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@kaya85kaya @FUDdaily 4 hrs of battery, if you believe this is currently practicable I have a bridge you might be interested in buying the

@FUDdaily Backup gas doesn't cost a lot If gas power stations were expensive to build or man you'd have a point but they aren't Also wind + 4 hours of battery are about as reliable as gas So you can back up nearly ~16GW or wind this way

If wind energy is producing 20GW that means you have to have 20GW of conventional generation or interconnector imports on standby for when the weather drops off. You are paying for two energy systems. You have to have a serious brain injury to not understand this.

@bluenobby @Keir_Starmer However, that is an empty oil tanker in ballast, so not much point arresting it.

Everyone is laughing at @Keir_Starmer . Weak as piss. Sanctioned Russian tankers steam through Channel despite Starmer's threats thesun.co.uk/news/38658129/…

@campbellclaret Smoke and mirrors. There was independent evidence of more than one person being in some voting booths. The police, who weren't present, are not contradicting that The are saying there is no evidence that this led to family influence on the voter.

Who would have thunk it? Farridge and Matt Badloss talked a lot of conspiracy theory Islamophobic nonsense when they just, er, lost? Wasting police time anyone ?

@CherylGrainger4 @AllisonPearson @mindbodymoveuk You do know what the yellow card system data actually shows? It merely records that Event A followed Event B. However just because A is followed by B does not mean that B was caused by A.

@AllisonPearson @mindbodymoveuk Took MHRA to Tribunal over Yellow Card Vaccine Monitor (same as V-Safe). Forced them into publishing their results. Would love to discuss - first regulator to state 1 in 7 had a serious medical event! They are keeping very quiet on this!!

Healthy, younger people didn’t need a Covid jab. The tragedy is some who had it for no reason had horrific injuries. 👇 My organs shut down, now I’m in a wheelchair’: The lives ruined by Covid jabs telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…

@ret_ward @Conservatives I stopped implicitly trusting climate scientists after Climategate.

This is wrong. People trust scientists instead of politicians because they are straight with them. The U.K. will suffer growing impacts from climate change until the world reaches net zero. We will not persuade the world to reach net zero if like @Conservatives we give up on it.

The deeply shocking thing, Prime Minister, is that it’s not deeply shocking.

@ret_ward Jeebus, Bob. We all know and agree you can make the steels we desire in arc furnaces. 14 years back in The Guardian even: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… What you cannot do is run arc furnaces on intermittent wind or solar power. You'll destroy the furnace that way.

Theft then. Your money will be invested as government directs, not as you wish. Theft.

I’m a chemist. I need to say this - because it’s getting dangerous out there. The biggest health myth in the world isn’t about vaccines. Or GMOs. Or fluoride. It’s the root of all of them. It’s called chemophobia - and it’s killing science. Fear of “chemicals” now drives vaccine rejection, GMO bans, food hysteria, and entire political movements. From tampons to tap water, people have been taught to fear chemistry - the very thing that keeps us alive. Chemophobia tells us: “Natural is good.” “Synthetic is bad.” That’s a lie. Botulinum toxin is 100% natural and one of the deadliest molecules known. Aspirin is synthetic and life-saving. We’ve gone from banning harmful substances for good reason…to banning safe, well-tested molecules for emotional reasons. You’ve seen the slogans: “If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it.” “Paraben-free.” “Clean beauty.” They sound empowering. But they’re not science - they’re marketing. And they’re making the world dumber, poorer, and sicker. Your body doesn’t care if a molecule comes from a plant or a lab. Vitamin C is vitamin C. Formaldehyde is formaldehyde and your body makes more of it every day than any vaccine ever could. Dose matters. Source doesn’t. This fear isn’t harmless. It shapes public policy. It blocks innovation. It raises food prices. It slows down cancer treatments. Chemophobia is now mainstream and it’s costing lives. Scientists aren’t losing because we’re wrong. We’re losing because fear spreads faster than facts. Because influencers sell fear for clicks. Because lawyers monetize doubt. And because scientists are too tired to fight back. So here’s my message, as a chemist and as a citizen: Learn how toxicology works. Call out chemical fear-mongering. Support policies based on evidence, not emotion. Chemistry isn’t the enemy. It’s the reason you have clean water, safe food, and modern medicine. If we let fear win, we lose all of it.

@NThomo2353 @GBNEWS @CDP1882 Unfortunately we don't have a great deal more to send. Worth noting that in the 1980s the two carriers with their escorts and supply train was on its way in a few days after the starting gun was fired. Its appalling that we don't have a frigate/destroyer on 24hr notice to sail.

@GBNEWS @CDP1882 When a few Argentine conscripts set foot on the Falklands, Maggie sent 2 aircraft carriers 8 destroyers 15 frigates 5 nuclear submarines 2 amphibious assault ships 6 landing ships 40 support vessels 40 combat aircraft Cyprus is attacked and Keir sends 1 destroyer and 2 helos 🫣

'We understand HMS Dragon won't go until at least early next week... British personnel face up to two weeks unprotected.' National reporter @CDP1882 says sources at the Ministry of Defence have indicated delays will prevent the deployment of British naval vessels to Iran.

