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66780 The Cemex Express passes Scunthorpe on today's 4E87 1530 Doncaster-Immingham H.I.T

@tractorgirly @Microinteracti1 Spitting Image at it's finest.

@Microinteracti1 The video was a parody of our weakling of a PM and was not a personal dig at our country. Also Trump did not make it he shared it. Many of we Brits think it’s hilarious but as usual the fake outrage comes from the left which shows none of you have a sense of humour.

Six months ago, King Charles III received Donald Trump at Windsor Castle. Horse-drawn carriages. A 41-gun salute. A state banquet in St George’s Hall with 160 guests. Trump stood next to the King, visibly moved, and called it “one of the highest honours of my life.” Britain smiled, nodded, and filed that away. Today Trump posted a hostile video about the United Kingdom. Downing Street issued a three-sentence response and got on with its day. Because here is the thing about Britain that Americans never quite grasp: this country has been burying empires since before the United States existed. It has outlasted Napoleon, Hitler, and the Soviet Union. It will outlast this. Trump wanted a reaction. He wanted the phone calls, the grovelling, the desperate reassurances. He got a shrug from a country that invented the stiff upper lip and has been practising it for a thousand years. While Washington careens between threats and tantrums, Britain is quietly doing what Britain does. Building alliances. Signing defence agreements. Hosting the leaders that actually matter at Chequers and Downing Street. The adults are in the room. They just stopped expecting Trump to be one of them. The special relationship was always a polite fiction. Britain knew that. It kept the fiction alive because it was useful. Now that it isn’t, Britain is doing what any self-respecting island nation does. It moves on. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@76543567890j @defossardf @KathrynPorter26 Trouble is getting to it, what mines there were, have retail parks, light industry estates and Amazon warehouses built on them.

@defossardf @KathrynPorter26 it’s a few years to get meaningful supply out of the North Sea. long term not much left to drill. We do have F tonnes of coal in the uk. I bet we have coal back in the next 10 years. it’s better than gas at stabilising grid frequency (with renewables), so it’s sensible.

This is the best and clearest explanation so far on why we must reopen and exploit our North Sea reserves by @KathrynPorter26. Gas is traded regionally not globally. British gas from the North Sea can bring down European prices in the summer. It is significantly cheaper than LNG. We would also benefit from additional tax revenues, improve our balance of payments, and keep oil and gas jobs in Britain, as well as in the wider supply chain like refining. It looks the Energy Secretary is too dug in to change course, and Starmer is too weak to overrule him. telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/…

The offence for which she was jailed falls under Section 19(1) of the Public Order Act 1986. The PM at the time that law was passed - a certain Margaret Thatcher

@dave43law Wait, she's been at a free speech festival saying free speech is dead? She really is very stupid isn't she?

@Nugent4nil @tonydetit @asda

@tonydetit @asda I cracked one and the yolks on me 😳

Just bought this egg from @asda first of all look at the size of it. Secondly absolutely no mention of Easter, we are supposedly a Christian nation. Thirdly, and personally most importantly, it’s not even bloody chocolate 😤 I’m going to write to my MP and boycott the shop!

@Nugent4nil @asda Eggcellent!

Happy Sunday from TPD Vinnie 🐾😍 One of the new additions to the section 🩵🐾

Michael Portillo as Easter Eggs

Michael Portillo as Easter Eggs

And we’re repeating this same mistake: 👉 Leasing seabed for wind 👉 Letting private capital capture long-term value Instead of building national wealth

And here’s the key point: North Sea oil is sold on global markets. 👉 It doesn’t lower UK prices 👉 It doesn’t guarantee energy security So when politicians say: “Just drill more” they’re offering a solution to a problem that no longer exists. The windfall is gone. It’s like selling a rental house decades ago…and still expecting the rent.

🇳🇴 Norway did the opposite: 💪 Built a state oil company 💪 Retained ownership 💪 Created sovereign wealth fund 💰 Today worth $1.5 trillion+ 🇬🇧 Britain? No sovereign wealth fund. No long-term national asset. Just declining production and exposure to global energy prices.

Then came Margaret Thatcher 🔥 Accelerated oil extraction 🔒 Privatised state assets ✂️ Cut taxes using oil revenues 👉 The windfall was spent, not saved Meanwhile, across North Sea …

The 1976 crisis under James Callaghan didn’t just happen, it forced a choice. Britain chose to stabilise the economy through markets and short-term fixes, rather than use North Sea oil to build long-term national wealth. That decision shaped everything that followed. Callaghan didn’t just face a crisis, he accepted a model. The IMF moment pushed Britain toward financialisation and away from long-term industrial strategy. North Sea oil became a short-term patch, not a national legacy.

There were serious proposals for: •Strong state participation •Public control of resources •Strategic industrial investment Led by figures like Tony Benn 🆘 But Britain chose a different path. Wilson stepped down at crucial point and under pressure from economic crisis and the Treasury, oil was: 👉 Licensed to private companies 👉 Treated as short-term tax revenue 👉 Used to stabilise the economy The turning point came with the 1976 IMF crisis under James Callaghan and Britain pivoted toward: 👉 Financialisation 👉 Market-led policy 👉 Short-term fixes over long-term wealth

🧵 THREAD: How Britain gave away the North Sea In 1970s Britain 🇬🇧 discovered one of largest oil windfalls in modern history. Harold Wilson initially saw it for what it was, a once-in-a-generation chance to build national wealth. The idea was simple: Use North Sea oil to create a sovereign wealth fund 👉 Like Norway later did 👉 To invest for future generations A long-term national asset. 🧵

Michael Portillo as Easter Eggs

@RobertJenrick Fearful!!! I'm absolutely terrified you will get into power at some future date and will do everything in my power to make sure we never become the racist, misogynistic country you want filled with hatred for our fellow man woman or child for having a different colour of skin!

@RobertJenrick Oh I keep forgetting. You’re the expert on migration aren’t you?

@RobertJenrick Reform peaked way too early. People are seeing through your BS now. It’s out of the same playbook as Bannon, Musk and Trump. That’s been seen through. You are cut from the same cloth - political entrepreneurs on the make. Screw you Robert and your scaremongering.