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Financial self-interest and greed of those with wealth and power. There's a lot of money in things like oil and gas and those that have massive wealth because of it don't want it to change. If everyone uses renewable energy then they're stuffed so they're going to try and prevent it happening as...

If enough people supported them he'd say he backed them. Wouldn't actually do anything to back that up though of course. But he won't be around forever and if something like this had public backing potential incumbents would likely jump on the bandwagon to gain support.

The climate changing so huge swathes of the planet become uninhabitable and many species of plants and animals go extinct is a purpose to change something. Yes, their specific crusade is extremely niche and would only have a small effect on overall outcomes and I think there are other ways they...

Certainly over time attitude towards them will become more favourable I think. Them disrupting traffic etc will just be something written in the textbooks. I reckon the suffragettes pissed quite a few people off with their antics back in the day.

It's what i don't get about it. his revelations make him look just as bad. He says Johnson is incompetent, doesn't pay attention etc. yet he chose to continue working for him and had it not been for Carrie wanting him out he'd probably still be there. If Johnson was that bad then any kind of...

Probably able to carefully manage his media profile and smear others so public perception is skewed in his favour. It probably works the same elsewhere where people wonder how on earth Johnson is in charge and a Brit telling them the likes of Corbyn and Starmer are worse. I reckon their...

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I got confused. Which one was Blair and which one was Brown? Both look the same to me.

If this had been a member of a different party my opinion would be exactly the same. It's unacceptable and whoever did it should face severe reprimands for it.

Certainly it is construed as such in the ongoing power battle. Whichever way the other parties would jump on it as proof of incompetence. I remember one of the things I was told by one of my first bosses was never admit a mistake as it's seen as weakness. Didn't agree with him then, don't...

So had an affair while his wife was having cancer treatment and has made at best ill-judged language that could be construed as racist but doesn't see the problem in it. He's just following the Boris path to power.

Probably just shoved him up the pecking order for a ministerial position in this government.

Everyone gets people mixed up. But these are prominent members of his party who are regularly in the media. They've got quite obvious differences. Do you think he's say the same about Raab and Hancock for example?

But that's down to their own poor performance.

I assume by that you mean on the share value rather than the returns, be it dividend or capital gain. In that instance it would form part of a wealth tax, which I think needs looking into. Obviously it would need structuring such that it would not put off share ownership. It may push more...

Apart from possibly Priti Patel who would have had a policy to infect everyone non-British arriving in the country to try and put off immigrants and asylum seekers.

Maybe, but saving a few thousand lives against being responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands still puts you at quite a deficit.

Well as he was an MEP for ages, was a prominent figure in the Leave campaign and was the leader of a couple of political parties that did well in local elections and got quite a few votes for what were fringe parties it would appear quite a few people take him seriously.