It’s not easy being green – politicalbetting.com
It’s not easy being green – politicalbetting.com
?/ With the Green Party leadership ballots opening tomorrow, how do potential Green voters see the party?52% of Green considerers think the party should focus on being generally left-wing, more than the 33% who believe it should focus on the environmentyougov.co.uk/politics/art…
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Polanski would likely do a deal with the new Corbyn led party
We should perhaps remember that in what, even by his standards, was a crass and bizarre thing to say, Massive Johnson once claimed 'voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts.'
What a pair of muppets...
But for these misguided folk it's a social and political religious movement, and they don't understand the science, technology and engineering that'd actually be required to achieve it.
In fact, they reject it all.
Do we have a shortage of the latter and surpluses of the former? Strange
They have got a problem, similar to the one the Lib Dems had for a long time. Two of their MPs are in places where left-of-Labour works, but the other two are in places where Green = down with smells and building. How do they straddle that?
However I think they might eventually benefit as being seen as, comparatively, the saner of the two.
I find it rather odd how my voting preferences stack up at the moment - Con 1st, then Lab!, then LD, then a big gap.... then Ref as 'none of the below', then Grn and finally the ghastly F&N.
“Mr Polanski added he never charged for the service.”
I can understand why farmers do it - it makes excellent financial sense for them - but it's still a policy failure at a national level.
On a very tenuously-related note, Danny Kruger made a speech (a while ago, but I'm only just aware) about Christianity and the new woke religion that was brilliant and worth a watch.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=auajsLABn24
It's the sort of thing that causes firms to go bust.
(Although, that said, solar farms do make money.)
That's all that matters, and absorbing some of the excess carbon that's already up there. I couldn't care less what it is. It's a simple scientific problem with a technological answer.
The trouble is we have very few people in our society now who understand science and engineering, like Margaret Thatcher did.
The actual percentage of land used for solar farms vs food is tiny, by the way.
And there are two reasons that solar panels make far more sense on the ground.
1) Working at height is expensive. It is the lost expensive thing about a solar install, domestically.
2) Covering a roof gets you a limited amount of power. Mine covers the aircon and a bit over. Covering a few fields and your into serious watts. Because of scaling of the power electronics vs the panels, the comics say you get cheaper power with lots of panels per installation.
But otherwise, with Magic Grandpa on the scheme. Why have pretendy socialism, when you can have the full fat version.
Well there is actually a small part of David Millibands loony 18bn carbon capture scheme for cloud brightening, but I've seen it ripped apart by righties who are now so fed up of the bullshit around this topic that they dismiss everything without looking at the detail.
They should have just got ships to do it immediately, not made it part of this silly carbon capture package - it has nothing to do with CCS, and we might already be in a position to measure the effects.
For all @HYUFD might be looking at former Conservative Parliamentary constituencies, here in London the Greens have a very different profile and are pushing Labour hard in a number of Inner London Boroughs including Lewisham, Hackney and even Newham.
The Green candidate outpolled Reform in the Thames View by-election on Thursday and I suspect the Greens will be fighting a number of council seats hard next year in the local elections.
The problem they have in Newham is while they have their stronghold in the new residential estates in Stratford, progress elsewhere is hampered by the Newham Independents who are hoovering up the anti-Labour vote in the Muslim areas.
I suspect the Mayoral candidate will be either second or third depending on who the Independents pick to go against the new Labour candidate who has replaced the incumbent Mayor, Roksana Fiaz.
Trouble is that nothing is ever just science and technology. There are arguments about finance and aesthetics that need to be sorted. And they're much harder, because they affect different people differently.
I would be interested in your thoughts on the speech if you have any.
It's worth remembering that at the peak of Corbyn's popularity, 2017, defence of the realm was seen as much less of an issue than it is now - voters rather took for granted the security of the nation, but thanks to Putin and others, that's much less the case now.
His pitch will be solidly left wing socialism for all, pro-Gaza, pro-Green, pro trans, anti-war. There are plenty of people in the UK who don't see increased defence spending as a good thing, they think everybody should disarm and have a nice cup of tea.
That caps his appeal at probably 15%, but that is enough to cause Labour issues. I think the big doubt is though will he actually do the work rather than just stick to having chats with Owen Jones and selling his "homemade" jam.
