On topic: Real wages look quite good for Biden(Harris) at the moment. Are we sure that the economics are a problem in the US as they are elsewhere? Still got a few months to go.
The numbers of jobs created under Biden have been remarkable. The Stock Exchanges are at record highs.
All Trump can do is talk down America. Because there's only one with a track record of making America great again.
The world has got much more dangerous under Biden. There were no horrible wars under Trump
Coincidence? Bad luck? Maybe. But then all the good things that happened under Biden might be down to luck and coincidence as well
The world was much more dangerous under Trump.
It was under him we had a global pandemic and lockdowns.
It was also under him the Vaccines were developed, and the announcement of that fact was deferred until the week after the election.
That was the odd thing about the last US election. Trump had a good story to tell about the pandemic, and his and VP Pence's role in combating it, but because Trump was running scared of the alt-right covid conspiracy nuts, he did not make that case.
One of Trump’s personal proud achievements in office was “Operation Warp Speed”, the US code name name for the accelerated development and approval of the Covid vaccines. Almost every time he mentions it at his rallies, a significant proportion of the the crowd boos loudly.
It’s an example of the contrarianism and polarisation seen by both sides in US politics, and the change in leadership happened just as the vaccine rollout started. The liberal media switched almost overnight from “Trump’s dangerous vaccine” to “Biden’s wonderful vaccine”.
Did the liberal media really shout about "Trump's dangerous vaccine"?
Could I see some links?
Most of their own commentary was wiped from the internet a few months later, but the gist of it was they thought that Trump’s accelerated plan was prioritising the election date over the safety case.
I normally agree with you on most things but I can't agree with that.
Rule number one of the internet is that nothing gets wiped from it.
I shall keep looking, but there’s never been such a concerted effort to downrank anything, as there was with the covid vaccines.
Well, PB is a great source, as the vaccine was discussed to death there. (Mostly with us being rude about the EU, but there was a lot of talk about vaccine procurement etc. And old articles and comments are definitely not purged from PB.)
Bizarre kite to fly - impossible to do the following day and weirdly after the Lord Mayors any later
Next day is utterly impossible, only day to make sense would be to pick a date a month or so later to have as a bank holiday and have a victory parade/celebrations then.
There speaks someone who’s never lived in a Muslim country, where they call the holiday at 21:00 for the next day, having sighted or otherwise the new moon. 🌙
This is a self inflicted wound. We will have higher energy prices as a consequence.
Idiot.
Winter Blackouts in a long cold high pressure spell are already more than possible.
He needs to remember what Power Cuts did to Heaths Government.
Could you let us know what proportion of UK electricity generation is from oil?
It is not just oil but gas as well. 32% of our power generation was from gas last year.
The UK spent almost £50 billion on oil and gas imports last year. This decision will not reduce consumption by a single barrel but will just increase our balance of trade deficit and make us more reliable on imports, many from unstable places whose environmental controls are far below our own.
It will also do immense damage to our petrochemical industry. Good luck building using electric cars without hydrocarbons.
It is a fecking stupid thing to do with no redeeming factors. Virtue signalling to a suicidal level.
But the decision is not about what we do now, but about what we do some years in the future.
Yes and some years in the future we are still going to need petrochemicals, NHS medicines and everything else the industry supports.
We should be looking to end imports and the fungible profits that go to Russia and the Middle East before we look to cut our own production.
Amazing that people do not realise that a ban on using oil and gas as fuel would just result in it being burned off in flares and huge inflation in (and shortages of) the million and one other essential things made from oil as they would no longer be subsidised by profits from the petrol and gas distilled from the crude oil.
On topic: Real wages look quite good for Biden(Harris) at the moment. Are we sure that the economics are a problem in the US as they are elsewhere? Still got a few months to go.
The numbers of jobs created under Biden have been remarkable. The Stock Exchanges are at record highs.
All Trump can do is talk down America. Because there's only one with a track record of making America great again.
The world has got much more dangerous under Biden. There were no horrible wars under Trump
Coincidence? Bad luck? Maybe. But then all the good things that happened under Biden might be down to luck and coincidence as well
Like record manufacturing investment ? That just happened all in its own, I suppose ?
I does not matter one groundhog shit what Biden has done, the electoral will mainly be focused on the future and the next four years. And they now look at him and think 'care home time'.
On topic: Real wages look quite good for Biden(Harris) at the moment. Are we sure that the economics are a problem in the US as they are elsewhere? Still got a few months to go.
The numbers of jobs created under Biden have been remarkable. The Stock Exchanges are at record highs.
All Trump can do is talk down America. Because there's only one with a track record of making America great again.
The world has got much more dangerous under Biden. There were no horrible wars under Trump
Coincidence? Bad luck? Maybe. But then all the good things that happened under Biden might be down to luck and coincidence as well
Like record manufacturing investment ? That just happened all in its own, I suppose ?
Higher interest rates mean mortgage, car payments etc may have eaten into disposable income faster than it has risen. So people feel worse off.
In the UK I'd suggest waiting lists, collapsing infrastructure and failing services are as much a factor as being at the mercy of global forces in eviction of our last incompetent government. According to Yougov Labour got it's highest % of vote in the high education / high income demographics, ~40%, those probably aren't people struggling that's people who are pissed off with the incompetence.
I'm reminded of the famous Harold Wilson maxim on this subject.
Before the election, some of the Tory-inclined on here would regularly sound off about how well wages were doing and how the self-employed were coining it in and how that would bring workers back to the Conservative fold.
Back in the real world, I'd argue my standard of living hasn't improved since 2010 - I've run hard to stand still. It's not so much the cost of a pint of milk that's the issue - it's the cost of things like insurance and utilties which have strained the finances. I feel I've been gouged by often foreign-owned companies and my hard earned is going to subsidise people in other countries.
The current model of capitalism has failed - it's not capitalism itself which has failed but how it is being used in the 2020s.
I must admit I don't remember anyone on here saying the self-employed were coining it in. If they had I certainly would have disputed that. My average day rate is currently less than 2/3rds of what it was in 2010. That is across a range of industries/sectors, not just oilfield work.
“Can you imagine what it would feel like to wake up on November 6 and discover that a plurality of Americans chose the insurrectionist who attempted a coup?
Imagine what such an administration would be emboldened to do.”
I suggest they get used to the idea, because unless the Dems see sense in the next month...
Though, as @rcs1000 has pointed out, the climate is against the Democrats anyway, even if they ditch Biden.
Besides. Whilst the Dems will clearly be culpable for not putting up the best fight they can, the real culpability is elsewhere. With the Republicans for inserting themselves so far up Trump's colon, and with Trump... for being Trump, basically.
Because there's no such thing as free money perhaps.
I’m not miserable. I enjoy someone else’s discomfort as much as anyone!
If you listen carefully you can hear Janet Street Porter screaming at Kier Starmer "Why do you hate pensioners? Giving people a day off when pensioners already have every day off!"
On topic: Real wages look quite good for Biden(Harris) at the moment. Are we sure that the economics are a problem in the US as they are elsewhere? Still got a few months to go.
The numbers of jobs created under Biden have been remarkable. The Stock Exchanges are at record highs.
All Trump can do is talk down America. Because there's only one with a track record of making America great again.
The world has got much more dangerous under Biden. There were no horrible wars under Trump
Coincidence? Bad luck? Maybe. But then all the good things that happened under Biden might be down to luck and coincidence as well
The world was much more dangerous under Trump.
It was under him we had a global pandemic and lockdowns.
It was also under him the Vaccines were developed, and the announcement of that fact was deferred until the week after the election.
That was the odd thing about the last US election. Trump had a good story to tell about the pandemic, and his and VP Pence's role in combating it, but because Trump was running scared of the alt-right covid conspiracy nuts, he did not make that case.
One of Trump’s personal proud achievements in office was “Operation Warp Speed”, the US code name name for the accelerated development and approval of the Covid vaccines. Almost every time he mentions it at his rallies, a significant proportion of the the crowd boos loudly.
It’s an example of the contrarianism and polarisation seen by both sides in US politics, and the change in leadership happened just as the vaccine rollout started. The liberal media switched almost overnight from “Trump’s dangerous vaccine” to “Biden’s wonderful vaccine”.
Did the liberal media really shout about "Trump's dangerous vaccine"?
Could I see some links?
Most of their own commentary was wiped from the internet a few months later, but the gist of it was they thought that Trump’s accelerated plan was prioritising the election date over the safety case.
I normally agree with you on most things but I can't agree with that.
Rule number one of the internet is that nothing gets wiped from it.
I shall keep looking, but there’s never been such a concerted effort to downrank anything, as there was with the covid vaccines.
Well, PB is a great source, as the vaccine was discussed to death there. (Mostly with us being rude about the EU, but there was a lot of talk about vaccine procurement etc. And old articles and comments are definitely not purged from PB.)
Indeed Sir, you do a good job!
Speaking of which, where is the post-election donate button?
Good article Robert but surely in Spain the Socialists remained in power with the support of Podemos and Catalan nationalists even if no longer largest party?
