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Local NIMBYs are the true anti-growth coalition.
(Fracking does seem fairly pointless at this time though - can anyone disabuse of this view?)
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Tory MPs absolutely incredulous that they're being told they will lose the whip if they don't vote for the fracking motion which breaks the 2019 Tory manifesto.
And I don't get the impression chief whip Wendy Morton has good answers to obvious questions....
It was not the working poor who Sunak raised National insurance on to fund social care but higher earners, indeed the very poor don't pay National insurance at all.
Proper Tories, including High Tory Anglicans would support preservation of inherited wealth. Don't you try lecturing me on what is morally wrong just because proper Tory values are not you libertarian agenda, tough!!!!
I sincerely hope we didn't enter any a couple of months back.
However, it is worth noting that oil and gas companies will (all things being equal) drill the wells that are most likely to encounter hydrocarbons, based on core samples and seismic. The chances of finding something worth exploiting fall with each subsequent hole, until eventually a formation is written off.
I'd best clear it with the wife however. She won't be happy.
They may support preservation of inherited wealth, yet do they support it at the expense of the working poor? Should someone earning £15k face higher taxes so you can "preserve your wealth" I'd suggest that your local vicar may have a different answer to what you expect. Having sat through seven years of weekly sermons at school I'm pretty sure the school chaplain would be firmly opposed to making poor people pay for your wealth preservation.
(IIRC, Vestas makes wind turbine blades on the Isle of Wight for a lot of Western Europe.)
And while council funded residents pay less they are a very consistent source of income while self-funding results in some gaps.
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https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1582034277524332544?s=46&t=1KENNfcwOvbWPl8-mRg2Ew
If you Tories are happy being on approximately 12% in Scotland, then that’s absolutely fine by me.
(1) We had essentially no long-term LNG supply contracts, which meant that we were entirely at the mercy of world prices for gas. This was very smart from 2016 to 2020. And very dumb in 2022.
(2) We have very limited levels of gas storage, which means we have no buffer. We need LNG cargoes for power stations, we can't say "nah, too expensive, I'll wait until the next one."
“It now seems likely Putin will detonate some sort of nuclear device in or around Ukraine. That will precipitate the biggest global crisis since Cuba. This morning ministers and Tory MPs are saying the only person they can find to lead us through that crisis is Liz Truss.”
https://twitter.com/dpjhodges/status/1582627095486038016?s=46&t=1KENNfcwOvbWPl8-mRg2Ew
Thatcherite economics
Fracking
The Conservative Party
What’s not to like?
As I said long before she ever reached the members’ vote: Liz Truss is my kind of Tory! 😄
Sun live blog: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/20143730/liz-truss-news-latest-interview-resign/#liveblog-entry-20161259
No it is not the working poor either, anyone earning under £35k actually if anything saw a fractional NI cut by Sunak. It was higher earners like you who saw the biggest rise in NI to pay for social care.
So don't try and pretend you don't have any interest in ensuring NI is not increased for higher earners to fund social care!
Long time Indy supporter Robin McAlpine's two-word verdict on the SNP's new economic prospectus for independence, "utter pish". Longer read here 👇http://robinmcalpine.org/this-paper-answers-nothing-this-government-has-no-answers/
https://twitter.com/holyroodmandy/status/1582393187796389889
https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1582686502148276224
Dogger Bank III, IV and V please.
Not Lake District I, Cairngorms I or even North Pennines I.
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-mysterious-ben-wallace-trip-to-washington-amid-fears-of-russian-escalation-12723942
Both you and Max are classical liberals, more in common with each other than traditional Tories.
Scrapping the £86k cap hits average homeowners or less with £200k to £400k homes especially hard as most of their estate goes in care costs.
The biggest rise in NI by Sunak by far was for those earning over £100k, lower earners even saw a slight NI cut.
So don't give me this crap about NI hitting the poor most while the social care cap only protects the rich!!!
Even at the time I suggested it should be paid for by decreasing the additional rate threshold and adding 2p to the basic and higher rates. Ideally not at all and the state takes a charge on estate values.
You want poor people to subsidise your inheritance. I don't.
I mean, we make blades for turbines today - but do we import the resin needed to make that?
And there's bound to be a fair amount of semiconductors and other specialist kit involved in their production. Are we going to subsidize a domestic electronics industry to make those components too? I mean, I'd be staggered if Denmark, despite the presence of Vestas, could make a single wind turbine if cut off from the rest of the world.
I guess one can improve energy security by having big stockpiles of subcomponents needed, but there the inevitable risk that you end up basically writing big cheques to people for "energy security", when all we've done is move the dependence further up the supply chain.
I suspect this will be the same.
And recently, the Tate in Liverpool has had an exhibition called 'Radical Landscapes' which showed the UK landscape in the 1960s to 1990s. Quite a few nice pictures of coal fired power stations to look at.
What more could you want!?
Like the start of, ahem, Threads.
There is no other way Putin can win. If his army is not capable of a second invasion from Belarus, he is out of options
Although I'm not 100% on what that means
7pm tonight is going to be fun and close.
Like keeping the football world cup on free to air TV, there must be some locations that are kept free of turbines, but for bog standard farmland in much of the country I don't see an issue.
That said, I suspect (but don't know) that North Sea turbines are less likely to be completely lacking in wind. They are also bigger (I think) and we have the tech to keep building them.
I remain convinced, and I hope I'm wrong, that Russia has already advised the US it will be performing a high-altitude test over the Black Sea or Arctic.
Then after that, inform Ukraine it has 48 hours to draw back from Kherson to "X" otherwise Kherson gets it.
A bit more....playful than going straight in.
And it would invite utter fury from his Chinese paymasters, whose primary policy goal is to avoid nuclear proliferation in Asia.
It's not impossible that he is mad enough to resort to a nuclear weapon, but it's certainly not 'as likely as not'.
If Starmer wins a decent majority then no need to do any deals/have any understandings with the SNP?
And that was my assumption. He would keep his boot on the Ukrainian throat with the drones and the energy deprivation, and then hope to win conventionally
However the urgent sounds coming out of HMG and some journalists suggests something bigger, sooner
I do not believe Wallace flew so suddenly to DC, in person, just to discuss Iranian missiles
In the uplands it is slightly more difficult. They are visible for miles and if built on peat soil may not actually be reducing CO2 emissions. New roads are required in places where there really shouldn't be roads.
The offshore ones can be bigger, don't need new roads, are easier to get heavy equipment to, allow bigger blades and perform an additional service of protecting the sea bed from trawling.
The only issue is sea birds but I don't know what the latest research is on that.
I do look forward to West Burton Fusion Power though!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-60848933
Putin wouldn't go straight in with a full nuclear attack as that loses him his leverage. Nukes are tools of leverage. So the obvious path would be a detonation under the guise of an "exercise" to prove he's not mucking about. Informing the US would be a necessary step to avoid any misunderstanding.
You want people POORER (not the poor) than your parents to fund their care through their taxes so you can inherit their wealth.
It would be interesting to see how close the design is to the reactors that power the US carriers. Which are larger versions of sub reactor tech.
The US and U.K. have shared a lot since the US gave us the initial designs.
There is the chemical weapons out the bag first, possibly biological too.
Maybe even targetted political assassinations too.
Nuclear is a final option, and even then he'll drop one on a city and blame the Ukrainians (oh look, Zelensky bought a nuke from Israel, fired it from Kiev, it failed and went off on their own city) to try and deflect blame.
Slowly, slowly escalating..... but I do agree things are slowly getting worse......
📈30pt LABOUR LEAD
🌹Lab 52 (+1)
🌳Con 22 (-1)
🔶LD 11 (+1)
🎗️SNP 4 (=)
🌍Gre 2 (-2)
⬜️Other 8 (=)
2,195 UK adults, 14-16 Oct
(chg from 7-9 Oct) https://twitter.com/SavantaComRes/status/1582747340108050432/photo/1
Starmer 48% (+11)
Truss 20% (-15)
Don't know 32% (+3) https://twitter.com/SavantaComRes/status/1582747345535369217/photo/1
Putin isn't watching CNN, or looking at Oryx, he's hearing what his Generals tell him.
And they're probably telling him that Yes, losses have been high, but they've been even worse for the Ukrainians. The current attack means that the last of the Ukrainian reserves will have been committed. And the Ukrainian spirit is close to broken with our targeted infrastructure attacks. With our 300,000 fresh soldiers and a broken and battered enemy, we just need one more push and Zelenskky will sue for peace.
Truss however has reversed that and delayed the introduction of the cap too
- Largest ever @SavantaComRes Labour lead
- Largest ever @SavantaComRes Labour vote share (record broken each of the last three weeks)
- Lowest Conservative vote share since May 2019 (Brexit Party were on 20% in that poll)
https://twitter.com/SavantaComRes/status/1582747340108050432
You by contrast want average home owners with properties of £200k to £400k to lose most of their property value in care costs by scrapping the £86k care cap
“If Russia faces destruction of their army and utter defeat by NATO, they will use nukes, then NATO will respond with nukes and civilization is over”
“But, hey, look on the bright side! At least Russia doesn’t get Crimea in that scenario, so you can be comforted by that thought, while watching the mushroom clouds rise.”
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1581999825339699201?s=46&t=1bJFP8rvix7V_P6lYoE7pA
- nukes will divide/panic NATO
- our untrained reservists are a brilliant army just waiting to win
- the other side must have taken even heavier casualties than us.
Note: assumes no tactical voting.
So, in March earlier this year, we should have pushed the big red button on going ahead with more onshore and offshore wind, and fracking, and gas storage, and tidal, and North Sea oil and gas, and modular nukes, and anything else that was vaguely plausible. It's an emergency, so you have an emergency response.
That then gives us the best chance of not experiencing an emergency several winters in a row, and once we're past the emergency stage we can see what has worked, what hasn't, where we want to trim, and what we want to reinforce.
Instead, we've done everything very slowly (even the simple decision to reopen Rough took many months), and we've backed off from pursuing all the options available to us.
Nothing would have made much of a difference for this winter (except perhaps Rough) but if we have problems next winter it will be because of this sluggish and half-hearted response.