So the Tories who won't get a say before late 2028 at the earliest and probably 2029, will try to reverse something that will be 99% by then...
It's the sort of stupid headline that looks like they are doing something when really it's a complete nothingburger.
I don't think that is the point
There is an increasing demand both here and in the EU to delay the ban and Badenoch's call is much in line with a changing mood on this policy
The irony is I believe Euro 7 is going to increase petrol engine costs to the point that BEV's will be cheaper.
Euro 7 has stricter rules on unburnt hydrocarbons. The only (cost effective) way to meet them will be to reduce cylinder count. Unburnt HC emissions vary with cylinder radius but engine output is proportional to displacement and hence the square of the cylinder radius. This raises a marketing problem, as Mercedes discovered, because people will not pay shitloads of money for 4 (and fewer) cylinder cars regardless of whether achieve or even exceed performance parity.
ICE engines will hang around in hybrid form for a while but KB is just railing against the inevitable to catch the attention of GB News watching morons who hate BEVs on principle.
Meanwhile BYD and similar are eating the legacy automakers market. The market for ICE cars is dying. Its like trying to sell C41 and E6 film in the digital age.
For anyone with a driveway or other off-road parking where charging at home is an option, it absolutely is.
For people who needs public charging on the other hand, which includes tens of millions of people, the market is not dying.
Even before the foolhardy introduction of an EV per mile tax, it was already cheaper to drive an efficient petrol vehicle over a publicly-charged electric one, despite the fact that the petrol tax is almost entirely taxation and the EV charging cost is not. With the per mile EV tax, that disparity has grown even worse.
Should private transportation only be the preserve of those with off-road parking?
It's quite possible to have charging with on-road parking, I have seen it in the Netherlands
Possible, yes, actually there though, no.
Unless or until this issue is actually dealt with, the tens of millions who don't have off-road parking will act accordingly, as is logical for them.
Really shocking scenes from bondi beach in amongst some extraordinary bravery.
I do not think the western world or its politicians are suited to the new world we find ourselves in.
The issue is that the ones who might do something about it will also do lots of other stuff that isn't as acceptable and necessary.
Indeed. The apologetic wet blanket style of government we have endured for years needs to get a grip and adopt diamond hard migration and criminal justice policies. If they don’t then democracies will elect people who will.
The 1970s were a period of rampant terrorism in the West. I personally do not wish we had reacted to it by electing strongman crackdown leaders.
Except we didn’t.
Thatcher rejected internment without trial.
She even rejected sanctioning the unemployment benefit of convicted terrorists. No one even mentioned the modern idea of throwing people out of their council houses for being an extremist.
The “traditional response” to terrorism - heavy handed military operations to demonstrate “presence” in the terrorist strongholds didn’t happen, either.
Instead a twin track, political and intelligence based policy was used. Which eventually gave us the Good Friday agreement.
Could you misinterpret a post any more wildly! Hats off.
Yes, that is what I was saying. Western countries (inc the UK) did not react that way and I'm glad we didn't.
So you’re saying that what we need is someone like Thatcher?
Really shocking scenes from bondi beach in amongst some extraordinary bravery.
I do not think the western world or its politicians are suited to the new world we find ourselves in.
The issue is that the ones who might do something about it will also do lots of other stuff that isn't as acceptable and necessary.
Indeed. The apologetic wet blanket style of government we have endured for years needs to get a grip and adopt diamond hard migration and criminal justice policies. If they don’t then democracies will elect people who will.
The 1970s were a period of rampant terrorism in the West. I personally do not wish we had reacted to it by electing strongman crackdown leaders.
Except we didn’t.
Thatcher rejected internment without trial.
She even rejected sanctioning the unemployment benefit of convicted terrorists. No one even mentioned the modern idea of throwing people out of their council houses for being an extremist.
The “traditional response” to terrorism - heavy handed military operations to demonstrate “presence” in the terrorist strongholds didn’t happen, either.
Instead a twin track, political and intelligence based policy was used. Which eventually gave us the Good Friday agreement.
What sort of Good Friday Agreement do you envisage with those who spray bullets into strangers, systematically rape children and even mutilate their own daughters?
Well between Gerry and his brother, they had most of that.
I would put them on the payroll, 6 figure jobs. When they realise that if the war restarts, they are going to lose the nice big house and the daughters will have to give up the riding lessons....
Population Somalia, 20m. Population Sudan 50m. Afghanistan 42m. Etc…
That’s a lot of houses. How about instead we impose a hard ban on all visas from such places and deport everyone who came from there. We’re going to end up with such a policy anyway eventually, it’s just a question of how much social and economic trauma we have to endure first.
So the Tories who won't get a say before late 2028 at the earliest and probably 2029, will try to reverse something that will be 99% by then...
It's the sort of stupid headline that looks like they are doing something when really it's a complete nothingburger.
I don't think that is the point
There is an increasing demand both here and in the EU to delay the ban and Badenoch's call is much in line with a changing mood on this policy
The irony is I believe Euro 7 is going to increase petrol engine costs to the point that BEV's will be cheaper.
Euro 7 has stricter rules on unburnt hydrocarbons. The only (cost effective) way to meet them will be to reduce cylinder count. Unburnt HC emissions vary with cylinder radius but engine output is proportional to displacement and hence the square of the cylinder radius. This raises a marketing problem, as Mercedes discovered, because people will not pay shitloads of money for 4 (and fewer) cylinder cars regardless of whether achieve or even exceed performance parity.
ICE engines will hang around in hybrid form for a while but KB is just railing against the inevitable to catch the attention of GB News watching morons who hate BEVs on principle.
Meanwhile BYD and similar are eating the legacy automakers market. The market for ICE cars is dying. Its like trying to sell C41 and E6 film in the digital age.
For anyone with a driveway or other off-road parking where charging at home is an option, it absolutely is.
For people who needs public charging on the other hand, which includes tens of millions of people, the market is not dying.
Even before the foolhardy introduction of an EV per mile tax, it was already cheaper to drive an efficient petrol vehicle over a publicly-charged electric one, despite the fact that the petrol tax is almost entirely taxation and the EV charging cost is not. With the per mile EV tax, that disparity has grown even worse.
Should private transportation only be the preserve of those with off-road parking?
It's quite possible to have charging with on-road parking, I have seen it in the Netherlands
Possible, yes, actually there though, no.
Unless or until this issue is actually dealt with, the tens of millions who don't have off-road parking will act accordingly, as is logical for them.
Agree. The incentives need to be about good availability of low cost chargers rather than the purchase of cars
So the Tories who won't get a say before late 2028 at the earliest and probably 2029, will try to reverse something that will be 99% by then...
It's the sort of stupid headline that looks like they are doing something when really it's a complete nothingburger.
I don't think that is the point
There is an increasing demand both here and in the EU to delay the ban and Badenoch's call is much in line with a changing mood on this policy
The irony is I believe Euro 7 is going to increase petrol engine costs to the point that BEV's will be cheaper.
Euro 7 has stricter rules on unburnt hydrocarbons. The only (cost effective) way to meet them will be to reduce cylinder count. Unburnt HC emissions vary with cylinder radius but engine output is proportional to displacement and hence the square of the cylinder radius. This raises a marketing problem, as Mercedes discovered, because people will not pay shitloads of money for 4 (and fewer) cylinder cars regardless of whether achieve or even exceed performance parity.
ICE engines will hang around in hybrid form for a while but KB is just railing against the inevitable to catch the attention of GB News watching morons who hate BEVs on principle.
Meanwhile BYD and similar are eating the legacy automakers market. The market for ICE cars is dying. Its like trying to sell C41 and E6 film in the digital age.
For anyone with a driveway or other off-road parking where charging at home is an option, it absolutely is.
For people who needs public charging on the other hand, which includes tens of millions of people, the market is not dying.
Even before the foolhardy introduction of an EV per mile tax, it was already cheaper to drive an efficient petrol vehicle over a publicly-charged electric one, despite the fact that the petrol tax is almost entirely taxation and the EV charging cost is not. With the per mile EV tax, that disparity has grown even worse.
Should private transportation only be the preserve of those with off-road parking?
It is market forces that will kill off the ICE vehicle market.
Worth pointing out that 40% of households in a city like Liverpool, where off-street parking is going up be rarer than in suburban areas, don't have a car anyway - so it's easy to overstate the issue given the overlap between living in a flat and not having a car.
With the introduction of e-bikes and e-buses, it's possible that the non-driving population is further along the EV track than the rest of the population.
Very sad news coming out of Australia. Of course the media won’t dare state the obvious that there’s a direct link with this massive increase in anti-Semitic attacks and the Gaza War .
And that Netenyahu and the IDF actions have increased anti-Semitism globally .
How utterly sick victim blaming.
The Gaza War was not caused by Netanyahu, it was caused by Hamas. It ended when Hamas surrendered and released the hostages, which could have happened at any point prior or if they had not done the attack the war would never have happened.
And now you blame a terror attack, not on the terrorists, but the people who went to war to defend themselves after Hamas atrocity?
You are sick.
Jeez stop the lecturing . I never victim blamed and you’d have to be a fruit fly to not connect the Gaza War with increased anti -Semitism . No one said Israel didn’t have a right to react to the October massacre . If you think the response was proportionate then really there’s nothing more to say !
The poster calling you sick reacted to the destruction of Gaza and its population with "Good. Well done, Israel".
What destruction of its people? The people are still there.
The destruction of Hamas on the other hand was entirely merited. The second Hamas surrendered, the war ended.
An awful lot of them are not and most of those that are have lost everything. Oct 7th was an atrocity. The response was an atrocity. We have another today in Sydney. I'm not interested in hearing attempts at justification for any of it.
Really shocking scenes from bondi beach in amongst some extraordinary bravery.
I do not think the western world or its politicians are suited to the new world we find ourselves in.
The issue is that the ones who might do something about it will also do lots of other stuff that isn't as acceptable and necessary.
Indeed. The apologetic wet blanket style of government we have endured for years needs to get a grip and adopt diamond hard migration and criminal justice policies. If they don’t then democracies will elect people who will.
The 1970s were a period of rampant terrorism in the West. I personally do not wish we had reacted to it by electing strongman crackdown leaders.
Except we didn’t.
