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Michael Wheller retweeted
#AbdulElSayed is not wasting any time. He is going ahead with his Islamist agenda for the US.
He launches “Habibi” PAC —-A Political Action Committee (PAC) is an organisation set up to raise and spend money to influence politics — particularly elections and political decisions.
A cynical use of the term “Habibi”, which means my love in Arabic, but actually he means “my cult”.
#midterms
#Michigan
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Michael Wheller retweeted
And wind is forecast to deliver <1GW all day tomorrow. Well below NESO's derated capacity of about 5.5GW, not just for a few minutes, but ALL DAY!
Michael Wheller retweeted
We're around the evening peak with demandat 38GW. No solar and our 33GW wind fleet is producing <1GW. The only silver lining is we won't be paying much in the way of generation subsidies. But we're still paying for the underutilised grid connections.
Michael Wheller retweeted
A bunch of Labour MPs have summoned the head of train network c2c to Westminster to complain about the fact that delays have considerably worsened since Labour nationalised the service.
Before it was nationalised 94% of c2c trains arrived within five minutes of the scheduled time. The latest available data from this August shows this had dropped to just under 71.5%.
Other Labour MPs are complaining about their own local nationalised train service. “It is unacceptable that in rural areas like ours, we can’t rely on train services being on time or in some cases, even running at all,” said Terry Jermy, the Labour MP for South West Norfolk, of nationalised Greater Thameslink Railway.
Labour MPs should have realised that nationalisation always leads to worse service and higher taxpayer costs before they voted for it.
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Michael Wheller retweeted
It was a pleasure to join @Jacob_Rees_Mogg last week to discuss the week in politics.
Yes, polls look better for Conservatives but there is a long way to go and we will not be taking our foot off the pedal in addressing the profound concerns voters have on things like the economy and immigration.
Insofar as there are any lessons for the UK in what happened in the US last week, it might be that the sledgehammer approach to those two vital issues may not be the one that wields best results. That does not make the issues less pressing though, which is why Kemi is asking us as a team to draw up plans that are robust, implementable and lasting.
Michael Wheller retweeted
What about the crazy high balancing costs?
Britain would be better off if you spent less time pushing green propaganda and more time running the grid properly
Care to explain what you were up to on Friday 6 November?
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Michael Wheller retweeted
There's no economic rationale for intermittent wind power which is why it's heavily subsidised. Wind also doesn't pay for its externalities in the shape of backup, extra balancing costs and the huge cost of extra, poorly utilised grid transmission lines. Economic basket case.
Michael Wheller retweeted
It has become clear over the past week, that the terms of the EU Reset are more one-sided than we could have believed possible.
Any MP agreeing to those terms has either not read them, is too blinded by the pro-EU Stockholm Syndrome to notice, or is working for a foreign power.
Michael Wheller retweeted
Illegal migration
Point 60 is more comedy gold. Apparently, we adopted the European Commission’s Channel Action Plan in June 2026, which is apparently providing ‘a structured EU-level framework for cooperation to tackle irregular migration and the criminal networks facilitating it, as well as to strengthen border management.’
The EU claims that its Action Plan is ‘coordinating action against migrant smuggling’. However, anyone who has watched footage of French Police standing on Calais beaches while enormous rubber dinghies are loaded with illegal migrants, which the French navy then escorts to the UK’s maritime border, may not have realised that this is a coordinated action against migrant smuggling.
Point 60 also explains that the UK is ‘making a financial contribution’ to the EU’s ‘coordinated action’ to reflect our ‘shared responsibility for addressing these challenges’.
Again, the Document doesn’t mention how large this financial contribution is, but we can see from the daily dinghy arrivals in the UK that the EU is either totally inept or it is actually coordinating the movement of illegal migrants into the UK, rather than trying to stop it. Or the EU is simply pocketing the money and letting the French Police do what they like. Also a possibility.
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Michael Wheller retweeted
The document also pledges its commitment to the International Criminal Court in Point 15, but not when EU criminals are concerned; in Point 51, the UK has had to agree to disobey its own Sentencing Act 2026 by not deporting EU criminals, even though the point of the Sentencing Act was to reduce the pressure on UK prison capacity.
