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People have made the point that some of that for China etc is for consumption abroad. They are currently the workshop of the world so they will create more emissions but that is driven by consumption. If people don't buy the shit, they won't make it. In that respect I would imagine the U.S...

There can be an element of that and some will indeed try to 'big up' their own role in it, but it may well be a small part of a much wider effort to achieve the overall aims.

Certainly the war sped up the process of getting women the vote. But let's say the suffrage movement hadn't occurred pre-war and they hadn't campaigned to get the vote. Do you think that without it WWI alone would have got women the vote?

But until either what they want occurs or the protest group disbands it's impossible to say if they have failed or not. The suffragettes 'failed' for over 20 years before they got what they wanted. There were people campaigning to leave the EU from the moment we joined and were unsuccessful...

But if people aren't talking about getting Britain insulated then the government won't be arsed to make it happen. It'd be a big cost for them and they're going to avoid spending wherever they can. It's step one on the ladder to success. Going back to the suffragettes all their protests pre...

I used to be able to book online and then last year the option disappeared. Dunno if they were having problems with it or it was being misused but I found it worked brilliantly and I'm gutted the option is gone.

I agree. There's things that beforehand I'd have had to book an appointment for and take time out whereas now those things can be covered in a quick ten minute phone call. I think the point is that it appears some GP's are having these conversations and then rather than getting them to go to...

Sure they didn't say FC Kolon and it was just instructions on which way round they went?

As I've said before politicians should be the early adopters of rules they make and should be expected to uphold them to the highest degree. Instead they ride roughshod over them or make themselves exempt entirely. If you're not going to follow the law you should have no place in making them.

So you're saying they should stop their current Fawcett-phase and instead go full on Pankhurst and attack MP's and blow shit up?

Of course it's not but does that mean we should just ignore it? China could say it's not just a Chinese issue. America could say it's not just a U.S. issue and so nothing gets done. Economies that are doing well as things stand don't want to change that. Those that aspire to that don't have the...

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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