Thus replacing viciousness with stupidity? Go for it....
Truss also taking a risk having Patel, Sunak, Dowden, Raab, Barclay, Hunt, Shapps, Eustice, Greg Clark etc on the backbenches brooding with resentment against her rather than in her Cabinet. It looks like Truss' Cabinet will instead be even more dominated by her loyalists and supporters than Boris' was
Each and everyone of those mentioned apart from Hunt are not fit for cabinet
So apparently even Sunak and Greg Clark and George Eustice are no longer fit for your preferred Cabinet? Rees Mogg, Braverman, Badenoch, Redwood, Frost, Kwarteng, Zahawi, IDS, Dorries though amongst those tipped for Truss' Cabinet
Thought experiment.
If you really tried hard, what's the worst possible Cabinet that could be derived from the current Parliamentary Conservative Party?
Disturbingly, most of them have been in cabinet. But that may be name recognition kicking in.
Fabricant, Bill Cash, Peter Bone, Andrea Jenkyns too would be interested
You are either trying to provoke or have become more detached from reality than you usually are
Could be CON no seats next time. Do you fancy voting Plaid Cymru as an alternative? 💙
I doubt it would be that low, 25 to 30% of the electorate would love a Cabinet of Redwood, Rees Mogg, IDS, Badenoch, Frost, Braverman etc. It is just the remaining 70% would hate it
I'm running a tracker on the polls for the Swedish elections, simple average of the most recent poll from each of the five companies, as long as they are not more than a week old. Two new polls added today, SKOP narrow the current Government lead from 2.4% to 0.7%. Novus have gone the other way, moving from Opposition lead by 5.5% to Government lead 2.9%.
Overall that's moved the current Government side to a 1.8% average lead, seat projection 178-171.
Some people walk to work, some take the bus or a train and a few might even take a ferry. Many drive to work, often in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Brent Hobbs of Kelowna, B.C., swims.
He makes his way along the shore of Okanagan Lake to work twice a week, about 1.8 kilometres. He estimates it takes him about 30 minutes, and he carries his laptop and a change of clothes in a waterproof bag.
"No better way of getting to work," he told CBC's Joseph Otoo after one of his morning commutes.
"It's nice and cool, but more than that, I'm having fun."
Hobbs, who works in management at Interior Health, sees wildlife on his swims, such as beavers and osprey. Once, he says he got too close to a beaver and it slapped him with its tail. . . .
SSI - am wondering, has Leon ever gotten slapped for having got too close to a beaver?
Some people walk to work, some take the bus or a train and a few might even take a ferry. Many drive to work, often in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Brent Hobbs of Kelowna, B.C., swims.
He makes his way along the shore of Okanagan Lake to work twice a week, about 1.8 kilometres. He estimates it takes him about 30 minutes, and he carries his laptop and a change of clothes in a waterproof bag.
"No better way of getting to work," he told CBC's Joseph Otoo after one of his morning commutes.
"It's nice and cool, but more than that, I'm having fun."
Hobbs, who works in management at Interior Health, sees wildlife on his swims, such as beavers and osprey. Once, he says he got too close to a beaver and it slapped him with its tail. . . .
SSI - am wondering, has Leon ever gotten slapped for having got too close to a beaver?
I want to know what kind of waterproof bag he's got, I don't have anything that I would risk my laptop in a downpour let alone a 1.8km swim.
Clearly something happened re Channel crossings as they seem to have rocketed since early 2021. Which just so happens to be when the transition period ended. It’s not all to do with Brexit but co-operation has fallen and the French might have not be so amenable to helping no 10 after the amount of anti EU bile which emanated from there .
Yet both sides have continued to say their goal is to stop crossing like this entirely, even after the transition period ended. There's clearly a far greater number of refugees in recent months, which has nothing to do with Brexit.
I think good weather plays a big role. Maybe the other routes (hiding on trucks etc) became a bit more risky due to customs inspections? Hence the dinghy option.
Somebody tell me how the feck Truss's apparent big idea for tackling energy costs ie. tax cuts will help those most in need ie. those who pay little or no tax? And why using tax cuts to tackle what may be a temporary (but serious while it lasts) issue if prices start to revert to norm in a year or two, won't just leave a massive black hole in the public finances that the Govt won't find impossible to fill (because of an ideological aversion to raising taxes)?
One might almost suspect that the idea is to use energy prices as a cover story for delivering the tax regime that she desires and couldn't otherwise justify...
I'm running a tracker on the polls for the Swedish elections, simple average of the most recent poll from each of the five companies, as long as they are not more than a week old. Two new polls added today, SKOP narrow the current Government lead from 2.4% to 0.7%. Novus have gone the other way, moving from Opposition lead by 5.5% to Government lead 2.9%.
Overall that's moved the current Government side to a 1.8% average lead, seat projection 178-171.
Moderates, Christian Democrats and Sweden Democrats and Liberals combined have comfortably more than the usual centre left grouping of the Social Democrats supported by the Greens and Left Party.
The Centre Party will prop them up having switched from the centre right Opposition. However the right of centre Opposition grouping will still grow from 143 seats last election when it included the Centre Party to 171 now it includes the Sweden Democrats
Oh well. If electricity bills larger than mortgages and rolling blackouts throughout the Winter don't finish us off, then drinking semi-treated sewage collected from sputtering standpipes in the street during the Monster Heatwave Drought Catastrophe of Summer 2023 ought to manage it.
The Cabinet and the Conservatives' principal financial donors, who will all have evacuated to sit out the cholera pandemic, rioting, famine and civilizational collapse from a position of sanctuary in Dubai, can then come back home and resettle the land with a slave population of Afghan and Somali boat people, kept under firm control by a security force of Albanian mafia henchmen. Result.
Thus replacing viciousness with stupidity? Go for it....
Truss also taking a risk having Patel, Sunak, Dowden, Raab, Barclay, Hunt, Shapps, Eustice, Greg Clark etc on the backbenches brooding with resentment against her rather than in her Cabinet. It looks like Truss' Cabinet will instead be even more dominated by her loyalists and supporters than Boris' was
Each and everyone of those mentioned apart from Hunt are not fit for cabinet
So apparently even Sunak and Greg Clark and George Eustice are no longer fit for your preferred Cabinet? Rees Mogg, Braverman, Badenoch, Redwood, Frost, Kwarteng, Zahawi, IDS, Dorries though amongst those tipped for Truss' Cabinet
Thought experiment.
