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Major Global Projects and Mission that Might Positively Change the Climate in 2019

We become more and more aware of the need to take fast climate action. The demand and need for measures grow deeper since the planet, climate and environment are changing for decades already. However, for proper measures and projects, we need to fully understand and process how the environment is changing and the consequences of global warming. Investigating the finer nuances how these processes take place is mandatory. The past year has been marked by a series of ground-breaking studies...

Brexiteer MP calls on Theresa May to suspend parliament until April in order to “guarantee Brexit”

Brexiteer MP Desmond Swayne called on Theresa May to suspend parliament until April in order to "guarantee Brexit" in the Commons yesterday evening. The Conservative MP advised the PM to "prorogue Parliament" until Britain's divorce with the European Union had been cemented, comments which were dismissed by the Tory leader. Prorogation is the formal name given to the period between the end of a session of Parliament and the State Opening of Parliament that begins the next session. It brings...

Michael Gove trolled by his own words as he makes apocalyptic Brexit vote warning

Michael Gove referenced the apocalyptic motto of a Game of Thrones zombie army as he warned MPs off a no deal Brexit, insisting that iof they did not vote for Theresa May's EU withdrawal agreement, "winter is coming." In a change of tone from Theresa May who told workers in a factory that had been given massive EU grants that voting against her deal would mean Brexit might not happen, Brexit cheerleader Gove used an apocalypse metaphor. "We are in a...

Mel Stride flashes “no food, no Channel Tunnel” notes ahead of cabinet meeting

The financial secretary to the Treasury flashed notes warning of "no food" and "no Channel Tunnel" ahead of a cabinet meeting yesterday. Conservative MP for Central Devon, Mel Stride was snapped outside the cabinet office with the list poking out of a red folder. According to political photographer Steve Back - who took the photo - Stride was on his way to a Brexit meeting. The picture has caused a furore on social media, although some commentators have speculated that the gaffe could have been...

House of Lords votes against Theresa May’s Brexit deal and no deal Brexit by massive majority

Last night the House of Lords voted on an opposition motion against Theresa May’s EU withdrawal deal and also a no deal Brexit by a massive majority of 169. Peers from across the political spectrum voted 321 votes to 152 for Labour peer Lady basildon’s motion to reject a no deal outcome and regret the terms of the government deal and future relationship with EU. The Lords voted overwhelmingly less than 24 hours before the Commons meaningful vote on Brexit that...

Theresa May’s last ditch plea to MPs to vote for her Brexit deal in factory that received £429K EU grant

In news you couldn’t make up, it turns out that the factory that Theresa May made her last-ditch attempt to persuade Tory rebels to vote for her Brexit deal today received £429,000 from the EU. The Prime Minister visited Stoke-on-Trent today, most of which voted to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum to give a speech outlining how not voting for her Brexit deal in the meaningful vote on Brexit tomorrow risked Brexit not happening at all. But the...

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