Mike Taulty

@BenGrahamUK 'X' seems to be full of people lost in the "religion" isle at Tesco. 😂

“Gesture eggs” What does that even mean? When was it decided the word “Easter” needed replacing? For centuries Easter has been part of Britain’s calendar, not a gesture, not a seasonal moment. This isn’t inclusivity. It’s corporate rebranding that strips meaning out of tradition. Britain deserves better.

@AllBiteNoBark88 'X' seems to be full of people lost in the "religion" isle at Tesco. 😂

#Boycott all brands that have ERASED the Word "Easter" Don't like Jesus Christ? Screw your Profits

@g__j I'd be glad to say goodbye to gas, my gas boiler and its network of pipes and radiators but existing pipework and radiators seem to make for disruptive retrofits.

Gas boilers are not 95% efficient (in the real world they’re lucky to be 85)… Great to see the reception to our unique transparent dashboard showing the real world performance of all Octopus Cosy Heat Pumps installed in customers’ homes. Of course, some people who like burning stuff are always looking for “gotchas”. One of the most common is the assertion that “modern gas boilers are 95% efficient” This is horseshit. Just like cars hardly ever deliver the official miles per gallon figures, so boilers underperform too. Whilst an A rating boiler does indeed achieve 92% in lab tests, in the real world 80-83% efficiency is the norm for an “efficient” gas boiler (and older ones are much worse. Like 70-80%). There’s surprisingly little investigation into this - but here’s an official field study assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a75149b… If you’re interested - a condensing boiler typically needs to be set to 50 degrees - it then needs a return temperature of 30 degrees to ensure proper condensing - and needs to be running long enough to get into condensing mode —> characteristics pretty similar to a traditional heat pump in its most efficient mode! For which heat pumps are slammed by fossil fuel lovers. - it also needs thermostats set correctly and to be right-sized for a property whilst most are oversized Of course, if any boiler manufacturer wants to put their full fleet online so we see the real world data, we could compare to Octopus’s Cosy Heat Pumps. Being generous to boilers, if they have a typical efficiency of 0.85 and a real world Cosy has efficiency of 3.7, an Octopus heat pump is 4.35 times more efficient. With electricity being about 4.3 times more expensive than gas after April, this makes a heat pump cheaper to run. But a heat pump can use smart tariffs to access cheaper electricity, so it’s typically quite a lot cheaper to run - the real world data says someone on a heat pump has electricity at a 3.7 multiple per unit vs gas - so will be paying 17% less on average to use a heat pump than they would a gas boiler. Even more so if you can terminate the gas supply and save the standing charge (once you have a heat pump, you can get an induction hob and ditch the gas hob..) - another £130 annual saving from using a heat pump. Octopus’s huge investments in R&D and manufacturing are bringing costs down all the time, and you can see why the fossil industry is scared. Like canal owners looking at trains in the 19th century… Of course - Scandinavia’s already there. Norway is a huge gas producer but heat pumps are their dominant heating, whilst only 5% of homes have gas.

@zatzi I heard it was billions of barrels an hour and that it wouldn't be oil, it'd be refined petrol and we could just pipe it in a hose straight to the filling stations. Do I have that right? Are you on your way up there to start the drilling?

“Britain’s largest oil field, Rosebank, could be producing millions of barrels a day by the autumn.” But Ed the Eco-loon won’t sign it off 😡 Ed Miliband’s dangerous green ideology should not be allowed to trump common sense 👇 thesun.co.uk/news/38574389/…

@reformparty_uk No-one has ever asked me to apologise for being British nor have they ever asked me to stop saying "Christmas" or "Easter" - this is mock-outrage 101.

“I’ve had enough of apologising for being British.” Cllr Annie May O’Neill on why university students are voting Reform UK. 👇

@BenGrahamUK Cadbury is a US owned business which presumably takes commercial decisions based on trying to sell more chocolate. I'm not sure it's rational to expect them to "celebrate British traditions".

