usually produces a cold winter for the U.K.
it’s cyclic to a certain degree.
There is change but it’s certainly over egged
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@FrankBefield @metoffice Average temps are UP. Thats the point.
Its the hottest May temp on record by 2 degrees. Thats pretty newsworthy.
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Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️
This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈
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@antmcguire @metoffice The noticeable change are the milder winters which is probably why the average temp is down.
I just think that the over the top reporting of these weather events really doesn’t help the pops take on climate change.
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@FrankBefield @metoffice The reason you still talk about 77 is because it was so unusual. These records are getting broken on a regular basis. Its 34 degrees in May mate.
But uts not about one off days. Its about the average temperature which is increasing.
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@BladeoftheS It’ll also guarantee an extremely cold winter in the new year.
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El Nino is going to increase Global Temperatures by 0.2C guaranteeing that 2027 is the warmest year ever.
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@ClarksonsFarm1 It shouldn’t be too hard because it runs at 60% already.
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