He told the group:"So the fact you are here is extremely important because it shows you can put pressure on your members of Parliament to take this issue seriously."The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 requires an election be held every five years, unless two-thirds of MPs vote for an early poll.The citizens' assembly, commissioned by six parliamentary select committees, is being asked to examine how the UK meets its legal target to cut greenhouse gases to zero overall by 2050.
They have been drawn from more than 1,800 people who responded to 30,000 invitations sent out to UK households selected at random and are representative of the UK population in age, gender, ethnicity, education and where they live.Members are also representative of the country in terms of how concerned they are about climate change.
Totally agree I've always thought this
That may be. But the Middle eastern kingdoms don't focus on that any more than fixed term parliaments.
Time this old goat was put out to pasture
Looking forward to your imminent sell off, so people aren't funding this one-eyed tripe.
I’m not sure this is the most compelling reason to get rid of fixed term Parliaments. If you want more focus you’d have to consider lengthening Parliaments back to say 7 years as they were before the Parliament Act 1911,
Someone actually doing something for the environment 'climate '
We don't need TV 'experts', or in fact anyone claiming to be a 'climate scientist'. There's a rule of thumb in the scientific world, if your title has got the word scientist in it, then you're probably not a real scientist!🤔😉
David, David..........
Oh David you have been bought I can understand if offered millions I would do the same no different to Greta Thunberg (prob spelt that wrong) another media puppet
...it’s more to do with money than that...
they're not listening now, perhaps they never will.
The BBC has enough climate alarmist focus for the entire British media. When is Sir luvvie David up for election given his recent Green Party pontification?
I believe I read somewhere a wile back that the UK only emits about 1% of the worlds carbon emissions!! If this was/is correct, I don’t think we are doing too bad!!!!! China and the US need to act!!!!
Fixed term would not matter if the parties got together on this one
Oh dear me watever next ha ha
And the compulsory licence fee leads to a lack of choice for consumers and focus for an outdated corporation that doesnt need to compete with others in the same market on equal footing... 🙄
He's off his rocker
Chasing walruses off cliffs lead to their deaths. Not a good idea to blame that on climate change. Did Attenborough share from his experience on that account? qanon
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Lovely old chap, national treasure etc, but nothing to see here.
No, capitalism leads to a lack of climate focus.
sir david looks healthy , fed , well dressed , able to get air , travels the world , content , educated , versed , aware , respected , not exactly young , where is the climate death , the apocalypse , armageddon , suffering
Give this to Sir David as fast as you can.
I'm starting to get a bit bored with Dave.
ClimateChangeHoax DontBelieveTheTripe
Actually I think the climate doesn't care about fixed term parliaments! It just trundles along as it has for the last few billion years.😀
He has lost the plot,get him sectioned along with Greta....
Attenborough has no qualification in climatology and no understanding of politics. The fixed term act was a sop to the Lib Dems. It’s repeal is long overdue but nothing to do with climate change.
Hes right
Sick of the fkn sight of you and thunberg give a fkn rest
He's completely f*cking lost it this bloke hasn't he? Brought into the whole Scoldilocks 'extinction' nonsense & thrown all the dodgy science out the window. Encouraged by the BBC, no doubt hoping for a world in which only the metropolitan middle-classes can get on aeroplanes.
Straws, clutching.
Ffs, give it a rest
No need to worry Tories will be in power for the next 15-20 years now so they will 'get climate change done' Conservatives
He should focus on correcting his fake videos
Your carbon footprint is the new original sin. Don't worry though peasants, you can atone through carbon taxes to avert the great flood. The arbiters of truth are here with our beneficent guidance, all we need now is an era of unchallenged governance.
plus selfish people who dont care
As much as I have the greatest respect for David Attenborough.....I’am beginning to question some of his comments. It’s always been known that natural extreme climate changes happen. We now have an Army of protesters who fly all over lecturing to us!
The bbc are finished.... Bias, lying, loony lefts...... NO TV LICENSE....
Plastic in the oceans definitely needs to be addressed. Climate change, well, for me, a lot of old codswallop.
citizens assembly 😄😅😂😂😂🤣😂
He's beginning to annoy me now. Stick to the making the nature programmes Dave.
not payin my lisense fee again . fake news . what you goin do about it . cheers bri
Bit of a hypocrite is he not? How many polluting air miles has he done in his day!!
Tell it to David, Sir David, it was the right thing to do
Let him spout his bs. Poor old duffer will soon be carbon himself.
Past his sell by date retire it's your time.
Bollocks
And before him was Nostradamus.
BBC change your tune 😡 Does SOROS own you ?
Fixed term TV licences lead to a lack of talent focus.
The only way to get London to comply with fumes etc is to bring back shire horses and stop all cars in central London, I don’t go to London often but it stinks
Yawn. Just give it a rest and stop droning on.
And we should care about Attenborough's political opinions.....why?
Shut the BBC down and save the planet
You mean Sir David Attenborough the BBC FakeNews Fraudcaster ? Who cares what he thinks, apart from you lot.
