Off Topic The politics thread - Starmer/Reeves/Farage etc.

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17 Nov 2024 — Newton Aycliffe, Willington, Ferryhill, Murton, Peterlee, Horden, Stanley, Easington, and Shildon all ranked high in the top 25 most dangerous ...
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This is a Labour post but thought it was worth posting as there is info in it I hadn’t picked up on
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I hadn’t noticed the health centres or the investment to help young people into training which may be a beneficial investment to save on benefit costs. I also hadn’t seen the frozen train fares which will help me as a regular work traveller.
 
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Pure River Slut said:
This is a Labour post but thought it was worth posting as there is info in it I hadn’t picked up on
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I hadn’t noticed the health centres or the investment to help young people into training which may be a beneficial investment to save on benefit costs. I also hadn’t seen the frozen train fares which will help me as a regular work traveller.
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The bairn picked up on the training thing. She's just started a uni degree in September this year. There's a number of people on her course who basically don't want to be there. Her friends on other courses have said the same.

There seems to be a number of young people who go to uni for the sake of it rather than because they want to study the subject. If more options are provided for the ones who are more practical minded than academic, it's a good thing to train them into the workforce doing something they enjoy rather than them feeling pushed into higher education.
 
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Northumberland Rocks said:
Hilarious Jim. You need to listen to experts more certainly on climate change.
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i do listen to the experts, climate change is happening. Show me which scientists are calling out china and India for Coal use, NON recognised by the UN climate committee that's for sure.
 
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The bairn picked up on the training thing. She's just started a uni degree in September this year. There's a number of people on her course who basically don't want to be there. Her friends on other courses have said the same.

There seems to be a number of young people who go to uni for the sake of it rather than because they want to study the subject. If more options are provided for the ones who are more practical minded than academic, it's a good thing to train them into the workforce doing something they enjoy rather than them feeling pushed into higher education.
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Yeah I agree on all of that.
 
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Pure River Slut said:
This is a Labour post but thought it was worth posting as there is info in it I hadn’t picked up on
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I hadn’t noticed the health centres or the investment to help young people into training which may be a beneficial investment to save on benefit costs. I also hadn’t seen the frozen train fares which will help me as a regular work traveller.
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Picked this up from The Torygraph or the Daily Heil?
 
Ronsafc said:
i do listen to the experts, climate change is happening. Show me which scientists are calling out china and India for Coal use, NON recognised by the UN climate committee that's for sure.
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That’s like saying you’ll keep smoking because your neighbour does. Someone has to do the right thing. It bothers me for my kids. Of course we do need to pressure them but there’s nowt wrong in showing leadership.
 
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rowley said:
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.
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Great post.
 
Pure River Slut said:
That’s like saying you’ll keep smoking because your neighbour does. Someone has to do the right thing. It bothers me for my kids. Of course we do need to pressure them but there’s nowt wrong in showing leadership.
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No one is putting pressure on them. That is the problem.
Are you telling me that if we reduce our emissions some magical field will circle the UK stopping all the co2 from coming here and they will all stay over the countries still using coal. It's got to be all or non.
 
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Smug in Boots said:
I'm saying this now, 'Farage has peaked too early and will self destruct'.

There's no way he can fool so many people for as long as he'd need to ...

... he'll be found out and people will pretend they never supported him in the first place.
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Hope you are right mate. He is a cancer in our country, sadly he fools many.

I read James OBriens book recently on the people who destroyed the uk - a good read. He certainly has the measure of Farage.

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Pure River Slut said:
Still fuming about this …
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9v1n3037jeo.amp
I was talking to someone in Sheffield the other day that came the other week . She said it was a beautiful place and would come back again next year. She couldn’t believe it was being cancelled.
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If you elect clowns expect a circus sadly.

Given the magnificent regeneration of Sunderland hopefully the people of Sunderland won’t be as daft.
 
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Ronsafc said:
No one is putting pressure on them. That is the problem.
Are you telling me that if we reduce our emissions some magical field will circle the UK stopping all the co2 from coming here and they will all stay over the countries still using coal. It's got to be all or non.
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Nigel’s backers are not daft. Drill baby drill eh?

Shame some on the right weren’t as obsessed about coal when Thatcher was destroying our communities
 
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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.
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Or privatising utilities so profits line shareholders pockets not keeping bills low or improving infrastructure.

We will not be around but given how climate change is changing our planet future generations will look back at the madness of climate change deniers or those who were manipulated by the fossil fuel industry against all our better interests.
 
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