You are European not French.It was another lie pal, 20k this year already, 28k all last year according to the BeeB
I will tell that to border control in France as they stamp my passport with a date.
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You are European not French.It was another lie pal, 20k this year already, 28k all last year according to the BeeB
I will tell that to border control in France as they stamp my passport with a date.
It turns out that the average Chinese person emits about half what we do in the uk, and chinas per capita emission hasn’t substantially changed since 2013.
Exactly. The greatest "smoke and mirrors" show of the late 20th / early 21st century.Western countries have off-shored their CO2 emissions to China.
Your point about offshoring is correct, but Chinas CO2 emissions on a per capita basis are not high - ours are higher and Chinas are not actually rising, so I guess they are doing a reasonable job on that rather narrow basis. God knows how though, as they are still opening coal fired power stations like they are going out of fashion (ironic).China is the manufacturing factory of the world for the world - of course its CO2 emissions are high. Western countries have off-shored their CO2 emissions to China. Attempting to paint China as such a culprit to justify apathy elsewhere is first order mendacity.
Seriously? You think Brexit was created by one journalist?Propagated anti EU sentiment in his mendacious journalism.
Campaigned for Brexit after deciding it was in his interests.
Stood back then ensured May failed.
Presented himself as the saviour of Brexit.
'Enabled' an incomplete Brexit.
Ousted when his mendacious self-serving autocratic nature became unpalatable to even his own supporters.
To all who supported and empowered Johnson through the above - what is your judgement actually worth?
Nope. He was only one part. The red top tabloids were as much a part of 'straightness of bananas' etc, etc as him. And I said 'propagated' not 'created'. It's creation was already seeded in the Tory party.Seriously? You think Brexit was created by one journalist?
Stood back from challenging her from the leadership. Then agitated against her with the ERG.That May collapsed because Boris "stood back?"
His very clear attitude that the rules applied to everyone else but him implies otherwise. Ditto trying to change the rules to protect his chum Patterson.Boris' fault is that he isn't an autocrat. Never was. His weakness, both as London Mayor and as PM is that he has let others get on with it.
His carefully crafted persona has been key to his success. Tiring or otherwise, it is his and was cultivated by him - from HIGNFY appearances to zip-wire frolics.This cult of the personality is very tiring.
50 years of apathy then pronounce the project as a failure.Government is about voters, politicians and civil servants. The failure of EU membership is firmly in the hands of voters, civil servants and politicians over five decades. We could have been a leader in Europe. We could have forced through EU reform, and we could have challenged the German & French domination of the EU agenda and bureaucracy.
A poll shown to Cameron showed the majority of Britons wanted Britain to lead in Europe. That intention was over-ruled by the 2016 referendum result, but at no point during the campaigning was the positive prospect of Britain being so pivotal in shaping the EU ever raised. Only how bad the EU was to/for us. Disingenuous to say voters, civil servants and politicians weren't interested in leading from the front when they were never confronted with the possibility. 50 years of apathy could have been reversed - or was it too late to counter the laziness with the maturing seeds within the Tory party close to blooming? Fertilised with Farage's manure.We didn't: because that's not what voters, civil servants and politicians were interested in. To this day our outlook is Anglo-Saxon, transatlantic and global - we care nothing about Hungary, Greece and Poland.
Really? Think you'll find quite a few on this forum revere him for delivering Brexit. Not only here either.It's fundamentally nothing to do with a witty blonde journalist.
"Wanting" isn't acting. Make a list in your head of all the people you know who were active in influencing policy in Brussels, who were part of pressure groups to influence EU policy, who developed opportunities across the EU and who emigrated, of their own volition, to work (not retire) in other EU states. (Not just France and Germany).A poll shown to Cameron showed the majority of Britons wanted Britain to lead in Europe. That intention was over-ruled by the 2016 referendum result, but at no point during the campaigning was the positive prospect of Britain being so pivotal in shaping the EU ever raised.
So, if "we" wanted Britain to lead in Europe, why didn't "we" lead in the previous 43 years?A poll shown to Cameron showed the majority of Britons wanted Britain to lead in Europe. That intention was over-ruled by the 2016 referendum result, but at no point during the campaigning was the positive prospect of Britain being so pivotal in shaping the EU ever raised.
So it's true. MEPs were just riding the gravy train, doing nothing for the country they were supposed to be representing. At least the British ones were leaders in that sense."Wanting" isn't acting. Make a list in your head of all the people you know who were active in influencing policy in Brussels, who were part of pressure groups to influence EU policy, who developed opportunities across the EU and who emigrated, of their own volition, to work (not retire) in other EU states. (Not just France and Germany).
Count the number of people you know who have actually worked in other languages.
To help you can include me on all counts. But then your list won't be long.
