Dickie Fletcher SDP

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Bollington Town Cllr. Views are my own & may not reflect the collective view of Bollington Town Council.

[Dickie Fletcher SDP @SDPDickie]

Capital moves around the world in seconds. Labour in hours & days.

But culture moves in centuries. It is the bedrock of our communities and its cohesion is vital to the social contract.

[William Clouston SDP @WilliamClouston]

A remarkable example of the persistence of culture across centuries:

(From the Rousay section of The Statistical Account of Orkney, 1795-1798 by Sir John Sinclair)

[Dickie Fletcher SDP @SDPDickie]

@ToffeeLuke1878 @PSDuffy @AaronHo89273537 @RichardEllicott @owenjonesjourno No, the question was what the weather would be in the UK in 10 years. Who knows.

The story from the climate sensationalists used to be that it would be cooler, due to artic melt pushing the gulf stream south.

It is just the journalistic grift that keeps on giving.

[Dickie Fletcher SDP @SDPDickie]

@ToffeeLuke1878 @PSDuffy @AaronHo89273537 @RichardEllicott @owenjonesjourno You do know that historical data only gives you questions not answers, right?

The scientific method is then a (negative) test of those questions.

Eg. You cannot say it it is true that all swans are white. But it is true that all swans are not white, if there is a black swan.

[Dickie Fletcher SDP @SDPDickie]

@ToffeeLuke1878 @PSDuffy @AaronHo89273537 @RichardEllicott @owenjonesjourno Just to be clear, Owen is saying the weather in 10 years time will be "genuinely terrifying".

You are welcome to extrapolate the climate data if you like. But you have no control (another Earth), & are not even confident of the variables or of their relative influence.

[Dickie Fletcher SDP @SDPDickie]

@ToffeeLuke1878 @PSDuffy @AaronHo89273537 @RichardEllicott @owenjonesjourno No, Owen is. That's the point. Sheesh.

[Dickie Fletcher SDP @SDPDickie]

@AaronBastani Utter midwittery.

[Dickie Fletcher SDP @SDPDickie]

@lembitopik No one who works there has any understanding of the Popperian scientifc method, so it won't happen.

[Dickie Fletcher SDP @SDPDickie]

@ToffeeLuke1878 @PSDuffy @AaronHo89273537 @RichardEllicott @owenjonesjourno I'm baffled by how few people understand the Popperian scientific method. But here we are.

If you feel confident about predicting the extremity (or otherwise) of the weather in the UK in 10 years time, as Owen does, then I suggest you go to the bookies.

[Dickie Fletcher SDP @SDPDickie]

@harman_geoff @owenjonesjourno The trend is your friend, till it bends, at the end.

[Dickie Fletcher SDP @SDPDickie]

@NoLimitGains To fight for the great country it could be again.

[Ben Sixsmith @BDSixsmith]

We're doomed.

[Carl 📷 @carl_thompson70]

The North of England has the best town halls in the country.
Todmorden's is my favourite. It straddles the historic border between Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Many a fellow in the building's ballroom wooed a girl in Yorkshire and waltzed her back into more genteel Lancashire. 🌹

[Isca Augusta @cmonmun]

Ok, so my wife and I scrimped and saved to move to a house double the price of our existing one so our kids could attend an excellent state school. The school is why prices are so high - it’s selection by wealth. It also feeds in to a top 10 sixth form college.

We bought our kids “privilege” within the state system. Much wider occurrence than kids attending private school

What’s your plan there? Ban moving house? Send the best teachers away? Stop educated parents helping their kids? Ban tutors? Prevent parents engaging with their kids education?

Of course the answer is none of these, because it’s not an easy political point to throw to your base.

[createstreets @createstreets]

Make Public Transport Beautiful Again

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

We were right all along…😁

[Damian Pudner @DamianPudner]

The pie is too small because Britain has forgotten how to grow!

More: https://t.co/Ej8rQJODZt

Full conversation: https://t.co/HmdQnylNxv

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Electricity is only 20% of global energy demand. The rest is primary for travel or heating / cooling, etc.

We aren’t anywhere close to an “energy transition.”

The full data tell a very different story.

[Dickie Fletcher SDP @SDPDickie]

@PSDuffy @owenjonesjourno Read his post.

[ArtOtter @LordOtter]

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[Lisa Mckenzie @redrumlisa]

No there has never been a scandal as bad as the grooming gangs and the reluctance for people to admit it exists. We still have politicians who refuse to acknowledge that grooming gangs happened at all as an organised and structural practice

[Alastair Wright @Pott_Shrigley_]

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