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Post by block12massive on Oct 26, 2022 16:18:20 GMT 1
Yay, let's continue to be reliant on importing oil from countries with murky human rights records and paying top whack for it. I'm sure it'll be not a crumb of comfort to the poor and impoverished this winter. Tell me , are you in favour of fracking. Genuine ? I left the UK on Monday last week and have returned to a new Prime Minister. A PM that was resoundingly beaten in the last leadership election is now running the country and surprise surprise days into the job is already kowtowing to a globalist agenda and committing to further reliance on overseas oil production, while being at the mercy of volatile market forces driving up the prices. To answer your question, truth be told I'm not entirely sure. But I'd have certainly left the option on the table. |
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Post by northwestman on Oct 26, 2022 16:27:48 GMT 1
The knives are out for Sunak already. 'In public Rishi Sunak claims he wants to level up the North, but here, he boasts about trying to funnel vital investment away from deprived areas? He says one thing and does another – from putting up taxes to trying to block funding for our armed forces and now levelling up'. Jake Berry MP - ex Chairman of the Tories (until yesterday). Not that Berry has the slightest credibility on this topic: www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/11/robert-jenrick-admits-approving-funds-for-town-in-jake-berrys-constituencyRobert Jenrick has admitted that he and a junior minister approved payments to towns in each other’s constituencies from a government fund earmarked for deprived areas. The communities secretary confirmed that communities minister Jake Berry gave the go-ahead for Jenrick’s Newark constituency to be selected for a £25m fund award even though it was 270th on the list of the UK’s most deprived areas. Jenrick said he signed off the decision for money to be allocated to Darwen, a town in Berry’s Rossendale and Darwen constituency. Jenrick told the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show: “If the question you’re coming to is was I involved in selecting my own community, absolutely not. Ministers do not get involved in their own constituencies. That decision was made by another minister in my department.” Asked which minister made the decision, Jenrick replied: “It was made by Jake Berry.” When Marr pointed out that a town in Berry’s constituency also received money from the fund, Jenrick confirmed that he was the individual to have given that decision the go-ahead. |
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Post by staffordshrew on Oct 26, 2022 16:31:44 GMT 1
Tell me , are you in favour of fracking. Genuine ? I left the UK on Monday last week and have returned to a new Prime Minister. A PM that was resoundingly beaten in the last leadership election is now running the country and surprise surprise days into the job is already kowtowing to a globalist agenda and committing to further reliance on overseas oil production, while being at the mercy of volatile market forces driving up the prices. To answer your question, truth be told I'm not entirely sure. But I'd have certainly left the option on the table. It might be closer to home that he's cowtowing to - there were Conservative MPs ging to lose their seats over fracking - all for something I doubt anyone is entirely sure about, including those who would have thought about investing in it. |
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Post by sheltonsalopian on Oct 26, 2022 16:36:04 GMT 1
Tell me , are you in favour of fracking. Genuine ? I left the UK on Monday last week and have returned to a new Prime Minister. A PM that was resoundingly beaten in the last leadership election is now running the country and surprise surprise days into the job is already kowtowing to a globalist agenda and committing to further reliance on overseas oil production, while being at the mercy of volatile market forces driving up the prices. To answer your question, truth be told I'm not entirely sure. But I'd have certainly left the option on the table. I like the general sentiment that we should be producing more of our own energy rather than importing it from across the globe but fracking is not the answer. The entire gas reserves that could be fracked in the UK would run our country for about two weeks, it's a pointless venture economically. Also wouldn't be sold at a loss for us to use, but on the global market, so you would notice no difference whatsoever in your bill. |
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Post by servernaside on Oct 26, 2022 16:36:37 GMT 1
Anyway, back with people with a modicum of sense, Rishi has reimposed the fracking ban!