If you really tried hard, what's the worst possible Cabinet that could be derived from the current Parliamentary Conservative Party?
Disturbingly, most of them have been in cabinet. But that may be name recognition kicking in.
Fabricant, Bill Cash, Peter Bone, Andrea Jenkyns too would be interested
You are either trying to provoke or have become more detached from reality than you usually are
Could be CON no seats next time. Do you fancy voting Plaid Cymru as an alternative? 💙
I doubt it would be that low, 25 to 30% of the electorate would love a Cabinet of Redwood, Rees Mogg, IDS, Badenoch, Frost, Braverman etc. It is just the remaining 70% would hate it
I doubt the vast majority of people in the UK know who these people are.
Oh well. If electricity bills larger than mortgages and rolling blackouts throughout the Winter don't finish us off, then drinking semi-treated sewage collected from sputtering standpipes in the street during the Monster Heatwave Drought Catastrophe of Summer 2023 ought to manage it.
"You English and your sense of humour! How lucky you English are to find the toilet so amusing! For us, it is a mundane and functional item...for you, the basis of an entire culture!"
Believe this his Her Majesty herself, wearing protective garb recommended by Scotland Yard for proposed (but ultimately cancelled) royal visit to Ireland in the immediate wake of the Fenian outrages.
Cineworld looks on its last legs to me 5 ice cream flavours instead of usual 15. Nobody even checking tickets. No sweetners for their hot drinks and my Cinema not cleaned since previous film. Sad if it folds but its currently in a terrible state even in one of its flagship venues (Sheffield)
Bloke in front of me bought some vouchers for "friends".
Didn't have the heart to tell him.
On a brighter note have now lost well over 4 stones , am below the 4DX weight limit so will be watching g my first ever 4DX film in 14 hrs if they survive that long!!
Oh well. If electricity bills larger than mortgages and rolling blackouts throughout the Winter don't finish us off, then drinking semi-treated sewage collected from sputtering standpipes in the street during the Monster Heatwave Drought Catastrophe of Summer 2023 ought to manage it.
"You English and your sense of humour! How lucky you English are to find the toilet so amusing! For us, it is a mundane and functional item...for you, the basis of an entire culture!"
I hope you don't think I'm joking about the semi-treated sewage.
It's almost guaranteed they'll make a half-arsed job of it. Literally. Anyone for a nice glass of delicious gourmet Thames Water, now with the unmistakeable flavour of salmonella, shit-covered bog roll particles and used condom spunk?
Thus replacing viciousness with stupidity? Go for it....
Truss also taking a risk having Patel, Sunak, Dowden, Raab, Barclay, Hunt, Shapps, Eustice, Greg Clark etc on the backbenches brooding with resentment against her rather than in her Cabinet. It looks like Truss' Cabinet will instead be even more dominated by her loyalists and supporters than Boris' was
Each and everyone of those mentioned apart from Hunt are not fit for cabinet
So apparently even Sunak and Greg Clark and George Eustice are no longer fit for your preferred Cabinet? Rees Mogg, Braverman, Badenoch, Redwood, Frost, Kwarteng, Zahawi, IDS, Dorries though amongst those tipped for Truss' Cabinet
Thought experiment.
If you really tried hard, what's the worst possible Cabinet that could be derived from the current Parliamentary Conservative Party?
Disturbingly, most of them have been in cabinet. But that may be name recognition kicking in.
Fabricant, Bill Cash, Peter Bone, Andrea Jenkyns too would be interested
You are either trying to provoke or have become more detached from reality than you usually are
Could be CON no seats next time. Do you fancy voting Plaid Cymru as an alternative? 💙
I doubt it would be that low, 25 to 30 of the electorate would love a Cabinet of Redwood, Rees Mogg, IDS, Badenoch, Frost, Braverman etc. It is just the remaining 30,000,000 would hate it
Oh well. If electricity bills larger than mortgages and rolling blackouts throughout the Winter don't finish us off, then drinking semi-treated sewage collected from sputtering standpipes in the street during the Monster Heatwave Drought Catastrophe of Summer 2023 ought to manage it.
"You English and your sense of humour! How lucky you English are to find the toilet so amusing! For us, it is a mundane and functional item...for you, the basis of an entire culture!"
I hope you don't think I'm joking about the semi-treated sewage.
It's almost guaranteed they'll make a half-arsed job of it. Literally. Anyone for a nice glass of delicious gourmet Thames Water, now with the unmistakeable flavour of salmonella, shit-covered bog roll particles and used condom spunk?
It's certainly going to make for a hell of a marketing campaign.
Oh well. If electricity bills larger than mortgages and rolling blackouts throughout the Winter don't finish us off, then drinking semi-treated sewage collected from sputtering standpipes in the street during the Monster Heatwave Drought Catastrophe of Summer 2023 ought to manage it.
"You English and your sense of humour! How lucky you English are to find the toilet so amusing! For us, it is a mundane and functional item...for you, the basis of an entire culture!"
I hope you don't think I'm joking about the semi-treated sewage.
It's almost guaranteed they'll make a half-arsed job of it. Literally. Anyone for a nice glass of delicious gourmet Thames Water, now with the unmistakeable flavour of salmonella, shit-covered bog roll particles and used condom spunk?
It's certainly going to make for a hell of a marketing campaign.
"Drink sewage? No shit, Sherlock!"
Not a new story, or indeed a new thing. It’s already happening.
Some people walk to work, some take the bus or a train and a few might even take a ferry. Many drive to work, often in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Brent Hobbs of Kelowna, B.C., swims.
He makes his way along the shore of Okanagan Lake to work twice a week, about 1.8 kilometres. He estimates it takes him about 30 minutes, and he carries his laptop and a change of clothes in a waterproof bag.
"No better way of getting to work," he told CBC's Joseph Otoo after one of his morning commutes.
