He’s appointed Lee Anderson as deputy chair of the Conservative party and continues to stoke the culture wars. There’s nothing more grown up or sensible or less populist about him.
Gove now talking about a potential rework of the net zero policy. Not a bad idea. We've got 27 years to hit an arbitrary target that will make precisely zero difference to global climate change, which we're currently doing by making people and businesses poorer chasing a reduction in emissions rather than incentivising good choices. Don't ditch it, rework it.
There's a massive irony with the tourists being interviewed in Greece. Mass tourism and cheap package holidays contribute greatly to the climate change from which they're now suffering ... ... how many of the 10,000 Brits 'trapped in hell' even know where they are. I doubt more than a handful could find Rhodes on a map tbh.
@Smug in Boots l get fed-up with people in this country not knowing the local geography, let alone the world. My eldest g/daughter when to a festival in Manchester recently, using sat nav to find the festival. She has no idea where Manchester is on a map to the point, of it being north, south, east or west of where we live.
It looks like arson is the reason for these fires in Greece, lads. I read something about it last night, they’ve been some arrests over it.
Something else we’re copying USA ? When I lived in Oxfordshire , I constantly heard that Sunderland / Newcastle were just above Blackpool on the west coast
I really have to laugh at these tourists. They're raging about the airlines for failing to keep them informed about the situation with bush fires and the arrangements for rescuing them ... ... you flew in with Easyjet you clowns, not the RAF
The top government barrister strikes again "The home secretary acted unlawfully in failing to provide basic support to asylum seekers, including young children and pregnant women, a judge has ruled." Mon 24 Jul 2023 15.41
The problem with the likes of Braverman is not that they are stupid. It is that they think everyone else is stupid. Although saying that Bonko got a landslide election win
Unbelievable some of them moaning that airlines still flew them there while the wildfires are burning. They weren't rendition flights FFS, people made their own way to the airport, checked in then walked onto the plane that took them there. Take some ****ing responsibility and don't expect to have your arse wiped for you.
The way I see it Smug, this government is testing legal boundaries to set judicial precedence, all well and good but it is a very expensive way of making laws and we the taxpayers are footing the bill. It would be nice to win a couple, but to do that you need to pick your battles wisely and a blind man on a galloping horse could see the Rwanda project was bound to fail.
It's becoming more like the USA at every step. The costly legal challenge to block evidence going to an enquiry was truly shameful.
Pretty sure the idea is we essentially loan them the money in return for trade…but would I bollocks trust that our government has done proper due diligence on this.
It would be interesting to see what we think we're getting out of it. Always a sticky wicket giving money to what are borderline dictatorships....
Yeah I’d love to see the full agreement, again the optics are horrendous after saying we have no money for nurses etc. They’ve not even tried to spin it.
