[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @afneil Andrew Neil Andrew Neil posts on X about dublin, gas, level, if you the most. They currently have XXXXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::136004952/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +42% - X Months XXXXXXXXXXX +0.70% - X Year XXXXXXXXXXX -XXXX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::136004952/posts_active)  - X Week XXX -XX% - X Month XXX +30% - X Months XXXXX +13% - X Year XXXXX +13% ### Followers: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::136004952/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +0.01% - X Month XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% - X Months XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% - X Year XXXXXXXXX -XXXX% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::136004952/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) #4471 [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [countries](/list/countries) XXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [dublin](/topic/dublin) 3.6%, [gas](/topic/gas) #355, [level](/topic/level) #2423, [if you](/topic/if-you) 2.88%, [countries](/topic/countries) #1245, [bank](/topic/bank) #2571, [at least](/topic/at-least) #741, [the british](/topic/the-british) 1.44%, [peace prize](/topic/peace-prize) 1.44%, [gdp growth](/topic/gdp-growth) #96 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@benbrownuk](/creator/undefined) [@nicktaynorfolk](/creator/undefined) [@gavin_james_uk](/creator/undefined) [@tom1powell84](/creator/undefined) [@beanyboy2802](/creator/undefined) [@young1economist](/creator/undefined) [@brundellfilimou](/creator/undefined) [@grandaddy_mac](/creator/undefined) [@hughmannwright](/creator/undefined) [@corkyontour](/creator/undefined) [@safcpete67](/creator/undefined) [@morgane07969703](/creator/undefined) [@chris___old](/creator/undefined) [@jim_cornelius](/creator/undefined) [@chrisrevill2](/creator/undefined) [@jamiecrawleycd](/creator/undefined) [@trussliz](/creator/undefined) [@chrs1927](/creator/undefined) [@arthurhayw34890](/creator/undefined) [@ghostofcorkey](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [JPMorgan Chase (JPM)](/topic/jpmorgan-chase) [286 (286)](/topic/$286) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Well I just drove down Sauchiehall Street again tonight from Charing Cross then turned right at Pitt Street because from there on it is a building site (and the bit you can drive thru is the very definition of urban decay). But perhaps I was hallucinating along with the scores of other drivers who were taking the same route at the same time. Alternatively perhaps you should stick to pontificating about Gaza. Your comment about me knowing anything about Glasgow is just too ridiculous to merit a response" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1990130009311453606) 2025-11-16T18:49Z 1.2M followers, 376.7K engagements "New figures from the Office for National Statistics add to the grim backdrop to Wednesdays Budget. UK borrowed XXXX billion in October well above the OBRs forecast of XXXX billion and the third highest October deficit on record. Total borrowing for the financial year so far is XXXXX billion XXX% higher than the same period last year. Since even as recently as March the OBR cant correctly forecast borrowing for 2025/26 it has always struck me as bizarre to follow fiscal rules which depend on what the OBR thinks borrowing will be in 2028/29" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1991776081045529078) 2025-11-21T07:49Z 1.2M followers, 179.8K engagements "ANDREW NEIL: Rachel Reeves' gaslighting of the British people is clear" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1995349696064233954) 2025-12-01T04:30Z 1.2M followers, 227K engagements "Youre mixing up debt and deficit. The debt is close to XXX percent gdp and destined to remain there" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1995500158117900332) 2025-12-01T14:28Z 1.2M followers, 87.1K engagements "And so it is. Her previous buffer was too small. But building up the buffer is very different from saying you have a black hole to fill when in fact you have a 4bn surplus downpayment on the buffer" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1995554165851128082) 2025-12-01T18:02Z 1.2M followers, 104.4K engagements "Hell will will freeze over first. First its Prof Miles not Milne. Second he said it was right for Reeves to say we were in a financially challenging position. Nobody denies that. But she misled us all on the nature and the scale of the challenge. The scale was less than she implied and the nature was not the factors she tried to blame but the result of her own policy decisions" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1995986749164523744) 2025-12-02T22:41Z 1.2M followers, 148.4K engagements "What do think Ive been doing day in day out" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996592407920402853) 2025-12-04T14:48Z 1.2M followers, 38.3K engagements "We were a net taker of migrants under the Dublin Protocol. Numpty" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996891864897933632) 2025-12-05T10:38Z 1.2M followers, 75.5K engagements "You have no idea how many came by lorry and other modes of transport undetected. The boat people are met by Border Force either in the Channel or on the beach. And counted. Those who came by lorry etc often simply disappeared into various communities uncounted and undetected" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996892387059421646) 2025-12-05T10:40Z 1.2M followers, 55.6K engagements "That is simply untrue. Under the Dublin Protocol rejection by one EU country did NOT constitute an EU-wide rejection. Why do you peddle such easily disproved lies" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996987378997547487) 2025-12-05T16:57Z 1.2M followers, 64.2K engagements "This World Cup show from the Kennedy Centre in Washington is dire. Can we just have the draw please" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996995278654919012) 2025-12-05T17:29Z 1.2M followers, 117.6K engagements "God theyve now invented a FIFA peace prize. What have we done to deserve this" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996997161179873520) 2025-12-05T17:36Z 1.2M followers, 145.9K engagements "Cant watch it anymore. Off for a stiff drink" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996998656545742936) 2025-12-05T17:42Z 1.2M followers, 67.9K engagements "Get back to me when you admit you were wrong in your previous post. Until you do I will regard you as unreliable misleading tending to untruths" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1997029844086149127) 2025-12-05T19:46Z 1.2M followers, 39.4K engagements "Really. So how many did we return under the Dublin Convention And how many were we forced to take back under it Whats the net figure. Theres a bizarre obsession on Twitter with the Dublin Convention as if it was in any way of importance in dealing with illegal immigration. Even worse this Twitter obsession constantly promulgates an enhanced version of the Convention that never existed. Its almost like a concerted campaign to mislead" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1997031012912845099) 2025-12-05T19:51Z 1.2M followers, 56.9K engagements "Keir Starmer claims