MikeTango

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MikeTango

@MMart29191

Katılım Temmuz 2024

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MikeTango@MMart29191·6h

@fancy_disgrace @TBrit90 Greens are IslamoSocialists because the two many components of this revolting coalition are the mutually exclusive beliefs of Islam and socialism - not because the Greens are a party of socialist muslims. Socialism is awful enough - no need to look further left!

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FANCYdisgrace@fancy_disgrace·6h

@MMart29191 @TBrit90 I'm wondering what's significantly left of socialism on your spectrum and obviously it's the muslims 🤣

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Britsky@TBrit90·10h

Its really bad that Labour know they are not getting elected again for another decade and are in a just fuck it mode.

Elisa Mosini 🇪🇺🇮🇹@MosiniElisa

The UK will rejoin Erasmus Negotiations are starting for the UK’s entry into the European electricity market and participation in EU cohesion policy This is a victory for everyone who believes in cooperation and a shared future between the UK and the EU We’re not stopping here

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MikeTango@MMart29191·7h

@fancy_disgrace @TBrit90 What have the Greens (IslamoSocialist) got to do with it - there are a number of socialist parties is Britain. No, Reform nationalising water makes them ridiculous. Yes, they're scared if they act against private enterprise they'll be a Gilts Strike ending the party for them!

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FANCYdisgrace@fancy_disgrace·7h

@MMart29191 @TBrit90 They're scared to do what they want to do despite the majority and knowledge re-election is unlikely? Does Reform pledging to nationalise water (until they got scared off earlier this month) make them socialist? What are the greens they're clearly left of labour?

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MikeTango@MMart29191·7h

@fancy_disgrace @TBrit90 It is obvious this government would love to nationalise the industries mentioned (trains and steel are almost there), but lack the courage/resources to carry out a policy of end private ownership of any number of private companies.

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FANCYdisgrace@fancy_disgrace·8h

@MMart29191 @TBrit90 Cool so we have a national oil industry and state run water and energy for example? What about the trains and buses they must be government owned too, right?

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MikeTango@MMart29191·8h

@fancy_disgrace @TBrit90 Do be obtuse, of course the Labour Party is socialist

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FANCYdisgrace@fancy_disgrace·8h

@MMart29191 @TBrit90 When did the socialists get in power?

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MikeTango@MMart29191·9h

@DanielJHannan The US isn't a natural ally of Britain - for the last 80 years the interests of both countries have roughly alined and this has fooled everyone into believing it is normal. The US hasn't been taken in like the UK and can act in their own interests - Britain should do the same.

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Daniel Hannan@DanielJHannan·13h

True. It ended under US pressure. One of the great lost opportunities of history.

Empire Aesthetics@Empireaesth

The Anglo-Japanese Alliance should have never ended. Had the alliance remained, there would have been no Pacific theatre in WW2 and both empires could well have lasted into the 21st Century.

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MikeTango@MMart29191·9h

@DonnachadhMc @BenGrahamUK All/any methods used to generate electricity cause industrial pollution which need to be controlled whilst in service and cleaned up during decommissioning. A properly established strategy dealing with operating and decommissioning waste should alleviate any future problems.

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Donnachadh McCarthy@DonnachadhMc·12h

@MMart29191 @BenGrahamUK Only if you do not care about cost, toxicity & immoral impacts on future generations, dealing with poisons for ever. Or speed of deployment to counter climate destruction.

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Ben Graham@BenGrahamUK·2d

Britain imports energy while France & China power their nations with nuclear. Build 10–15 nuclear plants here and we could power 29 million British homes and export energy and finally take control of our electricity. How is this not obvious?

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MikeTango@MMart29191·14h

@BearJFK Don't get too excited, 🇫🇷's debt to GNI is significantly (more than 15%) higher than the 🇬🇧 and 🇫🇷 has some horrible structural issues (see @afneil); sadly, the grass isn't greener - all Western countries, including the 🇺🇸, are trapped in a globalist/socialist Hell!

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Bear@BearJFK·15h

The French state would appear to be more competent overall. In fact, if the French people weren’t so ludicrous when it comes to pensions and retirement, the gov could massively reduce taxes and the state finances would be far healthier.

Oliver Lewis@policy_uk

Don’t get this. French national debt is only a little higher than Britain’s. But they have A LOT more to show for it. I’m a frequent user of the TGV and French Motorways. I am wowed by them and wish Britain had infrastructure to match.

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MikeTango@MMart29191·15h

@Nuomer1 @mikegardner_wb Heseltine was certainly a minister is one of the Thatcher administration, whether he was Thacherite or not is another matter - something of a Wet according to those in the know (worse than Major)!

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Alan Denham@Nuomer1·16h

@mikegardner_wb While Heseltine was a Thatcherite minister, and the opposition was genuinely Left, that was a good guideline. That situation no longer applies. Farage comes from so far to the Right he would have been a joke under Thatcher. Now he is a real threat.

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Mike Gardner@mikegardner_wb·22h

A useful rule of thumb: if Heseltine’s against something, I’m instinctively in favour of it.

