kevinjohnsonmbe

You danced around the point quite nicely. There is no blanket ‘ban’ as you called it irt what is burned. There are ‘clean air zones’ where some regulation is in force and there are accredited schemes with detailed criterion for product. That’s some world away from the ‘banning’ of ANYTHING! Also, where are your stat’s that compare narrow boat wood fuel emissions with sea freight, aviation and road transport? ?

They haven’t banned it. If you want to be an accredited supplier, you have to comply. That’s a long way off ‘banning’ something.

Be easier if that fecker would clear his van out ????

What? The slate is wiped clean after 5?? What about Blair? What about Thatcher? What about Stalin? What about Hitler? What about Empire?

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Well, for 1, I’d find it hard to believe anyone would seriously compare wood burning stoves in canal boats to vehicle and aircraft air pollution....

You’ve opened up the narrow boat angle now.... Standby! @eggsarascal

Ideal! Give 'em a wipe and I'll take them home wi me....

Passes by where? You're up Norf, I ain't going there!!

Poor people should be confined to home, or a the very least restricted to occasional public transport. How are the privileged elite supposed to go about their daily business in an appropriate and efficient manner if the roads are all clogged up with the great unwashed?

Same here, our local tool shop does a pretty good job of price matching small machinery purchases. Having had trouble with deliveries in the past, having it delivered to the shop, unboxed, set up and a call when ready to collect (plus after sales if required) is well worth the couple of £s difference from spending hours online trying to shave £10 off the price.

Airlines appearing to be pulling out of Gatwick. All this talk of ‘support’ to the industry to see it through Brexit and COVID How much is the potentially redundant (before it starts) Heathrow expansion...?

He’s got cabin fever! Everything getting a bit sensitive ???

Legend!! ????

Interesting, bit long winded and majority negative. I wouldn’t mind if some of my consumer surplus data exhaust was used to lower my motor insurance! They know how far I travel, what speed and the manner of my driving - maybe I should demand a reduction. But if all the sensible drivers demanded a reduction, the premiums for the careless ones would become (even more) unaffordable and I’m sure someone, somewhere, would then claim this is an ‘unfair’ additional burden on those least able to pay resulting in an even more unbalanced society. Heaven forbid those that actually cause motor insurance* rates to be so high actually modify their own behaviour and accept responsibility for their own actions. * insert any service/commodity

It’s a ‘town’ solution potentially being imposed on a vastly differing national problem. I can easily go weeks/months without 15m proximity to strangers! On that basis, they can bash it, not interested.

What makes you think you haven’t already been chipped?

Maybe J will do one ? (A) Trump is a turnip (B). UK Planning regs are pants (C). I love the EU (D) I want the dotGov tracker but only if it gives a loud audio/vibrate alarm for proximity to UKIPers Im only gonna vote if the app also has political tendencies included in the data. It might be a redundancy function (for now) but it would make so much sense to future proof it now and allow for the effective segregation and re-education of Momentum types as we move ever closer to a Boris cult.

Turnip!

Flashback to O Level economics ? that was a blast from the past!! ? Frighteningly accurate when we take a long hard look at ourselves though... Human nature is a dangerous thing (whilst drinking columbian coffee sat in front of the iMac powered by energy from a French owned company and presenting an American icon to emphasise the point.) ?

This is a really short piece but it highlights some of the point I was trying to make: DEFINE_ME WWW.THELANCET.COM "...This is most troubling given the time of year—the Spring Festival celebration, which sees a lot of movement to and around China, with people rushing home to celebrate and subsequently returning to their usual place or country of residence..." Whether it be MERS, SARS COVID, Ebola, and a whole host of 'lesser' infectious diseases (and grotesque ideological fantasies such as FGM) the discussion has to be had, or at least it should be had, by global leaders responsible for setting grand strategic policies. Either we carry on with this physical, emotional, economic, societal 'lock-down' - with all its consequential implications - or we stop trade, movement, collaboration etc with areas that are likely to infect us in the future. I know it's a big shift change but surely, this is an either / or situation based upon the guaranteed recurrence of something like, or worse, than we currently have. The so-called incentives for cheap manufacturing and migration from alien (we have not evolved in unison) cultures can be wiped out in an instant as soon as something like this occurs. Are we to live forever in fear and preparedness for the new norm of routine lock-down and isolation as the price we pay for global trade / movement and the threat of intercontinental transportation of future virus? I can't help but make the comparison with EU expansionism. Had the EU stayed as the original (+) small group of like minded, culturally, economically, geographically, politically similar cohort, I would probably have been in favour of the institution. It got too big, it got too diverse and it is/will continue to destroy itself as a consequence. Why have we been so keen to forge ever greater integration with other nations? Cheap labour which supports growth in GDP - in its very simplest from. I guess there are comparisons with the time of Empires. Maybe it's time to take a proper look at why we use GDP as the key measure of national economic 'success' and start to place greater value upon the more holistic human needs. Maybe it's time to recognise the unintended benefits that have come from this situation and build them into the vision for the future.

DEFRA input was pretty lame.

Any body else log in?\\ Enjoyed that!

Just arguing in general really..... Genuinely, it did start with an argument with my boss, who asked me to explain my thinking to his boss (who told me to fuck off) then after he’d spoken to his boss, asked me to run through it again.... And therein lies the start (of a small part) of a tale that changed the course of an international conflict.

He was invested MBE same day as me - he wore a bottle green crushed velvet morning suit. Was a bit of a blast!