danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 3hThe location helps in terms of fan large fan base, a team with far less association with racism/intolerance. Hard to get tickets for men’s team. Arsenal were the most sucseful women’s team for a long time. 010
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 8hWe have a coin toss to giveaway a massive advantage. Sport sometimes seems to want to become coin flipping rather then accept randomness happens. 010
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 8hCricket is full of injustices (pitch, weather), seeks a bit weird to pick one out. 110
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 8hNeither the UAE and Saudis do not want people coming back in body bags do they so they need others to take the risk. 110
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 8hRentier economies often struggle here, the army is there to maintain power over commodities and maintain power structures. 010
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 8hI think for all the money in defence - you do need some willing boots on the ground. Not sure Saudi society is set up for that. 340
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 9hYeah had my house done recently and they don’t seem convinced for older houses. Maybe vested interest. I do think for many there is a better use of smaller subsidies to rescue bills then heat pumps aimed at home owners. 000
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 9hI feel lots of people will start to question whether the cuts that the tories tax savings require will make their overall lives better. Most people are fairly reliant on a functional state even at top 20% of income. 010
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Yeah that’s true, just seems odd given scarcity and value people don’t resale. 110
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Saudi has tied to make a big investment in its airports and airlines, it doesn’t look great for them if the Houthis can do this at will. 010
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 11/10/2026And massive car parks at the end of each motorway? 100
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The clubs know what seats are not getting used, surely repeat offenders can be warned about non-attendance. 110
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Lots of 2 large 2 lane roads like the A12, A41 are missing. The uk has very strict rules of what counts as a motorway. 020
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Maybe would be better to separate inter-urban and urban schemes. I’m sure lots of roads schemes do come out well for growth, less well for overall environmental impact. 010
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Seems quite America focussed and nuinced. We have quite a service based economy compared to the USA. Not anti road just think this argument is less clear cut. 120
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Milton Keynes maybe an expeption but is partially because it’s quite small, and now it’s betting bigger it wants to invest in public transport. 100
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Is there much evidence that motorways do that much for growth - I can see some specific area. But induces demand in many areas would fill the roads with low value leisure trips - and aggomeration is high in dense places without lots of car trips - our most car centric places arse not high growth? 200
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The far right in France have made similar arguments on the Frenchness of the football team however. It’s not unique to England. 110
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Well France makes it virtually illegal to talk about ethnicity. Also I think in France people would be pretty happy to have multiple regional identities and also be French. 110
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The issue of winning the by election in quite specific circumstances was hope was raised. 010
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 10/10/2026And many don’t. The issue is she is telling other people how to identify. 110
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It’s just weird to deny that England is a place. If it wasn’t a place then why do we have national sports teams. And it’s way more a place than an ethnicity - JRM point. 020
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“I’m not a murderer, mostly I don’t murder people, I murdered a few people but not all people that doesn’t make me murderer” 110
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026But you are opposing solar farms. These are specific examples of greens opposing solar farms. 200
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Sometimes things are in national interest. That’s a trade off. 110
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026There are loads of examples of greens opposing solar farms and other projects so it’s not bad faith. doncaster.greenparty.org.uk/2025/11/02/g... I don’t think you understand the meaning of lots of words you use.doncaster.greenparty.org.ukGreens Oppose the imposition of Corporate energy on the countryside at Whitestone Farm - Doncaster Green PartyThe Green Party advocates for the rapid development of renewable energy. We see it as the only sustainable route to achieving cheap, clean, and secure fuel sources for the future. This includes the ex... 041
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026If they meet the planning requirements then yes. Greens in these examples are opposing solar in line with planning guidance. 100
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026No evidence apart form the evidence presented, just like greens oppose the cables to take energy from coast, they oppose new rail that takes cars of the road. Greens want a transition but only at zero impact locally which is a fantasy. 100
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026As long as the project is on a roof, with a panel made with no embodied carbon then it’s fine, all other solar bad. 000
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Opposing a solar farm is now not opposing a solar farm. 110
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They do care, just about different to things to you. 020
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Lots of examples www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...bbc.co.uk'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Norfolk's GreenThe county council's Green leader says solar panels should be locally owned and put on roofs. 210
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Some people that care a lot are simply wrong, the people on the right wing care a lot and are wrong. 100
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Understanding trade offs is corruption? Are you high? The greens will say they want to decarbonise, yet oppose railways and solar farms. You cannot ever have change without accepting some impacts, that isn’t corruption it’s not being childish. 260
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The problem in the uk is not giving a shit it’s not facing up to trade offs. Which the greens have never done. 190
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Didn’t the LD increase their share in herts in 2025 and now lead a minority. 000
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026In the south west overall it does seem to be stormy and where I live in bucks they clean sweep of the town council. Green council often seem to get elected and then people actually see the trade offs and have policies impact them it swings back. 100
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The Lib Dem’s do well in many council elections so they do have a base. 100
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Yeah the Lib Dem’s will try and push slowly in rural green seats. 110
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If they aren’t elegant then their inheritors won’t pay IHT, and this is about incentives. Family home is actually any home. They could just buy a home at 65 and would be inheritance free. 100
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Join then leave again. Leaving is the fun party 000
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Very good summary. Because you are English in one way, doesn’t mean other people can say you are not for another. You can be a mix of any things for different reasons. 000
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Not being in England for starters. 010
danielphilips.bsky.social @danielphilips.bsky.social · 08/10/2026“In practice”, now do communism…. 000