Thatcher rejected internment without trial.
She even rejected sanctioning the unemployment benefit of convicted terrorists. No one even mentioned the modern idea of throwing people out of their council houses for being an extremist.
The “traditional response” to terrorism - heavy handed military operations to demonstrate “presence” in the terrorist strongholds didn’t happen, either.
Instead a twin track, political and intelligence based policy was used. Which eventually gave us the Good Friday agreement.
Could you misinterpret a post any more wildly! Hats off.
Yes, that is what I was saying. Western countries (inc the UK) did not react that way and I'm glad we didn't.
So you’re saying that what we need is someone like Thatcher?
So the Tories who won't get a say before late 2028 at the earliest and probably 2029, will try to reverse something that will be 99% by then...
It's the sort of stupid headline that looks like they are doing something when really it's a complete nothingburger.
I don't think that is the point
There is an increasing demand both here and in the EU to delay the ban and Badenoch's call is much in line with a changing mood on this policy
The irony is I believe Euro 7 is going to increase petrol engine costs to the point that BEV's will be cheaper.
Euro 7 has stricter rules on unburnt hydrocarbons. The only (cost effective) way to meet them will be to reduce cylinder count. Unburnt HC emissions vary with cylinder radius but engine output is proportional to displacement and hence the square of the cylinder radius. This raises a marketing problem, as Mercedes discovered, because people will not pay shitloads of money for 4 (and fewer) cylinder cars regardless of whether achieve or even exceed performance parity.
ICE engines will hang around in hybrid form for a while but KB is just railing against the inevitable to catch the attention of GB News watching morons who hate BEVs on principle.
Meanwhile BYD and similar are eating the legacy automakers market. The market for ICE cars is dying. Its like trying to sell C41 and E6 film in the digital age.
For anyone with a driveway or other off-road parking where charging at home is an option, it absolutely is.
For people who needs public charging on the other hand, which includes tens of millions of people, the market is not dying.
Even before the foolhardy introduction of an EV per mile tax, it was already cheaper to drive an efficient petrol vehicle over a publicly-charged electric one, despite the fact that the petrol tax is almost entirely taxation and the EV charging cost is not. With the per mile EV tax, that disparity has grown even worse.
Should private transportation only be the preserve of those with off-road parking?
It is market forces that will kill off the ICE vehicle market.
Worth pointing out that 40% of households in a city like Liverpool, where off-street parking is going up be rarer than in suburban areas, don't have a car anyway - so it's easy to overstate the issue given the overlap between living in a flat and not having a car.
With the introduction of e-bikes and e-buses, it's possible that the non-driving population is further along the EV track than the rest of the population.
Only if you define Liverpool (city) very narrowly, like the City of London being a square mile rather than Greater London.
Across the Liverpool City Region 69.8% of households own at least one car, which includes 76.2% of Halton, 76.8% of St Helens and 73.6% of Sefton for example. I can assure you there are a hell of a lot of terraced homes in Halton, St Helens and Sefton.
Really shocking scenes from bondi beach in amongst some extraordinary bravery.
I do not think the western world or its politicians are suited to the new world we find ourselves in.
The issue is that the ones who might do something about it will also do lots of other stuff that isn't as acceptable and necessary.
Indeed. The apologetic wet blanket style of government we have endured for years needs to get a grip and adopt diamond hard migration and criminal justice policies. If they don’t then democracies will elect people who will.
The 1970s were a period of rampant terrorism in the West. I personally do not wish we had reacted to it by electing strongman crackdown leaders.
Except we didn’t.
Thatcher rejected internment without trial.
She even rejected sanctioning the unemployment benefit of convicted terrorists. No one even mentioned the modern idea of throwing people out of their council houses for being an extremist.
The “traditional response” to terrorism - heavy handed military operations to demonstrate “presence” in the terrorist strongholds didn’t happen, either.
Instead a twin track, political and intelligence based policy was used. Which eventually gave us the Good Friday agreement.
What sort of Good Friday Agreement do you envisage with those who spray bullets into strangers, systematically rape children and even mutilate their own daughters?
Well between Gerry and his brother, they had most of that.
I would put them on the payroll, 6 figure jobs. When they realise that if the war restarts, they are going to lose the nice big house and the daughters will have to give up the riding lessons....
Population Somalia, 20m. Population Sudan 50m. Afghanistan 42m. Etc…
That’s a lot of houses. How about instead we impose a hard ban on all visas from such places and deport everyone who came from there. We’re going to end up with such a policy anyway eventually, it’s just a question of how much social and economic trauma we have to endure first.
And what, especially skills, do they need to sort themselves out? How can we give those to help them move forward?
I appreciate, of course, that the world-wide Moslem community is going to have to have a severe word with the rulers of Afghanistan.
Very sad news coming out of Australia. Of course the media won’t dare state the obvious that there’s a direct link with this massive increase in anti-Semitic attacks and the Gaza War .
And that Netenyahu and the IDF actions have increased anti-Semitism globally .
How utterly sick victim blaming.
The Gaza War was not caused by Netanyahu, it was caused by Hamas. It ended when Hamas surrendered and released the hostages, which could have happened at any point prior or if they had not done the attack the war would never have happened.
And now you blame a terror attack, not on the terrorists, but the people who went to war to defend themselves after Hamas atrocity?
You are sick.
Jeez stop the lecturing . I never victim blamed and you’d have to be a fruit fly to not connect the Gaza War with increased anti -Semitism . No one said Israel didn’t have a right to react to the October massacre . If you think the response was proportionate then really there’s nothing more to say !
The poster calling you sick reacted to the destruction of Gaza and its population with "Good. Well done, Israel".
What destruction of its people? The people are still there.
The destruction of Hamas on the other hand was entirely merited. The second Hamas surrendered, the war ended.
An awful lot of them are not and most of those that are have lost everything. Oct 7th was an atrocity. The response was an atrocity. We have another today in Sydney. I'm not interested in hearing attempts at justification for any of it.
Then have a go at Nico67, not me, who was the one who gave an attempted justification of what happened today. Blaming the response to the atrocity on 7 October for what happened today. Or Roger who did the same.
It was sick that today someone's first response to what happened in Australia was to shift the blame to someone else. Had nobody done that, I would never have responded to them doing that.
Really shocking scenes from bondi beach in amongst some extraordinary bravery.
I do not think the western world or its politicians are suited to the new world we find ourselves in.
The issue is that the ones who might do something about it will also do lots of other stuff that isn't as acceptable and necessary.
Indeed. The apologetic wet blanket style of government we have endured for years needs to get a grip and adopt diamond hard migration and criminal justice policies. If they don’t then democracies will elect people who will.
The 1970s were a period of rampant terrorism in the West. I personally do not wish we had reacted to it by electing strongman crackdown leaders.
Except we didn’t.
Thatcher rejected internment without trial.
She even rejected sanctioning the unemployment benefit of convicted terrorists. No one even mentioned the modern idea of throwing people out of their council houses for being an extremist.
The “traditional response” to terrorism - heavy handed military operations to demonstrate “presence” in the terrorist strongholds didn’t happen, either.
Instead a twin track, political and intelligence based policy was used. Which eventually gave us the Good Friday agreement.
Could you misinterpret a post any more wildly! Hats off.
Yes, that is what I was saying. Western countries (inc the UK) did not react that way and I'm glad we didn't.
It did take a while to realise that the brutal response (Bloody Sunday, Ballymurphy etc) and Internment were not only ineffective, they were counterproductive, driving recruits to the PIRA etc.
It was intelligence led policing, and socio-economic progress that brought the terrorism to an end, albeit a fossilised stalemate.
I mean, the complete military defeat of the IRA and mass penetration of it by British agents did help…
Really shocking scenes from bondi beach in amongst some extraordinary bravery.
I do not think the western world or its politicians are suited to the new world we find ourselves in.
Is it a new world? Sadly, there have been terrorist attacks and mass shootings ever since the weapons used became available. This year is the centenary of the St. Nedelya Church bombing in Bulgaria that killed 213. It’s a bit over 100 years from the Rosewood massacre in Florida in 1923, which killed at least 8, possibly dozens.
We do know how to reduce such incidents and have made progress in places, but we will never be able to reduce cases to zero.
Starmer probably does need replacing but no obviously good replacement IMO.
He tied himself to the genocidal killers in the Israeli government at the worst possible time and Jews and Gentiles from a leftish persuasion haven't trusted him since. Then along comes Zack with all the right credentials and snatches 15% of his potential vote.
Whether they go back to a genocidal Starmer led Labour Party for fear of Farage or Badenoch (both of whom are worse) is too difficult to say. I and several others I know are struggling for a good answer
demented halfwit opines
Patronised by the doyen of PB posters.
I think I'll take myself down to Cap Ferrat and get some summer sunshine
So the Tories who won't get a say before late 2028 at the earliest and probably 2029, will try to reverse something that will be 99% by then...
It's the sort of stupid headline that looks like they are doing something when really it's a complete nothingburger.
I don't think that is the point
There is an increasing demand both here and in the EU to delay the ban and Badenoch's call is much in line with a changing mood on this policy
The irony is I believe Euro 7 is going to increase petrol engine costs to the point that BEV's will be cheaper.
Euro 7 has stricter rules on unburnt hydrocarbons. The only (cost effective) way to meet them will be to reduce cylinder count. Unburnt HC emissions vary with cylinder radius but engine output is proportional to displacement and hence the square of the cylinder radius. This raises a marketing problem, as Mercedes discovered, because people will not pay shitloads of money for 4 (and fewer) cylinder cars regardless of whether achieve or even exceed performance parity.
ICE engines will hang around in hybrid form for a while but KB is just railing against the inevitable to catch the attention of GB News watching morons who hate BEVs on principle.
Meanwhile BYD and similar are eating the legacy automakers market. The market for ICE cars is dying. Its like trying to sell C41 and E6 film in the digital age.
For anyone with a driveway or other off-road parking where charging at home is an option, it absolutely is.
For people who needs public charging on the other hand, which includes tens of millions of people, the market is not dying.
Even before the foolhardy introduction of an EV per mile tax, it was already cheaper to drive an efficient petrol vehicle over a publicly-charged electric one, despite the fact that the petrol tax is almost entirely taxation and the EV charging cost is not. With the per mile EV tax, that disparity has grown even worse.
