Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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You will have noticed that busy bee MP Conservative Laura Sandys has been sending us information through on general matters. Well the hard working MP for Thanet South has been promoted..her work volume has been recognised in the higher echelons.. Read all below, info just in....
Laura Sandys MP is New PPS to Minister of State, Greg Barker MP
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Laura Sandys MP has been appointed as the new Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State for the Department for Energy and Climate Change, Greg Barker MP.
Laura said: "It is a real privilege to be working as Greg Barker MP's PPS. Having worked with the energy sector for 20 years prior to my election to Parliament, I hope I can bring some of my experience to the role.
"Having also worked briefly at the Consumer Association I am very aware of the challenges faced by customers with rising bills. With the roll-out of the Green Deal just around the corner, we have a real opportunity to improve the UK's housing stock, reduce energy bills and keep families warm.
"I also look forward to working closely with the Department, colleagues, and the wider energy sector to ensure the arguments for energy investment and green growth are clearly made and understood. Already, the green economy represents a huge part of the UK economy and has created more jobs than sectors such as ICT, finance, insurance, and the motor trade. Transitioning to a green economy is not a nice to have, but a total necessity if we are to achieve long term economic growth."
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Hard working MP who deserves the recognition,
Audere est facere.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Greg who?
Oh, he of whom the Daily Mail wrote, "MPs' Expenses: Millionaire Tory Greg Barker made £320,000 profit on flat funded by taxpayer." and the Daily Mirror, "MP uses office microwave to heat his sausage dog's cushion "
Good luck with all of that Ms. Sadys.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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certainly a high flyer.
climate change!! i have a gut feeling that philip might have something to say on the appointment.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Have to admit I dont know Greg Barker either...I suspect he is newly appointed, shuffled in in the re-shuffle. But yes good luck to Laura.
I think they may have Philip on the run with all these green energy initiatives.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Greg who? Greg Barker? Oh! you mean this Greg Barker:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/9540585/Greg-Barker-facing-questions-over-controversial-5-million-funding-approval.html
That's the Man. An exemplary member of Parliament working his socks off to save the planet. Indeed a hard working MP who deserves recognition for services to himself.
The funny thing about the department of pensioners dying from hypothermia and climate change is that it's rife with, erm, you know funny things that would raise an eyebrow or two from plod if the same sort of activities went on in the real world of the private sector.
So we have Tim Yeo, John Selwyn Gummer, Greg Barker and others who have interests in the "environmental" field whilst they hold high office. Now I'm not suggesting that what they do is in any way corrupt but if you examine these people's financial interests and what they stand to gain financially from passing legislation concerning the saving of our planet, gravity, egg whites and other pressing dangers you must conclude that there is indeed something very fishy going on.
I wish Laura Sandys the best in her premonition, sorry promotion (She is able to predict the weather in the next 100 years) but really I suspect in twenty years time she'll be telling her Grandchildren that it was a move sideways and not a promotion after they question the stupidity of the creation of a government department which concerned itself with "climate change".
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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So thats what he looks like, a very low profile guy it seems. Well done Philip we can always rely on you for the alternative view.
Saw a feature about another green policy on TV today..on Politics Today they spoke of the new electric cars. Quentin Wilson, well known motoring correspondent one time with Top Gear, was singing the praises of the electric car. WE saw him drive around London in near silence and the thing, a standard Nissan but this time with no engine, ran very well. Accelerates well, silent, comfortable, no gears to piddle about with and it can run for 100 miles. The last bit is the problem as well as the cost of it...24,000 to 36,000 per car.
Several talking heads bemoaned the fact the HMG were supposed to install 1,500 charging points, but so far there is a hole in their green policy in that only 500 or so are in use.
The good news is the running costs...you can go for 100miles for just £1
yes, thats right..just £1.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Yes I watched the same programme Paul. Electric cars - aren't the brilliant? 100 miles for £1. And the saving of all those harmful carbon dioxide emissions, well that's fantastic..............or is it?
So where does all that electric come from? Hmmnn, good question. Wind farms? Nope they don't work.
Wind-up rubber band in the back of the car? Don't think so.
