Bishop Hill Twelve lords a-talking over each other
Jun 17, 2015 Climate: Parliament Greens There were feisty exchanges in the Lords this afternoon, when questions were asked about the intended action on climate change. At one point the house appears to send Lord Deben off with a flea in his ear for trying to jump the queue on Matt Ridley.
Ridley has a question at 15:12, asking the minister for his preferred estimate of climate sensitivity in the light of all the recent papers that find that it is low. The minister's response is, rather confusingly, that he disagrees.
The later question on neonicotinoids is equally amusing. The fun is again prompted by a Ridley question, this time about whether honey bee numbers have actually increased since neonics were introduced. The response from the government is that neonics are dangerous to animals. Even those surrounding the poor minister appear amused at the poor quality of his flannel.
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Moths have apparently eaten the flannel at the link. Only a short tone alternating with a female voice announcing "House of Lords sound" remains. Appropriate?
Hmmm interesting....
Is Lord Deben the Lord of the Fleas for trying to protect them, or Lord of the Fleece for his highly remunerative environmental activities that benefit no one, but himself?
Moths have apparently eaten the flannel at the link. Only a short tone alternating with a female voice announcing "House of Lords sound" remains...
Jun 17, 2015 at 10:26 PM | Unregistered Commenterbetapug
Same here.
betapug & clipe
Try clicking further along the play bar at the bottom.
Hope it helps, works for me
Green Sand
Why didn't I think of that? Thanks, works for me now.
clipe
Please accept my sincere apologies
Here in distant Oz,, where many of us are proud of our UK heritage, we often seek to learn from the Lords. Their wisdom in turning title into individual wealth and benefit is to be envied, but cannot be copied here - not that it is a restrictive trade practice - we just do not have a similar honours system or governmental structure.
When I tried to play the video here attached, it failed. It kept repeating that rotating star symbol that indicates 'loading'. In turn, I take this as a sign that he video has loaded questions, so my thanks to the helpful person who appended the covert warning symbol.
It is unwise to speculate about moths eating the flannel, because the flannel with the Ashes is soon to be tested again and Lords will see the spectacular play of David Warner and Glenn Maxwell, who are rewriting batting rates in Test cricket..
some years ago, Aussies were treated to news of a mass elevation of 6 barristers. One subsequently became a State Premier, justification for the earlier news headline 'Five silks, one nylon.' English expression at work, but where today is the fine silk of yesteryear in the Lords?
As I say, we owe so much to the richness of the English language. We do appreciate it when we can hear it and see it in action. Any possibility, mods, of a fix to this recurring problem of Brit parliamentary videos, in particular, often failing to be readable when referenced on the superb Bishop Hill blog?
We are all doomed with such people with their hands on the tiller. Really, you couldn't make it up if you were writing a comedy script. Apart from Viscount Ridley there seems very little commonsense on display. What a complete waste of space these people really are. How can they sit through hours and hours of such drivel?
Here we have another minister (Lord Bourne) who is a lawyer, who clearly knows and understands precisely nothing about science, climate change and energy. Otherwise, he is the ideal person for the job!
Painful cyphers marching to the orders set by institutionalized inertia. But wait! We have the "precautionary principle" seriously being "honored...."
I have to echo Philip Bratby here. I could only listen to a few minutes but despaired at the burbling delivered by most of the speakers.
I am amazed, from this display, that the House of Lords functions at all...let alone occasionally managing to slap down some of our more ludicrous proposed legislation, as it somehow or other does. Viscount Ridley must think he is caught in a bad dream or an old people's home for the terminally self-important.....
What about the 3 UKIP peers ? (originally Tories)
Do they they speak ? or do the Tories have some dirt to put pressure on them ?
For those interested in honey bee numbers in Europe and globally have gone up, not down since neonics were introduced, see here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/263786858/What-Bee-pocalypse-Managed-beehives-worldwide-show-no-signs-of-collapse
"Viscount Ridley must think he is caught in a bad dream or an old people's home for the terminally self-important....."
You might say that. I could not possibly comment.
There goes my faith in the HoL. Such idiocy from Peers would once have been unthinkable, surely most cannot be on the gravy train. Maybe we should scrap it as it stands and find a suitable replacement. I will bet that the stand-in answering the questions will never go short of energy.
Lord Ridley, you are a gemstone amongst beads of glass! May you live long & prosper. The whole 2-tier system msut be seriously up for review as regards to efficiency & effectiveness. It bores me to have to listen to such drivel spoken by your, perhaps well intentioned, colleagues (at best). Keep up the good work, please.
Lord Ridley; Thank you!
Hour after hour, day after day, you have to suffer those fools; leaving us these bright moments of excerpts that keep us amused just how clueless your alleged peers are.
Exactly why those other lords are so devoted to anti-science notions and causes leaves us confused. I can only suspect that at it's root is money or funding in governmental terms.
Can you give a link to the video location. It is not playing here, presumably because of a problem with my Flashblock in Firefox.
Don't know why so many here are lauding that weak intervention.... Actually Mr Ridley comes across as rather irrelevant and laughed at by many there.
Rightly so.