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Fuel Duty has been frozen, and therefore cut, for 15 years in the U.K, turbocharging transport emissions and starving local councils of grant funding to repair our crumbling roads.

It’s been a disaster and it’s beyond embarrassing that any mainstream party would campaign to maintain the freeze.

03.03.2026 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Approximately 95% of a modern solar panel can be recycled, with some advanced processes achieving recovery rates as high as 99%.

03.03.2026 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Then why did you just bankroll Israel to kill 73,000 Gazans? Why do you keep threatening to invade Canada and Greenland? Why did you re-elect a coup leader and sex offender?

Respectfully, they are not the actions of β€˜the good guys’.

03.03.2026 13:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

100% thisβ€¦πŸ‘†

03.03.2026 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was never about the technology. It was always about who owns it. Renewables for the grid = socialism. Renewables for Musk's data centers = innovation. Same panels. Different owners. That's the whole story.

03.03.2026 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I know, back then most of us still thought of America as, at least to some extent, the good guys.

03.03.2026 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

75% of your fellow American citizens oppose Operation Epic Epstein Cover Up.

03.03.2026 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I have some terrible news for you…

03.03.2026 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You don’t back the U.K.

We gave 638 lives coming to your aid in Iraq and Afghanistan only for your sleepy, diaper-wearing six-time Vietnam draft dodger President to constantly ridicule us and rubbish their memory.

03.03.2026 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

To be clear, I am 100% committed to not spending a penny of British taxpayers’ money or committing a single British soldier to a billionaire dictators’ war in the Middle East, ESPECIALLY when the lot of them are cosy with the fascist Russian leadership that actually threatens us.

03.03.2026 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

The most minimal support possibly short of a massive diplomatic spat.

03.03.2026 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Iran is a murderous dictatorship, a Russian proxy, & terrorism sponsor.

It is currently being bombed at the request of Israel, which just killed 73,000 Gazans, and Saudi Arabia, a murderous dictatorship that produced 15 of 19 9/11 bombers.

But Britain is the bad guy for refusing to get involved? πŸ€”

03.03.2026 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 213    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 7

They were claiming solar was an uneconomical con until the tech bros told them to think something else.

03.03.2026 10:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it would be fair to say that I have been justifiably critical of Keir Starmer many times, but the moral courage he has shown to stand up to the U.S deserves praise.

β€œWe don’t believe in regime change from the skies” is a blistering riposte to Trump.

03.03.2026 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 53    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Remember, when we wanted more renewable energy to reduce fossil fuels and tackle the climate crisis, we were sneered at and dismissed as β€˜fantasists’.

Yet, when tech billionaires want solar to power the AI data centres stealing people’s jobs, the right can’t get enough of it.

03.03.2026 09:33 β€” πŸ‘ 483    πŸ” 151    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 13
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Three days ago, Trump claimed the war it started with Iran to cover up the Epstein Files would take β€˜four weeks; maybe less’.

Yesterday, it was β€˜four to five weeks, but we’re ready for longer’.

Today, Netanyahu says β€˜it won’t take years’.

What happened to β€˜no more wars’ MAGA?

03.03.2026 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4
Catalogue cover for Doniselli, makers of triporteur-type cargo trikes, featuring an illustration of a triporteur rider riding through a big letter D, with a row of normal bicycles following behind. In the background there's the Milan cathedral and some other buildings.

Catalogue cover for Doniselli, makers of triporteur-type cargo trikes, featuring an illustration of a triporteur rider riding through a big letter D, with a row of normal bicycles following behind. In the background there's the Milan cathedral and some other buildings.

Doniselli cargo trike catalog
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02.03.2026 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

100%

02.03.2026 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You think it’s more odd than the the son of an Iranian dictator overthrown for being a murderous despot thinks Europe’s young men should be liberating Iran for him to swan back into? Okay.

02.03.2026 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We’re now being lectured on the morality of spending our money and sending our young men to die β€˜liberating’ Iranians by the β€œShah of Iran”, a man hiding in America for 48 years after his father massacred 3,000 Iranian protesters in Tehran on β€˜Black Friday’, 1978.

No!

02.03.2026 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

1/ He wasn’t a child; he was a trainee pilot in the Imperial Iranian Airforce.

2/ He’s had 48 years to put his life on the line to liberate the people whose family members his father butchered, so he shouldn’t be expecting 20 year-old Europeans to do his job for him.

02.03.2026 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We’re now being lectured on the morality of spending our money and sending our young men to die β€˜liberating’ Iranians by the β€œShah of Iran”, a man hiding in America for 48 years after his father massacred 3,000 Iranian protesters in Tehran on β€˜Black Friday’, 1978.

No!

02.03.2026 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0
Guardian headline: Starmer faces greater quandary over 'special relationship' after Iran attack

Guardian headline: Starmer faces greater quandary over 'special relationship' after Iran attack

1/5 If UK assets are being used strictly for defensive purposes to protect lives and prevent missile attacks, that is one thing.

But allowing British bases to be used for what looks increasingly like a war of aggression led by President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu is another matter entirely.

02.03.2026 11:09 β€” πŸ‘ 89    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 4
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Eisenhower

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BREAKING 'No indication' any nuclear installations in Iran damaged or hit, says IAEA

02.03.2026 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6

Not one penny of British taxpayers’ money to repatriate the fake patriot tax dodging crooks, influencers, faded sportsmen, and robber barons hiding in Dubai.

Enjoy your modern slavery-built infinity pools and air raid sirens.

01.03.2026 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 106    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

What point do you think you’re making here?

01.03.2026 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"That's the way it is” say President Trump, a six-time Vietnam draft dodger…

01.03.2026 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Focus on rapid decarbonisation, which would starve the war pigs of both funds and motivation.

What do you think links Nigeria, Venezuela, and Iran?

01.03.2026 20:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They’ve made themselves stateless. Give them a UAE passport.

01.03.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0