Alison Spackman

Entrepreneur, wine, golf, walking challenge

[Catherine McBride OBE @CeeMacBee]

A large part of 2022 trade deficit was imported gas from Norway and LNG from the US, Qatar etc.
Using or exporting UK gas would lower our trade deficit but we are over taxing UK based O&G companies.
So imports are not always about affluence - sometimes just bad policy decisions.

[DonKeiller @KeillerDon]

Wind “power”.
Doesn’t work in calm or windy conditions.
What an expensive joke.

[Professor Karol Sikora @ProfKarolSikora]

The term 'birthing person' should not be used in NHS literature.

The word they are looking for is mother.

More medical professionals should be standing up to this lunacy, even if it results in some unpleasant insults.

Again - the word is mother.

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

How convenient to focus on Boris and mismanagement of pandemic rather than the appalling mathematical modellers with their mad predictions that led us into lockdown. The criminally bad conduct of the SAGE committee.
The authoritarian manipulations of the Nudge unit to scare the public.
The panicky abandonment of the sane pandemic plan.
The laughable graphs of Whitty and Vallance exaggerating hospital Covid pressure.
The shameless selling of vaccines to the whole population.
The failure of any of the above to apologise for crashing the economy, closing schools, wrecking mental health, huge excess deaths, vast NHS waiting lists.
We’re waiting, Lady Hallett.
#CovidInquiryUK

[David 🇬🇧🇮🇱 @CarbonCriminal]

If nuclear energy were discovered today, it would be celebrated as planet-saving technology to be invested in and propagated at warp speed. An intelligent global energy policy with nuclear power as a foundation would provide abundance to all humanity with minimal impact on the environment.

Even if you believe the silly theory of human induced climate catastrophe, there is no path to a decarbonised economy without nuclear power, and the hardest opponents of the technology know it.

But the opposition to nuclear is precisely because it provides energy abundance, and that won’t do.

Eat bugs and ride bicycles.

[Plymouth Boat Trips @PlymBoatTrips]

We’re celebrating 🎉
Thanks to all of you, Plymouth Boat Trips has won Tripadvisor’s #TravelersChoice award! 🏆

We can’t express how thankful we are to everyone who has joined us over the last year—it wouldn’t be possible without you 💖
#loveplymboattrips #visitplymouth 🛥️ 🌊

[Metropolitan Police @metpoliceuk]

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[Alan @A1an_M]

I've got an engineering degree. It was quite a long time ago and I've not done any hands-on engineering for a while but it's a way of thinking which never leaves you.

The thing about engineering systems and processes is that:
1. There are usually only a few correct solutions and many many wrong ones.
2. Wrong solutions are very obvious with unpleasant, embarrassing or dangerous real-world consequences.
3. There's no room for ideology or emotion. The solution either works or it doesn't. Even if your ideology says X should work, if it doesn't work, you have to throw away your ideology.

If we look around the world we can see lots of examples of situations where engineering principles have clearly been ignored in favour of some political dogma or some emotion-led reaction.

Electric vehicles are a good example. They were rolled out too quickly in response to political dogma and the hysteria over the need to "save the planet", with no thought about the availability of suitable electricity supply, recycling of spent batteries, the impact of much heavier cars on our roads and car parks, and as we've seen recently, the fire risks of car parks full of vehicles with large lithium batteries on board.

Immigration policy and its impact on public services and housing demand is another example - political dogma - and emotion about the limitless number of people around the world in poorer circumstances than us - prevents us from addressing or even talking about the practical implications of large scale immigration on levels of demand for housing, hospitals and schools.

And COVID. Don't even get me started about masks and lockdowns and vaccines. All driven by hysteria and political dogma.

We are surrounded by the consequences of 3 or 4 decades of stupidity from politicians and big institutions. They make decisions with far-reaching consequences, often in relation to science and technology issues, driven by dogma or media hysteria rather than any sound logic, reason or even common sense. The decision-makers are often people with degrees in politics or economics, or diplomas in journalism. People with no grounding in technology, or engineering, or science, or common sense. In a world which is now dominated by science and technology.

Something needs to change, really.

A few more engineers and scientists with decision-making power in government would probably help. Kicking out career politicians with no real-life experience would probably help too.

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Let’s #SaveWomensSports RT if you’d just like to see our young girls get their fair opportunities in sport

[Around Wellington @AroundWelly]

The latest event for @wellingtonlhsoc featured the return of the fascinating midsummer stroll with museum curator Colin Spackman.
Full report via this link: https://t.co/M4drhklZmo

[Samantha Orluta @SamanthaOrluta]

These displays are lovely to see around the town. Well done @PWPBID and to the Hoe Neighbourhood Forum gardening group

[Allison Pearson @AllisonPearson]

The UK pays £40 billion a year to Norway for gas.
Norway is drilling like mad in its part of the North Sea and has bountiful energy.
Because of net zero zealots, our North Sea drilling is waning.
So we give 40 billion quid to another country!
#notzero

[James Esses @JamesEsses]

🧵Thread - Iain Anderson’s Car Crash Interview:

In a rare interview, the Chair of Stonewall spoke with Beth Rigby from Sky News. Anderson squirmed, dodged, stumbled and mumbled through the entire thing.

Here are the most telling parts of the interview:
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[Robin Monotti @robinmonotti]

“The most intense climate lie”: Last week it was all over the news: Temperatures in southern Europe skyrocketing to 48°C! But none of it was true!
“What we experienced over the past days was most intense climate lie since temperature recording began,” reported Germany’s Achtung Reichelt here on the implications of the ESA’s sloppy, manipulative press release and the media firestorm that ensued: “The problem with that report is that none of it is true.”
In Sicily the temperature reached only 32°C over the weekend – a far cry from 48°C, which illustrates the great difference between ground surface temperature and readings taken 2 meters above the ground.

Land surface temperature is how hot the ‘surface’ of Earth feels to the touch. Air temperature, given in our daily weather forecasts, is a measure of how hot the air is above the ground.”

The ESA did not bother to mention how the surface temperature is much hotter than the 2 meter air temperature."
https://t.co/TvrpOz6cyp

[AHDB @TheAHDB]

"Eating less meat 'like taking 8m cars off road'".

AHDB is disappointed to see this headline and a study from @UniofOxford @oxfutureoffood @Pete_Scarbs conveying simplistic conclusions to a very complex topic. Here's everything that's wrong with it 👇🧵

[OutKick @Outkick]

Biological males competing against women is 10x as bad as the East German women Olympic doping scandals

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

But it really should have never happened. Yet again women’s sport was disposable !

[Sophie Corcoran @sophielouisecc]

seven Labour MPs, including two Shadow Cabinet members, registered expenses-paid trips to Glastonbury – to the tune of £13,500.

Unbelievable - how can they sit there and pretend to be the party of the people?

Whilst people battle the col they're living it up at glasto

[DonKeiller @KeillerDon]

So let’s get this right. We make it as difficult as possible to drill for our own gas, to help “save the planet”, yet think is a good idea to import gas from over 5000 miles away.
Genius.
#CostofNetZero #ClimateScam #WEFPuppets