I watched a you tube documentary a week or 2 back and it certainly opened my eyes.
In the past I must admit I thought the reports must be overblown, but looking into things it seems not.
As you say there is probably an element of people recalling Islamic terror and staying quiet.
I too cannot understand why Muslim countries stay silent - why they would speak up for China beggars belief.
Muslim extremists call for jihad against the west, but seem not to be overly perturbed by China and the left are fixated on Israel rather than this and say little if anything in condemnation.
As to what can be done, probably not a lot - perhaps our student bodies might like to suggest sanctions?
The reason Muslim countries stay silent on China is because they know 1. China doesn't give a shit what they say anyway, and 2. ginormous China keeps them in petrodollars, as America retreats#
You are missing one of the biggest reasons they stay silent. They don't exactly have the best human rights record for their own citizens, even if they're Muslim; Especially if they're the wrong sort of Muslim.
Today's most striking statistic is that SUVs are outselling electric vehicles 37 to 1 !
Question: the Telsa Model X is an SUV, as is the Audi E-Tron, as is the Jaguar i-Pace - where are they included in the numbers?
(In California, SUVs were 50% of the 2 million vehicles sold last year and hybrids and EVs were a little bit more than 10%. Tesla sold 66,000 Model 3s in the 1H18 in California making that one model about 60% of all the electric and hybrids sold in the state.)
Conservative remainers drifting back over fear of Corbyn ?
Bye, Chukka!
All 3 of those look in the bag for the Tories. I always knew Boris was more popular in London than a lot of folk make out.
To be fair, they should be three of safest seats in the country for the Conservatives.
Not now, they all had 60 to 70% Remain votes and have an above average percentage of both private and social renters, even if owner occupiers there are amongst the wealthiest in the country.
Cities of London and Westminster, Finchley and Golders Green and Kensington had lower Tory voteshares in 2017 and now have lower Tory votes than Harlow, Thurrock, Nuneaton, Dartford and Gravesham for example, all seats won by Blair or most SW seats held by the LDs from 1997 to 2015, with YouGov MRP
Didn’t think BBC news was that bad for Boris in fairness. You wouldn’t change your mind over a 2 minute story like that. Spending more time covering nonsense young persons QT
"A good friend of mine is a senior nursing sister at Leeds Hospital". Really? Do people in Leeds even call the Leeds General Infirmary "Leeds Hospital"? I thought they called it "the LGI".
Today's most striking statistic is that SUVs are outselling electric vehicles 37 to 1 !
Electric vehicles need to be 30-40k, not 60-70k, and there need to be lots of 15 mins or less charging points *everywhere*.
Then, they will sell.
This is a normal technology adoption curve. Early adopters pay up, and this means that the work gets done to drive costs down.
Here's a bold prediction: within 20 years, 85% of vehicles sold with be completely electric. Simply, at a certain point they will be meaningfully cheaper to buy and to own.
I expect my next car will be electric. It certainly won’t be another diesel.
Didn’t think BBC news was that bad for Boris in fairness. You wouldn’t change your mind over a 2 minute story like that. Spending more time covering nonsense young persons QT
The Guardian has pointed out that Bigot-gate, a much much bigger gaffe by Brown, did not shift the polls in any obvious way. We geeks probably exaggerate these things.
Today's most striking statistic is that SUVs are outselling electric vehicles 37 to 1 !
Electric vehicles need to be 30-40k, not 60-70k, and there need to be lots of 15 mins or less charging points *everywhere*.
Then, they will sell.
I won't buy one.... even 15 mins is too long...
But that's not 15 minutes every time you want to fill up. Because most of the time you will be filling up when parked at home. If you want to drive 400 miles, sure, you have to budget an extra 15 minutes into your journey - although you're doing well to fill up a petrol car in much under 5 minutes. But for most people less than 1% of their journeys are that long. In fact, forget the massive cost savings, you will spend less long in total refuelling because you can do most of it overnight while you are parked at home,
I agree that the cost of electric vehicles needs to be much cheaper though. Not many people but cars more than about £15k.
You can see why they have tried to keep him in a box for so long. He really doesn't have any sense of what he is saying.
While I doubt the fevered excitement some are having for Boris's gaffes or poor word choices today will be bourne out, I do wonder why they are changing strategy now to make him much more prominent. To my surprise the cautious, restricted approach was working, why risk that on the assumption the red wall was crumbling and Boris was the man to knock it down, when it was apparenetly shaky enough without him plastering his face on the telly in more prominent ways, and ways that might arise from him cocking up?
Today's most striking statistic is that SUVs are outselling electric vehicles 37 to 1 !
Electric vehicles need to be 30-40k, not 60-70k, and there need to be lots of 15 mins or less charging points *everywhere*.
Then, they will sell.
A friend recently accepted the offer of a lift across Dartmoor on a cold night in an all-electric car. Battery was a bit low so they couldn't have the heating on, and when the windscreen started fogging up they had to open the windows to clear it. I will be sticking with diesel for the foreseeable.
Kia e-Niro has a 280 mile range and is highly liveable, and £34 000. Great long term test review here.
280 mile range when you have a full charge and optimal ambient temperatures.
A longer range than my current petrol car. A full charge is about £7, no congestion charge and emission zone charge, cheap tax, insurance and servicing. The future is electric.
Naaah.. my diesel 2.2 is eu6 compliant.. does 50 plus to the gallon is not reliant on the single power points that take at least 20 mins.to charge up.. the future might be electric in 25 yrs time by which i probably will not be driving.. i will be 91...
280 mile range when you have a full charge and optimal ambient temperatures.
A longer range than my current petrol car. A full charge is about £7, no congestion charge and emission zone charge, cheap tax, insurance and servicing. The future is electric.