So, the UK's Sentencing Act 2026 will only apply to criminals from non-EU countries. EU criminals will still take up UK prison places, and UK taxpayers will still be paying for their incarceration, while new criminals will be given noncustodial sentences because we don’t have enough prison places, but that’s OK because we can’t possibly upset the EU.
Michael Wheller retweeted
It is a mystery why only the UK side of the North Sea is a declining basin while the Norwegians keep finding more and more oil and gas on their side of the North Sea.
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Could this possibly be caused by our ban on new exploration?
Michael Wheller retweeted
Dale is right to raise the issue of soaring transmission costs. But instead of fiddling with the rate of return to NG, we should be tackling the root of the problem: connecting remote renewables. Stop the renewables and grid expansion isn't required and NG won't spend.
National Grid debt is safe, as they say, safe as houses in fact.
A monopoly supplier allowed by regulators to add the costs of their debts to customer bills, while the debt itself builds an ever-bigger balance sheet and company value - is obscene. The 9.8% return on equity is wrong for such a safe investment - this is infrastructure and the rates of return for that kind of asset are normally half what OFGEM are allowing. If we adjust the rate of return to market norms - we could significantly reduce levels of debt required and the costs that get loaded onto our bills. OFGEM are not regulating energy companies properly nor are OFWAT - we have a systemic fault in the regulation of privately owned monopoly suppliers of vital services.
We need to take proper control of these industries. In the interests of people, business and the wider economy.
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Michael Wheller retweeted
“MAGA, as an electoral proposition, has been rejected. It took a while for people to see its full implications: the cultism, the loss of national honor, the enrichment of the presidential entourage, the coarsening of public life, the chaos. Still, they got there in the end. What was it Churchill was supposed to have said about counting on Americans to do the right thing?”
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Michael Wheller retweeted
How ridiculous
There's plenty more oil and gas in the North Sea
Preferring imports that have a higher carbon footprint to using our own hydrocarbons is idiotic
"Climate credibility" is not created by causing extra pollution
Michael Wheller retweeted
The EU wants all EU students to be able to study at UK universities for subsidised fees. So who will be paying for this?
The EU Reset also doesn't mention any limit on how many EU youths can come to the UK for 3 years under the EU's Youth Experience Scheme.
What could possibly go wrong?
Michael Wheller retweeted
On Friday 6 November, Britain’s electricity system operator spent consumers’ money like a gold digger who just got her hands on a billionaire’s Amex, paying very high prices for additional electricity imports, with interconnector auctions recording clearing prices above £2,500 /MWh
@neso_energy also accepted offers in the Balancing Mechanism at prices approaching £1,000 /MWh.
So why was NESO buying so much expensive electricity when there was apparently plenty of domestic generating capacity available?
My theory - on a low wind day it couldn't afford huge forecasting errors so it bought extra electricity on imports, turned gas generators up to SEL giving quick access to MEL if needed and turned down batteries to balance the market and preserve charge just in case
@Miatsf @mgshanks @AndrewBowie_MP @ClaireCoutinho @HarrietCross_MP @ColinMoynihanUK @drlukeevans @Ashley7Fox @cmackinlay @TiceRichard @mattwridley @DavidGHFrost @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @afneil @CitySamuel @mattotele @Jonathan__Leake @ofgem @energygovuk
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Michael Wheller retweeted
Yay, let's spend £trillions more on 150X more unreliable wind turbines and still not have a reliable grid. These people shouldn't be allowed out without adult supervision.
You're being very negative - if wind is able to supply only 4% of electricity, we obviously need 25x more wind turbines.
And when the rest of energy demand (transport, heating) has been converted to electricity, we'll just need ~150x as many turbines as we currently have.
OC, if the wind drops still further, there might be a problem...
Michael Wheller retweeted
Another Government pensions power grab is on the way.
Not content with trying (and failing) to dictate how your pension savings are invested…
Now Ministers want to tell you what to do with your pension when you retire. I’ve written about it here ⬇️
The government’s big pension push is fraught with danger thetimes.com/money/pensions/…
Michael Wheller retweeted
Our thanks to Scotland's blue light heroes for dealing with Bonfire Night thugs.
And thanks to officers from 18 other British forces who lent their support 🏴🏴🏴
The Conservatives would double sentences for those who attack emergency workers.
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Seven people arrested across Scotland amid Bonfire Night disorder.
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