Kind of retired, after a wonderful career, which took me all around the world many times. Polyglot. Proud Burnley FC fan. Wonderful family. God is good.
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Mike Black retweeted
France is in flames (yet he wants to rejoin the EU).
Trump is selling out Ukraine, cosying up to Putin again
A cost-of-living crunch is looming this winter, especially fuel bills.
He still hasn’t told us how or when defence spending will reach 3% GDP.
Inflation is rising once more, as are interest rates.
Russian forces are threatening our infrastructure, especially undersea data and energy links.
The Strait of Hormuz remains closed, our Gulf allies are under attack.
And PM Burnham drivels about this!!
It’s like the opening sketch from Saturday Night Live.
Mike Black retweeted
Chancellor John Healey is considering introducing an income tax on parents who pass their business down to their children.
Yet again, the Labour government are hell-bent on punishing family businesses.
This isn’t a growth strategy. It’s a vindictive wrecking ball strategy.
Mike Black retweeted
“Let’s ban new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea but pay Norway £40 billion to import oil and gas from the North Sea. Let’s plaster solar panels on thousands of acres of farmland but have sun dimming experiments in a country that has the fifth least sun hours on the planet.”
Mike Black retweeted
Ed Miliband’s stubborn net zero zealotry is destroying British energy security, raising prices and making the UK far too reliant on importing energy. It’s time to axe net zero.
Mike Black retweeted
Starmer forced the last Prime Minister to resign over a slice of cake.
Yet he thinks a simple “sorry” will suffice for the gross misjudgement of appointing Mandelson as ambassador to the United States.
No integrity. No honour. And absolutely no self-awareness.
Mike Black retweeted
You ban North Sea drilling. You ban fracking. You tax customers at the pump. You hit producers with retrospective taxes. And now you have the nerve to turn around and blame rising costs on the fuel companies.
If fuel companies try to rip off customers, my government will step in.
@RachelReevesMP and @Ed_Miliband are bringing the bosses of the fuel companies in today, to make sure that customers aren’t losing out because of the conflict in the Middle East.
Mike Black retweeted
This is a key issue, which must be addressed urgently.
Our homeless veterans can’t wait until 2029.
Mike Black retweeted
Ed Miliband's 'net zero zealotry' lands Britain's oldest ski resort, Glencoe with a £250,000 bill for 'green' charges. He is putting a wrecking ball through businesses due to his net zero codswallop.
Mike Black retweeted
The Chagos “deal” contains the sort of punitive terms one might expect to be imposed upon the losing side in an instrument of surrender - yet the government has agreed to them voluntarily and in the absence of any credible threat to British sovereignty.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01…
Mike Black retweeted
Andrew Neil is right: “Ed Miliband’s energy policy is madness on stilts.”
£trillions spaffed away on something that won’t make a blind bit of difference apart from financially crippling Britain. It’s time to axe net zero.
If wind energy is so great, why does it need to be subsidised by the taxpayer? It’s not as if it were a new concept.
Perhaps Ed “Don Quixote” Miliband ought to stop tilting at windmills?
Miliband unveils £1.8bn of new subsidies to bankroll wind farm blitz telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
Mike Black retweeted
The staggering cost of Ed Miliband's Net Zero drive revealed
'The figures, quietly published last month by the National Energy System Operator (NESO) – a Government quango responsible for Britain's energy systems – includes an estimated £585 billion to be forked out by ordinary households to pay for the move away from energy–guzzling boilers towards eco–friendly heat pumps.
And new wind farms and electricity pylons across the country would cost £1 trillion, it estimates, while switching to electric vehicles and building more charging stations could add further costs of up to £2.6 trillion.
In total, NESO estimates Britain will need to spend £182 billion a year to reach its targets by 2050.'
dailymail.co.uk/news/article…
Mike Black retweeted
Bridget Phillipson’s ideological assault continues, destroying 850 years of educational heritage and culture. I feel for the whole community including the staff, parents and of course the children.
The politics of envy playing out in front of our eyes.
telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/ne…
Mike Black retweeted
Labour’s VAT raid kills off Exeter Cathedral’s prep school - founded 1179! Musical excellence spanning nine centuries, associated with some of the finest English choral music, destroyed by philistine ignoramuses Starmer and Phillipson. Vandalising England’s cultural heritage
Mike Black retweeted
The 100 private schools closed by spiteful Labour policies are not the grand public schools.
They’re small places where children with special needs find the close attention and help state schools can’t provide.
Those kids will be devastated. Shame on you, @bphillipsonMP
Mike Black retweeted
Energy prices up again as more renewables become available. The government will add more dear renewables this year. It will then transfer some costs from energy bills to tax bills to pretend energy is at last getting cheaper. People will not be better off from this ruse.
Mike Black retweeted
Net Zero = a massive transfer of public money to line the pockets of major corporations.
