The Great and The Good are hard at it

+Kemi Badenoch gave her leader’s speech at the Tory Party conference today and it seems that it was rousing’ (Independent) and may well preserve her leadership for a little while longer—taking  a leaf out of Starmer’s book which was also considered ‘rousing.’ Both speeches will quickly be forgotten athough given her unfunded promise of tax cuts Badenoch will soon be compared to Liz Truss. I do wish when our ‘leaders’ talk of tax cuts and ‘balancing the budget’ (which they never do) they could make plainer their aspirations to destroy public services a bit clearer. And of course on who’s behalf they’re doing it.
 
+I enjoyed a day trip to Sheffield today, courtesy of Northern Rail with a £4 return ticket. It takes as long to get to Sheffield on their direct service as it does to go to London. Anyway, I picked up a copy of the free newspaper Metro which very succinctly reported that globally renewable energy has outstripped energy from coal for the first time. At the same time Reuters reported that the idiot Trump is considering cancelling all federal funding for renewable energy development. Perhaps that means he’s very pleased with the advances of clean energy. It was thanks to government support for clean energy that it can now out-compete fossil fuels. Nuclear lobbyists take note. But the old is not going out without a fight, and they are gaining ground in the smoke filled corridors of populist idiots, including Badenoch and to a lesser extent our very own Tony Blair.
 
+The shadow Home Secretary Robert Jenrick is proving to be very much a prick. His comments that on a visit to some place in the Midlands (it’s all merged together in my view) which lasted fully 90 minutes he didn’t spot a white face showed that ‘proper’ integration wasn’t happening. I’m waiting to hear about his next trip to somewhere like the Cotswolds. I imagine he may have to wait longer than 90 minutes to see a black face, unless they all have servants in Chipping Norton. Some people have suggested that Jenrick is playing the race card. His denials don’t quite ring true. I wonder what he really thinks about having a black woman leader—a migrant from Nigeria to boot—not that that would have any influence on his apparent desire to replace her.