Should private transportation only be the preserve of those with off-road parking?
It is market forces that will kill off the ICE vehicle market.
Worth pointing out that 40% of households in a city like Liverpool, where off-street parking is going up be rarer than in suburban areas, don't have a car anyway - so it's easy to overstate the issue given the overlap between living in a flat and not having a car.
With the introduction of e-bikes and e-buses, it's possible that the non-driving population is further along the EV track than the rest of the population.
To put some stats on this, 10% of the England/Welsh hoiseholds live in flats and have a car. Bumps to 30% if you include terraced.
It's a pretty big issue but not insurmountable - just needs a bit of government investment in on-street charging (we've had very little so far), quadruple bus services to 2010 levels, and get to Danish rates of cycling and we're are there quite easily.
Very sad news coming out of Australia. Of course the media won’t dare state the obvious that there’s a direct link with this massive increase in anti-Semitic attacks and the Gaza War .
And that Netenyahu and the IDF actions have increased anti-Semitism globally .
How utterly sick victim blaming.
The Gaza War was not caused by Netanyahu, it was caused by Hamas. It ended when Hamas surrendered and released the hostages, which could have happened at any point prior or if they had not done the attack the war would never have happened.
And now you blame a terror attack, not on the terrorists, but the people who went to war to defend themselves after Hamas atrocity?
You are sick.
Jeez stop the lecturing . I never victim blamed and you’d have to be a fruit fly to not connect the Gaza War with increased anti -Semitism . No one said Israel didn’t have a right to react to the October massacre . If you think the response was proportionate then really there’s nothing more to say !
The poster calling you sick reacted to the destruction of Gaza and its population with "Good. Well done, Israel".
What destruction of its people? The people are still there.
The destruction of Hamas on the other hand was entirely merited. The second Hamas surrendered, the war ended.
Thank goodness. I suppose c400 Palestinians killed since the ‘cease fire’ is an improvement.
Really shocking scenes from bondi beach in amongst some extraordinary bravery.
I do not think the western world or its politicians are suited to the new world we find ourselves in.
The issue is that the ones who might do something about it will also do lots of other stuff that isn't as acceptable and necessary.
Indeed. The apologetic wet blanket style of government we have endured for years needs to get a grip and adopt diamond hard migration and criminal justice policies. If they don’t then democracies will elect people who will.
The 1970s were a period of rampant terrorism in the West. I personally do not wish we had reacted to it by electing strongman crackdown leaders.
Except we didn’t.
Thatcher rejected internment without trial.
She even rejected sanctioning the unemployment benefit of convicted terrorists. No one even mentioned the modern idea of throwing people out of their council houses for being an extremist.
The “traditional response” to terrorism - heavy handed military operations to demonstrate “presence” in the terrorist strongholds didn’t happen, either.
Instead a twin track, political and intelligence based policy was used. Which eventually gave us the Good Friday agreement.
What sort of Good Friday Agreement do you envisage with those who spray bullets into strangers, systematically rape children and even mutilate their own daughters?
Well between Gerry and his brother, they had most of that.
I would put them on the payroll, 6 figure jobs. When they realise that if the war restarts, they are going to lose the nice big house and the daughters will have to give up the riding lessons....
Population Somalia, 20m. Population Sudan 50m. Afghanistan 42m. Etc…
That’s a lot of houses. How about instead we impose a hard ban on all visas from such places and deport everyone who came from there. We’re going to end up with such a policy anyway eventually, it’s just a question of how much social and economic trauma we have to endure first.
And what, especially skills, do they need to sort themselves out? How can we give those to help them move forward?
I appreciate, of course, that the world-wide Moslem community is going to have to have a severe word with the rulers of Afghanistan.
The number of actual nutters, even in the Middle East, is quite a small proportion of the population. Which is why they try and use ultra-violent acts to stir the rest up.
Most people have a bad habit of living their lives, raising their children and being nice to their neighbours. You can't build a proper blood soaked revolution out of them...
At it's height, the active bit of the PIRA would have fitted in on meeting hall.
Really shocking scenes from bondi beach in amongst some extraordinary bravery.
I do not think the western world or its politicians are suited to the new world we find ourselves in.
The issue is that the ones who might do something about it will also do lots of other stuff that isn't as acceptable and necessary.
Indeed. The apologetic wet blanket style of government we have endured for years needs to get a grip and adopt diamond hard migration and criminal justice policies. If they don’t then democracies will elect people who will.
The 1970s were a period of rampant terrorism in the West. I personally do not wish we had reacted to it by electing strongman crackdown leaders.
Except we didn’t.
Thatcher rejected internment without trial.
She even rejected sanctioning the unemployment benefit of convicted terrorists. No one even mentioned the modern idea of throwing people out of their council houses for being an extremist.
The “traditional response” to terrorism - heavy handed military operations to demonstrate “presence” in the terrorist strongholds didn’t happen, either.
Instead a twin track, political and intelligence based policy was used. Which eventually gave us the Good Friday agreement.
Could you misinterpret a post any more wildly! Hats off.
Yes, that is what I was saying. Western countries (inc the UK) did not react that way and I'm glad we didn't.
It did take a while to realise that the brutal response (Bloody Sunday, Ballymurphy etc) and Internment were not only ineffective, they were counterproductive, driving recruits to the PIRA etc.
It was intelligence led policing, and socio-economic progress that brought the terrorism to an end, albeit a fossilised stalemate.
I mean, the complete military defeat of the IRA and mass penetration of it by British agents did help…
No, no... the IRA decided on peace and got what they wanted through the Good Friday Agreement.
Another example of history being completely re-written with Adams and MacGuinness the Irish Mandelas. Poor John Hume.
"Gunshots and injuries reported at Australia's Bondi Beach as police say two in custody.
I've just spoken to an eyewitness, Barry, who was attending the Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach.
He told me he was at the event with his kids when the sound of gunshots ran out. He said two men were on a bridge and they started shooting at the crowd. There were bodies on the ground, he said. "
The US was up to 387 killed in mass shootings in 2025, up to the end of November. That’s actually one of the lowest figures for the country in 20 years.
Really shocking scenes from bondi beach in amongst some extraordinary bravery.
I do not think the western world or its politicians are suited to the new world we find ourselves in.
The issue is that the ones who might do something about it will also do lots of other stuff that isn't as acceptable and necessary.
Indeed. The apologetic wet blanket style of government we have endured for years needs to get a grip and adopt diamond hard migration and criminal justice policies. If they don’t then democracies will elect people who will.
The 1970s were a period of rampant terrorism in the West. I personally do not wish we had reacted to it by electing strongman crackdown leaders.
Except we didn’t.
Thatcher rejected internment without trial.
She even rejected sanctioning the unemployment benefit of convicted terrorists. No one even mentioned the modern idea of throwing people out of their council houses for being an extremist.
The “traditional response” to terrorism - heavy handed military operations to demonstrate “presence” in the terrorist strongholds didn’t happen, either.
Instead a twin track, political and intelligence based policy was used. Which eventually gave us the Good Friday agreement.
Could you misinterpret a post any more wildly! Hats off.
Yes, that is what I was saying. Western countries (inc the UK) did not react that way and I'm glad we didn't.
It did take a while to realise that the brutal response (Bloody Sunday, Ballymurphy etc) and Internment were not only ineffective, they were counterproductive, driving recruits to the PIRA etc.
It was intelligence led policing, and socio-economic progress that brought the terrorism to an end, albeit a fossilised stalemate.
I mean, the complete military defeat of the IRA and mass penetration of it by British agents did help…
No, no... the IRA decided on peace and got what they wanted through the Good Friday Agreement.
Another example of history being completely re-written with Adams and MacGuinness the Irish Mandelas. Poor John Hume.
It was a multitrack process.
John Hume and Trimble were easy to persuade. But you needed The Men of Violence.
Strangely, in the later part of the Troubles, the MOVs opposed to the peace process were often traitors to their own side.
Well, it turned out not to be strange, since the people finding them and executing them, were actually working for MI5 et al. They targeted and framed the holdouts.
So after quite a few of the No Surrender types were tortured, shot in the back of the head and dumped in a ditch, we had Peace.
So the Tories who won't get a say before late 2028 at the earliest and probably 2029, will try to reverse something that will be 99% by then...
It's the sort of stupid headline that looks like they are doing something when really it's a complete nothingburger.
I don't think that is the point
There is an increasing demand both here and in the EU to delay the ban and Badenoch's call is much in line with a changing mood on this policy
The irony is I believe Euro 7 is going to increase petrol engine costs to the point that BEV's will be cheaper.
Euro 7 has stricter rules on unburnt hydrocarbons. The only (cost effective) way to meet them will be to reduce cylinder count. Unburnt HC emissions vary with cylinder radius but engine output is proportional to displacement and hence the square of the cylinder radius. This raises a marketing problem, as Mercedes discovered, because people will not pay shitloads of money for 4 (and fewer) cylinder cars regardless of whether achieve or even exceed performance parity.
ICE engines will hang around in hybrid form for a while but KB is just railing against the inevitable to catch the attention of GB News watching morons who hate BEVs on principle.
Meanwhile BYD and similar are eating the legacy automakers market. The market for ICE cars is dying. Its like trying to sell C41 and E6 film in the digital age.
BYD electric buses galore in London nowadays, both single- and double-deckers.
typical UK , give away everything for cheap stuff and then find that they are locked in , no industry and have to pay China whatever they ask. You would think they might learn to try and get some local industry built up.
I think those are just 1st Gen Alexander Dennis electric buses on BYD chassis - 2nd/3rd gen aren't BYD I think. Lothian run Volvos.
Thought SNP were buying Chinese as well much like the great renewable windmills , these clowns have no clue how to run a bath never mind a country.
Today's Rawnsley, late because of the Christmas Agility Competition here on the island:
At some cost to both personal dignity and domestic popularity, Sir Keir has kept what some people still insist on calling “the special relationship” [with the US] more or less on the road. For a stark illustration of what he is up against, I refer you to the chilling rewrite of American national security strategy that has recently landed with an alarming crump. Moscow has gloatingly noted that official US policy is now “largely consistent” with the Kremlin’s view of how the world should be ordered.
