The reason the classic Monty Python sketch of the dead parrot is so perennial and enduring is because it strikes a philosophical truth that resonates. Especially vis-a-vis the fore-lock tugging Brits who prefer to believe what their ruling class masters tell them whatever their own personal cost and conditions and regardless of what their own eyes tell them. This grovelling attitude is apposite here, as reflected in
Part 2 of the recently cited Jasper Jolly article in the GUARDIAN. In response to a query regarding his following statement on X as to how he knows it was 'an ICE-parked car that caused the Luton Airport Fire:
https://x.com/jjpjolly/status/1726542885057953809?s=20
The alliterate one replies:
Read this again carefully:
"To further clarify it was neither a fully electric vehicle (EV) nor a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle. (PHEV)"
In other words, Beds Fire and Rescue does NOT rule out a mild hybrid diesel. Yet Full Fact and Jasper Jolly read the statement as otherwise. How peculiar. Such a British trait.
My advice is to face facts full on and not try to look for a 'Way Out'. A fact is neither good nor bad. Forget political spin and evasion. Just look at it face on.