"It's nice and cool, but more than that, I'm having fun."
Hobbs, who works in management at Interior Health, sees wildlife on his swims, such as beavers and osprey. Once, he says he got too close to a beaver and it slapped him with its tail. . . .
SSI - am wondering, has Leon ever gotten slapped for having got too close to a beaver?
Beautiful part of Canada and our eldest son married his Canadian wife in Kelowna in 2015 at a fabulous vineyard
Somebody tell me how the feck Truss's apparent big idea for tackling energy costs ie. tax cuts will help those most in need ie. those who pay little or no tax? And why using tax cuts to tackle what may be a temporary (but serious while it lasts) issue if prices start to revert to norm in a year or two, won't just leave a massive black hole in the public finances that the Govt won't find impossible to fill (because of an ideological aversion to raising taxes)?
One might almost suspect that the idea is to use energy prices as a cover story for delivering the tax regime that she desires and couldn't otherwise justify...
Whatever she is promising now, it is going to be quite hard to follow through on tax cuts, because that also involves cutting spending. She hasn't really said where she would cut spending, but came up with some bizarre ideas about cutting pay for public sector workers in the north of England and also slashing civil service diversity officer jobs. So it actually just seems like 'tax cuts' are being proposed as a way to win the leadership election, and will be forgotten the moment she starts out in office. I don't think there is any ideological agenda at play.
Oh well. If electricity bills larger than mortgages and rolling blackouts throughout the Winter don't finish us off, then drinking semi-treated sewage collected from sputtering standpipes in the street during the Monster Heatwave Drought Catastrophe of Summer 2023 ought to manage it.
"You English and your sense of humour! How lucky you English are to find the toilet so amusing! For us, it is a mundane and functional item...for you, the basis of an entire culture!"
I hope you don't think I'm joking about the semi-treated sewage.
It's almost guaranteed they'll make a half-arsed job of it. Literally. Anyone for a nice glass of delicious gourmet Thames Water, now with the unmistakeable flavour of salmonella, shit-covered bog roll particles and used condom spunk?
It's certainly going to make for a hell of a marketing campaign.
"Drink sewage? No shit, Sherlock!"
Not a new story, or indeed a new thing. It’s already happening.
70% of pubs don't expect to survive the winter. It is gonna change the world and then some. I don't think folk have got their heads round all this yet at all.
It isn't a particularly insightful question. Lockdowns were necessary to preserve life. The issue is the cackhanded way Johnson and his government, including Truss and Sunak, implemented them. The basic problem was that they were introduced too late, which meant they were both more onerous and less effective at preventing death than lockdowns in other countries.
Not sure why Truss and Sunak would want to bring this topic, which just demonstrated the incompetence of the government they are a part of.
Just catching up with reports of Laura Kuenssberg's Times interview. Lavishing praise on BigDog. "A Prime Minister of huge consequence". Boris Johnson "tipped the balance" towards Brexit and if he hadn't won the 2019 Leadership context "Brexit might not have happened". Truss is a "great survivor" who has been "underestimated". I love the impartial BBC!
Oh well. If electricity bills larger than mortgages and rolling blackouts throughout the Winter don't finish us off, then drinking semi-treated sewage collected from sputtering standpipes in the street during the Monster Heatwave Drought Catastrophe of Summer 2023 ought to manage it.
"You English and your sense of humour! How lucky you English are to find the toilet so amusing! For us, it is a mundane and functional item...for you, the basis of an entire culture!"
I hope you don't think I'm joking about the semi-treated sewage.
It's almost guaranteed they'll make a half-arsed job of it. Literally. Anyone for a nice glass of delicious gourmet Thames Water, now with the unmistakeable flavour of salmonella, shit-covered bog roll particles and used condom spunk?
It's certainly going to make for a hell of a marketing campaign.
"Drink sewage? No shit, Sherlock!"
Not a new story, or indeed a new thing. It’s already happening.
Somebody tell me how the feck Truss's apparent big idea for tackling energy costs ie. tax cuts will help those most in need ie. those who pay little or no tax? And why using tax cuts to tackle what may be a temporary (but serious while it lasts) issue if prices start to revert to norm in a year or two, won't just leave a massive black hole in the public finances that the Govt won't find impossible to fill (because of an ideological aversion to raising taxes)?
One might almost suspect that the idea is to use energy prices as a cover story for delivering the tax regime that she desires and couldn't otherwise justify...
It's as if she's comprehensively answering all the questions she'd like to be asked. And telling us all to be patient for the answers we need.
70% of pubs don't expect to survive the winter. It is gonna change the world and then some. I don't think folk have got their heads round all this yet at all.
- The market for energy in Europe has failed - Continuing with a free market for energy will result in economic ruin - poverty, a collapse in domestic spending, mass bankruptcies for SMEs. - The government will *have* to bail everyone out, whether they want to or not.
And the concluding paragraph:
"Once the government has accepted that it can’t allocate energy using a price mechanism, then the only option left will be energy rationing. The politics of that are going to be exceptionally difficult."
70% of pubs don't expect to survive the winter. It is gonna change the world and then some. I don't think folk have got their heads round all this yet at all.
There was a poll only last month that had 12% of the public think electric bills will go down this winter. There's going to be some very surprised people around when the bills arrive.
Just catching up with reports of Laura Kuenssberg's Times interview. Lavishing praise on BigDog. Boris Johnson "tipped the balance" towards Brexit and if he hadn't won the 2019 Leadership context "Brexit might not have happened". Truss is a "great survivor" who has been "underestimated". I love the impartial BBC!
70% of pubs don't expect to survive the winter. It is gonna change the world and then some. I don't think folk have got their heads round all this yet at all.
70% of pubs don't expect to survive the winter. It is gonna change the world and then some. I don't think folk have got their heads round all this yet at all.
- The market for energy in Europe has failed - Continuing with a free market for energy will result in economic ruin - poverty, a collapse in domestic spending, mass bankruptcies for SMEs. - The government will *have* to bail everyone out, whether they want to or not.
And the concluding paragraph:
"Once the government has accepted that it can’t allocate energy using a price mechanism, then the only option left will be energy rationing. The politics of that are going to be exceptionally difficult."
