Clarkey

right! thats the last profile picture edit.
In heaven, everything is fine.

[Clarkey @CodgerClarkey]

@jordanbpeterson I believe at this point, changing climate has happened many times before Homo Erectus stood tall. It will continue to do so until the sun expands and boils this planet to dust. humanity may even get wiped in the next ice age. King Canute sat on that wet throne to prove a point.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

Everybody knows the deserts are expanding.

Everybody knows that climate change threatens our food supplies.

LIES. LIES. LIES. LIES. LIES. LIES.

The planet is greener, by an area 3x that of the Amazon. The Sahara is shrinking fast. Crops are thriving like never before.

Enough Net Zero posturing. Enough demoralizing the young.

To hell with the false prophets of environmental doom.

https://t.co/bafnpMhWyT

[Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sargon_of_Akkad]

The problem with the British right is that nobody is able to create a big tent which can encompass those who wish to push hard on certain issues alongside the wimpy types who can't help but be obsequious to the liberal opinion.

It should have been Nigel Farage, but he didn't have the stomach to follow in the footsteps of Trump and repudiate the media and rely upon the online cohort to project his message. He also wasn't brave enough to stake out a popular but controversial position and judo-flip the media into spreading this message for him.

Purging his right has just created more problems, in fact, worse problems than having the hardliners inside the tent. This is the lesson that Keir Starmer also learned the hard way: you might not like your radicals but they are a non-trivial percentage of your coalition, so you must tolerate them.

Starmer didn't, and they went to the Greens. Farage didn't, and they became Restore.

Labour are rebuilding their tent as Burnham is morally more aligned with his radicals than not. Farage doesn't seem to be able to extend this kind of sympathy to his flank, so it seems he will be unable to make any progress on this issue.

The Reform goose is cooked if their star player is the reason that they can't advance any further. No good moves left for them to make.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

It’s just so incompetent I don’t know where to start!

Hundreds of grid meters, including 416 at offshore wind connections, are sending data the wrong way round? …. potentially costing consumers up to £100m a year.

And the owners aren’t being forced to fix them! Because a ‘backward’ running meter is a regulation problem not a repair job huh??

I have nothing 🤡

[A View From Yorkshire @models_by_Russ]

Dear HM Government, (UK)

Firstly, congratulations. You’ve managed to discover a brand-new definition of transparency.

Apparently, the people who write the laws can have their criminal records kept secret from the very people expected to obey those laws. That’s an impressive piece of political gymnastics.

The rest of us apply for jobs, volunteer roles, taxi licences, security passes, and all manner of positions where background checks are considered perfectly reasonable. Yet when it comes to those entrusted with running the country… suddenly privacy becomes the highest constitutional principle.

Forgive us if we’re a little confused.

If a criminal record is irrelevant to holding public office, then explain why. If it is relevant, then surely voters deserve to know before they hand over power at the ballot box.

Democracy relies on informed consent. It’s difficult to make an informed choice if important information about elected representatives is deliberately withheld.

This isn’t about conducting witch hunts or judging people for minor mistakes made decades ago. It’s about accountability. Those who expect the public’s trust should be prepared to earn it through openness, not secrecy.
Unlike the government’s pursuit of Veterans 🤔

So, a simple question:

Why should MPs and ministers be held to a lower standard of transparency than many ordinary citizens applying for everyday jobs?

After all, “nothing to hide” seems to apply enthusiastically to taxpayers, but rather less enthusiastically to taxpayers’ employees.

Is transparency now something that’s only expected of the governed, while the governors are exempt?
Abit like the COVID vaccine 🤔 there is a pattern,

Perhaps we’ve misunderstood how equality works. We foolishly assumed the same standards applied to everyone. It would appear they do… right up until someone becomes an MP.

The British public doesn’t expect perfection.

We do, however, expect honesty, accountability, and the same standards from those who make our laws as they expect from those who obey them.

Yours, slightly bewildered,

A Taxpayer 🇬🇧

[steve @bagshaw2112]

Sorry for the bad language , but this did make me smile 😃😃😃

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

South Africa is the only country that built nuclear weapons and then deliberately destroyed them before a new demographic majority took power.

By 1989, they had 6 assembled warheads and a working intermediate range missile that also launched satellites, all developed alone under total embargo.

>1990: de Klerk ordered the arsenal dismantled
>1991: every gram of enriched uranium was melted down
1994: the missile program was cancelled

It was all finished before the ANC inherited the state.

France and the UK will sooner or later have to face similar difficult decisions.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1958 the Chinese state worked out that sparrows were eating the grain, and organised six hundred million people to kill every one of them.

It did not take bullets. Villages, schools and factory units turned out with pots, pans, drums and gongs and made continuous noise so that no bird could land anywhere. Nests were pulled down, eggs smashed, chicks killed. The sparrows flew until their hearts gave out and dropped into the streets, where children collected them and the totals were reported upward as achievements. The toll ran into the hundreds of millions.

The arithmetic was sound as far as it went. A sparrow eats grain. Fewer sparrows, more grain, more people fed. Nobody in the room was wrong about what the bird took.

They were wrong about what it did.

