"The owner of Vauxhall has announced plans to close its van-making factory in Luton, putting about 1,100 jobs at risk.

There are growing concerns among car manufacturers over EV sales targets, with many ... calling for the government to do more to boost consumer demand.

In response to the announcement, the government said it while it was

"encouraging to see Stellantis investing in the future of its Ellesmere Port plant, we know this will be a concerning time for the families of employees at Luton who may be affected".

[ MAY BE AFFECTED??? ]

As part of the shift to electric, manufacturers are required to sell a certain percentage of cars and vans that emit zero emissions.

Current rules state EVs must make up 22% of a carmaker's car sales, and 10% of van sales this year.

For every sale that pushes it outside the mandate, firms must pay a £15,000 fine. There are flexibilities in the system, allowing manufacturers who cannot meet the targets to buy "credits" from those that can.

Car brands with factories in the UK have been urging the government to relax the rules, arguing that EV demand is not strong enough and more incentives are required for drivers to go fully electric.

Following the intense pressure from industry, Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds is expected to announce a consultation on the rules later on Tuesday."


A consultation on rules from desk-bound politicians!
Play "The Death March" for 1100 factory jobs.

First may I remind you that the UK emits an insignificant 0.8% of global CO2 emissions.
So our incompetent PM and his idiot Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband, AND would you believe it, 470 officials go to Azerbaijan in the hope of improving his CV by grandstanding on the world stage.
What makes this so ridiculous is that they are proposing to waste £'s billions of our money in a bid to become world leaders to net zero, while all the other major players are going in the opposite direction.
The COP29 is obviously a fiasco such that the leaders of the USA, China, India, France, Germany, Argentina together with the leader of the EUC Von Der Lyden, not even bothering to attend. So while Starmer was grandstanding he was lacking an audience of any standing to watch him. So what did it cost us? a PM, a Minister and 470 pen pushers on a nice little Jolly, not to mention the carbon footprint to get them all there.
During the election Starmer claimed, now conveniently forgotten, that the billions that he would spend on renewables would reduce our energy bills by £300 per household, whereas the OBR say that it will add£12 billion to our fuel bills this year.and that ignores all future subsidies and the estimated £100 billion required to upgrade the infrastructure to cope with renewables. All this to achieve nothing in global terms.
What shows the stupidity of their policy is that India and China together emit in 6 days what it takes the UK a year to achieve, and they are actively pursuing an expansion of their coal fired generating capacity.
COP29 celebrates reaching a deal of 300 billion dollars of aid, big deal, they haven't coughed up half of that promised on the previous deal.
A further irony of COP29 is that it is held in Azerbaijan where 90% of it's exports are fossil fuels.
With these idiots in charge what chance does the planet have?. One thing is for sure and that is we can expect much higher energy bills and many more vulnerable and poorly off people shivering or even dying from hypothermia.

This madness of forcing car manufacturers to build a higher percentage of fully electric cars and less petrol cars, even though the demand for EVs is not there, is causing car plants to close and thousands of jobs to be lost.
Last week Vauxhall closed a plant. Now Volkswaged are closing three plants. This will be the first time a German car plant has ever been forced to close.
https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/10/28/volkswagen-set-to-close-three-german-plants-and-cut-thousands-of-jobs

By saying it’s women of a certain age that complain?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0k8kryvdjno

I guess he thought he might as well do it before January whilst he still can

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32052285/joe-biden-set-to-issue-pardon-son-hunter/

https://youtube.com/shorts/WsmhCiJP_0Y?si=pXD0SNAXrkcWjCLf

Funnily enough, sound just like Jeremy Clarkson

Prompted by a comment on another post, I thought it would be good to hear how Brexit has changed your life? I don't mean by just happening to the world, but changed your situation or the things you do in life personally?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gPhhOV4Wbag

https://inews.co.uk/news/thames-water-increasing-bills-160-chief-exec-1-7m-3405102

To become a reality

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nhs-offers-ping-book-screening-164622641.html

The media and Puketin forget the massive casualties Russia will suffer.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1983235/putin-europe-ukraine-war-attacks

Although King Charles III is head of the COE with the historic title of 'Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church of England', they do not want a free portrait of him hanging in their hallowed halls.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/most-cofe-churches-snub-offer-of-free-portrait-of-king/ar-AA1v7mOY

https://youtu.be/SA8T29zWNCw?si=JWSNZYQyzqHRwMCd

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14145465/british-man-fighting-putin-russia-ukraine-war.html

https://chng.it/YJSPknfDty

On Facebook

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c86wllpde55o

Young people are doing it routinely

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4v52ezx17o

If you live in these postcodes

https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/24747944.london-postcodes-highest-burglary-rates-including-se24/

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0024qcp/rage-against-the-regime-iran-series-1-episode-1

What a thought

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/would-you-survive-72-hours-germany-and-the-nordic-countries-prepare-citizens-for-possible-war

Labour Justice Secretary is planning on announcing extra funding will be put into more legal aid for illegal immigrants to fight to be rewarded leave to stay in UK. Apparently this is to speed up and reduce time they are put up in hotels.