As Lilico has been saying repeatedly. If the price signal isn't used for demand then there will have to be rationing.
Oh well. If electricity bills larger than mortgages and rolling blackouts throughout the Winter don't finish us off, then drinking semi-treated sewage collected from sputtering standpipes in the street during the Monster Heatwave Drought Catastrophe of Summer 2023 ought to manage it.
"You English and your sense of humour! How lucky you English are to find the toilet so amusing! For us, it is a mundane and functional item...for you, the basis of an entire culture!"
I hope you don't think I'm joking about the semi-treated sewage.
It's almost guaranteed they'll make a half-arsed job of it. Literally. Anyone for a nice glass of delicious gourmet Thames Water, now with the unmistakeable flavour of salmonella, shit-covered bog roll particles and used condom spunk?
It's certainly going to make for a hell of a marketing campaign.
"Drink sewage? No shit, Sherlock!"
Not a new story, or indeed a new thing. It’s already happening.
Piss recycling on the ISS is not the job of an English water company though. If it were, all the astronauts would long since have perished.
A percentage of the water drunk in London comes from the Thames. The same Thames that goes through Oxford, reading etc where treated sewage goes back into the Thames.
Nothing new in this.
Next thing people will be upset by fish poo in reservoirs.
Look at that difference between Remain and Leave. Remainers probably want us locked down forever. What is wrong with them?
Is that the dumbest post of the day? It comes so easily to you, and I've been trying so hard all day!
I was being provocative. It seems to have worked
But it is an intriguing difference. So many ultra lockdowners on Twitter are also angry Remoaners. Why?
It's odd. Using generalities to their limit leavers were older and more vulnerable to Covid. Remainers were younger and less so. Lockdown had much more negative effects on younger people in work. The effect on the retired was much less severe. And yet there is a clear difference.
I would tentatively suggest that remainers tend to a more pro government position. They like more regulation, whether from the EU or their own government. They don't trust others to behave as sensibly as they consider they do themselves.
Something in this. Remaining in the EU and lockdowns were the sensible options. More precisely, they were the empirical options, ie choices that are based on evidence suggesting specific outcomes. Staying in the EU would result in more trade and investment than leaving therefore greater prosperity; lockdowns prevent exponential increase in infections and large loss of life.
70% of pubs don't expect to survive the winter. It is gonna change the world and then some. I don't think folk have got their heads round all this yet at all.
- The market for energy in Europe has failed - Continuing with a free market for energy will result in economic ruin - poverty, a collapse in domestic spending, mass bankruptcies for SMEs. - The government will *have* to bail everyone out, whether they want to or not.
And the concluding paragraph:
"Once the government has accepted that it can’t allocate energy using a price mechanism, then the only option left will be energy rationing. The politics of that are going to be exceptionally difficult."
As Lilico has been saying repeatedly. If the price signal isn't used for demand then there will have to be rationing.
70% of pubs don't expect to survive the winter. It is gonna change the world and then some. I don't think folk have got their heads round all this yet at all.
If it comes to that, much of the rest of commerce and industry, and a large fraction of the general population along with it, will also be reduced to penury or (quite literally, in many cases,) killed off. This suggests that it won't come to that - but as to whether Truss will immediately shit on the barking mad loons who vote her in on a dismantle the state (except for our pensions) prospectus, or try to pursue an active programme of Schumpeterian creative destruction for several months before the mass rioting and the burning of Parliament force her to do something useful to help the situation, who can say?
Oh well. If electricity bills larger than mortgages and rolling blackouts throughout the Winter don't finish us off, then drinking semi-treated sewage collected from sputtering standpipes in the street during the Monster Heatwave Drought Catastrophe of Summer 2023 ought to manage it.
"You English and your sense of humour! How lucky you English are to find the toilet so amusing! For us, it is a mundane and functional item...for you, the basis of an entire culture!"
I hope you don't think I'm joking about the semi-treated sewage.
It's almost guaranteed they'll make a half-arsed job of it. Literally. Anyone for a nice glass of delicious gourmet Thames Water, now with the unmistakeable flavour of salmonella, shit-covered bog roll particles and used condom spunk?
It's certainly going to make for a hell of a marketing campaign.
"Drink sewage? No shit, Sherlock!"
Not a new story, or indeed a new thing. It’s already happening.
Piss recycling on the ISS is not the job of an English water company though. If it were, all the astronauts would long since have perished.
Well I can't argue with that.
But on a related space matter, Artemis 1 is due to launch tomorrow. If all goes to plan, in 2 years there will be Human Beings going around the Moon, and then landing on the Moon a year later.
He is really quite convincing that this is a secret US stealth craft, floating in the sky. It explains almost everything
So all the debunkers saying "rock in a loch", "reflection", "hanging ornament", "mountaintop" are wrong, and badly wrong. Equally the UFOlogists convinced it is aliens are also wrong. Or so it seems
But WTF is that US tech?!
An interview with a photographer who claims to have seen all six photos. Very important distinction. You are so gullible at times.
DUH
Do some research. Watch that interview. The only non alien explanation that makes any sense is secret US tech
All the debunking theories have been debunked ("rock in a loch" etc). The idea it is some hugely elaborate 30 year long conspiracy is more far fetched than a US stealth craft
There is an ex-US base Machrihanish on the west coast of Scotland which fits this thesis exactly. The US is known to test new craft/tech on allies like the UK, to see how they perform in "action" - before using them against actual enemies. The planes are Tornadoes not Harriers, which explains the lack of Harriers in the records
This explains all the behaviour of the MoD, the letter to the US defence dept, and so on
Why did no one in Scotland see this? Where are the other five alleged photos . Where are the negatives?
Fuck it, you may be right, but if they had that kind of tech back then, where is it now?
I am always sceptical when I hear - there are better videos or photos. They NEVER turn up. Until I see otherwise I don’t believe the other five photos are real. When I see them, I’ll think again.
Other people have seen it - in Scotland
That interview with the photographer is insanely long and detailed - I'm giving you a precis - but it is by far the most comprehensive, convincing explanation I have heard.