Trump is favourite but not a certainty. The US economy is doing better than most nations with stronger growth and lower inflation, though relatively high interest rates remain a problem for the Biden administration and the Democrat controlled Senate. Trump is also such a polarising character a lot of Independents will still vote against him even had they voted for a more centrist Republican candidate like Nikki Haley
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
Oh dear. I think we know where that last bit is going with the tiniest of edits.
Reform is essentially Britain Trump.
I am not sure I agree with that. I certainly don't see Farage, for all his faults, encouraging his supporters to storm Parliament after any election.
Some longtime aides and advisers to President Biden have become increasingly convinced that he will have to step aside from the campaign, and in recent days they have been trying to come up with ways to persuade him that he should, according to three people briefed on the matter.
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
Oh dear. I think we know where that last bit is going with the tiniest of edits.
Reform is essentially Britain Trump.
I am not sure I agree with that. I certainly don't see Farage, for all his faults, encouraging his supporters to storm Parliament after any election.
“Can you imagine what it would feel like to wake up on November 6 and discover that a plurality of Americans chose the insurrectionist who attempted a coup?
Imagine what such an administration would be emboldened to do.”
I suggest they get used to the idea, because unless the Dems see sense in the next month...
Though, as @rcs1000 has pointed out, the climate is against the Democrats anyway, even if they ditch Biden.
Besides. Whilst the Dems will clearly be culpable for not putting up the best fight they can, the real culpability is elsewhere. With the Republicans for inserting themselves so far up Trump's colon, and with Trump... for being Trump, basically.
On topic: Real wages look quite good for Biden(Harris) at the moment. Are we sure that the economics are a problem in the US as they are elsewhere? Still got a few months to go.
The numbers of jobs created under Biden have been remarkable. The Stock Exchanges are at record highs.
All Trump can do is talk down America. Because there's only one with a track record of making America great again.
The world has got much more dangerous under Biden. There were no horrible wars under Trump
Coincidence? Bad luck? Maybe. But then all the good things that happened under Biden might be down to luck and coincidence as well
Like record manufacturing investment ? That just happened all in its own, I suppose ?
I does not matter one groundhog shit what Biden has done, the electoral will mainly be focused on the future and the next four years. And they now look at him and think 'care home time'.
Maybe your standard of living hasn't gone up. But you are supporting a larger and growing share of the population who don't earn an income. And no western country has reached the end of that process yet. Enjoy!
Thinking about Kemi's DON'T YOU DARE LEAK THIS shadow cabinet outburst, I think she overcooked it by trying to do too much. She needed to get some distance between her and Sunak to gain credibility with the rank and file, and she did it almost perfectly, but couldn't resist trying to crush Suella at the same time. That undermines her work putting distance between herself and Sunak, because accusing a right-winger of being mentally ill is very Sunak-era style stuff.
How much will it cost Lord’s if they have to refund three days of ticket sales, and eat the cost of a whole load of F&B they ordered in expecting at least three days’ play?
Can you insure against such an eventuality?
A good question. You’ll usually find someone at Lloyds who will insure pretty much anything, and most likely hedge their bets by trading against the outcome they don’t want.
The venue will likely have some sort of agreement with daily suppliers. I suspect that, if you could get your hands on the unprinted Lord’s hospitality menus for Saturday, you’d notice that the chef’s specials board at half the hotels in London will look remarkably similar!
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
Oh dear. I think we know where that last bit is going with the tiniest of edits.
Reform is essentially Britain Trump.
I am not sure I agree with that. I certainly don't see Farage, for all his faults, encouraging his supporters to storm Parliament after any election.
This is a self inflicted wound. We will have higher energy prices as a consequence.
Idiot.
Winter Blackouts in a long cold high pressure spell are already more than possible.
He needs to remember what Power Cuts did to Heaths Government.
Could you let us know what proportion of UK electricity generation is from oil?
It is not just oil but gas as well. 32% of our power generation was from gas last year.
The UK spent almost £50 billion on oil and gas imports last year. This decision will not reduce consumption by a single barrel but will just increase our balance of trade deficit and make us more reliable on imports, many from unstable places whose environmental controls are far below our own.
It will also do immense damage to our petrochemical industry. Good luck building using electric cars without hydrocarbons.
It is a fecking stupid thing to do with no redeeming factors. Virtue signalling to a suicidal level.
But the decision is not about what we do now, but about what we do some years in the future.
Yes and some years in the future we are still going to need petrochemicals, NHS medicines and everything else the industry supports.
We should be looking to end imports and the fungible profits that go to Russia and the Middle East before we look to cut our own production.
Amazing that people do not realise that a ban on using oil and gas as fuel would just result in it being burned off in flares and huge inflation in (and shortages of) the million and one other essential things made from oil as they would no longer be subsidised by profits from the petrol and gas distilled from the crude oil.
I am normally a really measured poster, but I do believe that this is the biggest load of tosh I've read on PB.
Oil and gas are going to be continued to be produced irrespective of whether there is any fuel demand for them*, because they have uses beyond fuel. (Which you get.)
But why would that make them more expensive?
You seem to be suggesting that the supply curve for oil points in a different direction to every other commodity in the world. Can I recommend this excellent piece: http://theoildrum.com/node/2899
* And of course, fuel demand will continue for 100 years anyway, but that's another story.
So, can anyone see behind the first statement from Louise Haigh, the Transport Minister:
New Transport Secretary Louise Haigh promised to deliver the biggest overhaul to transport in a generation.
The Secretary of State immediately convened officials to begin work at pace across the department on rail reform, further devolution of bus powers, ensuring infrastructure works for the whole country, and supporting local authorities to fix roads for the long term.
In her first address to Department for Transport (DfT) staff on Monday (8 July 2024), Haigh set out her 5 strategic priorities, putting transport at the heart of mission-driven government.
They include:
improving performance on the railways and driving forward rail reform improving bus services and growing usage across the country transforming infrastructure to work for the whole country, promoting social mobility and tackling regional inequality delivering greener transport better integrating transport networks
Getting straight into action, the Transport Secretary’s first official visit later this week will be focused on plans to deliver better buses in every corner of the country, beginning a round of engagement with Mayors and devolved leaders who will be key delivery partners.
And we have:
The newly-appointed Rail Minister, Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill CBE will also bring decades of experience to help realise the Government’s ambition of transforming infrastructure and improving public transport to deliver for passengers.
Unsurprising but disappointing lack of investment in new roads and bridges as a priority, both of which can be used by buses and cyclists as well as vehicles.
New bridges especially create connections where none exist currently and new roads not just improve transportation but enables economic growth and development on the side of it too.
I'm reminded of the famous Harold Wilson maxim on this subject.
Before the election, some of the Tory-inclined on here would regularly sound off about how well wages were doing and how the self-employed were coining it in and how that would bring workers back to the Conservative fold.
Back in the real world, I'd argue my standard of living hasn't improved since 2010 - I've run hard to stand still. It's not so much the cost of a pint of milk that's the issue - it's the cost of things like insurance and utilties which have strained the finances. I feel I've been gouged by often foreign-owned companies and my hard earned is going to subsidise people in other countries.
The current model of capitalism has failed - it's not capitalism itself which has failed but how it is being used in the 2020s.
I must admit I don't remember anyone on here saying the self-employed were coining it in. If they had I certainly would have disputed that. My average day rate is currently less than 2/3rds of what it was in 2010. That is across a range of industries/sectors, not just oilfield work.
Me too.
In actual terms I am earning around 2/3rds of what I was earning in the late 2000s. Whilst employee wages went up mine went down. I don't believe it was down to Government policy merely supply v demand for consultants like me. Thus in order to ensure business my prices have had to decrease. It's been a buyers market, I am given ultimatums by regular customers to match competitor pricing if I want to keep their business. I can't really complain because that is what I would do too.
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
Oh dear. I think we know where that last bit is going with the tiniest of edits.
Reform is essentially Britain Trump.
I am not sure I agree with that. I certainly don't see Farage, for all his faults, encouraging his supporters to storm Parliament after any election.
Pause.
You do know you've witch'd it now, yes?
"To the barricades, mes amis gammoniste! Pour l'honneur, pour la glore, pour la Grande Bretagne Insoumis!"
Bizarre kite to fly - impossible to do the following day and weirdly after the Lord Mayors any later
Next day is utterly impossible, only day to make sense would be to pick a date a month or so later to have as a bank holiday and have a victory parade/celebrations then.
There speaks someone who’s never lived in a Muslim country, where they call the holiday at 21:00 for the next day, having sighted or otherwise the new moon. 🌙
They're set up for that though.
I've flown before in Alberta during a literal blizzard. The airport stayed open as normal and consistently sprayed our plane with jets of water to ensure the snow didn't freeze on the plane until our window on the runway opened and we could take off.
Snow here and everything shuts down. Shut down for snow there and they'd be shut for half the year.
It makes a big difference what you're set up for. Firms here aren't set up to have a bank holiday with zero notice.