I hope so. Once you have dispensed with a gearbox and had an electric transmission its hard to suffer any kind of gear changes. My problem with electric cars is: 1. Scarcity. I very much appreciate Hyundai - great cars and amazingly efficient electric drive train but 12 months wait for a car 2. Complexity. Too many competing plug types and the new CCS standard isn't standard on the (unreliable) motorway chargers 3. POWER!!! To rapid charge <90kWH batteries you need Umph. You get that from Tesla Superchargers but iffy build quality. You don't get that from most CCS chargers especially if the car is an inefficient fatty like a Jag E-Pace or Merc EQC
Well this is an interesting thread and a welcome change from discussing what we've been discussing for the last eight weeks or more. And I never knew Picasso was a Stalinist. Open question: what would have happened had the other side won the Spanish Civil War? Would Spain have become a member of the liberal west? Or a Soviet satellite? Or a sui generis leftist state a la Yugoslavia?
I just finished reading Antony Beevor's "The Battle for Spain", where he discusses those questions right at the end of his book. If the Republicans had won, they could well have become a democratic state, but because the Communists were so powerful, they could well have turned on their anarchist and liberal allies (just like the Bolsheviks in Russia). A totalitarian Communist Spain could well have been in a similar state to the other Communist Satellite States by 1989. On the other hand, if the Republic continued on a democratic path, not totally implausible, it could well have benefitted from Marshall Aid from 1948 onwards.
Today's most striking statistic is that SUVs are outselling electric vehicles 37 to 1 !
Electric vehicles need to be 30-40k, not 60-70k, and there need to be lots of 15 mins or less charging points *everywhere*.
Then, they will sell.
A friend recently accepted the offer of a lift across Dartmoor on a cold night in an all-electric car. Battery was a bit low so they couldn't have the heating on, and when the windscreen started fogging up they had to open the windows to clear it. I will be sticking with diesel for the foreseeable.
Kia e-Niro has a 280 mile range and is highly liveable, and £34 000. Great long term test review here.
I had a 2014 Nissan Leaf. Poor car (in terms of ergonomics). Poor electric car (range, charging speed). Quite happy in my diseasal Volvo S90. Or would be had it not demolished a Ford Fiesta last month and been replaced by an insurance V90 petrol that (yay) is turbo and supercharged but (boo) drinks unleaded like its going out of business.
I think a big Volvo is exactly the kind of car that McDonnell wants to tax out of existence.
2014 is nearly ancient history in EV terms. Electric vehicle technology is developing a great deal faster than people expect.
McKinsey in 2012... Our analysis indicates that the price of a complete automotive lithium-ion battery pack could fall from $500 to $600 per kilowatt hour (kWh) today to about $200 per kWh by 2020 and to about $160 per kWh by 2025....
Last week... December 3, 2019 – Battery prices, which were above $1,100 per kilowatt-hour in 2010, have fallen 87% in real terms to $156/kWh in 2019. By 2023, average prices will be close to $100/kWh, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF)...
You can see why they have tried to keep him in a box for so long. He really doesn't have any sense of what he is saying.
While I doubt the fevered excitement some are having for Boris's gaffes or poor word choices today will be bourne out, I do wonder why they are changing strategy now to make him much more prominent. To my surprise the cautious, restricted approach was working, why risk that on the assumption the red wall was crumbling and Boris was the man to knock it down, when it was apparenetly shaky enough without him plastering his face on the telly in more prominent ways, and ways that might arise from him cocking up?
Today's most striking statistic is that SUVs are outselling electric vehicles 37 to 1 !
Electric vehicles need to be 30-40k, not 60-70k, and there need to be lots of 15 mins or less charging points *everywhere*.
Then, they will sell.
A friend recently accepted the offer of a lift across Dartmoor on a cold night in an all-electric car. Battery was a bit low so they couldn't have the heating on, and when the windscreen started fogging up they had to open the windows to clear it. I will be sticking with diesel for the foreseeable.
Kia e-Niro has a 280 mile range and is highly liveable, and £34 000. Great long term test review here.
280 mile range when you have a full charge and optimal ambient temperatures.
A longer range than my current petrol car. A full charge is about £7, no congestion charge and emission zone charge, cheap tax, insurance and servicing. The future is electric.
Naaah.. my diesel 2.2 is eu6 compliant.. does 50 plus to the gallon is not reliant on the single power points that take at least 20 mins.to charge up.. the future might be electric in 25 yrs time by which i probably will not be driving.. i will be 91...
Although I have a car...they are hideous things, they represent the worst of humanity and should be banned. Electric cars are unpleasant...but your diesel thing sounds horrible too.....
Today's most striking statistic is that SUVs are outselling electric vehicles 37 to 1 !
Electric vehicles need to be 30-40k, not 60-70k, and there need to be lots of 15 mins or less charging points *everywhere*.
Then, they will sell.
A friend recently accepted the offer of a lift across Dartmoor on a cold night in an all-electric car. Battery was a bit low so they couldn't have the heating on, and when the windscreen started fogging up they had to open the windows to clear it. I will be sticking with diesel for the foreseeable.
Kia e-Niro has a 280 mile range and is highly liveable, and £34 000. Great long term test review here.
I thought for a moment you were talking about the drink Kia Ora!
Does it still exist? Absolutely disgusting but an occasional guilty pleasure at the cinema when I was a child.
And looking back a pretty racist advert I think... Or was that Um Bongo?
Kia ora was the crows 'I'll be your dog' Um bongo was um bongo um bongo they drink it in the Congo
Kia ora! Adora! It's too orangey for crows! It's just for me and my dog. I'll be your dog!
Don't get me started on old ITV/cinema adverts. I searched YouTube for ages to the right music to the Gordon's Gin advert. (There are several versions). And as for getting the exact remix used for the trailers for The Martian and WW84, well still I search (not the originals - I know it's "all along the watchtower" and "blue Monday", - it's the exact remixes I want)
"A good friend of mine is a senior nursing sister at Leeds Hospital". Really? Do people in Leeds even call the Leeds General Infirmary "Leeds Hospital"? I thought they called it "the LGI".
That’s a good point. On the couple of occasions I recall anyone speaking about it, they called it LGI (I remember because I didn’t immediately know where they were referring to).
