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A short thread on Reform UK and climate change.
Richard Tice has repeatedly refused to accept that climate change is man-made.
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Tice's 3% figure is highly misleading.
It is arrived at by including natural releases of CO2 (plants, soil, oceans) as well as human emissions.
But natural releases are balanced out by natural absorption.
Gross emissions of CO2 are almost 100% man-made.
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To add to this thread: ending rough sleeping would require investment in mental health and addiction services, as well as housing - all of which have a wider public benefit
And it's an understandable goal for multiple depts to get behind, if working together is a priority.
Choosing 'end rough sleeping' as your first pledge on entering Downing St is definitely A Statement - and maybe at this point, that's what matters.
But delivery will require investment in mental health and addiction services, as well as housing. Andy Burnham has all the levers.
.@RefugeCharity say domestic abuse survivors still face "gatekeeping" from some local authorities - after the local government ombudsman warned this case should be a "wake-up call" to councils everywhere:
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwye…
Young people will be wanded when they go to South Bristol's new youth zone - after they said they wanted to be.
"People just need to understand this is a safe place to go" - said 16-year-old Ryder.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx24…
The £60,000 Bristol artwork that's less than six months old... bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0z…
Damien Egan’s full interview on rearranging his school visit five months after it was ‘cancelled’ due to a planned pro-Palestine protest outside the school gates: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
Remember when Damien Egan was ‘banned’ from visiting a school in his constituency? The visit has now happened - in secret - and he gave his first interview to Politics West: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3v…
Labour mayor Helen Godwin won't fund a 24-hour bus gate on Park Street in Bristol - so the Green Party-led council is going to try to find the money itself bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgk…
The Charity Commission is looking to suspend Easton mosque chair (and Green Party councillor) Abdul Malik for three years bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9ww…
West of England mayor Helen Godwin says she won't fund free bus travel for asylum seekers from her own budget - but writes to the Home Secretary urging her to consider issuing bus tickets "where appropriate" bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gj…
On the youth guarantee, what does 'a guaranteed paid work placement' actually mean? A week? A month?
The Bristol pilot scheme offers a two-week placement, but there's no guarantee of a job at the end of it (and it's too soon to know the results). bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyz…
Emails from Winford Parish Council suggest the Home Office started to use this hotel in 2022, when the Conservatives were in government.
“The flag represents all of us in England, regardless of our original heritage”, says Tony Dyer, the Green leader of Bristol city council, on @BBCBristol
“We are an English city… we are also a city of sanctuary, those two things are not contradictory.”
Bristol’s Green council leader Tony Dyer tells @BBCBristol he's “happy" to see flags being flown across the city.
Says some people have approached the council because they feel uncomfortable, but “it's time for us to reclaim the flag”.
Helen Godwin told @johndarvall that a new Comms Director, paid more than her, will help WECA tell its story to residents and government @BBCBristol bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2p…
Away from the politics of it all, what are the plans that the government wants to get through as it tries to limit the rise in welfare spending? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj92…
People would only qualify for PIP if they score ‘four points’ in a single category.
What does that actually mean? You could be at risk of choking, need help to wash hair or lower limbs, need prompting to go to the toilet - and not qualify.