The Tories keep saying they “made mistakes”. Mistakes? You governed this country for 14 years. These weren’t a few bad calls around the edges. These were decisions that fundamentally changed Britain, some of them potentially forever. They left us with the highest tax burden since WW2. Now they talk about cutting taxes. They grew the state. They grew the Civil Service to historic levels. They let the welfare bill balloon. Now they talk about small government. They buried businesses, financial markets, property and housebuilding under regulation. Now they tell us regulation is strangling growth. No shit Sherlock. But who wrote it? They now say regulation stopped homes being built. Who wrote it? They milked Stamp Duty. Now they want to abolish it. Home ownership fell dramatically on their watch. Now they have the audacity to tell us they are the party of home ownership. London was one of the great centres of global finance. By 2024, the UK was down to 20th in the world for IPO fundraising. One of the greatest financial centres on earth decimated by a Conservative government. They enshrined Net Zero in law. Now they want to abolish it, apparently they just realised how damaging it is to our economy. Kemi said countries with expensive energy are poor. Who made our energy expensive? They allowed the Armed Forces to shrink while the rest of the state grew. Now they tell us defence is the first duty of government. Really? Was it not the first duty of government during the 14 years you were actually the government? They promised to stop the boats. They didn’t. They cut police numbers. They closed magistrates’ courts. They hollowed out the justice system. And while people were being robbed, burgled, stabbed or having their shops emptied, the Conservatives had the audacity to arrest people for tweets. And then there is immigration. They promised to control it. Bring it down to tens of thousands. Instead they gave us the Boris wave, just about 4 million people. Net migration reached levels Britain had never seen before. And this is exactly why calling these things “mistakes” doesn’t cut it. Because you cannot simply reverse years of mass migration. Some government decisions alter a country for a few years. The Conservative’s decisions altered Britain for a generation. Some may have altered it permanently. And please spare us the “new Conservative Party”. It isn’t. Kemi Badenoch was a minister. Chris Philp was a minister. Andrew Griffith was a minister and the Government’s Net Zero Business Champion. Claire Coutinho was literally the Net Zero Secretary. Richard Fuller was a Treasury minister. Alex Burghart was a minister. They were making the decisions. They had the power. They were the government. Governments don’t get to experiment on a country for fourteen years, fundamentally change it, leave behind damaging consequences that could last for generations, change the wording on the leaflet and demand that everyone treats them as the new management. These weren’t simply “mistakes”. They were deliberate choices. Choices that changed our economy, our population and the size and reach of the state. And some of those changes may never be fully undone. That is the arrogance of it. The belief that you can make decisions of this magnitude, fundamentally change the country, wait for the political wind to turn and then say: “Sorry. We got it wrong. Trust us to fix it.” No, you broke Britain and only Reform will fix it.

Talking to a French coastguard contact (Gus) today - his English not perfect but the point was clear: So I looked it up he's right! ♦️♦️♦️♦️♦️ Under UN Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) and UNCLOS, the duty of a coastal state is to STOP overcrowded, unseaworthy vessels leaving its ports. 👇👇👇👇👇👇 If such a vessel is at sea and a French vessel is the first to it, the duty is to take it back to the nearest safe port - which is France. It is NOT the duty of the UK to then take over the chaperoning of an unsuitable vessel across the Channel. Stop them at the point of departure. Return them to France if intercepted by French assets. That's what maritime safety law actually says. It's all in The UN document 👇👇👇👇 SOLAS Article 98 /Chapter V

Foreign national students debt in the UK has gone from £93 million to £1.21 billion in under 10 years. When i saw that i knew i had to break down the data by nationality: 🧵

