Louis

I know there is a lot of news around but can someone at the Beeb explain to me how a man they keep telling us might be the next PM getting an undisclosed donation of FIVE MILLION POUNDS from a Thai based crypto dealer (with a BS explanation about it being for lifelong security) is not even a news story when the man he wants to replace led the news for days over some glasses and Arsenal tickets?

A lot of jokes from King Charles tonight. “You recently commented, Mr. President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German. Dare I say that if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French”

@quadrantalerror @NavyLookout @HMSDuncan @HMSPWLS @AWenham1 HMS Dragon. Daring and Defender will be later this year.

@NavyLookout @HMSDuncan @HMSPWLS @AWenham1 What Type 45’s excluding Diamond and Duncan are operational?

.@HMSDuncan outbound from Portsmouth this afternoon on completion of maintenance period. Will join @HMSPWLS on the various stages of operation FIRECREST later this year. Via @AWenham1

@chicagopressed @DoctorLemma What loss of revenue?

@DoctorLemma The local govt. ended up rebuilding the affected road due the loss of revenue by Watts’ toll road. The road repair was completed 4 weeks before the original deadline. It was probably one of the only times in human history that a local government finished a project ahead of time

Apparently when the government refused to fix a closed road, one guy just built his own and charged drivers £2 ($3) to use it. This happened 12 years ago in England, when a landslide took out a main road in the countryside. The local council said they weren’t going to build a temporary route. Drivers were now stuck with a 22-kilometre detour every trip. Businesses in the nearby village started bleeding money. A 62-year-old man called Mike Watts decided he’d had enough. He rented a field next to the closed road from a local farmer. Put his house up as collateral. Hired three guys. They built a 400-metre gravel road across the field in ten days. It cost him £150,000 (around $250,000). He charged £2 per car (about $3). Locals and motorbikes paid half. Emergency vehicles went through free. The council was livid. He’d skipped planning permission. But he hadn’t actually broken any laws, so all they could do was ask him to apply for it after the fact. Over the next few months, more than 100,000 cars used his road. People flew in from other countries just to drive on it for fun. He nearly made his money back. Neighbours started sending him cakes and whisky. When the road finally closed, his wife went out and collected stones from it. She painted little eyes on each one and sold them as souvenirs. Would you have just sat in traffic, or are you the type who’d build the road?

@ForexNorthStar @neso_energy Hence the Government's recent announcements to get us off of Gas. Curtailment fees are part of getting private investment on board, and is still cheaper than us running fossil fuels. Look at why countries like China have gone in on solar. Increased storage will also help.

@LouisWellesley @neso_energy But its not cheaper though is it. The prices are still marginalised and pegged to gas even it Gas was only 5% - 100% is priced by gas. In fact wholesale prices were higher overnight and we still have to pay curtailment fees and levies for wasted wind on our bills as well.

On Saturday #imports produced 23.2% of British electricity, more than nuclear 19.6%, gas 18.8%, solar 15.5%, biomass 9.6%, wind 8.7%, other 2.5%, hydro 2.2%, *excl. non-renewable distributed generation

@ForexNorthStar @neso_energy It's not begging, it's the system doing what its designed to do. Send electricity from supply to demand. Larger grids can do this better as it spans multiple weather systems. Much cheaper than reliance on Gas, as seen in recent months due to Iran war.

@LouisWellesley @neso_energy I guess it makes a difference from wasted wind costing us all billions. Personally I'd rather see us store at least some of that instead of paying for our electricity twice and rather than begging energy off our neighbours when we get desperate.

@ForexNorthStar @neso_energy It's what interconnectors are for and creates a more stable grid. We may export when winds/solar is higher in the UK and less-so in Europe. Currently there is a large amount of Solar/Wind in neighbouring countries, making imports the cheapest option.

@neso_energy Is this what you call Energy Security? Having our neighbours plug the gaps? It's shameful and embarrassing.

@StanMtnBike @Topfragger69 @BabakTaghvaee1 Shutup loser, your obese, demented President is trying to get some sleep!

@Topfragger69 @BabakTaghvaee1 Sounds formidable. Weren't you once a world power? Americans could care less about The Falkans and this is simply a snub to your once great, and soon to be muslim country.

BREAKING: Argentine military sources indicate the armed forces are preparing for a potential large-scale operation aimed at recapturing the Islas Malvinas/ Falkland Islands from the United Kingdom, with what they describe as a green light from the United States. Not only did the U.S. prevent the United Kingdom from blocking Argentina’s procurement of F-16A/BM multi-role fighter jets, but it is also said to be supporting Argentina’s plans regarding the future of the Falklands.

Richard Tice lent his own party £1.4 million through a private Mayfair investment company. The Companies House accounts never once named him. Three years running, the auditor signed them off. We've identified specific discrepancies between the Electoral Commission loans register and the 2023 accounts. A £40,000 loan filed under the wrong reporting period. A £613,000 debt-to-donation conversion that doesn't appear in the 2024 filing. A statutory auditor who named Tice in the going concern paragraph but not in the related party note. We sent right of reply letters to Richard Tice, Reform UK, and their auditors CK Partnership on Wednesday morning. The deadline passed today. None of them responded. A Freedom of Information request has been submitted to the Electoral Commission seeking the submission history of the anomalous loan entry. Ref: FOI 046-26. Dan Neidle of Tax Policy Associates has described the quality of Reform UK's financial reporting as poor. Full investigation publishes tomorrow morning.

@Will52773T @CleanPowerDave Not meaningless at all. It's showing that renewables are the preferred choice of energy production.

@CleanPowerDave Meaningless if the y axis is "share" rather than an absolute number. In the real world fossil fuel and coal usage are at a record high, with record approvals for the latter in China. A downturn in construction reduced coal consumption temporarily as less cement was consumed.

Mythbusting👊

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency bbc.in/3OzfTQb

@CupoJoeBlow @dorfman_p No

@LouisWellesley @dorfman_p So we can ignore the myriad headlines that say rising CO2 is the cause for all bad weather?

@CupoJoeBlow @dorfman_p correlation is not causation

@dorfman_p Here’s another interesting scatter chart, but you won’t like this one.

@nbinsider63 @martinabettt Wrong

@martinabettt UK has its own oil and gas. Labour are just too selfish to use it

EXCL: Ministers are expected to pledge action to stop global gas prices pushing up household energy bills – as the Iran war piles pressure on families. The Chancellor and Energy Secretary will signal plans to break the link that means Brits pay gas-level prices for electricity, even when power like wind and solar is doing much of the work. thesun.co.uk/news/38838313/…

Nigel Farage is fighting his own shadow at this point…

@SociallyTruth @PolitlcsUK 'When Angela Rayner, the former deputy prime minister, failed to pay stamp duty on the purchase of a second home, Tice said her position was “morally completely indefensible” and that she would resign if she had “any moral decency”.'

🚨 NEW: Richard Tice’s property investment company allegedly broke the law after failing to pay tax on dividends

@AHiley88626 @ModernNavy @CityAM George Osbourne as referenced in the tweet was the former Conservative Chancellor. The Tories gutted defence for the country under austerity, Labour has committed to spending more, these things take time.

@ModernNavy @CityAM getting this treasonous Government out is crucial

Russia’s defence spend as a share of GDP far outpaced the UK, and since its invasion of Crimea in 2014, the US too. In total spend, Russia has been beating the UK on defence ever since George Osborne's austerity measures that hit the military hard @CityAM cityam.com/charts-uk-defe…

@autisticarab @Opereth Why are you in S mode? Typically S mode is only installed on the lowest specification devices that don't have much storage or processing power for the full version of Windows.

@Opereth You can't run any non Microsoft store executables in S mode.

FUCK YOU

@jamelliog @reformparty_uk Taxation is much higher now than it was when you were paying tax, a large part of that is due to the cost of the triple lock. The state pension is the majority of all benefits and welfare spending in the budget, by a large margin. Increasing pension above wages is unsustainable.

Reform UK will stand up for those who have paid in by keeping the triple lock for state pensioners. ✅

Before I was an MP, I worked on the current series of polymer banknotes at the Bank of England. So I know how decisions about our currency are made, and why they matter. Nigel Farage clearly doesn’t. What he conveniently ignores is that central banks regularly issue new banknote series. It’s how they stay ahead of counterfeiters and keep our currency secure. It’s technical. It’s essential. And it’s completely routine. So why is he manufacturing outrage? Because Farage and Reform UK have spent months attacking the Bank of England itself. They’ve demanded the Bank halt quantitative tightening. 💷 They’ve pushed to stop interest being paid on central bank reserves, which would completely destroy monetary policy transmission. ⚠️ And Farage has even suggested replacing the Governor with someone aligned to his agenda. Let’s be clear: Politicians leaning on central banks is how you spook markets and undermine confidence in the economy. Bank of England independence, brought in by the last Labour government, exists for a reason. To keep markets and household finances stable. I back the Bank to keep our currency secure, not to be dragged into political point-scoring. So if Farage spent half as much time understanding how the Bank works as he does attacking it, we’d hear a lot less of this nonsense. ❌