I wish the guy could give a skeleton argument, or summary.
At a very quick skim, I get the impression that he is arguing in caricatures from a maximalist and box-ticking position, which is a mirror of the outliers at the other end. This is him, on the ECHR position:
A women's walking group, for instance, could not choose to be trans inclusive. If they wanted to allow trans women in, they would have to allow men in. The EHRC painted a very black and white world, which would obviously cause a tremendous amount of pain for the people affected.
It now wishes to embed this interpretation into law via an update to the statutory code of practice - a 200 page guidebook telling businesses and public services how to interpret equality provisions. This would constitute the de-facto eradication of trans people from Britain's social fabric. That sounds hyperbolic, but it is difficult to see how any other interpretation is valid. How could a trans person participate in their country's economic, social, cultural or civic life under these conditions - where every trip to the toilet denies your identity and even joining a walking group involves a fundamental betrayal of self?
What?
https://bsky.app/profile/zackpolanski.bsky.social/post/3lvdbvdctn22b
For the Greens to move to major party status they face the same problem as Reform. Both parties need to move from being a single issue pressure group to having policy positions across all domains of government that mesh together into a coherent whole. In the Greens case this is that tackling the environmental crisis requires social inequality, an internationalist approach and a change of lifestyle to adjust to and halt climate change.
(Incidentally, wasn't his hypnotism treatment of women's breasts aimed at them having a better internal body image rather than actual actual breast enlargement? As he is gay, I expect his interest in women's breasts is not lacivious)
Assistant coroner Emma Hillson heard between 2015 and 2024 there had been 22 crashes leading to three deaths, nine serious injuries and a total of 54 casualties at the junction.
Miss Hillson said the majority of the collisions had involved the same manoeuvre turning right from the B3257 on to the Launceston-bound A30 carriageway.
I used to have one like that, that went in the 1990s, but only when enough injuries and deaths had happened.
A system was invented 60, maybe 70, years ago, and the Local Highways Authorities are enslaved by it.
The Tory leader said she is "interested" in the country she grew up in, but her home is with her family and the Conservative Party"
https://news.sky.com/story/kemi-badenoch-says-she-no-longer-identifies-as-nigerian-13405449
My own view is that climate changing is happening, and it is bad for this country, and the world. Frankly, I'd rather it was not happening.
But amongst the gloom, I see climate change as a massive opportunity. The science, technology and engineering required to tackle it may well - indeed, I think will - have positive knock-on effects for society in this country and around the world. Yes, there are massive costs. But the opportunities are also massive.
An issue is that these opportunities will be delivered by big money and big corporations - the exact people some of the groups above dislike. And as the problems are solved, so are their campaigns. So they often do not like the solutions, and any progress made is ignored.
And we have made a heck of a lot of progress.
It isn’t people in hostels, it’s who the people are.
Racists hate Muslims because they are going to rape their daughters. Especially the Pakistani ones or the ones who look Pakistani.
Do you think all this stops with no asylum seekers in hotels? It will not.
So yes, growing up hearing small minded morons going on about “pakis” to describe everyone with brown skin gives me understanding of this.
I do love how triggered some of you are. Whilst denying you are triggered - or what has triggered you.
Why waste time in here? Isn’t there a patriots protest you and Leon can go and wave your flags at? That will sort everything out.
And trying to present a genuinely coherent set of policies to the electorate would very likely lose them vote share.
*Badenoch has self-described as a first generation immigrant in her maiden speech in parliament.
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-07-19/debates/5294A807-C27B-4426-87D4-13606D4A93BE/ExitingTheEuropeanUnionSanctions#contribution-BBFBEA85-27E5-4895-9A47-23FF655CA77A
He sees Islam as a lesser threat as he agrees with Muslims in opposing euthanasia and supporting the traditional family.
The next Archbishop of Canterbury may be more pro Parish as Kruger would back but they will likely still be at least partly woke
ZACK POLANSKI SAYS: “The brain is the most complicated computer we know of.
“Our unconscious knows how to run our bodies better than we do. Essentially, I am looking to utilise the unconscious process to make changes to the body.
