Just waiting for shmmeee to finish with it.
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Just waiting for shmmeee to finish with it.
Grendel
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I think he has been rubbing shmmees lamp for far longer
We don't want to hear about your fantasies.
shmmeee
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Local politicians gonna local politician.
fernandopartridge
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To be honest those big sprawling car oriented developments are atrocious anyway.
Grendel
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They are ghastly
MalcSB
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Whilst Rome wasn’t built in a day, it had to start somewhere.
Reeves was pleased to announce 14,000 new homes. Well, a task force to try to conclude a process for 14,000 new homes. Meanwhile, 1,400+ new homes are turned down by a Labour council in a new Labour constituency.
It seems unreasonable to crow about the former and dismiss the latter.
MalcSB
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They are ghastly indeed, but it’s what will end up being built. Edge of town, grey or green belt, will necessitate car use.
shmmeee
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The 14k homes were ones supposedly stuck in planning. There’s going to need to be actual planning law changes, which I expect will wait for the Kings Speech.
MalcSB
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One rule for oil, another rule for homes.
shmmeee
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Yes that’s how laws work.
MalcSB
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Have the new rules for oil been introduced yet, or more likely it’s just on a oddballs whim.
shmmeee
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I haven’t looked into it, but I assume the government has more direct control over North Sea oil licences than a semi in Nuneaton.
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Which particular semi in Nuneaton do you think might have some direct control over North Sea oil licenses?
Ian1779
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Working title of ‘The Toolmakers Son’ surely?
Sky Blue Pete
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Just chatting about Angela Raynors leadership interview with Campbell and Stewart
Mum and dad didn’t work, she didn’t go to university, first job as a carer then Union rep
What does she envy?
Hugs as they weren’t a part of her childhood home
No wonder the political class are after her for what she’s achieved
Love her
Mum and dad didn’t work, she didn’t go to university, first job as a carer then Union rep
What does she envy?
Hugs as they weren’t a part of her childhood home
No wonder the political class are after her for what she’s achieved
Love her
Grendel
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I assume you include Starmer in the political class?
Sky Blue Pete
Well-Known Member
Wasn’t really comparing anyone else just staggered by what she’s achieved
Ian1779
Well-Known Member
Let’s hope she remembers her roots as it was the Union movement that gave her the platform to get where she is today.
Sky Blue Pete
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Bit of both for me. They need to respect and work with her and she needs to recognise that part of her achieving what she has is down to the movement
shmmeee
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I can take or leave her but the way she boils the piss of certain right wing men amazes me. Definitely something sexual going on there.
Brighton Sky Blue
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She will at least be in the room trying to make counter arguments to the Tory lite Streetings and Reeves of the cabinet. Employment rights cost nothing and benefit many so hopefully she gets her way on all of them.
MalcSB
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Who was it who told me I was talking rubbish about solar farms taking up fields and asked if I had ever heard of roofs? This is 7,000 acres that will be gone.
news.sky.com
Government approves three new solar farms that could power 400,000 homes
The new Labour government has pledged to approve many new infrastructure projects - including on green energy. However, MPs impacted by the changes have already raised concerns.
duffer
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Who was it who told me I was talking rubbish about solar farms taking up fields and asked if I had ever heard of roofs? This is 7,000 acres that will be gone.
Government approves three new solar farms that could power 400,000 homes
The new Labour government has pledged to approve many new infrastructure projects - including on green energy. However, MPs impacted by the changes have already raised concerns.
In the spirit of (hopefully) polite debate, I did a bit of digging on this.
The suggestion that even these large solar developments are a threat to UK food security, doesn't seem to be backed by evidence. A quote from an article linked to below...
"Solar panels cover an estimated 0.1% of the country, compared to 2% covered by golf courses. As the think tank Green Alliance points out, crops for biofuel production occupy 77 times more land than that used for solar panels."
So personally, I'm leaning towards supporting government policy on this. The food security argument doesn't seem to stand up, if that's the main objection to it, imho.
It's possible to have solar farms and promote food security
It's possible to construct more solar farms while at the same time promoting and safeguarding food security, writes Hermione Dace, of the Tony Blair Institute.
MalcSB
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I guess it depends just how much land needs to be covered with Chinese solar panels. Still, if it’s got panels on it, it won’t also have houses. These projects will just cover the number of additional houses to be built per year, so no real inroad into reducing current use of carbon sources.In the spirit of (hopefully) polite debate, I did a bit of digging on this.
The suggestion that even these large solar developments are a threat to UK food security, doesn't seem to be backed by evidence. A quote from an article linked to below...
"Solar panels cover an estimated 0.1% of the country, compared to 2% covered by golf courses. As the think tank Green Alliance points out, crops for biofuel production occupy 77 times more land than that used for solar panels."
So personally, I'm leaning towards supporting government policy on this. The food security argument doesn't seem to stand up, if that's the main objection to it, imho.
It's possible to have solar farms and promote food security
It's possible to construct more solar farms while at the same time promoting and safeguarding food security, writes Hermione Dace, of the Tony Blair Institute.www.farminguk.com
And the Point I was really making was that people told me I was talking bollocks when I said fields would be used for solar panels and suggested roofs would do the trick.
MalcSB
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Of course, the Tony Blair institute is an entirely unbiased organisation.In the spirit of (hopefully) polite debate, I did a bit of digging on this.
The suggestion that even these large solar developments are a threat to UK food security, doesn't seem to be backed by evidence. A quote from an article linked to below...
"Solar panels cover an estimated 0.1% of the country, compared to 2% covered by golf courses. As the think tank Green Alliance points out, crops for biofuel production occupy 77 times more land than that used for solar panels."
So personally, I'm leaning towards supporting government policy on this. The food security argument doesn't seem to stand up, if that's the main objection to it, imho.
It's possible to have solar farms and promote food security
It's possible to construct more solar farms while at the same time promoting and safeguarding food security, writes Hermione Dace, of the Tony Blair Institute.
fernandopartridge
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They take the public for absolute mugs, this is just narrative building aided by the media to justify why nothing can get better.
Miraculously under the bonnet £3bn is found for Ukraine
Miraculously under the bonnet £3bn is found for Ukraine
Sick Boy
Super Moderator
Yet another vacuous interview.
Terry_dactyl
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National Conservatives?!?!