Because then the political parties can’t parachute inexperienced candidates into safe seats so that:
The new candidate gets elected in a safe seat and learns the ropes of political life as an MP.
More experienced candidates can be deployed to marginal constituencies to contest the seat.
No lasting damage done then.
IMO it should be further than that.
Open source software is, more often than not, used as digital infrastructure.
Governments around the world should absolutely be investing in open source software and actively contributing to it.
Says son of an emerald lord.
And then adapted into film during the time of Bush and Blair.
Removed by mod
Speaking as a British person,
If the problem is our dickheads going over there and ruining the vibe by harassing the locals, sex workers, and pissing everywhere I have a solution:
Turn the whole area into an LGBT area with Gay Bars and Drag Queens and send over a few of our police to coordinate on patrols with the Dutch police.
I’m serious, on a night out on Canal Street in Manchester there is almost no dickheads because:
They stay away from Gay Bars because of their own insecure masculinity even though Gay Clubs have better music.
The Drag Queens, most of whom act as front of house, ticketing, and head floor management DO NOT suffer fools and anyone harassing or being a knob will be ejected them from the premises quickly.
The GM police love working with the Drag Queens who stand outside the clubs trying to convince punters to go inside because they’re an active part of keeping the whole area safe by pointing out antisocial behaviour. Also when they don’t have a dickhead to deal with, they’re having a good chat.
Edit:
Also a belated apology on behalf of my fellow idiot countrymen. Also I’m of the opinion both sex work and recreational marijuana should be legalised and regualted in the UK. Hopefully that would also help with stemming the flow of idiot tourists abroad.
It depends on how intense Picachu is.
What about random-selection jury-style technocracy?
There must be a strong bond between them to go balls deep.
Micro-grids will be key part of the transition as will better smart meters, energy storage (not Li battery based), smart building requirements, insulation, etc.
But an increase in national transmission capacity is sorely needed.
Currently we are guaranteed to miss the 2050 target for net zero if we don’t increase the capacity of the National Grid backbone. This is because the grid backbone connections and switchgear equipment takes so long to approve that new green energy sources from new producers (think farmers installing wind/solar or local authorities putting solar on rooftops) and the big energy companies that have the money for large projects like offshore wind are being told by the Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) that connect to the national grid they can’t get approval because there’s a huge backlog of approval for new connections to said national grid.
Add in the fact that wind power and solar perform better at large scales and you have a super compelling case for getting more transmission infrastructure built.
Underground power cables are the predominant way electricity is distributed in the UK but they’re hugely expensive because you have to dig these tunnels for the very thick cables AND every 50km a large square hole to cross-bond the earth sheath between the three phase cables so they don’t overheat from induced currents.
So the alternative is more pylons.
Throw in more incentives for micro-grids on top and we could easily BEAT the 2050 target.
Source: I work in the power industry.
Have you seen the new pylon design though?
They look much better and they’re more efficient and rugged.
Here’s some other ideas that’ll turbocharge this green transition:
Get the Shetland to Scotland interconnect upgraded so they don’t have to keep switching off the turbines because they’re generating more power than Shetland consumes and can be transmitted back to the mainland.
Artificial energy islands off the north coast of Scotland to connect large amounts of wind turbines.
Approve and accelerate Viking Link to build out the future energy market with Norway.
Co-design and co-finance huge shared north sea wind farms with Norway.
Significantly increase taxes on capital gains with an exemption for green power investments. Stand back and watch how quickly private capital can move to fund large projects when properly incentivised.
Work with the City (of London) to create funds for people to invest via LISAs, Investment ISAs, and Pensions that fuel a new UK citizen owned green energy company. Stand back and watch as a new generation get wealthy the same way previous ones did when British Gas was privateised. Socilise the risk, socilise the profits.
Political point scoring with drivers.
Bet you the next announcement they make will be something to try and please drivers by saying “we diverted this money from being wasted on HS2 to this road infrastructure”.
Well yeah as it should be when applied carefully: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
The implication is that if you want to find shady shit, you go looking for it with those who give off an air that they have something shady.
Usually, someone who’s done or said things that have stirred up controversy or general media attention in the past.
The ones that go unnoticed are the people journalists have to spend a paragraph explaining who this person is and why they’re a big deal.
Much easier to get a scandal published if the public already recognise them and think “yeah, I thought there was something off about that person”.
Edit: typo.
Nope.
But journalists go looking for evidence for the most likely ones, then the stories come out.
I like it when people who do this shit are held accountable. Shame that the ones that get held accountable aren’t more often shady business people and politicians.
Considering their historical support for Oswald Moseley they only had to take one step to the right.