Kev Simmonds 👌🏻🏴‍☠️

If Labour's green energy policy cannot deliver enough power to run my tumble dryer, maybe - just maybe - the problem is Labour, not my tumble dryer.

@Jam_mil73 @paullewismoney Im a renter and agree. Otherwise you end up like Spain

@paullewismoney @KevSimmonds Property rights should trump them. Otherwise, property rights are meaningless.

A start. But good tenants can still be evicted if, after 12 months, landlord decides to sell or move in close family or themselves. Property rights still trump family security.

This has to stop Nuclear is the most energy dense form of electricity generation. It uses less land by far than any other source per unit of electricity generated Blocking it for spurious environmental reasons is moronic Time to get rid of these unelected bodies that have no proper accountability

The UK is the only Atlantic basin producer actively shrinking its own oil and gas sector by choice. Norway: investing. US: record exports. Brazil and Guyana: production booming. UK: licence ban + Energy Profits Levy + Jackdaw and Rosebank in limbo. Same basin. Opposite policy. Capital, jobs, and tax revenue follow the rules. They're leaving....

🚨 Unions have donated over £28m to Labour since Keir Starmer became leader. Labour have also handed out over £9bn in public sector pay rises to union-led workers, since taking power. That sounds like a bigger story to me, Pippa…

This is England, where even the kindest, most human acts are subject to control by authoritarian pen pushers. Using “health and safety” to stop a young 25 year old man from cleaning gravestones with soap and water. This is how you crush a society. You do it by smothering small acts of decency, like driving people home from the pub and cleaning gravestones. You do it by putting rules in the way of people pulling together, until eventually they just stop trying. Reject this 🔥

This is why British people have lost their faith in government. We are seeing the Civil Service rapidly turning into a 'state within a state' where radical left political agendas trump the democratic will of Parliament, ministers and British voters. The era of the ‘activist official’ must end. We must restore the Civil Service to its proper constitutional place.

The other day I watched PMQs and it left me physically sick.We’re a small island sitting on 500 years of coal, with a North Sea that still holds billions of barrels of oil and gas — yet we’re energy desperate and food insecure. Wind and solar sound virtuous on paper, but they’re intermittent. When the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine, we keep the lights on by burning imported gas at eye-watering prices. Solar farms are swallowing productive farmland at an alarming rate which we urgently need for food. Hungry little boy - here have a piece of solar panel which has stoppd work. . . . Britain already imports nearly 50% of its food. Covering fields with panels while telling farmers to “produce less” isn’t environmentalism — it’s gambling with our dinner tables. Farmers are being hammered with inheritance tax raids and the removal of direct production support. England is now the only major European country giving farmers zero incentive to grow more food. The inevitable result? Warnings of 9%+ food inflation and real shortages ahead. But none of this seems to trouble the man in No. 10. North Sea production is in natural decline, yet the government’s ban on new exploration licences is speeding up the pain — tens of thousands of jobs already gone, thousands more threatened in Scotland. We lecture the world on net zero while letting other countries keep pumping. That isn’t moral leadership. It’s self-sabotage wrapped in hypocrisy. We have the resources, the skilled workers, and the engineering pedigree. What we lack is a leader willing to state the obvious: energy security and food security are not luxuries — they are national survival. Net Zero by 2050 is an ambitious target. When it delivers higher bills today, lost jobs today, and empty shelves tomorrow, it stops being visionary and becomes reckless ideology.The British public aren’t stupid. We can see the wood for the trees. We want cleaner energy where it actually works. We want to protect the planet. But we also want to keep the lights on, heat our homes affordably, and feed our families without begging volatile foreign suppliers or plastering our countryside in panels. Common sense says: use what we have — coal, North Sea oil & gas, nuclear, and yes, renewables — in a balanced, realistic way. Drill where viable. Back farmers to produce food first. Stop pretending ideology beats physics, economics, and basic human needs.Wake up, Britain. Before the bills climb even higher, the lights flicker more often, and empty shelves become the new normal. Here lies Britain. She froze and starved to death in pursuit of Net Zero. The good news is that no politicians was involved or suffered but did you really think they would? Stop begging for food and energy, Your British, its here we just have to go and get it. It’s time to choose reality over ideological left wing rhetoric.

