Sheaf Saint

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1064998103437201415?s=09 This one piece sums him up perfectly. His ego and narcissism know no bounds.

The IEA, the Adam Smith Institute, the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the Taxpayers Alliance, and Leave.EU. In fact, just about every right wing lobbying group you can think of operates from there.

Steve Baker on Twitter tonight promoting this 'outstanding' piece of work by Peter Lilley - the same Peter Lilley who was utterly destroyed on R4 this morning when he came up against someone with actual facts. https://globalbritain.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Global_Britain_Fact_not_Friction.pdf I'm sure it's just pure coincidence that this group - Global Britain - just happens to be based at Tufton Street alongside all the other fanatical brexiteer 'think tanks'. I particularly liked this bit from the last page...

Absolutely this. I was in favour of giving Hughes a chance, but my patience has worn extremely thin now. I want him out as much as the next man, but to try and replace him before we have appointed a new technical director would be incredibly stupid for all sorts of reasons. As awful as he is, I think sacking him now and relying on a caretaker until the new DOF comes in and appoints his own man would be far, far worse in the short term.

I really do wonder just how monumentally f*cking stupid you would have to be to believe that these two chancers actually give a flying f**k what's in the best interests of the working/middle classes of this country.

Oh I do love this argument: "The climate has changed in the past due to reason 'A', therefore reason 'A' must be the only cause". It's a total fallacy. Have you even looked at the graph in the wiki entry about the medieval warm period?

This is an extremely misleading claim. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140616093317.htm

They are already leading the world when it comes to investing in renewables. https://www.carbonbrief.org/china-leading-worlds-clean-energy-investment-says-report

Yes, I agree. I've just completed an environmental studies degree with the OU, so I know only too well what the global drivers of environmental destruction are, and that one country or one group can't change anything. Global problems require global solutions, and I've already seen messages of solidarity with this group from other parts of the world. What happened in London today was just the beginning. https://earth-strike.com/

F**k me. You've posted some ignorant drivel in your time, and this is right up there with the worst of it. You have absolutely no idea about my environmental 'credentials', and just because I choose not to discuss it in detail with you, apparently that gives you the moral high ground. Amazing. Just amazing.

Oh you really are special Batman. You have a singularly brilliant talent for constructing strawmen and leaps of faulty logic.

What would be the point? There's no answer I could give you that would satisfy you anyway. Lol, I was going to start my own thread about this the other day but I thought better of it because I already knew which way the discussion would go. Saintsweb not letting me down I see.

The main argument would be that Yoshida's presence in an offside position in the 6-yard box influenced the keeper's positioning and judgement, and therefore he could be deemed to be interfering with play.

Yeah because finding a bridge closed and then having to find an alternative route is just such a massive hardship, right? It's insignificant compared to the kind of disruption that we are going to see in coming years if we don't start acting now to protect the environment and move towards a more sustainable way of life. How do you know what mode of transport every one of them used to get there? Have you asked them all?

Yep, been following this on Twitter for a few weeks and I'm in full support of them. The time for being nice, polite and playing by the rules has passed now. The social contract has been broken and this can't wait any more. The Earth needs a massive paradigm shift, and attempts to get the world's attention have so far failed, so things like this have become a necessity.

New Brexit Secretary - Steve Barclay (no, me neither.) New DWP secretary - Amber Rudd. May really is having to scrape the barrel now isn't she.

https://twitter.com/james_cj_w/status/1063387190112206849

Quite. And the leavers have the gall to accuse remainers of promulgating 'project fear.' Amazing hypocrisy.

As a Defra employee, apparently I must refrain from sharing on any form of social media what I really think of him. However, as one of the architects of this entire mess, refusing to accept the job which would actually enable him to be involved in shaping the outcome really isn't a good look for him.

You're probably right, but it would very much depend on who you ask and where. In principle, I'm not against the idea. If it's going to happen anyway then I would much prefer the UK to be part of it, rather than a minor little nationalistic island on the outside that's thrown its toys out of the pram.

Yeah I guess. That way she can say she tried her best and followed what she believed to be the best ineterests... yadda yadda yadda.

Theresa May right now...

She's in total denial isn't she. Can she really not see that this deal is never, ever going to get past parliament?

What actually is the point in her having this Q&A after her speech? It's just like PMQs where no matter what question she gets asked, she still just rattles off the same pre-scripted guff that bears no resemblance to a valid answer.

Which the Tories cannot do, because they would lose the support of the DUP and therefore their majority in the commons.