I agree.

I'm sure we all know that probably half of the Conservative government is actually occupied by undercover Liberals.  That would also explain why they have been so completely inept in running the country.

They will all probably do the same as the forthcoming Labour government approaches.

Quote from: Diasi on Today at 07:48:51 AMYes, your bank & all the other agencies will pretty much ensure you can't do without the internet even if you wanted to.

Quote from: Diasi on Today at 07:48:51 AMYes, your bank & all the other agencies will pretty much ensure you can't do without the internet even if you wanted to.

Yes, of course.  Most organisations prefer to deal with customers' needs online.
It certainly beats using Royal Snail.

Anti-Brexit Tory MP Dan Poulter Defects to Left-Wing Labour Party

An anti-Brexit Tory MP and former health minister in the globalist David Cameron government has announced he will be defecting to the left-wing Labour Party, accusing the neo-liberal Conservatives of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of becoming a "nationalist party of the right" and of abandoning the socialised healthcare system as a top priority.

Dr Dan Poulter, who has represented Central Suffolk and North Ipswich in the House of Commons since 2010 while still serving as a part-time mental health doctor for the National Health Service (NHS), said that the Conservative Party no longer aligned with his values.

"It feels to me that the Tory party has gone from being a pragmatic, centrist, centre-right party which focused on and understood the importance of public service and the state to deliver certain things... and had a compassionate outlook on key issues. It has gone from that and feels like it has become a nationalist party of the right, much more of what we see in Europe," Poulter told the left-wing Observer.

The anti-Brexit former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Health under ex-PM David Cameron said that the party has moved away from the direction of Cameron, despite the former PM now serving as Sunak's foreign secretary.

"The Conservative party's values have changed over the past eight years," he said. "The values of the Conservative party under David Cameron were different values and the priorities were very different. David Cameron undoubtedly had a very strong commitment to the NHS.

"Since he ceased to be prime minister eight years ago, the health service has ceased to be an area of priority for the Conservative party, and that is now showing in the strain on the frontline and the deterioration of care for patients."

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/04/27/anti-brexit-tory-mp-dan-poulter-defects-to-left-wing-labour-party/

It has started. Will there be more? These people were never true Conservatives from the outset.

Dresden (or so the story said so I'm not sure why the banner is in English.



https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germans-stage-promigrant-rally-with-refugees-welcome-banners-in-response-to-violence-10478647.html

Kent



I'm a bit unlear why not welcoming freeloaders who seem to hate us is considered to be racist.


Oh look Breibart is surely being a bit racist

25 Sexual Predators Jailed over 'Shocking' Rape, Sexual Abuse, and Trafficking of Eight Young Girls

Wet and cold here too. Apart from some nice weather early on it has been a pretty unpleasant April. I fully expect the news to be telling us that it was the hottest on record any time soon though.

I certainly agree that the climate is changing. I disagree that every gale, flood, drout, whatever is caused by climate change. Those things are weather and the various records don't show any consistent increasing occurrence of them.

The qustion is why is the climate changing. Those advocating net zero point to increasing CO₂ levels which may be caused by use of fossil fuels although it must be said that natural CO₂ production dwarfs anything we produce and current levels are very low compared to the geological past levels. We are still coming out of the last ice age.

As with all things follow the money.  As governments have been sold on the idea that CO₂ must be reduced to halt climate change and governments fund science the only way to be sure of project funding these days is to link the project to climate change in some way. Better make sure your results show a way climate change is having an adverse impact too to keep the cash flowing.

Climate Scientists Hail Boost to Global Plant Growth From Higher CO2

Both the quantity and nutritional value of plants is growing around the planet due to recent increases in carbon dioxide, claim the authors of an important new science paper. The recent rise in carbon dioxide during modern industrial times, from a period of dangerous denudation, is at the centre of worldwide fearmongering designed to enforce a Net Zero collectivisation. "In fact, the only clear result of increasing CO2 has been an overall greening of the Earth and increasing productivity of agricultural and forest crops," state the authors.