Britain has been a Christian nation for over 1,400 years. Through wars, plagues, and countless kings, Easter has always been celebrated. Yet now, Cadbury won’t even use the word ‘Easter’ on their eggs. When did celebrating British traditions become controversial?

@RobertJenrick Your logic being that because it's "the same sea", we can go drill in their gas fields using their infrastructure?

Britain has paid Norway over £100 billion for gas since 2021. For gas they’re drilling in the North Sea, the same sea Ed Miliband has banned new drilling in on the British side. Madness.

@danny__kruger Quite a few empty seats, no?

Swindon needs Reform… rally starting now

@faisalislam Electrify as much as we possibly can.

“A wake up call” the CEO of Britain’s biggest domestic energy firm told me last night about the possibility of long term impact to global gas and oil infrastructure… but he pointed to electrification as the main lesson, while domestic gas would be preferable to shipped gas:

“wake-up call that gets us to electrify more of our economy and get more of our energy from homegrown sources.”


"The irony is, right now, we're emailing millions of customers saying their energy prices are going to fall..."
"You can't protect yourself against these global markets forever."
 "Traders are really worried about how long it's going to take these facilities to get back online."
"Our electricity system's too inefficient. We need to reform that markets so that people get the benefits of our homegrown resources."
“my own view is that shipping gas around the world is more inefficient and has more leaks of methane than if you use local gas. But we shouldn't kid ourselves. North Sea gas wouldn't meaningfully bring the price down because we're paying the global price. If we got more out of the North Sea, it would simply be sold to other countries at these very high prices or here at these high prices. And we can't kid ourselves we're going to be self-sufficient in gas again. What we can do is have a much cheaper approach to electricity than we have today. Our electricity system's too inefficient. We need to reform that markets so that people get the benefits of our homegrown resources.

@DailyMail Hope so. Next?

Are car makers REALLY selling enough EVs to meet Labour's green targets? trib.al/7Hd7JHo

@CamillaTominey @NJ_Timothy "Cancelled"? Someone's paying him to write columns in a supposedly national supposedly newspaper!? How's he "cancelled" when I've heard what he thinks and I never even wanted to?!

The Left has attempted to ‘cancel’ @NJ_Timothy for airing an honestly held belief. Here he explains his thinking: Islamic domination of the public sphere is unacceptable telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/1…

@Nigel_Farage Perhaps they don't have one guy who sends them 10s of millions of pounds? (You know, the guy with the crypto, the crypto that you suddenly like so much).

There are 50 days to go until the elections on May 7th. You wouldn’t know it as the other parties are barely out campaigning!

They’ll allow marches pushing IRGC propaganda. They’ll stop farmers from marching and arrest ordinary people for tweet. We are a country run by people too weak to stand up for it.

@ClaireCoutinho Genuine question - do we export gas today and, if so, why do we do that as it seems to directly contradict your notion that "all of it will go into our pipes"?

Iran’s strike last night on the Ras Laffan facility in Qatar is a significant escalation. It risks a prolonged supply crunch on the global LNG market. Yet here at home, the Chancellor says all countries must play their part in boosting oil and gas production - while her own Energy Secretary bans new drilling in the North Sea. Ed Miliband’s position is untenable. Those desperate to shut down our own industry will say it takes too long to get our own wells up and running. They argue it won’t make a difference to the current crisis. This is bogus. By autumn, Jackdaw could be producing enough gas to heat 1.6 million homes. All of it will go into our pipes. The approval has been sat on Ed Miliband’s desk for months. If the conflict is not resolved, we will be in for difficult times. Turning our backs on the tax revenue and extra supply from the North Sea is inexcusable. However, so too is Ed Miliband’s other mistake. He has spent the last two years making electricity expensive, when he should have been making it cheaper. If you want people to use electricity to heat their homes or drive their cars, we need to address the biggest problem we have - our electricity is too expensive. Our Cheap Power plan could have been adopted by the Government by now to cut everyone’s electricity bills by 20%. Expensive electricity has stopped consumers from adopting technology which gives them options in energy price spikes. We also need to cherish our industrial power. The crippling Carbon Taxes - which have doubled because of Labour’s policies - mean we lost a third of our refineries last year alone. That makes us more reliant on imports at the worst moment. In the longer term, renewables tie us to gas as we always need flexible power that we can ramp up when the wind stops blowing. Yet Labour’s plan means that gas power gets four times more expensive. The Government must reinstate my plans for a third large-scale nuclear plant. That’s why our Energy Resilience Strategy is as follows: BACK THE NORTH SEA MAKE ELECTRICITY CHEAP STOP IMPOSING CRIPPLING CARBON TAXES ON INDUSTRY DOUBLE DOWN ON NUCLEAR