I don’t live in Leeds, but am fairly close and go there relatively often. I would certainly call it Leeds Hospital. However, I don’t have any good friends that work there.
Didn’t think BBC news was that bad for Boris in fairness. You wouldn’t change your mind over a 2 minute story like that. Spending more time covering nonsense young persons QT
The Guardian has pointed out that Bigot-gate, a much much bigger gaffe by Brown, did not shift the polls in any obvious way. We geeks probably exaggerate these things.
I think to actually seem to move things a gaffe needs the right moment, to seem like the final straw that broke the camel's back. If there is not already movement then a gaffe doesn't mean much.
Today's most striking statistic is that SUVs are outselling electric vehicles 37 to 1 !
Electric vehicles need to be 30-40k, not 60-70k, and there need to be lots of 15 mins or less charging points *everywhere*.
Then, they will sell.
A friend recently accepted the offer of a lift across Dartmoor on a cold night in an all-electric car. Battery was a bit low so they couldn't have the heating on, and when the windscreen started fogging up they had to open the windows to clear it. I will be sticking with diesel for the foreseeable.
Kia e-Niro has a 280 mile range and is highly liveable, and £34 000. Great long term test review here.
I had a 2014 Nissan Leaf. Poor car (in terms of ergonomics). Poor electric car (range, charging speed). Quite happy in my diseasal Volvo S90. Or would be had it not demolished a Ford Fiesta last month and been replaced by an insurance V90 petrol that (yay) is turbo and supercharged but (boo) drinks unleaded like its going out of business.
I think a big Volvo is exactly the kind of car that McDonnell wants to tax out of existence.
2014 is nearly ancient history in EV terms. Electric vehicle technology is developing a great deal faster than people expect.
McKinsey in 2012... Our analysis indicates that the price of a complete automotive lithium-ion battery pack could fall from $500 to $600 per kilowatt hour (kWh) today to about $200 per kWh by 2020 and to about $160 per kWh by 2025....
Last week... December 3, 2019 – Battery prices, which were above $1,100 per kilowatt-hour in 2010, have fallen 87% in real terms to $156/kWh in 2019. By 2023, average prices will be close to $100/kWh, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF)...
I am due to change my car next year. I have a lease and get a new one every 2 or 3 years.
For the first time ever I am tempted by 1. an electric car, or 2. going without a car entirely, as I barely use my present motor, thanks to London Transport and, especially, Uber
I am spending £500 a month to own a car I drive once a fortnight. It is insane.
Sadiq Khan's psychotic jihad against Uber is probably the only thing preventing me ditching my motor altogether. Which just shows how fucking stupid his policy is. Uber will kill car ownership, given time, which reduced pollution and congestion. But Sadiq wants to keep polluting diesel black cabs in business. Twat.
Today's most striking statistic is that SUVs are outselling electric vehicles 37 to 1 !
Electric vehicles need to be 30-40k, not 60-70k, and there need to be lots of 15 mins or less charging points *everywhere*.
Then, they will sell.
I won't buy one.... even 15 mins is too long...
But that's not 15 minutes every time you want to fill up. Because most of the time you will be filling up when parked at home. If you want to drive 400 miles, sure, you have to budget an extra 15 minutes into your journey - although you're doing well to fill up a petrol car in much under 5 minutes. But for most people less than 1% of their journeys are that long. In fact, forget the massive cost savings, you will spend less long in total refuelling because you can do most of it overnight while you are parked at home,
I agree that the cost of electric vehicles needs to be much cheaper though. Not many people but cars more than about £15k.
Filling up when parked at home does assume off street parking with a suitable charging point wired in. That rules out 75% of the houses on my street.
Today's most striking statistic is that SUVs are outselling electric vehicles 37 to 1 !
Electric vehicles need to be 30-40k, not 60-70k, and there need to be lots of 15 mins or less charging points *everywhere*.
Then, they will sell.
A friend recently accepted the offer of a lift across Dartmoor on a cold night in an all-electric car. Battery was a bit low so they couldn't have the heating on, and when the windscreen started fogging up they had to open the windows to clear it. I will be sticking with diesel for the foreseeable.
Kia e-Niro has a 280 mile range and is highly liveable, and £34 000. Great long term test review here.
I had a 2014 Nissan Leaf. Poor car (in terms of ergonomics). Poor electric car (range, charging speed). Quite happy in my diseasal Volvo S90. Or would be had it not demolished a Ford Fiesta last month and been replaced by an insurance V90 petrol that (yay) is turbo and supercharged but (boo) drinks unleaded like its going out of business.
I think a big Volvo is exactly the kind of car that McDonnell wants to tax out of existence.
2014 is nearly ancient history in EV terms. Electric vehicle technology is developing a great deal faster than people expect.
McKinsey in 2012... Our analysis indicates that the price of a complete automotive lithium-ion battery pack could fall from $500 to $600 per kilowatt hour (kWh) today to about $200 per kWh by 2020 and to about $160 per kWh by 2025....
Last week... December 3, 2019 – Battery prices, which were above $1,100 per kilowatt-hour in 2010, have fallen 87% in real terms to $156/kWh in 2019. By 2023, average prices will be close to $100/kWh, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF)...
I am due to change my car next year. I have a lease and get a new one every 2 or 3 years.
For the first time ever I am tempted by 1. an electric car, or 2. going without a car entirely, as I barely use my present motor, thanks to London Transport and, especially, Uber
I am spending £500 a month to own a car I drive once a fortnight. It is insane.
Sadiq Khan's psychotic jihad against Uber is probably the only thing preventing me ditching my motor altogether. Which just shows how fucking stupid his policy is. Uber will kill car ownership, given time, which reduced pollution and congestion. But Sadiq wants to keep polluting diesel black cabs in business. Twat.
Today's most striking statistic is that SUVs are outselling electric vehicles 37 to 1 !
