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Dan Shearer

@LabourShearer

Working professional with a passion for AI, politics & clean energy. Views my own. Author at The Party Line: https://t.co/H3toskVGJl

UK Katılım Kasım 2019
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Dan Shearer
Dan Shearer@LabourShearer·
Important thread. Stacking more wind power onto the grid will, paradoxically, make energy bills more expensive, not less. This is why we need more Nuclear power to get bills down.
Tom Calver@TomHCalver

At Wednesday lunchtime, wind turbines were spinning 24GW of energy, with another 10GW from solar. 11 weeks earlier, on a still January morning, wind and solar combined generated just 2GW. Prices jumped to £477/MWh. This is the problem with the grid Britain is building. 1/5

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Merton Labour
Merton Labour@MertonLabour·
Who would you rather ran your Council? Merton Labour: Low council tax, low debt, and free Pop-up Tips OR Lib Dem Kingston: Higher council tax (+£450 more than Merton!), higher debt, and less of what you want On Thursday 7th May the choice is yours 🗳
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John Lee Pettimore
John Lee Pettimore@JohnLeePettim13·
Hydrogen is the stupidest, most ridiculous, and most impossible energy alternative. It takes 5 to 10 times more energy than it returns. This has been known since 2004, yet hydrogen refuses to die. It is far from renewable because it contains no energy at all—energy must be forced into it like a battery—and you lose even more when converting it back to electricity. It has the worst energy return of any alternative: far more energy goes in than you ever get back. Consider the process: you first split hydrogen from natural gas or use far more energy to electrolyze it from water, then compress or liquefy it, build extremely expensive and short-lived steel containers and pipelines (since hydrogen embrittles them), and finally deliver it to virtually non-existent hydrogen vehicles. Fuel cell technology remains far from commercial. It is also highly explosive. Hydrogen requires 12 times less energy to ignite than gasoline vapor, so the smallest spark or heat source can turn it into a bomb.
Wisdom@Wisdom_HQ

hydrogen Powered Car, 1,500 km range with a 5-second refill… sounds illegal.

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Dan Shearer@LabourShearer·
And it's why the Green's anti-nuclear stance is tantamount to being in favour of coal plants.
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Dan Shearer@LabourShearer·
We don't have the natural geography needed for large scale hydroelectric capacity. Traditional nuclear will take 20-30 years to come online. This is why the future is SMRs.
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Dan Shearer@LabourShearer·
The UK shut down coal plants down faster than anyone and failed to replace it with an alternative. If we are serious about energy independence or an industrial base we need one of the following: 1. Nuclear 2. More coal plants 3. Hydroelectric Capacity
Lance Lachlan ✌🏻@lancelachlan

Britain’s electricity is expensive because our power prices are still tied to gas. Gas share of electricity: UK: ~35–40% Germany: ~12–15% Spain: ~15–20% France: ~6–7% When gas prices spike, UK electricity prices spike too. Countries with more nuclear and renewables aren’t exposed the same way. We built a system where the most expensive fuel sets the price.

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Civic Future
Civic Future@civic_future·
Britain isn’t working. We’re trying to fix it. We need more high-calibre MPs, advisers, civil servants, commentators, or something else entirely. Could you be one of them? 🚨 Applications for the Civic Future Talent Programmes close this Sunday at 22:00 🚨 Apply at the link below.
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Simon French
Simon French@Frencheconomics·
Reform UK had to dramatically revisit their 2024 manifesto - which would have undoubtedly triggered an acute Sterling and Gilt crisis. The 2024 manifesto offered up by the Green Party would, with little doubt, receive an even worse market reaction - with a severe negative impact on the cost of living. Any sustained polling around this level by the Greens will make a manifesto revisit inevitable.
George Eaton@georgeeaton

Green surge was inevitable now the “wasted vote” argument no longer holds. Labour will need to offer positive reasons to think again rather than simply saying Greens couldn’t win an election.

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Dan Shearer@LabourShearer·
Of course young people are more likely to want insitutitions to burn. Our institutions are rotting, and it is the young who will renew them. I wrote about this in my substack in September. danshearer.substack.com/p/why-are-brit…
Luke Tryl@LukeTryl

Todays YouGov poll further evidence the traditional party system is in freefall. But it what’s happening goes deeper than just electoral competition. What we are seeing is a broader rejection of the institutional status quo and broken social contract. That’s why I think this chart is one of the most important in explaining the current landscape. 40% now think it would be better to let our political and social institutions burn a rising to almost half or those under 40. For many the party system is just one institution that has failed to deliver, to derig the system, or just make people’s lives easier and reward people doing the right thing. Challenge for the traditional mainstream is to show it can deliver and make people’s lives better else, polls like today become the new normal and demand for wider institutional upheaval will grow.

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Dan Shearer@LabourShearer·
The Greens winning in Gorton and Denton is a loss for progressives. It opens the door to a more sectarian, radical form of politics which will divide communities. Reform will now be going into the next election warning of a Green-Labour coalition (like the Tories did with the snap in 2015). This all plays into the hands of Reform.
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Labour North West
Labour North West@LabourNorthWest·
The Labour movement is here in full force. We’ve spoken to over 10,000 voters. It’s clear it’s a two horse race between Labour and Reform. Zack Polanski has been overheard saying they don’t think they can win here.
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The Labour Party
The Labour Party@UKLabour·
Only Labour's Angeliki Stogia can beat Reform in Gorton and Denton.
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Politics UK
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK·
🚨 NEW: The Police Federation has criticised Zack Polanski for celebrating the acquittal of Palestine Action protestors who fractured a police officer's spine with a sledgehammer "Your comments risk sending a message that injury to police officers is acceptable consequence"
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Dan Shearer@LabourShearer·
My past year on Civic Future's PLP has been transformative. An exceptional programme: intellectually rigorous, morally serious, and unusually honest about what governing actually demands. Programmes like this matter if we want more capable people to enter politics and public leadership.
Civic Future@civic_future

Today we launch the Civic Future talent programmes to find exceptional people who can break Britain out of stagnation. Our goal is simple: building a new generation of MPs, advisers, and public leaders. Apply below.👇

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Election Maps UK
Election Maps UK@ElectionMapsUK·
Best Prime Minister Polling: Starmer Vs Farage: 🌹 Starmer: 36% (+1) ➡️ Farage: 29% (+1) Starmer Vs Badenoch: 🌹Starmer: 28% (-2) 🌳 Badenoch: 28% (+8) Farage Vs Badenoch: 🌳 Badenoch: 31% (+10) ➡️ Farage: 21% (-2) Via @YouGov, 6-7 Jan. Changes w/ 3-4 Aug.
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