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Somerset House 28 Feb
John Major, that well-known election asset and wife-cheater, preaches against Brexit.John Major claimed he was ‘neither a Europhile nor a Eurosceptic’ but ‘a realist’ who opposed Brexit.
‘Of course,’ he said magnanimously, ‘the “will of the people” can’t be ignored, but Parliament has a duty also to consider the “wellbeing of the people”.’
And with that he was into the patronising cliche about ‘no one voted for higher prices’.
John Major ‘I know of no precedent for any Government enacting a policy that will make both our country and our people poorer.’
I do. One was called the exchange rate mechanism and it was pursued, disastrously, by some idiot of a PM in the early 1990s simply out of dogmatic attachment to the EU
Another is Blair/Milliband's Climate Change Act
and another is Cameron's DFID 0.7% GDP and another Brown's Gift-Aid and another ad infinitum
Pcar
New Jag electric-SUV, claims 300 mile range
Costs £64K...therefore has £64K of chopped down trees within it
ie it's not as green as something that cos £6K
stewgreen
Facebook Finds No New Evidence Russia Influenced Brexit, Remainiac MPs Demand They Look Harder
“The investigation team found no additional coordinated Russian-linked accounts or Pages delivering ads to the UK regarding the EU Referendum during the relevant period, beyond the minimal activity we previously disclosed,” added Simon Milner, Facebook’s UK policy director.
Mr. Collins responding on the same day by once again demanding Facebook keeps searching for a Russia-link, as well giving them a strict deadline. He wrote:...
Pcar
Twiiter
Mr. Robinson was suspended from the social media platform for 7 days for stating the findings of the Quilliam Foundation think tank, whose founder worked as an adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron on issues around Islam....
Twitter once advertised itself as a platform for free speech, but has become increasingly political and censorious, taking blue ‘verification ticks’ away from right-wing users and frequently banning and suspending people for sharing views the firm disagrees with
Pcar
Thank goodness we have 12.5 GW of solar capacity to call upon to keep the lights on...
https://www.solar.sheffield.ac.uk/pvlive/
DaveS
Longleat's newest attraction showcased at feeding time
tomo
Mann v Lamb. Lamb wins again
http://notrickszone.com/#sthash.a35B2hkc.dpbs
"In his seminal 1982 book Climate, History, and the Modern World, the renown climatologist Dr. H.H. Lamb revealed that sea ice in the subarctic and Arctic regions was much less extensive during the Medieval Warm Period (9th-13th centuries) compared to today.
For example, records indicate that there were decadal and centennial-scale periods without any sea ice invading any of Iceland’s coasts. These no-ice periods coincided with atmospheric CO2 concentrations of 275 ppm, which is about 130 ppm less than today’s calculated CO2 values."
golf charlie
California nears Peak Stupidity
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/03/01/californians-demand-the-epa-reimpose-obamas-green-energy-policies/
golf charlie
Gwen. The dogs you should be wary of are the untrained ones.
Mar 1, 2018 at 12:31 PM | Supertroll
Potential Dog Owners should have to undergo Puppy Training, and pass a basic competence test, before they are allowed to own a puppy. This would avoid some of the tragedies that occur for families and dogs.
People are only banned from owning dogs after a tragedy, but the dog still gets the blame, and is normally destroyed.
golf charlie
Dec 7th Claim : in Sweden a study by @novus_se showed that according to young people the most important political issue in regards to the general election this fall is climate change and the environment link
Meanwhile" in the US Survey by conservative group finds 3 out of 4 millennials believe it is important to fight global warming". says JOE ROMM (so I wouldn't take much notice of it)