Electric vehicles need to be 30-40k, not 60-70k, and there need to be lots of 15 mins or less charging points *everywhere*.
Then, they will sell.
This is a normal technology adoption curve. Early adopters pay up, and this means that the work gets done to drive costs down.
Here's a bold prediction: within 20 years, 85% of vehicles sold with be completely electric. Simply, at a certain point they will be meaningfully cheaper to buy and to own.
I expect my next car will be electric. It certainly won’t be another diesel.
280 mile range when you have a full charge and optimal ambient temperatures.
A longer range than my current petrol car. A full charge is about £7, no congestion charge and emission zone charge, cheap tax, insurance and servicing. The future is electric.
I hope so. Once you have dispensed with a gearbox and had an electric transmission its hard to suffer any kind of gear changes. My problem with electric cars is: 1. Scarcity. I very much appreciate Hyundai - great cars and amazingly efficient electric drive train but 12 months wait for a car 2. Complexity. Too many competing plug types and the new CCS standard isn't standard on the (unreliable) motorway chargers 3. POWER!!! To rapid charge <90kWH batteries you need Umph. You get that from Tesla Superchargers but iffy build quality. You don't get that from most CCS chargers especially if the car is an inefficient fatty like a Jag E-Pace or Merc EQC</p>
I am buying my e-niro as a company car as it is negligible in BIK payments by tax, so quite a big saving. As Fox jr now lives in Fulham, no CC or Emission Charge is quite a boon. A return trip for a fiver. Not bad at all, and quite nippy to drive.
Gyimah collapsed to third, looks like Felicity Buchan will gain Kensington back for the Tories
Bears out what I have been hearing (and sharing here) about the LibDem "surge" running out of steam and retreating in London/SE England.
They might yet be in trouble holding on elsewhere.....
Interesting, they're certainly in difficulty in the Scottish seats that they hold, from what I'm hearing.
Indeed I have now had 14 election communications from the Liberals begging me to lend them my vote. Their problem is I voted for Andrew Sinclair last week. SNP sources suggesting it is Andrew who is now challenging them not Jamie who they say is in 3rd place. Just over 72 hours until we know!
Today's most striking statistic is that SUVs are outselling electric vehicles 37 to 1 !
Electric vehicles need to be 30-40k, not 60-70k, and there need to be lots of 15 mins or less charging points *everywhere*.
Then, they will sell.
I won't buy one.... even 15 mins is too long...
I owned the original Tesla Roadster. When I bought it, the idea of an electric vehicle that could do 220 miles on a charge (180 in reality) was extraordinary.
The reality is that when you have an electric car, you plug it in when you get home (or if you want the electric car parking spot at the supermarket which the shorter walk).
Your car is essentially always "full" of electricity. And I can count on the fingers of no hands the number of times I did a 200 mile journey in a day.
With the latest Teslas, you can get up to 373 miles. That's comfortably more than London to Newcastle. 90% of people will go a whole year without doing a single journey 350 mile one day trip.
So the reality is that, with electric cars, you typically spend no time at all charging.
280 mile range when you have a full charge and optimal ambient temperatures.
A longer range than my current petrol car. A full charge is about £7, no congestion charge and emission zone charge, cheap tax, insurance and servicing. The future is electric.
I hope so. Once you have dispensed with a gearbox and had an electric transmission its hard to suffer any kind of gear changes. My problem with electric cars is: 1. Scarcity. I very much appreciate Hyundai - great cars and amazingly efficient electric drive train but 12 months wait for a car 2. Complexity. Too many competing plug types and the new CCS standard isn't standard on the (unreliable) motorway chargers 3. POWER!!! To rapid charge <90kWH batteries you need Umph. You get that from Tesla Superchargers but iffy build quality. You don't get that from most CCS chargers especially if the car is an inefficient fatty like a Jag E-Pace or Merc EQC</p>
Energy is current times voltage times time. 90kWh means 90kW for an hour, 90kW means 375 amps at 240 volts. That’s a lot of umph.
Today's most striking statistic is that SUVs are outselling electric vehicles 37 to 1 !
Electric vehicles need to be 30-40k, not 60-70k, and there need to be lots of 15 mins or less charging points *everywhere*.
Then, they will sell.
This is a normal technology adoption curve. Early adopters pay up, and this means that the work gets done to drive costs down.
Here's a bold prediction: within 20 years, 85% of vehicles sold with be completely electric. Simply, at a certain point they will be meaningfully cheaper to buy and to own.
That’s not a particularly bold prediction. A decade might be.
Boris should be done for littering, he clearly leaves almost all the cards behind in that Love Actually video.
But really it is genius. Not the parody, we've already seen that done in this campaign, but for having a video prominently featuring Boris where he cannot actually say something for most of it - sometimes it is a positive for him, but as in much of the campaign maybe best to limit what he says as much as possible.
Will it get the likes and shares to go viral, possibly?
57,000 views and 2,500 share in 30 minutes, is that good?
That will go viral because the press will all pick up on it and so will international news outlets Im sure. Uncharacteristically light hearted and fun for a British PM and plays up to the more positive aspects of his reputation. Not sure it will change many votes though, even when Correct Horse Battery is reporting view number 4 million.
I had a 2014 Nissan Leaf. Poor car (in terms of ergonomics). Poor electric car (range, charging speed). Quite happy in my diseasal Volvo S90. Or would be had it not demolished a Ford Fiesta last month and been replaced by an insurance V90 petrol that (yay) is turbo and supercharged but (boo) drinks unleaded like its going out of business.
I think a big Volvo is exactly the kind of car that McDonnell wants to tax out of existence.
2014 is nearly ancient history in EV terms. Electric vehicle technology is developing$100/kWh, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF)...
I am due to change my car next year. I have a lease and get a new one every 2 or 3 years.
For the first time ever I am tempted by 1. an electric car, or 2. going without a car entirely, as I barely use my present motor, thanks to London Transport and, especially, Uber
I am spending £500 a month to own a car I drive once a fortnight. It is insane.
