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oh, so we're here again. I tell you what, if you answer my question then I'll answer yours. Or is your question only rhetorical?

There are many people in the US who think the strategy adopted by Lif3r is appropriate for life in the US in its current state, irrespective of any wo...

Is climate change not happening then? I'm happy to be corrected, indeed it would be great news. I have cut down on flying and heat my house with firew...

You mention that permafrost release has happened before and that climate change might result in a period of rapid evolution. Both which would develop ...

Yes I'm aware of the disconnect on timescales. Are you aware of the predictions of tipping points? Where climate change tips a balance in certain syst...

Many would like to reduce emissions now, but it may prove more difficult for them than it would if everyone did it at the same time. But if the right ...

I live about 25 miles from Sizewell B, Sizewell A is there too, it was decommissioned a long time ago and I expect there are some nasty surprises hidd...

I agree in terms of civilisation, but a few humans will survive like they did last time and the time before that etc.. ( we can't say how many times, ...

I agree, but a rapid change in activity can have a heavy carbon footprint itself through having to change infrastructure etc. But I think it is necess...

That's encouraging. I fear the very populous countries and South American countries won't change course quickly enough. Many are struggling to cope wi...

You might mock Lif3r's solution to the issue, but can you deny his predictions of the climatic conditions, or the human behaviour when it starts to ha...

Apologies, I am a political cartoonist and figures like Trump and Johnson are inviting my response.

Yes Johnson has already called for a charge to see your GP, or call an ambulance. This should be a sharp petard, but it can only become one if the med...

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But what are we going to do, just sit back and enjoy the ride? Here in the UK we have a solution, just leave. Globalisation is controlling our powers ...

What about " there will be no checks in the Irish Sea"? Or a five week prorogation seven weeks before a crash out of the EU is "its business as usual"...

I hope your wedding goes ok and that it doesn't get much hotter. We are getting large amounts of rain at the moment, it feels like it has been raining...

How are things in Sydney? It looks terrifying on the news.

Perhaps you are right, although since I wrote that, Eddie Mair was interviewing a political commentator who spelt out what I said. This understanding ...

Yes, but if the opposition doesn't agree to cross party talks the government will start shouting that they don't care about social care. Although if t...

I came here to point out a cynical development. The government is proposing cross party talks to come up with a solution to social care. This is a tra...

They do have a partner, the EU itself.

Quite so, remember Johnson's plans for a bridge between Scotland and Ireland. So that EU citizens can move seamlessly between parts of the EU without ...

let's see if they make a similar declaration for Scotland.

This article lays it out (https://www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/opinion/tony-blair-is-right-on-immigration-but-did-nothing-to-control-freedom-of-...

Yes there are some benefits which are in reality small beer. The fishing rights would benefit only a few hundred boats at most. Those rights in questi...

Scotland would gain a great deal of independence, as currently it is almost entirely controlled from Westminster. Britain is already independent of th...

Do you think that the financial crisis was a blip and in a year or two the world economy will be booming again?

I gave my reasons for why that won't happen, in my opinion. Although I expect a proportion to switch for financial reasons like, pensions, or inherita...

Yes of course, but I don't know if you were aware, there is an equally pervasive issue with Islamophobia in the Tory party and opposition MPs repeated...

Perhaps if a remain alliance had been formed and they had held back in their manifesto, which was seen as to good to be true. I lay the blame for a fa...

Ok, I'm listening, but the original point I was making that you replied to was about a long term (over a 100 year period) stream of anti socialism dog...

Well the evidence is there in print, the bias and attack of any consideration of socialism by the right wing media. I don't see any left wing media ge...

We wake up to the exciting (not) news that the cliff edge no deal is back on the table. Johnson is going to legislate to make it illegal to extend bey...

Nice summary, I would add that the drip feeding of anti socialism poison goes right back to the origin of the Labour Party and has become endemic now ...

You may be right, as I am clearly on one side of the argument. I would like to debate it with someone on the other side but they haven't turned up. I ...

Yes, Johnson might deliver, I'm sure he has the talent, unlike Trump. However he has a large and difficult brief with some quite excruciating tensions...

Next its Scotland, would that be Sexit, I wonder.

Would Heseltine have done that?

I suggest you listen to the Peter Hennessy interview with Heseltine, you can see his vision for the country there. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0...

I agree with this. I was discussing a slower long term shift of the traditional Labour heartlands away from traditional socialism. Yes I heard Heselti...

Well said. I hark from Yorkshire, but have picked up the southern sensibilities and to a degree live amongst the privelidged classes now. I am a bit o...

Yes, you have a point, in the constituencies we are discussing the situation is complex. Because the large industries they used to work in have gone a...

It can be difficult to convey the subtleties of a situation to people looking in from elsewhere. The Tory party is the sort of party which always retu...

Scotland is drifting away from England politically, so there doesn't seem to be a point for Labour, or Conservative party's there anymore. This mirror...

This is what I wrote, Are you familiar with British politics? Johnson got into power on the backs of the poor, to whom he made populist promises. Let'...

I can have a look later, but I thought people think that a snap referendum would be 52/48 the other way. Media commentators have been saying this for ...

Its the power of populism. I say this more in reference to the overwhealming feeling amongst these voters that Corbyn is the Devil incarnate. There is...

I wasn't talking of any mandate for a second referendum. Only what would be the likely result. You should consider that there would be a campaign befo...

Not at all, I acknowledge that you are looking on from afar. But for Scotland, it would give them autonomy, to be free of a Westminster with overbeari...