Away from cloud cuckoo land Musk hits the nail on the head.
China makes it so, though he forgets the fact that China also makes cheap wind energy.
They just need to sort the energy storage out, hydrogen the main candidate.
Hydrogen is still mainly a way to greenwash fossil fuels. It's a big danger of misleading climate change funding and policy, maybe second only to carbon capture.
2 years for Criminal Damage you say? Should we assume that Judge Hehir tends to hand out harsher sentences? Let's see ....
Judge Hehir was recently referred to the Court of Appeal by the Solicitor General for being unduly lenient – having given suspended sentences to a police officer who had sex in a patrol car with a drunk woman he offered to take home.
He allowed a man who deliberately crashed a car into the gates of Downing Street and was found with the most serious type of indecent images of children aged eight to 12 to leave the court with a suspended sentence (BBC).
In 2022 the Law Gazette reported that Judge Hehir did not imprison a man who pleaded guilty violent disorder, and later to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and battery, another who pleaded guilty to a count of violent disorder and a third who pleaded guilty to one count of affray.
[sorry. lost the URL for the above!] Gavin Collins was an off-duty police officer enjoying a night out in central London when he was attacked by a pair of thugs. They repeatedly punched and kicked him, even after he’d been floored. Gavin needed titanium plates in his cheek and one eye socket following the unprovoked attack. The thugs went on to punch and kick another officer as well as an innocent bystander.
One of the attackers had three previous convictions for similar offences of common assault in the previous three years. As it happened the thugs were brothers, and the sons of one of Britain’s richest property tycoons.
Deterrent sentence for the soup chuckers I expect. I'm not of the 'It was only soup' viewpoint but as you point out, assault receives lower tariffs. Possession of child abuse images doesn't seem to warrant jail these days either.
It hasn't at any time if it is within the lower culpability range. If you are referring to Huw Edwards, it did warrant jail time, but the Judge ordered that the jail time be suspended on various grounds. This is often done where the perpetrator is not considered to be at risk of reoffending. It helps make space in prisons for the violent offenders and rapists etc.
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