Yay, let's continue to be reliant on importing oil from countries with murky human rights records and paying top whack for it. I'm sure it'll be not a crumb of comfort to the poor and impoverished this winter. I take it that you've never owned a car, or used any public transport during these past fifty years. If, as I suspect, you almost certainly have, I bet any human rights issues weren't uppermost in your mind as you traveled merrily along. |
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Post by stuttgartershrew on Oct 26, 2022 17:51:23 GMT 1
Regarding the shift to renewables; fair enough this is a bit of a long read and perhaps focused on the US but even so, its worth a read... The “Energy Transition” Delusion |
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Post by zenfootball2 on Oct 26, 2022 18:27:05 GMT 1
Regarding the shift to renewables; fair enough this is a bit of a long read and perhaps focused on the US but even so, its worth a read... The “Energy Transition” Delusion  a very detailed and intresting article which just highlights how complicated and challenging the shift to a world without hydrocarbones would be and to be completely free for decades seems not very feasable .even more so when countrys are in a mess across the world. however we may have a solution to part of the problem. the science and thecnology behinds this is mind boggling and full size plants are some time off ,i dont say this lightly but from an energy point of view htis has hte possibilitys to be a game changer news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy-0908"The major innovation in the MIT-CFS fusion design is the use of high-temperature superconductors, which enable a much stronger magnetic field in a smaller space. This design was made possible by a new kind of superconducting material that became commercially available a few years ago. The idea initially arose as a class project in a nuclear engineering class taught by Whyte. The idea seemed so promising that it continued to be developed over the next few iterations of that class, leading to the ARC power plant design concept in early 2015. SPARC, designed to be about half the size of ARC, is a testbed to prove the concept before construction of the full-size, power-producing plant." Proof of the concept "Bringing that new magnet concept to reality required three years of intensive work on design, establishing supply chains, and working out manufacturing methods for magnets that may eventually need to be produced by the thousands." Developing the new magnet is seen as the greatest technological hurdle to making that happen; its successful operation now opens the door to demonstrating fusion in a lab on Earth, which has been pursued for decades with limited progress. With the magnet technology now successfully demonstrated, the MIT-CFS collaboration is on track to build the world’s first fusion device that can create and confine a plasma that produces more energy than it consumes. That demonstration device, called SPARC, is targeted for completion in 2025. “The challenges of making fusion happen are both technical and scientific,” says Dennis Whyte, director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, which is working with CFS to develop SPARC. But once the technology is proven, he says, “it’s an inexhaustible, carbon-free source of energy that you can deploy anywhere and at any time. It’s really a fundamentally new energy source.” as for electric batteries from a sustainable , cost and less poluting battery than ones used now then we badly need to accelerate the development of sodium bateries. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/07/220713114631.htm"Longer lasting sodium-ion batteries on the horizon An advanced sodium-ion battery design overcomes technical hurdles" |
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Post by Pilch on Oct 26, 2022 18:52:53 GMT 1
I dont normally listen, in fact I think I could count the number of times on one hand that I have but I did make a point to making PMQs today, considering it was his debut I think he gave starmer the run around and once he settles in with make mincemeat of him, reduced kier to repeating himself and using jokey insults to get by, and all those that followed him rattled on about the same thing too
makes me wonder what the hell them and us would have been debating had Joe Bloggs being give the job instead of suella
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Post by shrewder on Oct 26, 2022 19:26:21 GMT 1
Watch PMQs every week. Keir Starmer identified some dubious money issues involving Rishi Sunak. Gave him a relatively easy ride but will find him out in the coming weeks.
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Post by Mortgagehound on Oct 26, 2022 20:43:04 GMT 1
Labour need a new leader.
Mr Starmer has had an open goal for months and has tripped over the ball ……
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2022 21:00:37 GMT 1
Labour need a new leader. Mr Starmer has had an open goal for months and has tripped over the ball …… What’s he supposed to do? You do know the ‘winner’ of PMQs doesn’t get to become Prime Minister? All he can do is hold whichever Tory MP whose turn it is to be PM each week to account until the next general election, and the results of that will determine how successful or useless he’s been. |
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Post by edgmond on Oct 26, 2022 21:00:53 GMT 1
Regarding the shift to renewables; fair enough this is a bit of a long read and perhaps focused on the US but even so, its worth a read... The “Energy Transition” Delusion Opinions on climate change and the switch to renewables are generally polarised (on both sides) so it is rare to find a balanced argument. Mark Mills is well-known for his climate change denial and links to hydrocarbon industries, so this was far from balanced. It didn’t take long via Google to find plenty of articles contradicting Mark Mills. Regarding fracking in particular, there is no comparison between how it has been seen as a success in the US, a vast country with empty tracts of land and the situation in this country where it would have many direct impacts on communities, farming and the natural environment. It’s a shame that the government continues to block or restrict the development of onshore wind farms, probably the quickest source of new energy to contribute to the grid. |
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Post by stuttgartershrew on Oct 26, 2022 22:12:43 GMT 1