Nigel Farage is to blame for the boat people because Brexit took us out of the Dublin Convention (in 2020) which allowed us to return asylum seekers to the EU countries from whence they came. The PM is either ignorant of the facts or knowingly lying. Neither is a good look. The Dublin Convention was a two-way street for asylum seekers. Yes we could try to return them. But others could also be returned to us. As a result the Dublin Agreement actually made us a net recipient of asylum seekers. Take 2018. We made 5500 requests for asylum seekers to be returned. Only 209" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1973306247853088896) 2025-10-01T08:37Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements "Five years ago Jamie Dimon boss of JP Morgan Chase worlds biggest bank lamented Brexit and said he was looking to move the banks European operations out of London. This week hes announced a new 3bn office tower in Canary Wharf for 12000 staff" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1994244357822509201) 2025-11-28T03:18Z 1.2M followers, 331.2K engagements "OK. Heres the cumulative real GDP growth for Europes four biggest economies since Q1 2020: X% XXX% XXX% 2.1%. Which one left the EU" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996173860555673889) 2025-12-03T11:05Z 1.2M followers, 542.6K engagements "Politicians now gaslight us unconstrained. This one says not a single asylum seeker/illegal immigrant came by boat in 2017. And was applauded for it. But thats because they were pouring in by the thousands hidden in lorries and other transport. It was only when improved technology made that very difficult that they switched to boats. Its all well documented. But they still think they can lie with impunity" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996729811864023488) 2025-12-04T23:54Z 1.2M followers, 417.6K engagements "Youre quite right. Hes even managed to end two wars that didnt even exist and of course we all know Ukraine Congo and Gaza are now as peaceful as Paisley on a very wet and cold Sunday" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1997380173285519744) 2025-12-06T18:58Z 1.2M followers, 76.2K engagements "Tip to the wise: keep an eye on Japanese bond yields next week (and after). The 10-years have already started to spike and could easily go higher which would be potentially disruptive for Britains gilt yields" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1997398274534227990) 2025-12-06T20:10Z 1.2M followers, 89.3K engagements "I promised Id get back to you. Sorry for the delay. And for the length: To argue the Bank of England bears primary responsibility for the gilt yield spike and sterling collapse during your 49-day premiership requires selective interpretation and revisionist history. Liability-driven investments (LDIs) in pension funds did indeed amplify market volatility but your mini-budgets unfunded XX billion tax cuts (September XX 2022) was the decisive trigger which provoked the LDI crisis in the first place all the more so since it was delivered without Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) scrutiny" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1997742771839676763) 2025-12-07T18:59Z 1.2M followers, 699K engagements "There can be no security from intermittent providers of electricity the costs never seem to come down despite all the promises turbine making installation and disposal are hugely pollutant and climate risks can be mitigated in more cost-efficient ways" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1998044411855507535) 2025-12-08T14:58Z 1.2M followers, 44K engagements "If the aim is energy security/self-sufficiency why at 3pm today were we having to import XX% of our electricity needs from four different countries" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1998048113320239497) 2025-12-08T15:12Z 1.2M followers, 80.5K engagements "Im afraid to tell you I regard Scargill as the villain. His attempt to use the power of the miners to bring down a government (again) was never going to work because this time the government was ready for them. But the treating of the non-striking Notts miners once it was all over by the Tory government was a disgrace" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1998088963408429523) 2025-12-08T17:55Z 1.2M followers, 157K engagements "Your stats are wrong. According to HMRC figures in the late 1970s the richest X% had XX% of national wealth having fallen steadily from a peak of a round XX% before the First World War. By 1990 when Thatcher left power the X% share had fallen to 17/18% the lowest level recorded in the 20th century" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1998147842318479438) 2025-12-08T21:49Z 1.2M followers, 113K engagements "Meaningless since we cant store any excess to use on days when the wind is weak or close to zero. Get back to me in January when we could be in the middle of a dunkelflaute" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1998151559516164168) 2025-12-08T22:03Z 1.2M followers, 73.4K engagements "Yet another category error. Quite common among renewable zealots. Theres a world of difference in spending money to protect consumers from a sudden energy price hike caused by an overseas war a temporary intervention tho expensive and systemic subsidy of production which is what your beloved renewables have enjoyed at a cost of tens of billions from the get go. I hope that clarifies matters. And that youre spending your subsidies wisely" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1998524622648541327) 2025-12-09T22:46Z 1.2M followers, 59.9K engagements "It is interesting to note that while Labour ministers were telling us the government couldnt afford 1.5billion for pensioners winter fuel allowance it was telling a court behind closed doors that it was allocating 7billion to resettle Afghans" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1945743721649082810) 2025-07-17T07:13Z 1.2M followers, 648.3K engagements "The OBR back in March forecast just under X% growth for every financial year between now and 2029/30. Now were being briefed that it will downgrade these forecasts this week. No surprise. They were always clearly toppy. But it will mark the end of the Governments growth strategy which never really made take off anyway" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1993044861641970011) 2025-11-24T19:51Z 1.2M followers, 82.1K engagements "Time and again Keir Starmer told us if we made him PM hed kickstart growth and make UK fastest growing economy in G7 during the second half of the decade. He (and Reeves) have done the opposite. The last Tory Budget was March 2024 when the OBR forecast the economy would be X% bigger by start of 2029. Labour dismissed this as akin to stagnation. Fair enough. It was hardly stellar growth. The latest OBR forecast downgrades that growth to X% by Q1 2029. Far from kickstarting the economy hes knocked the stuffing out of it" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1993986388077769117) 2025-11-27T10:12Z 1.2M followers, 204.2K engagements "ANDREW NEIL: Time to SCRAP the OBR the UKs official economic forecaster. It is wrong too often" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1994352977172131890) 2025-11-28T10:29Z 1.2M followers, 238.7K engagements "I should add that when Reeves/Treasury briefed just before the Budget there was no need for income cuts because new forecasts showed more revenue than expected that was simply untrue. Some might say a lie. The forecasts had shown no black hole for at least six weeks" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1994532661252297148) 2025-11-28T22:23Z 1.2M followers, 110.8K engagements "Latest absurd briefing coming out of No XX tonight to save the Chancellors skin: OK so the OBR had told her she had a 4bn surplus rather than a black hole but that forecast had not factored in the cost of the winter fuel U-turn (1.25 billion) the aborted X billion of welfare cuts and the X billion price of lifting the two-child benefit cap. Collectively they would have shown the chancellor was still X billion in the red. But thats still a long way short of the XX billion black hole she and the Treasury were spinning plus these costs were all the consequence of government policy conscious" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1994923707769274808) 2025-11-30T00:17Z 1.2M followers, 275K engagements "The unravelling of the Budget continues. Cabinet ministers now complaining Starmer-Reeves never told them the OBR forecasts showed a small surplus not the huge black hole they were claiming in public. In tomorrows Mail column I lay out in detail when and how often Reeves misled us about the true state of the nations finances" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1995272594766114880) 2025-11-30T23:23Z 1.2M followers, 193.4K engagements "The Starmer-Reeves Great Deception. Like his Chancellor Starmer claims taxes had to rise because OBR forecasts showed a huge shortfall. Both Starmer and Reeves are being dishonest. Lets start with Reeves self-imposed fiscal rule: by 2029/30 tax revenues should be 10bn more than day-to-day spending. Thats her headroom. The OBR downgrade of productivity growth took 16bn off revenues by 20/30. Thats the bit the only bit the PM/Chancellor always mention to justify their tax rises. But its not the whole story. Far from it. The OBR reforecast also includes more buoyant tax revenues adding almost" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1995635991118241951) 2025-12-01T23:27Z 1.2M followers, 177K engagements "Ive never suggested X% is acceptable. So stop making things up. And your crocodile tears for the car industry dont impress. Its the energy policies you espouse that have given us sky-high industrial energy prices a far bigger cause of its decline than Brexit. But the tide is turning. The net zero zealotry is in retreat" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996346989567496289) 2025-12-03T22:33Z 1.2M followers, 65.5K engagements "Show us your workings. The figures are fantasy land. I think the economic benefits of Brexit are few and far between at least so far and given how useless governments have been since we left. But you really think wed have vastly outperformed the rest of Europe of wed stayed in When did that last happen. And why would it have happened under the Tories Just look at this chart. Unicorn time" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996727559535427902) 2025-12-04T23:45Z 1.2M followers, 76.1K engagements "Not really. Like the current returns deal we were net receivers under the Dublin protocol" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996989159148306700) 2025-12-05T17:04Z 1.2M followers, 27.6K engagements "You need a fact reality check. A dozen grade A eggs were $XXXX in 2022 $XXXX in 2024 and now (under Trump) $XXXX. So price not falling. The monthly job creation rate under Trump has been 124000 (non-farm). In 2024 it was 168000. Inflation was X% when Trump returned to the White House in January. It is still 3%. Youre welcome" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1997391173539741717) 2025-12-06T19:42Z 1.2M followers, 82.9K engagements "ANDREW NEIL: In XX years of covering politics Ive never accused ANY government of congenitally telling untruths. But Starmer has taken lying gaslighting and deceit to a new level" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1926108722998153587) 2025-05-24T02:51Z 1.2M followers, 3M engagements "Trumps inability to grasp issues of affordability affecting the MAGA base most could doom his presidency" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1997308096390074701) 2025-12-06T14:12Z 1.2M followers, 69.3K engagements "You dont get the whole picture by regurgitating green propaganda as you do. That XXX billion saving you cite for example comes from a UCL paper widely debunked as seriously flawed. It hugely inflates the supposed savings and is littered with flaws. It is not peer-reviewed and the authors backgrounds are in geography and finance not energy engineering). Independent estimates suggest net savings closer to 10billion and at most XX billion after adjustments" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1998150860765802685) 2025-12-08T22:01Z 1.2M followers, 67.6K engagements "Wind is this morning meeting less than X% of our electricity needs and a mere X% of total electricity generating wind capacity is currently being utilised simply because there is so little wind. Yes I know there are days when wind generates much more. But until ways are devised of storing at scale and economically the electricity generated on these days that is frankly irrelevant. The huge cost of alternative back up generation (eg gas) for days like this is only one of many reasons why claims that renewables generate the cheapest electricity are disingenuous. Yet politicians and the Grifters" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1959533928940703970) 2025-08-24T08:31Z 1.2M followers, 363.1K engagements "Well heres a surprise The first company backed by the state-owned Scottish National Investment Bank created by then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has gone into administration owing taxpayers millions. M Squared Lasers received XXXX million when it was launched almost five years ago. The Scottish state bank is understood to have loaned it about XX million in total. There is a risk all of that could be lost" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1960954381240512567) 2025-08-28T06:35Z 1.2M followers, 274.8K engagements "Total drivel. If you dont want to be disciplined by the bond markets dont borrow from them. But stop complaining if you do" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1992716126632243407) 2025-11-23T22:05Z 1.2M followers, 356K engagements "This is the chart that matters. It shows the appalling Truss legacy permanently higher borrowing costs. And the incompetence of Starmer-Reeves whove baked in the gap then made it worse" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1994144135792742722) 2025-11-27T20:39Z 1.2M followers, 363.8K engagements "This is getting quite serious for the Chancellor. In the run up to the Budget we were told that the OBRs downgrading of productivity would create a multi-billon black hole. The government started preparing public opinion for a manifesto-breaking rise in income tax. We were not told that rising wages and inflation meant more tax revenues to offset the productivity downgrade. But Rachel Reeves was. By October XX the OBR told Reeves that she was actually sitting on a XXX billion surplus. Yet four days later she gave a press conference in Downing Street at which she suggested that the watchdogs" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1994452614256206047) 2025-11-28T17:05Z 1.2M followers, 953.5K engagements "The conclusion from this is that the circa 30bn in tax rises were not needed to fill in a mythical black hole but to pay for Starmers expensive decisions to reverse welfare reform reintro the winter fuel allowance and scrap the two-child benefit cap. People might feel they were conned" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1994458741958222228) 2025-11-28T17:29Z 1.2M followers, 505.3K engagements "This will be a tough weekend for the Chancellor. She knew almost six weeks before the Budget from the OBR there was no black hole. Yet she and the Treasury still stoked up the idea that there was and it would take big tax rises to fill it. By Oct XX she knew from the OBR there was actually 4bn headroom rather than a black hole. Yet still on Nov 5th she commandeered breakfast media to roll the pitch for big tax rises. Even by mid-November she was telling the BBC if Labour stuck to its manifesto commitments (ie no income tax rises) shed need deep cuts to capital investment. None of what she" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1994529155996659924) 2025-11-28T22:09Z 1.2M followers, 1M engagements "The Budget is fast unravelling revealing the breathtaking serial dishonesty of the Starmer-Reeves government. In her Budget speech Reeves boasted that she was introducing a new golden era for hospitality as she outlined permanently lower tax rates for over 750000 retail hospitality and leisure properties. She boasted that the new regime would deliver the lowest tax rates since 1991 for high street pubs shops and restaurants. What she failed to mention was the new much higher assessment of the value of the buildings used to calculate business rates meaning the levy will actually increase" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1994794801791709202) 2025-11-29T15:45Z 1.2M followers, 518K engagements "Now weve learned from OBR testimony to the Commons today that it warned the Treasury about briefing out misconceptions about a black hole in the public finances before the Budget. Professor David Miles of the OBR told MPs that leaks to the press from within the Treasury wrongly suggested that the watchdogs forecasts were fluctuating wildly as Rachel Reeves laid the groundwork for tax rises. The Chancellor and her spinners repeatedly exaggerated a multi-billion-pound hole in the public finances to justify her 30bn tax raid as a crucial repair job rather than a benefits spending spree designed" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1995853956979814401) 2025-12-02T13:53Z 1.2M followers, 369.2K engagements "Actually when it comes to growth we dont know that at all. Between Q1 2010 and Q1 2020 (eve of pandemic) the UK economy grew 17.5%. Not stellar of course. But at an average of just under X% a year not lost either. And much better than the OBR forecasts Labour will manage 2025-30. Youd think a member of the Treasury select committee would know such things" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1995958254682206259) 2025-12-02T20:48Z 1.2M followers, 121.1K engagements "The answer: France X% UK XXX% Italy XXX% Germany 2.1%. UK growth hardly stellar since Brexit which I dont consider a success. But none of Europes four biggest economies has done well this decade. But these figures do undermine all these claims/studies that but for Brexit the UK economy would be 4/6/8% bigger. Add that to the actual XXX% and youd get an unprecedented UK performance v the other three. Simply not credible. The sad fact about Europe in the 2020s is that in or out of the EU its four biggest economies are not doing well" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996184629900918864) 2025-12-03T11:47Z 1.2M followers, 248.6K engagements "The Budget went down well" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996624571655717046) 2025-12-04T16:56Z 1.2M followers, 745K engagements "👇👇 👇👇 👇👇 👇👇" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996647981861458429) 2025-12-04T18:29Z 1.2M followers, 168K engagements "Your statistics are fantasy. The 90bn figure is based on a claim that but for Brexit the UK economy would be X percentage points bigger. Clearly bonkers since it means we would have way outperformed every other European economy and even America (and under the evil Tories) The 25bn is equally incredible based on a report which has already been roundly trashed. The Lib Dems will never have any economic credibility as long as they peddle this nonsense. Best to say nothing than to speak only to confirm you know nothing. Your leader needs a serious economic adviser to stop him making a fool of" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996670453763506610) 2025-12-04T19:58Z 1.2M followers, 206.6K engagements "Latest YouGov post-Budget poll: Labours general approval rating falls to minus XX (12% approve XX% disapprove). At this rate most Labour MPs and cabinet ministers will be out of a job come the next election" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1996724735615410628) 2025-12-04T23:34Z 1.2M followers, 184.1K engagements "When a political party contemplates suicide" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1997042103885406236) 2025-12-05T20:35Z 1.2M followers, 475.6K engagements "Over 1000 jobs a month are being lost in North Sea oil and gas thanks to his governments policies yet Keir Starmer doesnt have even a basic understanding of his XX% windfall profits tax. He tells STV it only kicks in above a certain level of profit. Wrong. It applies without a minimum profit level or market-based trigger. Unlike a proper windfall tax (one tied to sudden price spikes) it has no deactivation mechanism if prices or profits fall below a certain point. Pre-election Labour cited $XX a barrel as a windfall level. The current price is $XX. But the windfall tax still applies at the" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1997347514307981625) 2025-12-06T16:48Z 1.2M followers, 393.4K engagements "Well Ms Vasa natural gas prices spiked in 2022 post Russian invasion of Ukraine then plummeted through 20232024 (Biden years tho he had nothing to do with it) before rebounding sharply in late 2025 (under Trump tho hes not to blame but he cant claim price is falling) driven by cold weather (were looking at minus 8C here in NYC) rising LNG exports and seasonal heating demand. Eggs are up XX% year on year coffee XX% beef 15%. Overall the grocery basket is up almost X% year on year. On no possible definition are these prices coming down. Residential rents have stabilised year on year overall" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1997385112950833274) 2025-12-06T19:18Z 1.2M followers, 50.1K engagements "This is very unconvincing especially vague on sanctions if young out of work dont take up the offer of work. But even worse it is the economics of the madhouse to make it increasingly uneconomic to hire young folk then have the state subsidise their employment because youth jobless numbers are soaring" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1997650567959621947) 2025-12-07T12:53Z 1.2M followers, 112.2K engagements "During that quarter century youve enjoyed over XX billion in direct subsidies (plus many more billions in