Regular readers of the Daily Sceptic will be aware of the massive greening of the planet that has occurred over the last 40 years. Alas, this astonishing success story is inexplicably missing from most mainstream Net Zero-focused discourse. This latest paper is written by a group of scientists and published by the U.S.-based educational foundation CO2 Coalition. It is highly technical but it seeks to explain why the nutritional value of the world's more abundant crops "can and will remain high as atmospheric CO2 concentrations increase towards values more representative of those existing throughout most of Earth's history". With CO2 levels considerably higher over most geological history, the current level of 425 parts per million (ppm) is much less than optimum for most plants, the experts observe.

For too long, note the scientists, atmospheric CO2 has been the nutrient in shortest supply holding back plant growth. "Rising atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have clearly been beneficial for the biosphere, agriculture, humanity and particularly for global food security at very low additional cost. Still higher concentrations will bring additional benefits," they note. The CO2 Coalition, supported by the work of atmospheric scientists like Emeritus Professor William Happer of Princeton, has long argued that CO2 becomes 'saturated' at certain levels in the atmosphere. At higher levels its warming properties diminish rapidly. Due to this 'saturation', which helps explain why atmospheric CO2 concentrations been up to 20 times higher in the past without the planet turning into a fireball, "man-made CO2 emissions are not capable of triggering dangerous future warming".



The great success of what is termed the 'green revolution' is shown above. The scientists note that important factors in the dramatic increase in food production have been increased atmospheric CO2, the development of greatly improved plant varieties and intelligent use of mineral fertilisers. The authors quote from a recent scientific paper, Taylor and Sclenker 2023, which states: "We consistently find a large CO2 fertilisation effect: a 1 ppm increase in CO2 equates to a 0.4%, 0.6%, 1% yield increase for corn, soybeans and wheat respectively."


The evidence for greening of the Earth from atmospheric carbon dioxide "is now too obvious to deny". The scientists publish the world map below to prove their point.



The above map was produced from satellite data recorded between 1982 and 2012. Greening by 20-30% was recorded in India, West Australia, the Sahel and the Anatolian highlands. Reference is also made to Chen et al. 2024, reported here in the Daily Sceptic, that found CO2  greening had actually accelerated over the last two decades. The increase in C02 was found to be the dominant driver of the positive trend of the Leaf Area Index over most of the global land surface.


Attempts have been made recently to downplay the benefits of more vigorous CO2-driven plant growth by suggesting it leads to a slight dilution of some nutrients, notably nitrogen, in plant tissues. In the course of their work, the authors state that these deficiencies are small compared with the nutritional shortages that agriculture and livestock face because of natural phenomena. "These problems have been routinely dealt with for generations through adequate fertilisation, proper species and cultivar selection, and food supplements for livestock and humans," they argue.

The numerous desirable and beneficial effects of more CO2 in the atmosphere greatly outweigh 'climate-damaging' or 'nutrient-damaging' impacts, to the extent that these even exist. There is no 'social cost' of carbon, as is incorrectly claimed in numerous recent publications. In the course of their paper, the scientists say that have reviewed the literature and provided arguments that "arrive at quite a contrary view" to those who claim enhanced atmospheric CO2 somehow threatens human nutrition. "In fact, there is a social benefit from more CO2 in the air," they conclude.

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/04/26/climate-scientists-hail-boost-to-global-plant-growth-from-higher-co2/

The pub was packed on Saturday night
Ethel and Maggie pole dancing, what a sight
The pole was greased with thick beef dripping

I wonder why Khan keeps getting voted in then. He seems to be 100% anti car.

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Hello everyone - it is absolutely pouring down here - and likely to continue all day. My drive is flooded and the garden is like a swamp. Nemo's solution - crawl back under the quilt and ignore it, which sounds good to me - unfortunately the housework goblins have other ideas!

Have a good - if damp - day!