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@stevelovesali @simonjwarner @leesdechan @PolitlcsUK That is absolutely not true. FOM was for European citizens only, and border checks obviously don’t work. Under the Dublin agreement the government could have return people but they chose not too.

@simonjwarner @leesdechan @PolitlcsUK What absolute BS Before Brexit, they simply came over in the back of lorry's because of FOM, but thanks to Brexit, we now have proper checks at our border and exactly how it should be

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage asks Keir Starmer to admit his "Smash the Gangs" slogan has been an "abject failure" Starmer: "He promised lower tax and now Reform councils are hiking council tax by 9%" Farage and other Reform MPs then walk out the chamber #PMQs

@simonjwarner @leesdechan @PolitlcsUK True. Before Brexit they could be returned under the Dublin agreement. The government just chose not to. Now we don’t have that option. Brexit has made it more attractive

@leesdechan @PolitlcsUK Farage caused it his pointless Brexit .

@danwootton Says dodgy Dan, or is that Maria or Martin

Slippery Starmer is the King of Cover Ups. So much so that he’s even covering up his bald spot with a hairpiece.

@IsabelOakeshott How’s Dubai?

IF the Prime Minister cannot or will not answer serious questions, then there is no point in PMQs-it’s just bad theatre. He doesn’t deserve an audience

@levi_ausov @DavidWolfe Sure you did…🫡

@DavidWolfe The first time I ever heard the sun caused cancer, I called bullshit. That is a part of the dumbest shit I ever heard, and I’ve heard some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard in my life the last 15 years

@TheRealJamieKay The Munties

Name this band.

@Daniel7Prinsloo You’d have to have been dropped on the head to not believe

It's 2026 and people really belive a plane took down the towers. Wild

@LoisPerry26 Ooooo, fake rage 🥳

This is the only Mateys bubble bath in the pharmacy in St John's Wood, North West London. Firstly, this is a children's bubble bath and why would a little girl need to wear a hijab? Even by strict Muslim standards..She's not even sexual yet. And secondly what girl of any age would wear a hijab in the bath? It's TOTALLY ridiculous x

@SarahForRuncorn @Keir_Starmer What’s disgraceful is your acting

Yet another disgraceful performance from the Prime Minister today at PMQs. Why won’t you answer the question, @Keir_Starmer?

@TheBritLad I can feel the fake rage… it tingles.

🚨 BREAKING: Easter egg prices slashed by nearly half at supermarkets including Morrisons. This comes after social media backlash over packaging missing the word “Easter”. The people refuse to let their culture be erased.

@NotFarLeftAtAll VED doesn’t pay for the roads #RoadTaxDoesntExist

Should Road Tax be halved considering the state of the roads ?

@NotFarLeftAtAll Also what happens when you let the thickest in society make thier own decisions.

Doncaster Why are we paying for road tax really..

@NotFarLeftAtAll You don’t pay road tax and VED doesn’t fund the roads

@Iromg Grow up concrete boy

Any chance we celebrate something other than bloody Eid?

@EricLDaugh Trump said = he just made something up

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. President Trump just said Iran's leaders sent him a "present" as part of proving who is really in control The present, related to oil and gas, arrived today, worth a "tremendous amount of money" "They gave us a present, and the present arrived today. It was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money." "And I'm not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize." "They gave it to us, and they said they were going to give it, so that meant one thing to me — we deal with the right people." "No, it wasn't nuclear-related. It was oil and gas-related, and it was a very nice thing they did." "But what it showed me is that we're dealing with the right people."

@MbarkCherguia That must have tickled

Who's at fault?

@SuellaBraverman Do you don’t understand climate change. Maybe quit being an MP then

Global warming?!? Just over a week to go until Easter and we need to get our big coats back out! I wouldn’t mind a bit more global warming to be honest, right now.

@stuartpowell @mwt2008 “I used AI as I don’t know what I’m talking about” 🤦‍♂️

I asked Grok for an explanation of the contribution of wind power in the UK energy market in the context of the subsidies paid to wind farms when the wind was too strong (curtailment). I had to read the explanation twice before understanding that it was grid capacity for distribution that appears to be the inhibiting factor. Long explanation follows. Solutions and Outlook NESO and government are accelerating reinforcements (new HVDC links, onshore upgrades, "SmartValves" for dynamic line rating, etc.), with several projects due online by 2028–2030. These should materially reduce (but not eliminate) constraints. Other mitigations include more battery storage, demand flexibility, hydrogen production in constrained areas, and better locational pricing signals. Without faster action, NESO has warned balancing costs could reach £4–8 billion annually by 2030. In summary, curtailment is a symptom of mismatch between where clean, cheap power is generated and where the ageing transmission grid can deliver it safely. It is driven overwhelmingly by thermal transmission constraints at a handful of north–south boundaries, not by any inherent unreliability of the turbines themselves. The payments reflect both the need to keep the lights on and the current infrastructure lag behind renewable deployment. For the latest official data, NESO’s annual balancing costs reports and real-time BM data provide the deepest transparency. Curtailment in the UK electricity system occurs when the National Energy System Operator (NESO) instructs generators — overwhelmingly wind farms — to reduce or stop their output because the transmission network cannot safely carry the power to where demand exists. This is not because the wind has stopped or the turbines have failed, but because of physical limits on the high-voltage transmission grid.timharper.netIn 2025, this resulted in roughly 10–12 TWh of renewable (mostly wind) energy being curtailed in Great Britain — enough to power every household in London for a year — with total constraint-related balancing costs reaching about £1.46–1.5 billion. Of that, £363–380 million went directly as compensation to wind generators for turning down, while the majority (£1.08 billion) paid gas-fired plants in less-constrained areas to ramp up and replace the lost power. timharper.net Core Technical Causes: Grid Bottlenecks and Physics. The electricity grid must balance supply and demand in real time while respecting the physical limits of power lines, transformers, and substations. Key constraints include: Thermal limits (the dominant driver): Power lines heat up when carrying high current. If they exceed safe temperatures, they sag, risk damage, or cause faults. NESO therefore imposes "secure" transfer limits that assume the loss of one or two circuits (the "N-1" or "N-2" security standard). Exceeding these risks blackouts or equipment failure. ukerc.ac.uk Voltage and stability limits: High flows can cause voltage instability or insufficient system inertia (resistance to frequency changes), especially with inverter-based renewables like wind replacing spinning synchronous generators (gas/coal/nuclear). Regional imbalance: Most new wind capacity (onshore and offshore) has been built in Scotland and parts of northern England/East Anglia, where wind resources are strongest and planning/land costs were historically favourable. However, the bulk of UK electricity demand is in England (especially the south-east around London). Power must flow long distances southwards, but the transmission infrastructure was originally designed for large centralised fossil-fuel plants located near demand centres. The main pinch points are known as boundaries: B6 boundary (Scotland–England border): The critical "bridge". It has two main onshore AC corridors plus the Western HVDC Link (a 2.2 GW subsea cable), giving a nominal secure transfer capacity of around 6–6.7 GW. When Scottish wind output exceeds what this can carry safely, curtailment kicks in. ukerc.ac.ukB4 boundary (within Scotland): Separates northern and southern Scottish transmission zones. Many large new offshore wind farms (e.g., Seagreen in the Firth of Forth) and northern onshore sites sit north of B4, so power must cross this internal bottleneck first before even reaching the England border. Its secure capacity is only ~3.4 GW. theferret.scot Other contributing factors include: planned outages for grid maintenance and upgrades: These temporarily reduce available transfer capacity, worsening congestion even in moderate wind conditions. Forecasting errors: Sudden high wind or deviations between day-ahead forecasts and real-time output force rapid re-dispatch in the Balancing Mechanism (BM). Interconnector and export dynamics: High wind can coincide with export needs or flows that exacerbate local constraints. How Curtailment Actually Happens: operationally Wind farms bid into the day-ahead and intraday markets, often expecting to run at high output. In real time, if flows approach boundary limits, NESO uses the Balancing Mechanism — a short-notice market where generators submit "bids" (to reduce output) and "offers" (to increase output). NESO accepts the cheapest bids first to turn down wind (often newer farms with lower "lost revenue" costs) and the necessary offers to turn up gas plants south of the boundary. Wind operators receive compensation (via BM payments plus any top-up to cover CfD or Renewables Obligation income they miss). This keeps their business case intact but does not deliver the electricity. Consumers ultimately pay via BSUoS (Balancing Services Use of System) charges on bills and the replacement gas costs. Some large Scottish offshore farms (e.g., Seagreen) have seen very high curtailment rates — occasionally over 60–70% of potential output in peak periods — because they are "behind" the worst bottlenecks and can bid cheaply to turn down. theferret.scot Why It Costs So Much (Double Payment Effect) Wind is turned down → paid compensation (typically 24% of total constraint costs). Gas is turned up elsewhere → paid a premium (often 30%+ uplift because it's short-notice, and wholesale prices may be high) — this is the bulk of the cost. No fuel is saved on the curtailed wind (it has zero marginal cost), but gas fuel and carbon costs are incurred instead. This is why total constraint costs (£1.46bn in 2025) far exceed the direct payments to wind farms. Why Has It Worsened? Wind generation doubled in Scotland over the past decade while major north–south transmission reinforcements have been delayed by planning, consenting, local opposition, supply-chain issues, and long construction times (new lines often take 7–15 years). Renewables growth outpaced grid build-out. In 2025, curtailment volumes rose ~22% year-on-year despite some cost moderation in parts of the year. edie.net Yawn!📷From From timharper.net

The wind turbine uses more energy in its construction that it gives back in the whole of its working life. You are being conned - there is nothing green about wind turbines.

@suespeaksup But they are crap now

@suespeaksup They have been on sale since New Year’s Eve and it’s a standard tactic to mark them as on sale.

Cadbury eggs stacking up on shelves… reduced everywhere… and still no one’s buying. People can taste the difference. Cheaper ingredients, palm oil, higher prices it’s not the same chocolate anymore. Consumers aren’t stupid. They’ve just stopped buying it!!