Pretty small sample group though. Since the fixed term parliaments act 2011 we have had three general elections, only one of which has been at the end of the five year fixed term.
Thank the Lord😊
Yeah they would have to focus on real issues people care about
Give it a bloody rest
Justvan old fart given something to say
i used to love sir davids wildlife programmes on tv. but bbc and sir david could you please have a live tv debate on climate change with scientist piers corbyn. im sure it would be great for viewers then to decide on its truth.
Lack of any focus.
What the hell does this old fool know about politics? He's spent his life filming monkeys picking their noses and having sex!
IF YOU CAN DIE BECAUSE YOU HAVE YOUR CAR ON IN THE GARAGE, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS HAPPENING TO THE EARTH WITH ALL THESE CARS POLLUTING ALL DAY LONG? IS IT SUSTAINABLE? IS IT WORTH THE MONEY?
Its hypocritical to say you are prolife then say you are propollution which is proven death of us all. We need the world to become green and sustainable to have a future. We need pollution and deforestation to stop. There is prosperity in green and sustainable business.
the earth cannot sustain any more pollution. it is common sense why. it is obvious. the money is not worth it. there is prosperous sustainable business practices and it is the only way to provide any future. pollution is death to us all.
Dear God, this is incessant from the channel of agendas.
So he’s saying that democracy is the cause of climate change. Quite clear that he’s on an agenda to install socialist governments.
Sir David Attenborough is an autocue reader
The whole point is that they lead to lack of action full stop. The less the government does the better.
Getting a bit past it.
So, we're now going to see more 'BolloxToDemocracy' as the BBC and Attenborough continue their push for Kraterocacy. LOL
Agent of the global climate governance
They lead to a lack of focus on a lot of things!
Climate Focus is a scam. A psychiatrist would (correctly) realise that Attenborough's obsession with this topic is really coming from dealing with his own mortality.
I used to love and trust this man. But since he became WOKE, he’s become terribly unbearable.
You can’t have it both ways, if your wildlife expert is seeing changes and extinctions that are not normal in the natural world would you not expect them to speak about it? Change in our behaviour on such a scale needs political involvement. Time to watch Soylent Green again!
How much the UK cuts emissions is IRRELEVANT! The Paris Climate Accord is a total FRAUD and President Trump is the only Politician with the guts and the honesty to stand up and say so!! Don’t believe me? Then click the link!!
Elections have always tended to be every 4 or 5 years anyway. Surely cross party consensus is the only answer on issues like this.
Time to wrap it up David
Bollocks
no such thing as a fixed term Parliament as the last 2 Parliaments have clearly shown - just an abuse of power
Attenborough knows everything. 😳
Isn't it the other way around? If you dislike what someone is doing to the environment there's an opportunity to remove them - something you can't do in China
zzzzz...
He’s turned into a right left-winger.
What alternative would he propose? Should we install a dictator-for-life?
Not going to listen to a man who suggested that the UK must not send food aid to famine stricken countries because world population is to high! He also said that aviation cost must be high enough to stop poorer people flying!!
How much more torture do I have to indure they have increased dosage and I am suffering? The guard has left this evening so dosage could be administered. Poisoned again. How much more pls stop eucopresident ChrisGPackham BrianMathew4NW HouseofCommons ClarenceHouse Diana
SirDavidAttenborough told ClimateAssemblyUK NetZeroUK 5yr govt leads to lack of long-term planning”. True, but the binary party system would screw it up even with longer terms - & it’s 3yr govts in Australia where coal rules... auspol vittlesorg
He's absolutely right. When the political horizon only stretches as far as the next general election, long term issues such as the climate are never a priority. The flawed ideology of democracy, combined with capitalism and consumerism, will drive us to extinction.
Attenborough has lost his mind. Once respected and admired. Now, politicised and spouting lies and ill founded opinions. Overdue retirement.
Why it always the people with flags next to their names who get easily triggered?
Time he retired.
OK mate... 😉
Did anyone hear this suggestion before Boris got a stonking majority? Yeah Dave.....we are not voting again anytime soon just because you Wokonuts didn't like the result.
What a bizarre thing to say.
Whereas a compulsory license fee has led to a blatent disrespect for political impartiality by the outdated BBC? ClimateChangeHoax DontBelieveTheTripe
That's because governments have got to find a way to tax the end user for using rather than the oil companies who drill for fossil fuels rather than a cleaner energy sourse but the gov anf oil barons are in bed together. Gov are gonna shoot themselves in the foot.
And David Bellamy a true botanist and Environmental campaigner got pushed to one side by the likes of the Forced Funded TV. Crime was he refused to become a scaremonger
Must be true, then.
Governments on every call aren't focused on climate change because they are to focus in using the environment as a cash cow.
He mean politicians only have to pretend to care once every 5 years
Not news, but an unelected person trying to influence politics. He should stand for election as an MP if he wants to get involved.
A political scientist now, whatever next.
Jean Jacques Servan Shreiber
He is right. Short term views from another era
Old man refuses to talk about the party who have been running us for the last 10 years...done alright out of that didnt ya?
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