Most of Europe was too cosy with him, and thats all gone now its clear appeasement / containment / dragging Russia in the west culturally has utterly failed. The entire northern hemisphere seems to be in the initial stages of realigning into 3 great blocks.
And judging by history, those who stand outside them will be crushed between them.
The EU isn't a global power, thats a major part of why this happened in the first place.
That its clearly in Europes interests to become a unified state that can do things like send its own large 1st rate army to defend its borders will be one of the major consequences of this war. It will light a fire under federation efforts.
I don't see how the government could afford this. Even Labour is on a full blown cutting spree.
Interesting development that the plant is being de-prioritised down to secondary generator status. Thats the ongoing clean transition in action there.
Naturally a supposedly green group immediately popped up to complain about getting what they want.
Demand an apology?
Do people not understand what an apology is?
Its a very interesting question
The presumption is that they are front loading bad news so its all good news closer to elections. But I don't know if that will work if the Americans manage to cause to full blown trade war.
At time of writing the number of petitions over the lifetime of the system that reached Parliament and then led to law change or action stands at 0. Its a pointless PR exercise in looking like they care. The law on it doesn't even require it to enter the commons, merely to be debated in some back room for half an hour by 3 or 4 mps.
I did see that if you counted up EU stats as a single set of figures instead of country by country the EU would count as the 2nd greatest economy in the world and comfortably ahead of the third. Bet there would much more support for rejoining if that was widely known, it'd show how little chance there is even in principle of making international trader UK work well enough to offset the loss.
You saved me typing
Exactly this. I very much doubt this is anything but the realpolik that is always going on that is a large part of keeping the country secure and the taps flowing.
Heat pumps still need to get much cheaper to be viable for most people.
The way it looks to me right now - pressure mounts on practically every side, Labour popularity rises toward the election (its been said front loading unpopular stuff is deliberate), Tories start trying to distance themselves from Reform (to avoid becoming known America apologists for a start), relationship repair becomes a keystone of the 2029 - 2034 session.
What does that have to do with anything? Wars aren't won by the number of bodies on the front, they haven't been since ww2.