@andyburnham You are not “giving” anyone anything because you don’t have anything. You are just going to “take” a bit less
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John Stretch
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John Stretch
@johnstretch
Retired Master Mariner & Offshore Construction Manager. Rational optimist. Former 1970s member of GreenPeace & FoE. CO2 GHG theory grossly exaggerated.
Lancashire, England Katılım Kasım 2010
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I’m giving thousands of pubs, clubs and music venues a 20% cut in business rates.
I won’t stand by while these cherished local spaces disappear, replaced by boarded-up windows and ‘For Sale’ signs.
They’re the heart of our communities and it’s time we backed them.
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@luisbaram Looks odd from his profile. Old matelots are not usually vindictive
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@JamesMelville They have boxed themselves in with NetZero. They like it because it gives them a means of control. It is also a strong indicator that non governmental organisations are pulling some strings. Tony Blair is behind all this even though he is back peddling now on NetZero
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If Andy Burnham wants to win genuine public support and strengthen the UK’s public finances - thereby creating real scope for lower taxes - he should launch a thorough, root-and-branch overhaul of wasteful government spending. A clear starting point would be to scrap net zero, which is already imposing enormous costs on taxpayers.
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@GreatLakesPeck And in the unlikely event we phase out FF nothing will happen. How do we get back to the Nirvana of 300ppm when it’s circa 600ppm at phase out?
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Sadly true: “As long as humans continue to burn fossil fuels, global temperatures will increase, droughts will worsen, and there will be bigger, more frequent wildfires and smoke events.” It will get worse until we phase out fossil fuel use.
nytimes.com/2026/07/16/wea…
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@greenheroaf It has been understood for well over a century but the authoritarian zealots only got interested after the 1945-72 coal burning cooling period ended.
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The science is clear. CO2 traps heat and warms our planet. This has been understood for decades and is exactly why we need urgent action on emissions.
William A. Masters, II@Bud_Williams81
Not true. As the scientific results in the chart below shows. CO2 absorbs infrared heat radiation cooling the earth and reducing the greenhouse Effect. The heat radiated off the ground increased with less CO2 and water vapor. More CO2 and more water vapor decreased the heat radiated by the ground. More heat rises the greenhouse effect, less heat lowers the greenhouse effect. CO2 absorbs infrared heat and cools the Rarth. Simple as that.
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@JeevunSandher Yep buses are great if you’re a builder or a plumber. Buses are great in cities and for direct inter city journeys if you can’t afford the train. Suburbs and rural are crap.
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Cheap buses are great. They make life much more affordable. And they *also* get growth rising.
It’s cheaper to commute, meaning more job opportunities for you and more workers for businesses to hire. Easier to meet mates and share ideas too.
Higher wages for you. Higher productivity for us all.
Andy Burnham@andyburnham
For too long, people have said that cheaper transport isn't an option. I don't accept that. l've done it before and now I'm doing it again: a £2 cap on bus fares for millions across the country.
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@chairmanMAO_92 @SkyNews @cathynewman Don’t you think she should have known that gas is not sold on the international market? She certainly should have done and I suspect she did but preferred to lie because not many are well informed on the subject and it sounds better from the NetZero zealots POV
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@johnstretch @SkyNews @cathynewman What do you mean never done anything really testing that risked total failure?
What kind of jobs are testing that risk total failure in your opinion?
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"We have been really clear and very pragmatic about oil and gas and the fact that it is part of our energy mix."
New Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh speaks to @CathyNewman about drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea.
trib.al/q12x9OO
📺 Sky 501
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@chairmanMAO_92 @SkyNews @cathynewman Starting a business would be one. Taking on a difficult job that would lead to being fired for poor performance would be another
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@connor_naismith But is School, University, SPAD, Civil Service, NGO etc the best source of our MPs? I think not
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Working class people getting to the best universities is good actually.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has appointed the most Oxbridge-educated Cabinet in modern times 17 of the 28 Ministers appointed were educated at either Oxford or Cambridge, according to analysis by The i Paper
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@rahmstorf Why didn’t they rise from 1945-72 when coal was the main source of energy?
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In the 35 years of my career as a climate scientist, I’ve read “climate alarm cancelled!” well over 100 times. All the while global temperatures have risen exactly as predicted since the 1980s, with all the expected effects of increasing extremes, melting ice and rising seas.
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If you’re right we’re proper xxxxxx. She’s like most of the rest of Labour and LibDem and increasingly Tory MPs. School, University, NGO, SPAD, Civil Service, MP. I.E. never done anything really testing that risked total failure. She said in the interview with @cathynewman that gas is sold on the international market. Completely wrong. All gas enters the UK grid of which a very small amount goes as gas into the EU. Gas has to be turned into Liquid form as LNG to be sold internationally. We don’t have any facility to do this and the EU has one in the way north of Norway. Both these women should have known that.
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@SkyNews @cathynewman I'd actually put money on Miatta Fahnbulleh being Labours first female prime minister. Such a smooth communicator for someone who all reports state is the smartest person in most rooms she walks into.
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@ProudSocialist @169Nomis Mao could beat that death count easily
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The US is a capitalist dictatorship whose entire economy is propped up by waging imperialist wars abroad to loot other countries’ resources. The millions of deaths caused by the US regime are covered up by a relentless propaganda campaign to blame socialism for capitalism’s ills.
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@LabourfutureUK There’s nowt more certain that this will end in tears
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A new Labour government.
A new Labour Prime Minister.
Our priorities are the priorities of the British people.
Britain can start to be hopeful again.
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@JamesMelville Most importantly they have stripped us of ambition by ridiculous over regulation.
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I love Britain. 🇬🇧
I love the history.
I love the countryside.
I love the culture.
I love the people.
I love the humour.
I even love the weather.
But what I really hate about Britain is what successive governments have done to Britain. They’ve asset stripped it and flogged off so many components to mega corporations. It is unforgivable.
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This is where broadcast sport is heading. The Rest is Football was excellent during the World Cup. Way more insightful, open, opinionated and relaxed than Match of the Day on BBC. The swearing and alcohol makes it more entertaining as well!
Netflix UK & Ireland@NetflixUK
The Rest Is Football will return to Netflix for the 2026/27 Premier League season!
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@fandom_david >8 billion can’t survive without engineers, oil and gas
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We can’t survive without bees.
We can’t survive without forests.
We can’t survive without healthy oceans.
We can’t survive without clean rivers.
We can’t survive without fertile soil.
And somehow…
we still act as if humans exist separately from nature.
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