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Guido Fawkes | "Loongate" is the political equivalent of the "Ratner Moment". Gerald Ratner moc...
12:02Guido Fawkes
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"Loongate" is the political equivalent of the "Ratner Moment". Gerald Ratner mocked his customers, lost his CEO job and his firm collapsed.
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Paul Waugh | Sayeeda Warsi was 'Tory co-chairman' w/ Andrew Feldman. Now @grantshapps + Feldm...
11:43Paul Waugh
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Sayeeda Warsi was 'Tory co-chairman' w/ Andrew Feldman. Now @grantshapps + Feldman are *both* officially 'Chairman' http://t.co/C969A8qUSl
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Alex Belardinelli | Reassured to see that it only took til 9.42 this morning for a @Swiveleyedloons ...
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Reassured to see that it only took til 9.42 this morning for a @Swiveleyedloons twitter account to be set up #Torygrassroots
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Alex Massie | The swivel-eyed loons in the Conservative party are revolting. And they are righ...
10:58Spectator
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There are times when running against your own base makes sense. It rarely hurt Tony Blair (though it probably did hurt the Labour party) but it’s not a good idea to reinforce, even in private, the electorate’s suspicion that your party is, on the whole, populated by rum coves at best and maniacs at worst.
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WHO RUNS UK? PM weak, shrill, despised by his MPs who are bullied by loons and M...
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WHO RUNS UK? PM weak, shrill, despised by his MPs who are bullied by loons and Mail or pre-extinction LIB-DEMS? Neither-lobbyists run UK.
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CHILDREN with CANCER UK (formerly CHILDREN with LEUKAEMIA), working in partnership with the energy industry (National Grid and the Energy Networks Association) and the Department of Health, are equal funders of the SAGE process (the Government’s Stakeholder Advisory Group on EMF).
In 2004, the Health Protection Agency recommended that the Government ‘consider the need for further precautionary measures’ to reduce public exposure to EMF.
light tubesIn response, the Government set up a Stakeholder Group (SAGE), which has been examining EMF issues since 2004 and, in 2007, issued their first report to Government.
The SAGE First Interim Assessment identified a building ban on new homes and schools near high voltage power lines and vice versa, as the ‘best available option’ to reduce exposure to EMF from power lines. However, SAGE could not recommend this option explicitly to Government as there were substantial costs to the energy industry involved.
The Government asked for advice from the Health Protection Agency on the SAGE report and the HPA responded to both the SAGE Report and the Cross Party Inquiry Report in October 2007, recommending that ‘the attention of local authority planning departments and the electricity companies be drawn to the evidence for a possible small increase in childhood leukaemia which may result from siting new buildings very close to power lines.’
The Government can comply with this recommendation in two ways:
- to issue information only
- to issue planning guidance preventing further building near power lines
The Government was due to announce any precautionary measures they intend to introduce by the end of December 2008. Due to “a busy parliamentary timetable” no statement has yet been made.