Sadiq Khan's psychotic jihad against Uber is probably the only thing preventing me ditching my motor altogether. Which just shows how fucking stupid his policy is. Uber will kill car ownership, given time, which reduced pollution and congestion. But Sadiq wants to keep polluting diesel black cabs in business. Twat.
Gyimah collapsed to third, looks like Felicity Buchan will gain Kensington back for the Tories
Bears out what I have been hearing (and sharing here) about the LibDem "surge" running out of steam and retreating in London/SE England.
They might yet be in trouble holding on elsewhere.....
Interesting, they're certainly in difficulty in the Scottish seats that they hold, from what I'm hearing.
Indeed I have now had 14 election communications from the Liberals begging me to lend them my vote. Their problem is I voted for Andrew Sinclair last week. SNP sources suggesting it is Andrew who is now challenging them not Jamie who they say is in 3rd place. Just over 72 hours until we know!
Although weren't you very pessimistic about LD chances in your constituency in 2017?
You can see why they have tried to keep him in a box for so long. He really doesn't have any sense of what he is saying.
While I doubt the fevered excitement some are having for Boris's gaffes or poor word choices today will be bourne out, I do wonder why they are changing strategy now to make him much more prominent. To my surprise the cautious, restricted approach was working, why risk that on the assumption the red wall was crumbling and Boris was the man to knock it down, when it was apparenetly shaky enough without him plastering his face on the telly in more prominent ways, and ways that might arise from him cocking up?
I saw thr thread header. I.lost the will to read it.. far too long...
Same as all cyclefree threads I'm afraid
Personally I find your posts too long. Could you trim them please.
Don't even joke about posts being too long, it's hard enough for me to keep my sentences under 100 words and without parentheses and hyphens as it is, let alone posts concise.
"A good friend of mine is a senior nursing sister at Leeds Hospital". Really? Do people in Leeds even call the Leeds General Infirmary "Leeds Hospital"? I thought they called it "the LGI".
That’s a good point. On the couple of occasions I recall anyone speaking about it, they called it LGI (I remember because I didn’t immediately know where they were referring to).
I don’t live in Leeds, but am fairly close and go there relatively often. I would certainly call it Leeds Hospital. However, I don’t have any good friends that work there.
It's the LGI to me, it's one of two major hospitals around Leeds city centre, the other being St James' Hospital. Saying Leeds Hospital could be either one of them.
2014 is nearly ancient history in EV terms. Electric vehicle technology is developing a great deal faster than people expect.
Pah - tell that to Nissan. They designed the Leaf in 2010, first sold it in 2011, its still on sale now, with a battery pack that is larger than the 24kWH pack in my car but bi newer in terms of technology. And still passively cooled despite Rapidgate and all the terrible problems that highlighted.
Gyimah collapsed to third, looks like Felicity Buchan will gain Kensington back for the Tories
Bears out what I have been hearing (and sharing here) about the LibDem "surge" running out of steam and retreating in London/SE England.
They might yet be in trouble holding on elsewhere.....
Interesting, they're certainly in difficulty in the Scottish seats that they hold, from what I'm hearing.
Indeed I have now had 14 election communications from the Liberals begging me to lend them my vote. Their problem is I voted for Andrew Sinclair last week. SNP sources suggesting it is Andrew who is now challenging them not Jamie who they say is in 3rd place. Just over 72 hours until we know!
Although weren't you very pessimistic about LD chances in your constituency in 2017?
You can see why they have tried to keep him in a box for so long. He really doesn't have any sense of what he is saying.
While I doubt the fevered excitement some are having for Boris's gaffes or poor word choices today will be bourne out, I do wonder why they are changing strategy now to make him much more prominent. To my surprise the cautious, restricted approach was working, why risk that on the assumption the red wall was crumbling and Boris was the man to knock it down, when it was apparenetly shaky enough without him plastering his face on the telly in more prominent ways, and ways that might arise from him cocking up?
You can see why they have tried to keep him in a box for so long. He really doesn't have any sense of what he is saying.
While I doubt the fevered excitement some are having for Boris's gaffes or poor word choices today will be bourne out, I do wonder why they are changing strategy now to make him much more prominent. To my surprise the cautious, restricted approach was working, why risk that on the assumption the red wall was crumbling and Boris was the man to knock it down, when it was apparenetly shaky enough without him plastering his face on the telly in more prominent ways, and ways that might arise from him cocking up?
Today's most striking statistic is that SUVs are outselling electric vehicles 37 to 1 !
Electric vehicles need to be 30-40k, not 60-70k, and there need to be lots of 15 mins or less charging points *everywhere*.
Then, they will sell.
A friend recently accepted the offer of a lift across Dartmoor on a cold night in an all-electric car. Battery was a bit low so they couldn't have the heating on, and when the windscreen started fogging up they had to open the windows to clear it. I will be sticking with diesel for the foreseeable.
Kia e-Niro has a 280 mile range and is highly liveable, and £34 000. Great long term test review here.
I had a 2014 Nissan Leaf. Poor car (in terms of ergonomics). Poor electric car (range, charging speed). Quite happy in my diseasal Volvo S90. Or would be had it not demolished a Ford Fiesta last month and been replaced by an insurance V90 petrol that (yay) is turbo and supercharged but (boo) drinks unleaded like its going out of business.
I think a big Volvo is exactly the kind of car that McDonnell wants to tax out of existence.
The Tories are doing pretty well when it comes to progressive road fund taxes. I hadn't researched the £40,000 plus surcharge until the sales lady at Mercedes Benz Solihull asked me for around a grand for the first year road fund licence, and that goes on for another four!
Conservative remainers drifting back over fear of Corbyn ?
Bye, Chukka!
All 3 of those look in the bag for the Tories. I always knew Boris was more popular in London than a lot of folk make out.
To be fair, they should be three of safest seats in the country for the Conservatives.
