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Today evidence has emerged that I didn't emerge as a fully formed adult and I was once a child. Here I am on the telephone, probably canvassing for the Tories πŸ˜‰. Image
Here I am with my big sister. I'm not the one on her knee. Image
A seventies fashion icon, possibly en route to a Bay City Rollers concert. Image
There was a reason I was called Joe 90 at school. πŸ˜‚
This is the only photo I have of my dad not wearing glasses, he leaned over the balcony at the hotel and they fell off into the garden. The hotel found them a few days later. Image
My sister Sandra and I, Noddy was all the rage then. Image
Venetian blinds, Black & White TV, Dansette record player, Bakelite telephone. Image

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Nov 7, 2021
Thread: Electric cars are the Betamax of our times they will be superseded by hydrogen to the regret of early adopters. How can people who live in flats, terraced houses etc charge them? How can we produce enough electricity when we already verge on brown outs.
What about the carbon footprint of creating all these batteries that will pollute the planet for decades. Heat pumps are an even worse white elephant. Unless you are keen on luke warm water and tepid radiators.
#COP26 will achieve nothing unless it has a rational path to #NetZero which can only be achieved without destroying the economy by three fuels.
1) Electricity from base load nuclear + renewables
2) Hydrogen for cars/lorries
3) Ammonia for aviation
2 & 3 can be produced using 1
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Oct 29, 2021
Thread: The Castex letter to @vonderleyen in English with thanks to @Barnes_Joe for the original.

Dear Madam President,

In my previous letter, I alerted you to the particular urgency of the granting by the UK to French ships of authorisations to access its waters and those of
the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, in accordance with the terms of the trade agreement. and cooperation. I thank you for your response, which shows the commissions mobilisation to achieve this objective,
and I also appreciate your strong commitment to finding solutions with regard to the application of the Protocol on Northern Ireland.
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May 9, 2021
The problem with Labour isn't who leads it. It is who it is, the membership and it's MPs. Barring a handful they do not, and never can represent the former working class base that they look down upon as bigots, racists, and flag shagging nationalists.
Keir Starmer can never win back the red wall, they are chalk and cheese. Parachuting into Hartlepool a Remain campaigner who fought tooth and nail to overturn Brexit was the finest example of his arrogance. He knows better than the little people, and he doesn't mind showing it.
The party has nothing in common with itself so how can it be united. It is an odd assortment of Islington trots, and champagne socialists, with a smattering of trade unionists. It needs to split and rebuild from the grass roots. But can it?
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Jan 29, 2021
Thread: The EU and AstraZeneca have agreed to publish the APA contract. Whilst the EU pushed for this they appear to have shot themselves in the foot.
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Clause 5.1 "AstraZeneca shall use its Best Reasonable Efforts to manufacture the Initial Doses within the EU for distribution...."

There are two features of this clause:

The first is It only requires Reasonable Best Efforts to manufacture. There is no guarantee of production.
The second is it only provides for access to vaccine manufactured within the EU. @vonderleyen's demand that @AstraZeneca should divert 75 million doses from the UK has no contractual basis.
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