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They'd make very good mobile incendiary bombs as well.On the upside, we can use electric cars for the barricades.
They'd make very good mobile incendiary bombs as well.On the upside, we can use electric cars for the barricades.
'Beneath the pavement, theThey'd make very good mobile incendiary bombs as well.
That’s more than a little uncharitable. He stuck his head above the parapet when he really didn’t have to as a multi-millionaire beyond any financial worries of his own. He was bothered about poorer children, which he once was. His campaigning shamed the government into doing a U turn on free school meals during summer holiday 2020.The second (which comes from a vid A.L. posted some months ago) relates to how the multi-millionaire footballer Marcus Rashford was keen to virtue-signal with regards to school meals, which basically involved him turning up for a few photo shoots and getting on TV, but then went on to fail to score from a penalty in some football tournament (I think the euro cup thing) which is the thing he is supposed to be good at.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'his hobby'? Andrew Lawrence has been a top comedian for many years;
Following Rashford’s campaign, and his ability to galvanise public opinion, on June 16th 2020, the government announced plans for a Covid Summer Food Fund for children who usually receive benefits-related free school meals.
Continuing his campaign around child hunger, in September 2020 Rashford convened a taskforce comprised of a number of supermarkets, and the charities Fareshare and the Food Foundation. The taskforce called for the expansion of free to school meals to every child from a household on universal credit; expanding the existing school holiday food programme; and increasing the value of Healthy Start voucher scheme aimed at certain parents with children under four.
Following criticism from some in the media that Rashford should keep out of politics and concentrate on football, the Manchester United player wrote an article for the right leaning Spectator magazine in September 2021. In the article, Rashford wrote, “With a shared focus, people from different cultures, nationalities, races, sexual orientations, political affiliations and religions can unite to achieve incredible things”.
Continuing Rashford wrote that he would, “be doing [my] community and my family a disservice if I did not use my platform to speak on behalf of the millions whose voices are not being heard”. He added: “Disappointingly for some, the ‘stick to football’ advice doesn’t cut it where I’m from. See, when my community had nothing to call their own, they always found something in the way of kindness to give me.”
Following the success of his first campaign around child poverty, there is little sign that Rashford is stopping. He has released a BBC documentary around his food poverty campaign, which featured both his mum, and him receiving a call on his mobile from the Prime Minister shortly after a game.
Rashford has recently partnered with publisher Macmillan to promote reading for disadvantaged children. Marcus is penning his own book as part of the project entitled, ‘You are a Champion: Unlock your potential, find your voice and be the best you can be’.
Commenting on his continued political activism, Rashford has said, ‘We all have a responsibility to protect our vulnerable as it could be any one of us – if 2020 has taught us anything it should be that’.
Indeed during the course of his 2020 expedition into the field of British politics, this unelected footballer, can be said to have exerted more influence on policy, than many MPs might do in the totality of a twenty year backbench career at Westminster.
That’s a little more than virtue signalling..
I wondered how much of his own money he donated and found this:That’s more than a little uncharitable. He stuck his head above the parapet when he really didn’t have to as a multi-millionaire beyond any financial worries of his own. He was bothered about poorer children, which he once was. His campaigning shamed the government into doing a U turn on free school meals during summer holiday 2020.
That’s a little more than virtue signalling..
Yeah okay, I'll give you that.That’s a little more than virtue signalling..
OK - you’ve now shifted from virtue signalling to seeing the whiff of self-promotion.Yeah okay, I'll give you that.
"I retract the comment, m'lud".
Doesn't stop me thinking though that there is still the whiff of self-promotion about it to some extent, even though he appears to have achieved quite a lot of co-operation thanks to his position of popularity, I'm sure he could have done it somehow slightly more anonymously.
We seem to have diverged significantly from the thread title though.
And the fires are a lot harder to put out. But let’s all get electric cars.With the increase in EV ownership we are getting an equal increase in the number of faulty battery vehicle fires.
Dramatic Recent Increase in U.K. Electric Vehicle Battery Explosions And Fires
" (...) There was a sharp rise last year, particularly in London where fires jumped from 32 in 2020 to 102 in 2021 and already 98 recorded in the first half of this year."
"EV sales have been soaring in the U.K. of late. But the ‘green’ credentials of EVs are a far cry from their popular portrayal, and safety concerns in the future about their batteries are only likely to increase."
https://dailysceptic.org/2022/11/08...lectric-vehicle-battery-explosions-and-fires/
No I don't agree with that premise.the more electric vehicles that are in use then there's more incentive to refine and develop.
Nothing there that wasn't glaringly obvious 15 years ago tbh, at least to anyone even slightly numerate.A long, detailed and thought-provoking article in Spectator here, which is well worth reading the whole thing (I copy a short paragraph below).
'Food for thought' indeed.
If we are going to get anywhere near de-carbonising the electricity grid, we will have to invest in energy storage, at huge cost.
At present we have the capacity to store less than an hour’s worth of the country’s electricity demand, yet in winter conditions can be both windless and overcast for days at a time.
The grid was built to transport electricity generated in coal plants close to where it was consumed.
Wind and solar farms tend to be distributed in more remote locations, by contrast, so the grid itself will have to be reconfigured, again at huge cost.
We are also going to need a massive increase in overall generation capacity as road vehicles and central heating systems are forced to switch to electric power.
A switch to renewable energy will be very far from cheap.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-true-cost-of-renewable-energy/
Electric car owners will now have to pay road tax
Electric car owners will have to pay road tax for the first time, as part of ‘eye-watering’ Budget plans designed to fill a £54 billion hole in the public finances.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will use Thursday’s budget to change Treasury rules which mean emission-free cars and vans currently pay no vehicle excise duty.
Electric vehicles are exempt from both the annual £165 VED standard rate and the £335 ‘premium supplement’ levied on new cars costing more than £40,000.
The move is designed to plug a projected £7 billion shortfall in road tax as the switch to electric vehicles gathers pace.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ay-tax-time-bid-plug-7-billion-shortfall.html
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How much will they be charged?That's shocking news.
An electrifying amount hopefully.How much will they be charged?
Lack of sales isn’t always the reason the drop popular cars (though lord knows why). My mum has a Nissan Note which was an incredibly popular car that for some reason they decided to stop doing.Car manufacturers work years ahead and their crystal-ball-gazing would already be telling them that assuming things go the way we are being told they will, that petrol & diesel engines will be obsolete within the next decade.
Therefore there is no point in them continuing to pour money into developing platforms which can support those engines.
Much better instead to concentrate wholly on EVs, which can be packaged in any way they like really, as long as they have space for the batteries and accessories.
Most motor companies already have EVs in their range which can be developed further. A big company such as Ford will have already seen sales of their Fiesta beginning to tail off.