@Andy_NZ1 @spikedonline Very true plus, obviously, shipping goods is very polluting as opposed to manufacturing them domestically and it is expensive, adding to the cost of living.
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@spikedonline All the products made by British people in Britain are still needed but are now being imported.
Made in factories overseas that are far more polluting by people on slave wages without safety standards.
So Ed Miliband can tell the world how 'clean' Britain is.
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The factory that produces half of Britain’s salt could soon be killed by Net Zero. For the first time in history, England is set to be a net importer of the world’s most important mineral. This will be catastrophic for UK manufacturing, says Ruari McCallion
buff.ly/M8o8O6P
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@ClaireCoutinho Milliband has thought through a mere fraction of the entire energy situation.
The Guardian called him an “intellectual heavyweight”…..!
Both he and the Guardian are ideologically blinded.
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Why can’t Ed Miliband just be honest?
He is desparate to shut down the North Sea so he can fly around the world preaching to other countries to do the same.
Sacrificing our energy security, jobs, and making us more dependent on dirtier imports for his own moral superiority.
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@kezia_noble This is obviously not a logical argument because the exploring and drilling is done by private companies who also pay massive amounts of tax.
Please use your brain, whatever the intellectual heavyweight Ed Milliband may be claiming.
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They say: “It’s cheaper to import oil than to drill.”
Short term, maybe.
Long term? Risky.
The North Sea means more jobs, and gives the United Kingdom control, revenue, and protection from shocks 🇬🇧
Cheap isn’t always smart.
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@benleo444 Starmer also enjoyed pizza and beers with a group of friends and colleagues but this was deemed by the investigating police force to be less in breach of lockdown rules than Boris’s piece of cake…
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I go back to Boris Johnson because Beth and her colleagues set the very silly bar…
Boris was hounded for months on end for surprise crusty sandwiches in Downing Street.
Starmer willingly hires a bloke he KNEW was mates with a notorious PAEDOPHILE…
And this is the take.
Beth Rigby@BethRigby
WATCH: Starmer on ‘beating himself up’ over Mandelson is worth watching because I really think it’s a very rare & believable moment where Starmer reveals how he’s really feeling; showing some vulnerability and anger with himself over the decision he took
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@RebelHQ He and the other Labour ministers and MPs are evidently half-wits.
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If there's so little oil left in the North Sea and a commercial company is willing to extract it at there expense, on which we will charge 78% tax on the profits, why not let them?
It's won't affect global warming because we'll reduce the same amount we buy from abroad.
Latimer Alder@latimeralder
Question for Mr Miliband Exactly how do the people of Britain today benefit from leaving our national energy assets (coal, oil gas) in the ground? And forbidding anyone to get them? It is his choice to do so. I'm sure he has an answer Any ideas what he will say?
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@DrChrisParry Purely intellectually a narcissistic nonsense.
The PM is to be held accountable, crawling into his soul isn’t the remit of Ms Rigby’s interview.
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It’s a carefully staged performative act designed to fool the gullible.
You know it is - you’re part of the deception.
Beth Rigby@BethRigby
WATCH: Starmer on ‘beating himself up’ over Mandelson is worth watching because I really think it’s a very rare & believable moment where Starmer reveals how he’s really feeling; showing some vulnerability and anger with himself over the decision he took
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@BGatesIsaPyscho We are witnessing the inexorable establishment of a dictatorship in Britain, of all countries.
The Fabian revolution is now reaching its peak.
Almost every institution, most broadcasting media and Parliament are captured.
The Government is acting in an openly dictatorial manner.
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UK Police arrest a blind and disabled old Man.
His crime?
He held up a sign that Keir Starmer deems illegal.
The UK is now a police state.
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@AgrippaSPQR He’ll be around for a total of 10 years because he will form a coalition with the Lib Dems and the Greens at the next GE.
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Why do people keep saying ‘this is the issue that’s going to finally finish the Prime Minister off’?
It won’t.
Starmer is a narcissist, he will never accept responsibility and therefore will never accept accountable. Look at how he ridiculously claimed the decision not to drill in the North Sea wasn’t his call - absolute nonsense- but in his own eyes it absolves him of responsibility and allows him to believe he’s still the best man for the job and to a narcissist that’s all that matters.
In any case, how do you remove a Labour PM that simply won’t stand down when the apparatus of parliament refuses to hold him to account, the news media allows scandal after scandal to pass without proper scrutiny and a Labour Party terrified that if they try to remove him he’d call a snap election at which they know the party would face certain wipe out?
Simon Danczuk@SimonDanczuk
Starmer’s government are in contempt of parliament for not demanding Mandelson’s personal messages. The humble address which the, Commons passed, insisted upon it. I strongly suspect that this is the issue that’s going to finally finish the Prime Minister off…
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@SBarrettBar Hoyle is partial.
Starmer had words with him in the back room at the time of the Gaza vote.
Ever since Hoyle, lover of the Good Life, has been in Starmer’s pocket.
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The Speaker is a disgrace
Opposition parties should all veto PMQs.
Sky News@SkyNews
Prime minister is admonished by the Speaker during PMQs. Sir Lindsay Hoyle reminds Rishi Sunak that he is supposed to answer questions, not ask them. trib.al/93x9d7w
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@BenGrahamUK Curiously, nobody voted for these idiots.
Fascinating.
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Ed Miliband’s Net Zero fantasy is now hitting reality.
We’re on the brink of importing salt, a resource Britain has produced for generations.
This isn’t climate leadership. It’s industrial self sabotage.