Incidentally "US tech" is the conclusion reached by the guy who spent years tracking down this photo - David Clark. And he was a definite skeptic before he found the image: calling it a hoax. Now he says "US tech"
Until a better explanation comes along - and I doubt that it will - that's my assumption
The US tech hypothesis also explains why the photos disappeared. A D Notice went out, suppressing the story. The tech was/is secret
The USA is a vast country covered in literally millions of acres of wilderness. The whole of the U.K. is about as big as a small to medium sized state like Oregon. Scotland is about the same size as, I dunno…West Virginia at a guess. There are huge spaces, airbases and testing facilities galore in the lower 48 alone, before you even start on the great frozen north of Alaska.
So what’s the logical thing to do with this ultra secret tech? Yeah, they’ll come and test it in Scotland. Perhaps the pilots wanted to couple it with a golf weekend? Perhaps they wanted to show off to a couple of passing transatlantic airliners? Maybe this was taken in August and the test commander wanted to try out his new routine in a mid afternoon slot at the Tron? Maybe they are Scotch aficionados? Hibs fans? Or maybe this is just bollocks?
There's also the small matter of the Machrihanish runway being oriented on Campbeltown about 3 km away, i.e. the town is unded the flight path for takeoffs to the east (when the wind is in that airt). Amdf more generally and there being no Area 51 type exclusion zone to keep the likes of JJ away, never mind the plane spotters. I can't see how the thing could have had anything to do with that airfield and flown north along the Great Glen without rather more folk seeing it ...
Oh well. If electricity bills larger than mortgages and rolling blackouts throughout the Winter don't finish us off, then drinking semi-treated sewage collected from sputtering standpipes in the street during the Monster Heatwave Drought Catastrophe of Summer 2023 ought to manage it.
"You English and your sense of humour! How lucky you English are to find the toilet so amusing! For us, it is a mundane and functional item...for you, the basis of an entire culture!"
I hope you don't think I'm joking about the semi-treated sewage.
It's almost guaranteed they'll make a half-arsed job of it. Literally. Anyone for a nice glass of delicious gourmet Thames Water, now with the unmistakeable flavour of salmonella, shit-covered bog roll particles and used condom spunk?
Straightforwardly, this is the EU's strategy. No new water infrastructure (including reservoirs) people must instead be 'educated' that water is scarce. Until the inevitable winter floods, then they need to be told it's a climate-related disaster.
We are out of the EU now, but we will not truly benefit until this dispicable man and those like him have been cleansed from the system, preferably using the semi-treated sewage he seems so fond of.
70% of pubs don't expect to survive the winter. It is gonna change the world and then some. I don't think folk have got their heads round all this yet at all.
- The market for energy in Europe has failed - Continuing with a free market for energy will result in economic ruin - poverty, a collapse in domestic spending, mass bankruptcies for SMEs. - The government will *have* to bail everyone out, whether they want to or not.
And the concluding paragraph:
"Once the government has accepted that it can’t allocate energy using a price mechanism, then the only option left will be energy rationing. The politics of that are going to be exceptionally difficult."
If the Government doesn’t somehow act, this pub could see a £250k yearly electric bill when the electric tariff expires middle of 2023.
70% of pubs don't expect to survive the winter. It is gonna change the world and then some. I don't think folk have got their heads round all this yet at all.
- The market for energy in Europe has failed - Continuing with a free market for energy will result in economic ruin - poverty, a collapse in domestic spending, mass bankruptcies for SMEs. - The government will *have* to bail everyone out, whether they want to or not.
And the concluding paragraph:
"Once the government has accepted that it can’t allocate energy using a price mechanism, then the only option left will be energy rationing. The politics of that are going to be exceptionally difficult."
As Lilico has been saying repeatedly. If the price signal isn't used for demand then there will have to be rationing.
It's a truism. Market prices are an allocation mechanism. And every allocation mechanism implies a shadow price; but whether it is determined by the aggregation of individual demands or by a bureaucracy is the issue.
70% of pubs don't expect to survive the winter. It is gonna change the world and then some. I don't think folk have got their heads round all this yet at all.
- The market for energy in Europe has failed - Continuing with a free market for energy will result in economic ruin - poverty, a collapse in domestic spending, mass bankruptcies for SMEs. - The government will *have* to bail everyone out, whether they want to or not.
And the concluding paragraph:
"Once the government has accepted that it can’t allocate energy using a price mechanism, then the only option left will be energy rationing. The politics of that are going to be exceptionally difficult."
As Lilico has been saying repeatedly. If the price signal isn't used for demand then there will have to be rationing.
That rather depends whether there's sufficient supply available (but it's very expensive) or there's literally not enough to go around. The former and Governments will have to find a way to pay for it. The latter, and there will be blackouts - and Government ministers and MPs will then pay for it with their jobs.
Oh well. If electricity bills larger than mortgages and rolling blackouts throughout the Winter don't finish us off, then drinking semi-treated sewage collected from sputtering standpipes in the street during the Monster Heatwave Drought Catastrophe of Summer 2023 ought to manage it.
"You English and your sense of humour! How lucky you English are to find the toilet so amusing! For us, it is a mundane and functional item...for you, the basis of an entire culture!"
I hope you don't think I'm joking about the semi-treated sewage.
It's almost guaranteed they'll make a half-arsed job of it. Literally. Anyone for a nice glass of delicious gourmet Thames Water, now with the unmistakeable flavour of salmonella, shit-covered bog roll particles and used condom spunk?
It's certainly going to make for a hell of a marketing campaign.
"Drink sewage? No shit, Sherlock!"
Not a new story, or indeed a new thing. It’s already happening.
Somebody tell me how the feck Truss's apparent big idea for tackling energy costs ie. tax cuts will help those most in need ie. those who pay little or no tax? And why using tax cuts to tackle what may be a temporary (but serious while it lasts) issue if prices start to revert to norm in a year or two, won't just leave a massive black hole in the public finances that the Govt won't find impossible to fill (because of an ideological aversion to raising taxes)?
One might almost suspect that the idea is to use energy prices as a cover story for delivering the tax regime that she desires and couldn't otherwise justify...