Worth knowing

You haven’t even scratched the surface, June. As a keen seafarer, I have been banging this fucking drum for years, but it seems that the politicians, media and activists on the right suffer from TikTok brain - preferring abbreviated rage bait and shit-vids rather than reems of thumping proof that illegal migration is being actively facilitated. Try this little lot - requirements of a <50m vessel transiting French waters with up to 100 passengers aboard - there’s more, but this’ll do for starters..: • A French commercial registration, with the titre unique de francisation et d’immatriculation kept on board. • Proof that VAT and any customs duty have been paid or accounted for: the invoice, the import declaration if it came from outside the EU, and the quitus fiscal if it came from another EU state. • A certificat de sécurité and a permis de navigation endorsed Class A under division 223, stating the maximum number of people and any route limits. • Section 223a if the ship is 24 m or longer, section 223b if it is shorter. • No reliance on a pleasure-craft CE mark, or on UK MCA coding. Those do not authorise this trip. • Marine equipment that requires type approval must carry the wheelmark under Directive 2014/90/EU. • Navigation lights from sunset to sunrise: one masthead light, sidelights and a sternlight. No second masthead light. • One all-round white anchor light if stopped. No second anchor light. • A proper look-out by sight and hearing, a safe speed, and radar used properly if it is fitted. • In fog or restricted visibility: engines ready, and one prolonged blast at least every two minutes when making way, or two when under way but stopped. • One approved lifejacket, with a light, for every person allowed on the certificate, plus extras at the assembly stations and child lifejackets for at least 10% of the passengers. • Survival craft for everyone on board, with enough spare capacity that losing one craft still leaves room for all, plus a rescue boat and lit lifebuoys. • A general alarm, a public-address system, and a posted muster list. • Passenger details sent to the search-and-rescue authority before sailing. • Passenger insurance under Regulation (EC) 392/2009 and the Athens Convention, at least 250,000 SDR per passenger per incident, with the certificate on board. • Crew financial security under the Maritime Labour Convention, unless the crew are covered by ENIM. • A captain holding Capitaine 500, the passenger-ship modules of the arrêté of 6 May 2014, a valid medical certificate, EM II, and a CGO if the ship leaves GMDSS sea area A1. • An approved minimum crew able to keep the watch, handle an emergency and evacuate everyone, with STCW rest hours kept at night. • Crew accommodation to division 215 at the Class A standard, and medical stores to division 217.

80,000 Chance of success now up to 70% from 50/50. Keep going.

Gov says that there is not enough data to set a "safe upper limit" for folic acid exposure. Same gov then puts it into our flour without a single safety trial! Sign the petition.

Looks like the petition will pass 80,000 today. 👏 Momentum has really picked up over the last week or so, so hopefully we'll get past 100,000 before the deadline and trigger a debate in Parliament. But will there be any MPs who will speak for us? There's little sign anyone there has any interest in government medicating the population via food. Perhaps because both Labour and Conservatives are to blame for this policy. It's all rather similar to the situation over COVID vaccine safety and efficacy. But maybe @danny__kruger will speak up about it, as he did about the COVID vaccines. Or @RupertLowe10 ?

“Charities are too regularly excluded from early discussions to formulate government policy, a former civil society minister has said.” Excuse me? civilsociety.co.uk/news/char…

Financially punishing people for earning a living is ramping up! This article says Labour will bring in a “social tariff” where households not on benefits would be charged MORE per unit of energy than lower income households. In a “how dare you afford your bills” way 🤡