The document oozes contempt for America’s traditional allies in Europe, who are allegedly facing “civilizational erasure”, a favoured trope of rightwing extremists. The leak of a longer, classified version suggests it is active US policy to foment the disintegration of the EU. [It] casts profound doubt on whether we can have any further confidence in the US security guarantees upon which UK defence policy has rested since the 1940s.
Sir Keir has responded to this scary US pivot by pretending that it isn’t happening. The prime minister has invested too much time and faith into trying to sustain the relationship to want to accept that all his efforts may have ultimately been in vain. He’ll keep on gritting his teeth, swallowing his pride and trying to keep the show on the road – even as the road vanishes beneath his feet.
So the Tories who won't get a say before late 2028 at the earliest and probably 2029, will try to reverse something that will be 99% by then...
It's the sort of stupid headline that looks like they are doing something when really it's a complete nothingburger.
I don't think that is the point
There is an increasing demand both here and in the EU to delay the ban and Badenoch's call is much in line with a changing mood on this policy
The irony is I believe Euro 7 is going to increase petrol engine costs to the point that BEV's will be cheaper.
Euro 7 has stricter rules on unburnt hydrocarbons. The only (cost effective) way to meet them will be to reduce cylinder count. Unburnt HC emissions vary with cylinder radius but engine output is proportional to displacement and hence the square of the cylinder radius. This raises a marketing problem, as Mercedes discovered, because people will not pay shitloads of money for 4 (and fewer) cylinder cars regardless of whether achieve or even exceed performance parity.
ICE engines will hang around in hybrid form for a while but KB is just railing against the inevitable to catch the attention of GB News watching morons who hate BEVs on principle.
Meanwhile BYD and similar are eating the legacy automakers market. The market for ICE cars is dying. Its like trying to sell C41 and E6 film in the digital age.
For anyone with a driveway or other off-road parking where charging at home is an option, it absolutely is.
For people who needs public charging on the other hand, which includes tens of millions of people, the market is not dying.
Even before the foolhardy introduction of an EV per mile tax, it was already cheaper to drive an efficient petrol vehicle over a publicly-charged electric one, despite the fact that the petrol tax is almost entirely taxation and the EV charging cost is not. With the per mile EV tax, that disparity has grown even worse.
Should private transportation only be the preserve of those with off-road parking?
It's quite possible to have charging with on-road parking, I have seen it in the Netherlands
just upgrade street lights surely and stick plugs in them
Despite this, when presented with a binary choice the public are split on whether they prefer a Labour government led by Keir Starmer (37%) or a Reform-led government led by Nigel Farage (37%). Farage and Reform had led by 3 points in October.
Strange that their headline says Andy Burnham is the only leader preferred to Sir Keir, when Kemi leads him by one. I suppose that is MOE, but it seems weird for a data company to go with that as a headline when it's undermined by the text below
Starmer led Badenoch by 12 points two polls ago, and 5 points last time
A lot of credit for the Northern Ireland situation belongs to Roy Mason, who established police primacy in counter-terrorism, while authorising the SAS to shoot terrorists on “active service.” Levels of violence fell away sharply, after 1976 when he became Secretary of State, compared to the 1971-76 period.
So the Tories who won't get a say before late 2028 at the earliest and probably 2029, will try to reverse something that will be 99% by then...
It's the sort of stupid headline that looks like they are doing something when really it's a complete nothingburger.
I don't think that is the point
There is an increasing demand both here and in the EU to delay the ban and Badenoch's call is much in line with a changing mood on this policy
The irony is I believe Euro 7 is going to increase petrol engine costs to the point that BEV's will be cheaper.
Euro 7 has stricter rules on unburnt hydrocarbons. The only (cost effective) way to meet them will be to reduce cylinder count. Unburnt HC emissions vary with cylinder radius but engine output is proportional to displacement and hence the square of the cylinder radius. This raises a marketing problem, as Mercedes discovered, because people will not pay shitloads of money for 4 (and fewer) cylinder cars regardless of whether achieve or even exceed performance parity.
ICE engines will hang around in hybrid form for a while but KB is just railing against the inevitable to catch the attention of GB News watching morons who hate BEVs on principle.
Meanwhile BYD and similar are eating the legacy automakers market. The market for ICE cars is dying. Its like trying to sell C41 and E6 film in the digital age.
For anyone with a driveway or other off-road parking where charging at home is an option, it absolutely is.
For people who needs public charging on the other hand, which includes tens of millions of people, the market is not dying.
Even before the foolhardy introduction of an EV per mile tax, it was already cheaper to drive an efficient petrol vehicle over a publicly-charged electric one, despite the fact that the petrol tax is almost entirely taxation and the EV charging cost is not. With the per mile EV tax, that disparity has grown even worse.
Should private transportation only be the preserve of those with off-road parking?
It is market forces that will kill off the ICE vehicle market.
Worth pointing out that 40% of households in a city like Liverpool, where off-street parking is going up be rarer than in suburban areas, don't have a car anyway - so it's easy to overstate the issue given the overlap between living in a flat and not having a car.
With the introduction of e-bikes and e-buses, it's possible that the non-driving population is further along the EV track than the rest of the population.
To put some stats on this, 10% of the England/Welsh hoiseholds live in flats and have a car. Bumps to 30% if you include terraced.
It's a pretty big issue but not insurmountable - just needs a bit of government investment in on-street charging (we've had very little so far), quadruple bus services to 2010 levels, and get to Danish rates of cycling and we're are there quite easily.
30% is an incredibly disingenuous way of putting it.
Looking at terraced housing alone, 78% of terraced households own a car.
Going to need more than just "a bit of on-street" charging to address that.
That is compared with 92% in detached houses, 84% in semi-detached homes and 78% in terraced housing.
EDIT: Wait, are you talking about 30% of total households, rather than 30% of terraced and flats? What a weird divisor. That's still into the tens of millions of homes.
Despite this, when presented with a binary choice the public are split on whether they prefer a Labour government led by Keir Starmer (37%) or a Reform-led government led by Nigel Farage (37%). Farage and Reform had led by 3 points in October.
Strange that their headline says Andy Burnham is the only leader preferred to Sir Keir, when Kemi leads him by one. I suppose that is MOE, but it seems weird for a data company to go with that as a headline when it's undermined by the text below
Starmer led Badenoch by 12 points two polls ago, and 5 points last time
Who is to blame for the current mess, current Labour govt or previous Tory?
Both 48 Labour 32 Tory 14
That is very good for the Tories I'd say, Starmer & co always use "14 years of Tory govt" as an excuse, but it's getting less salient
"Gunshots and injuries reported at Australia's Bondi Beach as police say two in custody.
I've just spoken to an eyewitness, Barry, who was attending the Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach.
He told me he was at the event with his kids when the sound of gunshots ran out. He said two men were on a bridge and they started shooting at the crowd. There were bodies on the ground, he said. "
Today's Rawnsley, late because of the Christmas Agility Competition here on the island:
At some cost to both personal dignity and domestic popularity, Sir Keir has kept what some people still insist on calling “the special relationship” [with the US] more or less on the road. For a stark illustration of what he is up against, I refer you to the chilling rewrite of American national security strategy that has recently landed with an alarming crump. Moscow has gloatingly noted that official US policy is now “largely consistent” with the Kremlin’s view of how the world should be ordered.
The document oozes contempt for America’s traditional allies in Europe, who are allegedly facing “civilizational erasure”, a favoured trope of rightwing extremists. The leak of a longer, classified version suggests it is active US policy to foment the disintegration of the EU. [It] casts profound doubt on whether we can have any further confidence in the US security guarantees upon which UK defence policy has rested since the 1940s.
Sir Keir has responded to this scary US pivot by pretending that it isn’t happening. The prime minister has invested too much time and faith into trying to sustain the relationship to want to accept that all his efforts may have ultimately been in vain. He’ll keep on gritting his teeth, swallowing his pride and trying to keep the show on the road – even as the road vanishes beneath his feet.
Ultimately Starmer is a follower not a leader. Johnson, for all his faults, saw the opportunity in February 2022 to show some leadership on the Ukraine issue. Starmer just seems to be a people pleaser. Please France, please the EU, please the US, please China even. Has it not occurred to him that the other side in all these instances would just see that as weakness?
I think it's rooted in a simple minded leftism that sees the Tories as xenophobes and Labour's job in government is to mend fences.
Despite this, when presented with a binary choice the public are split on whether they prefer a Labour government led by Keir Starmer (37%) or a Reform-led government led by Nigel Farage (37%). Farage and Reform had led by 3 points in October.
Strange that their headline says Andy Burnham is the only leader preferred to Sir Keir, when Kemi leads him by one. I suppose that is MOE, but it seems weird for a data company to go with that as a headline when it's undermined by the text below
Starmer led Badenoch by 12 points two polls ago, and 5 points last time
Who is to blame for the current mess, current Labour govt or previous Tory?
Both 48 Labour 32 Tory 14
That is very good for the Tories I'd say, Starmer & co always use "14 years of Tory govt" as an excuse, but it's getting less salient
I expect Burnham’s appeal would fade away, if he became PM.
Despite this, when presented with a binary choice the public are split on whether they prefer a Labour government led by Keir Starmer (37%) or a Reform-led government led by Nigel Farage (37%). Farage and Reform had led by 3 points in October.
Strange that their headline says Andy Burnham is the only leader preferred to Sir Keir, when Kemi leads him by one. I suppose that is MOE, but it seems weird for a data company to go with that as a headline when it's undermined by the text below
Starmer led Badenoch by 12 points two polls ago, and 5 points last time
And Ed Davey is regularly the most trusted party leader.
Really shocking scenes from bondi beach in amongst some extraordinary bravery.
I do not think the western world or its politicians are suited to the new world we find ourselves in.
The issue is that the ones who might do something about it will also do lots of other stuff that isn't as acceptable and necessary.
Indeed. The apologetic wet blanket style of government we have endured for years needs to get a grip and adopt diamond hard migration and criminal justice policies. If they don’t then democracies will elect people who will.
The 1970s were a period of rampant terrorism in the West. I personally do not wish we had reacted to it by electing strongman crackdown leaders.
Except we didn’t.
Thatcher rejected internment without trial.