Whatever she is promising now, it is going to be quite hard to follow through on tax cuts, because that also involves cutting spending. She hasn't really said where she would cut spending, but came up with some bizarre ideas about cutting pay for public sector workers in the north of England and also slashing civil service diversity officer jobs. So it actually just seems like 'tax cuts' are being proposed as a way to win the leadership election, and will be forgotten the moment she starts out in office. I don't think there is any ideological agenda at play.
Maybe. Or maybe she will implement "temporary" tax cuts funded out of borrowing, justified on the basis that they are being used to meet a temporary problem (high energy prices). The idea being that once they get the tax cuts through the door, they can come up with some bullsh*t figures in a year or so showing how the tax cuts have "paid for themselves" due to increased economic activity and magically they make them permanent.
Somebody tell me how the feck Truss's apparent big idea for tackling energy costs ie. tax cuts will help those most in need ie. those who pay little or no tax? And why using tax cuts to tackle what may be a temporary (but serious while it lasts) issue if prices start to revert to norm in a year or two, won't just leave a massive black hole in the public finances that the Govt won't find impossible to fill (because of an ideological aversion to raising taxes)?
One might almost suspect that the idea is to use energy prices as a cover story for delivering the tax regime that she desires and couldn't otherwise justify...
You have to consider the possibility that Liz Truss is in fact dangerously stupid.
We appear to be barrelling towards a bloody huge crisis and the next PM is proposing policies that will not work. Someone needs to explain to Truss that like happened to Boris, any ambitions she had for what she might do as PM have been blown out of the water by events. She and the PM that will likely shortly follow her are going to be fire fighting for the next few years, not playing at rebuilding the nation.
70% of pubs don't expect to survive the winter. It is gonna change the world and then some. I don't think folk have got their heads round all this yet at all.
The latest group pleading for help are independent betting shop owners who are claiming seven figure rises in energy bills across their estates.
This will also impact on the likes of Ladbrokes, Paddy Power and Hills but presumably they have the funds.
The argument for closing betting shops early and scrapping floodlit horse and greyhound racing from November 1st looks very strong.
Somebody tell me how the feck Truss's apparent big idea for tackling energy costs ie. tax cuts will help those most in need ie. those who pay little or no tax? And why using tax cuts to tackle what may be a temporary (but serious while it lasts) issue if prices start to revert to norm in a year or two, won't just leave a massive black hole in the public finances that the Govt won't find impossible to fill (because of an ideological aversion to raising taxes)?
One might almost suspect that the idea is to use energy prices as a cover story for delivering the tax regime that she desires and couldn't otherwise justify...
Whatever she is promising now, it is going to be quite hard to follow through on tax cuts, because that also involves cutting spending. She hasn't really said where she would cut spending, but came up with some bizarre ideas about cutting pay for public sector workers in the north of England and also slashing civil service diversity officer jobs. So it actually just seems like 'tax cuts' are being proposed as a way to win the leadership election, and will be forgotten the moment she starts out in office. I don't think there is any ideological agenda at play.
Or maybe she's just trying to win a leadership election (that's already in the bag) by offering tax cuts to Tory party members at the expense of people who don't even vote Tory.
I don't think it's at all difficult to understand. It's just a simplistic and self-seeking response by a very stupid person to an intrinsically very difficult problem.
Sunak's is by far the most sensible and affordable, It just needs beefed up a bit to deal with the second round of increases. SKS's is ludicrously expensive and unaffordable and Truss's is nothing short of perverse.
70% of pubs don't expect to survive the winter. It is gonna change the world and then some. I don't think folk have got their heads round all this yet at all.
The latest group pleading for help are independent betting shop owners who are claiming seven figure rises in energy bills across their estates.
This will also impact on the likes of Ladbrokes, Paddy Power and Hills but presumably they have the funds.
The argument for closing betting shops early and scrapping floodlit horse and greyhound racing from November 1st looks very strong.
There was some talk plenty of football clubs aren't in the rudest health. A ban on midweek games in lower divisions could be a possibility. Two of the 12 Premiership RU clubs are in serious trouble. Rumours of two others too.
Sunak's is by far the most sensible and affordable, It just needs beefed up a bit to deal with the second round of increases. SKS's is ludicrously expensive and unaffordable and Truss's is nothing short of perverse.
If you think it's perverse, overlay it on the profile of the people who are eligible to vote in the leadership election and see what you think then.
Sunak's is by far the most sensible and affordable, It just needs beefed up a bit to deal with the second round of increases. SKS's is ludicrously expensive and unaffordable and Truss's is nothing short of perverse.
Sunak's plan is a piss in the ocean compared to what might be needed, but at least he's pissing in the right place.
Sunak's is by far the most sensible and affordable, It just needs beefed up a bit to deal with the second round of increases. SKS's is ludicrously expensive and unaffordable and Truss's is nothing short of perverse.
If you think it's perverse, overlay it on the profile of the people who are eligible to vote in the leadership election and see what you think then.
A very significant proportion of Tory support comes from CDE groups who are getting almost nothing out of these tax cuts. Admittedly the profile of those who are actually voting members is probably more prosperous.
70% of pubs don't expect to survive the winter. It is gonna change the world and then some. I don't think folk have got their heads round all this yet at all.
The latest group pleading for help are independent betting shop owners who are claiming seven figure rises in energy bills across their estates.
This will also impact on the likes of Ladbrokes, Paddy Power and Hills but presumably they have the funds.
The argument for closing betting shops early and scrapping floodlit horse and greyhound racing from November 1st looks very strong.
There was some talk plenty of football clubs aren't in the rudest health. A ban on midweek games in lower divisions could be a possibility. Two of the 12 Premiership RU clubs are in serious trouble. Rumours of two others too.
In the 1973/74 season there were plenty of midweek games played with a 2pm kickoff to avoid using the floodlights.
Sunak's is by far the most sensible and affordable, It just needs beefed up a bit to deal with the second round of increases. SKS's is ludicrously expensive and unaffordable and Truss's is nothing short of perverse.
If you think it's perverse, overlay it on the profile of the people who are eligible to vote in the leadership election and see what you think then.