🇬🇧 Let's talk about how much tax payers money has been LOST on cancelled and abandoned government projects over the last 2 years. It's mind blowing. ▪️TRANSPORT ▪A303 Stonehenge/Amesbury £224.7 MILLION loss ▪ A1 Morpeth–Ellingham dualling £67.8 MILLION loss ▪A358 Taunton–Southfields £67.2MILLION loss ▪ A27 Arundel Bypass £66.7 MILLION loss ▪A5036 Princess Way £17.3 MILLION loss ▪M27 Southampton Junction 8 £13.9 MILLION loss ▪A47 Great Yarmouth junction £11.7 MILLION loss ▪A27 Worthing & Lancing £2.6 MILLION loss ▪A12 Chelmsford A120 & A47 Wansford–Sutton £252 MILLION combined loss ▪National Highways 'business management system' £360,000 written off. project was cancelled. oh. ▪️DEFENCE 2025/26 ACCOUNTS ▪Shadow Mk2 - £253.580 MILLION cancelled ▪Project Morpheus - £235.655 MILLION cancelled ▪Project Guardian UKV2 -£9.4 MILLION cancelled ▪Thermal Imaging & Laser - £8.3 MILLION cancelled ▪ Project Janus - £6.020 MILLION cancelled ▪Photovoltaic Farms project -£5.76 MILLION cancelled ▪Software Module project £4.739 MILLIO cancelled ▪Shelf Life Programme - £3.354 MILLION cancelled ▪Commercial Audit Tool - £2.147 MILLION gave up ▪Secondary Facilities Project -£1.500 MILLION terminated ▪ Through Barrier Imaging Systems contract £647k terminated ▪Operational Advantage Centre - £620k cancelled ▪Physical Training Sports Facility at Lossiemouth -£480k cancelled ▪Project at Staxton Wold £463k cancelled ▪Heavy Equipment Transporters project £421k cancelled ▪Test facility project -£397k cancelled ▪Reserve Estate Optimised Programme projects - £385k Didn't bother. ▪Marne Barracks Building Energy Management System £348k cancelled ▪Hurricane & Spitfire building air-conditioning project -£319k cancelled ▪ Project SERAPH cancellation - £1.354 MILLION fruitless payment Those alone are approximately £536 MILLION. And then there are the MOD write offs (seriously) ▪ Training equipment they dont need £1.871 MILLION ▪ Cyber Resilience Programme £1.349 MILLION ▪Skyrora V1 launchers surplus - £1.070 MILLION ▪Land Rover fleet reduction - £473k ▪️HOME OFFICE ▪Rwanda partnership payments - £290 MILLION ▪RAF Scampton asylum site - £48.5 MILLION decided not to use it for migrants after the money was spent ▪ Illegal Migration Act IT capabilities that could not be repurposed after the policy changed - £7.2 MILLION ▪Cancelled return flights - £2.1 MILLION ▪Software licences deemed unsuitable and non-cancellable - £1.3 MILLION ▪️JUSTICE ▪Prison capacity build cancelled - £23.996 MILLION ▪ Illegal Migration Act digital development cancelled after government policy changed - £3.526 MILLION ▪HMCTS video-hearing project unresolved technical problems - £3.633 MILLION ▪️ENERGY SECURITY & NET ZERO ▪ UK Atomic Energy Authority test rig - £26.2MILLION ▪ Berkeley Blower House closure £8.968 MILLION ▪ Nuclear Decommissioning Authority equipment purchase which failed during commissioning because of a design failure - £784,470 (moronic) ▪️HOMES ENGLAND ▪Loans-system development - £4.843 MILLION (not in use and there were no plans to complete it). ▪ Document-management-system development - £1.109 MILLION (chose a different solution). ▪ Land disposal system -£360k new system was crap ▪️CABINET OFFICE ▪ Civil Service Jobs Applicant Tracking - £7.767 MILLION ▪️COMPANIES HOUSE ▪Certified Certificates/Certified Copies digital project £620,589 cancelled for being crap ▪ Internal business-system re-platforming project £612,750 cancelled ▪ Register of Overseas Entities digital journey £543,525 cancelled, no longer needed ▪️NATIONAL ARCHIVES ▪Omega digital project -£610k written off So just these examples of cancelled, written off governments projects in just a few departments has cost taxpayers roughly .... £1.69 BILLION and counting! No private company could ever work like this, I have no idea if anyone lost their jobs but I bet they got their bonuses!

Someone asked me to have a look at recorded losses at the NHS. So heres a very quick overview. I get it to £11.093 BILLION of losses formally recorded by the DHSC departmental group in 2 YEARS. So before you talk to me about 'envy of the world', I suggest you get your eyeballs around this bollocks (technical term) Heres the down and dirty list. The audited accounts break it down to include: ▪️ Constructive losses - £8.261 BILLION ▪️ Fruitless payments - (fucked up) £2.503 BILLION ▪️ Claims abandoned - £49.9 MILLION (fucked up) ▪️ Stock losses -£12 MILLION ▪️ NHS building projects abandoned- £216 MILLION ▪️ NHS assets decided were obsolete- £140 MILLION ▪️ NHS assets lost or damaged -£24 MILLION ▪️ NHS assets over specified (huh?) £5 MILLION ▪️ Leeds Teaching Hospitals - £34.9 MILLION ▪️ Imperial College Healthcare - £18.3 MILLION ▪️ East Sussex Healthcare - £11.9 MILLION ▪️ Musgrove Park/Somerset - £9 MILLION ▪️ Shrewsbury & Telford -£5.8 MILLION ▪️loss and damage to stock - £59.7 MILLION ▪️ £1.249 BILLION of expired Covid antiviral medicines crystallised as constructive losses in 2024/25. (oops) ▪️ abandoned claims against PPE suppliers £572 MILLION oh and then to top it all off theres £6.327 BILLION in negligence, settlements, awards and legal fees. All of this is funded by taxpayers. YEY! (don't add all of those figures together. Some of the individual figures are already contained within the larger totals. I'm showing you what is buried inside the accounts)