On January 1, 2026, the European wind industry implemented a self-imposed landfill ban on turbine blades. This has left many countries scrambling silently for solutions. Landfill has become the next unwanted crisis, yet it's the conversation no one wants to have. Germany, Finland, and the Netherlands have banned blade landfills, and so for a time they are being exported to countries like the UK or France, where they can still be buried. Banning waste like turbine blades doesn't make it vanish though—it just puts it on a truck to a neighbour's backyard. Low-scale solutions are often cited as the answer, like turning blades into noise barriers, bridges or playground equipment. How do you turn 43 million tons of blade waste from turbines into park benches and koala crossings? How many park benches does one planet actually need? Modern recycling for glass and carbon fibre often requires pyrolysis (high-heat chemical decomposition). To recycle a 'green' blade, you must burn an immense amount of energy to break down the resins. We are trading a physical waste problem for a new energy demand problem. People love a quirky solution that highlights the absurdity of the problem—like the image of a massive 80-metre blade being used as a single, very long bus shelter. Even 'green' solutions have a physical footprint that can't be wished away by a spreadsheet.

🚨 Oh lookie here! … the Department of work and pensions has a tender for £2 million for erm … live streaming covert surveillance equipment , covert cameras and covert remotely operated monitoring systems in vehicles. They say it’s to stop benefit fraud (excellent idea) But that’s not all. Because it isn’t just “catching fraudsters” it’s building capability. Once that capability exists, it will be able to expand to other problems like ‘public safety’ ‘misinformation’ even compliance. combine all this with the digital ID infrastructure and it’s a powerful state control tool, able to monitor identified individuals in real time, with data linked across systems. Don’t pretend this is all about fraud. It isn’t. It’s about building tools that, once normalised, can be used far more widely than you would ever agree to! Eyes wide open 👀

Britain Is Under Attack on Multiple Fronts. The Government Cannot Respond. Here Is Why. Keir Starmer wrote the preface to his own Strategic Defence Review. His first duty as Prime Minister, he declared, is to keep the British people safe. Lord Robertson, the man Starmer appointed to conduct that review, has now said publicly that he is failing that first duty. We are under-prepared. We are under-insured. We are under attack. We are not safe. Those are not the words of an opposition politician. They are the words of the government's own reviewer, driven to break cover because the investment plan his review recommended was left on the shelf. Tom Tugendhat's assessment at Policy Exchange this week completed the picture. No integrated short range air defence protecting critical national infrastructure. No contracts or budgets to repair airfields if damaged or destroyed. Undersea cables carrying the vast majority of intercontinental data being systematically surveyed by Russian naval vessels. No NHS mass casualty plan. The Cold War infrastructure that provided one was dismantled in the late 1990s on the assumption it would never be needed. We now find ourselves in a world where it is needed and the infrastructure is gone. Charles Moore writing in the Telegraph is right that Britain has rarely faced greater danger and that our leaders remain woefully complacent. Where his analysis needs to go further is in explaining why. The complacency is not accidental. The paralysis has a cause. A government that cannot proscribe the IRGC because it fears the electoral consequences in specific constituencies cannot make the defence decisions Robertson recommended for the same reason. A government that dare not define the Islamist threat because it fears for its Muslim vote cannot enforce a single standard of policing, cannot name the grooming gang demographic, cannot stop the marches that built the permission structure for five attacks on the Jewish community of north London in six weeks. The domestic political constraint and the strategic defence failure share the same root. Electoral demography has made this government structurally incapable of acting in the national interest on either front simultaneously. Robertson described corrosive complacency. The more precise diagnosis is structural paralysis. The coalition that brought Labour to power in 2024 includes constituencies whose priorities are in direct conflict with the national interest on immigration, on Islamism, on Iran and on defence spending. Every decision that would make Britain safer carries a domestic political cost that the coalition will not bear. So the decisions do not get made. The SDR sits on the shelf. The IRGC remains unproscribed. The threat level rises to severe. And the Prime Minister visits Golders Green two days after elderly Jewish men were stabbed in the face outside their synagogue and calls it appalling. Russia is probing undersea cables and airspace. China is infiltrating higher education and infrastructure systems. Iran is directing proxy attacks on British streets and conducting assassination attempts against British citizens. The Islamist recruitment pool grows with every year of uncontrolled immigration from states whose official ideologies include eliminationist antisemitism and a hatred of the West. All of this is documented, assessed and known. The intelligence picture is not the problem. Lord Robertson used the words under attack. He is right. Britain is under attack on multiple fronts simultaneously, external and internal, strategic and civic. The government that should be responding to that attack cannot do so because the electoral coalition that keeps it in power will not allow it. A nation whose government cannot act in its own national interest because of who it depends on for votes is not a nation under complacent leadership. It is a nation under captured leadership. And that is a harder problem to solve than buying more missiles.

