Don't be ridiculous, Lewis. Starmer told the truth. He was not at fault.

+ it will also encourage older low carbon electricity generators, which supply a third of our power, to move from market pricing to fixed-price contracts for difference

+ this will see more of our electricity generation decopupled from the price of gas, with stable, long term, known prices

7/7

She spoke of plans to remove barriers to new renewables investment:

+ Accelerating vital grid infrastructure
+ reforming land access rules and extending permitted development rights
+ making more public land available for renewable infrastructure

5/7

...to off-set fuel costs and other cost-of-living rises.

She reminded us that "During the last energy shock, the previous government’s package of unfunded, untargeted support saw more than a third of the direct energy bills support go to the wealthiest households..."

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The Chancellor has today updated the Commons on the Government’s economic response to the Middle East.

Her full speech can be read at the link below.

At the IMF meeting last week she spoke with finance ministers and struck a I struck a joint agreement with ten other major economies...

1/7

Last week we were told either Starmer must have known and was lying or should have known Mandeslson failed vetting and must resign

This week Robbins told us Mandelson didn't fail vetting and that Starmer not only didn't know, but wasn't allowed to know the result, but Starmer must resign anyway

Media, newspapers etc have been trying to get Starmer to resign from the moment he got into office. He is held to higher standards than the Pope! He has made some mistakes (Mandelson a big one) but whatever he does media and newspapers will try to destroy him. We don't have impartial media in UK.

And yet the vast majority of the normal public - as opposed to arseholes in the media - really don't give a shit. They're a little more concerned with, e.g. the Iran War and how it might adversely impact what was an improving economy under Reeves and Starmer.

Correct. It's manipulation, propaganda and dirty tricks.

Because they are determined to get him for something.

It's about building a narrative that eases him out. His successor will then be immediately labelled as "having no mandate", and it will all start again until the Labour government falls and the vested interests finally get their man into No10.

Meanwhile Trump is destroying the world but nobody seems too bothered. Strange ol' world.

Brilliant! Laughed out loud. 👍🏽

Time for this again 👇🏽

Green energy is also 'patriotic' and genuinely 'British' as against the oil which actually doesn't belong to us (Thank you, Margaret Thatcher 🙄😡)
- but to the private companies who also take the profits.
Plus - green energy cannot be blockaded...

Good. It’s easy to forget that climate change denial & shilling for fossil fuel companies provided a template for Tufton Street, Brexit & pretty much every egregious example of persuading populations to vote against their own interests. The story of Don Pearlman should be taught in kindergartens…

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"Returning to airstrikes does not force regime surrender. Regime has taken US punches for close to 8 weeks. Their leaders killed, their officials and commanders assassinated, #Iran damaged, but still they are there.

So #Trump folks have two options: go into talks w Iran or put in ground troops"

OTD in 2021 German Foreign Minister decided that the Russian army massing on Ukraine's border was not a reason to cancel Nordstream 2.

To Kremlin it meant "an invasion will not stop commercial relations". It thus made an invasion more likely. Cos that's how appeasement works.

OTD in 2017 Prez declared "mission accomplished" in Syria. A statement that stood the test of time & didn't cause deleted posts.

PV providing 589 watts, 345 baseload usage, battery charging at 244 watts.

By 8:15am today solar was generating 70% more than our baseload usage.

On a cloudy day, in England, in April!

Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) * ... @magyarpeterMP Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General. On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation. If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then - on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office.

Hungary’s Péter Magyar issues an ultimatum.

You can be sure that as soon as Kemi Badenoch jumps on it, the wrong end of the stick has been grasped and waved in the air with a red flag tied to it.

At least, there's no need for at least, it puts a different spin on what you're reporting. All you need to say is Robbins corroborates the PM's statement. It wasn't a claim, it was a fact, this is the problem with journalism.

Important 👇🏽

Exactly my immediate response, too!

Clearly Lebedev is above reproach isn't he?

Genuinely one of the most preposterous things I've heard in in this whole affair.

An entirely political process, and not one of weak governance. Major question for me, is why do the UK security apparatus not have a way into the Epstein files, then unreleased, and those remaining unreleased. We're supposed to have the best spooks.