Robert Morton

@L2_J2 @williamnhutton Perhaps you shld do some research. While it is entirely true that Earth has gone through massive cycles of heating and cooling over its 4.5-billion-year history, the rate of the current warming is what makes it unprecedented and alarming.

@williamnhutton The earth has been heating up and cooling down for 4,500,000,000 years. There is plenty of evidence to support this in the historical records. You've simply believed that it's all the fault of cars and what comes out of a cows arse. Try doing some real research for yourself.

After a day like this, only fools think burning fossil fuels for any longer than is necessary makes sense. The much derided Ed Miliband is right: his critics ultimately enemies of life on earth. news.sky.com/story/weather-…

@Langworthy_47 @NeilMcCoyWard In the UK there is 100% spousal exemption for IHT so no issues in terms of the example you cite

Nonsense. In most families it is mutual support where one parent may be the only paid employee for a time while the other parent supports by childcare and home care. Both have contributed in different ways in that time. My wife had a break from paid employment rearing our children and returned to teaching when the youngest was old enough to look after herself.

🚨Your pension is about to be raided and HMRC just confirmed how.... From April 2027, pension schemes will be allowed to withhold up to half of your retirement savings to cover inheritance tax. They can hold onto that money for up to 15 months while they work out what is owed Pensions used to sit outside inheritance tax entirely. From April 2027 they get hit with the standard 40% rate like everything else So your family loses up to 40% of what you spent a lifetime saving. The pension company sits on the other half for over a year before anyone sees a penny. Funeral costs, mortgage payments, school fees, none of it can be covered while the money is locked up The policy was announced by Rachel Reeves in the 2024 Budget. The operational detail confirming the 50% withholding rule was quietly published by HMRC this week, with final guidance not due until spring 2027, weeks before the deadline 10,500 estates will be dragged into inheritance tax for the first time. Another 38,500 will pay more. Average extra bill, £34,000 And this is how these things always work. The threshold starts high, the public is told it only affects the wealthy, and the numbers stay frozen while everything else rises The inheritance tax threshold has been stuck at £325,000 since 2009. House prices have nearly doubled in that time Every year, more ordinary families get pulled in without a single rule changing The government calls this closing a loophole. What it actually does is treat your pension like another revenue stream for the Treasury. Money you saved out of taxed income gets taxed again on the way out If you have a pension, this affects you. Check what your scheme is planning before April 2027 arrives Follow me to stay informed

@provemewrong411 Putin is a war criminal and I wld remind you Russia are the aggresors. This war could end overnight if Putin ordered a complete withdrawal from occupied Ukraine but of course he wont because his future is now tied in with continuing the bloodshed and sacrificing yet more lives.

This should never have happened… How many red lines will be crossed until Putin has had enough?

@KurtSchlichter Wrong. We are having to deal with your leader who it has to be said is insane. I suggest you take another look at all this and urgently ask that your president is relieved of his duties!

The Europeans are not dealing with “a man.” They are dealing with the United States of America. The United States needed the most innocuous kind of cooperation from them. They denied the United States that cooperation. The implied argument is that their obligations within our alliance depend on whether they like the guy we chose as our president. “Sure, we’re allies…if we approve of who you elected.” Nope. We are not going to forget, and we’re not going to forgive. I’m indifferent to their excuses or their rationalizations. The United States of America needed their help and not very much help. They turned us down. That changes everything. And they aren’t going to like how it changes everything.

@ReneeLJohnsonAZ @MarcoFoster_ I am afraid you voted for a narciscistic gibbering idiot who cares not one jot for you or for anyone else.

My president is Donald Trump. I am pleased and proud to say I voted for him. I have never lived under a dictatorship. I am very thankful for that blessing. My king, who is also the king of kings, wore a crown of thorns and died on a cross to save all of us from our sins. My heart and soul lies with the Heavenly Father. All of this “righteous” political rhetoric is temporary and fleeting, bathed in self-interest, and means nothing.

Jane Fonda: “This is the first time in the history of the US that an authoritarian regime has broken through. Worldwide historians who study these things all agree it has never happened so fast in any industrialized democracy. He is moving to consolidate very very fast which means right now we have to use the tools we have to stop it”

@LindseyGrahamSC Mr Graham - What a stupid message. Deep down I am sure you know your leader Trump is confused, deranged, moronic & talks gibberish most of the time. His great skill is to lie almost every time he opens his mouth. Impeach him now & end the misery of the USA.

A message to the Anti-America Never-Trump protesters for tomorrow.

@LindseyGrahamSC @POTUS Your president is so stupid and erratic. He made the decision to go war without any consultation with allies and no end goal & now he wants the help of Europe. Frankly spking I think Trump is senile & you & people like you shld be challenging him not endorsing him - shameful!

Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies’ unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what’s at stake. The arrogance of our allies to suggest that Iran with a nuclear weapon is of little concern and that military action to stop the ayatollah from acquiring a nuclear bomb is our problem not theirs is beyond offensive. The European approach to containing the ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions have proven to be a miserable failure. The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America. I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.