We don’t exactly know what is changing because of the complexities of the unconscious.
“We do know that whatever is changing is ecological, so if it’s changing one thing – such as the size of a person’s breasts – it’s making sure that the whole system is changing in order to support it.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/798031/can-you-really-think-your-boobs-bigger/
(Obvs the sun so a piccie of big-boobed-Bertha in her seethru nightwear.)
And he says it's about "tissue growth":
I email Zack to ask if this is related to the therapy. He says it is part of the process, drawing me to high-energy foods to encourage tissue growth.
I measure my bust after three days. I’ve grown from a 32in chest to 34in.
Three days later, my chest measures 35in. Another three days and I’m 36in.
I’m still wearing a B-cup but it is a lot more snug and I realise I should have been wearing an A-cup before.
That's enough, but I suspect any changes are within normal cycles. Perhaps @Leon can advise from his statistically significant sample.
The land is owned by a corporation in the Cayman Islands that is own by a company in Lichtenstein that is own by a company on the asteroid Eros.
So when you die, your shares are transferred out of U.K. tax jurisdiction. Strangely, in a country with no inheritance tax.
I nearly persuaded my wife to move to Marden in Kent for this - buy the farm house to live in. 35 acres of agricultural land. At that point cheap enough (£2.5 an acre) that running a few sheep would pay most of the mortgage on the land. The solar panels would have been pure profit. Mind you, my bet was really on Build Baby, Build.
Agree on food production - but mainly crops. There is a strong national security argument to retaining a large proportion of our calories from domestic cereals and so on. But a very large proportion of our subsidies go to luxury export goods like beef and lamb - stuff that isn't essential. Reduce the subsidies for them and concentrate on what we really need more of - vegetables in particular which we import loads of.
But the crucial thing is the subsidies for such food have to be high enough to take account of the gains you can make by covering the fields with solar. That's going to cost a lot of money - do we really value food security to that extent? Probably, but we better cough up for it.
https://x.com/LeftieStats/status/1809216647623815170
Two questions are:
1 - Will the maintenance kit for both fit into the combined environment.
2 - Where do the vines need their insolation?
The Boats play to this.
But also the nonesense about it being impossible to house asylum seekers anywhere - the hotels were used precisely because the Process State doesn’t have a process for stopping them. I read a transcript of a judge reviewing an application by a local authority - the *lawyer* for the local authority seemed upset by the fact there was no way to delay things by 6 months.
So the public sees the government being told - no on airfields, no on ex service accommodation, no on hired hotel barges etc etc
“They are not in control”
What is needed is some clear, reasoned action. Not legislation by the courts.
Though isn't the GRC becoming obsolete in many respects, as most Trans-folk do not apply for one, they simply adopt the new gender, albeit without legal status? And if having a GRC doesn't include access to single sex spaces then what is it for?
Polanski joined the Lib Dems in the coalition years, and only left when he failed to get shortlisted for the Richmond Park by-election. The "hypnotise your tits bigger" story is funny... but also indicative of a chancer who will say and do anything for what he sees as his own short term advantage.
In short, he's a Green Johnson. I think they'll go for him... and live to deeply regret it.
(Personally I'm uneasy with the birth certificate changes. Seems like rewriting history.)
Cheaper energy will help grow the economy.
(and organo-phosphate fertilisers do not help the environment)
I do wonder if Polanski could win the Mayoralty in London, in a similar way to Johnson. It would up his profile significantly.
Suspect that might work quite well with them, particularly among young voters, who have a soft spot for whiskery oldsters.
They would need to be incorporated in Guarantees, NHBC warranties etc, which apply at newbuild time. Those are down to the builder.
Rent-a-roof was an added value thing to be piggybacked onto existing houses, and to give the provider company a continuing cost-free maintenance-free income stream from disaggregating the Govt subsidy, where they got the FIT cash and the householder got the electricity.
Now the income stream, where rent-a-roof is done, is from exports aiui. It is a much tougher business model.
Such a change from his predecessor, a Conservative.
Sheep mix better with solar.
Basically - most home installations are too small to make sense. Mine is more of a technology interest, plus runs the aircon in summer.
Stuff that does make sense is building a canopy over an outdoor carpark, or covering a factory/warehouse roof. You need scale for the economics to work.