Thinking about Kemi's DON'T YOU DARE LEAK THIS shadow cabinet outburst, I think she overcooked it by trying to do too much. She needed to get some distance between her and Sunak to gain credibility with the rank and file, and she did it almost perfectly, but couldn't resist trying to crush Suella at the same time. That undermines her work putting distance between herself and Sunak, because accusing a right-winger of being mentally ill is very Sunak-era style stuff.
Not sure there ever was a "Sunak-era" except perhaps for the duration of the Rishi Meal Deal.
Otherwise reckon points you raise make much sense.
Bizarre kite to fly - impossible to do the following day and weirdly after the Lord Mayors any later
Next day is utterly impossible, only day to make sense would be to pick a date a month or so later to have as a bank holiday and have a victory parade/celebrations then.
There speaks someone who’s never lived in a Muslim country, where they call the holiday at 21:00 for the next day, having sighted or otherwise the new moon. 🌙
They're set up for that though.
I've flown before in Alberta during a literal blizzard. The airport stayed open as normal and consistently sprayed our plane with jets of water to ensure the snow didn't freeze on the plane until our window on the runway opened and we could take off.
Snow here and everything shuts down. Shut down for snow there and they'd be shut for half the year.
It makes a big difference what you're set up for. Firms here aren't set up to have a bank holiday with zero notice.
Okay I’ll give you most of that comment. It’s either going to be tomorrow or the day after that’s the holiday, and you deal with it as it comes.
They definitely weren’t spraying the planes with water though. It’s a glycol de-icer, designed to stop water freezing on the wings and adversely affecting the aerodynamics of the planes.
I'm reminded of the famous Harold Wilson maxim on this subject.
Before the election, some of the Tory-inclined on here would regularly sound off about how well wages were doing and how the self-employed were coining it in and how that would bring workers back to the Conservative fold.
Back in the real world, I'd argue my standard of living hasn't improved since 2010 - I've run hard to stand still. It's not so much the cost of a pint of milk that's the issue - it's the cost of things like insurance and utilties which have strained the finances. I feel I've been gouged by often foreign-owned companies and my hard earned is going to subsidise people in other countries.
The current model of capitalism has failed - it's not capitalism itself which has failed but how it is being used in the 2020s.
I must admit I don't remember anyone on here saying the self-employed were coining it in. If they had I certainly would have disputed that. My average day rate is currently less than 2/3rds of what it was in 2010. That is across a range of industries/sectors, not just oilfield work.
Me too.
In actual terms I am earning around 2/3rds of what I was earning in the late 2000s. Whilst employee wages went up mine went down. I don't believe it was down to Government policy merely supply v demand for consultants like me. Thus in order to ensure business my prices have had to decrease. It's been a buyers market, I am given ultimatums by regular customers to match competitor pricing if I want to keep their business. I can't really complain because that is what I would do too.
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
@calvinrobinson Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country. British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
This is a self inflicted wound. We will have higher energy prices as a consequence.
Idiot.
Winter Blackouts in a long cold high pressure spell are already more than possible.
He needs to remember what Power Cuts did to Heaths Government.
Could you let us know what proportion of UK electricity generation is from oil?
It is not just oil but gas as well. 32% of our power generation was from gas last year.
The UK spent almost £50 billion on oil and gas imports last year. This decision will not reduce consumption by a single barrel but will just increase our balance of trade deficit and make us more reliable on imports, many from unstable places whose environmental controls are far below our own.
It will also do immense damage to our petrochemical industry. Good luck building using electric cars without hydrocarbons.
It is a fecking stupid thing to do with no redeeming factors. Virtue signalling to a suicidal level.
But the decision is not about what we do now, but about what we do some years in the future.
Yes and some years in the future we are still going to need petrochemicals, NHS medicines and everything else the industry supports.
We should be looking to end imports and the fungible profits that go to Russia and the Middle East before we look to cut our own production.
Amazing that people do not realise that a ban on using oil and gas as fuel would just result in it being burned off in flares and huge inflation in (and shortages of) the million and one other essential things made from oil as they would no longer be subsidised by profits from the petrol and gas distilled from the crude oil.
I am normally a really measured poster, but I do believe that this is the biggest load of tosh I've read on PB.
Oil and gas are going to be continued to be produced irrespective of whether there is any fuel demand for them*, because they have uses beyond fuel. (Which you get.)
But why would that make them more expensive?
You seem to be suggesting that the supply curve for oil points in a different direction to every other commodity in the world. Can I recommend this excellent piece: http://theoildrum.com/node/2899
* And of course, fuel demand will continue for 100 years anyway, but that's another story.
Are there any non fuel petroleum products which are markedly less damaging than fuel? Plastics don't have a great rep, nor fertilizers
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
@calvinrobinson Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country. British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
@calvinrobinson Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country. British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
This is a self inflicted wound. We will have higher energy prices as a consequence.
Idiot.
Winter Blackouts in a long cold high pressure spell are already more than possible.
He needs to remember what Power Cuts did to Heaths Government.
Could you let us know what proportion of UK electricity generation is from oil?
It is not just oil but gas as well. 32% of our power generation was from gas last year.
The UK spent almost £50 billion on oil and gas imports last year. This decision will not reduce consumption by a single barrel but will just increase our balance of trade deficit and make us more reliable on imports, many from unstable places whose environmental controls are far below our own.
It will also do immense damage to our petrochemical industry. Good luck building using electric cars without hydrocarbons.
It is a fecking stupid thing to do with no redeeming factors. Virtue signalling to a suicidal level.
But the decision is not about what we do now, but about what we do some years in the future.
Yes and some years in the future we are still going to need petrochemicals, NHS medicines and everything else the industry supports.
We should be looking to end imports and the fungible profits that go to Russia and the Middle East before we look to cut our own production.
Amazing that people do not realise that a ban on using oil and gas as fuel would just result in it being burned off in flares and huge inflation in (and shortages of) the million and one other essential things made from oil as they would no longer be subsidised by profits from the petrol and gas distilled from the crude oil.
I am normally a really measured poster, but I do believe that this is the biggest load of tosh I've read on PB.
Oil and gas are going to be continued to be produced irrespective of whether there is any fuel demand for them*, because they have uses beyond fuel. (Which you get.)
But why would that make them more expensive?
You seem to be suggesting that the supply curve for oil points in a different direction to every other commodity in the world. Can I recommend this excellent piece: http://theoildrum.com/node/2899
* And of course, fuel demand will continue for 100 years anyway, but that's another story.
Are there any non fuel petroleum products which are markedly less damaging than fuel? Plastics don't have a great rep, nor fertilizers
Well, without petroleum derived fertilisers there would be a whole lot fewer humans on earth, and those that were here wouldn’t be very rich
So, can anyone see behind the first statement from Louise Haigh, the Transport Minister:
New Transport Secretary Louise Haigh promised to deliver the biggest overhaul to transport in a generation.
The Secretary of State immediately convened officials to begin work at pace across the department on rail reform, further devolution of bus powers, ensuring infrastructure works for the whole country, and supporting local authorities to fix roads for the long term.
In her first address to Department for Transport (DfT) staff on Monday (8 July 2024), Haigh set out her 5 strategic priorities, putting transport at the heart of mission-driven government.
They include:
improving performance on the railways and driving forward rail reform improving bus services and growing usage across the country transforming infrastructure to work for the whole country, promoting social mobility and tackling regional inequality delivering greener transport better integrating transport networks
Getting straight into action, the Transport Secretary’s first official visit later this week will be focused on plans to deliver better buses in every corner of the country, beginning a round of engagement with Mayors and devolved leaders who will be key delivery partners.
And we have:
The newly-appointed Rail Minister, Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill CBE will also bring decades of experience to help realise the Government’s ambition of transforming infrastructure and improving public transport to deliver for passengers.
Putting on more buses is something that can be done very quickly because it dosent need infrastructure and the years long planning circus that goes with it.
A lot of places outside the main conurbations that once had an hourly 7 days a week service including Sundays now get a few buses a day and zilch evenings and Sundays.
Restoring a proper all day service will make a huge difference to a lot of peeoples lives and cost about much as the subsidy for the heart of Wales Railway Line.
Its a win win scenario, especially with much of Middle England now having Labour MPs
Lilian Greenwood has been specialising in transport for quite some time, not just a seat warmer
I did a bit of research and can't find a single interesting or innovative proposal from her. At all.
Everything I read indicates she is the kind of person who sees value in developing a framework for government and stakeholders to make informed decisions about future initiatives aimed toward achieving the opportunity for positive outcomes in the transport sector, particularly with regard to disenfranchised groups.
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
@calvinrobinson Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country. British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
Bizarre kite to fly - impossible to do the following day and weirdly after the Lord Mayors any later
Next day is utterly impossible, only day to make sense would be to pick a date a month or so later to have as a bank holiday and have a victory parade/celebrations then.
There speaks someone who’s never lived in a Muslim country, where they call the holiday at 21:00 for the next day, having sighted or otherwise the new moon. 🌙
They're set up for that though.
