badgerx16

They certainly gave the goats a lot of publicity last year, not sure if it was just window dressing though.

It has been claimed that almond cultivation in California uses as much water as the total domestic water consumption in the State. 70% of almonds are exported, and it shows a certain irony in this picture showing a man emptying cartons of almond milk onto an area where the fire was spreading near his house;

Blair

Cuts to the fire service budget and lack of investment in the water supply have contributed to the situation.

To be clear, this is the amendment the Tories and Reform supported. "That this House, while welcoming measures to improve child protection and safeguarding, declines to give a Second Reading to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill because it undermines the long-standing combination of school freedom and accountability that has led to educational standards rising in England, effectively abolishes academy freedoms which have been integral to that success and is regressive in approach, leading to worse outcomes for pupils; because it ends freedom over teacher pay, making it harder to attract and retain good teachers; because it ends freedom over Qualified Teacher Status, making teacher recruitment harder; because it removes school freedoms over the curriculum, leading to less innovation; because repealing the requirements for failing schools to become academies and for all new schools to be academies will undermine school improvement and remove the competition which has led to rising standards; because the Bill will make it harder for good schools to expand, reducing parental choice and access to a good education; and calls upon the Government to develop new legislative proposals for children’s wellbeing at the same time as establishing a national statutory inquiry into historical child sexual exploitation, focused on grooming gangs." The first highlighted text shows the original purpose of the amendment, the second was a late addition to hide their intentions.

Looks like Donnie has found a few grown up advisors; "US president-elect Donald Trump has pushed back his campaign pledge to end the war in Ukraine in “24 hours” to several months, in a shift European partners have interpreted as a sign that his administration will not immediately abandon support for Kyiv. Two European officials told the Financial Times that discussions with Trump’s incoming team in recent weeks revealed they had not yet decided on how to solve the conflict, and that support to Ukraine would continue after the US president’s inauguration on January 20. “The whole [Trump] team is obsessed with strength and looking strong, so they’re recalibrating the Ukraine approach,” said one of the officials. " https://www.ft.com/content/989dc02e-2a13-4c21-8ad0-0b32e098c410

Liz Truss has filed a Cease and Desist order against Keir Starmer to stop him repeating that she crashed the economy.

I am wondering if, with all the bluster and bullshit Trump is coming out with, he has one of Elon's prototype neural implants, and it's inbuilt AI is malfunctioning.

Mike Pence's wife snubbed Donnie and Melania at Jimmy Carter's funeral.

Rupert failing to understand how the HoC works, ( if you listen closely you can hear the Speaker say "This is a shambles" );

Things might get quite warm.......

The Tories could have announced an inquiry on the day the report was published. Or the day after, or at any time up until the GE was announced, but didn't. Why are they calling for one now ?

Ever had an oops moment ? Phoebe Schecter on the BBC sports pages predictrs the NFL playoff games...... AFC - Los Angeles Chargers (5) at Houston Texans (4) I think the Chargers will take this. They're on fire and the Texans are on a downward slope......

But this Bill would not be the appropriate way to introduce it, the amendment gives nothing additional to the Bill, it is deliberately destructive and distracting.. The Tories could have created an enquiry in 2022, 2023, or 2024, but chose not to. As I said, there may well be scope for the possibility of such an enquiry to be debated, but playing such pathetic games is unseemly.

The point is that in the very unlikely event the amendment is passed, the entire Bill falls. ( Not that they were bothered when they were in power ). By all means raise the issue and debate whether an enquiry is necessary, but why play politics in this manner ?