🚨 | Welsh Labour First Minister Vaughan Gething has reportedly told Labour colleagues the political attacks on him were racially driven.

➡️ Nothing to do with him potentially lying to the Covid Inquiry & taking 200k from a criminal to help get elected?
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… He is being scrutinised for his involvement with a firm who bank rolled his leadership campaign to the tune of 200k.

He has lobbied in behalf of this firm in the past and the company has been convicted twice for environmental damage.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-…

🚨 | Inflation in the UK is down to 6.8% in July, from 7.9% in June meaning annual prices rising slower.

💥 This was predicted as its mainly due to falling gas and electricity prices & food prices not going up much as a year earlier.

Litttle to do with interest rates going up. In July we saw a reduction in the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) price cap

Monthly gas prices fell by 25.2% between June and July this year, compared with a rise of 0.1% between the same two months a year ago

The timing of the prices changes influencing inflation

📺 | Labour Shadow Minister - 'If you look at France & how their energy bills went up last Winter it was a fraction of the UK [as they have] onshore wind'

❌ UK produces double its electricity from wind than France

Chancer politician is talking 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 with @JuliaHB1 He wants to sit in the Cabinet with Keir Starmer after the next election and decide on the energy policy of the UK and quite frankly has little understanding of the facts he is talking about.

It is dangerous that people like this get into positions of influence.

🚨 | Today's top BBC News - Climate Change: Last year's UK heatwave a sign of things to come.

💥 But the article indicates no conclusive evidence Climate Change behind heatwave.

📈 And the Met Office uses the old trick - projections of doom.

bbc.co.uk/news/science-e… Last year the BBCs own complaints unit found against its own Climate Change editor that he reported false claims on a Panorama programme.

thenational.scot/news/20128771.…

📈 | 58% of current inflation comes from Domestic fuel & utility costs, plus food.

❌ Bank of England cannot significantly impact demand by putting up interest rates as global factors are behind them and goods are necessary.

Lack of energy security why inflation is still high. The Bank of England has just been adding to the woes of households through increasing costs associated with housing. This is through those with mortgages that come to and end, and those who rent privately when landlords' mortgages go up.

statsjamie.co.uk/great-banking-…

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Welsh Government stuck with a property portfolio worth £22m after scrapping plans for M4 relief road.

🛩️ Also own a failing airport

&

🚂 A railway franchise that has exposed passengers to fires which been issued with improvement notice.

🙉🙉

archive.ph/EZdX5 Remember though losing millions on thr airport goes not matter to the Welsh Labour ministers because it's not their money but ours.

They are 'not concerned'

https://twitter.com/statsjamie/status/1639228539747590145?t=u3eNmFWPw3J6P-XXRxZxjQ&s=19

📺 | ‘The plan is to reduce water usage per person by 2038. Rishi Sunak new pool takes about 91k litres to fill. You would need a power shower every day for 3.5 years to match that’

💬 Chat with @MarkSteynOnline on talk of banning power showers and a rule for thee but not for me More on the talk of some to see a ban on power showers here.

https://twitter.com/statsjamie/status/1645475029834924049?s=20

👇 This tweet from the Labour Party shows how they manipulate data to basically lie.

How do they explain the cost of living rise in Germany and other countries?

Does Keir Starmer blames the Tories for German households cost of living going up thousands of Euros?

Clowns 🤡🤡

https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1641735497289482241

Since October 21, energy costs have also shot up in Germany considerably, to the point the Government has had to support households by putting money towards bills.

Does the Labour Party blame the Tories for that?

📺 | THIS MORNING graphic claiming ten million Britons have 'Long Covid'

FACT CHECK

❌ This is 𝗨𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗡𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗘 and there is no official estimate of the number of people diagnosed with 'Long Covid' but self diagnosed is around a fifth of this.

1/ The self diagnosed number has issues.

They come from the ONS survey called 'Prevalence of ongoing symptoms following coronavirus' who say some participants may be experiencing symptoms because of a health condition unrelated to COVID-19 infection

2/

ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…

🚨 | Total deaths in England and Wales are 4.6% lower than what you would expect if the chance of dying were the same the past 5 weeks as 2015/19

💥 But deaths are above what you would expect among people aged 0-44 by 14.2%

📈 2,100 deaths vs 1,838 expected, so 262 more

1/ The table in the previous graphic shows total death numbers are much lower among those aged 0-44, so weekly deaths are dominated by the older age groups.

It is lower than expected deaths in the past 5 weeks among older people which explains the total deaths below expectation

2/

🚨 | Serco landlord event on 01 March to sign up landlords for their asylum scheme - How much is Serco making?