I've flown before in Alberta during a literal blizzard. The airport stayed open as normal and consistently sprayed our plane with jets of water to ensure the snow didn't freeze on the plane until our window on the runway opened and we could take off.
Snow here and everything shuts down. Shut down for snow there and they'd be shut for half the year.
It makes a big difference what you're set up for. Firms here aren't set up to have a bank holiday with zero notice.
Okay I’ll give you most of that comment. It’s either going to be tomorrow or the day after that’s the holiday, and you deal with it as it comes.
They definitely weren’t spraying the planes with water though. It’s a glycol de-icer, designed to stop water freezing on the wings and adversely affecting the aerodynamics of the planes.
Yeah I should have said some sort of liquid, I obviously didn't step out of the plane to examine or ask what it was. 🤣
This is a self inflicted wound. We will have higher energy prices as a consequence.
Idiot.
Winter Blackouts in a long cold high pressure spell are already more than possible.
He needs to remember what Power Cuts did to Heaths Government.
Could you let us know what proportion of UK electricity generation is from oil?
It is not just oil but gas as well. 32% of our power generation was from gas last year.
The UK spent almost £50 billion on oil and gas imports last year. This decision will not reduce consumption by a single barrel but will just increase our balance of trade deficit and make us more reliable on imports, many from unstable places whose environmental controls are far below our own.
It will also do immense damage to our petrochemical industry. Good luck building using electric cars without hydrocarbons.
It is a fecking stupid thing to do with no redeeming factors. Virtue signalling to a suicidal level.
But the decision is not about what we do now, but about what we do some years in the future.
Yes and some years in the future we are still going to need petrochemicals, NHS medicines and everything else the industry supports.
We should be looking to end imports and the fungible profits that go to Russia and the Middle East before we look to cut our own production.
Amazing that people do not realise that a ban on using oil and gas as fuel would just result in it being burned off in flares and huge inflation in (and shortages of) the million and one other essential things made from oil as they would no longer be subsidised by profits from the petrol and gas distilled from the crude oil.
I am normally a really measured poster, but I do believe that this is the biggest load of tosh I've read on PB.
Oil and gas are going to be continued to be produced irrespective of whether there is any fuel demand for them*, because they have uses beyond fuel. (Which you get.)
But why would that make them more expensive?
You seem to be suggesting that the supply curve for oil points in a different direction to every other commodity in the world. Can I recommend this excellent piece: http://theoildrum.com/node/2899
* And of course, fuel demand will continue for 100 years anyway, but that's another story.
Are there any non fuel petroleum products which are markedly less damaging than fuel? Plastics don't have a great rep, nor fertilizers
Errrr, without nitrogen fertilizers the world would starve.
Personally I’d be ok with announcing they can use U.K. supplied *nuclear weapons*. If they accidentally hit France while aiming at Russia that’s a plus.
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
@calvinrobinson Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country. British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
So, can anyone see behind the first statement from Louise Haigh, the Transport Minister:
New Transport Secretary Louise Haigh promised to deliver the biggest overhaul to transport in a generation.
The Secretary of State immediately convened officials to begin work at pace across the department on rail reform, further devolution of bus powers, ensuring infrastructure works for the whole country, and supporting local authorities to fix roads for the long term.
In her first address to Department for Transport (DfT) staff on Monday (8 July 2024), Haigh set out her 5 strategic priorities, putting transport at the heart of mission-driven government.
They include:
improving performance on the railways and driving forward rail reform improving bus services and growing usage across the country transforming infrastructure to work for the whole country, promoting social mobility and tackling regional inequality delivering greener transport better integrating transport networks
Getting straight into action, the Transport Secretary’s first official visit later this week will be focused on plans to deliver better buses in every corner of the country, beginning a round of engagement with Mayors and devolved leaders who will be key delivery partners.
And we have:
The newly-appointed Rail Minister, Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill CBE will also bring decades of experience to help realise the Government’s ambition of transforming infrastructure and improving public transport to deliver for passengers.
Answering my own question, the only one well-known to me is Lilian Greenwood, who is MP for Nottingham South since 2010, and takes a fairly consistent interest in active travel modes. She commutes around London on an E-Brompton like @rcs1000 , and was knocked off it by an illegally turning van in spring 2023.
She's also the MP for the part of Trent Bridge where my friend had his elbow broken by a sleepy lane swapping SUV driver trapping him against a solid terrorist barrier, but to talk to her about improving that facility would I think require a game of Chinese Whispers with Lee Anderson in the middle - not something I have tried yet.
More locally, our new Police and Crime Commissioner is now consulting on future policies. So I've explained that the most problematic type of Antisocial Behaviour in my town is pavement parking, amongst other things, and asked for some PCSOs and Operation Parksafe as part of our new neighbourhood police action . I have a little list.
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
@calvinrobinson Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country. British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
This is a self inflicted wound. We will have higher energy prices as a consequence.
Idiot.
Winter Blackouts in a long cold high pressure spell are already more than possible.
He needs to remember what Power Cuts did to Heaths Government.
Could you let us know what proportion of UK electricity generation is from oil?
It is not just oil but gas as well. 32% of our power generation was from gas last year.
The UK spent almost £50 billion on oil and gas imports last year. This decision will not reduce consumption by a single barrel but will just increase our balance of trade deficit and make us more reliable on imports, many from unstable places whose environmental controls are far below our own.
It will also do immense damage to our petrochemical industry. Good luck building using electric cars without hydrocarbons.
It is a fecking stupid thing to do with no redeeming factors. Virtue signalling to a suicidal level.
But the decision is not about what we do now, but about what we do some years in the future.
Yes and some years in the future we are still going to need petrochemicals, NHS medicines and everything else the industry supports.
We should be looking to end imports and the fungible profits that go to Russia and the Middle East before we look to cut our own production.
Amazing that people do not realise that a ban on using oil and gas as fuel would just result in it being burned off in flares and huge inflation in (and shortages of) the million and one other essential things made from oil as they would no longer be subsidised by profits from the petrol and gas distilled from the crude oil.
I am normally a really measured poster, but I do believe that this is the biggest load of tosh I've read on PB.
Oil and gas are going to be continued to be produced irrespective of whether there is any fuel demand for them*, because they have uses beyond fuel. (Which you get.)
But why would that make them more expensive?
You seem to be suggesting that the supply curve for oil points in a different direction to every other commodity in the world. Can I recommend this excellent piece: http://theoildrum.com/node/2899
* And of course, fuel demand will continue for 100 years anyway, but that's another story.
Are there any non fuel petroleum products which are markedly less damaging than fuel? Plastics don't have a great rep, nor fertilizers
Fertilizers have a rather better rep than starvation.
Bizarre kite to fly - impossible to do the following day and weirdly after the Lord Mayors any later
Next day is utterly impossible, only day to make sense would be to pick a date a month or so later to have as a bank holiday and have a victory parade/celebrations then.
There speaks someone who’s never lived in a Muslim country, where they call the holiday at 21:00 for the next day, having sighted or otherwise the new moon. 🌙
They're set up for that though.
I've flown before in Alberta during a literal blizzard. The airport stayed open as normal and consistently sprayed our plane with jets of water to ensure the snow didn't freeze on the plane until our window on the runway opened and we could take off.
Snow here and everything shuts down. Shut down for snow there and they'd be shut for half the year.
It makes a big difference what you're set up for. Firms here aren't set up to have a bank holiday with zero notice.
Wasn't water they were spraying on your plane, instead de-icer and/or anti-freeze (if there's a difference).
Years ago was talking to a truck driver from Alberta. Who was quietly but definitely ironic (ditto iconic) re: readiness of Americans in the Pacific Northwest to shut down passes and highways due to a bit of frozen water.
Told him he should check out things way down South during a rare blast of winter weather!
This is a self inflicted wound. We will have higher energy prices as a consequence.
Idiot.
Winter Blackouts in a long cold high pressure spell are already more than possible.
He needs to remember what Power Cuts did to Heaths Government.
Could you let us know what proportion of UK electricity generation is from oil?
It is not just oil but gas as well. 32% of our power generation was from gas last year.
The UK spent almost £50 billion on oil and gas imports last year. This decision will not reduce consumption by a single barrel but will just increase our balance of trade deficit and make us more reliable on imports, many from unstable places whose environmental controls are far below our own.
It will also do immense damage to our petrochemical industry. Good luck building using electric cars without hydrocarbons.
It is a fecking stupid thing to do with no redeeming factors. Virtue signalling to a suicidal level.
But the decision is not about what we do now, but about what we do some years in the future.
Yes and some years in the future we are still going to need petrochemicals, NHS medicines and everything else the industry supports.
We should be looking to end imports and the fungible profits that go to Russia and the Middle East before we look to cut our own production.
Amazing that people do not realise that a ban on using oil and gas as fuel would just result in it being burned off in flares and huge inflation in (and shortages of) the million and one other essential things made from oil as they would no longer be subsidised by profits from the petrol and gas distilled from the crude oil.