In the literal back row at the @Conservatives conference after being delayed at the hotel so I could be on @Iromg's show to talk all things energy It's been a busy month, speaking at Fringe events at @reformparty_uk last month and @UKLabour last week before coming here Energy is, rightly, a hot topic. How we provide affordable, secure and clean energy is a critical question Too many businesses are closing due to high energy prices. Too many industries are being lost overseas, offshoring emissions to places with dirtier energy And too many families are struggling to afford basic heating We need a rational energy policy that doesn't prefer virtue signalling over doing the right thing Offshoring emissions is NOT the right thing. It's bad for the environment, bad for the UK economy, bad for British jobs and bad for the communities where these industries go, which are too often in countries that not only have dirty energy, but weak environmental controls, poor worker safety standards and even child and forced labour Polluting other people's environments is not virtuous. Pretending we're reducing emissions when we're actually increasing them is dishonest and unethical Energy policy needs to be based on accurate data and evidence. Not ideology. Not wishful thinking. Not some dream of a green utopia that has no foundation in reality Ministers need to clearly articulate the tradeoffs and ensure public consent for their policies Don't ask if people care about the environment and then take this as permission to turn the electricity grid into an expensive unreliable monster that creaks when it's not windy or sunny Explain how much renewables cost, what levels of energy security may have to be sacrificed, whether people will be allowed to cool as well as heat their homes, whether they will be forced to travel less whether by car or plane Don't slip huge reductions in mobility into carbon budgets nobody reads Don't pretend a grid NESO cannot model properly (because it can't see or control the huge amounts of solar and batteries connected to low voltage grids) is robust and will remain so Don't lie about the costs and accuse then anyone challenging them of climate denial Don't pretend moving emissions to a poorer country is good for the planet and definitely don't pretend it's ethical to assist in the exploitation of people who are forced to work in unsafe conditions or that we can build a "just transition" on the backs of literal slaves #EnergySecurity #CheapEnergy #TrueSustainability @Miatsf @mgshanks @AndrewBowie_MP @ClaireCoutinho @harrietc @ColinMoynihanUK @drlukeevans @ashley7fox @TiceRichard @cmackinlay @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @mattotele @jonathan_leake @afneil @ofgem @energygovuk @neso_energy

