Simon Miln

Rather than build almost 30 million electric cars over the next 10 years why dont we just maintain the cars we've got and protect the environment by leaving all that cobalt, lithium & nickel etc. in the ground?

@FergusMason25 @Londonlife44 @JamesMelville What makes you English? (Your flag waving suggests you have treble nationality).

@Londonlife44 @JamesMelville What makes him English?

He was born and raised in England. He’s English.

By 2050, there could be more than 40 million metric tonnes of wind turbine blade waste piling up worldwide. How is that environmentally sustainable? How is that ‘saving the planet”?

Say no to government controlled digital ID.

Welcome to the Scottish Enlightenment. A new campaign to discuss, share, stimulate and promote ideas and positive change for the people of Scotland. We aim to bring together the best of Scotland in all walks of life to start a new era of Scottish enlightenment. Please join us.

@JackieAshley13 They are all compromised. That's the problem.

@sequi_simon Whether he is or he isn't,it is becoming clear to most,that trying to find a politician who is not bought in one way or another,would be like trying to find a needle in a haystack and with all due respect to Mr Musk,who I do respect,with his wealth he hasn't really ground to talk

Nigel Farage: "I can't be bought by anybody" - do you believe him?

As an NHS doctor I feel nothing but relief seeing Streeting’s resignation His legacy will be selling the NHS down the river for private profits For targeting doctors opposing a genocide All this & he walks away scot-free - with ZERO accountability for the damage he has caused

Is there anything more emetic than watching our politicians vying for attention? "The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one.” Billy Connolly

As Health Secretary, Wes Streeting deepened the privatisation of our NHS and handed over our data to Palantir, a company involved in genocide. I am sure his friend Peter Mandelson is very proud. Time to reinstate our NHS as a fully public service — and kick Palantir out!

Some people are saying “we already have digital ID on various apps”. This is a false equivalence. There’s a huge difference between making the choice to sign up to digital ID on an app versus being mandated by the government into signing up for their digital ID.

And so the clowns begin to put their hats in the ring to try and take over the circus.

The King’s Speech: "Proceed with the introduction of Digital ID.” And there it is. A lame duck and massively unpopular Prime Minister trying to ram through digital ID. No one voted for this illiberal and Orwellian digital control by the Labour government.

It seems to me that there are fewer and fewer freedoms that distinguish us from those dictatorships that our King and his governments keep telling us are a threat to our so called liberal democracy. Yes, there are still significant differences, but we are nevertheless moving away from a society that defends and upholds an individual's liberty, and towards a society with total state control. If we allow it, Digital ID will be the great facilitator of this abhorrent move. BBC News - From tourist tax to digital ID: BBC correspondents on key bills in King's Speech - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@RenwickShirley @JamesMelville 😢

@sequi_simon @JamesMelville And here in South Africa we still have to enter our race onto official forms

The more I travel, the more I appreciate just how similar, and how different we all are. Apparently, Nelson Mandela, upon returning to South Africa in the days of apartheid, was filling out a landing card, which included the question: "what is your race?" Apparently he drew a line through the options given and simply replaced them all with the word "human". Of course he was right, and yet, more than 30 years after the end of apartheid in South Africa, we are, as a human race, more divided than ever. Whilst we all share the same basic instincts, we have not all evolved at the same pace, nor indeed in the same direction. The world is still divided by East and West, by North and South, by wealth, by religion, by history, by culture, by values, and yes, still, by skin colour. Whilst we're programmed to be compassionate (some more than others) we're also programmed to survive, to protect our family, and to defend our own tribe, and this sometimes puts us at odds with helping others. As the world gets smaller competition for resources gets greater, and we face the unpleasant dilemma of prioritising our survival over the survival of others. Often there's an attempt to resolve such dilemmas by convincing one group of people that they are superior to another, or that one group has some special right to something or somewhere, or by demonising a particular group for one reason or another. In cold analysis this explanation looks pretty grim, but nature is often cruel. Whilst man has the potential to be terribly destructive, he also has the potential to be incredibly caring. He tends to gravitate towards the former when he's threatened. I think the current political crisis in the UK is primarily because so many ordinary Britons believe multiculturalism has been forced upon them by a ruling class that does not represent the people. Ironically "multiculturalism" is actually a cornerstone of British culture, but there is little doubt that the speed and the scale of immigration over the last 20 odd years has defined our current political landscape. Sadly, the pendulum of a society’s psyche tends to swing from one extreme to the other, and it may take some time for the United Kingdom to recapture its most enviable reputation as being one of the fairest countries in the world.

@wildwillieruns @JamesMelville What an inane reply.

@sequi_simon @JamesMelville Whilst liberals bring up skin color anytime they have a chance, thus creating the divide and keeping racism alive 🙄

Gordon Brown (2007): Theresa May (2016): Boris Johnson (2019): Liz Truss (2022): Rishi Sunak (2022): All of them became Prime Minister without a general election. And it’s about to happen again.

I reported on the testimonies of Palestinians raped by dogs last month. Pro-Israel cheerleaders responded by claiming this was an outrageous lie - and that it was antisemitic. The New York Times has now published the testimony of a Palestinian detainee.

🇺🇦 Yulia Mendel dropped some serious claims on the Tucker Carlson Show... Her allegations: - Ukraine's population has collapsed from 40+ million to roughly 25 million since the war began - Around 11 million retirees are surviving on $75-100/month pensions - Zelensky is allegedly linked to money laundering schemes This is someone who worked inside his own administration. A former insider, not a Russian propagandist or a pre-war opposition figure with an axe to grind. The population figure alone is staggering. A 40% drop would make this one of the worst demographic crises in modern European history, and it's barely being discussed. Source: @TCNetwork

On this day in history, 32 years ago… John Smith, the Labour Party leader, was 55 years old when he died from a heart attack on May 12, 1994. He once said: “People in Britain today are angry: not just disappointed, not just disillusioned, but angry. They are angry at the state of Britain; angry at the total absence of leadership; angry at the absence of vision; angry at the hypocrisy and double standards; and they are angry at the incessant incompetence of a Government they no longer respect and increasingly despise.” And tragically, his words of wisdom (aimed against the Tory government) could equally apply to Keir Starmer’s government of today.