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Mar 12, 2018 at 3:35 PM | tomo
In the light of recent accusations, it would be appropriate for Bercow to be beaten by a woman, even if he can't find one his own size.

Mar 12, 2018 at 10:04 AM | Ross Lea
I guess that with a battery include then diesel-electric is hybrid; but in a marine application, even submarines, there is preciously little opportunity to charge the battery other than by using the diesel part of the equation. For land based transport this is not the case.

SG. But are they climate refugees?
Mar 12, 2018 at 2:36 PM | Supertroll
Climate Scientists, the BBC and The Guardian say they are. So probably not.

SG. But are they climate refugees?
My spellchecker is biased. After typing "climate" and "r" it immediately offered me "refugees" as an option.

@Mark Hodgson
"UN figures indicate that 80% of people displaced by climate change are women."
Funny when you look at those people using the Mediterranean NGO taxi service , almost all the refugees seem to be male

Mar 12, 2018 at 1:06 PM | tomo
Harriet Harman would be accepted by most Conservatives as more intelligent , level headed and rational than Bercow. She will also attract support from the old New Labour.
With her husband, Jack Dromey, there are links to a former Labour Donor:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Martin_Abrahams
"In April 2016, following high-profile remarks made by a Labour MP Naz Shah and the former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, Abrahams said that he would no longer financially support the Labour party, claiming it was becoming increasingly anti-Semitic."
Some in the new Old Labour will not be happy, should Harman replace Bercow.

gc
I see Labour are mounting an extremely effective campaign to keep the nasty little man in post - by threatening to replace him with Harriet Harman...

I said before that BBC EV PR men were misrepresenting Norway, where in fact pure-EV sales fell as people opt for hybrid.
Times : only 1,000 EVs sold in 2018 so far in UKsales could fall next month when £4,500 subsidy ends.
"The number of electric cars sold in Britain has fallen by a third since the start of the year, amid concerns that motorists are being put off by high price "
Overall including hybrids the category is up 19%