Environment, biodiversity, paddling, climbing and SuDS. Kayaking Sussex to Scotland by sea for RNLI https://t.co/yIDFq1FOHM Husband to the author of Starling.
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57% of the British public want one here too, so why do we still not have one? electoral-reform.org.uk/british-publ...
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1) Add up costs to install & run a net-zero energy system
2) Pretend fossil-fuelled alternatives wld be free
3) Do say "eco zealots are bankrupting us"
4) Don't say "free cars if we scrap net-zero" cos it sounds ridiculous
5) That's it!
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The White House is not happy. A week on from the decapitation of Venezuela’s leadership and Trump seems to think that the oil majors would be tripping over themselves to drain the country of its oil. He has this odd 1950’s view of
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- part of Trump's 'Make America Healthy Again" farce
- eg prioritizes beef tallow as cooking oil
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Young people want bold action on the climate, housing and inequality and see that the Green Party has the answers.
The future is Green. Be part of it: join.greenparty.org.uk 💚
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• Executed a child
• Demolished 23 homes
• Destroyed 72 commercial facilities
• Shut down 3 civil society institutions
• Approved 19 new settlements
(Source: Palestinian Center for Human Rights)
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![[Scene is KEIR STARMER as FATHER CHRISTMAS in his factory, with RACHEL REEVES as an awkward-looking Head Elf]
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FATHER KEIR:
Well, well, well!
[Elf Reeves is holding an enormous sack of letters]
2
FATHER KEIR:
Look at all these letters of membership cancellation!
ELF REEVES:
More than ever this year
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[Father Keir reads one out:]
“Dear Father Keir
I am writing to cancel my Labour Party membership…”
Awww how sweet
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“I have truly believed for 40 years, but now I’ve had enough.”
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“Please please please this year can you deliver some policies that aren’t craven right wing bullshit?”
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FATHER KEIR:
Well, I think we know what to give this good boy don’t we?
Elf Mahmood!
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[Show SHABANA MAHMOOD as an elf poking her head round a doorway to afactory full of busy elves, above the door is a wooden sign reading CRAVEN RIGHTWING BULLSHIT FACTORY]
ELF MAHMOOD:
What.
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FATHER KEIR:
Do we have any performatively cruel immigration stuff left?
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ELF MAHMOOD:
We've got ‘stealing their belongings and a 20-year wait for settled status’…?
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FATHER KEIR:
In the sack, please!
[Elves Mahmood and Reeves push the big sack into the sleigh as father Keir climbs in the driver’s seat]
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And off we goooo!
[He wooshes off into the snowy polar night]
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[Cut to a person’s LIVING ROOM - a man and a woman are looking in their stockings - the man looks disappointed]
WOMAN:
Is it not what you wanted
MAN:
Not really, no
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- It is latest move in relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by fossil fuel industry
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4GW of offshore wind projects are in the making in the coming few years.
1GW in a year.
Denmark plans to be a net exporter of green energy in the form of electricity, hydrogen and electro fuels in 2030
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Explore more fun facts here: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/facts/red-kangaroo
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