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What I don't really understand is why he's decided to try and pander to reform voters rather than left wing voters, even there's more of the latter in every election, just split across more parties. Cost of living is the single biggest issue affecting the electorate right now - I understand the climate emergency we're in leicsmac but many don't. Every time there's been direct government intervention to support the public - whether it be the COVID furlough scheme, or any other policy that has directly provided support to individuals - it's been popular. Surely they could have come up with real, meaningful support regarding energy costs by now? Even if it was a direct government to energy companies payment coupled with deep drops to bills. The right would go argue like crazy, the telegraph would moan about national debt, but the public would be hugely positive I do not understand why they haven't, other than the fact I think starmar genuinely is trying to make long term decisions he thinks it's best, while keeping any deficits as low as they can (which is really just pandering to the right wing press as the Tories never really bother with that when they want to do something). Starmar it's too focused on what is "right", rather than remembering governments need to win elections if they want to remain governments.

BBC News - Top Foreign Office official to leave post after Mandelson vetting row https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c747r3v90k3o They're saying no minister was informed. As you say, sounds unlikely, but that's what we've got to go on

BBC News - Starmer did not know Mandelson failed vetting, government says BBC News - Starmer did not know Mandelson failed vetting, government says https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2r15151xgo He only knew that this week apparently.....

I often think this is the fault of parenting generations though. Nobody wants their kids going out alone any more. Play dates are organised by parents. Kids don't learn the same independence. I'm not sure it's the kids responsible for this.

I can't imagine it will be anywhere near as good. His and his administration's demands are incredibly basic, rather than meticulous and detailed under the Obama deal

The rest of Europe are reliant on renewables. Sweden is 99% renewable. You are wrong. And all the drilling in the north sea you can imagine does nothing for energy security as it still isn't owned by us and it's sold internationally. As for your previous post, it's a mix of biased opinion, conjecture, whataboutism and nonsense. Thatcher is the cause of this nation's ills. She sold off the nation's assets. She believed it would lead to the people becoming small shareholders and having a direct stake. All that happened is our national interests are now owned by huge multinationals that are there to skim profits rather than deliver services. See our water industry where the companies are over £60bn in debt and it just so happens that shareholders have took just over£60bn out in dividends. With rail, they underfunded it to make it bad to argue for privatisation. Yet taxpayer input INCREASED after privatisation. All privatisations have failed the people. On corporate governance her changes are what has caused ever increasing %s of national product to go to ceos and shareholders, rather than workers sharing in the increases profits they create. This change means more of the profits of the domestic product get lost from the economy as the ultra rich don't spend all their wealth, and so tax rates are going up and up for everybody else. She is the root cause. We are absolutely seeing successive governments overseeing national decline because nobody has yet undone what she did. Thatcher took short term gains in return for wrecking the country long term. You don't appear to really understand any of the things you are talking about. You're just rehearsing right wing propaganda without any real insight into what actually goes on as far as I can see. Id rather our conversation ends here.

All of your information appears to have come from a daily telegraph colouring book. Labour are hugely increasing defence spending. Tory cuts to defence spending meant that £75bn was cut from the department over their time in office. Over the first 7 years of Tory rule, real terms spending dropped by 22%, only riding back up to 2010 levels. Labour have already implemented spending increases equivalent to 3.8% a year to 2028/29 and gave committed to a much higher top end % of GDP spent on the military. So the facts do not support the nonsense you've written. On energy, we sold off our energy industry under Thatcher. We do not have the means to explore, extract or hold gas or oil. We can only sell licenses to private companies to explore who then drill and sell internationally. If we tried to make them sell to us at low cost, they wouldn't even bother exploring let alone drilling. Most of the north sea is heavily depleted. What is left is hard to reach and extract and has higher associated costs. So drilling WILL NOT reduce prices. Meanwhile, clean energy is up to 9x cheaper - you're putting up solar panels or windmills, not drilling under a sea - and means we can own our own energy production. It even means you can personally own your own energy production. Lanour are finally signing contracts for nuclear which the Tories refused to get signed so we will take a base load of nuclear underneath. This is the only way to cheap, UK owned energy. You really need to stop reading nonsense from right wing papers, GB news, reform etc. They are all heavily funded by big oil. If there was any doubt about man made climate change, the oil companies would make the scientists involved the richest scientists on earth and you would be reading their evidence everywhere. But you don't, and they don't, since even the oil companies have scientists that have been telling them for decades about man made climate change.