indirect subsidies) for offshore wind alone. Yet still you require more subsidy for further expansion. And despite repeated claims to being cheaper when all costs are included you remain very far from cheap. If you were as cheap as you claim you wouldnt need all that subsidy. Plus the cost of job creation per job is astronomical. But you have proved the most efficient mechanism since medieval times for transferring money from the poor to the rich including Crown Estates" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1998039371904078008) 2025-12-08T14:38Z 1.2M followers, 193.1K engagements "Yes. Our dash to renewables has been so successful that at 3pm today we were having to import XX% of our electricity needs from four different countries. So much for energy security/self-sufficiency" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1998047679046459519) 2025-12-08T15:11Z 1.2M followers, 131.1K engagements "Youve had XX years and billions upon billions in subsidies. And still you want more. There was a case for subsidy in the early years to get developments off the ground. But if youre still rattling your begging bowl XX years later its time to stand on your own two feet or perish" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1998050221381636567) 2025-12-08T15:21Z 1.2M followers, 286.8K engagements "I appreciate blaming Thatcher is a common default position even XX years after she left government. But suppose some UK coal mines had survived into the early 21st century. Do you really think theyd then have survived Ed Milibands near zero zealotry" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1998064170114097636) 2025-12-08T16:16Z 1.2M followers, 194.1K engagements "She inherited unemployment of 1.3m in spring 1979. By Oct 1980 it passed the 2m mark as overmanned and inefficient industries were shaken out the soared (making exports less competitive) and macroeconomic policy was unnecessarily restrictive. So a steep rise in 16months. But not 3m in one year" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1998090036760170943) 2025-12-08T17:59Z 1.2M followers, 98.6K engagements "Im surprised. I was pretty sure shed discover he was killed by Brigitte Macron" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1998449965480263852) 2025-12-09T17:49Z 1.2M followers, 141.4K engagements "ANDREW NEIL: Trump to Europe: 'You're on your own losers. Bye' The US Presidents new security strategy couldn't be more chilling for Europe" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1998578332594479582) 2025-12-10T02:19Z 1.2M followers, 144.9K engagements "Ive dealt with that in a long post at the weekend. Try to keep up. Theres a reason youve got almost no followers pumpernickel" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1998590330459820198) 2025-12-10T03:07Z 1.2M followers, 39.1K engagements "I dont remember British Rail being a national joke either though its terrible ham sandwiches which always curled up at the edge were However BR was starved of funding by all governments not least Labour. With so many competing demands on the public purse BR was always among the 1st to have its funding cut. Its a systemic problem for nationalised industries as we are about to find out again" [X Link](https://x.com/afneil/status/1998740764755435863) 2025-12-10T13:05Z 1.2M followers, 100.1K engagements
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"Well I just drove down Sauchiehall Street again tonight from Charing Cross then turned right at Pitt Street because from there on it is a building site (and the bit you can drive thru is the very definition of urban decay). But perhaps I was hallucinating along with the scores of other drivers who were taking the same route at the same time. Alternatively perhaps you should stick to pontificating about Gaza. Your comment about me knowing anything about Glasgow is just too ridiculous to merit a response"
X Link 2025-11-16T18:49Z 1.2M followers, 376.7K engagements
"New figures from the Office for National Statistics add to the grim backdrop to Wednesdays Budget. UK borrowed XXXX billion in October well above the OBRs forecast of XXXX billion and the third highest October deficit on record. Total borrowing for the financial year so far is XXXXX billion XXX% higher than the same period last year. Since even as recently as March the OBR cant correctly forecast borrowing for 2025/26 it has always struck me as bizarre to follow fiscal rules which depend on what the OBR thinks borrowing will be in 2028/29"
X Link 2025-11-21T07:49Z 1.2M followers, 179.8K engagements
"ANDREW NEIL: Rachel Reeves' gaslighting of the British people is clear"
X Link 2025-12-01T04:30Z 1.2M followers, 227K engagements
"Youre mixing up debt and deficit. The debt is close to XXX percent gdp and destined to remain there"
X Link 2025-12-01T14:28Z 1.2M followers, 87.1K engagements
"And so it is. Her previous buffer was too small. But building up the buffer is very different from saying you have a black hole to fill when in fact you have a 4bn surplus downpayment on the buffer"
X Link 2025-12-01T18:02Z 1.2M followers, 104.4K engagements
"Hell will will freeze over first. First its Prof Miles not Milne. Second he said it was right for Reeves to say we were in a financially challenging position. Nobody denies that. But she misled us all on the nature and the scale of the challenge. The scale was less than she implied and the nature was not the factors she tried to blame but the result of her own policy decisions"
X Link 2025-12-02T22:41Z 1.2M followers, 148.4K engagements
"What do think Ive been doing day in day out"
X Link 2025-12-04T14:48Z 1.2M followers, 38.3K engagements
"We were a net taker of migrants under the Dublin Protocol. Numpty"
X Link 2025-12-05T10:38Z 1.2M followers, 75.5K engagements
"You have no idea how many came by lorry and other modes of transport undetected. The boat people are met by Border Force either in the Channel or on the beach. And counted. Those who came by lorry etc often simply disappeared into various communities uncounted and undetected"
X Link 2025-12-05T10:40Z 1.2M followers, 55.6K engagements
"That is simply untrue. Under the Dublin Protocol rejection by one EU country did NOT constitute an EU-wide rejection. Why do you peddle such easily disproved lies"
X Link 2025-12-05T16:57Z 1.2M followers, 64.2K engagements
"This World Cup show from the Kennedy Centre in Washington is dire. Can we just have the draw please"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:29Z 1.2M followers, 117.6K engagements
"God theyve now invented a FIFA peace prize. What have we done to deserve this"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:36Z 1.2M followers, 145.9K engagements
"Cant watch it anymore. Off for a stiff drink"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:42Z 1.2M followers, 67.9K engagements
"Get back to me when you admit you were wrong in your previous post. Until you do I will regard you as unreliable misleading tending to untruths"
X Link 2025-12-05T19:46Z 1.2M followers, 39.4K engagements
"Really. So how many did we return under the Dublin Convention And how many were we forced to take back under it Whats the net figure. Theres a bizarre obsession on Twitter with the Dublin Convention as if it was in any way of importance in dealing with illegal immigration. Even worse this Twitter obsession constantly promulgates an enhanced version of the Convention that never existed. Its almost like a concerted campaign to mislead"