I am normally a really measured poster, but I do believe that this is the biggest load of tosh I've read on PB.
Oil and gas are going to be continued to be produced irrespective of whether there is any fuel demand for them*, because they have uses beyond fuel. (Which you get.)
But why would that make them more expensive?
You seem to be suggesting that the supply curve for oil points in a different direction to every other commodity in the world. Can I recommend this excellent piece: http://theoildrum.com/node/2899
* And of course, fuel demand will continue for 100 years anyway, but that's another story.
Are there any non fuel petroleum products which are markedly less damaging than fuel? Plastics don't have a great rep, nor fertilizers
Fertilisers are critical for ensuring people are fed.
But if you want a different sector how about pharmaceuticals? 99% of pharmaceuticals contain petrochemicals, so shut down petrochemicals you shut down the NHS and over the counter the counter medicines too.
Hope you don't need a paracetamol or ibuprofen any time soon, let alone anything more serious.
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
@calvinrobinson Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country. British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
@calvinrobinson Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country. British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
A black man dressed as a priest, but sounds like Tommy Robinson on one of his more islamophobic days. Call me confused.
He always was right wing in a Kemi B sort of way, but went a bit too far down the rabbit hole. And, as his outbursts cut him off from opportunities, he went further and further in.
It's one thing to point and laugh at outlets like GBN, but the "spout provocative nonsense for cash" game is a dangerous one.
I think that’s it now. The Democrats have a chance and they have to seize it. I expect Biden to step down in the next fortnight
Press conference today.
Clooney intervention possibly mega. And for all the people saying Yebbut Trump is senile too, dropping Biden converts that from a defensive play to a real attack line. So they should be thrilled.
Personally I’d be ok with announcing they can use U.K. supplied *nuclear weapons*. If they accidentally hit France while aiming at Russia that’s a plus.
Plus, if the Ukrainians nuked Paris, the rest of the country would elect Zelensky as the next President of France, solving the Le Pen issue.
This is a self inflicted wound. We will have higher energy prices as a consequence.
Idiot.
Winter Blackouts in a long cold high pressure spell are already more than possible.
He needs to remember what Power Cuts did to Heaths Government.
Could you let us know what proportion of UK electricity generation is from oil?
It is not just oil but gas as well. 32% of our power generation was from gas last year.
The UK spent almost £50 billion on oil and gas imports last year. This decision will not reduce consumption by a single barrel but will just increase our balance of trade deficit and make us more reliable on imports, many from unstable places whose environmental controls are far below our own.
It will also do immense damage to our petrochemical industry. Good luck building using electric cars without hydrocarbons.
It is a fecking stupid thing to do with no redeeming factors. Virtue signalling to a suicidal level.
But the decision is not about what we do now, but about what we do some years in the future.
Yes and some years in the future we are still going to need petrochemicals, NHS medicines and everything else the industry supports.
We should be looking to end imports and the fungible profits that go to Russia and the Middle East before we look to cut our own production.
Amazing that people do not realise that a ban on using oil and gas as fuel would just result in it being burned off in flares and huge inflation in (and shortages of) the million and one other essential things made from oil as they would no longer be subsidised by profits from the petrol and gas distilled from the crude oil.
I am normally a really measured poster, but I do believe that this is the biggest load of tosh I've read on PB.
Oil and gas are going to be continued to be produced irrespective of whether there is any fuel demand for them*, because they have uses beyond fuel. (Which you get.)
But why would that make them more expensive?
You seem to be suggesting that the supply curve for oil points in a different direction to every other commodity in the world. Can I recommend this excellent piece: http://theoildrum.com/node/2899
* And of course, fuel demand will continue for 100 years anyway, but that's another story.
Developing oil fields costs billions before you get the first barrel.
Stop oil being used for fuel (which basically drives the business case) and very little will. get extracted, which means all the other things produced from the elements of crude oil not distilled into gas and petrol will be in very short supply and very expensive. At the moment they are made from what amounts to abundant waste products left over when you have distilled off the gas and petroleum.
This is a self inflicted wound. We will have higher energy prices as a consequence.
Idiot.
Winter Blackouts in a long cold high pressure spell are already more than possible.
He needs to remember what Power Cuts did to Heaths Government.
Could you let us know what proportion of UK electricity generation is from oil?
It is not just oil but gas as well. 32% of our power generation was from gas last year.
The UK spent almost £50 billion on oil and gas imports last year. This decision will not reduce consumption by a single barrel but will just increase our balance of trade deficit and make us more reliable on imports, many from unstable places whose environmental controls are far below our own.
It will also do immense damage to our petrochemical industry. Good luck building using electric cars without hydrocarbons.
It is a fecking stupid thing to do with no redeeming factors. Virtue signalling to a suicidal level.
But the decision is not about what we do now, but about what we do some years in the future.
Yes and some years in the future we are still going to need petrochemicals, NHS medicines and everything else the industry supports.
We should be looking to end imports and the fungible profits that go to Russia and the Middle East before we look to cut our own production.
Amazing that people do not realise that a ban on using oil and gas as fuel would just result in it being burned off in flares and huge inflation in (and shortages of) the million and one other essential things made from oil as they would no longer be subsidised by profits from the petrol and gas distilled from the crude oil.
I am normally a really measured poster, but I do believe that this is the biggest load of tosh I've read on PB.
Oil and gas are going to be continued to be produced irrespective of whether there is any fuel demand for them*, because they have uses beyond fuel. (Which you get.)
But why would that make them more expensive?
You seem to be suggesting that the supply curve for oil points in a different direction to every other commodity in the world. Can I recommend this excellent piece: http://theoildrum.com/node/2899
* And of course, fuel demand will continue for 100 years anyway, but that's another story.
Are there any non fuel petroleum products which are markedly less damaging than fuel? Plastics don't have a great rep, nor fertilizers
Fertilisers are critical for ensuring people are fed.
But if you want a different sector how about pharmaceuticals? 99% of pharmaceuticals contain petrochemicals, so shut down petrochemicals you shut down the NHS and over the counter the counter medicines too.
Hope you don't need a paracetamol or ibuprofen any time soon, let alone anything more serious.
I remember being at an oil conference about fifteen years ago, and a Canadian E&P executive stood up and said "Oil and gas are so essential for a modern economy that it makes me crazy to think that we just burn the stuff."
Yes, the move towards electric cars is going to reduce the amount of fuel we need, but given how difficult finding entirely new sources of oil is, that's rather good news. Instead of having to replace 5 million barrels a day of production each year, perhaps it's only 1 or 2 million,
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
@calvinrobinson Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country. British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
@calvinrobinson Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country. British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
Too racist for GB news? That's like Al Qaeda saying ISIS are too barbaric.
I don’t think it was over racism - afaicr it was about someone else being sacked from GBNews and Calvin Robinsin protesting against it. Though they dodged a bullet by doing so it would appear!
This is a self inflicted wound. We will have higher energy prices as a consequence.
Idiot.
Winter Blackouts in a long cold high pressure spell are already more than possible.
He needs to remember what Power Cuts did to Heaths Government.
Could you let us know what proportion of UK electricity generation is from oil?
It is not just oil but gas as well. 32% of our power generation was from gas last year.
The UK spent almost £50 billion on oil and gas imports last year. This decision will not reduce consumption by a single barrel but will just increase our balance of trade deficit and make us more reliable on imports, many from unstable places whose environmental controls are far below our own.
It will also do immense damage to our petrochemical industry. Good luck building using electric cars without hydrocarbons.
It is a fecking stupid thing to do with no redeeming factors. Virtue signalling to a suicidal level.
But the decision is not about what we do now, but about what we do some years in the future.
Yes and some years in the future we are still going to need petrochemicals, NHS medicines and everything else the industry supports.
We should be looking to end imports and the fungible profits that go to Russia and the Middle East before we look to cut our own production.
Amazing that people do not realise that a ban on using oil and gas as fuel would just result in it being burned off in flares and huge inflation in (and shortages of) the million and one other essential things made from oil as they would no longer be subsidised by profits from the petrol and gas distilled from the crude oil.
I am normally a really measured poster, but I do believe that this is the biggest load of tosh I've read on PB.
Oil and gas are going to be continued to be produced irrespective of whether there is any fuel demand for them*, because they have uses beyond fuel. (Which you get.)
But why would that make them more expensive?
You seem to be suggesting that the supply curve for oil points in a different direction to every other commodity in the world. Can I recommend this excellent piece: http://theoildrum.com/node/2899
* And of course, fuel demand will continue for 100 years anyway, but that's another story.
Are there any non fuel petroleum products which are markedly less damaging than fuel? Plastics don't have a great rep, nor fertilizers
Fertilisers are critical for ensuring people are fed.
But if you want a different sector how about pharmaceuticals? 99% of pharmaceuticals contain petrochemicals, so shut down petrochemicals you shut down the NHS and over the counter the counter medicines too.
Hope you don't need a paracetamol or ibuprofen any time soon, let alone anything more serious.
They do, but pharmaceuticals really don't need much in the way of petrochemicals. And the raw materials aren't where the cost is.