A very significant proportion of Tory support comes from CDE groups who are getting almost nothing out of these tax cuts. Admittedly the profile of those who are actually voting members is probably more prosperous.
Well, I did say "people who are eligible to vote in the leadership election".
In fairness, perhaps I should have said "short-sighted" as well as "simplistic" and "stupid", but I thought the point was clear enough.
Sunak's is by far the most sensible and affordable, It just needs beefed up a bit to deal with the second round of increases. SKS's is ludicrously expensive and unaffordable and Truss's is nothing short of perverse.
That's a bad graph. What does Poorest mean vs Richest?
I won't believe that's Truss's actual plan until she actually has the power to make an official announcement. I shall assume it is all just noise until that point.
If it does turn out to be her plan then any required preparations to survive riots should be made.
"Ilford station refurb nearing completion, as seen in August 2022."
does not produce very exciting results
So I did "Boris Johnson sucking a rabbit" and got this
Some major flaws there, in the hands and eyes, etc. But remember, these flaws are built in. The models are trained so they CANNOT do faces and body parts well, and they completely reject anything sexual, porno, bloody, etc. But that is nonetheless a pretty good Boris, at least attempting to suck a rabbit
What happens when these machines are let off the leash? Because someone will do that. In China if not here. We will be flooded with completely plausible fake images of outrageous things. Images will be entirely devalued. Photographers and artists might as well retire
70% of pubs don't expect to survive the winter. It is gonna change the world and then some. I don't think folk have got their heads round all this yet at all.
- The market for energy in Europe has failed - Continuing with a free market for energy will result in economic ruin - poverty, a collapse in domestic spending, mass bankruptcies for SMEs. - The government will *have* to bail everyone out, whether they want to or not.
And the concluding paragraph:
"Once the government has accepted that it can’t allocate energy using a price mechanism, then the only option left will be energy rationing. The politics of that are going to be exceptionally difficult."
More or less what I argued a day or so back. With rather more detail than me.
Prediction: Starmer will face Johnson at GE 2024/5
...and Johnson will smash it out of the park.
Don't forget the economy only went to hell in a handcart after Johnson appeared to leave office. It wouldn't surprise me if this had been his cunning plan all along.
70% of pubs don't expect to survive the winter. It is gonna change the world and then some. I don't think folk have got their heads round all this yet at all.
- The market for energy in Europe has failed - Continuing with a free market for energy will result in economic ruin - poverty, a collapse in domestic spending, mass bankruptcies for SMEs. - The government will *have* to bail everyone out, whether they want to or not.
And the concluding paragraph:
"Once the government has accepted that it can’t allocate energy using a price mechanism, then the only option left will be energy rationing. The politics of that are going to be exceptionally difficult."
More or less what I argued a day or so back. With rather more detail than me.
Yep.
I think it is obvious at this point that a) the government is going to have to step in with massive bailouts and b) there isn't enough energy at *any* price for this winter, which will mean some kind of rationing.
Sunak's is by far the most sensible and affordable, It just needs beefed up a bit to deal with the second round of increases. SKS's is ludicrously expensive and unaffordable and Truss's is nothing short of perverse.
Sunak's plan is inadequate for the bottom half of the income table and is also complex. There is a simple solution that would get us most of the way. Simple cap, per Starmer's model; increased tax at higher incomes to compensate for those that don't need to be subsidised.
Problem is the aversion to any idea of higher taxes within the government, even when they make sense.
Sunak's is by far the most sensible and affordable, It just needs beefed up a bit to deal with the second round of increases. SKS's is ludicrously expensive and unaffordable and Truss's is nothing short of perverse.
Doing nothing much except tinker at the margins is what is really unaffordable long term.
Just catching up with reports of Laura Kuenssberg's Times interview. Lavishing praise on BigDog. Boris Johnson "tipped the balance" towards Brexit and if he hadn't won the 2019 Leadership context "Brexit might not have happened". Truss is a "great survivor" who has been "underestimated". I love the impartial BBC!
Someone please tell me if I'm wrong, but I have the impression that the best climate models and projections didn't really have "all the rivers are gonna dry up, like now-ish" in there https://twitter.com/davelevitan/status/1563685839019851777
Somebody tell me how the feck Truss's apparent big idea for tackling energy costs ie. tax cuts will help those most in need ie. those who pay little or no tax? And why using tax cuts to tackle what may be a temporary (but serious while it lasts) issue if prices start to revert to norm in a year or two, won't just leave a massive black hole in the public finances that the Govt won't find impossible to fill (because of an ideological aversion to raising taxes)?
One might almost suspect that the idea is to use energy prices as a cover story for delivering the tax regime that she desires and couldn't otherwise justify...
Whatever she is promising now, it is going to be quite hard to follow through on tax cuts, because that also involves cutting spending. She hasn't really said where she would cut spending, but came up with some bizarre ideas about cutting pay for public sector workers in the north of England and also slashing civil service diversity officer jobs. So it actually just seems like 'tax cuts' are being proposed as a way to win the leadership election, and will be forgotten the moment she starts out in office. I don't think there is any ideological agenda at play.
Maybe. Or maybe she will implement "temporary" tax cuts funded out of borrowing, justified on the basis that they are being used to meet a temporary problem (high energy prices). The idea being that once they get the tax cuts through the door, they can come up with some bullsh*t figures in a year or so showing how the tax cuts have "paid for themselves" due to increased economic activity and magically they make them permanent.
There is no difficulty in selling tax cuts to anyone though, everyone (who pays tax) benefits from them. In isolation it isn't a difficult policy - unlike spending cuts, where there are always definite losers. If people think that there can be tax cuts with no other consequences, then they are living in a clown world.
Even if "don't do a great deal" was an option now (which it isn't, in effect) it definitely won't be an option when the price cap inevitably rises again to circa 5 or 6 grand. If Truss can't see that, and why it's better to get in on a proper solution sooner rather than later when half the country is fomenting revolution, then she's an idiot.
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Overall that's moved the current Government side to a 1.8% average lead, seat projection 178-171.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/okanagan-lake-swimming-commute-1.6556441
Some people walk to work, some take the bus or a train and a few might even take a ferry. Many drive to work, often in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Brent Hobbs of Kelowna, B.C., swims.