UKPR gives this data for 2011:
Cities 32% Home ownership 42% White British
Finchley 55% Home ownership 45% White British
Kensington 35% Home ownership 37% White British
Even without being strongly Remain those demographics are not those of safe Conservative constituencies.
Exactly and it will be the split between the Labour and LD votes that enables the Tories to hold on, in all 3 the Tories are polling under 50% and in Kensington the Tories are still polling even under their national voteshare with Deltapoll
I had a 2014 Nissan Leaf. Poor car (in terms of ergonomics). Poor electric car (range, charging speed). Quite happy in my diseasal Volvo S90. Or would be had it not demolished a Ford Fiesta last month and been replaced by an insurance V90 petrol that (yay) is turbo and supercharged but (boo) drinks unleaded like its going out of business.
I think a big Volvo is exactly the kind of car that McDonnell wants to tax out of existence.
2014 is nearly ancient history in EV terms. Electric vehicle technology is developing$100/kWh, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF)...
I am due to change my car next year. I have a lease and get a new one every 2 or 3 years.
For the first time ever I am tempted by 1. an electric car, or 2. going without a car entirely, as I barely use my present motor, thanks to London Transport and, especially, Uber
I am spending £500 a month to own a car I drive once a fortnight. It is insane.
Sadiq Khan's psychotic jihad against Uber is probably the only thing preventing me ditching my motor altogether. Which just shows how fucking stupid his policy is. Uber will kill car ownership, given time, which reduced pollution and congestion. But Sadiq wants to keep polluting diesel black cabs in business. Twat.
What you need - particularly if you live in Central London - is membership of a car club. A car when you need one and only when you need one. Far more cost effective. Also particularly suitable for families with two cars on the drive for the one time every two weeks when different offspring need to be ferried to different places at the same time.
It does mean you have to stop using your car as a spare room to house all the stuff which needs a home somewhere but doesn't yet have one.
Gyimah collapsed to third, looks like Felicity Buchan will gain Kensington back for the Tories
Bears out what I have been hearing (and sharing here) about the LibDem "surge" running out of steam and retreating in London/SE England.
They might yet be in trouble holding on elsewhere.....
Interesting, they're certainly in difficulty in the Scottish seats that they hold, from what I'm hearing.
Indeed I have now had 14 election communications from the Liberals begging me to lend them my vote. Their problem is I voted for Andrew Sinclair last week. SNP sources suggesting it is Andrew who is now challenging them not Jamie who they say is in 3rd place. Just over 72 hours until we know!
Yes, I heard that! Also hearing SCon up to 2nd in East Lothian...
Looks like the Telegraph are going to make an issue of it
Allison Pearson
So I have detailed explanation from paediatric nurses explaining why photo of child on the floor is “100% faked”. I will put in @Telegraph on Weds. Stage a photo. Cause outrage. Castigate people who doubt it for showing insufficient compassion. Jesus.
How many points is this tedious rubbish worth? How many seats?
Tedious rubbish?
The NHS is on its knees. For the majority of people in this country it really really matters.
Then journalists should ask specific questions of fact about treatment standards, about the government's record of investment and its future plans, not gurning trying to create viral gotchas for 15 minutes of fame.
And I'd like to know - how many points? How many seats?
2014 is nearly ancient history in EV terms. Electric vehicle technology is developing a great deal faster than people expect.
Pah - tell that to Nissan. They designed the Leaf in 2010, first sold it in 2011, its still on sale now, with a battery pack that is larger than the 24kWH pack in my car but bi newer in terms of technology. And still passively cooled despite Rapidgate and all the terrible problems that highlighted.
You can see why they have tried to keep him in a box for so long. He really doesn't have any sense of what he is saying.
While I doubt the fevered excitement some are having for Boris's gaffes or poor word choices today will be bourne out, I do wonder why they are changing strategy now to make him much more prominent. To my surprise the cautious, restricted approach was working, why risk that on the assumption the red wall was crumbling and Boris was the man to knock it down, when it was apparenetly shaky enough without him plastering his face on the telly in more prominent ways, and ways that might arise from him cocking up?
Gyimah collapsed to third, looks like Felicity Buchan will gain Kensington back for the Tories
Bears out what I have been hearing (and sharing here) about the LibDem "surge" running out of steam and retreating in London/SE England.
They might yet be in trouble holding on elsewhere.....
Interesting, they're certainly in difficulty in the Scottish seats that they hold, from what I'm hearing.
They seem to be predicted to get anything from 1-5 in Scotland, even with an increase in vote.
O&S is nailed on Caithness has gone, from what I hear Hearing NE Fife swing to SNP East Dunbartonshire unknown Edinburgh West on a knife edge
I genuinely don't understand how Ed West is apparently down to the wire - that is what I am hearing too.
LDs actually increased vote in 2015, just got overtaken by the SNP surge. Absolutely demolished the opposition at the council elections in Almond Ward, if they had put up 3 candidates they would have al got in.
I feel I have just totally mischaracterised the nature of EdWest Tory voters. Also the residual Lab vote must have evaporated and gone SNP.
"What you need - particularly if you live in Central London - is membership of a car club. A car when you need one and only when you need one. Far more cost effective. Also particularly suitable for families with two cars on the drive for the one time every two weeks when different offspring need to be ferried to different places at the same time.
It does mean you have to stop using your car as a spare room to house all the stuff which needs a home somewhere but doesn't yet have one."
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I've tried car clubs. Zipcar etc.
Uber is infinitely better. It turns up at my door in 2 minutes, like a chauffeur, it does all the boring driving, it drops me where I want, it costs a few quid, it then disappears with no worries about parking - and of course I can drink as much Brunello as I like, all the time.
Today's most striking statistic is that SUVs are outselling electric vehicles 37 to 1 !
Electric vehicles need to be 30-40k, not 60-70k, and there need to be lots of 15 mins or less charging points *everywhere*.
Then, they will sell.
This is a normal technology adoption curve. Early adopters pay up, and this means that the work gets done to drive costs down.
