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This is what happens when you chase Net Zero and pretend we don't still run on fossil fuels.
🚨 NEW: The Government's "Black Sky" contingency plans for a national water or power blackout
- Around 100 BBC staff would be deployed to run an emergency RM radio studio stocked with enough food, water and fuel to keep it running for 3 days
- The BBC would broadcast pre-written Government scripts through the studio, including how to ration water, what to do if toilets stop working and which food to eat first (see scripts below)
- Radio masts would switch to diesel generators to keep broadcasts going for up to 72 hours without electricity
- BBC teams would use satellite phones to stay in contact, with agreed meeting points and backup arrangements if those phones stop working
- They would also report from emergency centres across the UK using satellite-equipped BBC vehicles to help keep information flowing to the public
- Emergency services would have alternative ways to communicate if mobile phone networks stopped working
- The Government is putting £70m towards aircraft that could restore mobile phone and internet coverage across the UK for over a week
James Flanders retweeted
Tomorrow's front page: The Cold War
UK on alert as hackers heat up supermarket fridges across Europe
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"Employers aren't working people, they're companies."
Let's look at the facts, shall we?
🔹 99.85% of UK businesses are SMEs. Only 8,335 are big corporates.
🔹 4.7 million people run one-person businesses with no staff.
🔹 The rest are builders, hairdressers, café owners and shopkeepers, grafting 60-hour weeks to employ 12.2 million people.
They do the job by day, the books by midnight, and pay their staff before they pay themselves.
Not working people, @EmmaforWycombe?
They pay your salary and expenses…
'I don't think employers are working people.'
@CamillaTominey grills Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds MP, over whether Labour has breached its manifesto pledge in the Budget.
📺 Freeview 236, Sky 512, Virgin 604
James Flanders retweeted
6am: Healey tells BBC he will bring down benefits bill before election
8:20: Treasury dispute the story
1pm: No10 disown it saying they have never set a target
2pm: PM says cuts as soon as possible
4pm: Healey says Labour won't bring bill down this Parliament
All Martin is celebrating here is the Chancellor spending more taxpayer money...
True growth doesn't come from government handouts - it comes from cutting welfare, slashing business costs, and letting the private sector thrive so it can create jobs, boost wages, and lower taxes.
"I had a list of seven or eight things that I suggested to the Chancellor and I've been pretty gobsmacked that five of them were in the budget."
Martin Lewis, Founder of Money Saving Expert, reacts to Chancellor John Healey's first budget.
#Newsnight
NEW: Chancellor John Healey is axing the £108 gas standing charge in today's Budget - but there is a massive catch.
The policy doesn't start until 2027 at the earliest, ignores January's looming £469 energy bill hike, and shifts the cost directly to unit prices.
The result? Millions of vulnerable households and pensioners with high energy needs will actually end up paying MORE.
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Day 3 of @TheSun's #JobsArmy campaign and another 1,000 work experience placements secured!
Plus, we’ve won full backing from Work & Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden and Jobs Tsar Alan Milburn, who warns we are at risk of a "lost generation" without action.
Let's get young Brits into work - get involved today!
With @JJhamilton @ryansabey
“Don't tax away young people's jobs.”
@Ladbrokes & @Coral boss Stella David guest-edits our @TheSun Money column today, with a blunt message for Labour ahead of the Budget and full backing for our Jobs Army campaign to get almost 1million NEETs into work 💪
Almost 1million under-25s in the UK are currently out of employment, education, or training.
Today, we've launched @TheSun's Jobs Army to help Britain's "lost generation" into the workplace.
With over 100,000 live vacancies, apprenticeships and work experience roles ready on our site, we are calling on businesses and volunteers to step up and offer their support.
It is time to end the trap of worklessness! 🗞️💼 #SunJobsArmy #YouthEmployment
With @JJhamilton