Regarding the shift to renewables; fair enough this is a bit of a long read and perhaps focused on the US but even so, its worth a read... The “Energy Transition” Delusion Opinions on climate change and the switch to renewables are generally polarised (on both sides) so it is rare to find a balanced argument. Mark Mills is well-known for his climate change denial and links to hydrocarbon industries, so this was far from balanced. It didn’t take long via Google to find plenty of articles contradicting Mark Mills. Regarding fracking in particular, there is no comparison between how it has been seen as a success in the US, a vast country with empty tracts of land and the situation in this country where it would have many direct impacts on communities, farming and the natural environment. It’s a shame that the government continues to block or restrict the development of onshore wind farms, probably the quickest source of new energy to contribute to the grid. I agree that there is a lot of contradicting information out there and it is difficult to plough through the amount of information available. However, from taking more of an interest in this topic since we saw the recent protests it looks as though the world still needs fossil fuels and will do so for some time to come. I mean we talk about contributing to the grid but how much and for what amount of time. From what I understand the time when it will make up the grid is a fair way off (and whether it still needs a second grid as backup even then). Its interesting stuff and something I would urge everyone to have a look at (as you suspect it will play a significant part in our life and politics moving forward). If you have a link or two that contradict that article I would be interested to see them (if you could link them here or PM, that would be cool). Personally think nuclear is the way forward. But we are shutting down our plants here in Germany. Something I just don't understand. |
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Post by edgmond on Oct 27, 2022 0:16:21 GMT 1
Opinions on climate change and the switch to renewables are generally polarised (on both sides) so it is rare to find a balanced argument. Mark Mills is well-known for his climate change denial and links to hydrocarbon industries, so this was far from balanced. It didn’t take long via Google to find plenty of articles contradicting Mark Mills. Regarding fracking in particular, there is no comparison between how it has been seen as a success in the US, a vast country with empty tracts of land and the situation in this country where it would have many direct impacts on communities, farming and the natural environment. It’s a shame that the government continues to block or restrict the development of onshore wind farms, probably the quickest source of new energy to contribute to the grid. I agree that there is a lot of contradicting information out there and it is difficult to plough through the amount of information available. However, from taking more of an interest in this topic since we saw the recent protests it looks as though the world still needs fossil fuels and will do so for some time to come. I mean we talk about contributing to the grid but how much and for what amount of time. From what I understand the time when it will make up the grid is a fair way off (and whether it still needs a second grid as backup even then). Its interesting stuff and something I would urge everyone to have a look at (as you suspect it will play a significant part in our life and politics moving forward). If you have a link or two that contradict that article I would be interested to see them (if you could link them here or PM, that would be cool). Personally think nuclear is the way forward. But we are shutting down our plants here in Germany. Something I just don't understand. Good points. There is no doubt that fossil fuels will be needed for some years yet, but hopefully in a diminishing role. I also agree that nuclear power will play its part but concerns remain over the disposal of radioactive waste. Also, this country no longer appears to have the capacity to build a nuclear plant without the involvement of China and France.. As for an article disagreeing with Mark Mills, here is one (hope the link works!): arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/is-there-a-shift-from-disbelieving-climate-change-to-attacking-renewables/ |
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Post by shrewder on Oct 27, 2022 4:59:36 GMT 1
Labour need a new leader. Mr Starmer has had an open goal for months and has tripped over the ball …… Examples? |
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Post by edgmond on Oct 27, 2022 5:28:23 GMT 1
Labour need a new leader. Mr Starmer has had an open goal for months and has tripped over the ball …… A familiar refrain from those who massively overestimate the importance of PMQs. What I observed was slick, confident public school bluster from Sunak against rather dull but serious Starmer who made key points, to which answers weren’t given. None of this will be what determines the result of the next election. If Labour fails to win in 2023 or 2024 with the country pretty well back where it was in 2010, then a gaping own goal will certainly have been missed. Yesterday was hardly a defining moment though. Sunak is going to need a lot more than slick presentation if he is going to make the Tories remotely electable and probably needs to ditch Braverman at the earliest opportunity. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2022 6:29:42 GMT 1
I agree that there is a lot of contradicting information out there and it is difficult to plough through the amount of information available. However, from taking more of an interest in this topic since we saw the recent protests it looks as though the world still needs fossil fuels and will do so for some time to come. I mean we talk about contributing to the grid but how much and for what amount of time. From what I understand the time when it will make up the grid is a fair way off (and whether it still needs a second grid as backup even then). Its interesting stuff and something I would urge everyone to have a look at (as you suspect it will play a significant part in our life and politics moving forward). If you have a link or two that contradict that article I would be interested to see them (if you could link them here or PM, that would be cool). Personally think nuclear is the way forward. But we are shutting down our plants here in Germany. Something I just don't understand. Good points. There is no doubt that fossil fuels will be needed for some years yet, but hopefully in a diminishing role. I also agree that nuclear power will play its part but concerns remain over the disposal of radioactive waste. Also, this country no longer appears to have the capacity to build a nuclear plant without the involvement of China and France.. As for an article disagreeing with Mark Mills, here is one (hope the link works!): arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/is-there-a-shift-from-disbelieving-climate-change-to-attacking-renewables/Fossil fuels will still be required in the medium term, of that there is little doubt, but renewables are catching up and will soon provide more electricity than fossil fuels, currently 38.6% (up 1.3% from the same period last year) against 41.9% for fossil fuels (down 2.1%). Off shore wind increased in capacity by 23% in the last year. Give it another couple of years and renewables will be the biggest provider of electricity in the UK.
