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@DanielJHannan Trump is terrible, but it could be worse. Scary even thinking about it.

@Artemisfornow Labour has produced new homes? Didn't know that.

More utter shambles from Labour. You can’t solve a housing shortage while importing the population of a major city every year. Brilliant 🤡

@Artemisfornow Yes, the BBC are breathlessly banging on about the temperature we might hit and ignoring the fact it's been a bloody cold May up 'til now.

Just saying … Britain hit 32.8°C in May back in BOTH 1922 and 1944. This was long before SUVs, budget airlines and air fryers. Hysteria from the media is not fact ..it’s narrative and fear porn. As you were!

@NickCohen4 These people who think that the vote (any vote) swung this way or that way because old people voted in a particular way but they're dieing off so it'll go the other way next time, don't consider that young people grow up and realise the old people had it right the first time.

The artugment for rejoin is being won -- one funeral at a time

@toadmeister So, if he has admitted to £400,000, how much has he actually embezled? Given that it took hours of negotiation, I suspect the actual number is much higher. Also, how much of that money came to the SNP from Scottish tax payers? Does anyone really think Nichola was truly unaware?

Ex-SNP Chief Executive Peter Murrell has admitted embezzling £400,000 from the party to fund a motorhome, two cars and luxury shopping sprees. dailysceptic.org/2026/05/25/nic…

@Civixplorer Could have been worse, the Spanish or the Portuguese could have become the dominant power. They would have 'cleansed' the Americas and Australia of the 'vermin' (indigenous people).

"Pax Gallica" — What if France (rather than the UK) had become the dominant world power in the late 19th century?

@Artemisfornow Hey! Ending HR would be a great thing. Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, teach teachers. Those who are completely f*cking useless go into HR. AI should be able to handle the HR job with ease.

Er …. No party will answer where growth will come from, because they can’t! Britain now employs MORE people in HR than doctors! nearly 480,000 people. The estimated cost to British businesses is between £22 BILLION and £29 BILLION every single year from a department that adds little value just red tape and bollocks (technical term) The Treasury collects an estimated £7-10 BILLION a year from those employees. Ai will decimate this sector putting many thousands out of work HR is not value creation, it’s a cost! And Ai can do it all cheaper without endless nit picking and ideological nonsense. The irony is incredible. Government is investing tax payers money in Ai which could wipe out £29 billion in tax revenue and at the same time increase the welfare bill. Hello?? Is anybody home?? *sigh*

@toadmeister If Russia were ever to invade a NATO country, we could always ask Ukraine to help us out. They know how to defeat Russians and, besides, they owe us one.

Britain's stockpile of drones would only last for a week of combat were Russia to invade Nato territory, senior military officers have admitted. dailysceptic.org/2026/05/23/bri…

@mattwridley Of course, all the RCP predictions assume that CO2 has an effect (ANY EFFECT) on climate. That's still a big assumption.

The report is full of howlers. It states emphatically that, by 2050, ‘sea levels will be [not “could be” or “may be”] 20–45 cm higher around UK coasts than today.’ That implies sea levels rising over the next 24 years by 8mm to 19mm per year. But over the 35 years we have had satellites measuring it, sea levels have risen on average by just 3.4mm per year. There was a little acceleration in 2015-2020 and there has in fact been a deceleration(ital) since then: 4.5mm increase per year since 2010 and 3.7mm per year since 2015. (In some parts of the country, such as East Anglia, the land is sinking, a different effect.) So to assume that the rate of sea-level rise could more than quadruple within the next quarter-century is completely unscientific. Neither Greenland nor Antarctica is losing ice at an accelerating rate - and they are the only possible sources for such a huge increase. How, then, does @theCCCuk justify this hysteria over sea levels? It bases its sea-level prediction ‘on a high-emissions scenario (RCP8.5), using the upper-end estimate (95th percentile)’. RCP8.5 is an economic scenario that was produced in 2011 for the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) by a team of mathematical modellers. Their instruction was to find out what it would take to increase CO2 emissions at a rapid rate to a very high level by the end of the century. First, the modellers said, the world would have to massively increase the use of coal at the expense of oil and gas - using coal to make fuel for cars and planes, burning eight times much coal in 2100 as the world did in 2000, and projecting that fully half of all the world’s energy would be supplied by coal by the end of this century. Yet even this back-to-coal fantasy was not enough to achieve the gargantuan emissions the modellers were tasked with producing. So they assumed both that the world’s population growth would also reverse its current slowdown, surging to 12 billion people by the end of the century, that innovation to make our lives more fuel-efficient would largely end, and also that we wouldn’t even try to cut emissions. None of these are going to happen. Scientists have been saying for more than a decade that the apocalyptic RCP8.5 scenario is extremely unrealistic, and even the alarmist BBC said in 2020 that it was ‘exceedingly unlikely’. The IPCC has recently announced that it is abolishing RCP8.5 altogther, while one of the Climate Change Committee’s own members, Professor Piers Forster, wrote an article just last week ‘on the death of RCP8.5’. Nobody, at all, ever, under any circumstance, should be using RCP8.5 to forecast climate. Yet the CCC is still using it to terrify the government and the British people – and even taking its ‘upper-end estimate’!

