41.905294,12.492364
Joined April 2009
- Tweets39.2K
- Following551
- Followers302
- Likes32.7K
Pinned Tweet
Every politician should be required to watch this over and over until they understand, no matter how long it takes. For ever, if necessary.
Offended?
youtu.be/fHMoDt3nSHs via @YouTube
Words fail! 🤡🤮🤡🤮🤡
Right, so Nicola Sturgeon the disgraced, dodgy traitor who spent years running Scotland like a charity shop on fire while the SNP operated as an actual criminal enterprise has the brass neck to pop out of the sewer and back on the telly. The British Bashing Corporation has given her a paid platform to sit there lecturing other politicians like she’s some kind of moral authority. Absolute brass neck.
She was recorded on the NEC Zoom call in 2021, absolutely raging at anyone who dared ask questions, insisting the finances were “absolutely fine” and that the party had “never been in a stronger financial position.” Fine? Never stronger? Meanwhile her man Peter Murrell was busy treating the SNP account like his personal Amazon Prime subscription.
How in the name of the wee man does she expect anyone to swallow that she “didn’t know” about his spending? The books weren’t written in invisible ink. There was a massive luxury campervan over a hundred grand of it sat parked on the in-laws’ drive for years, barely driven, while she somehow never clocked it. There were the three-grand coffee machines, the thousand-pound pens, the watches, the jewellery, the lot. All bought on the party’s money while she was the leader, living with the guy, and apparently living in a parallel universe where none of it registered. Pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
And don’t even get me started on the Alex Salmond fit-up. She and her wee clique tried to stitch him up with the sexual misconduct stuff he was cleared of, purely to get the one man who might actually have had a proper look at the accounts out of the road. Then she had her pal Dorothy Bain sitting pretty as Lord Advocate dual hat on, prosecution service and government adviser ready to fish her out of any awkward spots when the whole thing started smelling. Convenient doesn’t even cover it.
Scotland’s been run into the ground by this shower, the party’s been run like a racket, and the BBC still rolls out the red carpet for her. Defund the lot of them.
Let’s hope so. Frankly, anything she is in favour of is likely to be a catastrophe for the country.
In the @DailyMail... @energygovuk denies @Miatsf is being sidelined 😂
But it looks like @hmtreasury is going to push through Rosebank and force DESNZ to abandon Connect and Manage
John Souter retweeted
Its good to know our energy supplies are safe in the hands of our Energy Minister. An ex-teacher with a degree in History and Politics.
Clearly not appointed for his knowledge of the subject
And who can't/won't answer some basic questions from the highly expert Kathryn Porter
Be afraid for the winter!
John Souter retweeted
The increasing drift to the extreme left by the Labour Party could arguably describe the Party as -Puritan Labour-, (Does anyone remember New Labour under Blair, it was -no- such thing!). The Party is consumed by the need to water down, restrict or ban everything it possibly can. There has to be a new rule, restriction or law for every activity and responsibility, whether unnecessary, undesirable or palpably ridiculous. Rather than getting out of our lives Labour is racing to get into our lives as quickly as possible. It appears that it doesn’t need any justification for promulgating, whether through primary or secondary legislation, new laws to control individuals, businesses, institutions or even our ancient constitution. Witness the changes or more accurately the -vandalism- that our puritanical government has inflicted upon the British people -for example,
The Employment Rights Act: Reforming workers (trade union) rights at significant cost to business and the cost of living.
The Renters Rights Act: Aiming to improve security for tenants at the expense of the availability of rental properties and the cost of renting.
The Great British Energy Act: Establishes a publicly owned entity focused on clean energy that will increase the cost of energy bills and the burden of yet another Quango.
The Passenger Public Services (Public Ownership) Act: Facilitates the transition of rail services into public ownership, decreasing rail service efficiency and increasing costs from public sector pay rises.
From over 50 Acts of Parliament passed by Labour in this Parliament, arguably, at least 30% could be considered as potentially costly or damaging to Britain. Unfortunately there is more damage to come via proposals for devolution in Britain, restrictions on jury trials and voting/boundary changes, to name a few.
Everyone will reach their own conclusion concerning Britain’s future under this puritanical government. Perhaps we should all do everything we can to stop -Puritan Labour- gaining power in the future. Remember, the right -believes- in the law, while the left thinks -it- is the law.
John Souter retweeted
I’m starting to believe that the majority of our MPs stood for Parliament because they are otherwise unemployable.
Corrupt as fsck 🤡
🚨 ANOTHER UAE LINK: BURNHAM URGED TO COME CLEAN OVER BROADBAND LOBBYING!
Every voter in this country needs to see this.
The Sun reports that when Andy Burnham was Manchester mayor in March, his office backed a merger between British firm Substantial and CityFibre. CityFibre is part-owned by an Emirati sovereign wealth fund, whose chief executive, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, is also the chairman of Manchester City.
The UAE put £800 million into CityFibre in 2021-22 and will help inject a further £900 million. The Sun says Burnham’s office lobbied the Competition and Markets Authority on CityFibre’s behalf. Last month the CMA said a rival £2 billion bid by Nexfibre for Substantial would reduce competition.
