I apologise for the somewhat intermittent nature of my posts. I’m in a rather remote spot at the moment
I’ll let the forum owners and my peers judge that🙂
You have objected to my strong views on the shower in power, and have every right to do so. You have tried to erroneously equate my criticism of the Government with criticism of the Country and you have yet to offer any defence to those criticisms.
If you like the Tories that’s fine. Just don’t have go at me because I can’t stand what they have done and what one fears they are about to do.
Look, tell me why IDS isn’t a windbag living in a fine house his father-in-law gave him while having unjustly denied UK pensioners in France the Winter fuel allowance? Very good comment by John Crace today, IDS is delighted by the Truss result, soon he may not be the most hated Tory leader in living memory Let’s move on to Ress-Mogg, what’s not to hate? How about Redwood, Francois, Gove, Patel………?
Look, I’m willing to meet you halfway, just explain to me what any these people have done to benefit British society and I will stop thrashing them
Im out of here, you are a malingering and malign presence and there to stir up . You are arguing for the sake of it and have no good propositions to put forward
Enough!!! How are expats moving to France allowed a UK winter allowance benefit? It’s been a madness from the start. You move countries to a warmer climate why?
Well, if that is your answer, it does not fix the current problems regarding energy and cost of living in the short term nor a solution for the long term. You are talking semantics
The use and creation of energy has not crept up upon UK. Decisions have been taken to remove abilities to create (coal fired etc) , not invest in alternate methods. Instead import energy from overseas which is not good.
Onshore Wind energy has been shown time and time again to be the cheapest and quickest to install but is obviously subject to weather without a significant storage.
I would have ramped up dramatically on shore wind for short term and transitioned to offshore wind plus nuclear as soon as possible (5-10 years)
candjq it’s not a warmer climate. Sicily is warmer and so is most of Italy but they don’t have sparsely populated islands in the Indian Ocean for IDS to use to fake the figures so as to deprive the biggest diaspora in Europe of UK pensioners of what basically was a pension increase. It was sleazy.
I am sorry if you leave because you seem to be someone who will question things and say they are wrong. I quite agree about the political threads there’s too many of them. But I only took exception when a well-known poster (not John) insisted on bullying his way onto a thread on a completely different topic with unwanted political comment that contributed nothing to that particilar thread and wouldn’t desist even when politely asked by the person who’d started the thread and was looking for relevant answers.
So we need a few more like you but on a purely political thread like this one it’s best to ignore it if you don’t want to participate. Also in most social groups both on- and offline most people take time to work out who"s who and how the group works before challenging
It was done to pensioners in France because as the biggest diaspora they were the biggest target to hit to avoid the cost of what was basically a pension uprating. Even Greece did not have fake figures invented about their climate? I dom’t know this btw, just guessing
I would also restore the fixed term parliament act and set at 5 years. These 2 measures would bring significantly more stability to UK politics and would be representative of the way people voted with all votes counting the same.
but Karen, politics touches almost every part of our everyday lives no matter where you live and burying your head in the sand doesn’t resolve matters.
How or where else can people vent their spleen when the only thing they did have - a vote - has now been denied them both in France, where they live, and in the UK if they have been absent for more than 15 years…
Let’s move on to Ress-Mogg, what’s not to hate? How about Redwood, Francois, Gove, Patel………?