I wouldn't want him anywhere near national power because of his over-pushed dogmas about non-growth economic policy, whilst less energy dense growth is imo the way to go.
But in London he might overlap perhaps 50% with Sadiq's policies, and the face that Susan Hall would pull would be worthy of a public sculpture.
Eirian Powell, the manager of the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, argued the department was “taking too many risks” and “compromising patient safety”.
The email was sent to senior managers in December 2015, the middle of the period in which there was a spike of baby deaths at the unit, for which Letby was convicted of murder.
Former Estates Management staff at the hospital also told The Telegraph that nappy pads were placed in the ceiling of the unit to prevent sewage leaking through.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/02/nurse-warned-baby-killing-bacteria-lucy-letby-unit/
As I have said, I don't know very much about the details of the Letby case, but it does seems like the place was a shit show....literally.
The landowners who go for solar developments will still "own" the land, but there will be significant clauses in many contract agreements over future tenancy and land rights.
I agree new builds should have solar panels installed, where possible. From what I've seen they are very efficient in summer but much less so in winter. So Mr Miliband is then left with the problem how do we fill the energy gap when solar panels aren't generating power and wind turbines aren't in action? Yesterday (or the day before, can't remember) we were importing 20% of our energy from the continent at one point.
The change in subsidy system means livestock are not being subsidised in England any more, farmers will only receive subsidies if they conform to certain environmental conditions. Scotland has retained part payments for livestock, beef bred calves and upland breeding ewes on the poorest land. It was about 8% of the total pot of money, not sure what it is now. Value of sub has been frozen since around 2015, so if you were getting 25k annually then, you'll still be getting 25k annually now, unless you've bought land/other variables. Inflation has eroded the sub value considerably since the 1990s
The rate that cattle and sheep farms are destocking across the UK means we won't have to worry about having too many sheep/cows soon enough.
Don't think the UK Government value food security at all given the start they've made, and a lot of the harvest down south will be variable given the dry conditions. Expect food price increases in the coming months
All you need is a moderate amount of care in making the cables unmunchable.
The sheep make the place look "used" rather than completely "automated" - apparently this has a noticeable effect on vandalism. Which can be pain - lots of shiny surfaces appeal to yobs with spray cans.
I don't seem him, and have never seen him, as a PM though. Just as I never saw Michael Foot as PM.
You could almost call it "the price mechanism" or "the market" or something.
Instead of course we have the absurd spectacle of government preventing the most socially beneficial use of farmland, namely for housing, while competing branches of it subsidise its inefficient uses for solar panels and farming.
Ridiculous, but it's where almost a century of Whitehall knows best lunacy has got us. And people are so brainwashed by it that they can't imagine government getting out of land ownership and letting individuals decide how best to manage their own property.
Short version: crime in general genuinely appears to be down, but the crimes visible to people in their everyday lives (petty theft, shoplifting etc etc) are up significantly, by a factor of 2 or more in some cases, over recent years.
Rent a roof was piggy backed onto existing houses where people wanted to go solar and couldn’t afford it. They ended up, in some cases, with onerous contracts.
Les Verts didn't go anywhere near any of the other trot infested left-of-Labour projects (Respect, TUSC, etc.) and it'll be no different with Your Party.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IETxE7VErPA
That substack said that "...obtaining a GRC allows a transgender person to do four things:
- Birth certificate: update your birth or adoption certificate, if it was registered in the UK
- Marriage certificate I: get married or form a civil partnership in your affirmed gender
- Marriage certificate II: update your marriage or civil partnership certificate, if it was registered in the UK
- Death certificate: have your affirmed gender on your death certificate when you die..."
Harwood also points out that "...A GRC does not alter an individual’s access to single sex spaces" and emphasises it again in "That is because, again, a Gender Recognition Certificate is not a passport to segregated spaces"In short, a GRC allows you to change your birth certificate, marriage certificate, and death certificate. It does not allow you to access the other prison, medical ward, track event, whatevs, although there is some confusion about toilets.
I’d personally not buy any property, new or otherwise, with rent a roof panels.
Labour is mandating all new build have them. I’m not sure how efficient that will be. Some new build round here already has them.