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Starmer records “Best PM” rating high with Savanta Comres – politicalbetting.com
Starmer records “Best PM” rating high with Savanta Comres – politicalbetting.com
The Indy is reporting that Starmer now has his highest “Best PM” yet in its latest poll for the online newspaper. This follows, of course, the attempts by Johnson to link him with Jimmy Saville.
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📈Starmer's highest ever Best PM score
🌳Johnson 31% (+3)
🌹Starmer 39% (+3)
◻️ Don't know 30% (-5)
2,226 UK adults, 11-13 Feb
(Changes from 14-16 Jan) https://twitter.com/SavantaComRes/status/1493936921604771842/photo/1
The polls have been incredibly stable since the Blues hit a nadir of 27% on Jan 13th. Since then they have only rarely been outside 32/34%. Likewise the Traffic Light Alliance of Red/Yellow/Green hugs close to the 55% mark.
Personally I don't see this pattern changing for a while, although I should add that this view is stated with about the same level of confidence and credibilty you might normally associate with, say, a Met Office Weather Forecast.
https://twitter.com/wigmore_hall/status/1483488103453102081
One of the greatest living pianists.
The challenge for Starmer is there is clearly a significant contingent of Tory voters who do not care. They enjoy politics being sent up by Boris and -for now - don't worry about the world burning as a result.
@DrSimEvans
Pssst!
Solar is now 88% cheaper than thought a decade ago, UK govt says – half its estimated cost of new gas power
Just running a gas plant in Feb 2022 is costing around FOUR times as much as we'd pay for new solar or wind
https://twitter.com/DrSimEvans/status/1493906926907924481
And SKS is a massive improvement on his predecessor.
And yet SKS has been consistently wrong on lockdown. Boris has been largely wrong, but SKS has never missed an opportunity to be wronger. That was the big issue of the last two years and it hasn't gone away yet.
SKS is no stranger to the odd bit of culture war posturing either.
So while the negatives for Boris are piling up and up, it's very difficult to leap enthusiastically onto the bandwagon of his chief opponent. For some that will result in going for don't know, but for others, antipathy to SKS will be default result in sticking with Boris as the answer to this question.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/feb/16/ukraine-russia-latest-news-live-putin-biden-kyiv-russian-invasion-threat
https://twitter.com/IpsosUK/status/1493955343130447872?t=OGh-m-t50fvt5nXthAXsIw&s=19
On a day like today we should be at ~ 80+% of generation tbh.
Also look at "in roof" systems, which put your solar panels embedded into your tiles, protected usually by a pond-liner type membrane, which means you can save several thousands on the extra tiles, and installing them.
One point is if you do go "in roof", you need to do the slates above the panels before you do the panels themselves (but do the mounts first) - otherwise you risk damage to the panels.
Thread about this here. Piccie below from the thread (c) Jeremy Harris.
https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/topic/11293-in-roof-pv/
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There was an incident in Wales the other day:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60390094
I suspect it was weakened in an earlier storm but this really should not happen.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60390094
The Duke of York is still determined to attend a memorial service for his father, the Duke of Edinburgh, next month.
There are likely to be concerns that Andrew’s presence will overshadow the service after he agreed to settle the civil sex assault claim against him for a sum said to exceed £10 million.
A service of thanksgiving for the life of his father will take place on March 29 at Westminster Abbey. The full details have not yet been announced, but the media will be given the opportunity to cover the event.
The duke is said to have faced pressure from his relatives to bring the case to an end after it threatened to overshadow the Queen’s jubilee celebrations. Prince Charles had been a key voice on the issue, a source indicated.
But Andrew regards the service in March as a family gathering to remember his father and still wants to attend, The Times understands. It is likely to be his first public appearance since the settlement of the case. It remains to be seen whether other royal family members or palace aides will intervene over his wish to attend.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prince-andrew-adamant-that-he-will-attend-fathers-memorial-service-zjrl2g6t2
Actually I have a lot of sympathy with Prince Andrew over this.