Here's a bold prediction: within 20 years, 85% of vehicles sold with be completely electric. Simply, at a certain point they will be meaningfully cheaper to buy and to own.
That’s not a particularly bold prediction. A decade might be.
I predict a decade. Less. A couple of days ago Labour promised that all buses would be electric within a decade. Well great. But I'd be very surprised if that doesn't happen anyway with either minimal state nudging or simply through market forces. Incidentally, many transport futurologists predict that self-driving cars will be the norm by the time the decade is out. Thus, no-one will own a car; you will hail one in the same way that you hail an uber and it will turn up and take you to your destination. Or to your public transport node to connect to a train to take you to your destination, depending on what you need and what you want to pay. I could go on at some length about all of this if anyone is interested...
Gyimah collapsed to third, looks like Felicity Buchan will gain Kensington back for the Tories
Bears out what I have been hearing (and sharing here) about the LibDem "surge" running out of steam and retreating in London/SE England.
They might yet be in trouble holding on elsewhere.....
Interesting, they're certainly in difficulty in the Scottish seats that they hold, from what I'm hearing.
Indeed I have now had 14 election communications from the Liberals begging me to lend them my vote. Their problem is I voted for Andrew Sinclair last week. SNP sources suggesting it is Andrew who is now challenging them not Jamie who they say is in 3rd place. Just over 72 hours until we know!
Looks like the Telegraph are going to make an issue of it
Allison Pearson
So I have detailed explanation from paediatric nurses explaining why photo of child on the floor is “100% faked”. I will put in @Telegraph on Weds. Stage a photo. Cause outrage. Castigate people who doubt it for showing insufficient compassion. Jesus.
Looks like the Telegraph are going to make an issue of it
Allison Pearson
So I have detailed explanation from paediatric nurses explaining why photo of child on the floor is “100% faked”. I will put in @Telegraph on Weds. Stage a photo. Cause outrage. Castigate people who doubt it for showing insufficient compassion. Jesus.
Looks like this is going to backfire spectacularly for Labour 😂
I saw thr thread header. I.lost the will to read it.. far too long...
Same as all cyclefree threads I'm afraid
Personally I find your posts too long. Could you trim them please.
I disagree. I like a lengthy read when it's well crafted - as Cyclefree's headers usually are (indeed, as most pb.com contributors' headers are - especially on subjects we don't necessarily talk about as regularly).
You can see why they have tried to keep him in a box for so long. He really doesn't have any sense of what he is saying.
While I doubt the fevered excitement some are having for Boris's gaffes or poor word choices today will be bourne out, I do wonder why they are changing strategy now to make him much more prominent. To my surprise the cautious, restricted approach was working, why risk that on the assumption the red wall was crumbling and Boris was the man to knock it down, when it was apparenetly shaky enough without him plastering his face on the telly in more prominent ways, and ways that might arise from him cocking up?
Gyimah collapsed to third, looks like Felicity Buchan will gain Kensington back for the Tories
Bears out what I have been hearing (and sharing here) about the LibDem "surge" running out of steam and retreating in London/SE England.
They might yet be in trouble holding on elsewhere.....
Interesting, they're certainly in difficulty in the Scottish seats that they hold, from what I'm hearing.
They seem to be predicted to get anything from 1-5 in Scotland, even with an increase in vote.
O&S is nailed on Caithness has gone, from what I hear Hearing NE Fife swing to SNP East Dunbartonshire unknown Edinburgh West on a knife edge
I genuinely don't understand how Ed West is apparently down to the wire - that is what I am hearing too.
LDs actually increased vote in 2015, just got overtaken by the SNP surge. Absolutely ahnihalted the opposition at the council elections in Almond Ward, if they had put up 3 candidates they would have al got in.
I feel I have just totally mischaracterised the nature of EdWest Tory voters. Also the residual Lab vote must have evaporated and gone SNP.
Frustrating betting experience.
I'm very surprised, it appears to be against the run of play. Nearly 8k SLab voters last time, so does suggest collapse is incoming for the lacklustre Red team.
How many points is this tedious rubbish worth? How many seats?
Tedious rubbish?
The NHS is on its knees. For the majority of people in this country it really really matters.
Then journalists should ask specific questions of fact about treatment standards, about the government's record of investment and its future plans, not gurning trying to create viral gotchas for 15 minutes of fame.
And I'd like to know - how many points? How many seats?
Re. the future of the NHS? It's in everyone's interest to vote accordingly. Well, unless, of course, you have a solid private health package, don't live here or are just a CCHQ stooge.
Looks like the Telegraph are going to make an issue of it
Allison Pearson
So I have detailed explanation from paediatric nurses explaining why photo of child on the floor is “100% faked”. I will put in @Telegraph on Weds. Stage a photo. Cause outrage. Castigate people who doubt it for showing insufficient compassion. Jesus.
Looks like this is going to backfire spectacularly for Labour 😂
Labour fake NHS story for political gain scandal coming our way tomorrow then
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(In California, SUVs were 50% of the 2 million vehicles sold last year and hybrids and EVs were a little bit more than 10%. Tesla sold 66,000 Model 3s in the 1H18 in California making that one model about 60% of all the electric and hybrids sold in the state.)
Cities of London and Westminster, Finchley and Golders Green and Kensington had lower Tory voteshares in 2017 and now have lower Tory votes than Harlow, Thurrock, Nuneaton, Dartford and Gravesham for example, all seats won by Blair or most SW seats held by the LDs from 1997 to 2015, with YouGov MRP
Really? Do people in Leeds even call the Leeds General Infirmary "Leeds Hospital"?
I thought they called it "the LGI".
Hope he loses on Wednesday though
In fact, forget the massive cost savings, you will spend less long in total refuelling because you can do most of it overnight while you are parked at home,
I agree that the cost of electric vehicles needs to be much cheaper though. Not many people but cars more than about £15k.