Goes up again but less than last year (starts April)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0lez00g85o

I think it’s about time the BBC were investigated regarding the wages they pay

Is a female DJ that works a few hours a week worth £954,999 per year?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2dlzprk1dno

He is as bad as any murderer

https://news.sky.com/story/norfolk-george-taylor-19-who-crashed-into-woman-while-driving-with-his-knees-jailed-13260835?dicbo=v2-KUeWDhb

The last government were running an open borders experiment

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/keir-starmer-tories-migrant-crisis-open-borders-video

Does the guy who voted for them and made a petition against Labour want to explain why he thought the last government was honest 😳

Former Prime Minister Lord David Cameron has backed moves to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults.

In an article in The Times, Lord Cameron said that while he had opposed moves to legalise assisted dying in the past, he believed the current proposal was "not about ending life, it is about shortening death, external".

Previously his main concern had been that "vulnerable people could be pressured into hastening their own deaths", but he said he believed the current proposal contained "sufficient safeguards" to prevent this.

New measures for domestic abuse victims- only launched in a few places but a good move in the right direction. The immediate issue of Domestic Abuse protection notices to give time to apply for a DAPO will really help, as will family being able to apply on the victims behalf.
Well done, Jess Phillips!

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-measures-to-protect-victims-of-domestic-abuse

https://petition.parliament.uk/signatures/145458053/signed

Interesting piece on tv this morning

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4lk0g96zpo.amp

In a padded room

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjw0e3zjx2lo.amp

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crr9y0rz15vo

https://www.gbnews.com/news/national-lottery-winner-sentenced-four-years-prison-paedophile

No use for this kind of thing in a Fighting Service.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/donald-trump-to-kick-all-15-000-transgender-soldiers-out-of-the-us-army/ar-AA1uHX16?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=3579d69573e5459f88639a6a79f66fe8&ei=

First family parry I've been to since covid and got a lovely party gift

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87x2p535wqo

What should be a collective noun for the users of Scooploop?
Any suggestions?

BBC News Item.

"According to the most recent ONS statistics, from 2018, liver disease is consistently among the top three causes of death each year among women aged 39-45.

“Women's drinking pretty much doubled in a really short period of time… about 10 years,” Prof Fiona Measham, a leading expert in drink and drug culture from the University of Liverpool, tells me.

Her research suggests that in the 1990s and 2000s, the alcohol industry zeroed in on female drinkers, targeting them with products such as alcopops and shots - and using feminism, female empowerment and liberation as a marketing tool.

She thinks these practices established a drinking culture in a whole generation of young women that would leave a lasting legacy.

“What we're seeing now is that young people, their consumption is falling fastest, but it's still holding quite steady for people in their 30s, 40s and 50s,” she says.

The same aggressive approach persists today within the alcohol industry, believes Prof Carol Emslie, from Glasgow Caledonian University. Only now it is pushing things like prosecco, “gin o’clock” and “wine time” as a way for women to relax and practise self-care after a hard day."

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/billion-year-old-mouse-created-in-lab-using-method-older-than-all-life-on-earth/ar-AA1us112?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=5dfe80c7db144470b7dfe1adf5eae8c5&ei=30

I would love him to be killed as a superb Christmas present to everybody.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/russia-sends-new-nuclear-war-warning-and-names-priority-target-in-europe-for-destruction/ar-AA1uxT5c?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=f4c0173e161c4188ea958108bad54c5f&ei=17

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/motorists-set-to-see-car-costs-skyrocket-in-january-amid-ofgem-announcement-impacting-millions/ar-AA1uC8m2?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=5dfe80c7db144470b7dfe1adf5eae8c5&ei=41

https://news.sky.com/story/glasgow-bannerman-high-school-criticised-over-chest-binder-fundraiser-for-transgender-pupils-13254035?authId=1*1w4p8d8*_a*d0JnX29USDdzZXpuYjJpZ19fQV9mSm9nQ0lwWkdGWUJoTnhQam9wWU1HMl9SWlNMRzRsS1ZOVDV1ZTB5XzIyZw..

As they keep all the profits from his book

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c704y326g4ro

Last week, it was revealed that a man who pleaded guilty to taking part in the disorder was previously sentenced to ten years in prison for deliberately setting fire to a mosque in Stoke-on-Trent. Back in his 2011 trial, Simon Beech – now 36 years old – said that he had been a member of both the neo-fascist British National Party (BNP) and the English Defence League (EDL).

He rated a 15 year old girl and got her pregnant after being given leave to remain
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/31796260/asylum-seeker-deportation-blocked-cabin-crew-jailed-rape-teen/

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/31876826/moment-man-escapes-kidnap-attempt-van/amp/

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/31868070/met-police-lose-officers-budget-cuts/