Category Archives: climate change

Farmer protests and the dangers of conservatism

Posted on March 3, 2024 by daryan12

Recently there’s been a number of farmers protests ongoing in France, and other parts of Europe, that I think warrant’s commenting on. Notably because the brexiters are sticking their noses in…oh the irony! In fact Fishy Ri$hi showed up to … Continue reading →

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The closure of Port Talbot is due to brexit, not net zero

Posted on January 22, 2024 by daryan12

Tata, the owners of the steel works at Port Talbot in Wales, recently announced they were shutting down this historic plant, with the immediate loss of 3000 jobs. This will be devastating to the local community, as this is the … Continue reading →

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The corrupt hypocrisy of the Tory cult

Posted on December 11, 2023 by daryan12

So it seems the biggest losers from the Tories latest immigration policy will be British citizens. Terrified by the jump in net migration numbers (even thought its entirely consistent with the post brexit reality), the Tories have raised the threshold … Continue reading →

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News Roundup

Posted on October 25, 2023 by daryan12

Been ill the last few days (possibly covid, who knows!). So I thought I might do a quick update. Tory cult prepares to go into hibernation The message we’ve been getting from the Tory client media is that we can’t … Continue reading →

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Fixing the pension time bomb

Posted on September 30, 2023 by daryan12

It was always the Tory plan to run the country into the ground, then blame labour for the mess. However, I think its suddenly dawning on them that they may have laid it on a bit thick (maybe they should … Continue reading →

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Debunking right wing myths: Ultra Low Emission Zones

Posted on July 21, 2023 by daryan12

The political right is out of ideas and even the ideas they do still support (such as neo-liberal capitalism, i.e. the rich get richer while everyone else gets poorer), aren’t exactly very crowd friendly. So, while they have every intention … Continue reading →

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Nuclear hatchet job

Posted on May 24, 2023 by daryan12

A issue with working in the energy field is we get approached by people, who know nothing about the topic, trying to propose (on the basis of 5 minutes of google research) some cheap, easy solution that solves everything once … Continue reading →

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Holiday Catchup – the calm before the storm

Posted on August 30, 2022 by daryan12

I’ve been on my holidays back in Ireland. It was nice to get away from the mad house that was the UK for a wee while. A lot seems to have happened since then. Zombie government and the looming winter … Continue reading →

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Debunking some Moggy myths

Posted on July 16, 2022 by daryan12

The Tories have a new strategy – blame absolutely everything on someone else. How can anything be their fault? I mean its not like they’ve been in government for 12 years! Basically, their mantra now is the same as the … Continue reading →

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Here we go again…..

Posted on April 15, 2022 by daryan12

So the Tories have suddenly realised (after 14 years in office) that the UK doesn’t have an energy policy. And that this might be something of a bad thing. So, over a few lines of coke, Boris and co have … Continue reading →

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