X Link 2025-12-05T19:51Z 1.2M followers, 56.9K engagements
"Keir Starmer claims Nigel Farage is to blame for the boat people because Brexit took us out of the Dublin Convention (in 2020) which allowed us to return asylum seekers to the EU countries from whence they came. The PM is either ignorant of the facts or knowingly lying. Neither is a good look. The Dublin Convention was a two-way street for asylum seekers. Yes we could try to return them. But others could also be returned to us. As a result the Dublin Agreement actually made us a net recipient of asylum seekers. Take 2018. We made 5500 requests for asylum seekers to be returned. Only 209"
X Link 2025-10-01T08:37Z 1.2M followers, 1.1M engagements
"Five years ago Jamie Dimon boss of JP Morgan Chase worlds biggest bank lamented Brexit and said he was looking to move the banks European operations out of London. This week hes announced a new 3bn office tower in Canary Wharf for 12000 staff"
X Link 2025-11-28T03:18Z 1.2M followers, 331.2K engagements
"OK. Heres the cumulative real GDP growth for Europes four biggest economies since Q1 2020: X% XXX% XXX% 2.1%. Which one left the EU"
X Link 2025-12-03T11:05Z 1.2M followers, 542.6K engagements
"Politicians now gaslight us unconstrained. This one says not a single asylum seeker/illegal immigrant came by boat in 2017. And was applauded for it. But thats because they were pouring in by the thousands hidden in lorries and other transport. It was only when improved technology made that very difficult that they switched to boats. Its all well documented. But they still think they can lie with impunity"
X Link 2025-12-04T23:54Z 1.2M followers, 417.6K engagements
"Youre quite right. Hes even managed to end two wars that didnt even exist and of course we all know Ukraine Congo and Gaza are now as peaceful as Paisley on a very wet and cold Sunday"
X Link 2025-12-06T18:58Z 1.2M followers, 76.2K engagements
"Tip to the wise: keep an eye on Japanese bond yields next week (and after). The 10-years have already started to spike and could easily go higher which would be potentially disruptive for Britains gilt yields"
X Link 2025-12-06T20:10Z 1.2M followers, 89.3K engagements
"I promised Id get back to you. Sorry for the delay. And for the length: To argue the Bank of England bears primary responsibility for the gilt yield spike and sterling collapse during your 49-day premiership requires selective interpretation and revisionist history. Liability-driven investments (LDIs) in pension funds did indeed amplify market volatility but your mini-budgets unfunded XX billion tax cuts (September XX 2022) was the decisive trigger which provoked the LDI crisis in the first place all the more so since it was delivered without Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) scrutiny"
X Link 2025-12-07T18:59Z 1.2M followers, 699K engagements
"There can be no security from intermittent providers of electricity the costs never seem to come down despite all the promises turbine making installation and disposal are hugely pollutant and climate risks can be mitigated in more cost-efficient ways"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:58Z 1.2M followers, 44K engagements
"If the aim is energy security/self-sufficiency why at 3pm today were we having to import XX% of our electricity needs from four different countries"
X Link 2025-12-08T15:12Z 1.2M followers, 80.5K engagements
"Im afraid to tell you I regard Scargill as the villain. His attempt to use the power of the miners to bring down a government (again) was never going to work because this time the government was ready for them. But the treating of the non-striking Notts miners once it was all over by the Tory government was a disgrace"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:55Z 1.2M followers, 157K engagements
"Your stats are wrong. According to HMRC figures in the late 1970s the richest X% had XX% of national wealth having fallen steadily from a peak of a round XX% before the First World War. By 1990 when Thatcher left power the X% share had fallen to 17/18% the lowest level recorded in the 20th century"
X Link 2025-12-08T21:49Z 1.2M followers, 113K engagements
"Meaningless since we cant store any excess to use on days when the wind is weak or close to zero. Get back to me in January when we could be in the middle of a dunkelflaute"
X Link 2025-12-08T22:03Z 1.2M followers, 73.4K engagements
"Yet another category error. Quite common among renewable zealots. Theres a world of difference in spending money to protect consumers from a sudden energy price hike caused by an overseas war a temporary intervention tho expensive and systemic subsidy of production which is what your beloved renewables have enjoyed at a cost of tens of billions from the get go. I hope that clarifies matters. And that youre spending your subsidies wisely"
X Link 2025-12-09T22:46Z 1.2M followers, 59.9K engagements
"It is interesting to note that while Labour ministers were telling us the government couldnt afford 1.5billion for pensioners winter fuel allowance it was telling a court behind closed doors that it was allocating 7billion to resettle Afghans"
X Link 2025-07-17T07:13Z 1.2M followers, 648.3K engagements
"The OBR back in March forecast just under X% growth for every financial year between now and 2029/30. Now were being briefed that it will downgrade these forecasts this week. No surprise. They were always clearly toppy. But it will mark the end of the Governments growth strategy which never really made take off anyway"
X Link 2025-11-24T19:51Z 1.2M followers, 82.1K engagements
"Time and again Keir Starmer told us if we made him PM hed kickstart growth and make UK fastest growing economy in G7 during the second half of the decade. He (and Reeves) have done the opposite. The last Tory Budget was March 2024 when the OBR forecast the economy would be X% bigger by start of 2029. Labour dismissed this as akin to stagnation. Fair enough. It was hardly stellar growth. The latest OBR forecast downgrades that growth to X% by Q1 2029. Far from kickstarting the economy hes knocked the stuffing out of it"
X Link 2025-11-27T10:12Z 1.2M followers, 204.2K engagements
"ANDREW NEIL: Time to SCRAP the OBR the UKs official economic forecaster. It is wrong too often"
X Link 2025-11-28T10:29Z 1.2M followers, 238.7K engagements
"I should add that when Reeves/Treasury briefed just before the Budget there was no need for income cuts because new forecasts showed more revenue than expected that was simply untrue. Some might say a lie. The forecasts had shown no black hole for at least six weeks"
X Link 2025-11-28T22:23Z 1.2M followers, 110.8K engagements
"Latest absurd briefing coming out of No XX tonight to save the Chancellors skin: OK so the OBR had told her she had a 4bn surplus rather than a black hole but that forecast had not factored in the cost of the winter fuel U-turn (1.25 billion) the aborted X billion of welfare cuts and the X billion price of lifting the two-child benefit cap. Collectively they would have shown the chancellor was still X billion in the red. But thats still a long way short of the XX billion black hole she and the Treasury were spinning plus these costs were all the consequence of government policy conscious"