They offer

◼️5+ years lease
◼️Full rent paid
◼️All utilities (gas/electric/water) and council tax paid
◼️Full repair of any damage to homes

All paid for by taxpayer The supply of people that will make Serco even more money keeps coming in

https://twitter.com/statsjamie/status/1626216839180341252?s=20

🤡 | The new Conservative Party chairman has said this morning the UK has one of the best energy security - what planet is he on?

20 years ago all the gas we used came from domestic sources. Now we import more than we produce ourselves.

1/ And we have shifted to use more and more had to generate electricity over the past 40 years so have given up on energy security over this period.

We have also reduced the amount of nuclear we use, and shifted to more solar (which does not work at night) and wind.

2/

🚨 | Sunak - ‘The number 1 factor that is impacting peoples living standards, inflation, caused by high energy prices as a result of a war in Ukraine’

❌ 3/4 of energy price rise happened before the war

💥 Higher taxes/interest rates harm living standards - thats his/BoE fault He was pushing the same line when he failed in the election last summer to be the leader, before Truss was forced out.

https://twitter.com/statsjamie/status/1552756181000769537

🚨 | In December 2022, inflation for food and non-alcoholic beverages was higher across the #EU than the #UK

💥 The actual facts don't support that #Brexit is a key driver of higher food prices.

🤡 Or is Brexit to blame for the EU having higher food inflation than the UK too? We had that rather incompetent leader in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon putting out false information on inflation and Brexit last year

https://twitter.com/statsjamie/status/1536662720417779712?s=20&t=HlbOkTQXiJ7bw2EGQ7UmlQ

🚨 | Around 8.5k more deaths in England and Wales in the past 5 weeks than what you would expect if the chance of dying was the same as over 2015/19.

◼️ Over the past 37 weeks, the excess death toll is around 30k

💥The past 5 weeks have been the worst of the whole period. Around 13.5k more deaths over the past 5 weeks vs average of 2015/19, but we would expect more deaths due to an ageing demographic - post war baby boomers hitting age around average life expectancy.

When you account for that, still 8.5k more dying higher than expected.

🚨 | Sunak - ‘Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine saw all our energy prices rocket’

❌ He omits to say three-quarters of the gas price increases that feeds into all energy happened before the invasion of Ukraine

💥 It is a regular occurrence now with Sunak misleading the public You can see here that gas prices up 8-fold from 2019 but three-quarters happened before the invasion.

https://twitter.com/statsjamie/status/1594008811827773441

🚨 | Final two weeks of 2022 have seen around 2,800 excess deaths across England/Wales - continuing a trend of the past 34 weeks.

Over the past 34 weeks, we have had 19,000 more deaths than we would expect for the time of year if the chance of dying was the same as pre-pandemic. Looking at deaths from all causes, over the past 34 weeks deaths are above expectation for all age groups, but marginal in those 10-14.

The largest percentages above expectation are those aged 35 to 54.

Younger have fewer deaths so small fluctuations can impact percentages.

2/

🚨 | Hunt - ‘No government can continue to subsidise indefinitely higher energy prices. But what we can do is to bring down inflation’

❓ He is either incompetent or stupid

💥 If business energy bills rise they a) go bust or b) put up prices - creating unemployment or inflation I totally agree Government cannot and should not subsidise indefinitely energy - but its the price we all have to pay for 40 years failure on energy security.

If the Government had secure supply of enough domestic energy it wouldn’t cost a fortune.

statsjamie.co.uk/high-energy-pr…

🚨 | Our communist Susan Michie talking of Covid cases soaring - the latest data indicates hit a peak so wrong as usual.

The woman who said we should have social distancing and masks often hasn't a clue about Covid data (see below).

Holds no competence to work for the WHO Here she is saying we should have masks and social distancing forever

https://twitter.com/statsjamie/status/1552042449111064576?s=20&t=EYaTm6JaC3mj0PytTMGBxg

🚨 | USA extends Covid vaccine requirement for foreign visitors

💥 The USA is adopting a position where someone with Covid-19 but has had two vaccines can enter freely, but someone unvaccinated and does not have the virus cannot enter.

👇 New blog

statsjamie.co.uk/usa-extends-va… If we look at data in England, we know that 93% of those who meet the USA vaccine requirement of two doses completed this over a year ago.

Since this, over the past year, we have seen the Omicron variant rip through the world population in both the vaccinated and unvaccinated.

🚨 | Breaking - USA extends entry requirement of proof of vaccination for non-US nationals until April 10 2023

💥 Unless you fall into an exemption criteria you have to show proof of 2 Covid vaccines, despite most world countries scrapping a vaccine requirements ages ago You can read the amendment to the vaccine requirement here, it was due to expire on 08 Jan - tsa.gov/sites/default/…

H/T to @puggboy92 for alerting me to this.