He makes his way along the shore of Okanagan Lake to work twice a week, about 1.8 kilometres. He estimates it takes him about 30 minutes, and he carries his laptop and a change of clothes in a waterproof bag.
"No better way of getting to work," he told CBC's Joseph Otoo after one of his morning commutes.
"It's nice and cool, but more than that, I'm having fun."
Hobbs, who works in management at Interior Health, sees wildlife on his swims, such as beavers and osprey. Once, he says he got too close to a beaver and it slapped him with its tail. . . .
SSI - am wondering, has Leon ever gotten slapped for having got too close to a beaver?
Maybe the other routes (hiding on trucks etc) became a bit more risky due to customs inspections? Hence the dinghy option.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvWfbIe4X_4
One might almost suspect that the idea is to use energy prices as a cover story for delivering the tax regime that she desires and couldn't otherwise justify...
https://www.krone.at/2793928
The Centre Party will prop them up having switched from the centre right Opposition. However the right of centre Opposition grouping will still grow from 143 seats last election when it included the Centre Party to 171 now it includes the Sweden Democrats
The Cabinet and the Conservatives' principal financial donors, who will all have evacuated to sit out the cholera pandemic, rioting, famine and civilizational collapse from a position of sanctuary in Dubai, can then come back home and resettle the land with a slave population of Afghan and Somali boat people, kept under firm control by a security force of Albanian mafia henchmen. Result.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyYg2bD-U94
Sad if it folds but its currently in a terrible state even in one of its flagship venues (Sheffield)
Bloke in front of me bought some vouchers for "friends".
Didn't have the heart to tell him.
On a brighter note have now lost well over 4 stones , am below the 4DX weight limit so will be watching g my first ever 4DX film in 14 hrs if they survive that long!!
New image released. Plot thickens.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/28/britons-need-to-be-less-squeamish-about-drinking-water-from-sewage-says-agency-head
It's almost guaranteed they'll make a half-arsed job of it. Literally. Anyone for a nice glass of delicious gourmet Thames Water, now with the unmistakeable flavour of salmonella, shit-covered bog roll particles and used condom spunk?
"Drink sewage? No shit, Sherlock!"
https://theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/poll/2013/may/10/water-health
It is gonna change the world and then some
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ2T9OJY1lg
It is gonna change the world and then some.
I don't think folk have got their heads round all this yet at all.
Not sure why Truss and Sunak would want to bring this topic, which just demonstrated the incompetence of the government they are a part of.
And telling us all to be patient for the answers we need.
https://duncanweldon.substack.com/p/in-the-bleak-midwinter
Fundamentally:
- The market for energy in Europe has failed
- Continuing with a free market for energy will result in economic ruin - poverty, a collapse in domestic spending, mass bankruptcies for SMEs.
- The government will *have* to bail everyone out, whether they want to or not.
And the concluding paragraph:
"Once the government has accepted that it can’t allocate energy using a price mechanism, then the only option left will be energy rationing. The politics of that are going to be exceptionally difficult."
"...did great things - terrible, yes, but great"
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/28/rising-energy-costs-will-force-thousands-of-corner-shops-to-close
Nothing new in this.
Next thing people will be upset by fish poo in reservoirs.
But on a related space matter, Artemis 1 is due to launch tomorrow. If all goes to plan, in 2 years there will be Human Beings going around the Moon, and then landing on the Moon a year later.
We are out of the EU now, but we will not truly benefit until this dispicable man and those like him have been cleansed from the system, preferably using the semi-treated sewage he seems so fond of.
If the Government doesn’t somehow act, this pub could see a £250k yearly electric bill when the electric tariff expires middle of 2023.
https://twitter.com/EssexPR/status/1563875496525545472
https://twitter.com/NewStatesman/status/1562854458299936768
We appear to be barrelling towards a bloody huge crisis and the next PM is proposing policies that will not work. Someone needs to explain to Truss that like happened to Boris, any ambitions she had for what she might do as PM have been blown out of the water by events. She and the PM that will likely shortly follow her are going to be fire fighting for the next few years, not playing at rebuilding the nation.
This will also impact on the likes of Ladbrokes, Paddy Power and Hills but presumably they have the funds.
The argument for closing betting shops early and scrapping floodlit horse and greyhound racing from November 1st looks very strong.
I don't think it's at all difficult to understand. It's just a simplistic and self-seeking response by a very stupid person to an intrinsically very difficult problem.
Two of the 12 Premiership RU clubs are in serious trouble. Rumours of two others too.
In fairness, perhaps I should have said "short-sighted" as well as "simplistic" and "stupid", but I thought the point was clear enough.
I won't believe that's Truss's actual plan until she actually has the power to make an official announcement. I shall assume it is all just noise until that point.
If it does turn out to be her plan then any required preparations to survive riots should be made.
"Ilford station refurb nearing completion, as seen in August 2022."
does not produce very exciting results
So I did "Boris Johnson sucking a rabbit" and got this
Some major flaws there, in the hands and eyes, etc. But remember, these flaws are built in. The models are trained so they CANNOT do faces and body parts well, and they completely reject anything sexual, porno, bloody, etc. But that is nonetheless a pretty good Boris, at least attempting to suck a rabbit
What happens when these machines are let off the leash? Because someone will do that. In China if not here. We will be flooded with completely plausible fake images of outrageous things. Images will be entirely devalued. Photographers and artists might as well retire
With rather more detail than me.
Don't forget the economy only went to hell in a handcart after Johnson appeared to leave office. It wouldn't surprise me if this had been his cunning plan all along.
He will return cleansed.
I think it is obvious at this point that a) the government is going to have to step in with massive bailouts and b) there isn't enough energy at *any* price for this winter, which will mean some kind of rationing.
Problem is the aversion to any idea of higher taxes within the government, even when they make sense.
https://twitter.com/davelevitan/status/1563685839019851777
Ok but you must have missed this super scientifically accurate timeline that was recently published…
https://twitter.com/catgyoung/status/1563783729490829313
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/08/27/ed-davey-proud-have-stopped-fracking-despite-energy-crisis/