Well, not forever, but coal and dirty oil reserves could last centuries. Cost is a different matter to availability of course.
Plus nuclear power is pretty much endless.
'Green' energies are a long way off yet.
I'd love to be able to waste my vote on the Greens really, cause the ridiculously safe Tory seat in which I reside had, at the last election, the options of Labour, Lib Dems and fecking UKIP with which to cast my protest. Still smarting over the referendum...
Doesn't tally with the real results from Feltham (8.6% swing to Labour).ICM now puts the Conservatives six points ahead at 40 - 34.
Localised green politics, for the purpose of curtailing global warming, is utterly pointless. Britain is responsible for what, 2% of the world's carbon emissions?
'Green' thinking is important, but it needs to be mainstream thinking...across the whole planet.
Gah! Why does this get recycled so often, despite being nonsense?
Doesn't tally with the real results from Feltham (8.6% swing to Labour).
Yeah but we kind of need them to save the planet from utter destruction.
Localised green politics, for the purpose of curtailing global warming, is utterly pointless. Britain is responsible for what, 2% of the world's carbon emissions?
'Green' thinking is important, but it needs to be mainstream thinking...across the whole planet.
I think that's a tad hyperbolic if I'm being honest. You have to face the issue seriously, undoubtedly, but climate change isn't an unknown quantity to this planet and has occurred throughout history, it's perhaps conceited in the extreme to believe humanity could systematically destroy the most powerful terrestrial force we know - nature. Climate change is very real, but the fact is we can only make the best of an already bad situation and as Rednev said, the whole planet would have to work towards the issue, not one very small Island in the north Atlantic.
Also, we do need them, but voting in the green party won't guarantee the development of such technologies, especially considering the rest of the economy would probably collapse (due to the damage made to existing and frankly necessary energy sources/revenues) before the technologies became sustainable on any level.
I have sympathy with green voters, but I can't logically accept them as a viable vote.
Since when does ones constituency represent the nation?
At the same time, I'd also question how representative the polls were, being taken just slightly after the right wing of the nation collectively ejaculated over Cameron's veto and all.
Since when does ones constituency represent the nation?
Localised green politics, for the purpose of curtailing global warming, is utterly pointless. Britain is responsible for what, 2% of the world's carbon emissions?
'Green' thinking is important, but it needs to be mainstream thinking...across the whole planet.
Since when does ones constituency represent the nation?
French prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into Conservative MP Aidan Burley and 12 of his friends who attended a Nazi-themed stag night at an Alpine ski resort.
Burley, 32, and members of his party face prison and fines after examining magistrates sitting in Albertville received a complaint of ‘inciting racial hatred and glorifying crimes against humanity’.
They could face imprisonment of up to six months if convicted.
It relates to a stag night held in a restaurant and bar in nearby Val Thorens on December 3 during which Mr Burley, MP for Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, and his friends were caught on video.
Accountant Mark Fournier, a 34-year-old Oxford graduate, wore a replica uniform of the SS – the infamous Schutz-Staffel who were responsible for millions of murders during World War II, many related to the Holocaust.
One guest, sitting beside the MP in a restaurant, was filmed raising a toast to ‘the ideology and thought process of the Third Reich.’
Later, after moving on to a British-themed pub, some of the group chanted: ‘Mein Fuhrer! Mein Fuhrer! Mein Fuhrer!’, ‘Himmler! Himmler! Himmler!’ and ‘Eichmann! Eichmann! Eichmann!’
Heinrich Himmler founded the SS, while he and Adolf Eichmann were directly responsible for the Holocaust, in which millions of Jews died.
A spokesman for Albertville prosecutors said a preliminary enquiry had been opened, and that those involved in the outrage could receive up to six months in prison and large fines if convicted.
Julien Andrez, counsel for La Fondue restaurant, where the stag night started, said they had filed a criminal complaint, as had Hamdy Boussouiba, director of French pressure group SOS Racism.
Calling for Mr Burley to be fired, Mr Boussoiba said: ‘The hotel management should have made a complaint straight away, but better late than never.’
Andrew Plaisance, the Mayor of Saint-Martin de Belleville, which covers Val Thorens, said he hoped a prosecution would send out the message that acts which glorified Nazism were ‘unspeakable’ and should be ‘strongly condemned without reservation.’
Mr Burley, who has been sacked from his post as a parliamentary private secretary but remains an MP, this week apologised for his ‘crass and insensitive’ behaviour and the ‘terrible offence’ he caused.
He strenuously denied that he had taken part in toasts to the Third Reich, and distanced himself from the ‘inexcusable behaviour’ of other guests at the party.
But Mr Burley would not directly address claims that he hired the SS uniform for the stag night.
The Conservative Party said it was launching a fuller investigation into Mr Burley’s behaviour, with Prime Minister David Cameron being kept aware of all developments.
Under the French penal code, it is a crime, unless required for a film, a play or a historical exhibition, to exhibit in public a uniform, insignia or emblem reminiscent of those which were worn by the Nazis.
Earlier this year British fashion designer John Galliano was found guilty of making anti-Semitic remarks by a Paris court and was sentenced to pay a total of 2400 pounds in suspended fines. Galliano had been caught on video insulting people in a bar in the French capital.
French launch criminal investigation into Tory MP Aidan Burley over Nazi-themed stag night - Telegraph
Tories showing their true colours.
One guest, sitting beside the MP in a restaurant, was filmed raising a toast to ‘the ideology and thought process of the Third Reich.’
Later, after moving on to a British-themed pub, some of the group chanted: ‘Mein Fuhrer! Mein Fuhrer! Mein Fuhrer!’, ‘Himmler! Himmler! Himmler!’ and ‘Eichmann! Eichmann! Eichmann!’
Heinrich Himmler founded the SS, while he and Adolf Eichmann were directly responsible for the Holocaust, in which millions of Jews died.
You should know that being so knowledgeable about North Korea.
I think that's a tad hyperbolic if I'm being honest. You have to face the issue seriously, undoubtedly, but climate change isn't an unknown quantity to this planet and has occurred throughout history, it's perhaps conceited in the extreme to believe humanity could systematically destroy the most powerful terrestrial force we know - nature.
The unions are going to go mental, Ed Balls is to support the Government on public sector pay rises through the end of this parliament.
The unions should disaffiliate and set up their own party once gain as they did in 1900 - this lot are a joke.
The unions should disaffiliate and set up their own party once gain as they did in 1900 - this lot are a joke.
Way to go to split the left wing vote and keep the conservatives in power.
No point in having blue Labour if they simply implement Tory policy.Way to go to split the left wing vote and keep the conservatives in power.
The unions should disaffiliate and set up their own party once gain as they did in 1900 - this lot are a joke.
Way to go to split the left wing vote and keep the conservatives in power.
It's a joke. Some of the poorest people in the country see their real income cut while directors give themselves 50% pay rises. And Labour says they have to go along with this nonsense.
