CLIMATE DIPLOMACY

Whilst rapid jerks in the Net Zero Scrutiny Group pursue a well funded campaign to undermine the UK Governments commitments to climate action – the climate emergency continues to build momentum. Troops can be with drawn by Putin, but the climate emergency cannot be reversed for maybe decades. It is not an optional extra to take action now. It may cost money, but there is plenty around – the NZSG would like to continue to receive their dividends from the energy companies. Blaming the new green technologies for cost of living rises is dishonest. Transporting energy materials like gas and oil contribute almost 50% to the greenhouse emissions of ocean transport.

UKRAINE

It is difficult to read the mind of a despot, let alone a tosspot. So with Putin and Johnson the situation is serious. I find it interesting that the rhetoric from London and Washington is more hawkish than that of the Ukraine which seems fairly sanguine about things, saying the situation has not changed much over the last 8 years.

CAR TAX

Electric cars do not attract vehicle tax or petrol/diesel tax. The cost of not receiving this income is a total of £35billion. MP’s are jumping impose a road tax on mileage. Maybe they are correct – but now is the time for a discussion on alternatives.

POLICE – BURGLARY

and Geography! Police numbers have been reduced and paperwork increased. Why not employ retired people to interrogate the data produced on burglaries and similar crimes. Even simple mapping would help the rest of us take precautions. And yes I have read Richard Osman’s books! Why not?

IMPOTENCE

It is not viagra I need – but a way to vent my anger at the government. E-petitions are OK but only so far. I was thinking about a set time for sounding a car horn – like 5pm on a Tuesday, but in my sleepy Tory village I would be the only one (although someone else does occasionally buy the Guardian (and maybe 3 on a Saturday/Sunday). Readership of the Mirror is 2/3 whilst the nasty papers fly Mail on Sat -35, Times – Sat 15, Telegraph -sat 12, and the Sun with 15. Ah I am surrounded by old idiots!!! Maybe it will be Nicola Sturgeon time “Scotty – get me out of here!”.

VEGETABLE FRITTERS

Key is to get oil hot for the final cook (I am told), My take today is as follows:-

Put a 250g potato through the grater attachment of a FP. Same with 250g onion. Gently fry, then finely slice a red or green or yellow or orange pepper, and a chilli. Add to frying pan for a couple of minutes. 50g flour and 50g gram flour. 1 1/2 tsp salt. 2 eggs.

UKRAINE

Some questions.

Is Putin likely to follow Ukraine with other former USSR countries. Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia?

Would the public in the UK countenance sending troops to defend Ukraine?

Is Putin just being less subtle than the USA is in regard to Venezuela? Spheres of influence?

£896,681 SPAFFED

The cost to taxpayers of a study commissioned by Johnson into the the farcical idea of a bridge or tunnel to Northern Ireland. presumably the results were published on his staggeringly expensive wall paper?

Seriously why did it cost this much? Anyone with any knowledge of the Irish Sea knows about the trench with 1m tonnes of unexploded munitions – thus making the whole thing ridiculous to all but the deluded narcissist who thought of it in the first place. They even costed a tunnel at £209 billion and a bridge at £335bn. The investigation was led by the chair of Network Rail as he does not have enough to do.