Off Topic Politics Thread

I am supporting and working for the Lib Dems. But don't just vote for them willy nilly. Find out the last result in your constituency and vote Labour if they are the most likely challenger to the Tory.

 

Around this time of year I usually get asked to be father Christmas for lots of children's parties. So far I have had none. Has Christmas been cancelled FFS? Has Johnson not only wrecked the economy but ****ed up everyone's Christmas. I know that Christmas will be a miserable affair in this household if people are stupid enough to re-elect the twat.

 

I'm a member of the lib dems, I'll be voting for them because of what they say they'll do

 

Maybe you should have worn your trousers last year. Nobody wants their kids to see that Godders

 

That’s admirable but they won’t be doing anything if the Tories get in with a majority so if there’s a likelihood of it being a Tory then you may want to think about who is most likely to beat them in your constituency

If theres a Brexit candidate it may offer you a really good opportunity to make a meaningful vote

I’ll be voting LD because they have the best chance of unseating our Tory MP

 

You may remember that I posted some weeks ago of Cuadrilla ceasing Fracking in Lancashire. Then they shortly after put out a statement that they had only temporarily halted. Now it appears there is an ongoing suspension imposed by the government which has listened to the science report [hooray, for once]. They stopped short of a ban. Residents don't want it. Protesters don't want it. Environmental groups say it should be banned as it is not safe [they are right, it isn't]. Labour say they will ban it. Ending Fracking in Lancs will effectively mean the whole of the UK:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50267454

 

To be honest though.........it could because the government has realised we may not need so much fuel in the future as the Electric car seems the way we are going don’t you think?

 

Yes, we will all be burning electric cars in our homes in the future.

 

To be honest Beddy, I don't think the present government really knows which way is up, regarding what to do energy wise. All they do know is that when they allow more offshore wind farms, it works out fine. My gut feeling is that they know the decision to shut down Fracking will be popular, and that's all. An election is coming up and nobody, bar Cuadrilla, wants Fracking. So they've made a political decision. Not an environmental one. They can always bring it back, so they are not to be trusted.

On the clean energy front, Wind [especially], Solar, Nuclear, and other clean energy tech, is pushing down prices so hard that Fracking is becoming economically unviable. Even Natural Gas is coming under fire from renewables. The UK is fast becoming the biggest producer, per capita, of wind energy in the world, such is the pace of expansion. We could quite easily provide all our electricity from wind power, but that won't happen. Days of calm see to that, and batteries can't store a whole summer of energy needs. We will need more of them.

Indeed, the battery electric vehicle is where we are heading. Anyone considering buying a new car next year, to keep for 5 years, really needs to do some sums. The 2nd hand value of any FFV will be virtually nothing, whereas the used value of a BEV will hold up extremely well. The running/maintenance costs could hardly be more different - EVs dirt cheap, FFVs huge. Then there is the growing closing down of city access for FFVs. It's all happening out there.

 

Purple? What does that signify. Is it the new blue?

 

Every cloud has a silver lining. England's defeat in the rugby means we wont see that obnoxious slug Johnson basking in their reflected glory.

 

Like that so much.....thought England may of brought Prince Harry on to sort them out

 

Maybe I’m a bit cynical, but my first thought was just in time for the election.

 

I think your cynicism is accurate.
Note my reply to Beddy.

 

And in effect, we might. Vehicle to Grid charging means that a household could be in the middle of a powercut, and instantly charge power swings around so that the vehicle powers the house. Even a smallish BEV with a decent amount of charge could power a house for a day or two on its own. Add in solar panels [like you already have], and you could kiss the grid goodbye for days on end.

So yeah. It isn't a joke.

 

Ross Thomson has just resigned ! - probably jumped before he was pushed by his party, so they can get someone else in with more credibility before the election. Not difficult to have more credibility than that slime ball, however.

 

Cynical electioneering.

 

And regrettably it was ever thus. I think it was 2020 U.S. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders who recently coined the thought that the rich get the softest Socialism whilst the poor have to live with the fiercest cut-throat form of Capitalism.

In all honesty, I had never thought of it in that way before, but I quickly realised he was absolutely 100% correct.

 

An interesting comparison.