Thread 28 Sunak : Lords, Ladies and Lame Ducks

[DuncinToffee]

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Did anyone hear the Minister for Nuclear and Networks (who knew that post even existed?) on the Today programme this morning talking about the decision to give more licenses for fossil fuel extraction? It was so blatantly obvious that he had crib sheet with three things on it: No reliance on hostile foreign powers, the Climate Change Committee recognises that fossil fuels will continue to play a major role, and especially "The Government is firmly committed to net zero by 2030" and he just couldn't come up with any logical reason why it wouldn't make more sense to put those resources into prioritising the development of non-fossil fuel resources.

I guess he knows it's safe to cling to the 2030 target knowing the Tories aren't going to have to come good on it.

WTF is going on here? Sunak seems to have become significantly more desperate this week jetting around the country in his jumper making anti green 'vote winning' polices on the hoof. Just get out!!!

The words that come to mind are "straws" and "clutching".

Plus, of course, the Mail and Express like anti-green policies.

Maybe Greg Hands will retweet his thread from 2022

twitter.com/GregHands/status/1489307808424239109?s=20

Plenty of myths around on energy today.

As Energy Minister, I would like to take on some of these myths.

1st of 4 - are we dependant on Vladimir Putin for gas?

Oh.

I would laugh but I'm too pissed off.

Is it too much to hope that anyone interviewing Sunak today is challenging him on those points. Or is everyone just going to go along with it and let the bullshit stand?

Around where I live 20mph is described as communism. Car culture is crap and I cannot wait to move!

I'll take Khan's lefty charges - the air in London is disgusting and needs to change.

I literally just saw a quote from a right wing Tory calling traffic calming a 'socialist project'... I mean , what??

Loving this from Russ Jackson

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1685943305639510016

Sunak's defence of pointlessly flying to Scotland seems to be that other Prime Ministers flew as well.

Now I am not sure that copying the poor behaviour of his predecessors is necessarily a good idea. Is he going to use the same defence next time he breaks the law, lies to parliament or crashes the economy. Well other Prime Ministers did it too....

Well there's sewage on the beaches so it's the natural next step.

Tons of drivers around here seem to think 20mph zones are optional. They definitely seem to believe that 20mph zones shouldn't run at certain times of the day. They are far too important to obey the law.

The one thing I am pretty sure that Sunak is achieving this week is reinforcing the anyone but Tory vote and increasing their turnout when the time comes. He may also be successfully persuading those whose views align closest with the Greens, Lib Dems or indeed Labour to vote for whoever in their constituency is most likely to beat the Tories.

Whether he is doing enough to secure more Tory voters turn out, I don't know.

The same though is true when the speed limit is 30mph. The advantage if one call it such of a 20mph speed limit is that such anti-social behaviour might still mean they drive below 30mph, rather than closer to 40.

Oh it's all positioning for the "Labour support Just Stop Oil" campaign that's coming.

Equating Corbyn with terrorists worked well for them in 2019 so they are just trying to set up the same for Starmer.

It's quite interesting to watch really. They tried the Saville smear and Starmer responded with the "Rishi supports child abuse" posters, then they tried "at least Conservatives know what a woman is" and labour said woman = adult human female, no self ID. So now they are trying this instead.

However I think the juxtaposition of the message with all the wildfires/global temperature increase might backfire on them. I hope so anyway.

,Tons of drivers around here seem to think 20mph zones are optional. They definitely seem to believe that 20mph zones shouldn't run at certain times of the day. They are far too important to obey the law.

They are optional where I live because they aren’t enforced. Councils need to enforce them or bin them imo. There’s a main street that even has speed cameras currently set at 30. No one does 20, because there’s zero penalty for going faster. At school drop off and pick up times the speed is limited to about 10mph because of all the parents in cars forming a chicane by parking where the fuck they like.

Same. They’ve just turned the main road right through our small town into a 20 zone, despite there never have been an accident on it in all the 26 years I’ve lived here. The car absolutely hates it.

What do you mean with the car hates it?

It just doesn’t want to do 20. It’s difficult to explain, both of us can manage about 23/24 but the car kind of fights back under that. It’s a hybrid and it could be something to do with the way the automatic gearbox is set. It doesn’t like 20 anyway.

I thought some 20 mph zones were to reduce emmissions rather than accidents. (Although I may have imagined that.)

It "complains" if you go out of 1st gear? I've got an automatic and it does tick over quite right when you're driving at 20mph especially if downhill gradient.

That was in reply to @DuncinToffee. But @Blossomtoes has put it well.

When I went on driver's awareness course (😬) we were definitely told 20 made a huge difference to injuries versus 30 in a rta.

Car v pedestrian I believe

Thanks for explaining, I have never experienced that, must be annoying.

June 2022.
Jeremy Hunt -

The decision to allow drilling at Dunsfold is bitterly disappointing and wrong both economically and environmentally - my letter to @michaelgove

twitter.com/jeremy_hunt/status/1534827165329633285?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg