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Trucker, Crane Operator, and Cat Butler, Videogames and gardening.

The lovely Lincolnshire Wolds
Joined January 2019
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Replying to @Ed_Miliband
Ed, this is nonsense and you know it. Under your policies, Britain now has some of the highest energy prices in the world — higher than the US, higher than Norway, higher than Canada, and higher than every major fossil-fuel-producing nation. Families aren’t paying high bills because of “fossil fuels”, they’re paying high bills because of your net-zero dogma, endless subsidies, grid charges and the windfall tax that throttled our domestic production. FACTS: •Since your Energy Profits Levy came in, North Sea investment has collapsed and companies like Harbour, BP and EnQuest have cut thousands of UK jobs. •The UK is now importing record levels of LNG at 3–4× the cost of domestic production. •We spent £10.4 billion last year importing foreign gas while you cheerlead shutting down our own fields. •Your windfall tax has wiped out investment, forced rigs to shut early and even scared off new development like Cambo and Rosebank. •Offshore workers and chemical plants in Scotland are being hammered because of policies you personally championed. What kind of “energy security” is it when Britain cuts its own oil and gas but sends billions to Qatar, Norway and the US for the same product at a higher price? If you actually cared about bills, you’d: ✔️ Scrap the windfall tax ✔️ Back new domestic fields linked to a real transition ✔️ Prioritise Scottish gas for UK consumers at a lower cost ✔️ Stop forcing households to subsidise renewables while your friends pocket guaranteed profits Instead, you’re making us poorer, destroying Scotland’s oil, gas and chemical industries, and pushing an ideological experiment that has failed everywhere it’s been tried. The truth? Your policies are the reason families can’t afford to heat their homes. Not Russia. Not global markets. You. The cost of Miliband crisis
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Been doing some mandatory training on Modern Slavery at work. I have to be honest, 90% of the key indicators seem to hold little difference than the UK governments relationship with its working, taxpaying citizens.
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Evening retrogamers. What upscaling solutions are people using for their old systems on modern TV's and what ones do you recommend? #gamersunite #retrogames #RETROGAMING
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Question from the new Rishi Sunak maths syllabus: if 13 years of Tory government knocks 20% off your real income and 40% off your pension, puts £500 a month on your mortgage and lands you with a £2000 gas bill, should you vote Tory at the next general election?
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47 Christmas mornings and i've had at least one new toy on every one of them. #goals #MerryChristmas
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The @Conservatives really have lost control of everything haven't they. The wheels are well and truly off the bus and no-one is steering. Its time for a General Election. #GTTO
Short break from the grind x
BREAKING: Donald Trump's personal library was destroyed in the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago. Both books are sadly beyond repair, and he hadn't even finished coloring one in yet.
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Would like to nominate @realmattlucas and @davidwalliams to play the Rooney and Vardy roles in the inevitable TV drama to follow. #wagathachristie
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Johnson 'delivered' Brexit? Brexit has only been delivered in the sense that a flat-pack of furniture is delivered. It hasn’t been assembled yet because it won’t fit through the front door, several of the most important pieces are missing and the instructions are in Russian.
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Would be quite refreshing to have a billionaire as PM. Usually they just buy other people to do that sort of thing.
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Trying to decide who should replace Boris Johnson is like trying to decide which toilet to use at Glastonbury.
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Its a peculiar state of affairs when certain sectors of the British public are openly outraged when ordinary workers fight to maintain a decent wage but are entirely reticent on executive pay, shareholder dividends, and huge profits going to overseas companies. #RailStrikes
So Nadia Whittome Labour MP for Nottingham East not only gives half her salary away, she also worked in a care home at the start of the pandemic. She was later dismissed for highlighting the lack of PPE, but then proceeded to help source new PPE for the care home. Principled.
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We are going to see a lot more of these apparently bold and dramatic announcements over the next few days. And almost all of them will then fade away into nothing. Because long-term policy is becoming impossible in the daily struggle for the PM’s survival
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Something new this #followbackfriday. Had a constructive week away training in Birmingham and am now a qualified crane operator. Its really given me a lift. . . . Yeah all right, I'll get my coat. Also #GTTO
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Just had to withdraw my comment in the @HouseofCommons saying the Prime Minister had lied. Lie and remain PM but call out those lies and risk being thrown out Parliament. This is UK politics in 2022.
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Say what you like about the suffering he caused to the victims and families of those who were sent to their deaths in care homes, but Boris Johnson got all the big calls right. 1/8
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