Unlikely villains: Sir Geoffrey Howe – politicalbetting.com
Unlikely villains: Sir Geoffrey Howe – politicalbetting.com
I really like Sir Geoffrey Howe, as Margaret Thatcher’s first Chancellor of the Exchequer he helped change the economy, shattering the policies that helped make the United Kingdom the sick man of Europe despite a lot of opprobrium at the time.
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Had the relationship with Europe been pivotal then Tory MPs would have replaced her with Heseltine not Major
"Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms - BBC News" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74172wlezwo
It’s hard to overstate what a disaster Boris Johnson turned out to be. It’s likely none of the present tensions would be happening in the UK if he hadn’t done this. The worst thing is, I couldn’t tell you if he did it on purpose or by accident. Either is quite possible.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-15030819/US-Open-chaos-daniil-medvedev-photographer-umpire.html
Its 'reopen the pits' level of pointlessness.
Opencast mining on the slopes of Helvellyn and Snowdon could be a real money spinner for US mining interests and boost the UK balance of payments deficit.
Boris, the midwife of PM Farage.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/should-britain-start-extracting-shale-gas
Fairly consistently 50% against, 25% for.
"We, the Party of Nigel Farage and Brexit will return the nation to the glorious years of pre-Harold Wilson empire". Moving on, " so we couldn't give you back coal mining and steel making, but we have given you back capital sentencing, grammar schools, red telephone boxes and sent the "foreigners" packing, what more do you want?"
Just had a bill from Severn Trent estimating my usage at 35m3 for eight weeks.
That's as much as a small industrial concern.
We have had Discussions on that subject and they have backed down.
If Farage wanted an easy hit, utility companies being ordered to pay £50 for every false bill would be insanely popular given that would mean we all got about a £200 bonus from companies we all hate anyway.
1. Will the courts be able to accomodate this number of people and their Zimmer frames?
2. Will the beleagured Yvette Cooper still be in post when we find out the answer to question one?
People in unaffected areas might be vaguely in favour in hope of lower energy bills.
People in affected areas will be deeply against because it is their lives which would be disrupted and their environments damaged.
Lets
1) Import lots more gas from foreigners. "Dependency on foreigners is great" says 30p Lee
2) Frack your community and frack you too. People like having earthquakes, shake the woke away
3) Import more electricity from foreigners.
4) Buy more nuclear power stations from foreigners
What I am concerned about is where are the Howes of today? He was a serious intellectual heavyweight who thought deeply about public policy and the public good. Like every human he wasn't always right but he was deeply focused on that public good, ahead even of party political considerations. I cannot think of his equivalent in the House of Commons today. Instead, our most prominent politicians are interested in sound bites, social media, clickbait and, above all, themselves. They are obsessed with what sounds good rather than what is good. Gestures instead of substance. It's sad.
Edit, see this fracking nonsense this morning.
Absent that, I'd guess interest will be limited.
The problem is that there are a lot more people living in West Yorkshire and north Derbyshire than west Texas and North Dakota.
Reform UK are going to be very prominent in one of the two constituencies I am looking to be selected in.
"Tell them to Frack Off"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IqBypvEq5MM
DeSantis: We got shortchanged in the last census. That was the Biden Administration’s doing. We are asking them award us another seat, that would trigger a new map.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1959420907379970220
“Stay in Europe so most immigrants are white and Christian”
I think we know why. Yet now they hypocritically whine
The fields around are house are also largely harvested now and most of the hay has been baled and stored away. In the morning we have had several misty mornings with a real Autumnal feel about them.
An interesting story about a lime tree
Homeowner believed it was OK to chop down tree but it's cost her 13 years later
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/owner-big-house-believed-ok-32337838#ICID=Android_DailyPostNewsApp_AppShare
Of course, it would be brilliant to have someone who talks a good game whilst also doing a good game, but I don't think we can wait for one of them.
There’s a sizeable minority of the country that would really quite like to be American, though. Always has been. So they won’t fall on totally deaf ears.
We left the EU because we thought FOM gave us too many foreigners, so Brexit kicked out the foreigners, but we needed more foreigners so Johnson brought in up to a million foreign workers a year from the Indian sub-continent. I am not sure how you sell that politically as a positive.
Your best strategy which is the one Badenoch, Philp and Jenrick are touting is if there is a problem with immigration it started on July 5th 2024. Perhaps you could try calling the "Boriswave" the "Starmerwave".