(Source: the size of a petrol tank and the size of an ibuprofen tablet.)
This is a self inflicted wound. We will have higher energy prices as a consequence.
Idiot.
Winter Blackouts in a long cold high pressure spell are already more than possible.
He needs to remember what Power Cuts did to Heaths Government.
Could you let us know what proportion of UK electricity generation is from oil?
It is not just oil but gas as well. 32% of our power generation was from gas last year.
The UK spent almost £50 billion on oil and gas imports last year. This decision will not reduce consumption by a single barrel but will just increase our balance of trade deficit and make us more reliable on imports, many from unstable places whose environmental controls are far below our own.
It will also do immense damage to our petrochemical industry. Good luck building using electric cars without hydrocarbons.
It is a fecking stupid thing to do with no redeeming factors. Virtue signalling to a suicidal level.
But the decision is not about what we do now, but about what we do some years in the future.
Yes and some years in the future we are still going to need petrochemicals, NHS medicines and everything else the industry supports.
We should be looking to end imports and the fungible profits that go to Russia and the Middle East before we look to cut our own production.
Amazing that people do not realise that a ban on using oil and gas as fuel would just result in it being burned off in flares and huge inflation in (and shortages of) the million and one other essential things made from oil as they would no longer be subsidised by profits from the petrol and gas distilled from the crude oil.
I am normally a really measured poster, but I do believe that this is the biggest load of tosh I've read on PB.
Oil and gas are going to be continued to be produced irrespective of whether there is any fuel demand for them*, because they have uses beyond fuel. (Which you get.)
But why would that make them more expensive?
You seem to be suggesting that the supply curve for oil points in a different direction to every other commodity in the world. Can I recommend this excellent piece: http://theoildrum.com/node/2899
* And of course, fuel demand will continue for 100 years anyway, but that's another story.
Developing oil fields costs billions before you get the first barrel.
Stop oil being used for fuel (which basically drives the business case) and very little will happen which means all the other things produced from the elements of crude oil not distilled into gas and petrol will be in very short supply and very expensive. At the moment they are made from what amounts to abundant waste products left over when you have distilled off the gas and petroleum.
That's not how economics or oil works. And bear in mind that I have been paid many times to speak at oil industry conferences, and that I was pretty much the first person to predict the big increase in unconventional oil industry production in the US.
The oil industry needs to replace about 5 million barrels of production each year to make up for depletion of existing fields. If they only have to replace 4 million barrels because demand is falling, then it will be the most expensive new fields that don't get developed.
This is a self inflicted wound. We will have higher energy prices as a consequence.
Idiot.
Winter Blackouts in a long cold high pressure spell are already more than possible.
He needs to remember what Power Cuts did to Heaths Government.
Could you let us know what proportion of UK electricity generation is from oil?
It is not just oil but gas as well. 32% of our power generation was from gas last year.
The UK spent almost £50 billion on oil and gas imports last year. This decision will not reduce consumption by a single barrel but will just increase our balance of trade deficit and make us more reliable on imports, many from unstable places whose environmental controls are far below our own.
It will also do immense damage to our petrochemical industry. Good luck building using electric cars without hydrocarbons.
It is a fecking stupid thing to do with no redeeming factors. Virtue signalling to a suicidal level.
But the decision is not about what we do now, but about what we do some years in the future.
Yes and some years in the future we are still going to need petrochemicals, NHS medicines and everything else the industry supports.
We should be looking to end imports and the fungible profits that go to Russia and the Middle East before we look to cut our own production.
Amazing that people do not realise that a ban on using oil and gas as fuel would just result in it being burned off in flares and huge inflation in (and shortages of) the million and one other essential things made from oil as they would no longer be subsidised by profits from the petrol and gas distilled from the crude oil.
I am normally a really measured poster, but I do believe that this is the biggest load of tosh I've read on PB.
Oil and gas are going to be continued to be produced irrespective of whether there is any fuel demand for them*, because they have uses beyond fuel. (Which you get.)
But why would that make them more expensive?
You seem to be suggesting that the supply curve for oil points in a different direction to every other commodity in the world. Can I recommend this excellent piece: http://theoildrum.com/node/2899
* And of course, fuel demand will continue for 100 years anyway, but that's another story.
Are there any non fuel petroleum products which are markedly less damaging than fuel? Plastics don't have a great rep, nor fertilizers
Fertilizers have a rather better rep than starvation.
Well yes. But DDT was not saved by the fact that it would wipe out malaria.
This is a self inflicted wound. We will have higher energy prices as a consequence.
Idiot.
Winter Blackouts in a long cold high pressure spell are already more than possible.
He needs to remember what Power Cuts did to Heaths Government.
Could you let us know what proportion of UK electricity generation is from oil?
It is not just oil but gas as well. 32% of our power generation was from gas last year.
The UK spent almost £50 billion on oil and gas imports last year. This decision will not reduce consumption by a single barrel but will just increase our balance of trade deficit and make us more reliable on imports, many from unstable places whose environmental controls are far below our own.
It will also do immense damage to our petrochemical industry. Good luck building using electric cars without hydrocarbons.
It is a fecking stupid thing to do with no redeeming factors. Virtue signalling to a suicidal level.
But the decision is not about what we do now, but about what we do some years in the future.
Yes and some years in the future we are still going to need petrochemicals, NHS medicines and everything else the industry supports.
We should be looking to end imports and the fungible profits that go to Russia and the Middle East before we look to cut our own production.
Amazing that people do not realise that a ban on using oil and gas as fuel would just result in it being burned off in flares and huge inflation in (and shortages of) the million and one other essential things made from oil as they would no longer be subsidised by profits from the petrol and gas distilled from the crude oil.
I am normally a really measured poster, but I do believe that this is the biggest load of tosh I've read on PB.
Oil and gas are going to be continued to be produced irrespective of whether there is any fuel demand for them*, because they have uses beyond fuel. (Which you get.)
But why would that make them more expensive?
You seem to be suggesting that the supply curve for oil points in a different direction to every other commodity in the world. Can I recommend this excellent piece: http://theoildrum.com/node/2899
* And of course, fuel demand will continue for 100 years anyway, but that's another story.
Are there any non fuel petroleum products which are markedly less damaging than fuel? Plastics don't have a great rep, nor fertilizers
Fertilisers are critical for ensuring people are fed.
But if you want a different sector how about pharmaceuticals? 99% of pharmaceuticals contain petrochemicals, so shut down petrochemicals you shut down the NHS and over the counter the counter medicines too.
Hope you don't need a paracetamol or ibuprofen any time soon, let alone anything more serious.
Not only do they contain them but petrochemical based products are used in their manufacture. These are products you cannot just replace/swap put at the drop of a hat. It is a massively regulated/risk averse industry and it can take years to change out/requalify production consumables. Especially ones that are product contact.
This is a self inflicted wound. We will have higher energy prices as a consequence.
Idiot.
Winter Blackouts in a long cold high pressure spell are already more than possible.
He needs to remember what Power Cuts did to Heaths Government.
Could you let us know what proportion of UK electricity generation is from oil?
It is not just oil but gas as well. 32% of our power generation was from gas last year.
The UK spent almost £50 billion on oil and gas imports last year. This decision will not reduce consumption by a single barrel but will just increase our balance of trade deficit and make us more reliable on imports, many from unstable places whose environmental controls are far below our own.
It will also do immense damage to our petrochemical industry. Good luck building using electric cars without hydrocarbons.
It is a fecking stupid thing to do with no redeeming factors. Virtue signalling to a suicidal level.
But the decision is not about what we do now, but about what we do some years in the future.
Yes and some years in the future we are still going to need petrochemicals, NHS medicines and everything else the industry supports.
We should be looking to end imports and the fungible profits that go to Russia and the Middle East before we look to cut our own production.
Amazing that people do not realise that a ban on using oil and gas as fuel would just result in it being burned off in flares and huge inflation in (and shortages of) the million and one other essential things made from oil as they would no longer be subsidised by profits from the petrol and gas distilled from the crude oil.
I am normally a really measured poster, but I do believe that this is the biggest load of tosh I've read on PB.
Oil and gas are going to be continued to be produced irrespective of whether there is any fuel demand for them*, because they have uses beyond fuel. (Which you get.)
But why would that make them more expensive?
You seem to be suggesting that the supply curve for oil points in a different direction to every other commodity in the world. Can I recommend this excellent piece: http://theoildrum.com/node/2899
* And of course, fuel demand will continue for 100 years anyway, but that's another story.
Are there any non fuel petroleum products which are markedly less damaging than fuel? Plastics don't have a great rep, nor fertilizers
Fertilizers have a rather better rep than starvation.
Well yes. But DDT was not saved by the fact that it would wipe out malaria.
Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, please.
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
@calvinrobinson Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country. British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
This is a self inflicted wound. We will have higher energy prices as a consequence.
Idiot.
Winter Blackouts in a long cold high pressure spell are already more than possible.
He needs to remember what Power Cuts did to Heaths Government.
