Interestingly, by providing electricity during peak demand, this will better balance the electricity grid, and allow more renewables to be used. www.rte.ie/news/2026/02...
Today, The Business and Trade Committee questioned Trade Minister Chris Bryant MP on whether Britain can afford to continue 'straddling the Channel and the Atlantic'. The answer is clear, we have the largest trading bloc in the world on our doorstep: it's time to rejoin the single market.
Stable base generation can be provided by renewables, so long as they are coupled with a mechanism for storing excess energy during times when supply outstrips demand. Green hydrogen, big batteries and stored water in hydroelectric schemes are all viable storage options.
The justification for nuclear fission plants is usually that they can provide stable ‘base’ generation- but Sizewell C is unlikely to come on stream before 2040, could cost in excess of £40billion, and will produce the most expensive electricity in human history.
Demand business that’s fair to people and planet. ✊🌍 #DoItFair
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Absolutely agree and this is what @ed-miliband.bsky.social and @uklabour.bsky.social have been saying for years. 1 significant quibble- nuclear power is ludicrously expensive and won’t be available in time to make a difference- put the investment into insulation instead!
“Crisis? What crisis?”
“Now Labour is in government it’s time to change the system at home and ensure that every vote counts so that no woman will ever say again, ‘my vote doesn’t make any difference’.”
@julie4north.bsky.social
#IWD #InternationalWomensDay #Democracy 💜💚
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Nigel Farage and Reform UK are backing US farming, not British farmers.
Because they don’t understand British farming.
Credit unions help people access fair, ethical finance. But an outdated law is holding them back.
I’ve signed this petition to update the rules so credit unions can grow and serve more communities.
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A very sensible and practical set of recommendations from Tony Vaughan. The asylum system needs reform. Mahmood’s proposals are not it.
Vg from @tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social
Control matters.
Review asylum every 2.5 years for 20 years of unsettlement unfair+will impede contribution & integration
Govt to put so much cost & capacity into plans that won't stop boats, distracting from what could work
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Hurrah! Dare we hope that people will realise just how pointless ReformUK is as a party once they’ve experienced a Reform councillor? I think we may!
“Cruelty to immigrants is not what my party stands for. It’s time for True Labour, not Blue Labour”
Stella Creasy
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NEW: After Gorton & Denton, how should we understand the threat to Labour's left?
Big new @persuasionuk.bsky.social report out with @38degrees.bsky.social on 'progressive defectors' - Lab 2024 switchers to Greens, Plaid, SNP, Lib Dems.
Who are they, who are they not & what's moving them? 🧵
I think it is a major flaw of the Starmer/Mahmood government that, by a slogan presenting the 2019-24 Conservatives as "open borders" (numbers) they simply fail to understand the asylum/hotels failure (a botched *closed* to asylum experiment that failed to deter) so are repeating/reintroducing it
Inequality in Britain is rampant, writes @pollytoynbee.bsky.social, and has become so with the help of our electoral system.
Our new research paper, 'Lifting the Lid', links our fragmenting voting system to mass regional deprivation, and regional deprivation to the all-powerful nature of FPTP.
“In Monday’s debate, Labour MPs were among many calling for a national commission on electoral reform…
The PM is pulled from pillar to post and his in-tray is no doubt full; still, this should be near the top of it.”
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@theguardian.com
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Voters show sense to defeat Farage’s party of hate, but democracy shouldn’t be about the least worst alternative. We had a referendum on the Alternative Vote and it was lost. We need a proportional system that values every vote, not FPTP that forces negative tactical voting. @labour4pr.bsky.social
This Bill does not touch on electoral reform however. I'm calling on the Government to establish an electoral commission to look at alternatives to First Past the Post.
People should be able to vote for the best person, not the best guess. (3/3)
The Bill will:
-Extend the voting age to 16 for all UK elections with
-Make citizenship compulsory from primary school,
-Tighten and modernise the rules around political donations
-Introduce stronger protections for candidates, campaigners and electoral staff facing abuse and intimidation (2/3)
Last night I voted for the Representation of the People Bill, a landmark step to increase participation and fairness in our democracy. (1/3)
Can Labour turn the green tide back to red? - LabourList labourlist.org/2026/03/can-...
🏛️ Many other Labour MPs tried to intervene, but didn't get called during a busy debate that ran late
✍️ @drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social & @timrocamp.bsky.social made their own pitch for a National Commission on Electoral Reform in a co-authored article ahead of the debate
Reform are in denial about why they lost by 12% in Gorton & Denton (60% white, 80% UK-born) after losing by 11% in Caerphilly (98% white, 98% UK-born) to Plaid Cyrmu
Both seats unusual in seeing more people vote than at last Welsh Senedd/last GE: more voters turned out to stop Reform than supoort
One poll does not necessarily tell a definitive story. But there is a very clear story from the totality of polls over the past year- there are 5 effective parties in England, 6 in Scotland and Wales, and that’s not a blip. First Past the Post just won’t hack it any more.
This is excellent news. A really important decision.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
My guess is that Starmer’s relationship with the American people has been enhanced by our stance on Iran. I’m really proud to be a citizen of a country which robustly defends its citizens and allies but is not willing to participate in an offensive war. Starmer was really impressive in Parliament.
