Mikey Boy
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Mikey Boy
@mickprince34
NHS working, Atheist craft beer lover and supporter of Barnsley FC, Yorkshire and England at owt.
West Yorkshire Katılım Temmuz 2010
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@MusicPills10 “They smelt of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs and too many right wing meetings”
Down In The Tube Station At Midnight, 1978
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Probably need Paul Daniel’s if they’re gonna magic up a top 6 finish
Ben Jacobs@JacobsBen
Barnsley expect to make a quick appointment as their new head coach. Discussions with multiple candidates have already taken place. Understand Charlie Daniels is one name who made the shortlist. Unclear if Barnsley will advance anything, but the Watford assistant, who has been mentored by Eddie Howe, has some admirers within the club.🔴
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I feel like I need to explain why the Tories and Reform UK are telling lies about our North Sea gas supply.
But this isn't my field of expertise by a long chalk, so I'll let others tell the tale.
Firstly, let's look at Tory MP and, at that point Energy Minister, Greg Hands in 2022.
Greg was serving under Boris Johnson at this point in … THE YEAR OF THREE PRIME MINISTERS [if you imagine a dum, dum duuummmm here, it adds to the drama].
At that time Greg was dealing with the possibility of conflict in Ukraine and the ramifications on our energy prices so he released a series of tweets to dispel some common myths around the UK market.
They are worth a read: x.com/GregHands/stat…
Not only does he dispel the myth that using our own gas would mean lower prices, he also advocates for more renewables.
Remember when the Conservatives hadn't completely lost the plot … yet?
A mere seven months down the line from Greg Hands' rational approach to energy, we were faced with Prime Minister Liz Truss and new Energy Secretary, Jacob Rees-Mogg — the nightmare every child has after watching Scrooged for the first time.
In her very first speech as PM, she told the country that, “We will get spades in the ground to make sure people are not facing unaffordable energy bills.” Talking about fracking, of course, which went as well as all of her other promises.
Mogg made various statements about increasing oil and gas licences but was, at every step, shut down by … science. Something that should have, but didn't, stop Brexit — another Mogg-made fiasco.
Those halcyon days of September seemed as though Truss would never end, and the UK was on a direct path to 'sovereignty', or some such.
It lasted five weeks.
When Rishi Sunak took over in October, things took a turn for the worse as Grant Shapps became the third Energy Secretary of that very long year.
Shapps lasted less than a year before moving to Defence, despite being replaced as Biz Secretary [energy] by a certain Grant Shapps as Energy Minister. He managed two roles attached to energy but achieved … nothing.
This is running long, so to summarise:
The Tories, within one year, managed to turn their energy policy from a credible one that boosted renewables and clearly laid out why our supply of gas is not sufficient, into one of chaos and culture wars.
One that started to clamour about North Sea gas, despite being repeatedly told that:
a) we don't have enough
b) what we do have is miles offshore
c) it would take almost four years to bring to market
d) we still have to sell it on the global market
This coincided rather nicely with the entry of Rishi Sunak as PM. A man so in hock to lobbies and Tufton Street that he was hobbled from day one.
And here we are, six years later, with all of those faces long gone, but we're still being barracked by two new culture warriors, Badenoch and Farage. One in similar hock to Tufton Street, the other owned by American and possibly Russian fossil fuel lobbies.
The facts remain the same, however — British North Sea production does not and will never lower our energy bills, no matter which face the lies emanate from.
I'll leave you with the immortal words of Greg Hands.

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@BFCDrinkers Bobby Horn walking down Grove St with gloves I hear
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@DilipShah_ Truss did it to herself.
Trump did this to Reeves.
Sit down and be quiet you stupid little man.
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Absolutely humiliating for Rachel Reeves who claimed Truss crashed the economy when 10 year Gilt yields briefly passed 4%
The Labour moron premium is far larger, as UK government borrowing costs close in on 5%
#Economy


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I’m sure @PaulHeatonSolo was singing about Caravans nearly 40yrs ago
Brian Krassenstein@krassenstein
BREAKING: Trump claims to have come up with the word "Caravans": FACT: The word caravan has been a part of the English language for over 500 years.
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