@newtgingrich Better still lets have lots of underground canals. One could go from the Middle East to the US under the Atlantic. Others to Europe and the UK - problem solved. 😅

Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever, we cut a new channel through friendly territory. A dozen thermonuclear detonations and you’ve got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks. chinatalk.media/p/its-time

@EdwardJDavey Ed I vote Lib Dem but for goodness sake can't you get involved with more important things? I really dont mind, within reason, what goes on bank notes and remember the BOE did ask people what they wanted before looking to make these changes.

Winston Churchill helped defeat fascism in Europe. He deserves better than being replaced by a badger 🦡

@benleo @jonlis1 Iranians do not want intervention such as this and quite frankly you shld be ashamed of yourself in peddling this kind of nonsense. Trump has no clear articulated end game. His sycophantic war minister Hegseth is just revelling in the attention & the killing.

@jonlis1 Nobody wants bombs dropped on them. Nobody wants dead kids. An investigation is needed and heads should roll. War is the worst of humanity. But to deny Iranians wanted military intervention is objectively false. Your hatred of Trump supersedes the will of Iranians

The GB News host didn’t like it when I noted that the Iranians are human beings just like us, don’t want bombs to wipe them off the face of the earth and that the bombing of schools and civilian infrastructure has nothing to do with the ‘nuclear threat’

@nicksortor They have not bent the knee. Stop spreading your nonsense and just engage brain and listen properly to your Presidents gibberish & maybe just maybe you might realise how stupid he is.

🚨 BREAKING: Following President Trump's threat to BAN ALL TRADE with Spain, the Spanish government has BENT THE KNEE, and is now cooperating with the US military THAT'S how it's done! 🔥 Well done, 47! 🇺🇸

@labourlewis There is no point in fining the company given ultimately the consumers pay the price. The only way here is for the directorate to face criminal charges, maybe just maybe these companies wld then clean up their act

South Western Water guilty of supplying parasite laden water, unfit for human consumption. 150 affected. Those same victims now face a 30%+ bill hike for that privilege. Fortunately for SW Water it didn’t affect the £2.8bn in profit made from us all last year. Phew.

@YorkshireWater TY. The decision not to award a bonus was correct albeit no CEO in the water sector shld take any bonus. When your CEO was hired she wld hv been on full capacity. I wld qustion why at a later date she was given an extra role in the parent coy for which she receives an extra £660K

Hi @robcsmorton Our CEO, Nicola Shaw, had already made the decision that it would not be appropriate for her to receive an annual bonus this year due to the company’s performance on pollution and a recognition that we need to do better for the communities we serve and earn trust. She has also taken the decision to waive her entitlement to an additional bonus that would have vested under our longer-term incentive scheme - Yorkshire Water Social Team

Approximately 45,000 of my constituents have been without water for around 16 hours now. I’ve spoken directly to the Chief Executive of @YorkshireWater who has reassured me that the pump in Aughton has been fixed, and water supplies will return over the course of the day. 🧵

@RepFine Mr Fine what an appalling message this is to post. One of your roles is to be 'the voice of the people', another is to try and bring all citizens together. You are the complete antithesis of this and should be ashamed of yourself

An armed seditionist attacked federal law enforcement today as they were rounding up foreign invaders in Minneapolis. The insurrectionist was put down. Well done. I stand with ICE as they fight these foreign invaders and their treasonous allies. We will not stop until EVERY illegal is deported.

@JDVance I watched you perform to the media yesterday. You are quite ghastly and so sycophantic to the even more ghastly president. I rather suspect that if your glorious leader changed his mind on this you and all your other sycophant members of the Gov wld also change their minds

Every congressional democrat and every democrat who's running for president should be asked a simple question: Do you think this officer was wrong in defending his life against a deranged leftist who tried to run him over? These people are going to try to arrest our law enforcement for doing their jobs. The least the media could do is ask them about it. x.com/i/status/20089…

@JDVance As a British citizen I deplore your comments. It's clear that some of your ICE officers are acting unlawfully & as for this shooting it was totally unescessary. Here in the UK our police wld diffuse the situation thus ending it peacefully. Train your officers accordingly

I want every ICE officer to know that their president, vice president, and the entire administration stands behind them. To the radicals assaulting them, doxxing them, and threatening them: congratulations, we're going to work even harder to enforce the law.

@pascal_bornet Now these kind of machines are so relatively cheap and easy to construct one has to question the wisdom of spending large amounts on weapons such as aircraft carriers.

A drone that flies through the sky — and swims underwater. Yes, you read that right. One student just built it. Andrei Copaci created this hybrid drone for his Bachelor’s project — 3D-printed, self-coded, and powered by variable-pitch propellers that adapt mid-flight to move seamlessly between air and water. And it actually works. To me, this isn’t just a cool gadget. It’s a wake-up call. We’re watching the line between “student projects” and “industry breakthroughs” disappear. One person, a laptop, and a printer can now do what once required millions in funding and government labs. So here’s the real question: If innovation is becoming this accessible — what happens to companies and industries that still think disruption comes only from big budgets? #AI #Innovation #Technology #Robotics #FutureOfWork #STEM

@ACTBrigitte Your tweet is utterly laughable - shame on you!

President Trump has done a phenomenal job on the White House. This is what class looks like!