Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

And about time too.

Hes a liar and even the Tories on the back benchers are wiseing up to him. Surely a PM cant be that incompetent that he doesnt realise he introduced the 60% of regulation costs.

Hays,

If security is base on Cameroon understanding we haven't a chance.

He is getting ready for take off in time for the next election.

nuclear energy!

No Tories talking about opening coal mines.

are world coal prices now higher in real terms than they were say 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago?

yes, there are also different qualities of coal, chinese coal being almost exclusively (i think) with a high sulphur content and therefore "bad news" notwithstanding that modern technology can now strip that out before emission - but it's an expensive process and the chinese couldn't give a toss anyway

personally, i'm all for nuclear power

I notice on question time last night majority in audience were in favour of re-nationalisation of energy market.

Goldfinger

That's because it was broadcast in Liverpool , why wasn't Derick Hatton on the panel, lol

Chris Hutchin's dared to mention immigraytion , one on the panel want off about how it had helped the wealth of this country.

Can't stand that Caroline Flint

immigration has indeed been of HUGE benefit to this country ..... it's the effects of the open door policy that have been the disaster

So the answer is no

Alders, yep certainly could have been the reason. Not sure what to make of Hitchins comes out with some good stuff then goes and spoils it all with some barmy right wing clap trap.

The con on the panel last night that blonde lass was terrible. Worse than Flint I reckon.

Prog after was better this week. Jonhson is getting better and better and Mick Portilio is a favourite politician of mine, reckon hed be a great PM.

Like Andrew Neils dog when its on.

Right off for a pint or two up to the Con club.

See ya all laters.

michael portillo is a very under-rated chap, but unfortunately he is not photogenic etc which unfortunately is effectively a prerequisite nowadays

I'd vote for Johnson and the dog.

Think Johnson a shrewd and thoughtful.

Good to see Portilo squirm over Cameroon.

Portilo has skeletons, he didn't bail out of a guaranteed seat for nowt.

Tory Blairite Straw stepping down http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-24673662

Back when he was Energy Secretary, the Labour leader gave the LSE Ralph Miliband lecture. On November 19th 2009, he explicitly confirmed that his policies would see energy bills rise:

“It needs a willingness to take the argument to people about the tough choices involved in tackling climate change. This is the starting point: a willingness to engage with people on, for example, the fact that to deal with the problem of climate change, energy bills are likely to rise.”

That same month Miliband told parliament:

“We need to be candid about the issue because it is a very big challenge. The pressures on energy prices will be upwards in the coming decade’”

Most damning of all, in January 2010:

“Yes, there are upward pressures on energy bills, and that makes life difficult for people, including those in fuel poverty, but it is right that we go down the low-carbon energy route.”

In his own words, Miliband confirms his policies would cause energy price rises.

Nuclear power vs wind farms: the infographic the Government doesn't want you to see


By Will Heaven Politics Last updated: October 25th, 2013


http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/willheaven/100243023/nuclear-power-vs-wind-farms-the-infographic-the-government-doesnt-want-you-to-see/





Hat-tip to our Energy Correspondent Emily Gosden for this Department of Energy & Climate Change infographic. It was deleted from Gov.uk this week "because of sensitivities", according to a DECC press officer. "Hmmm," says Emily. Quite.

It turns out that the Renewable Energy Association called it "unhelpful" in a press release, pleading that "as Ed Davey stressed… it is not an either/or choice".

What's going on at DECC? I'd hate to start a conspiracy, but did the infographic come from the Tory Energy Minister Michael Fallon's people? Was it squashed by the Lib Dem Energy Secretary, Ed Davey?

Here (via @owenboswarva) is how the Government's official Hinkley Point C news story looked on Wednesday:






Move along people, nothing to see here.

What about the cost of de conmissoning and nuclear waste , and we only need just one mistake and the whole of the UK could end up a nuclear waste land