In my @DailyMail essay on the @theCCCuk's new report, I point out that they have a vested interest in exaggeration. "Between the moment when these climatecrats wake in the morning and the moment they lay their overworked brains to rest on feather pillows at night, they have one all-consuming ambition: to maximise their own budget. They achieve this goal by being as alarmist as possible. Imagine if they found evidence that climate change was no big deal or even good news: would they want to publish this? Of course not. It would be disastrous for their (taxpayer-funded) income. The committee has never produced a report on global greening: the remarkable 15-20 per cent increase in green vegetation on the planet over the past four decades, caused mostly by carbon dioxide emissions. Nor do its members talk about falling deaths from cold weather anywhere near as much as they do about the smaller number of deaths from hot weather. Good news for us, in short, is no news for them.

@BorisJohnson Alexander Fleming accidentally came across a mold that produced penicillin. A team from Oxford; Howard Florey, Ernst Chain, Norman Heatley and others did all the hard work to produce a usable drug. Fleming took their first sample, cured a patient, then took all the credit.

It’s time to re-arm against the superbugs, but also time to remember the warning of the man who discovered penicillin. mol.im/a/15841619

@thinkingwest It wasn't "given away". Colonies grew up. People wanted more local control over their lives. The world changed. The cost, in blood and treasure (on both sides), of 'keeping' it would have been enormous.

Imagine reaching this level of world domination, then giving it all away

@Artemisfornow Oh, don't worry. In the 1800s weavers were replaced by the waterframe. 1900s ditch diggers were replaced by JCBs. 1960s+ bookkeepers with calculators were replaced by computers. The world has only gotten better and better. AI will continue that improvement.

Ahh .. and here it is. Businesses viewing human workers as ‘lower value human capital’ Everything I said here is true. Not one political leader has a plan for the monumental change coming. It’s a good job a plan has been written for them then isn’t it. Focus.

@AndyBurnhamGM Have you quit you job as mayor yet? You have no business considering the Makerfield by-election until you are available to take the position. I'll bet you don't have the guts.

I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election. I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics. Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic. Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures. However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people. Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place. I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that. Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again. ENDS

@DanielJHannan Any MP that changes party should be forced to call a by-election. Also, any elected politician (MP, Mayor, etc.) should pay have the cost if they cause a by-election (health issues excepted).

@JuliaHB1 @TheSun Oh yes! Can you imagine the joy in watching Kemi eating her alive across the dispatch box?

This may surprise you but Angela Rayner is my first choice for next PM… We need a truly TERRIBLE leader to give us a short, sharp shock to help us come to our senses and sort our country out. My column for @TheSun ⬇️ thesun.co.uk/news/39112881/…

@vonderleyen Well, you could take the train for £192 which takes over 27 hours and requires 2 changes or fly direct for £136 in less than 3 hours.

From Berlin to Barcelona by train. Today cross-country journeys mean several bookings and risks if you miss a connection. Let's change that. With one ticket and full passenger rights all along your journey. That‘s our new passenger package. link.europa.eu/HGxmpv

@Tony_Walley @afneil Yes, Labour are so much better than the Tories. They've managed to do in only 2 years what took the Tories 14.

@afneil Hey dickwad, they've a way to go before they come near the 14 year shitshow of your beloved Tories.

British Government in a shambles tonight. Nobody quite clear who’s in charge. Who would have thought Labour would be been even more useless than the Tories? Starmer living on borrowed time. Support ebbing away. But to what? Nobody knows. The world has rarely been more dangerous in modern times and we barely have a government.

@EuroBriefing @DanielJHannan If the UK attempts to rejoin with an 'agenda for growth', the EU won't let us rejoin.

Rejoining the EU will not in and of itself increase economic growth in the UK, just as leaving the EU did not reduce it. Brexit was largely a macroeconomic non-event. This could be different if the UK were to rejoin the EU with a positive agenda for growth and deregulation, and about strengthening the EU’s role in the world. I am not holding my breath here. Remain was a scare campaign in 2016. What I have seen from Rejoin advocates so far is essentially a version of the same. eurointelligence.com

@EndWokeness Rubbish! It was rich businessmen not wanting to pay taxes, taxes that paid for the Royal Navy that protected the American colonies from the French.

"The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time" - AOC

@Keir_Starmer @GordonBrown The longest serving Chancellor who set up the UK for the biggest boom and bust in history.

Today I’m pleased to appoint @GordonBrown as my Special Envoy on Global Finance and Cooperation. As Britain’s longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon is well placed to work with our international allies to build a stronger Britain and boost our country’s security and resilience.