Suella Braverman accuses Tories of betrayal as she defects to Reform UK
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The MP was unveiled as Reform's latest recruit by leader Nigel Farage at a rally, bringing the number of the party's sitting MPs to eight.

Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman has become the latest Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK.

She becomes the third sitting Tory MP to join Nigel Farage’s party in the last eleven days, and takes Reform’s tally of MPs to eight.

Unveiled at a rally in London, Braverman told Reform supporters she had also resigned her Tory membership of 30 years, adding: “I feel like I’ve come home.”

Her defection comes hot on the heels of Robert Jenrick and Andrew Rosindell, who also left the Conservatives earlier this month.

  • mjr@infosec.pubEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Read what I said again: we’ll be using gas in 50 years.

    We’ll have to wait 50 years to know, but even if we are, it’ll be much much less under any sane government, but it would be more if left to Reform.

    Your cherry picked statistics for a windy day at 22:30 are a poor example. Check again at 17:00.

    It’s absurd to accuse someone of cherry-picking and then cherry-pick a time when the National Energy System Operator has invited bids for the Demand Flexibility Service because the price of gas-generated electricity is too high.

    Maybe have a think about the majority of homes central heating.

    A majority, but not a supermajority. Only about 60% of UK homes burn gas for heating despite all the encouragement and inducement since the 1970s in a scandal that makes promotion of diesel cars look like playschool stuff, and a farcical and pathetic target-missing attempt to encourage heat pumps in the last 10 years (target: 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028, latest number I’ve seen: 91,000 per year and no, that’s not missing a digit).

    Oh and we have never been a major importer of Russian gas.

    So? Buying gas and thereby driving the market price up is enough to benefit Russia. When you hear a gas boiler roar, it’s helping fund Putin.

    • makingrain@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      We’ll have to wait 50 years to know, but even if we are, it’ll be much much less under any sane government, but it would be more if left to Reform.

      No, it’s a certainty. You and the other user are fixated on CCGT generation. My reply was to the other user, not you. They said “Gas will not last another 50 years at all.” and I am saying it has more uses than CCGT.

      It’s absurd to accuse someone of cherry-picking and then cherry-pick a time when the National Energy System Operator has invited bids for the Demand Flexibility Service because the price of gas-generated electricity is too high.

      No it’s not. They looked at a dashboard at 22:30 and tried to portray the UK as if it is representative of a peak usage time. Let’s see how those stats are today… oh, 50% is generated by CCGT (gas) at 7pm, cool. That was my point.

      A majority, but not a supermajority. Only about 60% of UK homes burn gas for heating despite all the encouragement and inducement since the 1970s in a scandal that makes promotion of diesel cars look like playschool stuff, and a farcical and pathetic target-missing attempt to encourage heat pumps in the last 10 years (target: 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028, latest number I’ve seen: 91,000 per year and no, that’s not missing a digit).

      Wrong. It’s closer to 85%. Where did you get the 60% figure from? I’m not replying to your irrelevant addon about heat pumps (go back up this chain to remind yourself of what we’re talking about)

      So? Buying gas and thereby driving the market price up is enough to benefit Russia. When you hear a gas boiler roar, it’s helping fund Putin.

      They sell it for far less.