She even rejected sanctioning the unemployment benefit of convicted terrorists. No one even mentioned the modern idea of throwing people out of their council houses for being an extremist.
The “traditional response” to terrorism - heavy handed military operations to demonstrate “presence” in the terrorist strongholds didn’t happen, either.
Instead a twin track, political and intelligence based policy was used. Which eventually gave us the Good Friday agreement.
What sort of Good Friday Agreement do you envisage with those who spray bullets into strangers, systematically rape children and even mutilate their own daughters?
Well between Gerry and his brother, they had most of that.
I would put them on the payroll, 6 figure jobs. When they realise that if the war restarts, they are going to lose the nice big house and the daughters will have to give up the riding lessons....
Population Somalia, 20m. Population Sudan 50m. Afghanistan 42m. Etc…
That’s a lot of houses. How about instead we impose a hard ban on all visas from such places and deport everyone who came from there. We’re going to end up with such a policy anyway eventually, it’s just a question of how much social and economic trauma we have to endure first.
And what, especially skills, do they need to sort themselves out? How can we give those to help them move forward?
I appreciate, of course, that the world-wide Moslem community is going to have to have a severe word with the rulers of Afghanistan.
The number of actual nutters, even in the Middle East, is quite a small proportion of the population. Which is why they try and use ultra-violent acts to stir the rest up.
Most people have a bad habit of living their lives, raising their children and being nice to their neighbours. You can't build a proper blood soaked revolution out of them...
At it's height, the active bit of the PIRA would have fitted in on meeting hall.
The rate of female genital mutilation in Somalia tends towards 100%. While statistics are scant, the pederast practice of bacha bazi in Afghanistan is said by the UN to be “widespread”. A UN perceptions survey in Sudan, 52% of respondents said individuals or groups are sometimes justified in killing civilians.
These are societies that wholly incompatible with our own.
So the Tories who won't get a say before late 2028 at the earliest and probably 2029, will try to reverse something that will be 99% by then...
It's the sort of stupid headline that looks like they are doing something when really it's a complete nothingburger.
I don't think that is the point
There is an increasing demand both here and in the EU to delay the ban and Badenoch's call is much in line with a changing mood on this policy
The irony is I believe Euro 7 is going to increase petrol engine costs to the point that BEV's will be cheaper.
Euro 7 has stricter rules on unburnt hydrocarbons. The only (cost effective) way to meet them will be to reduce cylinder count. Unburnt HC emissions vary with cylinder radius but engine output is proportional to displacement and hence the square of the cylinder radius. This raises a marketing problem, as Mercedes discovered, because people will not pay shitloads of money for 4 (and fewer) cylinder cars regardless of whether achieve or even exceed performance parity.
ICE engines will hang around in hybrid form for a while but KB is just railing against the inevitable to catch the attention of GB News watching morons who hate BEVs on principle.
Meanwhile BYD and similar are eating the legacy automakers market. The market for ICE cars is dying. Its like trying to sell C41 and E6 film in the digital age.
For anyone with a driveway or other off-road parking where charging at home is an option, it absolutely is.
For people who needs public charging on the other hand, which includes tens of millions of people, the market is not dying.
Even before the foolhardy introduction of an EV per mile tax, it was already cheaper to drive an efficient petrol vehicle over a publicly-charged electric one, despite the fact that the petrol tax is almost entirely taxation and the EV charging cost is not. With the per mile EV tax, that disparity has grown even worse.
Should private transportation only be the preserve of those with off-road parking?
It's quite possible to have charging with on-road parking, I have seen it in the Netherlands
just upgrade street lights surely and stick plugs in them
Yes - it's a good idea, but that would be limited to a small fraction of streetlights (perhaps 10%), without replacement of the entire infrastructure.
The current free for charging is the difference between the headroom created by the move to LED bulbs, and the max rating of the distribution cables.
On the upside that also means that turning one or two spaces per street into charging points means that they can be set aside without too much distruption.
So the Tories who won't get a say before late 2028 at the earliest and probably 2029, will try to reverse something that will be 99% by then...
It's the sort of stupid headline that looks like they are doing something when really it's a complete nothingburger.
I don't think that is the point
There is an increasing demand both here and in the EU to delay the ban and Badenoch's call is much in line with a changing mood on this policy
The irony is I believe Euro 7 is going to increase petrol engine costs to the point that BEV's will be cheaper.
Euro 7 has stricter rules on unburnt hydrocarbons. The only (cost effective) way to meet them will be to reduce cylinder count. Unburnt HC emissions vary with cylinder radius but engine output is proportional to displacement and hence the square of the cylinder radius. This raises a marketing problem, as Mercedes discovered, because people will not pay shitloads of money for 4 (and fewer) cylinder cars regardless of whether achieve or even exceed performance parity.
ICE engines will hang around in hybrid form for a while but KB is just railing against the inevitable to catch the attention of GB News watching morons who hate BEVs on principle.
Meanwhile BYD and similar are eating the legacy automakers market. The market for ICE cars is dying. Its like trying to sell C41 and E6 film in the digital age.
For anyone with a driveway or other off-road parking where charging at home is an option, it absolutely is.
For people who needs public charging on the other hand, which includes tens of millions of people, the market is not dying.
Even before the foolhardy introduction of an EV per mile tax, it was already cheaper to drive an efficient petrol vehicle over a publicly-charged electric one, despite the fact that the petrol tax is almost entirely taxation and the EV charging cost is not. With the per mile EV tax, that disparity has grown even worse.
Should private transportation only be the preserve of those with off-road parking?
It's quite possible to have charging with on-road parking, I have seen it in the Netherlands
just upgrade street lights surely and stick plugs in them
Yes - it's a good idea, but that would be limited to a small fraction of streetlights (perhaps 10%), without replacement of the entire infrastructure.
The current free for charging is the difference between the headroom created by the move to LED bulbs, and the max rating of the distribution cables.
On the upside that also means that turning one or two spaces per street into charging points means that they can be set aside without too much distruption.
Not to forget that on a typical terraced street with cars parked on both sides of the road there were will be 12-14 cars per street lamp.
Its a cute idea, but it has not been rolled out nationwide and may not even be feasible if it were, so is not going to address the gaping hole in the market.
Until it is addressed, people are going to continue to buy ICE vehicles. Entirely logically. There needs to be real world solutions, not just handwaving and saying I'm alright.
So the Tories who won't get a say before late 2028 at the earliest and probably 2029, will try to reverse something that will be 99% by then...
It's the sort of stupid headline that looks like they are doing something when really it's a complete nothingburger.
I don't think that is the point
There is an increasing demand both here and in the EU to delay the ban and Badenoch's call is much in line with a changing mood on this policy
The irony is I believe Euro 7 is going to increase petrol engine costs to the point that BEV's will be cheaper.
Euro 7 has stricter rules on unburnt hydrocarbons. The only (cost effective) way to meet them will be to reduce cylinder count. Unburnt HC emissions vary with cylinder radius but engine output is proportional to displacement and hence the square of the cylinder radius. This raises a marketing problem, as Mercedes discovered, because people will not pay shitloads of money for 4 (and fewer) cylinder cars regardless of whether achieve or even exceed performance parity.
ICE engines will hang around in hybrid form for a while but KB is just railing against the inevitable to catch the attention of GB News watching morons who hate BEVs on principle.
Meanwhile BYD and similar are eating the legacy automakers market. The market for ICE cars is dying. Its like trying to sell C41 and E6 film in the digital age.
BYD electric buses galore in London nowadays, both single- and double-deckers.
typical UK , give away everything for cheap stuff and then find that they are locked in , no industry and have to pay China whatever they ask. You would think they might learn to try and get some local industry built up.
I think those are just 1st Gen Alexander Dennis electric buses on BYD chassis - 2nd/3rd gen aren't BYD I think. Lothian run Volvos.
Thought SNP were buying Chinese as well much like the great renewable windmills , these clowns have no clue how to run a bath never mind a country.
Nothing makes me hate the present SNP Government more than their anti Scottish business agenda. To me this policy is insane but I guess it makes sense to them. The crazy thing is that they gaslight the population by pretending that they are standing up for Scottish business.
I was at a Bank of Scotland business dinner in Glasgow last week and the economics guy from the Bank had to stand up and say this he was not an apologist for the government but had to say his bit. What followed was a discussion by the business owners slating both Labour and SNP from top to bottom. No one spoke up for them.
Scotland used to make buses but they are moving to Manchester because the English are more supportive of local companies than the Scots. 400 good people will lose their jobs over time.
Things are moving fast. Woke up yesterday to a massive Orange Order parade in winter straight past a bunch of asylum hotels and down Sauciehall street. Reform won their first council by election in Scotland in central belt SNP homeland territory. I feel we are entering the next phase of the revolution. It is not whether there will be one but what type of revolution we will have.
Really shocking scenes from bondi beach in amongst some extraordinary bravery.
I do not think the western world or its politicians are suited to the new world we find ourselves in.
The issue is that the ones who might do something about it will also do lots of other stuff that isn't as acceptable and necessary.
Indeed. The apologetic wet blanket style of government we have endured for years needs to get a grip and adopt diamond hard migration and criminal justice policies. If they don’t then democracies will elect people who will.
The 1970s were a period of rampant terrorism in the West. I personally do not wish we had reacted to it by electing strongman crackdown leaders.
Except we didn’t.
Thatcher rejected internment without trial.
She even rejected sanctioning the unemployment benefit of convicted terrorists. No one even mentioned the modern idea of throwing people out of their council houses for being an extremist.
The “traditional response” to terrorism - heavy handed military operations to demonstrate “presence” in the terrorist strongholds didn’t happen, either.
Instead a twin track, political and intelligence based policy was used. Which eventually gave us the Good Friday agreement.
What sort of Good Friday Agreement do you envisage with those who spray bullets into strangers, systematically rape children and even mutilate their own daughters?
Well between Gerry and his brother, they had most of that.
I would put them on the payroll, 6 figure jobs. When they realise that if the war restarts, they are going to lose the nice big house and the daughters will have to give up the riding lessons....
Population Somalia, 20m. Population Sudan 50m. Afghanistan 42m. Etc…
That’s a lot of houses. How about instead we impose a hard ban on all visas from such places and deport everyone who came from there. We’re going to end up with such a policy anyway eventually, it’s just a question of how much social and economic trauma we have to endure first.
And what, especially skills, do they need to sort themselves out? How can we give those to help them move forward?
I appreciate, of course, that the world-wide Moslem community is going to have to have a severe word with the rulers of Afghanistan.
The number of actual nutters, even in the Middle East, is quite a small proportion of the population. Which is why they try and use ultra-violent acts to stir the rest up.
Most people have a bad habit of living their lives, raising their children and being nice to their neighbours. You can't build a proper blood soaked revolution out of them...
At it's height, the active bit of the PIRA would have fitted in on meeting hall.
The rate of female genital mutilation in Somalia tends towards 100%. While statistics are scant, the pederast practice of bacha bazi in Afghanistan is said by the UN to be “widespread”. A UN perceptions survey in Sudan, 52% of respondents said individuals or groups are sometimes justified in killing civilians.
These are societies that wholly incompatible with our own.
So the Tories who won't get a say before late 2028 at the earliest and probably 2029, will try to reverse something that will be 99% by then...
It's the sort of stupid headline that looks like they are doing something when really it's a complete nothingburger.
I don't think that is the point
There is an increasing demand both here and in the EU to delay the ban and Badenoch's call is much in line with a changing mood on this policy
The irony is I believe Euro 7 is going to increase petrol engine costs to the point that BEV's will be cheaper.
Euro 7 has stricter rules on unburnt hydrocarbons. The only (cost effective) way to meet them will be to reduce cylinder count. Unburnt HC emissions vary with cylinder radius but engine output is proportional to displacement and hence the square of the cylinder radius. This raises a marketing problem, as Mercedes discovered, because people will not pay shitloads of money for 4 (and fewer) cylinder cars regardless of whether achieve or even exceed performance parity.
ICE engines will hang around in hybrid form for a while but KB is just railing against the inevitable to catch the attention of GB News watching morons who hate BEVs on principle.
Meanwhile BYD and similar are eating the legacy automakers market. The market for ICE cars is dying. Its like trying to sell C41 and E6 film in the digital age.
For anyone with a driveway or other off-road parking where charging at home is an option, it absolutely is.
For people who needs public charging on the other hand, which includes tens of millions of people, the market is not dying.
Even before the foolhardy introduction of an EV per mile tax, it was already cheaper to drive an efficient petrol vehicle over a publicly-charged electric one, despite the fact that the petrol tax is almost entirely taxation and the EV charging cost is not. With the per mile EV tax, that disparity has grown even worse.
Should private transportation only be the preserve of those with off-road parking?
It's quite possible to have charging with on-road parking, I have seen it in the Netherlands
just upgrade street lights surely and stick plugs in them
Yes - it's a good idea, but that would be limited to a small fraction of streetlights (perhaps 10%), without replacement of the entire infrastructure.
The current free for charging is the difference between the headroom created by the move to LED bulbs, and the max rating of the distribution cables.
On the upside that also means that turning one or two spaces per street into charging points means that they can be set aside without too much distruption.
The near future for road transport is fully autonomous and electric. People are going to look back on conversations about “bans” for new hydrocarbon road vehicles with a nostalgic chuckle. It’s not illegal to ride about in a horse and cart but the only people my way who do are the local scrap metal merchants.
Really shocking scenes from bondi beach in amongst some extraordinary bravery.
I do not think the western world or its politicians are suited to the new world we find ourselves in.
The issue is that the ones who might do something about it will also do lots of other stuff that isn't as acceptable and necessary.
Indeed. The apologetic wet blanket style of government we have endured for years needs to get a grip and adopt diamond hard migration and criminal justice policies. If they don’t then democracies will elect people who will.
The 1970s were a period of rampant terrorism in the West. I personally do not wish we had reacted to it by electing strongman crackdown leaders.
Except we didn’t.
Thatcher rejected internment without trial.
She even rejected sanctioning the unemployment benefit of convicted terrorists. No one even mentioned the modern idea of throwing people out of their council houses for being an extremist.
The “traditional response” to terrorism - heavy handed military operations to demonstrate “presence” in the terrorist strongholds didn’t happen, either.
Instead a twin track, political and intelligence based policy was used. Which eventually gave us the Good Friday agreement.
What sort of Good Friday Agreement do you envisage with those who spray bullets into strangers, systematically rape children and even mutilate their own daughters?
Well between Gerry and his brother, they had most of that.
I would put them on the payroll, 6 figure jobs. When they realise that if the war restarts, they are going to lose the nice big house and the daughters will have to give up the riding lessons....
Population Somalia, 20m. Population Sudan 50m. Afghanistan 42m. Etc…
That’s a lot of houses. How about instead we impose a hard ban on all visas from such places and deport everyone who came from there. We’re going to end up with such a policy anyway eventually, it’s just a question of how much social and economic trauma we have to endure first.
And what, especially skills, do they need to sort themselves out? How can we give those to help them move forward?
I appreciate, of course, that the world-wide Moslem community is going to have to have a severe word with the rulers of Afghanistan.
The number of actual nutters, even in the Middle East, is quite a small proportion of the population. Which is why they try and use ultra-violent acts to stir the rest up.
Most people have a bad habit of living their lives, raising their children and being nice to their neighbours. You can't build a proper blood soaked revolution out of them...
At it's height, the active bit of the PIRA would have fitted in on meeting hall.
The rate of female genital mutilation in Somalia tends towards 100%. While statistics are scant, the pederast practice of bacha bazi in Afghanistan is said by the UN to be “widespread”. A UN perceptions survey in Sudan, 52% of respondents said individuals or groups are sometimes justified in killing civilians.
These are societies that wholly incompatible with our own.
23% of 61,000 Iraqi polled supported reducing the age of consent to as young as 9. If you love those societal tendencies so much then go and live there, and leave this place to those who still value post enlightenment norms.
Really shocking scenes from bondi beach in amongst some extraordinary bravery.
I do not think the western world or its politicians are suited to the new world we find ourselves in.
The issue is that the ones who might do something about it will also do lots of other stuff that isn't as acceptable and necessary.
Indeed. The apologetic wet blanket style of government we have endured for years needs to get a grip and adopt diamond hard migration and criminal justice policies. If they don’t then democracies will elect people who will.
The 1970s were a period of rampant terrorism in the West. I personally do not wish we had reacted to it by electing strongman crackdown leaders.
Except we didn’t.
Thatcher rejected internment without trial.
She even rejected sanctioning the unemployment benefit of convicted terrorists. No one even mentioned the modern idea of throwing people out of their council houses for being an extremist.
The “traditional response” to terrorism - heavy handed military operations to demonstrate “presence” in the terrorist strongholds didn’t happen, either.
Instead a twin track, political and intelligence based policy was used. Which eventually gave us the Good Friday agreement.
What sort of Good Friday Agreement do you envisage with those who spray bullets into strangers, systematically rape children and even mutilate their own daughters?
Well between Gerry and his brother, they had most of that.
I would put them on the payroll, 6 figure jobs. When they realise that if the war restarts, they are going to lose the nice big house and the daughters will have to give up the riding lessons....
Population Somalia, 20m. Population Sudan 50m. Afghanistan 42m. Etc…
That’s a lot of houses. How about instead we impose a hard ban on all visas from such places and deport everyone who came from there. We’re going to end up with such a policy anyway eventually, it’s just a question of how much social and economic trauma we have to endure first.
And what, especially skills, do they need to sort themselves out? How can we give those to help them move forward?
I appreciate, of course, that the world-wide Moslem community is going to have to have a severe word with the rulers of Afghanistan.
The number of actual nutters, even in the Middle East, is quite a small proportion of the population. Which is why they try and use ultra-violent acts to stir the rest up.
Most people have a bad habit of living their lives, raising their children and being nice to their neighbours. You can't build a proper blood soaked revolution out of them...
At it's height, the active bit of the PIRA would have fitted in on meeting hall.
The rate of female genital mutilation in Somalia tends towards 100%. While statistics are scant, the pederast practice of bacha bazi in Afghanistan is said by the UN to be “widespread”. A UN perceptions survey in Sudan, 52% of respondents said individuals or groups are sometimes justified in killing civilians.
These are societies that wholly incompatible with our own.
Not the same and you know it too. You have suicidal empathy, but I guess if that was you on the beach you would have died knowing that you weren't islamophobic.
So the Tories who won't get a say before late 2028 at the earliest and probably 2029, will try to reverse something that will be 99% by then...
It's the sort of stupid headline that looks like they are doing something when really it's a complete nothingburger.
I don't think that is the point
There is an increasing demand both here and in the EU to delay the ban and Badenoch's call is much in line with a changing mood on this policy
The irony is I believe Euro 7 is going to increase petrol engine costs to the point that BEV's will be cheaper.
Euro 7 has stricter rules on unburnt hydrocarbons. The only (cost effective) way to meet them will be to reduce cylinder count. Unburnt HC emissions vary with cylinder radius but engine output is proportional to displacement and hence the square of the cylinder radius. This raises a marketing problem, as Mercedes discovered, because people will not pay shitloads of money for 4 (and fewer) cylinder cars regardless of whether achieve or even exceed performance parity.
ICE engines will hang around in hybrid form for a while but KB is just railing against the inevitable to catch the attention of GB News watching morons who hate BEVs on principle.
Meanwhile BYD and similar are eating the legacy automakers market. The market for ICE cars is dying. Its like trying to sell C41 and E6 film in the digital age.
For anyone with a driveway or other off-road parking where charging at home is an option, it absolutely is.
For people who needs public charging on the other hand, which includes tens of millions of people, the market is not dying.
Even before the foolhardy introduction of an EV per mile tax, it was already cheaper to drive an efficient petrol vehicle over a publicly-charged electric one, despite the fact that the petrol tax is almost entirely taxation and the EV charging cost is not. With the per mile EV tax, that disparity has grown even worse.
Should private transportation only be the preserve of those with off-road parking?
It's quite possible to have charging with on-road parking, I have seen it in the Netherlands
just upgrade street lights surely and stick plugs in them
Yes - it's a good idea, but that would be limited to a small fraction of streetlights (perhaps 10%), without replacement of the entire infrastructure.
