ELLEN SHEPHERD

@afneil I really respect your views and completely agree. Our entire senior government are out of their depth. The press conference presentations are appaling and the press question answers are unacceptable. They are playing with OUR lives. I am appalled.

Total bollocks. I’ve just ‘belittled’ (ie criticised) John Healey even more. Is he a woman too? You’re obsessed with gender. In 2026 most of us don’t give a monkey’s. We let politicians have it when they’re out of their depth, whatever their gender. Of course the Strait should be reopened on the same basis as pre-Trump’s War. But just calling for it won’t make it happen. It’s purely performative. Just like Starmer-Healey saying they’d crack down on Russia’s dark fleet. Next.

@AdeysAlthorp Do you name them? Are they quite affectionate? I have never owned any but I had suggested names for those near Finedon?

The Alpacas were really enjoying the sunshine today and they made quite a fuss of me too. Conservation@althorp.com #Spencerestates

@LeeHarris What is his understanding of technical information he is using. Which Russel Group research is he funding? Research funding dictates Russel Group position, so will often give an answer you want! His Physics wasn't brilliant so does he understand windmills (wind turbines!)?

🚨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.

@ReturnofColin2 @NickFarmer3 How on earth can he be planning for the future with his idiotic pursuit of net zero (which he only achieves by farming it off to other countries generating even more greenhouse gasses). Many people are worrying how they can pay their next day heating bill.

@davidwelling123 @ABridgen I'm not sure Ed Milliband would be ok with this, unless you only burn imported logs (I understand this is our major source of suitable logs for logburners!) Help, help, help, does anyone realise what we are doing?

@ABridgen Is it still ok for me to use my woodburner? 🤔

As threatened Iran has attacked a British target. The British Castrol oil company in Erbil, Iraq. What do you think Starmer’s response will be ?

@christopherhope Hope he's good at rats as well.

NEW Larry the Cat has just killed and eaten a mouse feet from the door of 10 Downing St during the Prime Minister’s press conference. The mouse was killed in the courtyard of the Foreign Office, dragged across the street and consumed by Larry on the grass next to Number 10’s door. We have the film. This is not an April Fool. It is the first time this has happened in my long hours standing outside 10 Downing Street. Here is Larry moments before the mouse killing.

@johnredwood Unbelievable speech from Starmer - so suited for April Fools Day! Our government are a farce. We're in a precarious situation, but we are just told to carry on as usual, due to the brilliant budget last year!! Larry No10 chief mouser needs to take control.

April fool? Surely we are not banning our own oil and gas so we import instead? Surely we are not giving away Chagos with a dowry? Surely we are not paying French police to watch the gangs make money? Every day is April Fool’s day with this government.

@johnredwood This government is NOT LOOKING AFTER our Country! If ever there was a time for a strong leader and an expereinced, intellectual front bench it is right now! We are not prepared for any of the difficulties we are facing. Our government are only fighting for their own survival.

Monday’s Cobra economic crisis meeting needs to end the bans on UK oil and gas, cancel the autumn fuel duty increase , cut fuel duty and tax on domestic gas. This can be paid for by welfare reform, stopping the Chagos give away and no extra money for EU re set.

@LizKershawDJ @Olgachristie This is outrageous! Can't they get themselves a Human Rights lawyer to fight their case? With war growing more likely day by day, we need an immediate ban on all illegal immigrants. Then deploy these civil servants into clearing the current backlog & helping with war duties.

This is the pits...Just heard that in Headingley Leeds, in one of the leafiest, quietest most desirable residential avenues in the city, a hall of residence, adjacent to a convent and right in the heart of an area that houses thousands of young female students living away from home, is to house 250 single male migrants. Is nowhere safe?! change.org/p/stop-uncheck…

@LizKershawDJ Why will no-one challenge him? He got a D & 3 B's at A-level - got into Oxford for DEPRIVED families? GCSE Maths & Physics?! Ha,ha. Net Zero needs economic & mathematical skills. How much money goes to Private Equity to achieve this ridiculous vision? He has no life experience.

#EdMiliband claims #Iran war and #oiltanker blockade shows he is right on #NetZero So if someone advocated you shouldn't rely on your savings and to find a new income stream would you be wise to bury your existing assets forever? Idiot. UK 'intensively looking' at how to help reopen Strait of Hormuz mol.im/a/15647627 via @DailyMail

@AdeysAlthorp Essex does it 4 times a year. This may help a little and if they were to analyse the cost/benefit analysis this may start to make sense.

@ellenshepherd Is it free for the first yearly item and then payment? Most of the rubbish we have dumped won't be on their collect list sadly.

A massive thank you to all the volunteers that cleared rubbish around Nobottle woods and the surrounding roadsides this Saturday. Over 100 nappy bags were picked up in the haul! What on earth is happening to our countryside these days? Conservation@althorp.com Pic. Karen B.

@JohnCleese Appears to be a lot of forgetfulness on this forthcoming court room delight. I haven't!

Hear, hear ! Are things bad enough to allow us to start talking about rent boys ? I think so...

@QprEver Send him to a council house, both parents working on minimum wage & 3 children.Worried about heating and car costs on a daily basis? Why make them absorb costs for net zero for the future NOW? His understanding of the science/economic/ideology FACTORS is so stupid.

@Madbiziness @Iromg No experience, knowledge or interlect. We are in an incredibly dangerous and complex world. We need the capability, good judgment and strong leadership to navigate us through. We do not have this.

@Iromg So very ineffective on the world stage. They haven't got any pazazz or personality, rhetoric, or policy...within, this Labour losing government.

Honestly what is the point of these people?

@TreasuryMog @Number10cat We miss him and so does the Country

As many of you know by now, Larry @Number10cat is locked out of his Twitter account. I am over on Bluesky, as is Larry, and if there is any news I will let you all know.

@LorenzoTheCat @X @Number10cat Why?

Dear @X support, our dear friend Larry @Number10cat has been locked out of his account. We all love him and he adds so much to this site, please try to help him get his account back. Thank you. 🐱

@Mike_Fabricant I've been practising my AI skills based on assessment of what is going on behind the scenes! I'm am releived that Larry (No 10 cat for those that don't know) is experienced, clever and mor than capable of guiding the cabinet!

Starmer’s latest phrase: “the National Interest”. Expect to hear it again and again and again. Only it isn’t.

@afneil FOCUS on critical issues! Fantasy Economic update from Reeves in Complaints. Cyprus base relying on MS Victory (first launch 1765). Quatar Liquid gas SAFE, after Force Majeaur announced. China relations strong - MPs' partner ensuring this. HELP - another glass of wine me thinks!

The sheer stupidity of the British ruling class at a time of crisis. They make the French aristocracy in 1789 look responsible!!

@benonwine Starmer

What is the BIGGEST Threat to the World right now?