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[shmmeee]

How is global warming going for you?

Amazing. You are the exact reason we don’t call it global warming any more we call it climate change. A rise in average global temperatures doesn’t mean everywhere gets warmer.

But I’m glad you’ve proven my point that you’re willing to throw out hundreds of thousands of papers and decades of accurate predictions because you saw a news report with snow on it.

Gebuinely what do you gain from this? Do you not wonder why the only science you don’t believe is stuff grifters can sell you products for or extremely wealthy people can make money on?

 

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[chiefdave]

Amazing. You are the exact reason we don’t call it global warming any more we call it climate change. A rise in average global temperatures doesn’t mean everywhere gets warmer.

I was going to reply but I thought surely he's not saying, look there's snow in Florida therefore global warming isn't a thing

 

[wingy]

I was going to reply but I thought surely he's not saying, look there's snow in Florida therefore global warming isn't a thing

Poor Florida never gets a break does it?
Boats or snow ploughs, dichotomy!

 

[SkyBlueCharlie9]

How is global warming going for you?

Utterly daft but predictable, using such 'science' from MAGA loving neanderthals - her and supporter completely oblivious that she is directly undermining her own argument. Captain Dart.... climate change means windier, drier, wetter, sunnier, cloudier, colder and hotter at unusual times and distorted weather/climate patterns. Baffoons the lot of them - but thank god we dont have such dopey deniers in UK eh, CD?

 

[MalcSB]

Today is Labour Day in the Daily Mail. Quite an interesting selection of articles.

Hard for me to argue with what Starmer and Reeves are saying (frame the post @shmmeee ). I have no doubt Milliband and Khan will be unhappy.

PM vows crackdown on 'virtue-signalling' challenges to infrastructure

Keir Starmer vowed to end the 'challenge culture' of spurious judicial reviews that delay major projects such as nuclear power plants, wind farms and roads.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Rachel Reeves insists boosting UK economy must trump dash for net zero

Boosting the economy must trump Labour's dash for net zero, Rachel Reeves said yesterday - as she and Keir Starmer launched a new push for growth.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Rachel Reeves 'to ease Labour's non-dom crackdown'

Chancellor Rachel Reeves told a fringe event at the World Economic Forum in Davos that she was 'listening' to the concerns.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Heathrow expansion: Sadiq Khan warns of `climate emergency´

The mayor of London won a third term in 2024 on a platform of opposing expansion of airports in the capital.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[shmmeee]

Today is Labour Day in the Daily Mail. Quite an interesting selection of articles.

Hard for me to argue with what Starmer and Reeves are saying (frame the post @shmmeee ). I have no doubt Milliband and Khan will be unhappy.

PM vows crackdown on 'virtue-signalling' challenges to infrastructure

Keir Starmer vowed to end the 'challenge culture' of spurious judicial reviews that delay major projects such as nuclear power plants, wind farms and roads.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Rachel Reeves insists boosting UK economy must trump dash for net zero

Boosting the economy must trump Labour's dash for net zero, Rachel Reeves said yesterday - as she and Keir Starmer launched a new push for growth.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Rachel Reeves 'to ease Labour's non-dom crackdown'

Chancellor Rachel Reeves told a fringe event at the World Economic Forum in Davos that she was 'listening' to the concerns.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Heathrow expansion: Sadiq Khan warns of `climate emergency´

The mayor of London won a third term in 2024 on a platform of opposing expansion of airports in the capital.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Haha I don’t agree with caving to non doms. Do agree on a third runway with or without the insistence of greener fuels. I think that’s a sop to environmental campaigners but I’m not a degrowth environmentalist I’m a techno environmentalist so whatever. Agree with the planning stuff as I’ve said but wish it would go further.

 

[MalcSB]

Haha I don’t agree with caving to non doms. Do agree on a third runway with or without the insistence of greener fuels. I think that’s a sop to environmental campaigners but I’m not a degrowth environmentalist I’m a techno environmentalist so whatever. Agree with the planning stuff as I’ve said but wish it would go further.

Will there be trouble at t’mill?

Are they caving to non doms? They are saying the aim is to raise as much revenue as originally intended. They need to keep the non doms here. I did say that they would fuck off elsewhere, looks like the scale of the fucking off has taken the government by surprise. The lack of competence in not realising what would happen is, however, no surprise whatsoever.

 

[shmmeee]

Will there be trouble at t’mill?

Are they caving to non doms? They are saying the aim is to raise as much revenue as originally intended. They need to keep the non doms here. I did say that they would fuck off elsewhere, looks like the scale of the fucking off has taken the government by surprise. The lack of competence in not realising what would happen is, however, no surprise whatsoever.

What scale? You’re not believing Telegraph fairytales again are you?

 

[MalcSB]

Haha I don’t agree with caving to non doms. Do agree on a third runway with or without the insistence of greener fuels. I think that’s a sop to environmental campaigners but I’m not a degrowth environmentalist I’m a techno environmentalist so whatever. Agree with the planning stuff as I’ve said but wish it would go further.

The planning stuff has to start with something, and what Starmer is saying does address the spurious challenges (bat huts, I ask you).

Slightly amusing that the named culprit is Green Party, not a pensioners alliance which you have previously blamed.

Boswell has probably only just qualifies as a pensioner (subject to NI record), so most of his record of vexatious objection will have been as a working person.

 

[shmmeee]

The planning stuff has to start with something, and what Starmer is saying does address the spurious challenges (bat huts, I ask you).

Slightly amusing that the named culprit is Green Party, not a pensioners alliance which you have previously blamed.

Boswell has probably only just qualifies as a pensioner (subject to NI record), so most of his record of vexatious objection will have been as a working person.

Greens are half nimby pensioners same as the Lib Dem’s.

 

[Ian1779]

Tories just can’t help but Tory….

 

[MalcSB]

What scale? You’re not believing Telegraph fairytales again are you?

Nope, it’s in the posted article so it’s even worse than the Telegraph, it’s in the Mail. Is there anything in the article written by Starmer for the Daily Mail that you don’t believe?

 

[MalcSB]

Greens are half nimby pensioners same as the Lib Dem’s.

Source?

 

[fernandopartridge]

Of course these projects could have be completed if there wasn't all this insane fantasy net zero bollocks with massive budget implications.

Host of hospital builds delayed by up to 14 years

Ministers say previous government promise for 40 new hospitals by 2030 was undeliverable.

www.bbc.co.uk

Can you point me to the departmental 'net zero' budget?.

 

[fernandopartridge]

This is why I have no sympathy for winter fuel payments when these kind of clearly nonsense stories are the ones used to justify it. This woman is 66 and has had at most one winter fuel payment in her life yet apparently is so dependent on it she needs to take out a credit card overdraft and a “credit account” whatever that is. It’s just clear rubbish.

Winter fuel payment: 'I got a credit card after losing the £200'

Pensioners who lost winter fuel money after government changes tell the BBC the last few months have been a struggle.

www.bbc.co.uk

Southport is in the county of Merseyside these days

 

[fernandopartridge]

Well this is stupid. Do we want growth or not?

UK will not accept EU offer to join pan-European customs union ‘at present time’, minister says – UK politics live

Housing minister shoots down idea floated by Maroš Šefčovič designed to help reset UK-EU discussions

www.theguardian.com

I saw that earlier and thought the same, the answer from the Labour minister felt like one of somebody utterly petrified of giving the wrong answer. Would anybody really object to a customs union arrangement with the EU, easy to sell the benefits of it.