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4 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Why don't they simply demand legislation to make *everything* carbon neutral and completely free?

That will work, right?

Hey everyone, I've just solved climate change and poverty and inequality!
Where's my @NobelPrize?

Where's my @UN Access All Areas pass?

Where's my Davos invite?
I've just saved the bloody planet, and all I've got is 13 likes?!!

FFS!
Okay, 33 likes.

That's better. But by now I should be on private jet to a billionaire's private island for a rest before I go on a cheque-collecting tour of the planet with Bono, Greta and the Cambridges.

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Ben Pile Profile picture
6 Aug
Not entirely true. Miners strikes had had plagued Con & Lab governments for a long time. MT asked for a mandate to confront the issue and got it. The strikes, conversely, were not democratic. Meanwhile, global warming had been touted as the basis for nuclear by Sweden in the '70s
Mines were uneconomic. Closures had happened under both party's governments -- more under Labour. And the unions and left were quite happy to use industrial disputes to bring down the MT government, despite the wishes of the voters, and without balloting their own members.
They failed. And the consequence of their own undemocratic position was that they were left unable to negotiate in their members' (and broader communities') interests, and the laws regulating union activity were changed.
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5 Aug
The green blob is just about awakening to the fact of the mess it has made for itself -- a mess that has been making for >20 years, as has been pointed out to it throughout...
They are trying to claim that the commitment to #NetZero is equivalent to the commitment to Brexit...

They are trying to claim that sceptics have failed to engage in the discussion...

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5 Aug
That's manifestly bullshit though.

The public didn't express a choice on #NetZero, because they have never been offered a choice on #NetZero....
That is because the @GreenAllianceUK worked to secure a cross-party consensus on climate change policy, precisely to stop the public being given a choice. Image
As is explained here...

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5 Aug
If there is any potential left in the UK, it will be destroyed by the BBB/#NetZero agendas, because there is nothing the government and big UK capital is more determined to do than destroy creativity and independence. It may, however, be turned into a rent-seekers paradise.
A prime (sub-prime) example here.

Rishi and Boris getting pally with the boutique energy company that is going to make a fortune out of rationing.

If Octopus is a 'tech company', I am an Olympic swimmer.

Making apps that ration energy use is not development.

'Invention' that merely takes design briefs from flagship government policy is not R&D, but servicing politics.
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4 Aug
Famous for kicking a ball.

I don't begrudge him his wealth or fame for being good at kicking a ball. Nor do I believe that anyone can kick a ball so effectively.

But I've been on both sides of the putative 'debate' since he was a ball-kicker, and I know that he knows nothing.
This is profoundly wrong, you see:

"The scientific evidence is indisputable."

*NO* 'scientific evidence' is 'indisputable'.

To claim that 'the scientific evidence is indisputable' is to deny science.

That is how we know that climate change is bullshit, even if it's real.
It is a rookie -- which is to say deeply and wholly ignorant -- mistake from the outset.

We can know that it is wrong before we even get to the detail of what precisely is supposedly 'indisputable'.

The fact that the 'scientific' claim is unstated is equally problematic.
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4 Aug
You can't buy an EV with a range of 200 miles or more for the price that most people pay for cars -- esp. 2nd hand.

And moreover, the range will diminish as the battery deteriorates.

@LukePollard doesn't know what he's talking about.

He is deceiving the public.
This article points out that out-of-the-box, top-of-the-range EVs are only producing 80-90% of their manufacturers' stated range.

buyacar.co.uk/cars/economica…
I will *never* be able to afford one of those cars. And like most people, I rely on the second (or more) hand market. I've never paid more than £2,000 for a car. My current is an '05, which will in all likelihood last me until it is banned.
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