Nick Orman @nickorman.bsky.social

@KathrynPorter26 @LeeHarris @7Kiwi @Telegraph The only useless policy was is forcing us to pay the most expensive price for the cheapest energy . A Tory privatisation disaster policy.

@LeeHarris @7Kiwi My latest in the @Telegraph explains just how useless his policies are telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/0…

🚨This is DAMNING for Ed Miliband. After 20 months of religiously pushing Net Zero, a poll has revealed that about 60% of the public (including 51% of Labour voters) think we should drill for oil in the North Sea. We need to SCRAP Net Zero and SACK Ed Miliband. It's over.

@ms_demeanour @BenGrahamUK But here in the UK we can get free power from sunlight (including cloudy days). If you live somewhere where you own stream you can also get free power when it rains.

@BenGrahamUK It's so unfair. We know someone in Norway. He gets free power when it rains! He now likes it when it rains lol. So there are areas making the most of hydro power, I'm guessing.

Britain is sitting on oil in the North Sea, we refuse to drill it. We pioneered nuclear power, we refuse to scale it. Now we have some of the most expensive energy in the world and rely on other countries to keep the lights on. This isn’t climate leadership, it’s self sabotage.

@JPBWFarm But without inheritance tax the land is bought up by billionaire non farmers making it too expensive for real farmers t to make any money. Real land prices protect UK food production.

From today Family Farms and Businesses are subject to inheritance tax You can’t farm without land, and you can’t run a business without assets. Forcing families to sell off pieces of their livelihood just to pay a tax bill will lead to national decline.

@Mike_Fabricant No changes are required as they are already labelled 'Orange Marmalade', presumably because they want to be able to sell them in the EU and it is too costly to re-label.

Enjoy these traditional labels while you can. #Starmer is signing us up to #EU regulations which say only the Portuguese can use the word “Marmalade” alone.

@rj_abel Even prominent leave campaigners still believe we should have stayed in the single market. So how is closer alignment going against the referendum result?

Whatever your view on rejoining the EU, that decision belongs to the British people—not Keir Starmers attempt by stealth. Elected leaders are there to serve the public, not override a national referendum or act without clear democratic consent. His actions are traitorous.

@ClarkeMicah Apologies for misquoting Peter Hitchens I do now recall that is what he said.

.@nrorman . No. I said I had *failed* to persuade Lord Gove to favour leaving the EU . Hence my surprise when he became one of the leaders of the Leave campaign.

@TrishHodkinson Peter Hitchens who he said persuaded Gove to the leave side recently said on BBC any questions that he always wanted to stay in the single market and still did. How many of the 17m wanted more than Starmer is now trying to negotiate?

How dare he. How dare he make closer ties with the EU when 17.4 million people voted to leave those very said ties. HE CANNOT BE TRUSTED!!

@studaviesreform @SkyNews @Athena6931 @joncraig I don't think they would accept it at my local supermarket.

@SkyNews @Athena6931 @joncraig You can buy goods with Crypto so this is a nonsense by this government.

Nigel Farage says he's "having a very good think" about taking legal action against the government in response to its ban on political parties accepting donations in cryptocurrency. More from the Reform leader's interview with Sky's @JonCraig 🔗 trib.al/WEKlVCz

@kellro36 @Heidi_Labour You mean you don't believe anything they say anymore. You don't know what other people think. You probably only ask people who agree with you.

@Heidi_Labour Nobody believes anything you’re government says anymore. You have a weak leader with no authority and corruption leaks from every pore. The best thing you could do for our country is call a GE and fast 🤷‍♂️

Today we have announced a huge £27 billion investment in our roads - one of the biggest ever investments in England’s road network. From fixing potholes to building major new schemes, this funding will be transformational for the drivers and businesses that rely on our roads every day. gov.uk/government/new…

Something new and uncomfortable is happening on parts of the British right. Religion is being rediscovered. Not as faith. As a political weapon. 1. Figures like Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick and Tommy Robinson are increasingly framing politics in civilisational terms. Christianity vs. something else, Britain as a religious identity under threat. 2. But this isn’t a revival of faith. It’s a repurposing of it. Christianity is being used less as a belief system and more as a cultural marker. A way of drawing lines around identity. 3. That matters because it is, at its core, selective. The language of “Christian values” appears most often in opposition to immigration, to Islam, to social change. It is rarely accompanied by any serious engagement with the actual religion itself. 4. Genuine faith is inconvenient. It asks for consistency, humility, moral discipline. Political rhetoric is not. It is flexible, opportunistic and used when useful. 5. Which is why the current trend feels less like Reform have found God and more like hypocrisy. Religion is being used as shorthand for belonging, not as a guide to conduct. 6. There is also a clear political incentive. Framing issues in civilisational or religious terms raises the stakes instantly. It turns policy debates into existential struggles, where compromise looks like surrender. The irony is obvious. Many of the loudest voices invoking Christianity are not known for deep religious observance. The appeal isn’t theological. It’s tribal. 7. And that has consequences. Once politics is framed in these terms, it becomes harder to have serious discussions about policy such as migration, integration and housing because everything is recast as identity conflict. It also risks degrading religion itself. When faith becomes a political prop, it loses credibility as a moral force. Religion has always had a place in British public life. But there is a difference between faith shaping politics and politics exploiting faith. What we are seeing now looks much more like the latter.

