mannycalavera

Mate, take a break. Stop being an antagonistic bellend. Take your trolling elsewhere.

Nobody is denying the science. Tone down your rhetoric, buddy. I'm not in government. Climate change is real and will impact us all. Rich people will be able to pivot more easily. But you need to think about how other people less fortunate will be able to cope. What's the point of a greener future if you've bankrupted people in the process? The only people that benefits from that are rich people. Congratulations 🎉. It's better to take people with you as much as you can and if that means pushing back plans to align with the EU then that's pragmatic. Like I've said before I would love to see some concrete details of how the government are going to help in the five extra years they are allowing.

What climate apocalypse are you predicting in five years from 2030 to 2035? And be scientific about it.

Thank you for selectively quoting me. Not sure you got past the first sentence. I've highlighted the rest for your approval.

as I understand climate change is going to screw us all. There's no escape from it whether your rich or poor. He does however have the ability to swap his cars to electric right now whilst poorer people and businesses on limited cash flows don't. This might ease at least that burden for them?

I've explained in another comment that I haven't seen any concrete detail on how the delay will help improve the situation but that I kinda understand the logic that if you're poorer you might need more time to take action and swap your car out.

So question for you: are you happy to force people / businesses that can't afford large jumps in expenditure to swap their cars? Or people that have no access to nearby charging stations?

What I'd like to see are concrete announcements that say between now and 2035 this is how we'll alleviate the situation for the majority of the population that might fall into that category and this is why we can't do it for 2030. I've not seen that so I remain sceptic about this new policy. I don't see that as controversial but apparently it is 🤷?

I was out all of yesterday and haven't had time to listen to the announcement but as I understand it this is the same target as the EU.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/economy/20221019STO44572/eu-ban-on-sale-of-new-petrol-and-diesel-cars-from-2035-explained

Is Sunak "scum" because he changed his mind or are the EU also "scum"?

Love the username BTW. Powerpuff Girls?

They don't deserve a second chance.

Then we don't deserve another referendum. We had one chance. Brexit Max it is! 🥹

Voting for a party that will get into bed with the Tories at the first sign of power coming their way, a party that has repeatedly said they will not do a deal with Labour, is a vote for another Tory hegemony.

This is a seriously fucked up way to think about politics in the long run. It damns is all to tribal allegiances.

Create a new party that will appeal to voters that want more integration with the EU. That might actually attract some Conservatives that can't get behind radical left ideals but wanted to stay in the EU. It's only the ERG nutters that will be left behind.

Basically split both Labour Brexitiers and Tory Brexitiers into their own thing. Both of them are so hard line that they will never cooperate. What's left will be EU enthusiasts that might, just might, pull together for closer integration / rejoin. And hopefully this new party will have a majority.

But of course if it's more tribal red and blue that people want then bring on more Brexit! 🥹

Like all research in the UK it won't be funded / get enough funding and the company will have to move away.

divisive candidates who've held their seats in successive elections for how long now?

Holding a seat for a long time is not mutually exclusive with being divisive. Maggie Thatcher held a seat for a long time and she was a cunt. 🤣

She's divisive to the current election chances of Labour because of her blasé attitude towards the Jewish community and her support of Corbyn. Both of which are going to hurt Labour if left in place.

Yeah but apparently we can't forgive them for tuition fees. Absolutely barmy but that's UK politics 🤷. Let's just keep voting Tory and Labour until we all die.

No but seriously, we need PR and then we need a coalition to support closer meaningful ties to the single market (or choose your variation of that). However the two biggest blockers to PR are Labour and the Tories which we keep voting for because of some tribal allegiance that (for most) started 40 years ago in the eighties..... when they weren't even born!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Or maybe to purge the party of tone deaf divisive candidates? 🤷

Wait did I miss hear something? Maybe I was half awake but the morning news said it would rise?