Could you let us know what proportion of UK electricity generation is from oil?
It is not just oil but gas as well. 32% of our power generation was from gas last year.
The UK spent almost £50 billion on oil and gas imports last year. This decision will not reduce consumption by a single barrel but will just increase our balance of trade deficit and make us more reliable on imports, many from unstable places whose environmental controls are far below our own.
It will also do immense damage to our petrochemical industry. Good luck building using electric cars without hydrocarbons.
It is a fecking stupid thing to do with no redeeming factors. Virtue signalling to a suicidal level.
But the decision is not about what we do now, but about what we do some years in the future.
Yes and some years in the future we are still going to need petrochemicals, NHS medicines and everything else the industry supports.
We should be looking to end imports and the fungible profits that go to Russia and the Middle East before we look to cut our own production.
Amazing that people do not realise that a ban on using oil and gas as fuel would just result in it being burned off in flares and huge inflation in (and shortages of) the million and one other essential things made from oil as they would no longer be subsidised by profits from the petrol and gas distilled from the crude oil.
I am normally a really measured poster, but I do believe that this is the biggest load of tosh I've read on PB.
Oil and gas are going to be continued to be produced irrespective of whether there is any fuel demand for them*, because they have uses beyond fuel. (Which you get.)
But why would that make them more expensive?
You seem to be suggesting that the supply curve for oil points in a different direction to every other commodity in the world. Can I recommend this excellent piece: http://theoildrum.com/node/2899
* And of course, fuel demand will continue for 100 years anyway, but that's another story.
Are there any non fuel petroleum products which are markedly less damaging than fuel? Plastics don't have a great rep, nor fertilizers
Fertilisers are critical for ensuring people are fed.
But if you want a different sector how about pharmaceuticals? 99% of pharmaceuticals contain petrochemicals, so shut down petrochemicals you shut down the NHS and over the counter the counter medicines too.
Hope you don't need a paracetamol or ibuprofen any time soon, let alone anything more serious.
They do, but pharmaceuticals really don't need much in the way of petrochemicals. And the raw materials aren't where the cost is.
(Source: the size of a petrol tank and the size of an ibuprofen tablet.)
How much would 75 litres of ibuprofen cost? Think I’ll stick to putting petrol in the tank.
On topic: Real wages look quite good for Biden(Harris) at the moment. Are we sure that the economics are a problem in the US as they are elsewhere? Still got a few months to go.
The numbers of jobs created under Biden have been remarkable. The Stock Exchanges are at record highs.
All Trump can do is talk down America. Because there's only one with a track record of making America great again.
The world has got much more dangerous under Biden. There were no horrible wars under Trump
Coincidence? Bad luck? Maybe. But then all the good things that happened under Biden might be down to luck and coincidence as well
Like record manufacturing investment ? That just happened all in its own, I suppose ?
I does not matter one groundhog shit what Biden has done, the electoral will mainly be focused on the future and the next four years. And they now look at him and think 'care home time'.
It is sad and politics is brutal but
Them's the breaks.
Oh, I entirely agree.
I'm talking about the Democrats' chances, on the assumption he doesn't run in November.
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
@calvinrobinson Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country. British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
@calvinrobinson Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country. British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
On topic: Real wages look quite good for Biden(Harris) at the moment. Are we sure that the economics are a problem in the US as they are elsewhere? Still got a few months to go.
The numbers of jobs created under Biden have been remarkable. The Stock Exchanges are at record highs.
All Trump can do is talk down America. Because there's only one with a track record of making America great again.
The world has got much more dangerous under Biden. There were no horrible wars under Trump
Coincidence? Bad luck? Maybe. But then all the good things that happened under Biden might be down to luck and coincidence as well
Like record manufacturing investment ? That just happened all in its own, I suppose ?
I does not matter one groundhog shit what Biden has done, the electoral will mainly be focused on the future and the next four years. And they now look at him and think 'care home time'.
It is sad and politics is brutal but
Them's the breaks.
Oh, I entirely agree.
I'm talking about the Democrats' chances, on the assumption he doesn't run in November.
They have zero chance if Biden stays. They have a real chance if they move fast and replace him. Ideally they wouldn’t have put themselves in this absurd position - but then so many silly people were keen to believe the obvious lie that Biden is fine… they are idiots
This also puts paid to @HYUFD’s absurd notion that Trump wants Biden to stand down. Trump KNOWS he’s a certain winner if Biden stays
On topic: Real wages look quite good for Biden(Harris) at the moment. Are we sure that the economics are a problem in the US as they are elsewhere? Still got a few months to go.
The numbers of jobs created under Biden have been remarkable. The Stock Exchanges are at record highs.
All Trump can do is talk down America. Because there's only one with a track record of making America great again.
The world has got much more dangerous under Biden. There were no horrible wars under Trump
Coincidence? Bad luck? Maybe. But then all the good things that happened under Biden might be down to luck and coincidence as well
The world was much more dangerous under Trump.
It was under him we had a global pandemic and lockdowns.
It was also under him the Vaccines were developed, and the announcement of that fact was deferred until the week after the election.
That was the odd thing about the last US election. Trump had a good story to tell about the pandemic, and his and VP Pence's role in combating it, but because Trump was running scared of the alt-right covid conspiracy nuts, he did not make that case.
One of Trump’s personal proud achievements in office was “Operation Warp Speed”, the US code name name for the accelerated development and approval of the Covid vaccines. Almost every time he mentions it at his rallies, a significant proportion of the the crowd boos loudly.
It’s an example of the contrarianism and polarisation seen by both sides in US politics, and the change in leadership happened just as the vaccine rollout started. The liberal media switched almost overnight from “Trump’s dangerous vaccine” to “Biden’s wonderful vaccine”.
Did the liberal media really shout about "Trump's dangerous vaccine"?
Could I see some links?
Most of their own commentary was wiped from the internet a few months later, but the gist of it was they thought that Trump’s accelerated plan was prioritising the election date over the safety case.
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
@calvinrobinson Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country. British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
Too racist for GB news? That's like Al Qaeda saying ISIS are too barbaric.
Calling a Muslim a Mohammedan is pretty much n word offensive.
I knew it was the archaic English word for Muslim, but it it inherently offensive? Is it the mention of Mohammed?
You have to be careful when mentioning Mohammed, it has to be done respectfully. Muslims would usually say something like ‘peace be upon him’ when mentioning the name, and he is the Prophet rather than the God (Allah).
When one race or religion talks about another, the language is really important and can cause inadvertent offence.
Democratic senators are beginning to leave from their lunch meeting with senior Biden campaign staff members. Senator Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire was the first one out and said that it was a “strong” presentation from the campaign and that she remained firmly behind the president.
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
@calvinrobinson Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country. British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
It is an honour to be appointed Chairman of Reform UK.
Against all odds, under @Nigel_Farage leadership, our people’s movement won 4 million votes, 14% of the vote, elected 5 MPs with 98 second places.
This is just the beginning. The important work of professionalising the party, building national infrastructure and continuing to grow membership has already begun.
I will bring all my expertise, energy and passion to the role to ensure we achieve our mission of returning Great Britain to greatness.
@calvinrobinson Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country. British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
A black man dressed as a priest, but sounds like Tommy Robinson on one of his more islamophobic days. Call me confused.
He always was right wing in a Kemi B sort of way, but went a bit too far down the rabbit hole. And, as his outbursts cut him off from opportunities, he went further and further in.
It's one thing to point and laugh at outlets like GBN, but the "spout provocative nonsense for cash" game is a dangerous one.
Or for attention. The mad to bad to sad ratio with these people can be hard to determine.
On topic: Real wages look quite good for Biden(Harris) at the moment. Are we sure that the economics are a problem in the US as they are elsewhere? Still got a few months to go.
The numbers of jobs created under Biden have been remarkable. The Stock Exchanges are at record highs.
All Trump can do is talk down America. Because there's only one with a track record of making America great again.
The world has got much more dangerous under Biden. There were no horrible wars under Trump
Coincidence? Bad luck? Maybe. But then all the good things that happened under Biden might be down to luck and coincidence as well
Like record manufacturing investment ? That just happened all in its own, I suppose ?
I does not matter one groundhog shit what Biden has done, the electoral will mainly be focused on the future and the next four years. And they now look at him and think 'care home time'.
It is sad and politics is brutal but
Them's the breaks.
Oh, I entirely agree.
I'm talking about the Democrats' chances, on the assumption he doesn't run in November.
