This stance makes me laugh, a report was made in 2021 that confirmed had the lockdown been implemented when Bojo was warned, 25,000 people that had COVID-19 stated as the cause of death could have been saved. More than 2 filled Priestfield stadiums of people could still be alive today.
they'd've done better if they hadn't've scored so many own goals ...
A sensible system would be one where solar is providing power when the sun’s shining, wind is providing power when the wind‘s blowing, tidal is used when the tides rise and fall and wave power when there’s a swell. In the unlikely event that none of those are available we use the next best alternative which is probably gas. The aim is to vastly reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Not necessarily to eliminate it entirely until the technology is there to do so. We have already had days when the electricity supply system has used no fossil fuels. Batteries are not the only way to store electricity. Dinorwic in Wales proves that.
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Agree with this nuclear has to play a role too, the storage batteries are getting better and will continue to improve, but the ban on things like wind farms (which are now proven to actually improve habitat for wildlife) and solar farms is ridiculous short termism. A lot more could be done with tidal energy too as mentioned above.
About 250 Tories bottled it. Disgraceful that they are further undermining Parliament. Johnson has poisoned the well.
Agreed to think they are the party that lead calls to bring back control to the UK parliament.I rather be told the truth by a European than lied to by a English prime minister.About 250 Tories bottled it. Disgraceful that they are furtdher undermining Parliament. Johnson has poisoned the well.
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I am sorry I strongly disagree.Corbyn had some good ideas and was anti establishment .But the British public have always favoured the centre ground especially during more difficult financial times.He lost the election because his spending was way beyond what the country could afford.He lost the election because he divided not only Labour but the centre left .Starmer it has already been seen has a workable relationship with Ed Davey should he ever need that .Corbyn was always a bit of a maverick and I respect him for saying what he believes.But on Brexit he as good as hid .That more than anything possibly resulted in Brexit getting the go ahead.Afterward he lead a deeply divided party and strangely a bit like Rishi Sunak he again buried his head in the sand perhaps at the most important time when this country needed leadership.
I respect your opinion, Chris, but Corbyn was the most popular Labour leader after Blair. I agree that, unfortunately, he tried to side-step the Brexit vote, as he (personally) wished to leave, but felt compromised. However, on a spending issue... could he have done any worse than the Tories have ?... I think that he was one of the very few honest politicians we have ever had. The antisemitism slur made about him was completely unfounded. The elite, or the establishment, wanted him out, so did everything necessary to oust him.
Dodging the most important issue for the electorate was his downfall.Nobody else in the Labour party was to blame for his own failure to address the most important issue.Perhaps his leadership came at the wrong time.But that is a matter for the Labour party and it's members.Personally I am happy to vote for whoever is in the best position to beat the Tories in my constituency.Although I will never be a Labour or indeed Green party member.I have more time for Jo Churchill (our Tory MP) than many .But she is still a member of a very bad government party.That needs to be removed from power regardless of if there is anything better in my opinion.This government is rotten to the core and in my view people should not even consider giving them their vote.
I could never forgive Corbyn over Brexit. It wasn’t that he enabled Brexit as such but because he never seriously tried to get a coalition around something sensible like a Norway or a Switzerland style arrangement. Whilst I’d still have much preferred to remain a full member, I would have accepted either of those options. Remember it was Farage who said “Why would it be such a bad thing to be like Norway or Switzerland”, which of course was part of the dishonesty around the debate with that option being denied as being “too close to the EU” after the event. In the end he was a large part of getting us where we are now which is looking increasingly unsustainable.