@CrewkerneMan What Royal Navy?

If these reports are true, this is a direct attack on the United Kingdom. Keir Starmer should’ve foreseen this and stood with the US and Israel, not spent days saying “Britain isn’t involved.” Reinforce our bases and deploy the Royal Navy immediately.

⁦@MrTCHarris⁩ asks THE question…

@Sargon_of_Akkad You do know this is a picture of Donald Trump and his daughter?

I think John Cleese is on side.

@worstall NHS currently spends £4b/week so it would pay for the NHS for 7 whole days

Erm, run the NHS for 36 hours? Hours, not days. -ish?

This is a masterclass in sounding righteous while saying nothing that survives contact with arithmetic. Let’s start with the £4 billion figure you’re throwing around. That’s not an annual tax bill Ratcliffe dodged. It’s a one-off estimated saving on a capital restructuring — the potential capital gains and income tax on extracting his equity from INEOS. You’re presenting it as though HMRC is missing £4 billion a year from its budget because Ratcliffe moved to Monaco. It isn’t. When Ratcliffe was UK tax resident in 2019, he paid £110 million in income tax in a single year. How much income tax did you pay that year, Zara? Now let’s test your central thesis: that if “parasitic billionaires paid what they owe,” our public services would be fine. The entire UK billionaire class — every single one of them — holds combined wealth estimated at around £650 billion. If you confiscated every penny — not taxed, confiscated — it would fund the NHS for approximately three years. Then it’s gone. No more billionaires. No more money. And of course you’d also have destroyed the companies they own, the hundreds of thousands of jobs those companies support, and the tax revenue those employees generate. INEOS alone employs 26,000 people globally and turns over £45 billion annually, generating enormous tax receipts through corporation tax, employer NICs, and income tax from its workforce. The NHS costs approximately £190 billion a year. Schools another £115 billion. The welfare bill runs to over £300 billion. Total government spending exceeds £1.2 trillion annually. You cannot fund this by squeezing billionaires, because there simply aren’t enough of them and they don’t have enough money — even collectively — to cover more than a rounding error on the annual budget. This is not an opinion. It is mathematics. The bulk of UK tax revenue comes from ordinary working people through income tax, NICs, VAT, and council tax, and it always The working class are perfectly capable of holding more than one thought simultaneously. They can recognise that tax avoidance by the wealthy is a problem and that unprecedented levels of net migration — 900,000 in a single year under this government’s watch — place genuine pressure on housing, GP appointments, school places, and wages at the lower end of the labour market. These are not “far-right talking points.” These are the lived daily experiences of the people you claim to represent. You know who doesn’t struggle to get a GP appointment? You, Zara. You know who isn’t competing for social housing? You. You know whose children aren’t in a classroom with 35 kids and a supply teacher? Yours aren’t. The people on the housing waiting list in Coventry — my neighbours — aren’t angry because Jim Ratcliffe lives in Monaco. They’re angry because they’ve been waiting four years for a two-bedroom flat while the population has grown by three million in half a decade and nobody built the infrastructure to absorb it. And speaking of parasites — your word, not mine — you’ve been a member of the party that has been in government since July 2024. Labour has had every lever of power available to it. What has your government done about billionaire tax avoidance? Nothing. What has it done about non-dom status? Watered down its own proposals. What has it done about net migration? Presided over the highest figures in British history. You don’t get to tweet like you’re in opposition when you are the government. You’re not “speaking truth to power.” You are power. And you’re failing. Ratcliffe’s language was clumsy and his population figures were wrong. But your response isn’t an argument — it’s a slogan dressed up as analysis, designed to harvest likes from people who mistake moral indignation for economic literacy. The working class don’t need you to identify their enemies for them. They need houses, functioning public services, and an honest conversation about trade-offs. You’re offering none of these.

@nmrqip As far as London centric journalists are concerned, the West Country s anywhere west of the M25

Since when was Worcestershire part of the West Country?

"The wettest parts of the country are in the West Country, where North Wyke, Devon, Cardinham, Cornwall and Astwood Bank, Worcestershire, have seen 40 consecutive days of rainfall since the turn of the year." telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/1…

Madelson had a long history of corruption. Assuming he'd tell the truth was unbelievably stupid Starmer needs to resign because he showed extremely poor judgement appointing a man with a track record of unethical behaviour To bleat about being lied to just makes him look even more stupid

@JMPSimor Evidence of what?

Millions of files of evidence collected but not a single man prosecuted. Not a single one. #EpsteinFiles

@TRobinsonNewEra People including Mr Robinson failing to appreciate this is a performance of 'The Armed Nan' by Karl Jenkins which includes the call to prayer as one of the items.

German church lets an imam to wail out the screams of conquer. Stop tolerating the intolerant. They're conquering Europe because you're letting them, out of "politeness". It's time to stop being tolerant.

@sprogsanddogs @nmrqip This tonight in Newton Abbot

Heads up... the Aurora Borealis is magnificent right now. Shame the camera on my phone just won't capture it.