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@TimfromSing

Recently returned from 15 years in Japan and Singapore. Once a physicist.

England, United Kingdom انضم Aralık 2012
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@RichardBentall @andywigmore Hasn’t Spain covered more of the cost by general taxation? And there’s more sun. Also, though Spain’s domestic electricity is 30% cheaper than the UK’s, it’s still 40% more than the US’s, and three times India’s and China’s. All this according to: statista.com/statistics/263…
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Andy Wigmore@andywigmore·
“We can’t solve climate change” difficult to argue with anything Tony Blair is saying
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@PaulEmbery @mattwridley Surely this lady is right? If someone were discriminated against because their employer wrongly believed their race had certain faults, that would be racism. Why should the insanity of an employer believing a transwomen can have a baby, stop this being sexual discrimination?
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Paul Embery@PaulEmbery·
My word. This is incredible. A real-life version of that scene from The Life of Brian: "Stan, you haven't got a womb! Where's the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!"
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@DPJHodges Is there no connection between AI and energy policy then?
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@ejwwest @andywigmore Even if this is true, what is your evidence that the UK and Europe going it alone on CO2 reduction will reduce those costs?
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@ejwwest @andywigmore The rest of the world is not following our lead on carbon reduction. So the answer has to be mitigation. Worse: we are providing an object lesson in why they shouldn’t reduce their own carbon emissions. Because it leads to industrial collapse and bankrupcy.
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James West@ejwwest·
@andywigmore You do realise that burning fossil fuels produces CO2, a proven greenhouse gas, causing global warming? What’s your alternative policies to address that? Please be specific. We have commitments in international and domestic law.
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@RichardBentall @andywigmore Shame we have among the highest electricity prices in the world then. If we want to get people to take up this technology (at the expense of European car manufacturers) we need much cheaper electricity.
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Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social
Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social@RichardBentall·
@andywigmore Meanwhile, the Chinese have developed EVs that charge 10-80% in 9 minutes, battery prices are plummeting as the technology improves, countries around the world are converting to green energy, and petroleum is yesterday's tech kept going by billionaire grifters who profit from it.
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@NotoOccupation @andywigmore How would they benefit by the U.K. being more of a competitor in the oil and gas export market, and importing less oil and gas itself?
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End the occupation
End the occupation@NotoOccupation·
@andywigmore "I just don't think net zero is the right priority for the country," said Tony Blair, spokesman for Saudia Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait.
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@_F_B_G_ @ALucieSmith There was I thinking I would learn something new about Waugh, Wodehouse and Jerome.
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Fergus Butler-Gallie
Fergus Butler-Gallie@_F_B_G_·
I’ve got used to the gawping look when I remind people that of the three greatest English comic writers- two were clergymen and the other was the daughter and sister of them and that, as such, theology might shape humour.
Zelex@OBEhizele

This is my gripe with the CofE. There is nothing inherently wrong in engaging with e.g. diversity discourse, but why not draw from your rich theological tradition? Too often, it feels like secular liberal grammar repackaged, then they wonder why many feel spiritually disengaged.

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@gwcollinge @ConsEurope @KemiBadenoch @dominicgrieve_ France tried to stop this, but the Act was popular with the nations with no AI industry and vested interests happy to be left behind technologically. On the precautionary principle, as usual. If the EU were different it could be worth being a member of, as the EEC was. So what?
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Conservative European Forum@ConsEurope·
🚨NEW REPORT🚨 Senior Conservatives urge @KemiBadenoch to reconsider plans to leave the ECHR. In a major new CEF report, former Attorney General @dominicgrieve_ argues that withdrawal would not stop illegal migration - and would inflict serious damage on the Union, our security co-operation, and our standing in Europe. The report sets out reform proposals for the UK to lead Europe's response to illegal migration after the recent key migration summit in Chișinău. ft.com/content/b3e4d0…
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@gwcollinge @ConsEurope @KemiBadenoch @dominicgrieve_ That may be true. But I know of a business investing much more than £20m in the U.K. which is very happy the UK is not covered by the EU AI Act which France (the country in Europe which is second best for AI development) strongly opposed and had forced on them.
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Gurwinder
Gurwinder@G_S_Bhogal·
Andrew is lying or stupid. The study by @ThomasTalhelm did not test who'd lie about completing the 5 minute task in 5 minutes. It tested who'd complete the task even if it took longer than 5 minutes. What Andrew thinks are the honest countries are in fact the lazy countries.
Andrew Follett@AndrewCFollett

Scientists gave people ~8,000 people in 40 countries a 5-minute task that was impossible to finish in 5 minutes. Here's how many people lied they completed it anyway by country, a great measure of honesty. All the nice places to live are honest. Lesson for immigration there!

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@gwcollinge @ConsEurope @KemiBadenoch @dominicgrieve_ The only reason for trade is comparative advantage. This is why neighbouring villages hardly trade, but both trade with towns. Distance is important, but not the only factor. BTW The U.K., the world’s 5th economy, is hardly a “small island”. How do other CPTPP nations “survive”?
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@gwcollinge @ConsEurope @KemiBadenoch @dominicgrieve_ The UK is a member of CPTPP covering 14% of global trade, and unlike the EU a rising proportion. Yes, it would be good to avoid EU importation red tape (the abundance of which is an EU problem), but it is not worth rejoining what M. Draghi called the “slow agony” of the EU.
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@jsdzdlvll @euromaximal Even if this were true, Remain only needed 2-3% more voters than they got in the Refendum. At least 2-3% of voters were people who would have preferred to stay in the EU if they had thought they could reform it, but didn’t think that.
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jsdzdlvll@jsdzdlvll·
@euromaximal People in this thread acting like the UK left due to lack of reform, when we all know that Brexit was mostly a populist, racist movement. Most people who voted Leave did it hoping for less immigration and it was in fact sold to them like that by the UKIP. So, spare us the bs.
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EuroMaximalist 🇪🇺@euromaximal·
No matter the flaws the European Union has, it’s much better to reform it than to leave it. Most problems European countries face are self-inflicted, and leaving solves nothing. It only makes it harder to solve them due to economic collapse. Just look at the Uk.
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@andrew_lilico Because what Yusuf is discussing (as I understand it) is criteria he would set for applying for a visa. We currently set a minimum income for certain visas, but we do not deport dual nationals without that income. Getting rid of criminals is a different issue.
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Andrew Lilico
Andrew Lilico@andrew_lilico·
We deport criminals if they have dual nationality. Why would this be any different from that?
Tim@TimfromSing

@andrew_lilico Why should it apply to dual nationals? The majority of rules based on nationality do not. People with dual nationality have a right to be in the U.K. based on their British nationality. Whether they fail the criteria for getting a visa they don’t need seems beside the point.

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@andrew_lilico Why should it apply to dual nationals? The majority of rules based on nationality do not. People with dual nationality have a right to be in the U.K. based on their British nationality. Whether they fail the criteria for getting a visa they don’t need seems beside the point.
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Andrew Lilico@andrew_lilico·
Wow. I presume this applies to dual nationals? Will a Reform government give foreign nationals who currently live in social housing any time to leave that social housing after the General Election?
Zia Yusuf@ZiaYusufUK

Robert’s answer is not Reform policy. As the person responsible for our deportation plan I want ensure people know where we stand: If a foreign national lives in social housing at taxpayer expense, they automatically fail our economic test and will be deported.

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@NickCohen4 The young are always on the far left. The old are always dying out. So the far left will soon be in power. Just always not yet.
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