Andrew Neil
@afneil
Columnist for Daily Mail UK and MailOnline USA. @TimesRadio anchor. Former Chairman of The Spectator, Editor Sunday Times, BBC TV anchor, Chairman Sky TV
Points curiously omitted from the official government statement: *I will be pushing up the daisies long before Sizewell C is generating electricity for the national grid. *Mr E Miliband will be in his dotage. *The estimated cost of nearly £40billion is twice what it was only…
We’re getting Britain building. Sizewell C has officially been given the green light, with government the main shareholder. Helping deliver clean, homegrown power to millions of homes, supporting thousands of jobs and unlocking growth across the country.
Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 29% (+6) LAB: 23% (-3) CON: 17% (-7) LDM: 14% (=) GRN: 9% (+2) Via @JLPartnersPolls, 17-18 Jul. Changes w/ 6-9 Mar (!).
I’ll try not to make a habit of it.
Thanks @afneil for the recommendation about #ToxicTown. Such an amazing show that I ended up watching it all the way through yesterday evening. You are occasionally right about something!!
Really?! Give me examples or retract. I suspect you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Yet you defended Tory’s economic policies you hypocrite.
That was not my point at all, you sad sack of an excuse for a sentient human. By the way age is not an argument. It’s just a prejudice. So now you’re a blocked sad sack of an excuse.
What was your point again? Something about you don't care about climate change because you'll be dead, wasn't it? Something like that. You're an old man, plant a fucking tree or something
About $20 billion for 5,700 MW.
Hi @grok How many Mw, and how much $?
Worth pointing out that since 2010 South Korea has built four nuclear reactors at a single plant in the UAE, now supplying 25% of the Gulf state’s electricity needs (much of it for desalination). The plan now is to add two more reactors at existing plant and a new plant with…
Points curiously omitted from the official government statement: *I will be pushing up the daisies long before Sizewell C is generating electricity for the national grid. *Mr E Miliband will be in his dotage. *The estimated cost of nearly £40billion is twice what it was only…
Is that all you’ve got?! Then you’re bereft of anything useful to say. Nobody expected Labour to sort out the Tory fiscal mess in 12 months. But we have a right to expect Labour not to make it worse, by raising taxes even higher and borrowing even more. Which is exactly what…
I like the way you think they can sort out 14 years of Tory incompetence that’s taxes at a 70 yr high borrowing out of control as is debt in 12 months.You trot out that dribble as if you think they can just wave a wand and it will all disappear.
Indeed. Labour inherited a huge national debt from the Tories. It then proceeded to borrow even more rather than put the public finances right. And much of the Tory debt was accumulated by spending on furlough, household energy bill subsidies, NHS, welfare — on which Labour urged…
The overwhelming majority of that borrowing we are paying vast interest on was added by Conservative Governments.
Let’s not forget that most of what we’re now borrowing is spent on meeting the cost of previous borrowing. The OBR reckons we’ll borrow £143 billion this financial year 2025/26 (it will be more than that). It also estimates we’ll spend £111 billion paying interest on existing…
BREAKING NEWS: More pressure on Chancellor Reeves to raise taxes/repair public finances/‘fix the foundations’ (still a work in progress, contrary to ministerial claims): UK government borrowing rose to almost £21 billion last month, £6.6bn higher than June 2024 and the…
BREAKING NEWS: More pressure on Chancellor Reeves to raise taxes/repair public finances/‘fix the foundations’ (still a work in progress, contrary to ministerial claims): UK government borrowing rose to almost £21 billion last month, £6.6bn higher than June 2024 and the…
But Ed Miliband claims the world is following Britain’s net zero lead. So surely Poland will leave it in the ground? 🤡
Poland announces the largest-ever oil discovery on Polish territory. The find was made off the coast near the border with Germany and is estimated to hold 33M tonnes of oil and and 27 bcm of gas. Officials call it a breakthrough for Poland’s energy security.
There’s already a massive prison not far from my house. Typical twitter ignoramus. Next.
He's happy to put you at risk but he'd throw a fit if they instead built a prison next door. Typical wealthy boomer.
Farage is talking about sending British citizens to Salvadoran hellholes. You OK with that? I’m not.
I personally couldn’t care less where they go.. I think we’ve all had enough of spending £billions of 🇬🇧 taxpayer’s money .. on 11000 foreign prisoners taking up valuable spaces !! Deport the lot of them !
Salvadoran homicide rate, which has plummeted in recent years, still twice Britain’s. Next.
EL Salvador has a far lower crime rate than the UK
Dunno why. I’m not from Glasgow.
Why is that more inhumane than sending them to Glasgow? Oh, God, I'm getting blocked now, aren't I.
Indeed. The grooming gangs are the biggest British scandal of modern times. And we’re still not on top of it.
Civilized nations don’t allow the rape and torture of their children on an industrial scale and then try to cover it up.
Which is why the idea of pop modular prisons in old army camps etc is worth investigating. I guess you weren’t listening to that bit.
Letting career criminals roam the streets because our prisons are full is inhumane to the British people.
"I don’t like his idea of sending prisoners to El Salvador, to some godforsaken hellhole.” Nigel Farage's proposal to send prisoners to El Salvador is inhumane for a “civilised nation” like Britain, says @AFNeil.
You don’t have to be a member to watch cricket at Lords. Most aren’t. Suggest in future you mug up before posting, otherwise people will realise you really are as thick as you seem.
Andrew, the dregs and the riff raff are not members of Lords so how would you really know what's going on within the rest of the UK - you don't. Suggest you stick to cricket and other polite conversations.