X Link 2025-11-30T00:17Z 1.2M followers, 275K engagements
"The unravelling of the Budget continues. Cabinet ministers now complaining Starmer-Reeves never told them the OBR forecasts showed a small surplus not the huge black hole they were claiming in public. In tomorrows Mail column I lay out in detail when and how often Reeves misled us about the true state of the nations finances"
X Link 2025-11-30T23:23Z 1.2M followers, 193.4K engagements
"The Starmer-Reeves Great Deception. Like his Chancellor Starmer claims taxes had to rise because OBR forecasts showed a huge shortfall. Both Starmer and Reeves are being dishonest. Lets start with Reeves self-imposed fiscal rule: by 2029/30 tax revenues should be 10bn more than day-to-day spending. Thats her headroom. The OBR downgrade of productivity growth took 16bn off revenues by 20/30. Thats the bit the only bit the PM/Chancellor always mention to justify their tax rises. But its not the whole story. Far from it. The OBR reforecast also includes more buoyant tax revenues adding almost"
X Link 2025-12-01T23:27Z 1.2M followers, 177K engagements
"Ive never suggested X% is acceptable. So stop making things up. And your crocodile tears for the car industry dont impress. Its the energy policies you espouse that have given us sky-high industrial energy prices a far bigger cause of its decline than Brexit. But the tide is turning. The net zero zealotry is in retreat"
X Link 2025-12-03T22:33Z 1.2M followers, 65.5K engagements
"Show us your workings. The figures are fantasy land. I think the economic benefits of Brexit are few and far between at least so far and given how useless governments have been since we left. But you really think wed have vastly outperformed the rest of Europe of wed stayed in When did that last happen. And why would it have happened under the Tories Just look at this chart. Unicorn time"
X Link 2025-12-04T23:45Z 1.2M followers, 76.1K engagements
"Not really. Like the current returns deal we were net receivers under the Dublin protocol"
X Link 2025-12-05T17:04Z 1.2M followers, 27.6K engagements
"You need a fact reality check. A dozen grade A eggs were $XXXX in 2022 $XXXX in 2024 and now (under Trump) $XXXX. So price not falling. The monthly job creation rate under Trump has been 124000 (non-farm). In 2024 it was 168000. Inflation was X% when Trump returned to the White House in January. It is still 3%. Youre welcome"
X Link 2025-12-06T19:42Z 1.2M followers, 82.9K engagements
"ANDREW NEIL: In XX years of covering politics Ive never accused ANY government of congenitally telling untruths. But Starmer has taken lying gaslighting and deceit to a new level"
X Link 2025-05-24T02:51Z 1.2M followers, 3M engagements
"Trumps inability to grasp issues of affordability affecting the MAGA base most could doom his presidency"
X Link 2025-12-06T14:12Z 1.2M followers, 69.3K engagements
"You dont get the whole picture by regurgitating green propaganda as you do. That XXX billion saving you cite for example comes from a UCL paper widely debunked as seriously flawed. It hugely inflates the supposed savings and is littered with flaws. It is not peer-reviewed and the authors backgrounds are in geography and finance not energy engineering). Independent estimates suggest net savings closer to 10billion and at most XX billion after adjustments"
X Link 2025-12-08T22:01Z 1.2M followers, 67.6K engagements
"Wind is this morning meeting less than X% of our electricity needs and a mere X% of total electricity generating wind capacity is currently being utilised simply because there is so little wind. Yes I know there are days when wind generates much more. But until ways are devised of storing at scale and economically the electricity generated on these days that is frankly irrelevant. The huge cost of alternative back up generation (eg gas) for days like this is only one of many reasons why claims that renewables generate the cheapest electricity are disingenuous. Yet politicians and the Grifters"
X Link 2025-08-24T08:31Z 1.2M followers, 363.1K engagements
"Well heres a surprise The first company backed by the state-owned Scottish National Investment Bank created by then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has gone into administration owing taxpayers millions. M Squared Lasers received XXXX million when it was launched almost five years ago. The Scottish state bank is understood to have loaned it about XX million in total. There is a risk all of that could be lost"
X Link 2025-08-28T06:35Z 1.2M followers, 274.8K engagements
"Total drivel. If you dont want to be disciplined by the bond markets dont borrow from them. But stop complaining if you do"
X Link 2025-11-23T22:05Z 1.2M followers, 356K engagements
"This is the chart that matters. It shows the appalling Truss legacy permanently higher borrowing costs. And the incompetence of Starmer-Reeves whove baked in the gap then made it worse"
X Link 2025-11-27T20:39Z 1.2M followers, 363.8K engagements
"This is getting quite serious for the Chancellor. In the run up to the Budget we were told that the OBRs downgrading of productivity would create a multi-billon black hole. The government started preparing public opinion for a manifesto-breaking rise in income tax. We were not told that rising wages and inflation meant more tax revenues to offset the productivity downgrade. But Rachel Reeves was. By October XX the OBR told Reeves that she was actually sitting on a XXX billion surplus. Yet four days later she gave a press conference in Downing Street at which she suggested that the watchdogs"
X Link 2025-11-28T17:05Z 1.2M followers, 953.5K engagements
"The conclusion from this is that the circa 30bn in tax rises were not needed to fill in a mythical black hole but to pay for Starmers expensive decisions to reverse welfare reform reintro the winter fuel allowance and scrap the two-child benefit cap. People might feel they were conned"
X Link 2025-11-28T17:29Z 1.2M followers, 505.3K engagements
"This will be a tough weekend for the Chancellor. She knew almost six weeks before the Budget from the OBR there was no black hole. Yet she and the Treasury still stoked up the idea that there was and it would take big tax rises to fill it. By Oct XX she knew from the OBR there was actually 4bn headroom rather than a black hole. Yet still on Nov 5th she commandeered breakfast media to roll the pitch for big tax rises. Even by mid-November she was telling the BBC if Labour stuck to its manifesto commitments (ie no income tax rises) shed need deep cuts to capital investment. None of what she"
X Link 2025-11-28T22:09Z 1.2M followers, 1M engagements
"The Budget is fast unravelling revealing the breathtaking serial dishonesty of the Starmer-Reeves government. In her Budget speech Reeves boasted that she was introducing a new golden era for hospitality as she outlined permanently lower tax rates for over 750000 retail hospitality and leisure properties. She boasted that the new regime would deliver the lowest tax rates since 1991 for high street pubs shops and restaurants. What she failed to mention was the new much higher assessment of the value of the buildings used to calculate business rates meaning the levy will actually increase"
X Link 2025-11-29T15:45Z 1.2M followers, 518K engagements
