Must watch explanation on clean energy by @g__j on #BBCQT - also watch Tim Stanley squirm repeatedly when Jackson gives answers
Greg Jackson, "We've crossed the rubicon.. Clean energy is now cheaper than fossil fuels"
"Power from wind and solar is cheaper than power from fossil fuels"
"Consumers don't see the benefits because our markets are run in the old traditional way"
"We need market reform so when we build wind farms, people get cheaper energy"
"It doesn't help that we are paying wind farms to turn off when it's windy, instead of giving people cheap power at those times"
"59% of all of the renewable energy has been built in China"
Fiona Bruce, "They're also building huge coal plants"
Greg Jackson, "The majority will never be used, they'll be mothballed"
"Why are they building green energy? It's not because they're nice people. Now they recognise clean energy is cheaper, and energy is the engine of growth for their industry, they're investing in it"
"Six or seven years ago if you went to Chinese cities people wore face mask because of air pollution.. That's gone"
Tim Stanley, "If you have a period where the wind dies and the sun doesn't shine, what happens, you have to rely on back up.. Rely on gas.. Import the power from overseas"
Greg Jackson, "Allow me to help you with this answer.. As somebody who buys more power than anybody in the UK.. I can give you an authoritative answer on what to do"
"An electric car holds enough power in its battery for a typical house in the best part of the week"
"As more and more electric cars hit our roads, we have distributed storage of electricity, days on end, without wind"
"It's not the whole solution but it's a big part of it.. And it helps us reduce our reliance on things like those fossil fuel backups"
"It's always windy somewhere, it's always sunny somewhere.. As we connect our country to others.. When they're windy we get their power, when we're windy we sell ours to them"
"By the way, we are one of the windiest places in the world.. This is a huge export opportunity for the UK"
Alan Bates is considering Privately Prosecuting the Bosses of the Post Office for Corporate Manslaughter.
RT If you support him, it is the only way there will be justice.
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If UK news shows are going to give Boris Johnson a platform to spout his absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) Iβll happily come back every week to correct it
We cannot allow those once in power to rewrite history.
If you agree RT this FACT CHECK
Jenrick provides no explanation as to how he would deal with the consequences of leaving the ECHR. It underpins our current relationship with the EU. Without it we will be unable to share data essential to commerce and security and ourTCA would collapse. The Good Friday agreement requires Northern Ireland to be adherent to the ECHR and we have agreed it should. Not to discuss how he intends to get round this makes his pitch valueless.
If like me you disagree with everything Tory leadership contender Robert Jenrick stands for & believe we should stay in the ECHR RT this widelyπ
I now want to look in more detail at Jenrick's nasty propaganda video.
It starts with a few examples of cases to make people angry. But those examples are in fact irrelevant to the case he is trying to make.
Jenrick has been an Immigration minister. He must know that the main problem with illegal or irregular migration is that when a person comes here and claims asylum, they may get it as a bona fide refugee in which case they can stay. That has nothing to do with the ECHR. It is a consequence of our domestic law and the Refugee Convention. He makes no suggestion we should leave it.
For those whose application is refused the main problem is that it is very difficult to return them to their countries of origin which will often not co-operate particularly if documents have been destroyed.
So leaving the ECHR will have minimal impact on the problem he claims to be addressing.