@DaveAnd07074001 @renewablesmiffy Well said Dave… Chris won’t see this because he’s blocked me.
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Rob
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@RobPalmski
“we’re living in a den of thieves, and it’s contagious”.
เข้าร่วม Aralık 2022
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@renewablesmiffy @RobPalmski It's empirically observed to be not a threat. Drop the condescension and look at actual data.
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The single most significant threat to global farming today is climate change, because it acts as a threat multiplier that worsens nearly every other risk agriculture faces.
- Temperature shifts
- Erratic rainfall
-extreme weather
- water scarcity
ClarksonsFarm@ClarksonsFarm1
Your daily reminder.
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Looks what’s happening in the UK electricity grid right now?
Great to see renewables doing so much and an ever decreasing reliance on FF’s.
As a bonus, it’s also very cheap, look at the price!
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@AgnstModFball @jack_jsteele Yea, my worry too. Under Glasner he has really pushed on… used to just be defensively excellent, but now going forwards he offers so much. A proper, high quality LWB.
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@MardukBabylon7 @BenGrahamUK … then they bemoan wealth inequality whilst inflating assets (benefitting the rich) and good and services (impacting the poor). By the very system they are advocating for. Then to solve it, just blame the rich. Insanity (or ignorance).
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@RobPalmski @BenGrahamUK We have had rampant inflation since then from food to assets, but they just say it’s “supply side”
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Something has gone fundamentally wrong with the UK’s economic model.
The government is extracting record levels from working people, yet even that isn’t enough to cover the scale of welfare spending.
£333 billion going out.
£331 billion coming in from income tax.
That gap tells a bigger story, the burden on workers keeps rising, while the number of dependants on the system continues to grow.
At some point, that equation will stop working.
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@MardukBabylon7 @BenGrahamUK “Sustained Economic Growth”… what’s that!?
Since COVID…
Broad money (M4) up 25–30%
Real GDP up 2–3% (per capita 0%)
And the MMT nuts want MORE money printing…
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@RobPalmski @BenGrahamUK If Greens get in that process will be a lot faster as they have been captured by MMT nutters
I agree though that will happen eventually unless we get a sustained period of high economic growth
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@MardukBabylon7 @BenGrahamUK Yea. My point is that I don’t think it’ll be slow creep inflation… I think the refinancing will end with a currency collapse as we can’t pay our debt interest.
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@MardukBabylon7 @BenGrahamUK I worry about the debt refinancing from the low rates of the 2010s…
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@BenGrahamUK It can keep going for a while yet they will just print money and we get slow creep inflation
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@puff449935 @Undoomed I’ve worked in agriculture across N America, the UK and East Africa - the same soil sample results generally - high pH, low microbial activity. Worth a read up on MMT It’s a description of how money flows in an economy which controls its own currency.
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@RobPalmski @Undoomed I could be convinced on soil health, in the short term especially. What's the evidence? Also not super well read in economics, what is MMT?
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@puff449935 @Undoomed Fair response - I suggested that soil health is more significant than climate variability and it’s an easier to win, one of mitigation. My second tweet was that government has proven it’s not productive, so MMT isn’t realistic policy: Broad money (M4) up 25–30%
Real GDP up 2–3%
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@RobPalmski @Undoomed Fair enough, it was hard to gather the full context just from the four tweets. What were the points you were making? I could definitely be wrong
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If you were to meet @WilliamClouston you would want him and his @sdphq party in Westminster and in council seats throughout the land. You would want to see him on national TV and hear his plan on turning Britain around. You would soon conclude he’s the change Britain needs.
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@puff449935 @Undoomed Literally didn’t say either of those things. This is exactly the problem. Read the words, not your twisted interpretation of the words.
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@RobPalmski @Undoomed If we're trying to say climate change or net zero is a scam, or that inflation wasn't primarily driven by COVID 2021-2024 then you're just wrong
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@ClarksonsFarm1 Why is it whenever you offer an alternative view, they block. it’s becoming a running theme. How about we focus on uncontested soil health mitigations instead of controversial “climate change”, then farming wins. Rather than wasting effort arguing.
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@renewablesmiffy I didn’t say that. I refute your claim it’s “the most significant threat”. Seasonal change and rainfall variability are of course issues, but not the most significant. Why don’t you read what I’m saying instead of just attacking for your own ideological reasons.
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@RobPalmski You deny climate change affects on farming and tell me to “focus”
Bless
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@renewablesmiffy I don’t see any evidence of it so far. I’ve worked in agriculture the UK, North America and East Africa. The consistent threat is soil health… if we agreed on these mitigations, instead of debating polarising climate stuff, we might get somewhere. Focus.
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Yes, let’s all vote for a party that have never been in charge of the countries finances and seem to think they have an unlimited budget…
Common theme with Green voters, they all want everything handed to them on a plate.
BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS
The Green Party is the only major Party in England actually offering anything. All the other parties just say 'There's no money'. Don't vote for that shit.
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@Marduk_Jupiter @malcolm_reavell He hasn’t got a proposition - the constraints of reality bite. Broad money (M4) up 25–30%
Real GDP up only 2–3% (per capita ~0%) since COVID. His answer… MORE money.
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@malcolm_reavell @RobPalmski How do you propose the government does that?
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Irrelevant. Private pensions aren’t needed when you have a currency issuing govt that can afford to pay a state pension at a living wage. Govt’s job is to ensure the economy can provide the stuff that pension can purchase. Investment in environment etc is irrelevant altogether.
Katie Lam@Katie_Lam_MP
When you set aside money for retirement, you might expect that it will be invested in a way that will generate the most money for you. But thanks to environmental and diversity rules, you could end up with nearly £200,000 less by the time that you retire. It’s totally absurd.
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