@shap89131934 @janemilnerbarry @MsMelChen But the last Tory government obstructed central renewable energy for years. So you think we should all be able to have energy bills that low from the grid? And the embedded carbon only takes less than 4 years to pay back.

@NROrman @janemilnerbarry @MsMelChen Yes, it is. Producing energy centrally is cheaper and less polluting. You just outsourced pollution to offshore...

Imagine if the United States had swallowed the Al Gore-style climate gospel back in the day... You don't really have to imagine it. Because there's a natural experiment that took place and that alternative future that the US dodged actually exists. It's called the United Kingdom. I seem to remember there was a sneering attitude from coastal liberal elites hooked on TED talks when Sarah Palin came on the scene and said "drill baby drill." They laughed and dismissed the idea of ramping up domestic fossil fuel production as backward and environmentally reckless. If it was up to them, they would have shut down fracking, choked off new drilling, slapped massive restrictions on oil and gas development, and chased the fantasy of rapid "green" transition at all costs. Instead America did the opposite. The result? UK households today pay 2X more than US households do for energy and their industrial electricity prices are among the highest in Europe. Sure they've lowered emissions (technically they just outsourced it) but at the cost of creating a massive structural economic disadvantage. Energy is the foundational input for everything - steel, chemicals, fertilizers, aluminum, cement, refining. When your electricity and gas bills are 2–6× higher, you just can't even compete. So you end up closing plants, offshoring jobs, and watching your industrial base slowly bleed out. So yeah, the UK's current predicament is exactly where the US would be in if the Green Lobby, Dems and Hollywood suckers had their way: energy-poor, import-dependent, economically hobbled, and geopolitically neutered. The worst part is it's completely ideological. The UK could have had more homegrown energy supply to buffer prices and keep revenue flowing, but Ed Miliband refuses to exploit the UK's own shale or North Sea potential aggressively. Decline really is a choice. Americans should be glad their leaders refused to make it.

@1tarnlad @janemilnerbarry @MsMelChen Nothing like that and the only subsidy was £6500 for the heat pump.

@NROrman @janemilnerbarry @MsMelChen So you’ve spent circa 60-70k and you’ve brought bills down Well done 🤣 Wait till they all need replacing with no subsidies

@janemilnerbarry @MsMelChen We adopted these Net Zero policies as a family. We have Solar on our roof, no gas, an EV and a heat pump to heat the house. Is that a disaster? Well my energy bills (including car charging) are around £500 per year. Is that madness?

@MsMelChen MORE DRILLING IN THE NORTH SEA WILL NOT REDUCE THE PRICE THE UK PAYS FOR OIL AND GAS. We need to get on faster with the energy transition so we can stop the price of electricity being set by the price of gas.

@cliff_mcqueen @radio_bellers @SkyNews @EdConwaySky And we still pay world market prices at the whim of foreign leaders deciding to start wars.

@radio_bellers @NROrman @SkyNews @EdConwaySky These "private" companies are international corporations who buy a licence from the UK Government on the condition that they pay tax on any profit ( @ 78% currently ). The oil company bears the risk, which is considerable. We sit back and cream off the tax revenue. Accio oilus

Not long ago, Britain was one of the world’s biggest oil producers, with revenues accounting for six percent of all government revenues in the mid-1980s. @EdConwaySky looks at how much oil and gas Britain could extract from the North Sea if it really wanted to. 🔗 trib.al/loV0rHu

@NWJK @PME_Politics @MattSingh_ @YouGov The only polls that actually matter though are those on election days. That is the only time you can call pollsters out for their results.

@PME_Politics @MattSingh_ @YouGov For the avoidance of doubt / you always have Reform support 5% lower than other pollsters and seen to inflate the hated Labour Party support : we see you!

For avoidance of any doubt. No, we at @YouGov have not changed *any* methods in response to Farage or Reform. What we have agreed to do moving forward is publish an extra question in all our VI tables. And we *never* made/make ‘tactical voting adjustments’ to our headline VI.

@JohnRentoul @bbclaurak You are falling into the same trap as Trump. He said US is an energy exporter so high prices are good for the US. But the people filling up at the pump are still paying higher prices because it is still a world market. Only the oil companies get the benefit.

How can it make “no material difference” (Ed Miliband to @bbclaurak)? If we are using gas, either we produce it ourselves or we import it

@Cockneycabbie_ Many didn't survive. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reported_…

No potholes no double yellow lines, no cycle lanes, no bus lanes, no speed humps, no speed cameras, no 20 mph speed limit. How did we survive back then. The Old Land

@Joseph_Boam But one of his biggest legacies - one that he was so proud of was the ECHR which the Tories and Reform want to ditch. Shows how shallow this bank note thing really is.

“A nation that forgets its past has no future.” — Winston Churchill

@ceritheviking Do we have a genuine image of Alfred the Great or Owain Glyndŵr?

Lloyd George for me!!