Caithness has gone, from what I hear
Hearing NE Fife swing to SNP
East Dunbartonshire unknown
Edinburgh West on a knife edge
1. Scarcity. I very much appreciate Hyundai - great cars and amazingly efficient electric drive train but 12 months wait for a car
2. Complexity. Too many competing plug types and the new CCS standard isn't standard on the (unreliable) motorway chargers
3. POWER!!! To rapid charge <90kWH batteries you need Umph. You get that from Tesla Superchargers but iffy build quality. You don't get that from most CCS chargers especially if the car is an inefficient fatty like a Jag E-Pace or Merc EQC
McKinsey in 2012...
Our analysis indicates that the price of a complete automotive lithium-ion battery pack could fall from $500 to $600 per kilowatt hour (kWh) today to about $200 per kWh by 2020 and to about $160 per kWh by 2025....
Last week...
December 3, 2019 – Battery prices, which were above $1,100 per kilowatt-hour in 2010, have fallen 87% in real terms to $156/kWh in 2019. By 2023, average prices will be close to $100/kWh, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF)...
Don't get me started on old ITV/cinema adverts. I searched YouTube for ages to the right music to the Gordon's Gin advert. (There are several versions). And as for getting the exact remix used for the trailers for The Martian and WW84, well still I search (not the originals - I know it's "all along the watchtower" and "blue Monday", - it's the exact remixes I want)
I don’t live in Leeds, but am fairly close and go there relatively often. I would certainly call it Leeds Hospital. However, I don’t have any good friends that work there.
Will it get the likes and shares to go viral, possibly?
57,000 views and 2,500 share in 30 minutes, is that good?
For the first time ever I am tempted by 1. an electric car, or 2. going without a car entirely, as I barely use my present motor, thanks to London Transport and, especially, Uber
I am spending £500 a month to own a car I drive once a fortnight. It is insane.
Sadiq Khan's psychotic jihad against Uber is probably the only thing preventing me ditching my motor altogether. Which just shows how fucking stupid his policy is. Uber will kill car ownership, given time, which reduced pollution and congestion. But Sadiq wants to keep polluting diesel black cabs in business. Twat.
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2019/12/tories-are-spending-big-youtube-ads-here-s-why
Do you know the most surprisingly weird thing about the Spanish Civil War?
Hermann Goering's arms company selling weapons to the Republicans while German troops were fighting (and flying) alongside the Nationalists.
Strange, but true!
The reality is that when you have an electric car, you plug it in when you get home (or if you want the electric car parking spot at the supermarket which the shorter walk).
Your car is essentially always "full" of electricity. And I can count on the fingers of no hands the number of times I did a 200 mile journey in a day.
With the latest Teslas, you can get up to 373 miles. That's comfortably more than London to Newcastle. 90% of people will go a whole year without doing a single journey 350 mile one day trip.
So the reality is that, with electric cars, you typically spend no time at all charging.
(Still won’t vote for him, mind.)
A decade might be.
But really it is genius. Not the parody, we've already seen that done in this campaign, but for having a video prominently featuring Boris where he cannot actually say something for most of it - sometimes it is a positive for him, but as in much of the campaign maybe best to limit what he says as much as possible.
Cities
32% Home ownership
42% White British
Finchley
55% Home ownership
45% White British
Kensington
35% Home ownership
37% White British
Even without being strongly Remain those demographics are not those of safe Conservative constituencies.
Though the few headers that I have done have been fairly long. It is hard to be concise.
The NHS is on its knees. For the majority of people in this country it really really matters.
https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1204133009986850816
It does mean you have to stop using your car as a spare room to house all the stuff which needs a home somewhere but doesn't yet have one.
https://news.sky.com/story/tuesdays-national-newspaper-front-pages-11882667
Looks like the Telegraph are going to make an issue of it
Allison Pearson
So I have detailed explanation from paediatric nurses explaining why photo of child on the floor is “100% faked”. I will put in @Telegraph on Weds. Stage a photo. Cause outrage. Castigate people who doubt it for showing insufficient compassion. Jesus.
It’s all for love and glory. Those who criticise should try writing some of their own. This is the 50th one I’ve done this year.
And I'd like to know - how many points? How many seats?
LDs actually increased vote in 2015, just got overtaken by the SNP surge.
Absolutely demolished the opposition at the council elections in Almond Ward, if they had put up 3 candidates they would have al got in.
I feel I have just totally mischaracterised the nature of EdWest Tory voters. Also the residual Lab vote must have evaporated and gone SNP.
Frustrating betting experience.
"What you need - particularly if you live in Central London - is membership of a car club. A car when you need one and only when you need one. Far more cost effective. Also particularly suitable for families with two cars on the drive for the one time every two weeks when different offspring need to be ferried to different places at the same time.
It does mean you have to stop using your car as a spare room to house all the stuff which needs a home somewhere but doesn't yet have one."
+++
I've tried car clubs. Zipcar etc.
Uber is infinitely better. It turns up at my door in 2 minutes, like a chauffeur, it does all the boring driving, it drops me where I want, it costs a few quid, it then disappears with no worries about parking - and of course I can drink as much Brunello as I like, all the time.
UBER UBER ALLES
A couple of days ago Labour promised that all buses would be electric within a decade. Well great. But I'd be very surprised if that doesn't happen anyway with either minimal state nudging or simply through market forces.
Incidentally, many transport futurologists predict that self-driving cars will be the norm by the time the decade is out. Thus, no-one will own a car; you will hail one in the same way that you hail an uber and it will turn up and take you to your destination. Or to your public transport node to connect to a train to take you to your destination, depending on what you need and what you want to pay.
I could go on at some length about all of this if anyone is interested...
There was another one of those I discovered this morning.
Hmmm ...
And tomorrow's fronts are full of it: https://news.sky.com/story/general-election-johnson-criticised-over-reaction-to-image-of-sick-boy-on-hospital-floor-11882481
Re. the impact for the election? We shall see.
Re. the future of the NHS? It's in everyone's interest to vote accordingly. Well, unless, of course, you have a solid private health package, don't live here or are just a CCHQ stooge.