Michael Wheller

The best way to cut people’s bills is through the Conservatives Cheap Power Plan and by drilling our own Gas and oil in the North Sea.

@darrenpjones "We're throwing more public money to our mates, without any concrete deliverables, and we won't be auditing where the money goes".

We must leave the ECHR and repeal the Human Rights Act that Tony Blair used to embed it in UK law.

365 years of temperature data from central England, the world's longest running climate record, show no trend. Despite a six-fold rise in population and a surge in CO2, January temperatures have barely shifted since 1600. Likewise for July, the hottest month of the year, temperatures are virtually unchanged. Even during the coal-fired Industrial Revolution there was no sudden spike. The warmest winters on record occurred in the 1700s, the 1800s, and the early 1900s, long before modern emissions. Any warming appears slow and natural, with the slight modern uptick likely linked to two factors: 1) the urban heat island effect, and 2) Earth's gradual recovery from the Little Ice Age. If carbon dioxide truly controlled the climate, the CET record would shoot upward on the right. It does not.

Last year we lost a THIRD of our refineries. Under Labour, crippling Carbon Taxes are killing off our heavy industry. Leaving us more reliant on foreign imports just as the world gets more dangerous. Economic suicide.

This is very important @UKLabour is destroying the UK

@ChrisGPackham @Helen_Whately Net Zero is a slogan. It cannot be scientifically measured so cannot be managed. CO2 is the gas of life. Without it nothing grows. See photosynthesis. It does not control the weather let alone the climate. Destroying the UK economy is what all the watermelons want.

On BBC Question Time, @Helen_Whately just said ‘we can’t afford Net Zero’ . She is a human health hazard and grossly misinformed or lying . Time to call out the lunatics leading us to hell . No facts , no truth , no integrity - no hope.

A drop in the ocean. Cut fuel duty. Abolish carbon taxes, end the Renewables Obligation, restart drilling in the North Sea and get fracking.

🚨 Labour’s Grooming Gang Inquiry Has Been Deliberately Delayed Until After The Next Election 🚨 I took the time to read through the latest details of this so called national inquiry properly, not headlines, not spin, the actual substance, and here is the reality. On 8 January 2025, the Government rejected calls for a new national grooming gang inquiry, arguing the focus should instead be on implementing previous recommendations. Then on 14 June 2025, Keir Starmer stood there and announced a National Grooming Gang Inquiry. Six months later, on 9 December 2025, Anne Longfield was appointed to lead it. And now, months on from that announcement, this is where we actually are. The Terms of Reference are still not finalised. Still being drafted. Still being negotiated. Anne Longfield herself has admitted the draft is not strong enough and not detailed enough, and she did not even write it. If the person leading the inquiry is telling you it is weak, then it is weak. Even now the wording around one of the most critical issues, ethnicity, race and religion, only says the inquiry “should” look at it. Not will. Not must. That is not a technicality, that is a loophole. It means it can still be watered down. This is being sold as a national inquiry, yet only a single digit number of areas will actually receive full local investigations. The rest of the country, dozens of affected towns and thousands of victims, will be pushed into a general call for evidence. That is not full exposure, that is containment. There is currently no advisory panel in place. The previous one has been disbanded. The legal team is still being hired. This is not a system ready to deliver justice, it is a system still being built behind closed doors. They have also made it clear the Terms of Reference will define what the inquiry does, and only after that will survivors be brought in to shape how it is done. That is completely backwards. Victims should be shaping the scope, not just the process. We are told there will be no no go zones, but there is no explanation of how that is enforced, who decides it, or what happens when it is challenged. Without that, it is just words. And here is the part they do not want you focusing on. The inquiry will start in April 2026, run for three years, and the final report will not be published until after the next General Election. That is not a coincidence. That is a political decision. Labour has structured this so the consequences land after the public have already voted. That is not about justice, that is about control. This inquiry has potential, but right now it is too slow, too limited, too vague, and far too politically convenient to deliver the accountability victims deserve. I am not interested in what they promise. I am interested in what they deliver. Right now, this is not good enough!