There's no sense in saying "I wanted to be a judge but I didn't have the Latin for judging." We failed to influence the evolution of the EEC for five decades, and left it to the Germans, assisted by the French. We didn't force our way into being leaders of the gang because we're simply not interested.
A failure of political representation.So, if "we" wanted Britain to lead in Europe, why didn't "we" lead in the previous 43 years?
As I have said previously, Cameron chose to campaign on 'fear and the economy' as he believed those issues had won him the GE and Scottish independence referendum. A woeful judgement call. Thereafter, the campaign won round the undecided to deliver the result.If the majority of Britons wanted Britain to lead in Europe, why didn't the majority of Britons vote to "Remain?" All the major party leaders, including St Jeremy of Corbyn, a lifelong Brussels enthusiast, told their voters that Europe was the future.
As I have said previously, Cameron chose to campaign on 'fear and the economy' as he believed those issues had won him the GE and Scottish independence referendum. A woeful judgement call. And a woeful campaign.If you want an example of how Britain showed that it did NOT want to shape or lead a united Federal Europe, consider the title of the campaign: "Remain." A passive, ineffective, uninspiring label, that says nothing about leading this Federal United States of Europe, brought together through a common language, culture, tax structure, supported by a federal police & militia.
The same could be said of a referendum.... But it's done now. Can't we move on? We were told it would settle the matter 'once and for all'. Or are the 'material facts' now different to then - justifying a second referendum? Thought not. Let's just move on then.For a demonstration of poll rigging by Cameron, watch this:
As I said, ""Wanting" isn't acting. Make a list in your head of all the people you know who were active in influencing policy in Brussels, who were part of pressure groups to influence EU policy, who developed opportunities across the EU and who emigrated, of their own volition, to work (not retire) in other EU states. (Not just France and Germany)."So it's true. MEPs were just riding the gravy train, doing nothing for the country they were supposed to be representing. At least the British ones were leaders in that sense.
I don't care.As I said, ""Wanting" isn't acting. Make a list in your head of all the people you know who were active in influencing policy in Brussels, who were part of pressure groups to influence EU policy, who developed opportunities across the EU and who emigrated, of their own volition, to work (not retire) in other EU states. (Not just France and Germany)."
You will struggle to list colleagues who were running backwards and forwards to Brussels, who were lobbying other EU nations and who were putting significant amounts of times into influencing European legislation.
And you'll struggle to list people who have moved off to Hungary, Poland, Greece and Portugal to develop their own pan-European careers.
MEP's? Make a list of all the things you know that your MEP achieved.
In 2014, 46 million people had a vote in the UK European Parliament elections.
30 million chose not to vote at all,
Just 16 million voted.
And which party garnered the most votes and seats? UKIP.
Now, explain how the majority of Britons wanted the UK to lead the EU in 2014, when most didn't turn out to vote, and those that did, preferred UKIP ?
Pardon? Surely shome mishteak?Why is it that remainers just want to get on with it and leavers are stuck there?
Europeans are preoccupied with what's going across Europe. The Germans have kicked out Merkel's party, pulling in Socialists, Liberals and Greens who are all over the place as to how to fix the Russian energy disruption. Macron has lost control of his legislature, with Eurosceptic parties outflanking him on both sides, Draghi's thrown in the towel and Italy has to work out how to reformulate "populism" and anti-immigration politicise by September, especially if Germany can't continue to finance Italy's never ending debt dependency. And Hungary's put the kibosh on any aspiration to approve the OECD's global Corporation tax agreement, kicking yet another European project down the road again.Pardon? Surely shome mishteak?
Isn't it the arch-remainers such as Adonis, Grieve, Hesseltine, et. al. who continually claim that "Brexit isn't working" and that everything that goes wrong - from a stubbed toe to the current drought - is because we left the EU?
My experience is that the vast majority of the population simply want to make the best fist of what we have, but that the very vocal extremists amongst the remainers, together with their partisan friends in the media, will take every opportunity to sow doubt and dissent.
All the energy companies treat the price cap as a target not a cap. It’s ridiculous that no matter how cheaply we can produce gas for our own domestic market the global price is the deciding factor.While in no way ignoring the catastrophic effect on everyone that energy price rises are having, I continue to be baffled over the "solution" that the Leader of the Opposition is proposing and that so many seem to think is a great idea.
The fundamental issue is that global demand is outstripping global supply, thus driving up prices. How will a UK domestic price cap improve that global imbalance and thus reduce global prices? Surely the only way that prices will reduce is if demand drops to meet the available supply, supply increases to match the current level of demand, or a bit of both?
I continue to be baffled over the "solution" that the Leader of the Opposition is proposing and that so many seem to think is a great idea.
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