borislong.bsky.social
Getting older but no wiser every second.
I refer you to line 1.
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Posting this for no particular reason:
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Trump International Golf Course is just outside LA. It mighht be a safe place for peaceful protests to gather as he probably wouldn't want to destroy his own property.
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I always took Till Death Us Do Part as taking the p out of racists.
The minstrel show, just awful.
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I did know that. My point being it was a shared workload, across nations.
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Of course, but the civil service doesn't get to choose its own research, it's directed by government.
I've mentioned before, being both in the EU then out have been used as an excuse to not share the wealth, so rejoin is not a magic bullet. Cui bono?
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Membership and compliance with the ECHR is literally written into the agreement, and like the US constitution it is supposed to protect the people from the rise of authoritarianism.
Project 2025 is not a purely US thing.
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The WFA was pretty much the cookie meme/hunger games.
Why has our 1 cookie been so much smaller than most other major economies for decades is a better question?
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boring work, environmental/food/chemical standards etc?
I guess they spent more time with lobbyists.
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The governments should've been keeping a rough tally on net benefits for decades, particularly after the ERG was formed.
Of course it's not accountancy, but to not be able to refute the side of a bus was pathetic. Also? What the heck was Parliament doing when the EU took over all the day to day -
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Even now the rough amount of £s lost per annum varies wildly, the only consensus appears to be it's £ billions.
I guess when you've spent decades pretending the UK is poor, in order to avoid sharing the wealth, for the system's beneficiary's Brexit was better than telling the truth?
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What I found frightening and enlightening in the run up to the referendum was the lack of accurate cost benefit figures from remain.
Given the decades of agitation against EU membership, and purely in fiscal responsibility terms, I expected better preparedness. Leave filled that void with BS -
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Crikey!!!!
Fingers crossed.
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Hence their hatred of socialism and the rise of privatised state services. Capitalism can't compete.
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Manipulation.
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Construction began over a year ago, what a waste of money.
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I'm struggling to remember a time when we had a government that wasn't supremely comfortable with death by/for economics, of other people obviously.
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Found it. Groundworks for major renewable projects across the Highlands could be exposing radioactive contamination from the Chernobyl #nuclear disaster almost 40 years ago.
www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/call-fo...
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I see they haven't mentioned the loss of jobs in the local tourism industry for the foreseeable?
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No. It was recent and referred to soil at up to 40 cm depth. If you can't find it, check out the effect on sheep farming, they weren't safe to eat for about 30 years, food chain etc. As I said, it's just not worth the risk.
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The deaths from thyroid cancer are likely many x your figure.
Why do you think we had a venison ban for so many years?
Anyway, I have bigger concerns today, but thanks for the chat.
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the risk or the hassle.
You haven't even considered the dangers during pandemics. It presented a challenge during Covid to keep Sizewell running.
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Just search Chernobyl soil Scotland or something. It was an article from a reputable source.
Presumably they identified the source from half life or something.
Do you not remember the ban on Highlands venison at the time?
My point is simply that regardless of anything else, nuclear is not worth ..
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The animals are not necessarily 'healthy' as we learned from the progeny of Hiroshima. The land is unfit for human habitation. As I pointed out, the effects of Chernobyl on Britain have just come to light.
I trust the nuclear industry as much as the equally opaque fossil fuel industry.
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I specifically mentioned Chernobyll. It's only in the last few weeks they've discovered lots of contaminated soil, who will pay for that clean up? Russia? The sand near Sellafield still has radioactive particles. Nuclear is not green, or cheap and a target for bad actors + a WMD if reactors fail.
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Sellafield also processes waste from power production as I recall.
I understand people's concern about fluctuations, but this can be overcome with technology, which is exactly what fossil fuel lobby don't
want. Did you see the recent news regarding soil in Scotland from Chernobyl? Price that in.
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If I remember correctly, French electricity price is not tied to oil/gas price?
It's irrelevant how cheap production is if prices are linked.
If you really think nuclear de/commissioning costs are accurate look at Hinckley, Sellafield, HS2 etc. Basically, fossil fuels want the status quo.
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We've had over 40 years of successive governments managing to spend maximum tax receipts for minimum benefit.
Defund, privatise, but now our nation is up for grabs.
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Keep telling yourself that, then explain to me how the massive
de/commissioning costs added into the cost mean it works out cheap?
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Of course they won't have. The expansion of Great Yarmouth outer harbour wreaked havoc down the coast line. They are denying it of course, but we all saw it happening.
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Check out the cost of decommissioning and waste storage.
The majority of those £££s come from the tax payer, and that figure isn't included in the costings.
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As the BBC was once the most respected news source in the world, it cannot be allowed to continue.
So simple to fix by a change of personnel, but successive governments have preferred sabotage from within.
Who funds 'Defund the BBC' ?
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Difficult decision, but you made that for your family once and it worked out well, yes?