The current free for charging is the difference between the headroom created by the move to LED bulbs, and the max rating of the distribution cables.
On the upside that also means that turning one or two spaces per street into charging points means that they can be set aside without too much distruption.
The near future for road transport is fully autonomous and electric. People are going to look back on conversations about “bans” for new hydrocarbon road vehicles with a nostalgic chuckle. It’s not illegal to ride about in a horse and cart but the only people my way who do are the local scrap metal merchants.
Do they? Even when Steptoe and Sone was being aired in the 60s and early 70s, it seemed anachronistic.
Really shocking scenes from bondi beach in amongst some extraordinary bravery.
I do not think the western world or its politicians are suited to the new world we find ourselves in.
The issue is that the ones who might do something about it will also do lots of other stuff that isn't as acceptable and necessary.
Indeed. The apologetic wet blanket style of government we have endured for years needs to get a grip and adopt diamond hard migration and criminal justice policies. If they don’t then democracies will elect people who will.
The 1970s were a period of rampant terrorism in the West. I personally do not wish we had reacted to it by electing strongman crackdown leaders.
Except we didn’t.
Thatcher rejected internment without trial.
She even rejected sanctioning the unemployment benefit of convicted terrorists. No one even mentioned the modern idea of throwing people out of their council houses for being an extremist.
The “traditional response” to terrorism - heavy handed military operations to demonstrate “presence” in the terrorist strongholds didn’t happen, either.
Instead a twin track, political and intelligence based policy was used. Which eventually gave us the Good Friday agreement.
What sort of Good Friday Agreement do you envisage with those who spray bullets into strangers, systematically rape children and even mutilate their own daughters?
Well between Gerry and his brother, they had most of that.
I would put them on the payroll, 6 figure jobs. When they realise that if the war restarts, they are going to lose the nice big house and the daughters will have to give up the riding lessons....
Population Somalia, 20m. Population Sudan 50m. Afghanistan 42m. Etc…
That’s a lot of houses. How about instead we impose a hard ban on all visas from such places and deport everyone who came from there. We’re going to end up with such a policy anyway eventually, it’s just a question of how much social and economic trauma we have to endure first.
And what, especially skills, do they need to sort themselves out? How can we give those to help them move forward?
I appreciate, of course, that the world-wide Moslem community is going to have to have a severe word with the rulers of Afghanistan.
The number of actual nutters, even in the Middle East, is quite a small proportion of the population. Which is why they try and use ultra-violent acts to stir the rest up.
Most people have a bad habit of living their lives, raising their children and being nice to their neighbours. You can't build a proper blood soaked revolution out of them...
At it's height, the active bit of the PIRA would have fitted in on meeting hall.
The rate of female genital mutilation in Somalia tends towards 100%. While statistics are scant, the pederast practice of bacha bazi in Afghanistan is said by the UN to be “widespread”. A UN perceptions survey in Sudan, 52% of respondents said individuals or groups are sometimes justified in killing civilians.
These are societies that wholly incompatible with our own.
Really shocking scenes from bondi beach in amongst some extraordinary bravery.
I do not think the western world or its politicians are suited to the new world we find ourselves in.
The issue is that the ones who might do something about it will also do lots of other stuff that isn't as acceptable and necessary.
Indeed. The apologetic wet blanket style of government we have endured for years needs to get a grip and adopt diamond hard migration and criminal justice policies. If they don’t then democracies will elect people who will.
The 1970s were a period of rampant terrorism in the West. I personally do not wish we had reacted to it by electing strongman crackdown leaders.
Except we didn’t.
Thatcher rejected internment without trial.
She even rejected sanctioning the unemployment benefit of convicted terrorists. No one even mentioned the modern idea of throwing people out of their council houses for being an extremist.
The “traditional response” to terrorism - heavy handed military operations to demonstrate “presence” in the terrorist strongholds didn’t happen, either.
Instead a twin track, political and intelligence based policy was used. Which eventually gave us the Good Friday agreement.
What sort of Good Friday Agreement do you envisage with those who spray bullets into strangers, systematically rape children and even mutilate their own daughters?
Well between Gerry and his brother, they had most of that.
I would put them on the payroll, 6 figure jobs. When they realise that if the war restarts, they are going to lose the nice big house and the daughters will have to give up the riding lessons....
Population Somalia, 20m. Population Sudan 50m. Afghanistan 42m. Etc…
That’s a lot of houses. How about instead we impose a hard ban on all visas from such places and deport everyone who came from there. We’re going to end up with such a policy anyway eventually, it’s just a question of how much social and economic trauma we have to endure first.
And what, especially skills, do they need to sort themselves out? How can we give those to help them move forward?
I appreciate, of course, that the world-wide Moslem community is going to have to have a severe word with the rulers of Afghanistan.
The number of actual nutters, even in the Middle East, is quite a small proportion of the population. Which is why they try and use ultra-violent acts to stir the rest up.
Most people have a bad habit of living their lives, raising their children and being nice to their neighbours. You can't build a proper blood soaked revolution out of them...
At it's height, the active bit of the PIRA would have fitted in on meeting hall.
The rate of female genital mutilation in Somalia tends towards 100%. While statistics are scant, the pederast practice of bacha bazi in Afghanistan is said by the UN to be “widespread”. A UN perceptions survey in Sudan, 52% of respondents said individuals or groups are sometimes justified in killing civilians.
These are societies that wholly incompatible with our own.
Most people here wouldn't have any difficulty justifying things like targetting German dams. The problem isn't so much the morality but in the fact that to many we are the enemy.
So the Tories who won't get a say before late 2028 at the earliest and probably 2029, will try to reverse something that will be 99% by then...
It's the sort of stupid headline that looks like they are doing something when really it's a complete nothingburger.
I don't think that is the point
There is an increasing demand both here and in the EU to delay the ban and Badenoch's call is much in line with a changing mood on this policy
The irony is I believe Euro 7 is going to increase petrol engine costs to the point that BEV's will be cheaper.
Euro 7 has stricter rules on unburnt hydrocarbons. The only (cost effective) way to meet them will be to reduce cylinder count. Unburnt HC emissions vary with cylinder radius but engine output is proportional to displacement and hence the square of the cylinder radius. This raises a marketing problem, as Mercedes discovered, because people will not pay shitloads of money for 4 (and fewer) cylinder cars regardless of whether achieve or even exceed performance parity.
ICE engines will hang around in hybrid form for a while but KB is just railing against the inevitable to catch the attention of GB News watching morons who hate BEVs on principle.
Meanwhile BYD and similar are eating the legacy automakers market. The market for ICE cars is dying. Its like trying to sell C41 and E6 film in the digital age.
For anyone with a driveway or other off-road parking where charging at home is an option, it absolutely is.
For people who needs public charging on the other hand, which includes tens of millions of people, the market is not dying.
Even before the foolhardy introduction of an EV per mile tax, it was already cheaper to drive an efficient petrol vehicle over a publicly-charged electric one, despite the fact that the petrol tax is almost entirely taxation and the EV charging cost is not. With the per mile EV tax, that disparity has grown even worse.
Should private transportation only be the preserve of those with off-road parking?
It's quite possible to have charging with on-road parking, I have seen it in the Netherlands
just upgrade street lights surely and stick plugs in them
Yes - it's a good idea, but that would be limited to a small fraction of streetlights (perhaps 10%), without replacement of the entire infrastructure.
The current free for charging is the difference between the headroom created by the move to LED bulbs, and the max rating of the distribution cables.
On the upside that also means that turning one or two spaces per street into charging points means that they can be set aside without too much distruption.
The near future for road transport is fully autonomous and electric. People are going to look back on conversations about “bans” for new hydrocarbon road vehicles with a nostalgic chuckle. It’s not illegal to ride about in a horse and cart but the only people my way who do are the local scrap metal merchants.
Only if we can sort out charging issues.
When it is considerably cheaper to charge a petrol vehicle than an electric one, as it is currently for those without off-road parking, people will act rationally according to their incentives.
If you want the transition to electric to proceed, and I do, then we need to tackle this problem, not just stick our heads in the sand and pretend it does not exist.
4 years is not long to sort out this issue for the tens of millions of homes without off-road parking, that currently have and require a car.
The fact that at the Budget the Government introduced a BEV tax, and did nothing to implement on-road charging solutions, gives an indication that the Government has not even understood the problem let alone has a plan to address it within 4 years.
So the Tories who won't get a say before late 2028 at the earliest and probably 2029, will try to reverse something that will be 99% by then...
It's the sort of stupid headline that looks like they are doing something when really it's a complete nothingburger.
I don't think that is the point
There is an increasing demand both here and in the EU to delay the ban and Badenoch's call is much in line with a changing mood on this policy
The irony is I believe Euro 7 is going to increase petrol engine costs to the point that BEV's will be cheaper.
Euro 7 has stricter rules on unburnt hydrocarbons. The only (cost effective) way to meet them will be to reduce cylinder count. Unburnt HC emissions vary with cylinder radius but engine output is proportional to displacement and hence the square of the cylinder radius. This raises a marketing problem, as Mercedes discovered, because people will not pay shitloads of money for 4 (and fewer) cylinder cars regardless of whether achieve or even exceed performance parity.
ICE engines will hang around in hybrid form for a while but KB is just railing against the inevitable to catch the attention of GB News watching morons who hate BEVs on principle.
Meanwhile BYD and similar are eating the legacy automakers market. The market for ICE cars is dying. Its like trying to sell C41 and E6 film in the digital age.
For anyone with a driveway or other off-road parking where charging at home is an option, it absolutely is.
For people who needs public charging on the other hand, which includes tens of millions of people, the market is not dying.
Even before the foolhardy introduction of an EV per mile tax, it was already cheaper to drive an efficient petrol vehicle over a publicly-charged electric one, despite the fact that the petrol tax is almost entirely taxation and the EV charging cost is not. With the per mile EV tax, that disparity has grown even worse.
Should private transportation only be the preserve of those with off-road parking?
It's quite possible to have charging with on-road parking, I have seen it in the Netherlands
just upgrade street lights surely and stick plugs in them
Yes - it's a good idea, but that would be limited to a small fraction of streetlights (perhaps 10%), without replacement of the entire infrastructure.
