duncanbuch.bsky.social
Freight professional, worked on road, rail, air & sea for freight companies. Government department & trade body too.
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I’m kind of thinking we should show up anyway because this is what they want. They want us to not show up.
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"Plausible deniability".
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Her blood is on the hands of every single fucking law enforcement officer who wears a mask and refuses to show their credentials.
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It's not an important story, it's posturing BS pretending that a group of people are doing something for society. They will stop soon until they go for another photo op.
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It's a shame that nut jobs are not treated as but jobs any more. There was a time when nut jobs kept some of their nuttiest opinions to themselves (& small groups of fellow nut jobs). We now have nut job opinion "journalists" & others promoting them instead of ridiculing them.
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You do what TfL and Mayor does all the time on this issue. You conflate the impacts of earlier ULEZ standards with the extension. The natural vehicle replacement is ignored too.
You also ignore that the negative impacts fall onto less well off road users.
Scrappage was a waste of money
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Euro standards were the foundation of the change. Natural vehicle replacement does the heavy lifting. I did not say ULEZ extension did nothing, what it did for AQ was negligible at a high cost for some people.
Focus should be on what works, not what makes most money for authorities.
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You simply described what happens with wind generation. It is not a negative it's just the nature of generating method. All power generation has down times or scale back in production at times.
The way it gets paid for is THE issue.
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We pay a lot more for the favored energy suppliers that mean the UK has some of the most expensive energy in the world, and huge profits and bonuses to fat cats, plus a good PR budget to bad mouth anything they don't like via pliant journalists and 'think tanks'.
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Maybe this may be the reason??
“Britain’s energy network operator National Grid has paid out almost £28bn ($34.3bn) in dividends to shareholders since privatisation, while the pace of investment in the transmission network has stagnated, finds new research from the Common Wealth think tank.”
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This is why I'm so frustrated by those who say "we need to stay on twitter and fight the right wing narrative!".
No you dipshit, it's algorithms that control what people are seeing which controls what people care about. Elon's got his thumb on the scale. It's a rigged game, the house is going to win
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Scrappage schemes are always a waste of money.
In the case of ULEZ no scrappage would have been needed (politically) if the ineffective extension of the zone right had not been done OR if the right standards (Euro 5 for diesel vans) had been allowed for first 2 - 3 years.
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You are assuming that it costs nothing to swap out to a compliant vehicle. Well, for most private users that was pretty easy to do because cheap compliant petrol cars were available. But that was not true for commercial vehicles because standards meant that replacements needed to be much newer.
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ULEZ extension (not two original versions, just the last one) has almost no impact on air quality. The things that impacted AQ most were the LEZ for trucks and busses, the effectiveness of EU Euro VI and Euro 6d standards the natural vehicle replacement cycle. Focus now should be on the hot spots
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My objection is to the extension to outer London. The air quality improvement is insignificant at significant costs to small businesses and to poorer road users. It was a tax, not an air quality measure.
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The ULEZ extension was not needed and the scrappage scheme was a waste of money.
The air quality improvement from the extension was negligible.
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Waste of money.
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Were they queuing in a suspicious manner? Was their crime, looking a bit Gazan?
The Israelis are so far down the road of brutality and horror that anything can be done to Gazans and the weakest excuse is just rolled out.
Meanwhile, the West does as little as possible to counter the genocide.
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As always. 🤣
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😉
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You sound American.
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Note, it was the politicians that passed the laws.
The politicians are accountable.
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Australia should save the US the bother of a review and can it themselves.
Close the US based while they are at it.
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Perovskia.
Its a Russian plant.
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Even with the video, bootlickers will parrot the line “she wasn’t following police commands“ because in their world, everyone should instantly unquestioningly follow every order a cop gives, even if it makes no sense & no one should ever try to explain their situation to a cop, just obey.
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Rubber bullets have a range of 300 meters.
They're not meant to be shot at close range.
They're not meant to shoot someone trying to go home.
These trigger happy bozos are going to maim or kill someone,
by not respecting specifications to use those guns.
Rubber bullets aren't paintballs! 🤬
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I suspect 3 things:
1-They don’t care about people, only news stories that drive clicks/revenue.
2-They have forsaken journalistic integrity in the wake of incoming fascist regime in part thanks to their billionaire Corporate overlords.
3- See point 1 & 2 again.