Isn’t that to be applauded? Maybe not, if it’s from nigel
You can argue that fracking will never work in the UK but that’s a different argument. It is also a compromised argument because we know - we literally know - that Putin’s Russia has spent a decade trying to swing the argument against fracking in Europe (in the alleged science and in the voters’ minds) by pumping out disinformation so that we remain reliant on Russia for oil and gas
Fuck Russia. Try fracking
This is two good policies from reform in a row. Actual policies for migration and now an actual policy on energy. Both better than anything from Lab or Con
Or health and care workers.
On the latter, extra NHS workers funded by not giving money to the EU.
Wasn't @HYUFD wanting to return to the Victorian era last night
What is it with the right that live in so much in the past and never understood the motto - 'adapt adopt and improv'
We will be having children becoming chimney sweeps next !!!!!!!!!!!
Yet now hypocritically you whine.
It isn't that many years ago that "brownouts" was the warning - not enough power generating capacity. That gap has been filled by wind and the Fuking morons say "turn them off"
We need to keep extracting as much oil and gas as is economic from the North Sea, but with the best will in the world that isn't a long term proposition now. Shale is a chimera. So what Farage proposes is that we import endless LNG from his orange gibbon friend.
Some of my best friends are geo-surveyors, but even still...
Is the pretzel logic.
..Ownership of oil and gas within the land area of Great Britain was vested in the Crown by the Petroleum (Production) Act 1934. The Continental Shelf Act 1964 applied the provisions of the 1934 Act to the UKCS outside territorial waters...
https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/planning/uk-mineral-ownership/
More money for the NHS
More workers for the NHS
Restrict tradesmen and gypsies migrating from Eastern Europe
Make it easier for skilled Indians to migrate here
And all were achieved.
But fracking is not a serious proposition in areas of high density populations with lots of old, fragile buildings that are going to be damaged by it. If we found a way to frack off our coasts, for example, I would have no problem with it but not where we live. We've looked at this several times before and it just doesn't work.
It says she didn't realise she was doing anything wrong, but also that she had failed to get a Tree Preservation Order removed.
The article isn't particularly well written, but it suggests they the attempt to get rid of the TPO was before they cut the tree down, so a little bizarre that they tried to claim they thought it was fine to cut down the tree.
Its our remainery cohort who do the whining about a vote they lost 10 years ago.
The countrty is in the shit and would still be in the shit if we were in the EU. France and Germany are in deep trouble as much as we are. It's the failed policies of the last 30 years which have got us to this place and all the people bewailing our exit are the same people who implemented them.
Conservative 38%
Reform 36%
LD 4%
Labour 0%
"Most farmers fear for survival and won’t vote Labour, poll finds" https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/farmers-poll-survival-labour-next-general-election-pvhf2rl2d
Apparently there are many trees with Tree Preservation Orders (TPO) not only in conservation areas, but more generally, and especially in estates built post the 1970's when developers created TPOs on trees on their developments, a practice that continues to this day I believe
Apparently Local Authorities have 'tree officers' who strictly police these regulations.
I doubt many home owners have any idea about this issue until it is specifically raised in a sale's pre contract enquiries, and can cause real problems for the sale if the rules haven't been followed.
Fortunately the trees in my daughter's property had not had TPO's but one nearby had
I thought you'd be for it.
Grow up and move on, it's boring.
That's the thing about alt history; it's not testable.
I think you're wrong, as without the decade long distraction it's quite possible we'd be in a better place.
And we'd almost certainly not have had Johnson as PM.
The only argument for it is economic, and even that is undermined by the the fact more of our economy would be exposed to these dickheads than one without fracking.
*The conspiracy is that to this is part of the attraction for Reform - allowing Putin to destroy our economy gives him lots of power over us and our allies - see the energy crisis in 2022.
+ All the other arguments PBers have responded for.
Should have just accepted her mistake, paid the fine, and moved on.
Give over.
This country.
There's a problem. Even if you open up more gas wells we're short of the stuff having largely burnt it already. Gas is 26% of UK energy production but we have to import half. So if we burn more gas we import more gas.
I support bringing as much out of the North Sea as we can. But more gas power = more imports. None of the imports are to the NE - it will kill us.
Apologies for the slow reply (been busy).
I've a 1922 copy of The Jungle Book, with an elephant and a small swastika on the front. The broken cross was used by many cultures, including Hindus.
You may be right about reclaiming it. But the cross of Saint George is not remotely the same thing.
Without considering which of them people who live in this country might actually prefer.
Though perhaps one reason you might think there are fewer Europeans in Britain is that many of them have integrated and now speak English.
When it was, it was discovered that the trunk was absolutely rotten and indeed, then the last section was removed, it split into two.
A gale might have caused considerable damage, either to us...... probably our garage ...... or to the neighbours, or to the local library.