UK govt "will not tolerate" energy firms profiteering from Iran war.
It will do what?
Ofgem allows profiteering: electricity pricing formula is based on price of gas, renewables are the cheapest. Profiteering is built in.
Change the formula, levy windfall tax, prosecute profiteering execs.
Fear not ofgem has the perfect antidote to profiteering!
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We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.
Hannah Spencer MP in her maiden speech in Parliament:
"Our struggles may be different, but our humanity is the same. We always stick together, we always fight for each other.
"And that is what I want us to take forward from International Women's Day and to do that every single day."
Oakshot, Tice and co. must be absolutely livid. No doubt they’ll be marching through the streets of Dubai defending freedom of expression against this blatant assault on freedom…
…oh, wait.
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NHS executives are having secret meetings with Palantir, while the doctors who actually make the NHS work are protesting.
We need to get Palantir out. If you want to be a whistleblower message email hw4fp.uk@protonmail.com, or say no to Palantir 👇
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So feckin’ what?
Digging up something from 13 years ago like it’s breaking news.
Do some proper journalism, BBC News.
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Performative cruelty attracts Reform voters apparently!
Left: Nigel Farage's leaflet says Reform will cut taxes
Right: Nigel Farage says he never said he would cut taxes
“Farage accused of U-turn as he says UK should keep out of Iran war…latest comment contrasts with earlier statement that ‘gloves need to come off’”
“Reform wanted the UK to go to war in Iran & are now trying to cover up the consequences inc higher fuel prices.”
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Israel is using white phosphorus AGAIN in Lebanon - the chemical weapon ignites instantly upon contact with oxygen, and sticks to skin
FACTS:
Net Zero barely nudges your bill.
Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof.
So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.
The Iran war should be a lesson for Keir Starmer's Government. If you take a clear line on an issue where the public agree with you then it's your opponents who end up having to back down, not you
tRump returns the favour for all the help...
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Rewarded handsomely by Trump!
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Trump: Vladimir Putin (to whom he spoke today) was "very impressed with what he saw" in terms of US military success in Iran. Putin, as ever, playing him like a 🎻
Yay, great news for Russia and the Russian war machine!
Turns out Russia is one of the biggest beneficiaries of Trump’s war in Iran.
🚨 Naomi Smith, Best for Britain CEO:
“As Best for Britain has long argued, ministers must not simply make urgent progress on this common sense food and drink deal, but on extending alignment to all industrial service sectors to get growth kickstarted both here and in the EU.”
"It's clear Starmer has learnt from Iraq. Blair does not seem to have done so."
Tony Blair has said that Keir Starmer "should have backed America from the very beginning" in the Iran war.
Is the PM wise not to listen?
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I understand that there is now a major effort under way in the UK government on aligning regulations as SPS talks progress. Here is some evidence.
Presume some challenges within - eg aligning with EU checks on inbound products may clash with some trade deals
Love that Trump is so dense he doesn’t understand that you can’t just sever trade with Spain…
Why?
Altogether now…
Because Spain is in the EU
Handy, that…
BBC News - Call off King's US visit over Iran, urge Lib Dems
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The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall
Only 8% of the UK public support joining the offensive.
I wonder what the “will of the people” patriots have to say about Reforms intentions now!
Given Trump's illegal war that is devastating the Middle East and pushing up energy bills, Keir Starmer should advise the King to call off April’s state visit to the US.
A state visit should not be given to someone who repeatedly insults and damages our country.
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Yes, UK energy policy should focus on the North Sea. For tidal and wave power, that is. We have an immense, endless energy resource right next to us.
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into this illegal war, even though the President has no plan for what comes next.
There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.
However, more issues remain relevant today. In particular, the ongoing Operation Epic Fury is a US military operation. It will not be possible for the UK to exert any significant influence in its planning. Any participation will be - as it was in Iraq - in subordination to the US. As the Iraq inquiry report noted: "The US and UK are close allies, but the relationship between the two is unequal." Despite the UK providing significant military assets and personnel to Iraq, it failed to exert any significant influence on US decisions.
Would Farage, Badenoch, Johnson, Hannan, Blair, the Daily Mail, the Sun… like to comment on this?
No?
Thought not. Because their own raging inadequacy, dishonesty, arrogance, wrongness and startlingly cynical irresponsibility prevents them from being credible actors in this fireball of menace.
