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Kemi keeps dropping words & phrases such as ‘shafted’, ‘half-arsed’ into the discourse, as well as telling Sir Keir ‘he doesn’t have the balls’ . Is it going to establish a view of her as straight talking, or rude? John Rentoul has noted his displeasure with it a couple of times

Labour has blocked every single measure we’ve put forward to cut immigration and stop abuse of the system.

Now they’re pushing one half-arsed proposal — it’s weak, it won’t work. It’s time they stopped playing games and backed our Deportation bill.

https://x.com/kemibadenoch/status/1920739530862186504?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q

Personally, I think it demeans her, makes it harder to take her seriously, and displays a lack of gravitas. There's plenty of ways to make a forceful point without slipping into rudeness.

Bollocks.

FPT @Luckyguy1983

Net Zero is starting to now run into economic reality with electric cars and deindustrialisation in a way it wasn't in the 2010s.

To go further, we will have to accept real economic damage being done now, with the hope that our global leadership on it galvanises a faster transition to Net Zero worldwide.

Will we?

To put the actual argument to one side, it was interesting to find that even Reform voters aren't that fussed about Net Zero - only 9% picked it as an issue. It's very much an internet meme.

Yet Farage considers this the "next Brexit". That feels like a fumble to me. They should stick to national identity and immigration.

https://www.ft.com/content/ecb81e0e-11f6-469b-86ef-8e29996b9019
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/media/2cyg5l1m/more-in-common-post-election-briefing-4.pdf

I'd say that Lincs is the one to watch, again. The new Reform Mayor Andrea Jenkins, and also her boss (?) Zia Yusuf, have been leading with green-bashing, and Lincs is the only place where they have both Mayor and control of the Council.

Yes Lincs is reported to now have 12k green jobs and a green economy worth £1.2bn, according to the Local Enterprise Partnership.

The low carbon and energy economy, already worth £1.2bn per annum to Greater Lincolnshire, holds exceptional potential offering an unprecedented level of private investment of £60bn over the next fifteen years.
https://www.greaterlincolnshirelep.co.uk/priorities-and-plans/game-changers/green-energy/

If they want to recreate the 1970s or 1950s, that might not be the place to start.

Apparently net zero costs a bomb, right, so we're going to scrap that woke lefty nonsense, right, and go back to the good old days with British power stations burning British coal, right, who wants wind turbines or pylons anyway, right.

I know that "Net Zero" is completely the wrong messaging, but the goal of energy independence is a good one. The environment needs to be tret as a bonus rather than the objective. Green energy is how we regain our place of power, no longer at the whim of Putin or money markets, we not only generate free energy but we can design build and export the technology.

It should be a no-brainer. But "investment" is seen to be "subsidy" and thus "who will pay for it"

Told you all, cash is pretty much only used by dodgy people to conduct crimes.

Revealed: Oliver Oakes resigned days after brother arrested with ‘large amount of cash’

Exclusive: William Oakes charged with ‘transferring criminal property’ and remanded in custody

Oliver Oakes, who resigned abruptly as Alpine Formula One team principal this week, did so just days after his brother William, a fellow director at Hitech Grand Prix, was arrested.

The Telegraph can reveal that William Oakes, 31, who is listed as a director of Hitech Grand Prix on Companies House, was arrested in the Silverstone Park area last Thursday, and charged with “transferring criminal property” last Friday. He was in possession of a large amount of cash, according to police. He has been remanded in custody.

A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said: “William Oakes, 31, of Rugby was charged with transferring criminal property on Friday, May 2 after he was stopped in the Silverstone Park area in Northamptonshire on Thursday, May 1, 2025 in possession of a large amount of cash. He appeared before Northampton Magistrates’ Court on Saturday, May 3, and remanded in custody.”

Oliver Oakes, who was at the Miami Grand Prix at the time, declined to comment when approached by The Telegraph. He handed in his resignation earlier this week. His whereabouts are currently unknown. He is understood to have flown to Dubai following Sunday’s Miami Grand Prix.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/formula-1/2025/05/08/oliver-oakes-alpine-resigned-days-police-raid-silverstone/

If it was all in coins, think how many children he could have choked!

AI is really annoying. I've noticed that every article and social media post about crashes on the A1 in the last few weeks includes this exact phrase: "which is the longest numbered road in the UK".

Soon - "12 children have been killed in a bus crash on the A1, which is the longest numbered road in the UK"

Also not tecnically true. The A1 has frequent breaks where the A1(M) takes over. The M6 is longer.

(M) sections are still A1

But not, any longer, the same named road. Though this is at best contetious.
I can't remember whose view I am quoting here. Possibly it's from SABRE ior Chris's roads database or Pathetic Motorways.

what have i started