Dave Wilson
@davew1956.bsky.social
Pro UK in EU(only voting for parties who support this. No more tactical voting). Fossil Fuel lobby are the Luddites of today. Enjoys cycling and travels. Retired.
French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡
Very obliging of #r4today to lead with Reform’s ‘plan’ to stop the boats using the Royal Navy, pretending it’ll be some great WWII-style escapade, rather than a hateful, costly, diplomatically incontinent mess. A total waste of everyone’s time as they’ll never be in power and it’s unworkable anyway.
I can't type fast enough to handle Zia Yusuf's lies, or Amol Rajan's failure to counter them. #R4Today
The answer to your climate-change question, Justin, is: we need to do all of it. We need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions AND remove CO2 AND we need to adapt. #r4today
Consider the technology difference between 1900 and 1960. Nearly 60yrs have passed since mankind worked out how to land on the moon and return to earth, yet today we are pumping sewage into the rivers and seas.
#r4today why when discussing climate change, your interviewer pushes questions on mitigation and nothing on how to end reliance on fossil fuels.
The powerful fossil fuel companies, who have influence across the media and politics will push it’s interests, by trying to convince us that our interests are best served by adapting to climate change. It’s BS, we need to rid ourselves of ff. Governments should be working to achieve it.
#c4news The fire comes to England, but Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage still want to drill oil and gas. These idiots will destroy us.
There is no future for humanity with fossil fuels. Those who argue for it are greedy narcissists who don't care what happens to the rest of our species once they've gone. #NetZero
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d agoBen Ansell, "Claim that the North Sea has 700 years of oil for Britain" "Which might be true if you sucked it out through a drinking straw"
The competition for the countries Village Idiot of the year hots up.
#r4today Amol Rajan mentions recent flooding events and now droughts and asks what’s going on? Really?
The new Labour government cannot be taken seriously unless it addresses Brexit.
It is exactly two years today since loveable racist Lucy Connolly posted a Tweet encouraging people to burn down hotels housing asylum seekers. Making her exactly the sort of person I'm proud to be associated with.
Here’s Nigel and the Reform party leading the way against incitement to violence.
Brilliant reporting from @channel4news.bsky.social - at last parts of the media are finally joining the dots between a planet on fire and the burning of fossil fuels
Channel 4 News@channel4news.bsky.social · last wk.‘There are a lot of corporate interests’ in pushing back against climate policies – former diplomat
What could be more performative than the Conservatives calling for a recall of parliament when most of them are on holiday? To respond to a policy needed because of their utter mismanagement of the prison system They are not serious politicians www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Badenoch calls for emergency legislation to stop early release scheme
Last week Andy Burnham announced he was pausing early release plans for September after backlash from survivors and victims.
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#c4news The fossil fuel oligarchs who buy off politicians and journalists, around the world will leave us all in pit of fire. Greed supersedes common sense.
It is extraordinary how it has become a sort of “settled wisdom” these days that Net Zero is an absurd aim, a sign of mad political correctness, and “has got to go”, when our planet is literally burning to death.
Peter du Toit@peterdutoit.com · 2w agoYou see everything is connected. The marine heatwaves off the coasts of Europe make heatwaves on land more intense, which in turn dries out vegetation, which then creates perfect fire weather conditions. Brought to you by the world's refusal to drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels.
Anyway, our relationship with the U.S. should not just be about ‘the national interest’. It should be about human rights, about international law, about morality and ethics.
'Authorities in France have ordered the evacuation of the entirety of the Cap Ferret peninsula (Lège-Cap Ferret) in the south-west of France, with hundreds of people escaping the area by boat.' Our world is on fire
The scientifically illiterate team of presenters of #r4today continue to fiddle while the world burns. The climate emergency is the issue of the age but they are much more clued-up about political trivia and gossip than anything else.
📉 Brexit has led to a shortfall of £100bn in profits for UK businesses. ❌ That is a less investment, that is less tax revenue, that is fewer jobs. https://www.ft.com/content/421e904c-1fe1-4375-ad37-96dc26e2eebc
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Justin stuck in his “where’s the money coming from?” groove over small spending commitments. These sums are lost in the rounding. A 0.1% move in bond yields saves or costs the UK government £1.5-2B in interest. The numbers are not static! Yields currently about 0.1% lower than in May. #r4today
Keeping on with fossil fuels will be the most costly and expensive endeavor the human race has ever caused
The mantra of every government since Brexit has been “we don’t need no (higher) education.”
Remember that, when it was still in the EU, Britain supported & voted for the introduction of this EU Entry/Exit System (EES). The then (Tory) govt wanted more checks on non-EU visitors entering the EU www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New EU system tripling time to get through border, airport boss says
Ryanair has also warned passengers travelling to Europe this summer to prepare for extended waits.
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