XR campaigners demand government enters talks about the climate emergency in seven-day ultimatum

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Extinction Rebellion protests at BP
Extinction Rebellion protests at BP

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/xr-campaigners-demand-government-enters-talks-about-the-climate-emergency-in-seven-day-ultimatum

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners have delivered a seven-day ultimatum to the government, demanding it enter talks about the climate emergency.

Extinction Rebellion and allies from almost 200 environmental and social justice groups, including the PCS union, Greenpeace and War on Want, delivered two demands today.

The alliance called for the government to halt the search for new fossil fuels immediately. And it also demanded the government should set up emergency citizens’ assemblies to let the people decide how to end the fossil fuel era, setting a deadline for ministers to enter into talks.

If ministers fail to respond by 5pm on Monday April 24, XR and allies have vowed to step up their campaigns and actions across the country to force them to do so.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/xr-campaigners-demand-government-enters-talks-about-the-climate-emergency-in-seven-day-ultimatum

comment by dizzy: I doubt that the UK government will respond positively to XR’s demands and instead disregards the climate crisis.

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Ofgem’s new rules ‘fail to deal’ with energy debt facing struggling households

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Image of cash and pre-payment meter key

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/ofgems-new-rules-fail-deal-energy-debt-facing-struggling-households

OFGEM’S new prepayment meter rules “fail to deal” with the energy debt mountain facing struggling households, campaigners have warned, as the watchdog revealed a new code of practice for suppliers today.

The body said that energy firms in England, Scotland and Wales had agreed to the code, which includes a ban on forcibly installing prepayment meters in the homes of people over the age of 85.

End Fuel Poverty Coalition coordinator Simon Francis also said the code does not go far enough, and that the voluntary aspect “undermines its objective.”

He said: “There are really vulnerable groups which have been omitted from its full protection and we have serious concerns about how it will be implemented, such as how people will prove their medical conditions without being humiliated by an energy firm health inspection.

“The plans also fail to deal with the elephant in the room — the growing household energy debt mountain.”

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/ofgems-new-rules-fail-deal-energy-debt-facing-struggling-households

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Excusing establishment paedophiles

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I’ve started looking at the excusing of establishment paedophiles under the ‘establishment man’ Keir Starmer after he’s accused Rishi Sunak of excusing paedophiles. Greville Janner got away with it for decades and Tony Blair ennobled him in an act of establishment paedophile excusal.

Alex Carlile may well have had no idea Janner was a paedophile. After all, he shared a cramped parliamentary office with Cyril Smith for many years, and apparently never realised that Smith was a prolific paedophile. Possibly Alex Carlile is simply a particularly unobservant man.

It is however unfortunate that Starmer chose to appoint as the legal eagle to exonerate him over Jimmy Savile, the wife of the stalwart parliamentary defender of Britain’s second most prominent paedophile. I presume that Starmer never noticed that either, just as he did not notice the decision by his office and the staff under him not to prosecute Savile.

It is extraordinary that these people manage to become so rich and powerful when they are entirely unobservant. Especially as Levitt, Starmer, Carlile and Jenner were all top QCs.

Anyway, that is just an everyday tale of unobservant folk.

21/4/23 , Tony Blair’s former flatmate was featured in a post on this blog in an extremely unflattering way, accused by me of behaviour close to the subject of this post. My blogs have had incidents with posts disappearing and that one now appears to be absent.

21/4/23 Oops, made a mistake there Charlie Falconer was Blair’s flatmate.

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Fekk, disrupt, protest

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We have every right to protest. It’s our fucking World as much as anyone else, especially rich cnuts.

ed: What you want a reasoned argument?

In that case, rich cnuts are trashing our beautiful world.

Recognise that?

What’s needed?

Are you going to do nothing while Capitalists destroy our World?

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