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Indeed it will Gladders:
https://nitter.poast.org/adamscochran/status/203607098075423956
(The link is X/Twitter for those of us who don’t wish to use the actual website, it simply displays the posts)
When you mention democracy in China:
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To which China would say ‘and? What are you going to do about it? Get your Western house in order before criticising us’.Whatever one thinks of the rights and wrongs of China, they don’t care what we think and they’re laughing all the way to the bank whilst we buy all the stuff they make.
There is absolutely no point in starting a campaign against China. We need them as an ally not as a foe as we might need military support one day. The USA with Trump in charge in attacking every country he doesnt like. So when the US courts award Trump $5 billion libel damages against the BBC and we won’t (rightly) pay we might be vulnerable.
Iran can fight back from this illegal and unprovoked war because China supports them. The USA cannot defeat China.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg547ljepvzo
Illustrating the point made yesterday about “alleged” insider trading.
Today, I had £10 on a horse at 20/1. It finished last, but I told the bookmaker it had won and demanded a payout of £210. The bookmaker refused to pay so I am suing him for £1,000,210, made up of £210 wnnings and £1 million damages for the hurt of not being paid out.
As the bookmaker also trades in the USA I am issuing the writ there. i will be claining that I put the bet on on behalf of Donald Trump. Of course, as any US court knows Trump aleays wins.
Now, if you think this is fantasy, it is in keeping with Trumps comments regarding the illegal war he started.
Thanks for posting that, @moehat.
In an age when far right voices make the most noise (empty vessels and all that), it’s increasingly rare to see American progressive voices get an airing. Abby Martin is a left wing journalist and film maker; her interview here with Dr Myriam Francois is well worth watching:
I see the Mail is clutching its pearls this morning over middle class people apparently subsiding those on benefits for their energy bill rises. I wonder which papers supported the war when it first started.
It’s so reassuring to know that there are some sane, intelligent people in America although I do fear for them. Especially those going on the protests. I read a Facebook page that was started by someone called Brandon Weber. I often used to think he was talking about the UK because there were so many parallels but these days America has gone way beyond everything that was happening here ( unless Reform get in one day). Brandon sadly died a few years ago but his partner keeps the page going. Why do the good guys always seem to go first….
Labour – for the shirkers, NOT the workers.
Just scrap the Green taxes on utility bills. Costs the same as giving handouts.
Wilts, I presume you are having a laugh. Can you explain how green taxes on utility bills amount to a handout? A handout to whowm?
Sadly, @value31, he isn’t having a laugh: he really is that extreme.
You weren’t on the forum at the time, but this is the man who thought that the Conservatives under Liz Truss weren’t extreme enough for him, branding them “Labour Lite”, and who praised Suella Braverman when she was Home Secretary. It’s close between him and Blackcountry Kid for the title of the nuttiest of the nut jobs on this forum.
Just scrap the Green taxes on utility bills. Costs the same as giving handouts.
Says who? We have no idea what what will happen with energy prices or for how long so how can the cost of assisting those on lower incomes be known?
Although who needs green energy anyway? Let’s just keep relying on expensive, polluting fossil fuels that a small group of countries can use to hold the world to ransom if they so choose.
Meanwhile it’s been blowing a gale all morning here and also bright sunshine all day, shame it’s pretty much all gone to waste.
That’s all you can give in return, is it Glad?
Value31 – i’ll explain it to your tiny bit of grey matter. It really is simple.
It’ll cost revenue to handout more dosh, so they may as well scrap the green levies, at roughly same cost.
“That’s all you can give in return, is it Glad?”
What, evidence of your extremist views?
Do you even know for what the green levies to which you are so opposed are used? Probably not.
Here is a reminder of why we need to be switching to renewables:
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/raising-ambition/renewable-energy
Apologies if the UN is too “woke” or “radical left” for you.
Some welcome good news for a change:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czjw7klkjm2o
And I might well get one of these:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-make-plug-in-solar-available-within-months
Of course, dependent on price and research into likely time required for a return on investment, but a positive initiative.
Let’s just keep relying on expensive, polluting fossil fuels
I wish someone would make it clear to numerous dimwits in parliament that going ahead with the proposed Rosebank and Jackdaw oil/gas fields wouldn’t reduce the price of oil in the UK, as all oil is traded at prices determined on the world markets…unless UK production was nationalised and none exported which would no doubt cause a mass outbreak of fainting amongst said dimwits.
That said, I’m actually for these new fields as there’s so many other uses of crude oil other than for energy production: plastics, synthetic rubber and clothing, pharmaceuticals, lubricants, pesticides, tarmac, fertilizers…
Oil will always, always be needed, just stop burning so much of the stuff
“I wish someone would make it clear to numerous dimwits in parliament that going ahead with the proposed Rosebank and Jackdaw oil/gas fields wouldn’t reduce the price of oil in the UK, as all oil is traded at prices determined on the world markets…”
The point has been made many times, both in parliament and in the media, but the RWNJ are either too stupid or too subservient to the fossil fuel industry to listen (my money is on both, by the way).
And it’s hilarious that Reform and the Conservatives seem to think that we can just start drilling right now and everyone’s bills will be cheaper tomorrow, as though there’s some magic switch.
On the subject of solar panels, there’s still an element on the right who appear to believe that the country would grind to a halt if a cloud covered the sun.
Idiots.
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