The current free for charging is the difference between the headroom created by the move to LED bulbs, and the max rating of the distribution cables.
On the upside that also means that turning one or two spaces per street into charging points means that they can be set aside without too much distruption.
The near future for road transport is fully autonomous and electric. People are going to look back on conversations about “bans” for new hydrocarbon road vehicles with a nostalgic chuckle. It’s not illegal to ride about in a horse and cart but the only people my way who do are the local scrap metal merchants.
Only if we can sort out charging issues.
When it is considerably cheaper to charge a petrol vehicle than an electric one, as it is currently for those without off-road parking, people will act rationally according to their incentives.
If you want the transition to electric to proceed, and I do, then we need to tackle this problem, not just stick our heads in the sand and pretend it does not exist.
4 years is not long to sort out this issue for the tens of millions of homes without off-road parking, that currently have and require a car.
Don’t worry about it. There will be little economic incentive for those without off street parking to own their own fully autonomous EV.
Really shocking scenes from bondi beach in amongst some extraordinary bravery.
I do not think the western world or its politicians are suited to the new world we find ourselves in.
The issue is that the ones who might do something about it will also do lots of other stuff that isn't as acceptable and necessary.
Indeed. The apologetic wet blanket style of government we have endured for years needs to get a grip and adopt diamond hard migration and criminal justice policies. If they don’t then democracies will elect people who will.
The 1970s were a period of rampant terrorism in the West. I personally do not wish we had reacted to it by electing strongman crackdown leaders.
Except we didn’t.
Thatcher rejected internment without trial.
She even rejected sanctioning the unemployment benefit of convicted terrorists. No one even mentioned the modern idea of throwing people out of their council houses for being an extremist.
The “traditional response” to terrorism - heavy handed military operations to demonstrate “presence” in the terrorist strongholds didn’t happen, either.
Instead a twin track, political and intelligence based policy was used. Which eventually gave us the Good Friday agreement.
What sort of Good Friday Agreement do you envisage with those who spray bullets into strangers, systematically rape children and even mutilate their own daughters?
Well between Gerry and his brother, they had most of that.
I would put them on the payroll, 6 figure jobs. When they realise that if the war restarts, they are going to lose the nice big house and the daughters will have to give up the riding lessons....
Population Somalia, 20m. Population Sudan 50m. Afghanistan 42m. Etc…
That’s a lot of houses. How about instead we impose a hard ban on all visas from such places and deport everyone who came from there. We’re going to end up with such a policy anyway eventually, it’s just a question of how much social and economic trauma we have to endure first.
And what, especially skills, do they need to sort themselves out? How can we give those to help them move forward?
I appreciate, of course, that the world-wide Moslem community is going to have to have a severe word with the rulers of Afghanistan.
The number of actual nutters, even in the Middle East, is quite a small proportion of the population. Which is why they try and use ultra-violent acts to stir the rest up.
Most people have a bad habit of living their lives, raising their children and being nice to their neighbours. You can't build a proper blood soaked revolution out of them...
At it's height, the active bit of the PIRA would have fitted in on meeting hall.
The rate of female genital mutilation in Somalia tends towards 100%. While statistics are scant, the pederast practice of bacha bazi in Afghanistan is said by the UN to be “widespread”. A UN perceptions survey in Sudan, 52% of respondents said individuals or groups are sometimes justified in killing civilians.
These are societies that wholly incompatible with our own.
23% of 61,000 Iraqi polled supported reducing the age of consent to as young as 9. If you love those societal tendencies so much then go and live there, and leave this place to those who still value post enlightenment norms.
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Unless or until this issue is actually dealt with, the tens of millions who don't have off-road parking will act accordingly, as is logical for them.
Population Sudan 50m.
Afghanistan 42m. Etc…
That’s a lot of houses. How about instead we impose a hard ban on all visas from such places and deport everyone who came from there. We’re going to end up with such a policy anyway eventually, it’s just a question of how much social and economic trauma we have to endure first.
With the introduction of e-bikes and e-buses, it's possible that the non-driving population is further along the EV track than the rest of the population.
Across the Liverpool City Region 69.8% of households own at least one car, which includes 76.2% of Halton, 76.8% of St Helens and 73.6% of Sefton for example. I can assure you there are a hell of a lot of terraced homes in Halton, St Helens and Sefton.
I appreciate, of course, that the world-wide Moslem community is going to have to have a severe word with the rulers of Afghanistan.
It was sick that today someone's first response to what happened in Australia was to shift the blame to someone else. Had nobody done that, I would never have responded to them doing that.
We do know how to reduce such incidents and have made progress in places, but we will never be able to reduce cases to zero.
I think I'll take myself down to Cap Ferrat and get some summer sunshine
It's a pretty big issue but not insurmountable - just needs a bit of government investment in on-street charging (we've had very little so far), quadruple bus services to 2010 levels, and get to Danish rates of cycling and we're are there quite easily.
I suppose c400 Palestinians killed since the ‘cease fire’ is an improvement.
Most people have a bad habit of living their lives, raising their children and being nice to their neighbours. You can't build a proper blood soaked revolution out of them...
At it's height, the active bit of the PIRA would have fitted in on meeting hall.
Another example of history being completely re-written with Adams and MacGuinness the Irish Mandelas. Poor John Hume.
John Hume and Trimble were easy to persuade. But you needed The Men of Violence.
Strangely, in the later part of the Troubles, the MOVs opposed to the peace process were often traitors to their own side.
Well, it turned out not to be strange, since the people finding them and executing them, were actually working for MI5 et al. They targeted and framed the holdouts.
So after quite a few of the No Surrender types were tortured, shot in the back of the head and dumped in a ditch, we had Peace.
At some cost to both personal dignity and domestic popularity, Sir Keir has kept what some people still insist on calling “the special relationship” [with the US] more or less on the road. For a stark illustration of what he is up against, I refer you to the chilling rewrite of American national security strategy that has recently landed with an alarming crump. Moscow has gloatingly noted that official US policy is now “largely consistent” with the Kremlin’s view of how the world should be ordered.
The document oozes contempt for America’s traditional allies in Europe, who are allegedly facing “civilizational erasure”, a favoured trope of rightwing extremists. The leak of a longer, classified version suggests it is active US policy to foment the disintegration of the EU. [It] casts profound doubt on whether we can have any further confidence in the US security guarantees upon which UK defence policy has rested since the 1940s.
Sir Keir has responded to this scary US pivot by pretending that it isn’t happening. The prime minister has invested too much time and faith into trying to sustain the relationship to want to accept that all his efforts may have ultimately been in vain. He’ll keep on gritting his teeth, swallowing his pride and trying to keep the show on the road – even as the road vanishes beneath his feet.
IPSOS did some polling.
Strange that their headline says Andy Burnham is the only leader preferred to Sir Keir, when Kemi leads him by one. I suppose that is MOE, but it seems weird for a data company to go with that as a headline when it's undermined by the text below
Starmer led Badenoch by 12 points two polls ago, and 5 points last time
Looking at terraced housing alone, 78% of terraced households own a car.
Going to need more than just "a bit of on-street" charging to address that.
EDIT: And its 49% in flats, not 10%. Source: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/london-wales-england-people-berkshire-b1090094.
Just 49% of households across England and Wales living in flats fell into this category at the time of the 2021 census, analysis by the PA news agency found.
That is compared with 92% in detached houses, 84% in semi-detached homes and 78% in terraced housing.
EDIT: Wait, are you talking about 30% of total households, rather than 30% of terraced and flats? What a weird divisor. That's still into the tens of millions of homes.
Starmer led Badenoch by 12 points two polls ago, and 5 points last time
Who is to blame for the current mess, current Labour govt or previous Tory?
Both 48
Labour 32
Tory 14
That is very good for the Tories I'd say, Starmer & co always use "14 years of Tory govt" as an excuse, but it's getting less salient
I think it's rooted in a simple minded leftism that sees the Tories as xenophobes and Labour's job in government is to mend fences.
Both 48
Labour 32
Tory 14
That is very good for the Tories I'd say, Starmer & co always use "14 years of Tory govt" as an excuse, but it's getting less salient
I expect Burnham’s appeal would fade away, if he became PM.
Starmer led Badenoch by 12 points two polls ago, and 5 points last time
And Ed Davey is regularly the most trusted party leader.
These are societies that wholly incompatible with our own.
The current free for charging is the difference between the headroom created by the move to LED bulbs, and the max rating of the distribution cables.
On the upside that also means that turning one or two spaces per street into charging points means that they can be set aside without too much distruption.
Its a cute idea, but it has not been rolled out nationwide and may not even be feasible if it were, so is not going to address the gaping hole in the market.
Until it is addressed, people are going to continue to buy ICE vehicles. Entirely logically. There needs to be real world solutions, not just handwaving and saying I'm alright.
I was at a Bank of Scotland business dinner in Glasgow last week and the economics guy from the Bank had to stand up and say this he was not an apologist for the government but had to say his bit. What followed was a discussion by the business owners slating both Labour and SNP from top to bottom. No one spoke up for them.
Scotland used to make buses but they are moving to Manchester because the English are more supportive of local companies than the Scots. 400 good people will lose their jobs over time.
Things are moving fast. Woke up yesterday to a massive Orange Order parade in winter straight past a bunch of asylum hotels and down Sauciehall street. Reform won their first council by election in Scotland in central belt SNP homeland territory. I feel we are entering the next phase of the revolution. It is not whether there will be one but what type of revolution we will have.
23% of 61,000 Iraqi polled supported reducing the age of consent to as young as 9. If you love those societal tendencies so much then go and live there, and leave this place to those who still value post enlightenment norms.
Indeed we memoralise the mass bombing of civilians in our ceremonial Battle of Britain flight.
When it is considerably cheaper to charge a petrol vehicle than an electric one, as it is currently for those without off-road parking, people will act rationally according to their incentives.
If you want the transition to electric to proceed, and I do, then we need to tackle this problem, not just stick our heads in the sand and pretend it does not exist.
4 years is not long to sort out this issue for the tens of millions of homes without off-road parking, that currently have and require a car.
The fact that at the Budget the Government introduced a BEV tax, and did nothing to implement on-road charging solutions, gives an indication that the Government has not even understood the problem let alone has a plan to address it within 4 years.
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