Tai posted:

Cool, I don't need to vote in another GE then

Private Speech posted:

I remember hearing the Scottish Greens are not as bad as the English ones? But I don't really follow Scottish politics.

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1788214011005182092


How long until she's made a minister or whip?

fuctifino posted:

Labour's (former?) candidate for Dover has made a video upping his fash game
https://twitter.com/MikeTappTweets/status/1788190215586111784

kingturnip posted:

That's the image he went with to start the video?
I thought Labour at least put some effort into making their candidates look professional at a first glance.
That face is pure Eton oval office "something smells here".

kingturnip posted:

That's the image he went with to start the video?
I thought Labour at least put some effort into making their candidates look professional at a first glance.
That face is pure Eton oval office "something smells here".

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1788214011005182092


How long until she's made a minister or whip?

kingturnip posted:

That's the image he went with to start the video?
I thought Labour at least put some effort into making their candidates look professional at a first glance.
That face is pure Eton oval office "something smells here".

Tesseraction posted:

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Just thought I'd check out that shoulder grip handshake body language:





I wonder if he's been going to 'power stance' classes using arms instead of legs?

It looks really strained in the Starmeroid photo.

dadrips posted:

I would be very surprised if the Scottish Greens run any MP candidates for Westminster - they're on the cusp of having a constituency MSP in west Glasgow, but I'm not sure how well that'd translate to British elections. It would be supreme shithousery to send Ross Greer to the commons though

Jel Shaker posted:

so is the idea that the local labour volunteers will go out and canvass for her? because lol imagine having zero self respect (i bet they do it)

The Question IRL posted:

In other UK news. Cops spying on Journos.

PSNI regularly spied on journalists by accessing their phone data, London court hears

keep punching joe posted:

My full knowledge of Irish politics is based on that Rubberbandits song about who's in the ra.

Tai posted:

https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1788196288653148635?t=icZ9nrS3UofTyQ6DZTTPBg

fuctifino posted:

None of the articles that I've read seems to mention that Elphicke is stepping down at the next election. Is this lazy journalism or has she changed her mind?

Sir Sidney Poitier posted:

NEW: A Labour spokesman refuses to rule out Josef Fritzl joining the Labour party

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

I've seen it in a few, here's one:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cprg329qp7go

quote:

Bill and Marie Kirk, both originally from Dover, were visiting the town from London.

They hoped Ms Elphicke’s move was “principle rather than pragmatism”.

Mrs Kirk said: “This town needs hope and help - it’s very deprived.

“She must have an awareness of the town she is representing and that things need to change. Good luck to her I say.”

Her husband added: “I think it’s reflective of a need for change in this country and in that sense I’m hopeful.”

quote:

According to a new study, gas and propane stoves emit unhealthy amounts of nitrogen dioxide. Regular use of these stoves can increase a household’s annual exposure to NO2 by 4 ppb, or 75% of the long-term exposure limit set by the World Health Organization (WHO).

“In other words, just by using gas stoves regularly, you’re eating up three-quarters of that guideline, which was established to protect public health,” Yannai Kashtan, a PhD candidate at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and lead author of the study, said during a press briefing. Exposure to outdoor sources of NO2, such as vehicle traffic, already frequently push people over that guideline, he added.

quote:

The researchers estimate that long-term exposure to the NO2 emitted from gas and propane stoves could be responsible for up to as many as 50,000 pediatric asthma cases in the US. “The full impact may be closer to around 200,000 cases” when benzene and other pollutants emitted by the stoves are considered, Kari Nadeau, chair of the department of environmental health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and one of the coauthors of the study, said at the press briefing.

As for adults, “we have calculated that up to 19,000 premature deaths may also be attributed to long-term exposure [to NO2] from gas stoves,” Nadeau added. “That is also probably a conservative number.”

quote:

“The pollution doesn’t stay in the kitchen,” Rob Jackson, a professor of Earth system science at Stanford’s Doerr School and the study’s principal investigator, said during the press briefing. “The pollution we measured travels from the kitchen to distant bedrooms and travels far and fast.”

In a subset of the homes studied, the NO2 levels measured in bedrooms surpassed the hourly limits set by both the WHO and US Environmental Protection Agency within 30 min of turning on a stove or oven. Concentrations often remained above those public health benchmarks for hours, Jackson said.

The researchers also found that the health impacts of gas and propane stoves may fall disproportionately on those living in homes of less than 75 m2. According to the study, residents of such homes are exposed to an extra 8.6 ppb of NO2 per year—four times as much as people living in houses of more than 280 m2.

Guavanaut posted:

The (fairly obvious sounding, but still worth proper study) links between small houses and bedrooms becoming dangerous from even short use of a gas appliance the other side of the house are even more of a problem for the UK than the US, and there was the famous lawsuit around the death of Ella Kissi-Debrah in London from paediatric asthma, and yet I've not seen anything similar to Sadiq Khan breaking into your home and stealing your cooker gas hob buyback campaigns for induction cooktops, just lots of Net Zero marketing around boiler replacement, which isn't really a direct indoor air quality initiative.

Soylent Yellow posted:

There's nothing concrete yet, but there's a definite consensus in the kitchen industry that the days of gas hobs are numbered. Gas ovens are already vanishingly rare, because they offer no advantages over an electric oven. A lot of people still prefer gas hobs, because they're more responsive to adjustment than standard electric ones. Induction hobs are beginning to push them out, as they offer all the advantages of cooking on gas, without the disadvantages of being a pain to clean and occasionally exploding your house.

Guavanaut posted:

Just read this article regarding gas cooking. Interesting because I saw some reports before, when it became a culture war issue in the US (where ~38% of households have gas stoves) a couple years ago as Joe Biden was going to break into your house and steal your gas stove, whereas in the UK (61% have at least gas hobs) it hasn't really been on the radar at all.





The (fairly obvious sounding, but still worth proper study) links between small houses and bedrooms becoming dangerous from even short use of a gas appliance the other side of the house are even more of a problem for the UK than the US, and there was the famous lawsuit around the death of Ella Kissi-Debrah in London from paediatric asthma, and yet I've not seen anything similar to Sadiq Khan breaking into your home and stealing your cooker gas hob buyback campaigns for induction cooktops, just lots of Net Zero marketing around boiler replacement, which isn't really a direct indoor air quality initiative.

Bobstar posted:

Our flat in London had a nice extractor hood over the gas hob

Of course we later discovered it wasn't actually connected to anything. Just a round hose hole at the top, leading nowhere

Paladinus posted:

Oh no, I thought Grylls wasn't that type of a religious guy. Or maybe he's just extremely naïve.

forkboy84 posted:

Man, Steve Albini dying has completely bummed me the gently caress out tonight.