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Proud husband and father of 3 kids. Trying to play as many great golf courses as I can.

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See the next Andrew Neil Report. Net zero will be revealed for the scam it is.
Who else agrees that Net Zero/ Climate Crisis is just one big scam?
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I'm desperate for some manufacturer to bring out a mini driver headcover with a cartoon picture of Minnie Driver on it (ideally with some Minnie Mouse reference too). It would be an instant purchase. Anyone know someone who can do this?! In your wheelhouse @harryarnett?!
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Nothing I said was stupid. Actions speak louder than words. If there actually was a “climate crisis,” all of the people advancing that narrative from world leaders to “scientists” would start acting like it by radically altering their personal lifestyles. They’d all make sacrifices to “save the planet.” But none of them do. Not a single one. World leaders still fly on private jets. Politicians and wealthy academics still buy oceanfront property. “Scientists” still travel to conferences by air that could be held on a Zoom call (Zoom has an extended meeting feature allowing up to 5,000 participants). And this idea that you can have your carbon sins forgiven by purchasing “carbon credits” is akin to indulgences. Many of them still drive ICEs or use them in some capacity (e.g., rentals, Uber, taxi). Most of them live in fossil fuel-powered homes and apartments. They use indoor plumbing, running water, HVAC, and WiFi, which all require coal or natural gas to function. If people like you were actually climate crusaders, you would opt to give up your modern luxuries and lead by example. But you don’t want to be inconvenienced, and would rather spend your time online virtue signaling about climate in the same manner you are virtue signaling about the Russia–Ukraine War having the Ukrainian flag as your profile picture instead of enlisting in their army, putting your boots on the ground, and fighting for them. Quite frankly, unless you are posting on here from Gilligan’s Island using some contraption made by Professor Hinkley, I don’t care what you have to say about climate change.
Replying to @ChrisMartzWX
But what you said was so stupid!!
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Well, @KatieJWhite? Will you have the decency to correct the record? Do you even understand what he's saying, given you have no background in energy or engineering? Or does your activist ideology from Friends of the Earth mean you simply don't care?
This is government gaslighting to a high degree. 1. It’s not a new announcement. The Norfolk East and West offshore wind projects were announced earlier this year as part of the AR7 round of contracts. 2. No way does it bring down prices. Those behind it, energy giant RWE + global investors KKR, were guaranteed an above-market strike price of £91.20/MWh based on 2024 prices — indexed linked for 20 years. That guarantee is already worth £97/MWh in 2026. This is v expensive energy. 3. What is new is that the costs of developing offshore wind have soared. So the government has now had to chip in £1 billion of the £12 billion investment needed from the National Wealth [Destruction] Fund. So more state subsidy on top of the massive subsidies for two foreign companies implicit in the price guarantees embedded in AR7. 4. Far from cheaper electricity this embeds high-cost electricity in the system for 20 years. 5. So much for the Chancellor’s Budget pledge to ‘only build new projects when they lower prices’. This does the opposite — and at enormous expense to the taxpayer and electricity user. Gaslighting indeed.
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Birko retweeted
This is government gaslighting to a high degree. 1. It’s not a new announcement. The Norfolk East and West offshore wind projects were announced earlier this year as part of the AR7 round of contracts. 2. No way does it bring down prices. Those behind it, energy giant RWE + global investors KKR, were guaranteed an above-market strike price of £91.20/MWh based on 2024 prices — indexed linked for 20 years. That guarantee is already worth £97/MWh in 2026. This is v expensive energy. 3. What is new is that the costs of developing offshore wind have soared. So the government has now had to chip in £1 billion of the £12 billion investment needed from the National Wealth [Destruction] Fund. So more state subsidy on top of the massive subsidies for two foreign companies implicit in the price guarantees embedded in AR7. 4. Far from cheaper electricity this embeds high-cost electricity in the system for 20 years. 5. So much for the Chancellor’s Budget pledge to ‘only build new projects when they lower prices’. This does the opposite — and at enormous expense to the taxpayer and electricity user. Gaslighting indeed.
The government’s £12 billion investment in wind farms will help "bring down people’s energy bills", says climate transition minister, Katie White. But they have not announced any additional funding to upgrade the grid.
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If Pochettino goes to Man U, this would make some sense... Just please get him gone.
Malo Gusto is open to a move away in January. The France international hasn't started a PL match in nearly two months. His view has been amicably communicated internally. Chelsea valued him at £75m in the summer. bbc.co.uk/sport/football/art…
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When the grid finally gives up the ghost, renewable energy advocates and government ministers will blame everything from Russian hackers through to Brexit, and shapeshifting lizards from the fourth dimension. There's too many brown envelopes at stake for them to ever admit that making the national grid weather dependent was a shit idea.
How's that transition coming along?
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Birko retweeted
Does someone have a video of this? Because not only does Dermot just outright lie at the start, he then contradicts that later on but not before he gets the rules completely wrong in the middle.
Dermot Gallagher on the Palmer foul: “The referee gives a foul. That is what he gives. O'Nien completes the action when he is in the box. Once he gives the first foul, that is it. What happens afterwards, he can only take action if he deems there is serious foul play. That is what he fed back. What he has to do is, when he is talking to VAR, he has to say who he thinks is the player. It is O'Nien's boot in the penalty area. The argument is that if he is on the line, it is a penalty. But it is O'Nien's boot; you can't see the ball.  O'Nien goes second. VAR said Ahoka went first and he is the first offender.  They didn't stop the game. The game went on.” [sky]
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Chelsea didn’t get a penalty here. #sunderland #chelsea #chelseafc #var #palmer
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This is where O'Nien knees Palmer on the back of the leg; where his arm pushes Palmer's back. It is very clearly a foul, and it is very very clearly inside the box.
Replying to @Safcjcp95 @BBCMOTD
Outside 😂😂😂😂
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😂😂😂 @BBCMOTD doesn’t even bother analysing the Palmer penalty and Dublin glibly states that Brobbey “has a chunk” of Colwill’s shirt before the penalty. Farcical.
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Birko retweeted
If I were a Chelsea fan my head would be on mars watching some of these calls
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🤷‍♂️ '𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐚 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐔𝐍𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐔𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐄' - Ex-PGMOL chief @HACKETTREF reckons Cole Palmer was fouled INSIDE the penalty area vs Sunderland 😮
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❌ '𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐀 𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐘' - Ex-FIFA referee @HACKETTREF can't believe Jarred Gillett gave Sunderland a spot-kick against Chelsea! 😮
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Birko retweeted
🚨🚨| Chelsea did NOT get a penalty for this action. 😬
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Part 2 - foul by Estevao 😂🤷‍♂️🤔
Estevao Willian gets pushed over by the Sunderland defender. Referee: *whistles for a foul against Estevao* Chelsea fans must be furious with this one *again*
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Part 1 - foul by Neto
Replying to @PitchsideWorld
Chelsea fans right to be furious
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So that’s a pen for Man U but the one on Palmer wasn’t 😂😂😂
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CFC forcing Jackson out was an act of gross negligence
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This ref absolutely hates Chelsea what am I seeing?! I'm the furthest thing from a Chelsea fan but this is wild ...
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