And it’s our children who’ll inherit the cost.
spiked@spikedonline
The factory that produces half of Britain’s salt could soon be killed by Net Zero. For the first time in history, England is set to be a net importer of the world’s most important mineral. This will be catastrophic for UK manufacturing, says Ruari McCallion buff.ly/M8o8O6P
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@afneil @Bryn_Celtaidd In 2025 we spent £334 billion on welfare and spent only ~£60 billion on defence, with only about 15% of that going to the Royal Navy.
So for every £1 we spent on the Royal Navy we spent ~£33 for someone sitting on their arse.
Just a totally unserious and dysfunctional nation.
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The current state of the Royal Navy:
2 aircraft carriers — neither operational.
6 Type 45 destroyers (our most powerful warships) — one operational (in Cyprus).
7 Type 23 frigates (less powerful, much older) — three operational
5 Astute class nuke-powered subs — one operational (in Arabian Sea?).
Surely those responsible for this appalling state of unreadiness (a national embarrassment if ever there was one)— political, civilian and military — should be fired/charged.
Their incompetence has effectively left us without a navy.
Quite an achievement for an ancient island nation.
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@higgyboson @Keir_Starmer Also, he doesn’t know WHERE the ships are.
Hahahaha.
And the British electorate thought these idiots were more competent than the Tories and gave them an historic majority “to teach the Tories a lesson “….
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This is absolutely incredible.
The Defence Minister has no idea how many ships are in the Navy or why, out of 17 frigates, only ONE is in operation.
How on Earth would we defend the Falklands now?
The straight answer it's that we couldn't.
But @Keir_Starmer wouldn't even bother about it anyway.
Darren Grimes@darrengrimes
Another utterly horrific interview for a Labour cabinet member. This time it’s the defence secretary, he has no idea how many ships the Royal Navy have. Is there anyone in the cabinet with an ounce of competence?
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@canadiancarol1 He has been captured ever since Starmer asked him for a chat in the back room to stop the vote on the Gaza ceasefire.
Since then it has been an open secret that he is biased.
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He is deliberately shielding Keir Starmer from scrutiny
Mark of Sussex II@sussexmarco
The Speaker of the House of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle interrupted Boris Johnson on multiple occasions during Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) to demand he answer questions rather than pivoting or asking counter-questions. #PMQs
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@ecurrnomics We do not explicitly include the cost of intermittency?
No! Misleading word order:
WE EXPLICITLY DO NOT INCLUDE THE COST OF INTERMITTENCY (!!)
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Oxford Smith School: "if all UK households switched to renewable energy, bills could be reduced by £105-£441 per household per year on average"
But read on: "We do not explicitly include the costs of intermittency from the switch to renewables"
Ie, those numbers are misleading
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@Nigel_Farage It’s a good thing that the Chinese, the Russians and the Iranians don’t watch telly, or we’d be in trouble 😳😳😳
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This is embarrassing, it belittles our nation on the world stage.
A navy run down by the Tories and now virtually inoperable.
Reform will bring our armed forces back from the brink.
LBC@LBC
How many frigates and destroyers does the UK have at its disposal? Defence Secretary John Healey can't seem to tell @NickFerrariLBC with any certainty.
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🇬🇧 STOP the Chagos Islands surrender deal
- Our sovereign territory must not be given away & then leased back at a cost of £35b+
- The Mauritius govt is mired in corruption allegations
- Serious Qs remains about UK govt's own lack of transparency over this treacherous act 🇬🇧
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OECD forecasts the UK will take the biggest economic hit out of all G20 countries because of our reliance to imorted oil & gas. We have oceans of oil & gas and don't use it. It's totally insane. Absolute madness!
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@FennellJW The military in general and the navy in particular ensure global political power and security, particularly in peacetime INDEPENDENT of other nations.
The entire world will benefit once more.
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This is my view too, as you know. Becoming strategic 'adults' once again harks back to the pre-1964 Admiralty, which concerned itself with balance of power among nations and maintaining the strategic defence relationships and trade routes which ensure and protect that balance.
The Economist@TheEconomist
The Iran war has dealt another blow to the transatlantic alliance. But the former chief of MI6 sees a unique opportunity. He tells @shashj that the UK has been “infantilised” by the US security guarantee and that it must use this moment to reassess its relationship with hard power. Watch the full interview: econ.st/4byMb6Q
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@MRJKilcoyne Too open, too fair, too even-tempered.
No mass shootings like in the US, no burning streets like in France, no threats and intimidation like in Germany.
A stoic belief in democratic procedures enacted in the people’s interest.
…which is currently being put to the test….
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Somehow the UK is always the most exposed nation, I don't know how we do it. But no matter the crisis, we're always the most exposed and yet we seem to be the least of the beneficiaries in the "good times".
What exactly is our secret sauce of this special curse of ours?
Pippa Crerar@PippaCrerar
Middle East conflict will damage UK growth more than any other industrialised nation, OECD warns. It predicts UK economy will grow by just 0.7% this year, compared with December forecast of 1.2% for 2026. OECD said it had downgraded UK growth because it was likely to suffer higher inflation than previously expected - forecast to rise to 4% this year. Full report 👇 theguardian.com/business/2026/…
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This self-serving rubbish literally comes on the same day he tried to cover up attempts to hide from parliament and the British people the truth about Mandelson’s appointment.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 WATCH: Keir Starmer says he "beat himself up" for appointing Peter Mandelson "I've been really hard on myself... nobody was criticising me more than myself"
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