Britain MUST be radical in its electoral reform.
• A NZ style (part proportional) electoral system
• Compulsory voting
• Citizens Assemblies
• Local Mayors with real financial powers
• An appointed upper house of real credibility and quality
Our model of representative democracy is BROKEN - just letting 16 year olds join the mess will not fix it.
@FarmerG59620191@lammie_j@EssexPR Whataboutery isn't a helpful argument when everybody feels the impacts of climate change. What happened to pioneering new technologies? If we invest in R&D and new technologies it has positive economic and environmental impacts in the long term. Short-termism is what got us here.
@kingofcollusion@lammie_j@EssexPR Wind isn't a reliable or economic technology
Nuclear is
Plenty of FFS in the meantime and the notion that the UK makes any meaningful contribution to global warming is fanciful as China India etc build literally hundreds of coal powered generation plants
Self harm = net zero
UK natural gas prices are back at 2018 levels.
But your fuel bill is almost twice as much as 2018.
This is a scam of the highest order and totally unacceptable.
WE ARE BEING RIPPED OFF.
@FarmerG59620191@lammie_j@EssexPR So you might not support wind power which is fine and understandable but you can't surely argue that continuing to burn a known GHG of finite resource is a good idea and that we shouldn't be investing in renewable technologies. The closure of British industry has no relevance.
@kingofcollusion@lammie_j@EssexPR Wind is not a future technology- it was left behind a couple of centuries ago- wind costs around 3x gas to generate power.
It's ludicrous and is costing jobs such as Port Talbot and Scunthorpe- many millions of jobs in wealth creating heavy industry are rapidly disappearing
@FarmerG59620191@lammie_j@EssexPR Of all the taxes you could disagree with I just don't understand why investing in future technologies is the one that gets you wound up.
@kingofcollusion@lammie_j@EssexPR Carbon tax on gas generation then green levy for power generation to subsidise uneconomic and unreliable wind along with the billions to rebuild a grid to back up this useless unreliable generating capacity
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will announce tomorrow that he's dropping Labour's £28bn green investment pledge
He will put the blame on economic uncertainty caused by the Tories
[@guardian]