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I've signed up. I've never been inside the House of Commons. Anyone else going?

Did you read Ed Milliband's lecture from last week: http://bit.ly/4CZ5uZ Government ministers are saying stuff that they would not have dreamt of a few years ago.

Vortex, I tend to agree, look after yourself and family first, but if "all the above will come knocking on your door", tell me how exactly could we achieve the former??

Not the first time though izzit? Quote: In a letter, the home secretary wrote: "I cannot have public confusion between scientific advice and policy and have therefore lost confidence in your ability to advise me as Chair of the ACMD. In other words, if the science doesn't agree with policy, he loses confidence in the science !

Hmmmmm. Not sure about him....... Quote: Some environmentalists may worry however that nuclear power plays a significant role in most of the scenarios of the UK's future energy mix which appear in Mackay's book. When challenged on this position during the Ecologist roundtable, Mackay said: 'The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar...

Many of the ingrained procedures and practices of Government are not going to stand us in good steed at all in trying to grapple with the problems we now face and the radical change required in every area of life. As a matter of fact they will prove to be some of the most enormous blockages getting in the way of averting disaster. There is no doubt that Officialdom would win, hand over ...

The report is OK but is pretty wishy washy on it's recommendations. Flaws are: * It assumes that the city council has control over businesses to make them more local. They do not. * It assumes that the "solution" to people travelling to work is to make them travel less. * It copies certain flaws from dieoff.org verbatim. For example: It takes 10 calories of fossil ...