They have zero chance if Biden stays. They have a real chance if they move fast and replace him. Ideally they wouldn’t have put themselves in this absurd position - but then so many silly people were keen to believe the obvious lie that Biden is fine… they are idiots
This also puts paid to @HYUFD’s absurd notion that Trump wants Biden to stand down. Trump KNOWS he’s a certain winner if Biden stays
He doesn't, see the latest Emerson poll:
'Trump 46% Biden 43% 11% undecided
Vice President Kamala Harris: 49% Trump, 43% Harris, 8% undecided Senator Bernie Sanders: 48% Trump, 42% Sanders, 10% undecided California Governor Gavin Newsom: 48% Trump, 40% Newsom, 12% undecided Former Vice President Al Gore: 47% Trump, 42% Gore, 11% undecided Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: 48% Trump, 41% Clinton, 11% undecided Senator Elizabeth Warren: 49% Trump, 39% Warren, 13% undecided Secretary of State Pete Buttigieg: 49% Trump, 39% Buttigieg, 12% undecided Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro: 46% Trump, 38% Shapiro, 16% undecided Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer: 48% Trump, 38% Whitmer, 15% undecided' https://emersoncollegepolling.com/july-2024-national-poll-trump-46-biden-43/
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It is sad and politics is brutal but
Them's the breaks.
In the UK I'd suggest waiting lists, collapsing infrastructure and failing services are as much a factor as being at the mercy of global forces in eviction of our last incompetent government. According to Yougov Labour got it's highest % of vote in the high education / high income demographics, ~40%, those probably aren't people struggling that's people who are pissed off with the incompetence.
Sahil Kapur
@sahilkapur
“He needs to drop out,” one Biden campaign official said. “He will never recover from this.”
Story from
@jonallendc
@natashakorecki
@carolelee
:
https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/1811435330744074289
Besides. Whilst the Dems will clearly be culpable for not putting up the best fight they can, the real culpability is elsewhere. With the Republicans for inserting themselves so far up Trump's colon, and with Trump... for being Trump, basically.
Speaking of which, where is the post-election donate button?
Trump is favourite but not a certainty. The US economy is doing better than most nations with stronger growth and lower inflation, though relatively high interest rates remain a problem for the Biden administration and the Democrat controlled Senate. Trump is also such a polarising character a lot of Independents will still vote against him even had they voted for a more centrist Republican candidate like Nikki Haley
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/us/politics/biden-aides-campaign.html
No doubt they will have their revenge...
A lot of assumptions to unpack.
Re. old people being miserable; I think maybe more the case that for many of them, every day is a bank holiday
Sahil Kapur
@sahilkapur
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New
@pewresearch
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• Trump leads Biden +34 points (!) on mental sharpness
The venue will likely have some sort of agreement with daily suppliers. I suspect that, if you could get your hands on the unprinted Lord’s hospitality menus for Saturday, you’d notice that the chef’s specials board at half the hotels in London will look remarkably similar!
Oil and gas are going to be continued to be produced irrespective of whether there is any fuel demand for them*, because they have uses beyond fuel. (Which you get.)
But why would that make them more expensive?
You seem to be suggesting that the supply curve for oil points in a different direction to every other commodity in the world. Can I recommend this excellent piece: http://theoildrum.com/node/2899
* And of course, fuel demand will continue for 100 years anyway, but that's another story.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/overview/survey-results/daily/2024/07/11/b97a9/1
Scotland and Wales also entered this competition, and didn’t make the final.
New bridges especially create connections where none exist currently and new roads not just improve transportation but enables economic growth and development on the side of it too.
In actual terms I am earning around 2/3rds of what I was earning in the late 2000s. Whilst employee wages went up mine went down. I don't believe it was down to Government policy merely supply v demand for consultants like me. Thus in order to ensure business my prices have had to decrease. It's been a buyers market, I am given ultimatums by regular customers to match competitor pricing if I want to keep their business. I can't really complain because that is what I would do too.
You do know you've witch'd it now, yes?
"To the barricades, mes amis gammoniste! Pour l'honneur, pour la glore, pour la Grande Bretagne Insoumis!"
I've flown before in Alberta during a literal blizzard. The airport stayed open as normal and consistently sprayed our plane with jets of water to ensure the snow didn't freeze on the plane until our window on the runway opened and we could take off.
Snow here and everything shuts down. Shut down for snow there and they'd be shut for half the year.
It makes a big difference what you're set up for. Firms here aren't set up to have a bank holiday with zero notice.
Otherwise reckon points you raise make much sense.
They definitely weren’t spraying the planes with water though. It’s a glycol de-icer, designed to stop water freezing on the wings and adversely affecting the aerodynamics of the planes.
He found out his great grandfather was from Transylvania.
Now he can't look himself in the mirror.
Just when Reform started to gain momentum, Farage selects a Mohammedan to chair his party. 💷
Islam is incompatible with British values.
This is a Christian country.
British values are Christian values.
Does Reform stand for Christian values or diversity, inclusion and equity?
https://x.com/calvinrobinson/status/1811353981337186702
A lot of places outside the main conurbations that once had an hourly 7 days a week service including Sundays now get a few buses a day and zilch evenings and Sundays.
Restoring a proper all day service will make a huge difference to a lot of peeoples lives and cost about much as the subsidy for the heart of Wales Railway Line.
Its a win win scenario, especially with much of Middle England now having Labour MPs
That or they'll demand £200m or so as compensation.
(TBH, I'm surprised that his theological college didn't manage to pray this out of him.)
A black man dressed as a priest, but sounds like Tommy Robinson on one of his more islamophobic days. Call me confused.
New General Election Poll
🔵 Biden 47% (+1)
🔴 Trump 46%
Data for progress #C+ - 2067 LV - 7/3
https://x.com/ppollingnumbers/status/1811364950952014093?s=46&t=bulOICNH15U6kB0MwE6Lfw
I think that’s it now. The Democrats have a chance and they have to seize it. I expect Biden to step down in the next fortnight
She's also the MP for the part of Trent Bridge where my friend had his elbow broken by a sleepy lane swapping SUV driver trapping him against a solid terrorist barrier, but to talk to her about improving that facility would I think require a game of Chinese Whispers with Lee Anderson in the middle - not something I have tried yet.
More locally, our new Police and Crime Commissioner is now consulting on future policies. So I've explained that the most problematic type of Antisocial Behaviour in my town is pavement parking, amongst other things, and asked for some PCSOs and Operation Parksafe as part of our new neighbourhood police action
Eeeesh
When they are known in advanced more people are off work and many more plan trips out of the country.
The impromptu ones have much less planned holidays and more people work anyway. Again, IIRC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67009045
Years ago was talking to a truck driver from Alberta. Who was quietly but definitely ironic (ditto iconic) re: readiness of Americans in the Pacific Northwest to shut down passes and highways due to a bit of frozen water.
Told him he should check out things way down South during a rare blast of winter weather!
But if you want a different sector how about pharmaceuticals? 99% of pharmaceuticals contain petrochemicals, so shut down petrochemicals you shut down the NHS and over the counter the counter medicines too.
Hope you don't need a paracetamol or ibuprofen any time soon, let alone anything more serious.
It's one thing to point and laugh at outlets like GBN, but the "spout provocative nonsense for cash" game is a dangerous one.
Clooney intervention possibly mega. And for all the people saying Yebbut Trump is senile too, dropping Biden converts that from a defensive play to a real attack line. So they should be thrilled.
Stop oil being used for fuel (which basically drives the business case) and very little will. get extracted, which means all the other things produced from the elements of crude oil not distilled into gas and petrol will be in very short supply and very expensive. At the moment they are made from what amounts to abundant waste products left over when you have distilled off the gas and petroleum.
Should we ask for the extra half hour?
Yes, the move towards electric cars is going to reduce the amount of fuel we need, but given how difficult finding entirely new sources of oil is, that's rather good news. Instead of having to replace 5 million barrels a day of production each year, perhaps it's only 1 or 2 million,
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/us-germany-foiled-russian-assassination-plot/index.html
(Source: the size of a petrol tank and the size of an ibuprofen tablet.)
The oil industry needs to replace about 5 million barrels of production each year to make up for depletion of existing fields. If they only have to replace 4 million barrels because demand is falling, then it will be the most expensive new fields that don't get developed.
Awks
I'm talking about the Democrats' chances, on the assumption he doesn't run in November.
Muslims consider it offensive as it implies Muslims worship Mohammed (pbuh) rather than Allah.
This also puts paid to @HYUFD’s absurd notion that Trump wants Biden to stand down. Trump KNOWS he’s a certain winner if Biden stays
When one race or religion talks about another, the language is really important and can cause inadvertent offence.
Edit: @TheScreamingEagles beat me to it.
NY Time blog
FFS.
'Trump 46% Biden 43% 11% undecided
Vice President Kamala Harris: 49% Trump, 43% Harris, 8% undecided
Senator Bernie Sanders: 48% Trump, 42% Sanders, 10% undecided
California Governor Gavin Newsom: 48% Trump, 40% Newsom, 12% undecided
Former Vice President Al Gore: 47% Trump, 42% Gore, 11% undecided
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: 48% Trump, 41% Clinton, 11% undecided
Senator Elizabeth Warren: 49% Trump, 39% Warren, 13% undecided
Secretary of State Pete Buttigieg: 49% Trump, 39% Buttigieg, 12% undecided
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro: 46% Trump, 38% Shapiro, 16% undecided
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer: 48% Trump, 38% Whitmer, 15% undecided'
https://emersoncollegepolling.com/july-2024-national-poll-trump-46-biden-43/