Off Topic The politics thread - Starmer/Reeves/Farage etc.
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That’s progress. It comes from cooperation and not being xenophobic
They should be building 20 a year to our 1 if they were doing it pro rata, 104 is not helping the environment, so as I said 1 is hardly going to make difference.
You'd imagine there might be the slightest glimmer of praise from those who want the boats stopped ...
... there'll be none.
That is the man who died in the back of an ambulance that was blocked getting him to hospital by protesting farmers tractors. Colin Brian Gliebitz. RIP
China generates coal power at roughly fifteen times our total energy use. And they have openly stated that they have no intention of stopping or slowing down. Nor do India, who generate roughly five times our usage using coal and are accelerating sharply. The US, Japan and others are also ramping up their use of coal. As, of course is Germany, who are not only ramping up their coal production, they are doing so using lignite, the dirtiest of coals, though it has to be said that they do still deliver a good eco lecture to everyone else.
Coal, like gas, like oil, is not going away.
We of course don't even need coal for energy, though it would be handy for steel making, which is why Milliband is importing 50m+ tons from Japan, having halted the Cumbrian mine which was to be used for that exact purpose. Got to hand it to mad Ed!
But we have vast reserves of gas. It is cheaper to extract, much cleaner and the CCGT stations, though they are quite old now, are extremely efficient, and when needed are quick and easy to build.
So instead we are using wind, some solar, biomass, nuclear and some other small means. And of course we import a lot of electricity now, at high prices. And there is gas. We use more gas than any other fuel over a year, only we have to import a lot of it now, almost half of it, at high prices.
If you wondered why we have the highest electricity prices in the developed world, and why the poorest people especially and businesses are struggling to survive under the weight of such, then the answer is that insane, literally mad energy policy.
Without the famous "Brexit" prospective asylum seekers could have their cases looked at in France and be told yes or no. Now they have to be on British soil before claims can be looked at. Hence Farage's Brexit Boats.
Thats because its the government that are doing it, they send the boats and the life jackets back to France why would they do that and not destroy them like we are entitle to. there are Paras in France now digging the dinghys up from where they have been burried and smashing the outboards and slashing the Dinghys, so much so Labour has had to change tact, as the british people are turning against them
According to Jeremy Clarkson, Nigel Farage, and various other toffs, you've spelled 'heroes' wrong there mate.
It is encouraging, but that is all. Apparently it is too windy today to start!
Sarcasm and doubt aside, we have been here before, as recently as this summer. Slashing boats before they could take off. It soon stopped and got caught up in govt red tape.
I hope this is better.
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Of course China with 1.5bn population, USA with 350m population and UK 75 million. So yes you would expect China to have the biggest carbon emissions, USA per capital is the biggest polluter.
Personally I reckon China should speed up its target to zero emissions
But that's the problem mate, as a civilised country we can't just harpoon migrant boats ...
... 'maritime law', which trumps ours and that of France, means our hands are tied to a degree, I know that from personal experience.
"French and international maritime law impose a mandatory duty to render assistance to any person in peril at sea. This is a long-standing tradition enshrined in several international conventions and is a matter of both civil and criminal law in France."
In France there's also a very important law that means it's a criminal offence to fail to assist someone in peril ...
... the UK often refers to it as the Princess Diana law.
"France investigated photographers for failing to assist Princess Diana after the 1997 crash, a violation of the French "Good Samaritan" law requiring people to help those in peril. Seven photographers were initially investigated for involuntary homicide and failing to assist."
Imbeciles, like Farage, either don't understand the law, or believe they're above it ... they aren't.
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Or perhaps alternatively, two men who despite priveleged expensive private education, failed to get a decent A level result between them
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Getting his arse handed on a plate. How dare this government ask millionaire farmers to pay fair tax
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No one can ever get to zero emissions. It's only possible with a huge reduction in normal living standards and population. It won't happen. China are going bigger on coal. As are the others.
Even the futile and foolish effort been made here is just ransacking industry. If this could be done, it has to be everyone and it isn't.
Yet Starmer has publicly apologised to Farage on camera for calling him racist. Even Sunderland Borough of Hetton kicked Labour out last night and voted Reform in
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Must be somebody I have on ignore but did somebody actually suggest what you said in your first paragraph?
I just wonder what we have been paying them millions of pounds for during the past few years.