@timothy_stanley TV channels shouldn't be regulated?

Leader of the *Liberal* Democrats demands regulation of a TV channel - GB News - PM thanks him for raising this “free speech issue”. Orwellian.

@dominicgrieve_ @NJ_Timothy This reply is like spotting a diamond floating through the sewer. (Timothy sounds deranged).

I am very happy to engage with you on the substance. We have never discussed your views on Islam. But you made them clear when introducing your ten minute rule bill in the Commons very recently, as you were perfectly entitled to do. I agree that mass prayer in public by large groups without prior permission, that aims to disrupt the activities of others, can be an act of 'domination' just as a sit down on Westminster Bridge or the M25 can be or any other illegal demonstration or one accompanied by threats or harassment. This did not apply to this gathering in Trafalgar Square. It was done with permission. It comprised short prayers followed by an Iftar to break the Ramadan fast. It threatened no one any more than the Palm Sunday procession ( with permission) in which I shall participate shortly where I live and where there will be hymns to the effect that Jesus Christ is Lord. Your original post says that this event 'should not happen again'. You are the Shadow Justice Secretary, perhaps one day the person who will take an oath to uphold the rule of law. As I put to you in my last post, stopping such an event would be unlawful and discriminatory unless you intend to advocate changing the law to discriminate against Muslims. Is that what you are saying? So far you have not attempted to answer this question. Lots of replies to your original post highlight that freedom of religious expression does not exist in many countries and that some of these countries have Muslim majorities and persecute minority faiths. We will, I am sure, have a shared revulsion at this. But this is surely all the more reason why we should stand up for the values of freedom under law which our forefathers have given to us. Finally you suggest that my 'world'' is falling apart'. I am not sure what world vision you are referring to. As a long standing Conservative I am a pragmatic realist about the world and its shortcomings as I might expect you to be too. I also believe that in times when there are challenges to the values of freedom and democratic pluralism there is a need for all people of goodwill to be voices of assertive moderation. Your original post comes across as entirely contrary to this and as a call to confrontation on no valid basis.

The wilful misunderstanding in this post says everything about the people behind the “Islamophobia” definition. The point is not that Sikhs have danced on Trafalgar Square. Or that the Passion Play has been hosted there. Neither is the point that Muslims gathered on Trafalgar Square. The point is that mass ritual prayer in public - in this case next to a church - is an act of domination. So is the public call of the Adhan, which explicitly denies other religions including Christianity. That is the difference. And yet neither Dominic - nor the Labour MPs who were instructed by No10 to attack me last night - will engage with the substance. Instead he claims he knows my personal views when we haven’t talked, and incorrectly describes me as a spokesman for the Free Speech Union. People like Dominic can’t work out why the ideological world they built is falling apart. They never pause to wonder if perhaps they might have got things very badly wrong.

@ZiaYusufUK Will Church be compulsory? How many times will we have to go per week?

Reform will preserve Britain’s Christian heritage.

@RobertJenrick Isn't it just a scam to gather people's data?

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@Nigel_Farage Surprised that's legal - what else is Harborne willing to pay for?

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@christopherhope Yeah, in other news he also says; 1) He's a great golfer. 2) That was a really big crowd. 3) That election was stolen. 4) That Melania movie is superb. 5) That foreign countries are paying his tariffs. etc.

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