james from bexley

@NeilDotObrien Since when has Bexley been inner London?

Labour are taking the mick now. "Pride in Place" funding will now be rationed on the basis of "community cohesion" Only their inner-city clients will get funding.

@ClaireCoutinho We keep asking and you never respond, why was it that when you were Secretary of State, UK domestic electricity prices were the highest in the world?

RenewableUK. Greg Jackson from Octopus. Tony Blair. The Chair of GB Energy. All support more drilling in the North Sea. Thousands of jobs lost, billions in tax revenue gone, more reliance on dirtier imports - all because Ed Miliband is too ideological to admit he is wrong.

@john4brexit The Brexit burden in one graph.

The opportunities of Brexit were only partially seized. The next Gov should reverse Labour madness & fully embrace Brexit free trade

@SteveBakerFRSA This is Brexit for you. Great work so far.

❌No, Brexit has not hit GDP by 8%. ❌No, joining the Customs Union is not a good idea. ❌And no, taking economic regulations with no say is not a benefit. 💡Make this nonsense stop.

@griffitha Hasn't been very positive for our economy has it?

Labour is quietly preparing to surrender Britain’s hard-won independence back to Brussels. We didn’t spend years winning regulatory freedom just to become a rule-taker again. 250 years after Adam Smith, their 'EU reset' is nothing more than a managed decline 🧵👇

@ClaireCoutinho Can you just explain how it was when you were Secretary of State, that UK domestic electricity was the highest in the world?

Ed Miliband has a cult-like conviction in his own climate ideology. He is incapable of admitting that he is wrong – even with mountains of evidence stacking up against him. As the world gets more dangerous, his anti-North Sea fanaticism is making Britain weaker and poorer. Unfortunately, as more and more people sound the alarm, Miliband only becomes more convinced by his own righteousness. Today, the Conservatives will force a vote in Parliament calling for the emergency approval of the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields in the North Sea – two fields that could be up and running by the end of the year. Turning our backs on domestic gas that could heat millions of homes would be madness in normal times, but it is sheer lunacy in the midst of a gas supply crisis. In government, I legislated to protect North Sea oil and gas licences and I approved Rosebank, even though I was told it would have put my own personal security at risk from climate extremists. It was controversial at the time, but to say times have changed would be an understatement. From the wind lobbyists at RenewableUK to the chair of Great British Energy - Miliband’s “clean energy” propaganda outfit - the head honchos of the green lobby say we should drill. The great and good of the Labour Left, from the Tony Blair Institute to the unions and Ed Balls, say so, too. The relative geopolitical stability we have had for most of my adult life is not something we can bank on in the years ahead. We need to pass on a country to the next generation that is strong and prosperous. That means making economic decisions based on rationality, not ideology. The North Sea is a blessing for our economy. When gilt markets are charging you a premium because they think we’re borrowing too much and earning too little, it is incumbent on the Exchequer to make the most of all growth opportunities we have. It is a blessing for our energy security, with the gas making up half of our domestic supply. But it is also a blessing for our environment, as the North Sea is much cleaner than importing LNG from abroad. However, for Miliband to admit this would expose the intellectual fraud at the heart of our net zero climate policy. Miliband’s agenda rests on the absurdity that carbon emissions only matter if they happen domestically. It incentivises the replacement of British industry with dirtier imports from abroad. The fact that North Sea gas displaces dirtier LNG doesn’t matter to our climate bean counters because foreign LNG imports aren’t counted in our domestic emissions targets. This is Net Zero irrationality in a nutshell. Fewer jobs in Britain for more carbon in the atmosphere – and yet to the religiously fervent, they will argue that this is Britain’s example of climate success. This is fantasy thinking we cannot afford. We must fast-track Rosebank and Jackdaw and lift the onerous bans and taxes on the North Sea to back Britain’s energy security. Kemi Badenoch knows it and Keir Starmer knows it. Unfortunately, so far, only one of them has had the courage to say so.

@rightviewuk @john4brexit Come on, when are you going to invade Narva? I would like to see that.

@frombexley @john4brexit Like I said, your ignorance does not constitute facts

On what basis?

@rightviewuk @john4brexit The EU is not funding Russia but do carry on with your delusion. Hilarious.

@frombexley @john4brexit Better with oil prices on the rise - and better with EU funding

@defossardf @singharj Cabotage costs will come down, so logistics costs will be reduced, leading to a downward pressure on UK shop prices. What don't you understand about this?

Very important article by @singharj on the implications of the EU Reset and how it will make food more expensive rather than less. If we follow EU rules we will have to impose checks on food imports from safe and friendly countries to satisfy the EU. inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg No - this is a lie. Before Brexit, EU hauliers could freely perform cabotage runs inside the UK. After Brexit, these rights were restricted, meaning, fewer EU trucks could legally do multiple UK‑internal deliveries so costs have risen for UK logistics.

The EU makes food more expensive, it always has as it is a racket for continental farmers against British consumers.

@rightviewuk @john4brexit How is the Russian economy doing these days?

@frombexley @john4brexit Still trotting out the same nonsense

@john4brexit Show us your graph?

This is complete rubbish. Brexit has been a benefit & could do much more. I guess Rejoiners believe if you repeat a lie often enough people will begin to believe it. It’s called propaganda

@rightviewuk @campbellclaret You claim to know this and then pretend its the EU that is backing Putin. Great comedy by the way.

@frombexley @campbellclaret Yes, and as you will also know (being ironic again) that many of those countries have massively increased exports and imports to Countries around Russia. They have also turned a blind eye to Putin’s shadow fleet

Kind of obvious methinks ….

@rightviewuk @campbellclaret Did you know national sovereignty still exists inside the EU?

@frombexley @campbellclaret You do know I suppose, of course you don’t, that the EU bought more Russian LNG in January than ever before!!

@rightviewuk @campbellclaret 'Putin backed EU,' - only the Russians would come up with that. Comedy gold. Thank you.

@frombexley @campbellclaret As far as I am aware Russia haven’t invaded Southern England, although they seem to have indoctrinated remoaners who love the Putin backing EU

No real evidence to back this up The British economy has grown in a similar way to our European peers The pre Brexit forecasts have largely been debunked Even trade has continued to grow Getting closer to the EU might make sense if it was doing better but it's a rapidly declining bloc as even Draghi admits If people want to grow the British economy they should focus on domestic reform and critical trade relations focused on tech and natural resources

@danielmgmoylan You lose the argument immediately anytime you use the word remoaner. Thank you but we wont stop demanding our freedoms back.

Remoaners, listen up! Every word of this is spot-on: open.substack.com/pub/iaindale/p…

@danielmgmoylan We just want our freedoms back.

It’s just a sad obsession that, unlike other mid-sized powers, the UK, uniquely, has no future except as a member of the EU. The obsession makes it impossible for these people to give serious thought to the real world situation of the UK. They make themselves irrelevant.

@afneil The economic case for alignment with the EU is here in one graph. Am not sure why you find this so difficult.

Either produce evidence that I was part of the Brexit campaign or advocated it or have ever ‘gone on about sovereignty’ — or simply STFU. And you seem to know even less abut defence than you do about me. The UK nuclear deterrent is operationally independent. France, which you think so much of, has a keen sense of sovereignty. But, like the UK, it has no shield against long-range ballistic missiles. On this key military issue Brexit is irrelevant.