Re: Brexit Thread 2
Posted: Thu May 30, 2019 1:29 pm
Squinty wrote:Who is his dad?
Some dead bloke that raised a complete banana split.
Squinty wrote:Who is his dad?
Moggy wrote:Squinty wrote:Who is his dad?
Some dead bloke that raised a complete banana split.
BID0 wrote:Pedz wrote:If the UK went completely green, and emitted as little emissions as possible how big of an effect would it have on a global scale? How many extra years would the tipping point be pushed back?
I know it isn't going to happen, I'm just wondering if this small country will make that much of a difference when you have places like the US, China, India and other places 100s of times the size of the UK pumping gooseberry fool into the atmosphere. I'm also not saying we as a country shouldn't bother reducing stuffs. I'm just curious, is all.
Well we are one of the worst polluters as we consume so much stuff. While countries like India and China have large populations, they don't consume on the scale we do (food and clothing being 2 of the biggest populating industries)
We are also in that situation where people in other countries say the same thing... "what's the point, what will we really be able to change". If one country makes a radical change then that should be enough for other countries to follow, and if they don't follow then we are strawberry floated anyway. At least we tried.
And if we survive this climate problem then we have do deal with the automation and AI problem hopefully those can be used to aide the climate issue.
Pedz wrote:As I said, I wasn't saying what's the point, I was merely asking how long would the UK going green push back the tipping point?
Tomous wrote:Also, is it not the case that because we effectively consume so many Chinese made goods, we (and much of the Western world) are effectively "outsourcing" our carbon footprint to places like China? It doesn't seem fair to be responsible for a lot of their production output and then turn round and blame them for their waste etc.
Mini E wrote:There’s something reassuring about a Twitter dickhead being GRcade’d.
twitter.com/independent/status/1134480402561753088
BID0 wrote:Pedz wrote:As I said, I wasn't saying what's the point, I was merely asking how long would the UK going green push back the tipping point?
Yes sorry I wasn't blaming you!! It is however almost impossible to predict how much longer we could add on the clock because...Tomous wrote:Also, is it not the case that because we effectively consume so many Chinese made goods, we (and much of the Western world) are effectively "outsourcing" our carbon footprint to places like China? It doesn't seem fair to be responsible for a lot of their production output and then turn round and blame them for their waste etc.
Of the above. And also it was brought up in recent interviews during the last extinction rebellion event when Michael Gove claimed we have never been doing better on our climate targets, that in fact the UK doesn't record our emissions properly (shipping amongst other things are not counted by our government).
But despite being a small island with a "small" population, we would certainly make a big impact even if we were to be the only country to change.
Also China and India are always (I think) unfairly labelled as the worst polluters when they are making some great strides in solar etc. Growing economies have the benefit of not having the infrastructure there so it's easier for them to slap a solar panel up on their house in the middle of nowhere and get their electric without building massive fossil fuel plants.
Moggy wrote:twitter.com/independent/status/1134480402561753088
It’s not a “furious tirade” and yes Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, but he’s completely correct in that video.
poshrule_uk wrote:Moggy wrote:twitter.com/independent/status/1134480402561753088
It’s not a “furious tirade” and yes Iraq, Iraq, Iraq, but he’s completely correct in that video.
Labour may not campaign for Remain in a second Brexit referendum, Shami Chakrabarti has said.
In comments likely to anger the party’s strongly pro-EU membership, she told the BBC’s Today programme that a fresh vote would “be a reluctant means of breaking a deadlock”.
Asked if Labour would support Remain, she said: “That would be for the party to decide in a general election.”
The shadow attorney general said the party could instead ask voters to get behind a Labour Brexit deal.
https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/la ... ccounter=2
Moggy wrote:Labour may not campaign for Remain in a second Brexit referendum, Shami Chakrabarti has said.
In comments likely to anger the party’s strongly pro-EU membership, she told the BBC’s Today programme that a fresh vote would “be a reluctant means of breaking a deadlock”.
Asked if Labour would support Remain, she said: “That would be for the party to decide in a general election.”
The shadow attorney general said the party could instead ask voters to get behind a Labour Brexit deal.
https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/la ... ccounter=2
Lex-Man wrote:Moggy wrote:Labour may not campaign for Remain in a second Brexit referendum, Shami Chakrabarti has said.
In comments likely to anger the party’s strongly pro-EU membership, she told the BBC’s Today programme that a fresh vote would “be a reluctant means of breaking a deadlock”.
Asked if Labour would support Remain, she said: “That would be for the party to decide in a general election.”
The shadow attorney general said the party could instead ask voters to get behind a Labour Brexit deal.
https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/la ... ccounter=2
I'm very happy as they're just handing voters to the Lib Dems and Greens. It'll be far better to hand power to them at the moment.
Moggy wrote:Lex-Man wrote:Moggy wrote:Labour may not campaign for Remain in a second Brexit referendum, Shami Chakrabarti has said.
In comments likely to anger the party’s strongly pro-EU membership, she told the BBC’s Today programme that a fresh vote would “be a reluctant means of breaking a deadlock”.
Asked if Labour would support Remain, she said: “That would be for the party to decide in a general election.”
The shadow attorney general said the party could instead ask voters to get behind a Labour Brexit deal.
https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/la ... ccounter=2
I'm very happy as they're just handing voters to the Lib Dems and Greens. It'll be far better to hand power to them at the moment.
Trouble is that left wing votes are too split.
Left: Labour, Lib Dem, Green, SNP, Plaid Cymru
Right: Tory, Brexit Party
It wouldn’t be so bad if the left wing parties could agree to cooperate and/or go into coalition. But the daft strawberry floats won’t.
Lex-Man wrote:Moggy wrote:Lex-Man wrote:Moggy wrote:Labour may not campaign for Remain in a second Brexit referendum, Shami Chakrabarti has said.
In comments likely to anger the party’s strongly pro-EU membership, she told the BBC’s Today programme that a fresh vote would “be a reluctant means of breaking a deadlock”.
Asked if Labour would support Remain, she said: “That would be for the party to decide in a general election.”
The shadow attorney general said the party could instead ask voters to get behind a Labour Brexit deal.
https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/la ... ccounter=2
I'm very happy as they're just handing voters to the Lib Dems and Greens. It'll be far better to hand power to them at the moment.
Trouble is that left wing votes are too split.
Left: Labour, Lib Dem, Green, SNP, Plaid Cymru
Right: Tory, Brexit Party
It wouldn’t be so bad if the left wing parties could agree to cooperate and/or go into coalition. But the daft strawberry floats won’t.
I think the smaller ones will other than Labour who are dead set on brexit.