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@MelJStride @PennyMordaunt @thetimes Stamp Duty, Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance tax are all bad taxes. All governments have been spent taxpayers money too easily. You need to target halving government spending. Yesterday 4 government depts gave £40 million of taxpayers money to Comic Relief Red Nose Day. Why?

Stamp Duty is holding Britain back. It's a tax on ambition. A tax on moving. A drag on the economy. Interview in @TheTimes 👇🏻

@Ed_Miliband @MumsnetTowers - 78% marginal tax rate on North Sea oil/gas production - 50-60% tax on fuel retail The only entity ripping famillies off is the UK government. Whoever you think you represent, it isn't UK households.

Freedom can also be lost little by little, by what the Fabians call the doctrine of gradualness. A little more taxation here, a little more government expenditure there, year after year until the people are no longer the masters of the state but its servants. There are always, it seems, good reasons advanced for the state to have more power. But rarely for the state to divest itself of power. Each new problem becomes an excuse for more government intervention and less individual responsibility.

NESO has given up on designing a grid that can deliver the electricity we want, when we want it. So people are going to be paid to turn off at peak times.

This is what happens when enforcement breaks down Open drug use, in plain sight — and no action We need to restore proper law and order. That means 10,000 more police, using stop and search to take drugs and knives off our streets And we will fund it by cutting the welfare bill

Labour’s answer to the “worst energy shock in history”? Higher taxes. Families already pay too much. Weak abroad. Weak at home. Keir Starmer has no backbone. There is an alternative: cut spending, cut tax, back business. Get Britain working again.

Lord Hermer's False Equivalence and the Week That Proved Timothy Right Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, is a Jewish man. Today he asked whether Nick Timothy would object to a Jewish prayer event in public, suggesting that Timothy and Badenoch only had a problem with Muslim prayer. It was a clever intervention. It was also a dishonest one. And Hermer knows why. The Adhan declares there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger. That is a theological repudiation of every other faith, including Judaism. It is not private devotion made public. It is a declaration of exclusive religious truth projected into shared civic space. A Jewish prayer in public contains no equivalent assertion. The Nicene Creed begins I believe. The Adhan begins there is no god but. The distinction is not subtle. It is the entire argument. Hermer, as a trained lawyer and a Jewish man, understands it perfectly. He has chosen to ignore it because the government he serves needs the question closed rather than answered. That is the week in miniature. Nick Timothy named something accurately. The Prime Minister reached for Tommy Robinson. Thirty six Labour MPs wrote to the Parliamentary Commissioner demanding Timothy's investigation. The Attorney General deployed his Jewish identity as a shield. And the Parliamentary Commissioner rejected the referral, which means the government's most powerful legal officer spent political capital defending a position that collapsed within hours. Meanwhile the actual week unfolded. Thousands gathered on the Embankment chanting death to America and death to Israel. Bobby Vylan led chants of death death death to the IDF, cleared by the CPS last year, back on a London stage doing it again. The Islamic Human Rights Commission, named in the Walney report as part of Iran's soft power network, addressed the crowd. Khamenei's autobiography sold for seventeen pounds a copy. The Metropolitan Police closed Lambeth Bridge and deployed marine units on the Thames. It was, we are told, a normal Sunday. Charles Moore noted this week that Jesus himself addressed the question of public prayer in the Sermon on the Mount, warning against praying in public to be seen by men rather than to commune with God. Nick Timothy, citing the former extremist turned scholar Ed Husain, pointed out that the total Islamisation of public space is an expression of power and intimidation, and that the domination of shared civic spaces comes straight from the Islamist playbook. Both are right. Neither has been answered. Both have been accused of Islamophobia. The most significant unreported story of the week comes from Rakib Ehsan's new Policy Exchange report. British Muslims hold warmer views on Iran than on Saudi Arabia. They hold warmer views on China and Russia than the general public, despite both countries having histories of persecuting their own Muslim citizens. The UAE has restricted state funding for its citizens seeking to enrol at British universities over concerns they will be radicalised by Islamists on campuses. Arab Muslim states are alarmed by what is happening in British institutions. The British government is busy investigating the people who say the same thing. Hermer asked whether he as a Jewish man would be welcome praying in public. The answer is yes. The question nobody in government will answer is whether a Jewish man would be welcome leading a crowd in chants that repudiate Islam as false, in Trafalgar Square, with the full support of the Mayor of London and the applause of the Prime Minister. That asymmetry is the argument. It has been the argument all week. And the Attorney General, who knows exactly what it is, has chosen to answer a different one. "[Lord Hermer] asked whether Nick Timothy would object to a Jewish prayer event in public, suggesting that Timothy and Badenoch only had a problem with Muslim prayer. It was a clever intervention. It was also a dishonest one. And Hermer knows why."