The UK has more than enough green energy, nuclear power and fossil fuel production to be completely self sufficient, in fact back in 2000 we were a net exporter of energy. The fact we are now having to get French expertise and Chinese money to build our new nuclear power stations is a colossal backward step. We are supposedly the 5th biggest economy in the world and we're having to go cap in hand to the Chinese government to finance our own infrastructure.
Another issue that is holding back renewables is the fact that there are several main sources of electricity generation in the UK; wind, solar, nuclear, gas, coal, wood pellets, etc and although the renewables are by far the cheapest the market forces electricity retailers and therefore us, their customers to pay the same price for that renewable energy as we would for the most expensive, ie power generated by gas powered power stations. If it cost 10p to make one loaf of bread, 30p to make another one and £3 to make another would it be right to charge everyone £3 plus for every loaf? Of course not, but that is the way the energy market works. Profit is not a dirty word to quote that much lamented former leader, but excessive profit at a huge to cost to the country as a whole bloody well should be.
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Post by stuttgartershrew on Oct 27, 2022 7:48:58 GMT 1
I agree that there is a lot of contradicting information out there and it is difficult to plough through the amount of information available. However, from taking more of an interest in this topic since we saw the recent protests it looks as though the world still needs fossil fuels and will do so for some time to come. I mean we talk about contributing to the grid but how much and for what amount of time. From what I understand the time when it will make up the grid is a fair way off (and whether it still needs a second grid as backup even then). Its interesting stuff and something I would urge everyone to have a look at (as you suspect it will play a significant part in our life and politics moving forward). If you have a link or two that contradict that article I would be interested to see them (if you could link them here or PM, that would be cool). Personally think nuclear is the way forward. But we are shutting down our plants here in Germany. Something I just don't understand. Good points. There is no doubt that fossil fuels will be needed for some years yet, but hopefully in a diminishing role. I think the vast majority of people hope for that but for me I think it needs to be done responsibly and that is where I have concerns (when I see people demand an end to fossil fuels). Even when we consider that renewables (wind and solar) 'now produce over 10 percent globally, starting from zero a few decades ago'. That is still some shortfall (and even in the rebuttal given, there does appear to be more work and research needed. Regarding batteries, for example). I just get the feeling that acting too soon and too fast might bring about the very things that some activists warn against. For example, whilst there were a number of issues that brought about the current crisis in Sri Lanka one of those was the ban on chemical fertilizer (and a move to organic farming). That then led to food shortages. With the shortages of gas here in Germany we might be forced to burn more coal and wood (although from what is reported our storage facilities are now near capacity and we are building more). But at this time, it looks as though renewables can not pick up the slack. I dunno. Shed loads of information out there and what to believe. Sure I understand there are vested interests but then that goes both ways (I'm sure there is an awful lot of money to be made in both fossil fuels and green energy) and there is an awful lot of alarmism when it comes to this topic. Still its interesting to take a look at what is going on. I don't think there are many out there who would not like to see a world powered by renewables. Fingers crossed that will come about sooner rather than later. However, its about how we get there. Thanks for the link by the way...👍 |
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Post by northwestman on Oct 27, 2022 9:23:38 GMT 1