Ahh! I know it comes from fossil fuel. You know coal and gas that are burnt in power stations so perhaps they're not so environmentally clean as the proponents (mainly rich luvvies types) would want us to believe. Let's face it if the government didn't put their hands in our pockets to give the £5000 subsidies for these things there would be perhaps ten sold over the past year or so instead of 1000 - very similar to the scandal of new wind farms which would not exist without robbing the taxpayer.
If you've got a job like Quentin Wilson then you can afford to while away your time by waiting for the car to charge up. Most sensible people opt for driving to the garage and filling up with delicious, appetising petrol or diesel. The man owns two of them. Methinks he's being paid too much. He must love driving in winter with the heating off as this knocks miles off the distance you can drive without recharging and not forgetting the headlights during night time excursions.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Am in full agreement with Ms. Sandys that Green Policy needs to be implemented in the economy. Not to do so would imply a catastrophic future of climate destruction, pollution and dependency on oil - prices ever-increasing.
If an oil crisis came, what then?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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alex
when we talk of oil crises we think always of the unstable middle east and possible changes of power leading to anti western governments.
times have changed argentine are getting stroppy again over the falklands just at a time when oil companies are looking at possible new oil fields whilst china and japan are close to military conflict over 5 tiny uninhabited islands.
all tip of the iceberg stuff i suspect.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Well it's the likes of Sandys and other right thinking environmentalists which has led to a situation where this type of thing is going to happen:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/9556383/Russia-eyes-UK-funding-for-1-trillion-energy-push.html
So much for saving the planet eh? Gullible and stupid politicians being led by the nose by global warming bedwetters can only lead to catastrophe. Only a fool falls for the climate change myth and our parliament is just a ship of fools.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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It's often to do with commercial territory rights under the seabed, Howard.
Territorial waters are one thing, but each state with a shoreline has extended commercial rights within international waters when it comes to oil, gas, or any other possible resources on or under the seabed.
Under international law, islands have a particular advantage, and indeed, adding to the examples you supplied, Turkey is also at loggerheads with Greece, Cyprus and Israel, who have formed a military alliance as a result.
Then there is an additional dispute between China and several other countries in the South China Sea, including Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia and a few others.
All said and told, plus any that were left out, this leaves us with Laura Sandys' Home Front ideas of local Green Resources, which I prefer to the fossil-fuel-dependency of the present fossilised system of "pollute what you can as much as you can and pay the price later".
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Re post 8 Philip...a bit more..
Yes fossil fuels do produce the electricity but if the electricity is already being produced for mass use anyway..why not use it for cars. 100 miles for a pound and no emissions! Gotta be good. Living beside the main road here i know all about emissions. On hot summer days..not that we get many of those..you cant breath with the fumes. The trees planted next to the road a few years ago are all dead. What does that tell you..no natural life can exist next to the putrid emissions. The electric car would eliminate the rear end of the pollution process.
We are still some way away from the electric solution..if the batteries could last for say 500 miles and the cost could still be £1 per 100 miles, people would grab it. We're not there yet...but one day..
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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Post #12, well put AlexD. I would much rather see a world expanding green technology and sharing it in peace (although probably for profit) than a world going to war with itself over dwindling supplies of a finite resource. Sadly there are too many intent on denying the "climate change myth" and who prefer the smell of napalm in the morning (itself a petroleum by-product).
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Well for all that interesting read above I do wish the hard working MP Laura Sandys every success on her new appointment, I'm sure she will do her very best and try to make progress in whatever way she can
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Warrrgh! Now we have to save the drains:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/9550745/Plea-to-ban-motorists-washing-their-cars-in-the-street.html#
It's difficult to keep up. Do we save the planet or the drains. What to do? Oh the horror. For the sake of humanity something must be done.
Keith Sansum1
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seem's laura's the girl whilst our charlie gets left bbehind in the wilderness
any one spotted charlie lately?
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Keith, Charlie doesn't seem to be a Green Energy campaigner.
If Laura Sandys passed along London Road, say, starting opposite the Town Hall, she'd probably agree with me that the pollution levels there are tremendously high.
It festers between the buildings when the traffic steams by.
But one doesn't see Charlie walking by, though.