A simple message to the silly socialists. You’re upset by businesses telling you that they will fail with the minimum wage increase. You’re telling business owners silly things like if you can’t pay the minimum wage then you don’t have a viable business. I want to make this easier to understand, because if you mean what you say, you want people to have jobs and earn a liveable wage. So listen, businesses fail for all kinds of reasons, mainly because they are unprofitable. We are seeing a wave of business closures at the moment because of the compounding costs from the state against a cost of living crisis. To make a cup of coffee profitable it has to eat a lot costs: - 20% VAT (the inputs can’t be claimed back) - Business rates (a tax before you earn) - Rising NI costs - Employment rights load - Rising energy costs - Inflation All these are imposed by the state. There is also a time tax with all the accounting, HR and regularity requirements which impose cost of consultants and time costs to ensure compliance, distracting owners from operating their businesses. Then there are the other normal costs. A business owner needs to make a profit else the business fails. If the business fails there are less jobs and lower tax receipts. If there are less jobs then public services crumble and welfare requirements increase. This is a compounding problem and what leads to the downward spiral of a country. So… where does the money come from if there are less jobs. The government borrows it, that increase in the money supply drives more inflation, making life more expensive for the people you want to help. Some who now don’t have the job they once had. So what now? What is your plan? I get it, you don’t really have one, this is what has happened to every socialist state, this is how a country goes from rich to poor. We have no divine right to be a wealthy nation and can certainly lose that status. So this is your challenge, can you accept society has a distribution of wealth which means there are rich and poor or would you rather everyone was poorer as long as there are no rich. That’s what socialists tend to want, though I have a secret for you, you can’t get rid of people being rich. I know you think profit is ugly, but the profit motive is what creates business and jobs. So anyway. I’m going to keep promoting proper economics because that’s how a nation becomes prosperous and prosperity leads to a net better outcome for all. This does mean I am going to have to make fun of your stupid socialist ideas. Good luck, read a book and stop being a dumb dumb.

1/ In January 2008, PC Neil Sampson walked towards a man with a knife. He took seven stab wounds doing it. His dog Anya, already bleeding, kept hold of the attacker so her handler could live. That same man, Essa Suleiman stabbed two people yesterday in a terror attack in Golders Green. Here’s what happened next. 🧵

It turns out that if you import millions of people who are taught to hate Jews their entire lives your country becomes less safe for Jews. Who could have predicted this?

A serious response would be to, first, withdraw from the asylum system and, secondly, apply a ‘Red List’ total immigration ban on backward states where antisemitism is widespread. But these people are not serious…

@ZackPolanski 15 quid is actually 20 quid with the add ons . So you employ half the staff. You put prices up and no one buys from you. You close. The law of unintended consequences takes effect.

The Mail doesn't think seem to think workers, of all ages, are worth £15 an hour. That's fair pay for a fair day's work, with money workers will put back into the economy. We are the party for workers. Vote Green on 7th May.

15 quid is actually 20 quid. So you employ half the staff. You put prices up and no one buys from you. You close. The law of unintended consequences takes effect.

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.