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There has been such a turnover in his staff, he's sacked or fallen out with so many, that I'm not sure there are many who really believe in him anymore. Perhaps they're simply not motivated nor have a proper battle plan - that or they are just trying to avoid saying anything which will land them in jail later.

That's the thing though. No matter how many times something is explained to you, and no matter how clearly you still don't get it. Or more precisely don't want to get it because then you'd have to change your view.

You don't seem to understand contract law. You can't unilaterally cancel a contract. In any event they are permits issued by the UK Government to foreign owned boats. The mega trawlers are licensed by the UK government, in part because they'd rather regulate 20 mega boats with a lot to lose than 5,000 12m boats with an incentive to cheat. Ditto you don't seem to understand fisheries. Yes fish move. Maybe they spawn in Dutch waters, have nursery grounds in France, and the adults feed at different times of the year in the waters of three other countries. Unless you manage them as a single population with internationally agreed quotas then one nation can wipe out the entire stock. Simply waving the Union Jack over your patch of water isnt going to stop the fish disappearing unless all countries have a common interest in preserving the stock and managing it it for the long term.

Haha. There speaks a man who has neither read the letter nor understood it. The letter calls on both parties to reach a deal but fires a shot across EU leaders bows to not compromise the integrity of the single market by letting Britain gain an unfair advantage through lower standards and state aid or using NI as a trojan horse for grey exports - exactly what Johnson is trying to achieve. Its a call to remain strong not a call to cave. "We call on the leaders of both sides to stay committed to the Withdrawal Agreement and the Political Declaration, be pragmatic and explore all possible options to reach a solution which ensures smooth trade conditions, while maintaining the conditions for fair competition between the Union and its British partner. This necessary agreement should not call into question what is at the heart of our European commitment and of our activities throughout the Union's territory: the solidarity of the 27 and the regular functioning of the single market.

Nope. You still havent realised two basic facts about fishing. 1. Although the EU set national quotas the nation states decide who gets what share of those quotas. And the UK allowed most of ours to be sold by British boats and bought up by EU ones. That isn't going to change after we leave the CFP - the owners have a UK permit to catch those fish and will sue if anyone tries to take that away without full compensation 2. Most fish are highly mobile. They spawn in one location, juvenile fish mature in another location and mature fish move at different times of the year to feed. Britain will still need a shared stock management plan with other European countries, including national quotes, if stocks aren't to be wiped out.

All of the above, plus she is just an MP nobody had heard of, not the primary adviser to the Prime Minister.

Lol. You don't know then

Wind farms are not usually licensed for anywhere which is ecologically sensitive. There is some disturbance but quite quickly the area recovers to better than before. Parts of the North Sea are 'threshed' by fishing boats (steel bar dragged across the bottom ) up to seven times a year. It destroys everything. Consequently a lot of the seabed is pretty featureless mud, sand or gravel with low biodiversity, which is why artificial reefs are sometimes created using concrete blocks or sunken ships. So physically putting concrete bases for turbines on the seabed can be beneficial to marine life. Weed, seagrass, barnacles and clams all need something to cling to. If you have the weed and seagrass you have the habitat juvenile fish need to shelter in. But the biggest benefit is the fishing exclusion zone it creates - essentially a marine protected area. Two of the most pristine, biodiverse marine areas in the UK are off the west coast of Scotland where the MoD have had an underwater weapons testing area since WW2 where all fishing is excluded. Similarly around the oil rigs in the North Sea, many of which have been there since the 1970s. https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-north-sea-oil-wanes-removing-abandoned-rigs-stirs-controversy

We are talking about offshore. Offshore is where the most constant wind is, there is no or minimal impact on visual amenity and overall its good for the marine environment as well as it stops trawlers destroying the seabed where the turbines are located.

Probably not. I still see a big role for hydrogen, People says its too expensive or too polluting to make because it needs so much electricity - but that assumes you're using fossil fuels from a grid power station. The price of the fuel cells is falling all the time Creating hydrogen by splitting water is very simple, low tech and can be done anywhere. There is one company trialling small scale plants located directly at petrol stations. All you need is a 10m turbine, a water supply and a hydrogen storage tank. The beauty of it is that you are turning an inconstant variable electricity source into a go anywhere quantified transport fuel. The same can be done using photovoltaics - obviously not so much in the UK - but in sunny countries its absolutely viable. So Saudi Arabia could become the Saudi Arabia of hydrogen as opposed to the Saudi Arabia of oil. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50212037

If you plan properly it isn’t an issue. Through a combination of having turbine sites in a wide range of locations, energy exchange cables with France , dynamic demand (eg appliances that only run at low demand times), standby reserve power stations powered by fossil fuels and a means to use excess electricity to create hydrogen you can have an uber stable and clean electricity supply. When you properly cost nuclear it is even more hideously expensive than people realise and we shouldn’t be doing it imo

So was May. Whatever happened to her? Ditched by the excitable schoolboys who constitute most of the Parliamentary Conservative party. They might no control who is the next leader but they sure control when its time for one to go. Boris bounce? probably not. He's either going to cave on some redlines - which will get the bangers on his back or put up with hostile press over the thousands of lorries parked in Kent and business screaming about additional costs and running out of stock. He will be given time though, time enough to be in office to carry the can.

‘Course he doesn’t dear. Why should a Conservative Party PM give shiny shite if the same members of the party who voted him in just a year ago now think he is a liability. Thus why you and the other two fanboys are like a turkey shoot. Incapable of objective discussion

Imagine being 70 points behind Dominic Raab and 80 behind Luz Truss! That’s got to sting 🤣

Again, wrong. Some people want to know the facts and then come to a view. Some people, of which you are a prime example, are tribal. Regardless of what their tribe does they will simply seek out and interpret information in such a way that confirms what they already believe. It's called confirmation bias and avoids cognitive dissonance.

The point is that you see things in text which aren't there. You can believe whatever you want, no matter how improbable - just stop trying to bolster those beliefs by misrepresenting what has been written.

Seriously. wtf is wrong with you that you can no longer read and understand clear and simple English? Patel's allies accused the Foreign office officials of making stuff up BEFORE it became clear that had actually been instructed by Cummings to do exactly what had been claimed. Neither Badger or anybody else has agreed it was foreign office civil servants leaking. Could have been anybody. Most likely other ministers or advisers who think she is an incompetent liability.

Too slow as always Wes. I'd already spotted my typo and corrected it by the time you maneuvered off the day chair. Read again, It was an option paper drawn up to discuss, erm, options. Not government policy and therefore there wont be any official statements. The story is that ministers are even considering dumping people on Ascension island. That of course sailed over your head.

You would have thought so Badger, you would have thought so 😄

Ha classic Wes. Didn't understand the article he posted and gets wrong end of the stick. What the story was actually about was lack of co-ordination and direction at the heart of Government. The Number 10 policy group -ie Cumming's little coterie commissioned an options paper for dealing with asylum seekers without telling the Home Secretary Patel. Cummings had specifically asked them to investigate the possibility of using British Overseas Territories and ferries to 'store' people offshore like Australia does. When this was leaked Patel went off on one blaming Civil servants for making it up, when in fact it was her own esteemed close and loving colleague Dom. An slight variant story has it that Dom did it deliberately to undermine Patel. Either way its funny-tragic as hell and demonstrates what a dysfunctional shower this is. .

The penalty for breaking the law and the penalty for bringing your employer into disrepute by gross misconduct are two separate things.

Be respectful. Wes doesn't like gay propaganda.

The let that Kenyan Obama do it! 🤣

He's too young. Would have to be his dad Donald. Would also mean the staff don't have to remember a new name.