Rob Tweed

Starmer to take British Steel into Govt ownership. Reality check. 1. British Steel cannot produce high grade steel British heavy industry, ship building, rail, defence needs. Labour banned the production of the coal and coke needed. Boris Johnson was to open a new mine to feed primary steel production, Starmer blocked the project. 2. British Steel will produce secondary steel grades, grades UK cannot produce competitively for export. 3. UK industry will be forced to import steel from China and mostly the EUROPEAN UNION. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Exclusive from @oliver_wright Britain needs to start talking about reversing Brexit, the civil servant who led Britain’s preparations for leaving the European Union has said In a highly unusual intervention, Philip Rycroft, former permanent secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union, said life outside the EU had failed to live up to the expectations and there now needed to be a “clear-headed appraisal of what is in the country’s best interests” He warned that rejoining the European Union would be a “long and windy” road but added the “argument is there to be won” Rycroft’s comments, in an article for The Times, are significant, not simply because of his former role in government but also because they reflect a wider view held in private by many in Whitehall and among MPs that Labour ministers will eventually need to pivot to make the case for rejoining Rycroft said it was “not hard to see” why the public was “falling out of love with Brexit”, arguing that none of the “heady promises” of the Leave campaigns had not materialised “Most economic analysis suggests that we have taken a significant hit to GDP as a result of leaving the single market,” he said. “The precise number, and the impact on our export performance to the EU and beyond, might be subject to debate, but no one can credibly claim that we have marched to the sunny uplands of sustained economic growth as a consequence of Brexit.” thetimes.com/article/a01c5b…

@7Kiwi Sun and wind are free.And there are things called batteries. Just saying.

@7Kiwi So every £ we spend on buying gas to burn just once leaves the country. Invested that same £ in renewables you eventually get your money back. Solar PV and battery system pay for themselves in 6 to 8 years. I did and now I spend my £ here in the local economy.

@shivmalik If we have scarcity of supply, then the state should invest and build capacity if the market won't.

@Jenny_1884 1/ Solar panels occupy ~0.1% of U.K farmland. 2/ To place that in context, U.K golf courses occupy seven times the amount of land as solar installations. 3/ There is no mysterious ‘they’ - that’s just conspiracy nonsense. Farmers are the ones diversifying into clean energy.

The @Conservatives anti-climate policy would cost households and businesses far more through higher insurance, higher inflation for goods and services, and bigger taxes to pay for damages to public infrastructure and threats to human health. It would be economically ruinous.