Sparrows eat insects, in enormous quantity, and most of all in the breeding season when the chicks need protein. Take them out of a farmed landscape and the locusts and grain borers they had been holding down are handed the whole country. Which is what happened. Crop losses to insects rose sharply, and by 1960 the ornithologist Tso-hsin Cheng had made the case well enough that Mao ordered sparrows struck from the list and replaced with bed bugs.

Far too late, and never the whole cause. The famine of 1959 to 1961 was principally a policy famine, driven by collectivisation, grain requisition and the diversion of farm labour to backyard steel furnaces, and the dead are counted in tens of millions.

But the sparrow campaign is the purest thing in the episode, because it is the reasoning stripped to bone. A committee looked at a living system, isolated the one animal it could measure as a cost, and calculated the gain from removing it without ever asking what that animal was holding up.

Now look at what is being proposed for grassland.

The ruminant is measured the same way, on one ledger line, the methane it emits and the land it stands on. What is left off the ledger is everything it does. The grazing that keeps grassland grassland instead of scrub. The dung that feeds the beetles that feed the birds. The hoof that breaks the surface so seed can take. The mouth that removes the standing dead matter which otherwise cures into wildfire fuel. The manure that returns phosphorus and nitrogen to the soil so nobody has to mine it and ship it in.

Grasslands and grazing animals co-evolved over tens of millions of years. Remove the animal and you do not get the same field minus some methane. You get a different system, and it will not be the one on the spreadsheet.

The men who ordered the sparrows killed were not stupid, and they were not cruel. They had a number, and the number was correct, and they were praised for acting on it decisively. It took two years for the second half of the equation to arrive, and by then nobody could put the birds back.

We are eighteen months into the herd reduction schemes.

The grass has not sent its invoice yet.

[Clarkey @CodgerClarkey]

@europemaxxed Bourne got his german girlfriend killed conveniently forgetting about his gal back home. what a shagger!!!

[Clarkey @CodgerClarkey]

@robertwlk “I wiggle when I piddle, ’Cos my middle is a riddle” . . . poetry ❤️

[Robert Wilkinson @robertwlk]

I was at a football match last night. After the 90 minutes were up they played
"Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" & "Reasons To Be Cheerful" over the tannoy, even before the ref had blown his whistle.

Turns out it was Ian Dury time added on at the end.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Communism will work this time ✌️

[Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @stuey_beef]

The absurdity is breathtaking.

Foreign motorists can fail a UK driving test and still legally keep driving on their overseas licence during the 12-month grace period, while the DVLA admits it does not even keep a register of how many are doing this.

So the public gets lectures about “road safety”, but the system cannot even tell us how many untested drivers are out there.

That is not a policy. That is negligence.

[Clarkey @CodgerClarkey]

@AndyatAuto @afneil what ever you say bud. Enjoy that hour before you have to rely on gas, again

[Clarkey @CodgerClarkey]

@elonmusk Meritocracy? who would have thought it, in this day and age

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

There is a hint of delicious irony to all this.

China currently manufactures 80% of the world’s solar panels, 75–80% of all batteries, 60–65% of wind turbine parts and 55% of global crude steel.

This staggering modern-day success story represents the largest, quietest transfer of industrial might and power in human history.

China's manufacturing grunt is more than the next 15 countries combined—larger than the US, EU and Japan together. To power this industrial onslaught, China commissions around six state-of-the-art coal plants a month (50–80 GW a year).

It operates over 1,200 coal plants totaling 1,271 GW—more than half the world’s total capacity. Its coal mining fleet is four times larger than second-place India.

As a result, China’s share of global manufacturing grew from 6% to 30% since 2000. Meanwhile, America’s plunged like a lead balloon from 25% to around 12%, and Europe’s collapsed from 25% to around 14%.

How? China uses abundant, reliable coal power, refuses to bind itself to net-zero, and has leadership that treats factories and steel mills as critical assets—unlike the West.

In geopolitical terms, this should be a lightning rod across the decaying West. But the job on the West is just about done, and the Western green transition is now almost entirely dependent on hardware manufactured by China.

This rise to dizzy heights was only made possible by using the same demonised dense fossil fuel energy that has already sent the Western world spiralling into a brackish, foul-tasting, latter-day mediaeval backwater.

It should be the biggest, loudest, and most outrageous news story in the Western world—but it hardly rates a mention.

[Clarkey @CodgerClarkey]

@ThaiBill2 sounds like a tip saw being fiddle bowed!

[Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton]

This has to be stopped.

[Lucy Graham @montrosegraham]

@BackBrexitBen A CCP forward operating base in Bangladeshi Tower Hamlets.

Nothing to see here.

[Lee Nallalingham @LNallalingham]

🚨 HMRC has failed its audit for the 24th year in a row.

That’s according to the National Audit Office’s latest report into the department’s finances.

Auditors were unable to give HMRC a clean audit because they found material levels of fraud and error in benefit expenditure.

Yes, you read that correctly.

The department responsible for collecting our taxes has failed its audit for 24 consecutive years because of fraud and error.

Meanwhile, this Labour Government has already increased taxes by £70 billion.

And Prime Minister Andy Burnham is reportedly considering another £38 billion of tax rises.

How about before taking another penny from taxpayers…

…HMRC stops the fraud and error and manages to pass an audit for the first time in 24 years?