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Annual increase in disposable income per person:
Thatcher, 1984–89: +3.97%
Labour, 2024–29 (forecast): +0.4%
That's people becoming TEN TIMES better off per year than now.
I'd happily endure five years of 1980s wallpaper for five years of 1980s economic growth. 📈
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The upcoming COP31 UN Climate Change Conference in Antalya, Türkiye, is shaping up to be one of the most divisive summits ever held.
Could it mark the beginning of the end for the COP system?
Compounding this instability, India withdrew its bid to host the COP33 summit in 2028, officially citing a 'review of commitments'. New Delhi's exit from the 2028 summit - slated to host the next major Global Stocktake - signals a profound geopolitical pivot. Major developing economies are increasingly bypassing symbolic UN stages to prioritise industrial policy, energy security and bilateral economic arrangements.
For the first time, the UN has split the powers of the presidency between two nations after a months-long bidding war. Türkiye serves as the official host and physical venue, but Australian Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen has taken the reins as the 'President of Negotiations' - holding exclusive authority to drive text and broker climate deals.
Behind the scenes, the international climate apparatus is fracturing under pressure. Just weeks ahead of the summit, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suspended its 65th Plenary Session in Ethiopia after member states failed to reach a consensus on the budget and timeline for its Seventh Assessment Report (AR7).
Developing nations and small island states walked out before an agreement could be struck, forcing the body to schedule emergency meetings just to recover its work plan.
With the primary scientific body gridlocked and key host slots going vacant, heavy domestic criticism is being directed at both host nations for expanding their own fossil fuel footprints. Critics are questioning whether multilateral climate governance is collapsing under its own weight.
Bowen faces an immense task in managing a fractured 200-nation delegation. Is COP31 the birth of a workable new framework. Or are we seeing the final, gridlocked days of a broken multilateral system?
#COP31 #COP33 #ClimateChange #ChrisBowen #IPCC #Antalya #India
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Delighted at the response in Poland to @donaldtusk's attempted takeover of the constitutional court in the absence of the Polish President.
He was thwaeted by ordinary Poles whilst the President turned his jet around & returned to rescue the situation.
I expect Tusk will now pay a heavy price for the attempted coup in Poland, I personally hope he rots in jail, filthy europhile traitor!
Que força e determinação revelou o povo polaco! Unido, de cabeça erguida e a cantar o seu hino, saiu à rua e conseguiu travar o golpe de Estado.
Sem vandalismo, sem saquear lojas e sem destruição. Uma demonstração de coragem, união e patriotismo na defesa da liberdade e da democracia.
São um exemplo para todo o Ocidente! 🇵🇱
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Meanwhile an accurate weather station near to Wiggonholt only managed 15.7C - what a surprise eh?
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Burnham seems to be quietly back-pedaling on the Miliband agenda and CP2030 looks dead too. But this won't be enough to bring bills down.
In the @DailyMail... @energygovuk denies @Miatsf is being sidelined 😂
But it looks like @hmtreasury is going to push through Rosebank and force DESNZ to abandon Connect and Manage
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Polish TV reports claims that President Nawrocki’s plane was denied permission to land in Warsaw last night, but the pilot landed regardless.
Nawrocki miał nie dostać zgody na lądowanie w Warszawie. Wojsko nie posłuchało
#włączprawdę #TVRepublika
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Campbell’s rattied!👏👏
This is a weak response to his deserved slap on Question time.😊
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UE "A Rússia vai atacar a Polónia"
Uns meses depois...
UE e Tusk tentam fazer um golpe de estado na Polónia
A Rússia nunca foi o problema
Os INIMIGOS estão cá dentro, sempre estiveram
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Who knew?
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Carbon taxes, spending on grids, storage and renewables are an even bigger driver of electricity bills than gas. If you can't diagnose the problem properly, you have no chance of fixing it.
‼️ This FT chart tells the energy story.
Britain has transformed its electricity mix. Coal has virtually disappeared. Wind and solar have surged.
Yet gas still plays an outsized role and because gas often sets the marginal electricity price, a geopolitical shock in the gas market can still push up bills across the whole system.
🔥 This is the trap.
We have partly decarbonised generation without fully decarbonising price formation.
@JohnHealey_MP now appears to understand that.
Removing standing charges may help at the margin, but the bigger prize is breaking Britain’s exposure to volatile global gas prices, investing in grids, storage, renewables and secure domestic generation, and ending the absurd situation where cheap renewable power can still be priced off expensive gas 👉 and reconnecting to the EU’s Internal Energy Market.
Energy reform is cost-of-living policy, industrial policy and national security policy - and climate policy.
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Sin X nadie en Europa se habría enterado de lo sucedido en Polonia está noche. El jefe del gobierno Donald Tusk perpetró un intento de golpe de Estado aprovechando el viaje del jefe del estado Karol Nawrocky al extranjero. Asaltó el Tribunal Constitucional con la policía y pretendió destituir a presidente y vicepresidente del Constitucional con una juez leal sin competencias.
Pero no contaba con el presidente que enterado ordenó al avion dar la vuelta cuando sobrevolaba España. Volvió a Varsovia, entró por la fuerza por delante de sus escoltas en el edficio del TC pese al cerco de policias de Tusk y convocó a todas las máximasx instituciones de Supremo y Constitucional para restablecer el orden Constitucional.
Aunque la crisis continúa, parece claro que el gobierno de Tusk, el títere de Von der Leyen que jamás habría perpetrado este asalto sin permiso de Bruselas, tiene los días contados. Pero recuerden, los medios publicos y privados de toda Europa han sido cómplices del golpe de Estado silenciando toda la operación. Solo las redes sociales han alertado a polacos y europeos. Por eso quieren intervenirlas.
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When the EU flexes its muscles it always extends further its undemocratic influence
This is very dangerous
What is happening right now at Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal is, in my view, nothing less than a COUP D’ÉTAT!
Donald Tusk is doing everything in his power to illegally seize control of yet another public institution, acting outside the law and trampling on Poland’s constitutional order.
His ultimate goal is to establish the supremacy of EU law over Polish law, force through the EU Migration Pact, and flood Poland with tens of thousands, potentially hundreds of thousands, of illegal migrants.
He wants Poland to stop being an island of safety, stability and prosperity in Europe. He wants our country to suffer the same economic destruction, social chaos and devastation that we are witnessing in other parts of Europe.
Donald Tusk is acting exclusively in Germany’s interests - NOT in the interests of the Polish people.
Poland is a sovereign nation. We will not surrender our independence, our security or our future!
Listen to what @D_Tarczynski has to say!
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There are no significant “harms” from global warming.
This is getting stupid.
Thankfully, the masses are tuning out of climate fear porn. 23 likes on a post from an account with 18.5 million followers.
We are going to win!
Climate change is a "global health emergency" and the harms are accelerating, according to 2026 report of The Lancet Countdown. abcnews.link/HXbODNP
