Thread: Electric cars are the Betamax of our times they will be superseded by hydrogen to the regret of early adopters.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.

This from a man whose government was mired in sleaze. Illegal arms to Iraq (Clark). Tory Whip Shock (Lamont), The Minister and the showgirl (Mellor), Toe job to no job (Mellor 2), : Matrix Churchill Arms to Iraq 2 (Major), Who paid the bill (Lamont) cont.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-591889… Asil Nadir (Mates), Yes, Yes, Yes Minister (Norris), Pergau dammed (Major and others), Out Yeo Go (Yeo),
Nest Egg on His Face (Duncan), Diana Caithness (Earl Caithness), Strange bedfellows (Ashby), Tory's love child lies (Waller), Homes for Votes (Porter), Continued

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,

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.

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 😉. Here I am with my big sister. I'm not the one on her knee.

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.
ec.europa.eu/commission/pre… 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.