Re: energy in UK

On 18/04/2025 9:05 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:52:46 +0100, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
 

On 16/04/2025 09:20, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
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On 14/04/2025 22:25, Liz Tuddenham wrote:

Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> wrote:
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On 2025-04-14, Liz Tuddenham <liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote:

Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:

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One thing about politicians is that anyone who actually wants to do
their job should probably be debarred from doing it.

 The major flaw in our current model of democracy as thing stand is the
'career politician' - who 30 or 40 years ago may have got into
politics for the noblest of reasons, but has since had their
principles completely compromised and has amassed considerable wealth
from selling their influence to the highest bidder. We need to make
the 'career politician' an historical curiosity.

Doesn't fit the only politician I know all that well. His principles still seem to be in fine shape - he was a minister for a few years, and while his career may have suffered from his unwillingness to do the wrong thing, he did pretty well.
We bought the book he wrote before he became a minister, and when it got damaged in a domestic disaster I was afraid that it was going to be hard to replace, but the local bookshop had plenty of copies - it was a set text in a Cambridge University course.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney