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Cllr Paul Thorogood
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Green Party councillor representing Braintree Eastern division at Essex County Council since 2021 and the Kelvedon and Feering ward at Braintree District Council since 2019
The headline says Tesla sales are down and your figures prove EV sales are up. Both can be true but I agree the Times article suggests EV sales are down overall when it’s only Tesla that is suffering and 25% growth isn’t sluggish
November 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
And yet key Brexit protagonist Nigel Farage and his party ride highest in the polls untouched by the damage he’s caused as he persuades voters (with the help of the Daily Mail et al) to look the other way and blame immigration for the nation’s woes
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 AM
YES!
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Mork: “Whenever we have a nuclear accident on Ork we just use Nukeaway.” Mindy: “We don’t have that here on earth.” Mork: “How do get rid of tell-tale nuclear waste? C’mon, Min...the next thing you'll tell me is they'll put it in cans, right ha ha ha." m.youtube.com/watch?v=yfBW...
Mork from Ork on Nuclear Waste
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November 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
It’s always about the money
November 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
He’s not wearing a suit
November 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Essex is a seriously water-stressed area … only three-fifths of the drinking water consumed here comes from the county itself. The rest has to be imported from elsewhere
November 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Hundreds? It’s thousands. Braintree District Council has allocated the 5,000 houses Kings Dene new town at Kelvedon to its draft Local Plan. Crown Estates is going to submit plans for 835 homes at Feering next month and 400 already have permission at Kelvedon - despite cancellation of A12 upgrade
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Both modern landfills and modern waste-to-energy (WTE) incinerators have become far cleaner than they were in the 1990s but they each have different environmental strengths and weaknesses. The “better” option depends on what impacts you care about (climate, pollution, land use, resource recovery).
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Landfills produce leachate, but modern liners and treatment systems can manage this effectively.
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Reposted by Cllr Paul Thorogood
I live in a previously rock solid Labour ward that went to the Greens for the first time ever in a by-election earlier this year. The London local elections are in May. Do they think about the effect all this will have on what's left of their strongholds?
November 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Imagine being wealthy enough to end world hunger but playing space rockets instead
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Instead of capturing CO2 from the atmosphere, we need to stop putting it there in the first place.
November 11, 2025 at 10:13 PM
+2C is dead. We’re really looking at keeping it to below +3C now
November 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
James O'Brien frequently uses and the quote: “When the facts change, sir, I change my mind. What do you do?” A manifesto should be a commitment but not legally binding. When the situation changes, a change of tack is needed
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I hear people in the UK moan that the world’s population is too high. It’s not the population that’s too high, it’s the people living unsustainably that’s too high as your graph shows
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM