One reason that energy prices in the UK have skyrocketed. The EU price cap on gas is 43.99 Euros per mega watt hour. The UK is £263.79 per mega watt hour. <img src=“https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/38545/2023/5b6fd97fae.png" width=“400” height=“400” …
Enough Is Enough! There’s a growing pushback in the UK against the status quo. We’re not in this together, we never have been. Read more here
Great quote from the Daily Mirror Whitehall correspondent Mikey Smith on the campaign to keep Boris in No 10. “Imagine there being an active campaign to get Boris Johnson to stay on as PM, and not one to bring Gordon Brown back. Not saying either is the answer, but one seems objectively less of a …
Peppa Pig and prolonged pauses – it is, I think, time to start worrying about the prime minister. At the end of this speech, in an interview with ITV, the interviewer, having watched the speech, and gauged the audience’s reaction, saw fit to pose the following question: “Is everything OK, …
Mark Barrow has spent thirty years filming underwater clips that document the state of Britain’s rivers and streams. In the last twenty years, he has seen the percentage of UK waterways classified as healthy drop from over 90% to less than 15%. Now, as water companies are effectively granted …
Perhaps the country is finally about to see through Boris Johnson. Everyone does in the end. Boris Johnson is the prime minister of a country that is a genuine world leader on carbon reduction. And here he was, covering the arses of the countries that deliberately sabotaged Cop26, for no reason …
Leave Boris Johnson alone – this exotic creature is Labour’s greatest asset | The Independent
Starmer suggests PM is using Brexit fights to distract from other areas. “There’s a little bit of me, Andrew, I am afraid that can’t help think that the prime minister is constantly trying to pick a fight on things like this so he hopes people don’t look elsewhere in the forest, which are things …
What happened in the House of Commons yesterday was so foul, the stench might never clear. What happened on Wednesday afternoon in the House of Commons was absolutely not a politician making the rules then failing to abide by them himself. It was a politician, having been found utterly in breach of …
“Not our fault!” Spitting Image nailed it.
This is a disgrace. Tory MPs have been defending themselves from accusations they have given the go-ahead to water companies to dump raw sewage in rivers. A proposal from the Lords to the Environment Bill that would have placed legal duties on the companies to reduce discharges was defeated by 265 …
CBI chief policy director Matthew Fell on UK’s Net Zero plan. “To truly transform the UK economy based on sustainable and green growth, we need to push further and faster and make key decisions on how to finance the transition to net zero. An honest conversation needs to happen here in the UK …
Labour shadow business and energy secretary Ed Miliband on Kwarteng. “This is a new low for government energy policy. Reduced to crossing his fingers for a mild winter, Kwasi Kwarteng is showing just how much a decade of inaction from the government has left us vulnerable. Kwasi Kwarteng is the …
Matthew Lesh of the Adam Smith Institute gives a glowing(?) review of PM’s speech at the Tory conference. “Boris’s rhetoric was bombastic but vacuous and economically illiterate. This was an agenda for levelling down to a centrally-planned, high-tax, low-productivity economy. He is hamstringing the …
Interesting article by Tom McTague on The Atlantic website today. According to his onetime rival for the Conservative leadership, Rory Stewart, Johnson is “the most accomplished liar in public life—perhaps the best liar ever to serve as prime minister.” Is Boris Johnson a Liar? - The Atlantic