Off Topic The Politics Thread

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%

  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%
  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
They are all wading in on Bercow now. <laugh> As I said if you mess with the Tories they won’t forget.
 
West WindsR said:
Crush the saboteurs!!!

Embarrassing, mate, honestly.
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Why, he is a bully. He tried to thwart the biggest democratic vote in our history. He bent all the rules to stop Brexit when he’s job is solely to referee and stay impartial.
The guy is a big headed small man with a massive ego.
Besides it’s not embarrassing to call out a bully.
 
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Stroller said:

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Doesn't mean a lot. What, are we going to blame the Victorians?

What matters is current.

Current CO2 emissions
The simplest and most common way to compare the emissions of countries is to add up all the fossil fuels burned and cement produced in each nation and convert that into CO2. According to 2011 data compiled by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, the top 10 emitters by this measure are:

1. China: 9697 million tonnes (MT) or 28.6%
2. US: 5420 MT or 16.0%
3. India: 1967 MT or 5.8%
4. Russia: 1829 MT or 5.4%
5. Japan: 1243 MT or 3.7%
6. Germany: 810 MT 2.4%
7. South Korea: 609 MT or 1.7%
8. Canada: 555 MT or 1.6%
9. Indonesia: 490 MT or 1.4%
10. Saudi Arabia: 464 MT or 1.4%
 
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Goldhawk-Road said:
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Doesn't mean a lot. What, are we going to blame the Victorians?

What matters is current.

Current CO2 emissions
The simplest and most common way to compare the emissions of countries is to add up all the fossil fuels burned and cement produced in each nation and convert that into CO2. According to 2011 data compiled by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, the top 10 emitters by this measure are:

1. China: 9697 million tonnes (MT) or 28.6%
2. US: 5420 MT or 16.0%
3. India: 1967 MT or 5.8%
4. Russia: 1829 MT or 5.4%
5. Japan: 1243 MT or 3.7%
6. Germany: 810 MT 2.4%
7. South Korea: 609 MT or 1.7%
8. Canada: 555 MT or 1.6%
9. Indonesia: 490 MT or 1.4%
10. Saudi Arabia: 464 MT or 1.4%
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I didn't pass any comment. I just found it fascinating.
 
Stroller said:
Given that the industrial revolution happened here first, yes. It's remarkable how far ahead (or behind, perhaps) we were in terms of emissions back in 1880.
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With all those dark satanic mills coughing black smoke into the atmosphere across the North and Midlands, I wouldn't like to think what our emissions were.
 
Goldhawk-Road said:
With all those dark satanic mills coughing black smoke into the atmosphere across the North and Midlands, I wouldn't like to think what our emissions were.
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The start of that graphic suggests that back in 1880 our emissions were around the same as for the rest of the world put together! The warming effects were known back then, too. Here's a snippet from an obscure NZ newspaper in 1912...


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https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1912-article-global-warming/
 
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ELLERS said:
Desperate days call for desperate measures... good luck with that one.

EU focuses on enlargement into Balkans after Brexit
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/05/eu-to-focus-on-balkan-nations-enlargement-after-brexit
EU aims to admit six Balkan states under reformed process - commissioner
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-e...r-reformed-process-commissioner-idUKKBN1ZZ1KD


✔@vonderleyenGood message to our [HASHTAG]#WesternBalkans[/HASHTAG] friends about EU enlargement process: Today the @EU_Commission proposes a credible & dynamic plan paving the way for opening accession talks with North Macedonia & Albania (). EU enlargement is a WIN-WIN situation.

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It is no longer any business of yours, or anyone else in the UK. who we now accept into the EU. Ellers. Nobody on this side of the Channel is presuming to tell you who you can, or cannot, align with after Brexit. The addition of 5 former Yugoslav republics into the EU will go a long way towards healing wounds in that part of the World - they may not add much to the EU in financial terms but that will come.
 
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colognehornet said:
It is no longer any business of yours, or anyone else in the UK. who we now accept into the EU. Ellers. Nobody on this side of the Channel is presuming to tell you who you can, or cannot, align with after Brexit. The addition of 5 former Yugoslav republics into the EU will go a long way towards healing wounds in that part of the World - they may not add much to the EU in financial terms but that will come.
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Nobody on this side actually cares...
 
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It is no longer any business of yours, or anyone else in the UK.
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Actually I am just pointing out something I said a while back regarding the future of the EU... and was told on here that I was talking rubbish... Funnily It turns out I wasn't.
I don't give a to22 about what the EU does now. Go and take in all these great wealthy countries... I am sure Germany will support them. <laugh>
So pleased we are out of that failing desperate union.
 
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