www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/suella-braverman-jake-berry-home-secretary-prime-minister-cabinet-b1035526.htmlFormer Tory chairman Sir Jake Berry has claimed Suella Braverman committed “multiple breaches of the ministerial code” as the Prime Minister faces a backlash over reinstating her Cabinet role. Ms Braverman admitted to a “technical infringement” of the rules as she was forced out prior to the former PM’s downfall, making her then the shortest-serving home secretary in history. But Sir Jake, who left his role as party chairman on Tuesday, alleged there had been “multiple breaches” of the code, which sets out how members of the Government must behave – or face punishment. Speaking to TalkTV’s Piers Morgan Uncensored, he said: “From my own knowledge, there were multiple breaches of the ministerial code.” inews.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-inquiry-call-grubby-deal-reappoint-suella-braverman-home-secretary-1936638Despite Ms Braverman’s claim that she had immediately reported her “mistake” after sending confidential Government documents to a person outside Government, Mr Berry said “the evidence was put to” Ms Braverman of the breaches “rather than the other way round”. When Ms Truss resigned, sources close to Ms Braverman said both Mr Sunak and Mr Johnson had been courting her for support knowing that her backing would influence the vote of the right-wing Brexiteer Tories. Starmer accused Mr Sunak “of doing a grubby deal trading national security” in order to win enough support to become PM. www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/26/suella-braverman-return-after-security-breach-defended-by-james-cleverlyThe disclosure comes after Labour and the Liberal Democrats called for a Cabinet Office inquiry into national security concerns after Braverman was reinstated. No 10 refused to deny officials advised against reappointing her to a great office of state. The head of the FDA senior civil servants’ union, Dave Penman, told the Guardian the reappointment was a clear example of “double standards” given that his members would face severe punishments for similar behaviour. “If a civil servant had acted in the way that Suella Braverman was alleged to, using private email accounts to send confidential government business to personal contacts, they would rightly be expected to face the harshest of penalties and lose their security clearance. “Standards matter, and the clear signal from her appointment is that ministers can act with impunity if it suits the prime minister.”
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Post by northwestman on Oct 27, 2022 9:57:46 GMT 1
Rishi Sunak was part of a small team of hedge fund bosses who shared nearly £100m after an audacious stock market bet that lit the touchpaper on the 2008 financial crisis.
Sunak was a partner at the hedge fund TCI when it launched an activist campaign against the Dutch bank ABN Amro in 2007, resulting in its sale to the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
The deal loaded RBS, at the time led by Sir Fred Goodwin, who was stripped of his knighthood in 2012, with crippling debt and led to a £45.5bn government bailout.
Sunak’s time at TCI between 2006 and 2009 made him a multi millionaire in his mid-20s and according to fund managers who worked with him at the time set him on the road to becoming chancellor (and then PM).
Over the two years TCI mounted its campaign against ABN Amro, profits distributed to the partners came to£93.2m, according to the hedge fund’s accounts.
The profits were shared between 19 partners, including Sunak, an average of nearly £5m per person.
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Post by northwestman on Oct 27, 2022 15:08:36 GMT 1
Downing Street has said Rishi Sunak will not commit to raising the state pension in line with inflation before the government’s autumn statement on 17 November.
The PM’s official spokesperson acknowledged that uncertainty over whether the government will maintain the triple lock for state pensions is causing difficulty for pensioners.
They said:
'As the prime minister said, decisions will be guided by the values of the government and will be done with compassion.
We do recognise that uncertainty is difficult for pensioners and other groups of people. That’s why the prime minister and the chancellor believe it is right to take the time to work carefully and diligently to come up with proposals that will provide that certainty in the long term.
Given the very challenging economic circumstances the country, and indeed the world, faces, it is right that we take that time so that we put in place measures that can last'.
Make of that what you will. 'proposals that will provide certainty in the long term' and 'put in place measures that can last' certainly suggests to me that the triple lock is once again under threat.
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Post by northwestman on Oct 28, 2022 12:03:07 GMT 1
Parliament’s Joint Committee on National Security Strategy accused the Government of a “severe dereliction of duty” over the resilience of critical infrastructure like power, transport and communication links in the face of extreme weather linked to global warming.
In a truly damning report, the committee found a “gaping hole” where ministers should have been planning for events such as floods, power blackouts, heat-buckled train lines and landslipped roads.
Shell posted absolutely enormous profits. But although Shell reported its second highest quarterly profits in history (£8.2bn), it paid zero in the ersatz “windfall tax” that Sunak introduced earlier this year.
