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Idk. This is much simpler and a relatively small amount of money.

I'd definitely like to see more imagination and ambition, but I can absolutely see why you'd go for the easy win first.

Why should anyone do more work than their contract states or they are being paid for?

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Nationally there is big productivity gap between pre- and post-COVID eras in the NHS and the fact is that pre-COVID there was a massive free clinical resource of staff goodwill and that is not there any more after the Tories fucked around with not paying people properly after they went through hell.

I think thats the case in all public sector areas that didn't furlough

But the clapping...

Could not disagree more.

Building more wind turbines or investing in battery storage is simple and an easy win.

How about spending £22 billion on an EV charging network across the UK. As well as the jobs and private investment that would facilitate, how many more people would switch to EV's in the next 5 - 10 years?

CCS has never been used commercially in the UK before. It's grasping at straws, geo-engineering solutions put forward by fossil fuel companies to extend their life a little bit longer.

I'm not sure encouraging mass scrapping of working older ICE cars and increasing production of resource and carbon intensive EVs is a net win

How about spending £22 billion on an EV charging network across the UK.

EVs are a pretty similar "solution" to carbon capture though. Keep on doing the same shitty thing but make it slightly less polluting in one specific way.

Honestly of your list only battery tech investment is analogous.

Re wind what investment is needed in wind? Building more, right? The product is basically fine. Is funding the biggest hurdle to that?

As for the EV charging structure. Idk but it sounds messy af to implement. Whereas setting up some sort of matched investment structure sounds fairly straightforward and delivers investment - something that the Tories absolutely fucked up with Brexit X lack of industrial strategy X being flakes.

I mean my real dream would be a roll out of new energy self-sufficient garden cities. But I understand that that may be more complex.

Probably the best solution for the environment would be for a mysterious Chinese laboratory to release Covid+++XtraStrong (after rigorous testing on senior Tories).

I'll vote for that. We're the one true vermin

But is that productivity gap because people aren't doing their jobs or aren't doing the free shit that companies always expect from their staff due to under resourcing.

Is it also that across the country people are just tired...

The green agriculture fund is kinda working in England, with additional biodiversity on farm and other good things.

But no, 22bn on unproven technology while the UK has a nature crisis and sewage spills and lots of poorly insulated homes.

I don't get this one.

So the met police officers that stopped Bianca Williams have been reinstated with back pay.
Does that mean the money raised on gofundme will be returned?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgnln17zn6o

Britain was forced on her own by its former colony, the USA to depopulate the Chagos of its indigenous population of British subjects, and force them into exile in a foreign country, against all the principal of the United Nations, the principles of human rights and the Magna Carta , a unique case, perhaps without precedent, in the British colonial history.

https://journals.openedition.org/oceanindien/2003

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/04/police-officer-charged-death-woman-collision-royal-escort

Strange thing is the person charged appears to have been at least 65 years old and serving as a police motorcyclist on escort duties.

67 y/o. Guess HRH’s security isn’t that high of a priority for the police.

Also a bloody cheeky comment by the CPS ‘reminding’ media that they shouldn’t report anything that could bias criminal proceedings. I’m sure they do the same for urban minorities accused of crimes that make the news. Right?

67 y/o. Guess HRH’s security isn’t that high of a priority for the police.

Paging @Constable_Savage

Skimmed about half. Chagossians have never been British citizens. They’ve been British subjects and British nationals (overseas), but the term ‘citizen’ carries specific legal rights and requirements and is not available to most of the former Empire’s inhabitants.

it does say "british subjects" in the para i quoted.

i'm not suggesting it is a reliable source but was of interest (to me at least) nonetheless.

edit - ah yes, i see that it does say "citizens" in para 10.

But no, 22bn on unproven technology while the UK has a nature crisis and sewage spills and lots of poorly insulated homes.

This is what happens when a party has been completely captured by lobbyists and people who believe in nothing.

further point - the article in the final para is making the point that Falkland Islanders and britsh citizens but Chagossians are not, but in the view of the author should be. So perhaps the use is not accidental.

67 y/o. Guess HRH’s security isn’t that high of a priority for the police.

Incident was May 2023 so i’m giving himself the benefit of the doubt on age.
Not entirely sure how same very minor royal who doesn’t appear to be a terrorist target justifies escorting in such a manner but not my area of expertise.

All British passports used to say Subject until about 1984 when we became Citizens.