The world consumes roughly 28 million tonnes of copper every year—a mass equivalent to five Great Pyramids of Giza. Yet that refined metal is just the tip of the iceberg of a far more monstrous physical reality. Beneath those 28 million tonnes of copper sits a massive geological footprint: billions of tonnes of blasted rock, colossal volumes of chemical tailings, vast energy expenditures and trillions of litres of water. This is all fresh, relentless demand. Crucially, up to 75% of that copper never enters individual turbines, solar panels or electric vehicles. It goes into the invisible grid infrastructure required to link everything together and make it function. When you trace 28 million tonnes of copper backward into the Earth, the true scale and cost is staggering. The drive to overhaul the global energy structure rests on a profound misunderstanding of physics: it treats energy supply as a 'software' problem while ignoring the devastating raw material gridlock caused by manufacturing billions of solar panels and over a million wind turbines, with hundreds of thousands more in the pipeline. When an energy system shifts from reliable, high-density fuels—hydrocarbons and uranium—to low-density, intermittent sources like wind and solar, the physical apparatus needed to capture, convert, stabilise and transmit that diffuse flux just explodes. It becomes an absurd trade-off: expending colossal amounts of finite, high-grade fossil fuels upfront simply to dig up materials for low-density generators—generators that can never run a steel mill, power an ocean cargo vessel or sustain international air travel. Mining is already a vast consumer of continuous energy. As global copper ore grades decline—frequently dropping to 0.5% or lower—the mass of rock that must be dug, hauled, and crushed grows exponentially per unit of recovered metal. Crushing rock alone accounts for roughly 3% to 4% of total global electricity consumption. Demanding billions of additional tonnes of processed metal creates a self-defeating loop: huge volumes of reliable, baseline power are consumed just to extract the raw materials needed to construct weather-dependent hardware. Yet the primary metals drain does not come from the turbines or arrays themselves. It stems from the enormous physical web needed to transport that energy across vast distances. Diffuse generators located hundreds of kilometres from cities require unprecedented volumes of step-up transformers, substations, high-voltage transmission lines and regional grid overhauls. The heavy overhead wiring looping across the landscape regularly dwarfs the metal required to build the turbine in the first place. Because two centuries of industrial civilisation have already extracted the highest-grade deposits, meeting future demand forces miners to dig deeper, crush harder and manage billions of tonnes of toxic slurry. This is a twin crisis: the escalating physical cost of ore recovery on the front end, and an unprecedented tsunami of industrial e-waste bound for landfills on the back end. The physical limits of this model are not dictated by how much metal remains in the crust, but by the soaring energy penalty required to dig them up and refine them. Heavy industrial processes—blast furnaces, chemical synthesis, cement production and deep-shaft mining—all need continuous, high-temperature thermal energy and uninterrupted high-voltage power. Intermittent turbines and panels cannot reliably deliver that dense power to sustain heavy industry, let alone an entire national economy. The ultimate irony is that the staggering industrial muscle needed to build, maintain, and periodically replace these diffuse energy systems relies entirely on the coal, oil and gas they were meant to replace. The dream of a fully weather-dependent industrial grid ignores physical reality. It overlooks a looming nightmare of endless ore extraction, refining bottlenecks, and perpetual grid expansion.

The net zero grift means DRAX wants to power a massive data centre by burning even more wood pellets 🤣 It’s already Britain’s biggest carbon emitting power station burning 7.5 MILLION tonnes of wood) (much of it imported on diesel powered ships) and emits about 14.1 MILLION tonnes of CO₂e AND we gave them nearly £1 BILLION in subsidies to do it! Now they want to burn another 4.9 MILLION tonnes of wood (nearly twice as much as Gatwick airports flights a year) You genuinely couldn’t design a more absurd “Net Zero” business model.

Still on 🔥this morning.

Let’s be honest. Restore has an enormous uphill struggle ahead of it. Finding 25% in the polls, winning thousands of council seats, broadening its appeal enough to attract the support of the masses, professionalising the party, and ultimately putting itself in a position to win a majority is an incredibly tall order. The likelihood of all that happening is slim to none. But for the sake of argument, let’s imagine it does. If Restore achieved all of that and found itself leading in the polls, would it want my vote? Of course it would. It would need Reformers votes. It would need to broaden its appeal, reach beyond its existing base and win the support of people who might not naturally gravitate towards it. So here’s my question: as a reformer, why on earth would I extend Restore a favour when Restore isn’t prepared to do the same now? Why should I offer my support, give them the benefit of the doubt, or help them build the political momentum they need, when I don’t feel they’re making the same effort to help Reform out now? Politics cannot be a one-way street. If you are not prepared to vote Reform now, why would Reformers return the favour if Restore were ever in a position to mount a serious challenge. If Restore ever reaches the point where it needs my vote to get over the line (which it wont), my answer would be a hard ‘NO’. No thank you.

Miatta You go to real UK industries like steel, oil, gas, refineries, chemicals, cement, potteries etc & speak to those communities You will be met with rage and fury at what your Net Stupid Zero policies have done Then talk to ordinary families who cannot pay their energy bills Then talk to businesses that cannot invest and grow or survive due to high energy costs Then you will see & hear the damage you eco zealots have done

Oh brilliant! … tougher sentences for men who rape children are delayed! because there isn’t enough prison space. But the man who denies criminal damage after allegedly slashing a migrant dinghy is on remand because they say he poses a “significant risk to public safety.” Which tells us apparently child rapists aren’t a “significant risk to public safety” then?

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