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There's an app called Gridcarbon, which shows , in the moment, the sources of the electricity on the National Grid. Right now, mid-day on a mildish spring day where I am..., it's showing... Gas 41.1% ( usually around 50%, I think, in twilight/early morning hours ) Solar 18.4% Nuclear 17% Wind 7.5% Biomass 6.2% Coal 3.6% Netherlands 2.7% France 2.1% Belgium 1.0% Hydro 0.4% There's usually 1 or 2% from Ireland, but nothing just now. Fossil fuels may be finite, but most of them will eventually stay in the ground. Public and investment sentiment means that fossil fuel companies find it harder to raise funds. Therefore, apart from geological issues, the cost of extraction rises. Meanwhile, the cost of renewables is falling. The above percentage for Gas troubles me.

He feeds on prejudices. When you look at what he says when he's asked to define specific policies, you can see how odious they are. Wasn't he himself involved in 'the city'..., a bond trader or some such ....? be

Head so deep in the trough, the world would never hear him say... "Oink..".

Though I despise the Mail.., the audit trail of who's paying him, and what for, and if where the investments are made are clear... then he doesn't seem to have much grounds for defamation. The fact that half the Commons, mostly Tory, have got their heads face down in the troughs of high finance isn't really the point. That's the Mail for you.

He has all the pulling power, and charisma, of a stale pint of heavy. So yes, there are similarities with John Major, Howver, Major had steadily climbed the greasy poles of politics before he got to be PM. Barclay seems to be just a nonentity, brought in when all the others realised that being Brexit Secretary was a road to oblivion. 100/1 looks to me like an accurate reflection of his chances. .

I think Macron is more worried about being strung up feet first from a lamp post by the 'free market' ... in the form of the yellow vesters.... than he is about getting involved in vetoes.

That was your belly rumbling.

I steer well clear of political autobiographies and biographies. The ones that I've even mildly browsed are usually self justifying garbage. Well, it's just that it's so blindingly obvious to anyone with half a brain that they don't actually care about anyone or anything other than themselves. I expect little of them in their behaviour towards people on the fringes. But that "f**k business.." comment by Boris Johnson really does illustrate that they don't give a shit about working people, or those who employ them. So No Deal.., so what... to Tories ?

Looks like you're on the wrong thread. Heids Gone is the place for you.

As it's you that's saying it, it's most unlikely to be a universal truth. It's actually one of those lazy, cynical sayings by someone long before you..., someone who also couldn't be arsed to dig deeper.

I stopped taking part in Yougov stuff a little while back. As I recall, I was slightly unhappy about the way that questions were being framed.

It's their choice, it seems. They're self employed and they can be dedicated to their local constituency or not. My MP used to be a man called David Heathcote Amory. He owned ( and still does ) 30,000 acres of fine Scottish shooting estate. Here in Somerset, he was the local MP. Half the populace only knew he existed through his bi-monthly missive in the local rag, where he'd indulge in the usual tub-thumping of Tories....., denunciation of 'benefit scroungers'..., "no impediments to business here..." etc. etc. Only after 27 years, when he was revealed as Mr Manure in the MP's expenses scandal, did the locals vote him out.

I tend to agree with you about the internal leanings of the Lib Dems. There has been virtually no move away from the 'Orange Bookery'., and little influx of new blood. They may have 11 seats, but really, they're a semi deceased party. Another stint propping up Conservatives would finish them for good. However, if Labour promises another referendum to confirm any Brexit actions or deals, then I'm fairly certain they'll get all the support they need without having to crawl to the Lib Dems.

If Leave won again in another referendum, then the issue is straightforward. Everyone has had a chance to see the consequences. Some of them are obvious right now, and there will be much more. The underlying reasons for why people voted to Leave ? Never ending austerity corrodes society. People on the fringes feel it first , and most directly. But really, it infects everyone. Unless you're sufficiently affluent to look on blithely. The Tories deny all responsibility for massive upsurges in homelessness, people dying on the streets, foodbanks, and all the rest. Labour ? A significant chunk of them have gone acquiesced to austerity, a hairbreadth away from Tories. In these circumstances, it's not too surprising that the underlying reasons for why so many people voted Leave are not referred to very much in the public political discourse.

In the amendment votes the other night, the Margaret Beckett proposal for a public confirmatory vote by the electorate had more support than Clarke's.

Good work so far, though, by the ref...... ( Bercow )

My local MP abstained on the first amendment, and voted against everything else. He's Tory, he's on the government payroll in some form. More or less totally loyal to party leadership. ( Whoever that might be ).

You should know. Your insight equates to that of a 1 year old.

Total drivel.

Watching this on BBC Parliament. What an utter disgrace this house of full of booing, jeering, hoorahing, shouting down yahoos are to any democracy.

Nah..., they're all t*ssers.

Immediately after the referendum, the value of the £ dropped drastically. The effect on basic, and not so basic , foodstuffs came through rather quickly after that. Lots of JIT ( Just in Time) stockholding around these days. The people who feel this in the most immediate way are those who have little, or earn little, in the first place. In the end just about everyone does though.

Looks like Kuennsberg is cracking. That posh articulation soon to be replaced by defo this, and defo that.

I'll go with the bookies view. They're more trustworthy than politicians.

A few moments ago on CH4... Jon Snow : " Where are we now, Yvette Cooper ?" Yvette Cooper : "I haven't a clue..."