"Now weve learned from OBR testimony to the Commons today that it warned the Treasury about briefing out misconceptions about a black hole in the public finances before the Budget. Professor David Miles of the OBR told MPs that leaks to the press from within the Treasury wrongly suggested that the watchdogs forecasts were fluctuating wildly as Rachel Reeves laid the groundwork for tax rises. The Chancellor and her spinners repeatedly exaggerated a multi-billion-pound hole in the public finances to justify her 30bn tax raid as a crucial repair job rather than a benefits spending spree designed"
X Link 2025-12-02T13:53Z 1.2M followers, 369.2K engagements
"Actually when it comes to growth we dont know that at all. Between Q1 2010 and Q1 2020 (eve of pandemic) the UK economy grew 17.5%. Not stellar of course. But at an average of just under X% a year not lost either. And much better than the OBR forecasts Labour will manage 2025-30. Youd think a member of the Treasury select committee would know such things"
X Link 2025-12-02T20:48Z 1.2M followers, 121.1K engagements
"The answer: France X% UK XXX% Italy XXX% Germany 2.1%. UK growth hardly stellar since Brexit which I dont consider a success. But none of Europes four biggest economies has done well this decade. But these figures do undermine all these claims/studies that but for Brexit the UK economy would be 4/6/8% bigger. Add that to the actual XXX% and youd get an unprecedented UK performance v the other three. Simply not credible. The sad fact about Europe in the 2020s is that in or out of the EU its four biggest economies are not doing well"
X Link 2025-12-03T11:47Z 1.2M followers, 248.6K engagements
"The Budget went down well"
X Link 2025-12-04T16:56Z 1.2M followers, 745K engagements
"👇👇 👇👇 👇👇 👇👇"
X Link 2025-12-04T18:29Z 1.2M followers, 168K engagements
"Your statistics are fantasy. The 90bn figure is based on a claim that but for Brexit the UK economy would be X percentage points bigger. Clearly bonkers since it means we would have way outperformed every other European economy and even America (and under the evil Tories) The 25bn is equally incredible based on a report which has already been roundly trashed. The Lib Dems will never have any economic credibility as long as they peddle this nonsense. Best to say nothing than to speak only to confirm you know nothing. Your leader needs a serious economic adviser to stop him making a fool of"
X Link 2025-12-04T19:58Z 1.2M followers, 206.6K engagements
"Latest YouGov post-Budget poll: Labours general approval rating falls to minus XX (12% approve XX% disapprove). At this rate most Labour MPs and cabinet ministers will be out of a job come the next election"
X Link 2025-12-04T23:34Z 1.2M followers, 184.1K engagements
"When a political party contemplates suicide"
X Link 2025-12-05T20:35Z 1.2M followers, 475.6K engagements
"Over 1000 jobs a month are being lost in North Sea oil and gas thanks to his governments policies yet Keir Starmer doesnt have even a basic understanding of his XX% windfall profits tax. He tells STV it only kicks in above a certain level of profit. Wrong. It applies without a minimum profit level or market-based trigger. Unlike a proper windfall tax (one tied to sudden price spikes) it has no deactivation mechanism if prices or profits fall below a certain point. Pre-election Labour cited $XX a barrel as a windfall level. The current price is $XX. But the windfall tax still applies at the"
X Link 2025-12-06T16:48Z 1.2M followers, 393.4K engagements
"Well Ms Vasa natural gas prices spiked in 2022 post Russian invasion of Ukraine then plummeted through 20232024 (Biden years tho he had nothing to do with it) before rebounding sharply in late 2025 (under Trump tho hes not to blame but he cant claim price is falling) driven by cold weather (were looking at minus 8C here in NYC) rising LNG exports and seasonal heating demand. Eggs are up XX% year on year coffee XX% beef 15%. Overall the grocery basket is up almost X% year on year. On no possible definition are these prices coming down. Residential rents have stabilised year on year overall"
X Link 2025-12-06T19:18Z 1.2M followers, 50.1K engagements
"This is very unconvincing especially vague on sanctions if young out of work dont take up the offer of work. But even worse it is the economics of the madhouse to make it increasingly uneconomic to hire young folk then have the state subsidise their employment because youth jobless numbers are soaring"
X Link 2025-12-07T12:53Z 1.2M followers, 112.2K engagements
"During that quarter century youve enjoyed over XX billion in direct subsidies (plus many more billions in indirect subsidies) for offshore wind alone. Yet still you require more subsidy for further expansion. And despite repeated claims to being cheaper when all costs are included you remain very far from cheap. If you were as cheap as you claim you wouldnt need all that subsidy. Plus the cost of job creation per job is astronomical. But you have proved the most efficient mechanism since medieval times for transferring money from the poor to the rich including Crown Estates"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:38Z 1.2M followers, 193.1K engagements
"Yes. Our dash to renewables has been so successful that at 3pm today we were having to import XX% of our electricity needs from four different countries. So much for energy security/self-sufficiency"
X Link 2025-12-08T15:11Z 1.2M followers, 131.1K engagements
"Youve had XX years and billions upon billions in subsidies. And still you want more. There was a case for subsidy in the early years to get developments off the ground. But if youre still rattling your begging bowl XX years later its time to stand on your own two feet or perish"
X Link 2025-12-08T15:21Z 1.2M followers, 286.8K engagements
"I appreciate blaming Thatcher is a common default position even XX years after she left government. But suppose some UK coal mines had survived into the early 21st century. Do you really think theyd then have survived Ed Milibands near zero zealotry"
X Link 2025-12-08T16:16Z 1.2M followers, 194.1K engagements
"She inherited unemployment of 1.3m in spring 1979. By Oct 1980 it passed the 2m mark as overmanned and inefficient industries were shaken out the soared (making exports less competitive) and macroeconomic policy was unnecessarily restrictive. So a steep rise in 16months. But not 3m in one year"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:59Z 1.2M followers, 98.6K engagements
"Im surprised. I was pretty sure shed discover he was killed by Brigitte Macron"
X Link 2025-12-09T17:49Z 1.2M followers, 141.4K engagements
"ANDREW NEIL: Trump to Europe: 'You're on your own losers. Bye' The US Presidents new security strategy couldn't be more chilling for Europe"
X Link 2025-12-10T02:19Z 1.2M followers, 144.9K engagements
"Ive dealt with that in a long post at the weekend. Try to keep up. Theres a reason youve got almost no followers pumpernickel"
X Link 2025-12-10T03:07Z 1.2M followers, 39.1K engagements
"I dont remember British Rail being a national joke either though its terrible ham sandwiches which always curled up at the edge were However BR was starved of funding by all governments not least Labour. With so many competing demands on the public purse BR was always among the 1st to have its funding cut. Its a systemic problem for nationalised industries as we are about to find out again"
X Link 2025-12-10T13:05Z 1.2M followers, 100.1K engagements