Yeah I can understand that view, I'm not against changing manager, tbh I think we just have really poor players and given multiple managers haven't been able to get a tune out of them I'm struggling to blame him at this point (beyond, perhaps, not trying a youth striker).

Sack rudkin and Glover and bring Eduardo Macia back as director of football with large guaranteed bonuses for promotion to championship and premier league. Bring in a CEO with football experience. Stick with Rowett as I think he'd do a good job with a new squad in league one. We just need sensible football with players that are committed and a level above other league one teams. Sell/loan/release literally every senior pro at the club. I don't see the point of keeping any of them. Nelson id keep if we could but that might be out of our hands. Go into next season with a mixture of youth players and whichever more senior pros macia can bring in. He did a really good job with recruitment last time, it's fallen off a cliff since he left, I'd put my faith in him.

Stick a bunch of windmills on it to gain from windy Scotland

Unbelievable we haven't given anybody from the youth set up a go up top. I'm 90% sure I could do a better job that Ayew or Daka, let alone an actual footballer.

So is it a good thing or bad thing? Too much sounds bad. Being paid to use electricity doesn't. Telegraph can't decide which way to attack so tries everything at once.

Bring back the foxy ladies to use the t-shirt cannons

The "light shows" are awful anyway. It's like a family all having switches to different rooms of a house just turning them on and off. When the first one arrived I expected lasers and coloured lights and drones. No, just the normal lights flickering on and off.

Rules and regs around large public events is getting ever tighter so I wouldn't just look at the club for this.

Unfortunately we're on the same path with a personality cult and compliant media pursuing a narrative that undermines democracy

No words necessary.

Just be glad you didn't read he'd two-fingered the pope.

Every election and every single poll showing older voters are voting for the parties that support oil drilling and argue against net zero - Tories and reform. You can't seriously be pretending you don't know that.

They need Burnham. But starmar made sure that ship's sailed

I know it's not all of you para, think I alluded to that later. But unfortunately it is the rest of the older generation keeping climate denialism as tenable election strategy.

Looking forward to seeing the orange idiot losing his shit on truth social later

I realise not all boomers/older people have the same view. It's just unfortunate that it is that section of society essentially keeping the anti-climate brigade in business. If only the youngest generations voted at the same levels it wouldn't matter, but unfortunately they don't, so it does. I was reading the other day that Norway sells around 97% electric cars now, admittedly I think through force of legislation, but it can be done. But Britain, as usual, outsources it's infrastructure to the private sector so we don't have enough chargers etc. Our state needs to be much more involved and leading on building infrastructure.

Jesus come on. She was the bloody CEO, of course she's a decent way responsible.

Essentially I think the last bit is it. The very wealthy oil billionaires are happy to f the world by paying for media underhandedness and political stagnation. But ordinary people allowing themselves to fall for the narrative that it's uneconomic, unachievable, or even not required, do so willingly. It's blindly obvious that the climate is changing. We all know it snows less than when we were kids. We all know summer temperatures are far higher. We all know the seasons seem messed up. We all know there's less dead insects on cars than 30 years ago. So there's no sensible reason why anybody would believe a non scientist over a scientist. Countries across Europe and the world are operating with much high levels of renewables than the UK. There are countries operating with next to zero fossil fuels. So it's clearly very possible. Yeah we still get nonsense about needing a practical plan as if it's some unachievable thing, as if sticking some relatively cheap and easy in install solar panels and wind farms up it's somehow more difficult than exploring and extracting fossil fuels from miles under a sea. As if Britain has loads of days when the sun doesn't rise (because it doesn't need to be sunny) or the wind doesn't blow off the coast of Scotland or wherever. It's disingenuous, unambitious nonsense by people that don't want to slightest change in how they live. Predictably led by the older generations. Well the reality they need to be awake to is that things are changing. Climatically. They're changing rapidly and if it isn't anyway too late even the elderly will see extreme results within their lifetimes.