Shadow sports minister Louie French said the revelations “raise fresh concerns about Mr Burnham’s cosy relationship with Manchester City’s owners”. Downing Street declined to comment.
This comes weeks after the Sun revealed Burnham had two hospitality dinners with Mubarak that were not originally declared. Burnham also said he would be “really concerned” if City’s Emirati owners sold the club.
So here is the question for the Prime Minister: were you personally involved in lobbying the CMA for a company owned by the same people behind Manchester City?
John Souter retweeted
Rachel Reeves says that "Britain’s future is in the EU."
If the most out of depth, economically illiterate, treacherous and by far the worst Chancellor of my lifetime is saying this, then Britain’s future is best staying out of the EU.
John Souter retweeted
Burnham seems to be quietly back-pedaling on the Miliband agenda and CP2030 looks dead too. But this won't be enough to bring bills down.
In the @DailyMail... @energygovuk denies @Miatsf is being sidelined 😂
But it looks like @hmtreasury is going to push through Rosebank and force DESNZ to abandon Connect and Manage
John Souter retweeted
You put the same nonsense on LinkedIn
How are renewables protecting us? The only ones whose CfDs are active have strike prices higher than the cost of generating electricity with gas which is itself inflated by Labour's plans to harmonise the carbon market with the EU
The windfarms with lower CfDs haven't activated their contracts yet!!
Plus we still have to pay the huge balancing and grid costs they impose all of which add £billions to our bills
I can't decide if you just don't understand the market or are just dishonest but this is getting boring
John Souter retweeted
A shameful bit of secret Labour party subterfuge
designed to aid their core voters while concealing information from the rest of the public
If we had a proper press they would be all over this
But we don't
How can you expect a democracy to function if there's next to no reliable information coming from the media ?
Here is a riddle for you. How does the government hold a “public” Islamophobia consultation in secret?
Simple: it takes evidence only from organisations it has hand-selected, refuses to say who they are, and then, when an MP asks who responded, claim in parliament that the records have been “deleted”.
That, in essence, is how Britain acquired its official definition of “anti-Muslim hostility”, the rebranded version of the Islamophobia definition that Islamist groups have campaigned for over years.
@NJ_Timothy, the Conservative MP for West Suffolk and shadow justice secretary, exposed the scandal on The Brink this week.
It would be an outrage of transparency even if the consultation was about bus timetables. But the subject could not be more serious: free speech, Islamist incursion and the question of who gets to decide what Britons may say about religion.
And when Nick refused to accept the government’s word, he discovered that the records it swore it had “deleted” had been sitting on its servers all along.
Frankly, the whole thing stinks of an official cover-up on behalf of the Islamists. Ask yourself this: What has the government got to hide? Here’s what we know...
New post. Link in first reply
John Souter retweeted
Wow! There’s propaganda and then there’s this …
the government wants you to think they are coming down hard on wind farm profits LOL … ok here goes.
These wind farms already receive BILLIONS in subsidies, paid for by us, but that’s on top of what they earn selling electricity.
So the Government wants 55% tax on their Excess revenues! Except …er there aren’t any.
Wind farms can avoid the tax by signing up to guaranteed electricity prices, AND KEEP THEIR SUBSIDIES!
And if electricity prices fall, we still pay the difference. There are no profits only er … inflated cost covering!
Hahahaha … what an absolute fiddle!
John Souter retweeted
Right now solar is producing zero. Our 32GW wind fleet is producing less than 2.5GW. Yesterday NL's wind & solar output fell to zero. Intermittent renewables aren't protecting us from anything and never will.
John Souter retweeted
I've seen the BBC create a programme on slavery.
I watched the biased BBC Breakfast comments today saying Britain was involved in slavery, which we were.
I've yet to see the BBC do an historical documentary on William Wilberforce and Britain ending the legality of the global slave trade and spending a fortune in cash and lives enforcing it on the high seas.
When Britain was the first to recognise this was wrong, we did something about it - large. The BBC never caveat all their slave trade comments and programmes with any reference to the size, scale and commitment of what Britain actually did throughout the world to abolish slavery.
De-fund the BBC.
John Souter retweeted
Well, there goes the main reason for subscribing to the Sunday Telegraph.
I was hoping to be able to announce this in my own time – but the media rumour mill is swirling, I'm being contacted by various reporters and others, and I don't like denying the truth, so ...
I wrote my first "Economic Agenda" column in The Sunday Telegraph 27 years ago, under the editorship of Dominic Lawson – filling-in occasionally during the late-1990s, before being given my own weekly slot from 2003.
Since then, while I've been heavily involved in television, and am perhaps better known as a broadcaster, penning "Economic Agenda" for The Sunday Telegraph each week has been the backbone of my journalistic life.
On Thursday, the @Telegraph rang to tell me my column is being scrapped.
I was asked, and have agreed, to write "Economic Agenda" until the end of November, as per my contract. After that, my Sunday Telegraph column will be no more.
Why this decision has been made, and whether or not my columns were any good, is for others to judge.