The UK-headquartered energy giant didn’t pay a penny in the “energy profits levy” because its British operation had spent so much on investing in drilling for more oil in the North Sea. Under exemptions created by Sunak, firms get huge tax breaks if they increase spending on exploration.
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Post by northwestman on Oct 28, 2022 13:10:22 GMT 1
For a man who chose to make integrity a central theme of his premiership, Rishi Sunak has not made the best of starts.
His decision to reappoint Suella ‘Leaky Sue’ Braverman less than a week after she was forced to resign for breaking the Ministerial Code (by ignoring the strict protocols that apply to the handling of sensitive government information) looked ‘courageous’ from the very start.
But with more information emerging today, it’s beginning to look like a much more serious error of judgement, one with the potential to do real damage to Sunak.
Former Tory Party Chair, Jake Berry, has contradicted Braverman’s account of the events that led to her resignation from Liz Truss’s government barely a week ago, an account that Sunak and his team relied on in a number of statements made in Parliament and to the media yesterday.
Braverman had claimed that her actions had been inadvertent and a one-off, and that she had sought advice as soon as she realised her mistake. Berry, however, is reported to have said that Braverman broke the rules on more than one occasion and only reluctantly accepted blame when confronted with irrefutable evidence.
Reports in the Daily Mail suggest that, in a separate incident, officials in the Cabinet Office questioned Braverman when she was Attorney General about the leak of a sensitive story that caused concern within MI5.
On top of all that, an official inquiry has been launched to look into claims that the Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case, was incredulous at the suggestion that Braverman be reappointed so soon after resigning and advised against, only to be overruled by Sunak.
While many of the details are yet to be confirmed, it’s already clear that Braverman’s disregard for rules represents a potentially serious risk to national security - one that shouldn’t be tolerated at the top of any government department, never mind the Home Office.
It’s also crystal clear that Sunak’s decision to reappoint her must have been driven by something other than suitability for the job.
Our money is on a backroom deal done over last weekend that allowed Sunak to effectively kill-off the challenge from Boris Johnson and avoid having to go out to the membership (where Johnson would likely have become favourite to win) by agreeing to reappoint Braverman.
That may have looked like a price worth paying at the weekend but he must be regretting it now.
One small potential positive from this mess is that Sunak has been forced to confirm that he will be appointing a new independent ethics adviser, something Liz Truss notoriously refused to do.
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Post by Mortgagehound on Oct 28, 2022 13:31:13 GMT 1
Another one man Thread taking over here.......
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Post by ssshrew on Oct 28, 2022 14:33:29 GMT 1
It’s quite depressing really.
I was feeling really hopeful until the cabinet was announced. Among other things the reappointment of Suella is disappointing to say the least. That, together with a refusal to attend the Climate Change conference, indicates an unwillingness to promote his own people and to take seriously one of the biggest problems mankind has to solve.
All problems we are have are important but if we don’t sort climate change world wide and have an important voice at these conferences, then there won’t be a world to worry about in future. Perhaps the King should go instead now.
I do worry that Rishi only understands money matters and that the rest that involved in being PM is beyond him.
I truly hope I am wrong.
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Post by northwestman on Oct 28, 2022 18:34:28 GMT 1
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11362985/Millions-facing-new-tax-headache-income-bands-freeze.htmlI've been trying to alert everyone about this stealth tax for ages. Now it looks like it might even be extended. Even the DM has now twigged. Millions more workers will be dragged into paying the basic and higher rates of tax if the freeze on thresholds is extended for another two years, analysis showed last night. Around three million more taxpayers will pay the 40p rate under the current freeze in place until 2025-26, with a further 3.5million paying the 20p rate, a study says. But another three million could be dragged into paying either the lowest or higher rates if the freeze on thresholds is extended until 2027-28 in what has been dubbed a ‘stealth tax’. The Government is reportedly considering a two-year extension to the income tax thresholds freeze as the Prime Minister and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt scramble to fill a £40billion black hole in the public finances. The Bank of England projects that the current freeze will raise £30billon by 2025-26. Think-tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said extending it by two years could raise a further £4-5billion.
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Post by northwestman on Oct 28, 2022 22:10:53 GMT 1
I've heard it all now!
Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money will be sent to Albania to help persuade migrants to stay in the Balkan state, rather than cross the Channel to the UK.
