https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-62903149
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Members of the Just Stop Oil group gathered with banners to block an entrance of the Kingsbury Oil Terminal near Tamworth on Wednesday.
In April, North Warwickshire Borough Council had obtained a High Court injunction against protests taking place outside the site.
Warwickshire Police said a number of arrests had been made on suspicion of the court order’s breach.
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https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/sep/11/britain-insulate-homes-energy-crisis-2023-heat-loss-houses-subsidising-bills
Britain will be plunged into an even worse energy crisis in a year’s time without an immediate plan to improve leaky homes and dramatically reduce demand for gas, ministers have been warned.
The UK ranks among the worst in Europe for the energy efficiency of its homes, according to new research outlining an urgent need to reduce the amount of heat being wasted. Experts are warning that while Liz Truss has bought the government time with her £100bn-plus package to cap energy bills, similarly expensive and unsustainable schemes will be needed unless substantial plans are introduced to improve homes and reduce demand.
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Experts believe a serious energy-efficiency programme could have a real impact within a year. The institute pointed to Germany as a success story, where grants, low-interest loans, tax rebates and free expert advice have all been used, resulting in high take-up figures.
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Heavy-drinking Criminal Boris Johnson is out. He should never have been prime minister since his character and history was well documented. There was plenty of evidence that he was a worse than useless absolute cnut. To be fair to him, he partied well.
Unfortunately the Conservative Party is now going to inflict a militaristic, pea-brained, basic maths misunderstanding prime minister in the pocket of big business on us. I was tempted to call her a bungalow but I’m thinking of a rattle with just the one pea moving freely inside bouncing and rattling off the inside of her skull.
Johnson to exit Downing St in a shower of sleaze and sexual misconduct claims
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Two women allege they were assaulted and groped by figures within the government.
One woman told Sky News she was “sexually assaulted by someone who is now a Cabinet minister”.
A second woman said she was working at a Conservative event when she was groped, adding: “I turned around and this guy was just looking right at me.”
She complained and raised it again when the man was due to get a top job in No 10, but “nothing happened”.
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Huge leaving card showing naked Boris Johnson running from chaos delivered to No10
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The grim 6 foot-tall card contains messages from thousands of people who suffered during the PM’s leadership.
One message read: “My wonderful mum – a brilliant yet horribly overworked NHS surgeon for over 30 years – died in 2020 and I had to watch her tiny Covid-restricted funeral online from my home rather than being there.
“Meanwhile you were partying. You have no shame. You have no conscience. You have no integrity. You won’t be missed.
Another stated: “When a clown moves into the castle he doesn’t become a king, the castle becomes a circus. Good riddance.”
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26 Nov 22: There is an updated post here
You are welcome to disagree with any point although I contend that it is clear.
The climate is fekked. We’ve witnessed extreme weather events on every continent. The climate is fekked because governments worldwide refused to act and instead facilitated rich people – as corporate entities or individuals – fekking it.
Big oil has known for decades that it was fekking the planet and continued regardless.
Thousand of people have already died due to the climate getting destroyed by rich people and governments and thousands more will die. Governments are still failing to accept reality and address the climate crisis. Some have started to in small measure.
People should be held to account for their actions and inactions. People are likely to get killed over it whether legally i.e through a legally sanctioned death penalty, or not.
The US has historically had and the UK repeatedly has and continues to elect political leaders who are incompetent through imbecility.
We are going to suffer extreme food shortages due to the climate being fekked.
Everything is blamed on Russia. Ukraine is not the only place that grows food. Harvests throughout Europe have / will fail.
We should try to make sure that politicians responsible for fekking the climate and planet are not re-elected.
I’m sorry to say that it’s clearly going to get worse.
A Pakistani minister has called the country’s deadly monsoon season “a serious climate catastrophe” and “a climate dystopia at our doorstep” as officials said deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan had passed 1,000 since mid-June.
Flash floods, which have intensified in recent days, have swept away villages, roads, bridges, people, livestock and crops across all four provinces. Pakistan has appealed for international help as soldiers and rescue workers have evacuated stranded people to relief camps and provided food to thousands of displaced people.
The country’s National Disaster Management Authority said on Sunday the death toll from the monsoon rains had reached 1,033, with 119 killed in the previous 24 hours. It said this year’s floods were comparable with those of 2010 – the worst on record – when more than 2,000 people died and nearly a fifth of the country was under water.
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