Her Majesty should let him attend.
If you offered the same set of respondents a choice between funding the NHS with an NI increase versus funding the NHS with a 90% super tax on bank profits (and individual bankers' bonuses) then you wouldn't get many votes in favour of the NI increase.
Always the problem with these kinds of questions. Very crude.
"...carpe lardem..."
I might be tempted to install some panels myself now although obviously I wouldn't be allowed to touch the switching equipment.
Panels have got more efficient since the height of the gold rush, so in theory it should still pay.
Ericsson may have made payments to the Isis terror organisation to gain access to transport routes in Iraq, the telecoms group has revealed.
Shares in the Stockholm-based telecoms equipment maker company fell as much 9 per cent in Sweden today after it disclosed details of an internal corruption investigation in the country.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ericsson-may-have-paid-bribes-to-isis-pz8qcq652
https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/advice/smart-export-guarantee/
We don't currently have the installed capacity to reach 80% aiui.
Normal demand is around 35 GW elec at the moment - winter, and total installed wind capacity is more like 25 GW.
Companies typically tend to say "forget it" on energy saving projects with a payback of greater than 2-3 years. This is slowly changing as they try to green-up.
Build the gas-fired plant with carbon capture and you get decarbonised power whenever you need it.
The more intermittent renewables we install, the greater the cost of providing decarbonised power.
Laters...
Sarah Smith, the former BBC Scotland editor, has told how she was relieved to walk away from the “bile, hatred and misogyny” of Scottish politics.
Smith, who was appointed BBC North America editor in November, fears the abuse she received since she rejoined the corporation as Scotland editor in 2014 has damaged the broadcaster’s reputation for impartiality.
The journalist said she was “demonised quite heavily . . . amongst certain parts of the population” who claimed they did not watch the BBC or pay their licence fee “but seem to know an enormous amount about what I say and do on television and on the radio nonetheless”.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbc-reporter-sarah-smith-says-gun-toting-america-is-a-less-stressful-to-work-in-than-scotland-sp2q23w5d
Acceptable?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-47623847
That was caused by icing, which I don't think can have been a factor here.
Salaries have gone through the roof for good CCGT engineers. It's a great business to be in atm.
Good to see Johnson doing for the Conservatives what Foot and Brown did for Labour.
https://twitter.com/larisamlbrown/status/1493994498799583234
Nevertheless the returns are
18/19 £722.86
19/20 £711.92
20/21 £732.52
I think I get the FIT till 2034.
With the leccy saving perhaps worth about 20 grand or so in today's money ?
This puts him at the very top table with Zuckerberg and Sandberg, demonstrates how central a figure he's become.
https://twitter.com/MattHancock/status/1494002555147456522
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https://twitter.com/holyroodmandy/status/1493999145329336324
Also the tariff rises each year
I'd be surprised if the Conservatives get less than a third of the vote next time, even if Johnson is still PM at the election. Looking at the bigger picture, if the Tories do that badly then Labour is in with a shout of an outright win; if they do only 1-2% better then we're probably looking at a hung Parliament, unless Labour can make inroads against the SNP.
Looks like a 4 kWP install, on a South facing orientation. And it will be at a FIT rate of around 18p per kWh generated from April if on the higher (due to better EPC number) rate, plus payment for electricity exports. Plus also the free use of any generated electricity used in house, and the value that takes off the bill.
I put 11.5k into a 10kWP install in 2016, and I get around 13p. My panels are on East/West and are somewhat shaded, so I get around £550 a year for the FIT and the export, about 2000 kWh of free elec which now reduces my elec bill by 2000 * £.22 = £440 or so, which will increase soon.
And when I get my veranda I will put half my panels on it facing south.
I start with ADIEU, which is great but makes word 2 a little difficult sometimes to get an O and a Y in it.
PORNY did it, though.
Off to try LEWDLE.
"Maha Nakhon" = "Big City"
So is this similar to, say, Greater London?