I take it the ban on petrol/diesel is a ban on them sold rather than a requirement to remove them off the roads? I’m pleased to see a gigantic push to electric cars but there’s going to need to be a LOT of infrastructure that is required to be in place and I just hope it doesn’t shut off rural communities even further than broadband already does.

Doesn’t solve the congestion care create though

We don’t build cars in north Wales. Unless someone in government has moved Elsmere Port to the other side of the border when I wasn’t looking.

 

 

As everything with this shower of charlatans I don’t believe an actual word of this. It’s all PR waffle and light on any actual details. Much like Boris

I take it the ban on petrol/diesel is a ban on them sold rather than a requirement to remove them off the roads? I’m pleased to see a gigantic push to electric cars but there’s going to need to be a LOT of infrastructure that is required to be in place and I just hope it doesn’t shut off rural communities even further than broadband already does.

The crux of this for me is when will electric car charging tech be advanced enough for me to be able to do a quick 15 min safety charge and top up the battery from 50% to full. Because when I was last in the highlands that is exactly the shit that you end up doing. “May as well just top up with diesel here at this Tesco in Wick because f*** knows where the next fuel station is”. Even hydrocarbon refuelling can be a challenge in rural Scotland so a enforced wholesale swap to electric is just a disaster waiting to happen without significant advances.

 

 

I’d rather throw money into using offshore wind to generate green hydrogen and retrofitting hydrocarbon fuelling stations to hydrogen ones. Better range and comparable refuelling times to hydrocarbons makes for easier mass adoption

When the price of electric vehicles come down then I may be tempted, but at the minute...no.

£16.5 billion surge in defense spending including a "Space Force" :/

 

but we don't have enough money for foreign aid/greater environment spending/social safety net eh

£16.5 billion surge in defense spending including a "Space Force" :/

 

but we don't have enough money for foreign aid/greater environment spending/social safety net eh

 

They can’t even feed deprived children without being shamed into it, nothing surprises me anymore.

The findings of the enquiry into allegations of bullying by Pritti Patel have been leaked. The report was completed months ago but Johnson has been sitting on it since then. It apparently finds that Patel (previously sacked by Theresa May for breaking the ministerial code) is guilty of bullying and is, therefore, in breach of the ministerial code. Apparently Johnson does not intend to sack her which, once again, makes me wonder what the ministerial code is for any more.

And I'm near certain that our beloved media will scrutinise this nasty act and it leads to change happening and just as much as how much Labour have been for this anti-semitism report :)

The findings of the enquiry into allegations of bullying by Pritti Patel have been leaked. The report was completed months ago but Johnson has been sitting on it since then. It apparently finds that Patel (previously sacked by Theresa May for breaking the ministerial code) is guilty of bullying and is, therefore, in breach of the ministerial code. Apparently Johnson does not intend to sack her which, once again, makes me wonder what the ministerial code is for any more.

 

 

Surely she'll resign if she's in breach of the code, if he won't sack her.

I often wonder about when the penny will drop for Patel.

 

In the process of desperately searches for the approval and validation from white men who will never give it her for the simple fact that she is both a) a woman and b) not white; PP ends up enacting laws so atrocious in her position as Home Secretary that she legislates to order the deportation of herself.

 

 

When will she realise exactly what she has done and the untold damage her needless cruelty has caused:

 

a) while sat in immigration detention in squalid conditions at the hands of Serco?

b) while sat in the middle seat of a full 777 deportation flight somewhere over the Caspian Sea?

c) when she lands in a foreign country she’s never been to, but her parents had citizenship of when they first came to the UK decades ago, with nothing but the clothes on her back to be told this is now her home and she can never return to the UK?

 

:thinking: I’m thinking C personally.

Surely she'll resign if she's in breach of the code, if he won't sack her.

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This has been anti-bullying week. The Tories' contribution has been to end funding for a programme against homophobic bullying and to allow someone found guilty of bullying to keep her job.

Unfortunately, the fact she has kept her job doesn't suprise me in the slightest.

 

Given this s*ht for brains government id be far more suprised if she was actually held accountable for her actions

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

 

 

Well she SHOULD resign. It's disgraceful that we are all told how awful bullying is in any setting, school, workplace, home, yet she gets away with it. Disgusting. Come on Boris, sack her.

This has been anti-bullying week. The Tories' contribution has been to end funding for a programme against homophobic bullying and to allow someone found guilty of bullying to keep her job.

 

The message I've taken: If you're a workplace bully - feel emboldened, don't worry about it.

 

Absolute shower of shit this government.

This has been anti-bullying week. The Tories' contribution has been to end funding for a programme against homophobic bullying and to allow someone found guilty of bullying to keep her job.

 

 

Doesn't mean she won't be moved at the next re-shuffle though.

Doesn't mean she won't be moved at the next re-shuffle though.

Not good enough. She should be sacked and should never be a minister again.

They had a Tory MP defending her on Ch.4 news saying her job's "one of the hardest if not the hardest" in government as previous holders of the post will tell you, and she may have just been "raising her voice" to get her points and instructions across. Asked if he's ever been yelled and swore at at work he said "of course as I worked in a newsroom and it goes on every day there"

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Not good enough. She should be sacked and should never be a minister again.

 

 

I agree fully in this instance. She should never have been brought back and certainly not as Home Secretary. Ch.4 News said that Boris doesn't agree that it was bullying though and that's why he's not sacking her.

Edited November 20, 20204 yr by Sixth Sense