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MikeTango@MMart29191·16h

@DonnachadhMc @BenGrahamUK Oh [BTW] to end as we begun, I still think new nuclear ('big' and 'small') must be part of the equation.

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Donnachadh McCarthy@DonnachadhMc·18h

@MMart29191 @BenGrahamUK Real not magical storage already exists. Hydro Hydrogen Sodium Lithium

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MikeTango@MMart29191·16h

@DonnachadhMc @BenGrahamUK Hydrogen looks, at present, the favourite. Its a close analogue for Natural Gas and while the energy density isn't as good storage shouldn't be a problem (ready made storage in the North Sea). I like offshore wind, wave and tide (stay away from farmland) and wish you good luck.

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MikeTango@MMart29191·16h

@DonnachadhMc @BenGrahamUK Hydro can help a bit [obviously] and there is a possibility to increase capacity a little - the countryside can't be covered in Hydro generating stations. So, its Hydrogen ...

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MikeTango@MMart29191·16h

@DonnachadhMc @BenGrahamUK The battery component of the storage capacity would be exhausted in less than 10 mins. So, unless there is a massive [almost magical] improvement in technology (Super Conducting Batteries, etc) batteries aren't the answer.

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MikeTango@MMart29191·16h

@DonnachadhMc @BenGrahamUK So, 170GWh is needed to keep 🇬🇧 going without interruption to daily life. Hydro: 5.5GWh. Hydrogen: ~0GWh. Sodium-Ion: 13.5KWh. Lithium-Ion: 12.9GWh. Total "real" storage: ~19GWh (actually, better than I'd imagined). Which is great, but ...

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MikeTango@MMart29191·20h

@DonnachadhMc @BenGrahamUK Assuming all 🇬🇧 energy requirements can be supplied by electricity (longhaul air travel excepted). Can 🇬🇧 generate the 130mtoe of energy (at today's values) using only renewables and without the invention of some magical storage method, how is intermittency to be solved?

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Donnachadh McCarthy@DonnachadhMc·1d

@MMart29191 @BenGrahamUK Plenty reports show its possible. I remember nay-sayers like you dismissing solar & wind ever producing any significant power for grid & we had to build coal & gas. You were very wrong. & are wrong in saying rest of economy cannot transition. Longhaul flights are exception at mo

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MikeTango@MMart29191·22h

@JohnSCharnock @ModernNavy @NATO @DefenceHQ @jcartlidgemp The cost of operating the CASD has always fallen properly into the MoD budget. However, from 2010 there have been non-operational inclusions which were funded differently beforehand. Notwithstanding the clarification (which I accept) the defence budget is deeply misleading.

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John Charnock@JohnSCharnock·1d

@MMart29191 @ModernNavy @NATO @DefenceHQ @jcartlidgemp Historical Funding: The cost of the nuclear deterrent has consistently been included in the overall defence budget, a point clarified by the MOD in 2017 to correct assertions that it was added only post-2010.

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Modern Royal Navy@ModernNavy·1d

Using an accounting trick, in Feb 2025 the UK Government committed to increasing defence spending to 2.6% of GDP by 2027 by including the Single Intelligence Account, which pays for MI5, MI6, and GCHQ intelligence agencies @NATO @DefenceHQ @jcartlidgemp naval-technology.com/features/nato-…

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MikeTango@MMart29191·1d

@SNAFU__FUBAR @afneil 🇬🇧 does spend USD80B (2.3% of GNI) on def. and hasn't since 2010 when Osborne include Def. Intel, the Deterrent and pensions, etc., in the core def. budget when previously these items came from Central/different budgets. With pre-'10 protocols the budget is really 1.4% of GNI.

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RomeoTango@SNAFU__FUBAR·1d

@afneil The UK defence budget for 2024–25 is approximately £60.2 billion. Israel's military spending equates to roughly £36.7 billion GBP (based on ~0.79 exchange rate), UK spend £24 billion more than Isreal & get precious little value for money in return. Corruption or incompetence ?

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Andrew Neil@afneil·1d

French TV tonight - "C'est une honte nationale": dépassée par la France, suppléée par l'Allemagne, qualifiée de "jouet" par Trump... Le déclin de la marine britannique embarrasse les Anglais

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MikeTango@MMart29191·1d

@RakhamLeRouge @Arrogance_0024 SNECMA lead the design/development of the engine intakes. However, the 'ogival' delta wing was designed by BRAE team of Gray, Küchemann and Weber, etc., lead by James Hamilton. There was, I'm sure, further work was done by BAC and SUD - but, it was manly Hamilton's team.

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SPLS@RakhamLeRouge·1d

@MMart29191 @Arrogance_0024 And I forgot the jet intakes !

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Daniel Fuberski 🇵🇱🇫🇷@Arrogance_0024·2d

French engineering is unmatched.

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MikeTango@MMart29191·1d

@DonnachadhMc @BenGrahamUK You mistake me, I'm not dogmatic on this matter, I don't mind how this country produces energy providing it is cheap, clean and reliable; I'm not, however, entertained by unachievable solutions - I'm, also, unamused by answers stuffed full of avoidance, distractions and evasion.

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