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Rishi should have touched on climate change – politicalbetting.com
Rishi should have touched on climate change – politicalbetting.com
Sunak gets a lot of coverage in the papers this morning for his first big speech of year setting out his thoughts on the main themes that no doubt will run until the general election.
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It is clear the climate is changing and more action should be taken. But this is a global issue and not one we can solve alone.
Moreover all action comes with a cost (and the UK is already doing a lot). I think in difficult economic times a bread and butter agenda is the right strategy
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/carbon-co2-emissions
It has been a massive success for the UK, albeit a somewhat painful one. People who make out this government has done nothing about it are not interested in preventing a climate catastrophe, but base politics.
https://twitter.com/skynews/status/1610811173124833283?s=61&t=RHCX_17J7mwCQp2YoiqWPQ
And I say that as someone who's now there myself.
Did all the Sun's top people migrate to the Star?
Still, better late than never.
I'm guessing the palace will have to respond, even if it is in a "recollections may vary" way.
I'd also guess that this book is pretty much the end of it; all Harry's ammunition will have used. Communications between the royals and Harry will be muted and careful, as it's obvious that anything they say or do may be spun against them.
It is a global issue and it isn't one we are solving alone, just look at the stats for China's renewables and the USA's Inflation Reduction Act. We should continue to do our bit out of enlightened self interest.
That's the way she comes across to me, even if she is 100% correct in everything she says.
But we won't do any of those things. Because paying the Chinese government a vast mark-up for nuclear power which may come on line in a decade gives us a weapon to taunt Keir Starmer with.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nadhim-zahawi-mocked-for-backing-johnson-and-sunak-in-same-half-hour_uk_6355a711e4b08e0e608fcd8b
Extraordinary.
I was thinking if she tires of the public spotlight she has a fabulous career ahead of her at OFSTED on that basis.
The royal family is farcical and I don't like gawping at their entitled nonsense.
Give me real people watching. Sitting in cafes, chatting in shops, exchanging conversations with people on walks. Real people, real lives.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/scorecard/ECKO55719
It's a relatively harmless hobby.
This guy appears to have problems tying his own shoelaces.
McCarthy’s political operation spent millions on lawmakers now opposing his speaker dreams
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/04/mccarthy-political-action-committee-opposition-00076377
Darling (puzzled): 'I don't think you should say that to her, sir.'
In some respects (reducing our own CO2 emissions), we've done fairly well.
In others - creating new industrial infrastructure, for example - far less so.
Electric motors, batteries, electric vehicles, power inverters etc are largely produced elsewhere, and our balance of payments will feel that for the foreseeable future.
It's partly the attitude that sees all if this as a cost, rather than a business opportunity, which means our economy will probably continue to underperform relative to our peers.
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At least two of them will be achieved (or not), almost irrespective of what government does.
Why aren't we paying nurses and ambulance staff more to deal with understaffing, regardless of the strikes? If we were running a factory we'd need to pay the salaries necessary to get staff. Leaving aside considerations of where it's best to tax, would people begrudge (say) 1p on tax to pay for adequate hospital care? Don't think so.
Instead the Spiv set who own the Tory party get very rich as middlemen selling everything off for a fat fee, and then in managing contracts from foreign owners always threatening to pull out unless subsidies are paid. Then close up shop anyway.
Whilst we are building a load of off-shore wind, none of the kit is UK. We have demand, we have industrial know-how, we have industrial capabilities. But we don't want to invest, especially in green crap, so we buy it from someone else then shout at the people stuck in warehousing jobs that they are unproductive.
They have no answers at all. The problem with setting out the things that concern people and then doing nothing about them is that voters tend to get a bit upset...
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I presume everyone else was absorbed by the fast-moving House Speaker vote drama.
He also talked about “Austerity” while increasing government spending in real terms for four years straight, so I guess politicians will say anything they think the opposition (and an innumerate media, see yesterday morning’s thread) will not properly challenge.
In coming months, problems will appear which will make people start to say "Oh, that was all talk", so a recovery will probably slip back somewhat. But I think he can reasonably hope that the lead will initially be cut from 20+ to the 10-15 range.
Whilst Keir Starmer launches another rebrand, Conservatives are delivering on the people's priorities
https://twitter.com/Conservatives/status/1610916510838521857
If you've changed leaders multiple times while in office, accusing the opposition of "rebranding' is just pathetic.
Interesting.
https://news.sky.com/watch-live
This is a non-fascist version of “our enemy is strong, and weak” thinking.
Hard line and typical Tory measures like the bill on industrial action are just confirmation they’re “bad”. And nobody is prepared to allow for good faith in these ideas
Moderately sensible or practical policy efforts - as mostly articulated in yesterdays speech - are just dismissed as weak and pathetic.
He knows this so I can only assume he expects to beat the Autumn Statement by the end of this year and then wants to start making some token down-payments on it to impress the markets.
Sunak didn’t help himself yesterday by creating pledges for things that were likely to happen regardless of anything he did.
I’m sitting back and lapping it all up with glee.
My guess is a moderate Republican will eventually make it with many Democrats voting 'Present', but who knows.
In any case much better than Biden could have expected before the midterms.
Does make you wonder why he avoided the topic.
Football: well, my Atalanta bet failed but it's come off 2/3 times for nice wins so can't be too grumpy.
Significant result with Inter beating Napoli (admittedly, a home win, but still, defeat for the leaders of Serie A).
There's a piece on CNN about the history of such cases - one in the 1920s otherwise all 19th Century. Most were resolved by a mix of concessions and switching to plurality voting - problem this time is that the former have all been proposed already and the latter delivers a Dem speaker! CNN reckons half of the rebels might be ready to peel away but this still leaves a hardcore of ten who can continue the blockage.
Given that most of the other GOP congressmen will want to achieve something (and some will lose in 2024 if they don't) there's going to plenty of GOP internal strife, possibly bipartisanship to get some things done, followed by even more GOP internal strife.
A friend was incredibly accident prone - getting a glass of water during the night, he trod on and broke the dog bowl.
This sliced a chunk out of his foot. Hospital job. At the hospital, they asked where the missing chunk of foot was. His finance checked the kitchen - given the paw prints she reckoned it had been… er…. absorbed.
He ended up having reconstructive surgery.
At the wedding he got a pile of stainless steel dog bowls inscribed with the Gadsden Flag motto.
The country is in a bit of denial about how bad the fiscal situation is, but they're only willing to listen to Sunak/HMG in order to criticise them - so to get people to talk about the debt/deficit you have to say something to be criticised.
It's not good for Labour if the discussion moves away from how bad public services are, on to the fact that there is even less money than in 2010 to pay for them.