Yes it would. In the summer it would lower the number of days LNG sets the price, directly reducing NBP prices And the UK would gain tax revenues and support the supply chain The real issue is why you don't think we should do it. Do you recycle? Because you recycling makes pretty much zero difference to the environment so why bother? Because if everyone does it there's a difference Similarly if we exploited all our domestic gas resources it would make a difference

@Aceditor @7Kiwi @Ed_Miliband There is no global gas price. The Climate Change Act stops development of UK oil and gas resources and is destroying the UK economy by promoting subsidised unreliable renewables for electricity creating the most expensive electricity in Europe.

@michael_wheller @7Kiwi @Ed_Miliband How exactly is the climate change act responsible for global oil and gas prices?

UK 10Y borrowing costs soar over 5%. This is how debt doom loops begin. It is now urgent to cut spending and slash energy costs to get growth going.

@EdwardJDavey, you have misread the argument so comprehensively that one has to wonder whether it is deliberate. Nobody is objecting to freedom of worship. Nick Timothy did not say Muslims should not be allowed to pray. He said mass ritual prayer in a shared national civic space is an act of domination, and cited the former extremist turned scholar Ed Husain, who has spent his career documenting exactly this phenomenon. The Adhan, the call to prayer, declares there is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger. That is by definition a theological repudiation of every other faith. When projected into Trafalgar Square, a national memorial to British sovereignty and independence, it is not equivalent to a celebration. It is a declaration. The distinction is theological, not political, and it is precise. You invoke freedom of worship as though Timothy had called for mosques to be closed. He did not. You invoke British values as though observing that the domination of public spaces is straight from the Islamist playbook is somehow un-British. It is not. It is documented, sourced and supported by scholars who have spent decades inside Islamist movements. This week, thousands of people gathered on the Embankment chanting death to America and death to Israel. Bobby Vylan led chants of death death death to the IDF, cleared by the CPS last year and back on a London stage doing it again. The Islamic Human Rights Commission, named in a Lords report as part of Iran's soft power network in Britain, addressed the crowd. Thirty six Labour MPs wrote to the Parliamentary Commissioner demanding the investigation of a man for pointing out what every serious student of Islamism already knows. The Attorney General deployed his Jewish identity to defend a declaration that, by its own theological logic, repudiates Judaism. And your contribution to all of it is a tweet accusing people who raise these questions of stoking fear, hatred and division. You lead a party that voted consistently to keep Britain in the European Union against the democratic will of the British people. A party that has positioned itself as the political home of progressive appeasement, that has never met an Islamist grievance it would not accommodate, and whose response to every act of cultural intimidation is to accuse those who name it of bigotry. The Liberal Democrats have no record of defending British values under pressure. They have a record of redefining British values to mean whatever is least likely to cause offence to the most vocal pressure group in the room. Freedom of worship is indeed a fundamental British value. So is freedom of speech. So is the freedom to observe, without being accused of racism, that a theological declaration of exclusive truth projected into a national monument is not the same as lighting a menorah or performing a Passion play. Nick Timothy exercised that freedom. The full weight of the parliamentary and political establishment descended on him within twenty four hours. That is the state of British politics today, Ed. And you are part of the problem, not the solution. "Nick Timothy didn't say Muslims shouldn't be allowed to pray. He said mass ritual prayer in a shared national civic space is an act of domination, and cited the former extremist turned scholar Ed Husain, who has spent his career documenting exactly this phenomenon."