Britain is funding major infrastructure schemes to provide thousands of local jobs and upgrade local facilities in areas where young Albanians have already quit to come to the UK.
They include a huge new hydro electric dam, industrial parks, environmental schemes and leisure facilities in northern Albania, which already has strong links with the UK following the first exodus after the Kosovo war.
It comes as Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, and Robert Jenrick, her immigration minister, seek to seal a new “fast-track” route to deport thousands of Albanians who have travelled to the UK in the past 10 months.
This week Dan O’Mahoney, clandestine Channel threat commander for Border Force, revealed that 12,000 Albanians had arrived in the UK this year, of which 10,000 were men.
He told MPs that up to two per cent of the adult male population of Albania had travelled to the UK in small boats. He attributed the “exponential rise” to Albanian criminal gangs “gaining a foothold” in northern France.
Daily Telegraph.
Unsurprisingly, the Telegraph readers are less than impressed with this!
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Post by Pilch on Oct 28, 2022 22:43:54 GMT 1
I've heard it all now! Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money will be sent to Albania to help persuade migrants to stay in the Balkan state, rather than cross the Channel to the UK. Britain is funding major infrastructure schemes to provide thousands of local jobs and upgrade local facilities in areas where young Albanians have already quit to come to the UK. They include a huge new hydro electric dam, industrial parks, environmental schemes and leisure facilities in northern Albania, which already has strong links with the UK following the first exodus after the Kosovo war. It comes as Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, and Robert Jenrick, her immigration minister, seek to seal a new “fast-track” route to deport thousands of Albanians who have travelled to the UK in the past 10 months. This week Dan O’Mahoney, clandestine Channel threat commander for Border Force, revealed that 12,000 Albanians had arrived in the UK this year, of which 10,000 were men. He told MPs that up to two per cent of the adult male population of Albania had travelled to the UK in small boats. He attributed the “exponential rise” to Albanian criminal gangs “gaining a foothold” in northern France. Daily Telegraph. Unsurprisingly, the Telegraph readers are less than impressed with this! what do you suggest instead ? |
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Post by northwestman on Oct 29, 2022 10:21:34 GMT 1
I've heard it all now! Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money will be sent to Albania to help persuade migrants to stay in the Balkan state, rather than cross the Channel to the UK. Britain is funding major infrastructure schemes to provide thousands of local jobs and upgrade local facilities in areas where young Albanians have already quit to come to the UK. They include a huge new hydro electric dam, industrial parks, environmental schemes and leisure facilities in northern Albania, which already has strong links with the UK following the first exodus after the Kosovo war. It comes as Suella Braverman, the Home Secretary, and Robert Jenrick, her immigration minister, seek to seal a new “fast-track” route to deport thousands of Albanians who have travelled to the UK in the past 10 months. This week Dan O’Mahoney, clandestine Channel threat commander for Border Force, revealed that 12,000 Albanians had arrived in the UK this year, of which 10,000 were men. He told MPs that up to two per cent of the adult male population of Albania had travelled to the UK in small boats. He attributed the “exponential rise” to Albanian criminal gangs “gaining a foothold” in northern France. Daily Telegraph. Unsurprisingly, the Telegraph readers are less than impressed with this! what do you suggest instead ? Well, certainly not throwing away money we haven't got in order to prop up the Albanian infrastructure. Albanians will almost certainly still see the UK as a better option. And they don't all come via the Channel crossing - the beaches of Norfolk and Suffolk are quite busy, plus light aircraft are often used. The 'fast track' route sounds more promising though. That said, we've only processed 4% of the existing claims for asylum, and the backlog is well over 100,000, costing us nearly £7 million a day placing the applicants in hotels. Plus it's difficult for us to prove whether someone is actually Albanian when they either arrive with no documents or have destroyed them when coming over in the boats. |
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Post by northwestman on Oct 29, 2022 10:28:20 GMT 1
There is an agreement in place that allows Albanians to enter and travel freely in the Schengen zone of EU nations without a visa for up to 90 days out of any 180 days.
“That’s a crazy system where you can come by Easyjet from Tirana in Albania to Paris for 20 Euros, then cross the Channel and not face the risk of being deported,” the MP for Calais said.
Daily Telegraph.
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a very detailed and intresting article which just highlights how complicated and challenging the shift to a world without hydrocarbones would be and to be completely free for decades seems not very feasable .even more so when countrys are in a mess across the world. 
