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So General Election 2017...

In my opinion the first thing Theresa May has done right.  Our system does not require it, but the country did not elect her party to government for her to take charge. The Prime Minister has enormous power in our system, but no-one could have voted for Theresa May to get the job because she was not leader of the Conservative Party at the last election. I have to wonder if she made her decision to hold the election on the grounds that 15 or so MPs are at risk of criminal liability for knowingly falsifying election expenses. Her majority is 12. So now we have a choice. Support Theresa May's Tories with more than 36.9% of the vote - the proportion that led to David Cameron's victory in 2015 - and we'll get: Hard Brexit. Throw ourselves out of the European Union, sticking two fingers up at the countries we do nearly half of foreign trade with, saying we want them to have permission - a visa - to cross our borders in future, yet expecting free entry to their countries f...

Turbine wash

I hope a lot of people quickly realise current low-level wind turbines are nothing more than "greenwash".  Reports in the last couple of days of the Arctic Ocean becoming part of the Atlantic and the Great Barrier Reef suffering its second die-back in two years - it's seen just four die-backs in recorded history - have me asking "How much more evidence do climate change deniers need?"  With wind-turbines replacing a maximum of just 35% of the fossil-fuelled capacity it matches, as well as doing tremendous damage to the local environment, isn't it about time the myths around these profitable industrial plants were debunked?

So, Trump...

What a contradiction. Isolationist America he promises supporters. We're not going to waste US lives and dollars on foreigners. Then a despicable government appears to again use weapons of mass destruction against its own people. 25 million dollars worth of cruise missiles dropped on a Syrian airbase. And now, a carrier task group moves in near North Korea. "If the Chinese don't sort it out, we will". Well he's full of surprises, but I'm not sure this is going to end well.