All I will say is that, as the first person in my family to attend university, sustaining a weekly column in a leading national newspaper for a quarter of a century has been a source of enormous pride for myself and my family.
Lots of people have been asking me about the future of "Planet Normal" - the hugely-popular Telegraph podcast which I co-created and co-present with the brilliant @AllisonPearson
"Planet Normal" has, over the last 330 weekly episodes, also become a major part of my professional life and my broader identity.
With Allison reportedly leaving the Telegraph as well, there is a lot of speculation about whether or not the podcast will continue to impart "news and views from beyond the bubble" with our usual blend of sharp analysis, humour and occasional outrage !
Well, I am delighted to confirm that Co-Pilot Pearson and myself are deeply committed to our joint podcast – and, above all, to our beloved listeners.
We will, as and when notice periods allow, continue our voyages through space every Thursday – perhaps to "Planet Normal", or maybe to another part of the solar system – so we can "gaze down each week at the madness of Planet Earth", as we have done since the Spring of 2020.
So citizens of Planet Normal, stand ready ! The "rocket-of-right-thinking", the "flying refuge of reasoned views", will soon be launched once again 🚀🪐👨🏭👱♀️🎙️📺
I poured my heart and soul into "Economic Agenda" and "Planet Normal". The Telegraph's decision to scrap them is obviously a huge personal blow. But I will always be grateful for the opportunities the paper has given me.
Above all, I would like to thank the illustrious list of successive Telegraph business editors I've worked with since the late-1990s, many of whom have become and remain good friends - including @Peston @RobertsDan @larmitstead @neilbenet @benjaminmarlow @cg_williams @kamalahmednews @MarkKleinmanSky @jamesrquinn (sorry if I've forgotten anyone, it's been a long time!)
On Friday, even though I almost always write my column from elsewhere, and despite being extremely disappointed by the paper's decision, I decided to go into the Telegraph and write today's column sitting in the newsroom.
I am glad I did - as being at the heart of the paper at such a difficult time allowed for lots of conversations, with everyone from junior production staff to senior reporters and executives, which reminded me that journalism, despite being an industry at the whim of seemingly endless and often brutal commercial and technological upheaval, is not only hugely important to our country, but full of talented, decent people.
See picture below, having just filed my piece, as I was heading out the door ...
John Souter retweeted
By any standard, this is a major scandal. The govt has lied. And it’s not a trivial lie. It concerns free speech, the influence of radical Islamism on decision making, and on a deeply regressive move to introduce blasphemy laws to the UK at the behest of extremist Islamist organisations.
It could hardly be more serious.
And yet - where is the media coverage? The outrage?
The BBC hasn’t even touched this story.
They’ve run stories about a squabble between Farage & a LibDem MP about some mild jostling in the Commons, & they’ve run stories about mice in Downing St.
But this - a story about government lies, an attempted cover up, Islamist entryism into the heart of our democracy- doesn’t meet their ‘news’ threshold apparently.
(Incidentally if it wasn’t for social media and @NJ_Timothy none of us would have any idea about this.)
Deeply shocking, but it is getting to the point where it is not surprising. There is a strong smell of rot in our senior policemen.
Two days after Henry died Hampshire Police secretly recorded Digwa in a police van speaking Punjabi to his brother. Digwa admitted stabbing Henry. Discussed claiming self defence. Made zero mention of racial abuse. Not one word.
Hampshire Police had that tape.
They knew Digwa was lying about the racist attack. They had the evidence. They had his own words and then tried to smear Henry as the aggressor anyway.
Three days after his death their statement read “it was reported two men had been assaulted by an unknown man.” Henry was the unknown man. The boy bleeding out on the street. They flipped it.
Family complained. Statement changed. Then police told the family their NEXT update would again infer Henry was the initial aggressor. His family had to fight them a second time. While grieving their murdered son.
Then during the trial Hampshire tried to issue a statement telling the public to stop talking about it online. Calling it disinformation. The CPS had to step in. Told them they were about to collapse their own murder case.
This is the force that handcuffed a dying boy. Missed the murder weapon twice. Had a secret tape proving the killer lied. And still tried to bury Henry's name.
That's not incompetence. That's a machine protecting itself. At the expense of a dead boy's reputation and three officers are still on active duty. Not suspended. Treated as witnesses. To their own actions.
Hampshire Police didn't just fail Henry on that street. They kept failing him for six months after he died.
John Souter retweeted
It all suddenly makes sense why the @Telegraph ditched the only writers we bothered to read it for.
Utterly clueless MPs, who just cling to the nonsense that they are fed by their similarly illiterate but scarily dogmatic seniors. They can’t do even basic maths, have no appreciation of science, and most have never done useful work in their lives. Madness!
John Souter retweeted
About to go on @TimesRadio to discuss this...
Looks like the pernicious Connect and Manage policy is history
Connect and Manage was introduced in 2009 and allows windfarms to connect despite there not being grid infrastructure to use their output
We're now spending £millions every day to turn off wind we can't use. Some windfarms eg Seagreen have 75% of their output thrown away
It's a disgusting waste of money and the cost is added to our energy bills
thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
