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Biden’s heads towards getting negative ratings from the majority of Americans – politicalbetting.com
Biden’s heads towards getting negative ratings from the majority of Americans – politicalbetting.com
Johnson’s meeting with Biden in Washington comes at a moment when the polls suggest that he is not approved of by the majority of Americans. Above is the latest rolling average from Nate Silver’s site.
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Replace your bogus "bad mother monkey" story with this (which I learned only yesterday)
"Fearful memories haunt mouse descendants"
"Mouse pups — and even the offspring's offspring — can inherit a fearful association of a certain smell with pain, even if they have not experienced the pain themselves, and without the need for genetic mutations. "
YOU CAN INHERIT, FROM YOUR PARENTS, EVEN GRANDPARENTS, A SHUDDERING FEAR OF SOMETHING STRANGE THAT HAPPENED TO THEM, NOT YOU
Extraordinary. The ramifications are endless, and creepy as hell. Good for someone trying to write spooky stories, tho
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.14272
As feared, my supplier, Green, has just gone bust. Not convinced I’ll get my credit balance back off them. Loads of customers have large balances after they offered an almost unlimited 10% extra credit-if-you-top-up, earlier in the year.
Silly me. That was a warning sign of a badly run company borrowing money from their customers. Expensive lesson learned.
People caught [in Scotland] with class A drugs will be able to receive police warnings instead of being referred to prosecutors.
Lord Advocate Lesley Bain announced the dramatic move in response to Scotland’s shocking drugs death figures.
1,339 deaths were registered in Scotland in 2020 - the largest number since records began in 1996.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-class-drug-users-receive-25045369?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
The claimed purpose of this massive public spending is to support trade, yet the Scottish Government now has more staff in Brussels than in London, despite the vast majority of Scotland's trade being with the rest of the UK. Nationalist political posturing with taxpayers' money.
https://twitter.com/dhothersall/status/1440677171991703555?s=20
All these energy companies collapsing will act as a bit like a reverse-PPI, sucking money out of the economy.
Edit: seems like the regulation is stronger than that. See PT next post.
Very dodgy behaviour though as you said.
Boris Johnson says France needs to 'get a grip' amid anger over AUKUS pact https://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-says-france-needs-to-get-a-grip-amid-anger-over-aukus-pact-12414414
Effectively in the past something has been seen/experienced by an ancestor that has stayed in the memory. when the DNA has been passed down for some reason this memory is stored and then crops up down the line in someone's mind. i suppose like a faulty VHS tape where something that was supposed to be taped over is still there.
the person who experiences this glitch due to a DNA "memory" thinks they have seen a ghost but they are just experiencing a replay of something that imprinted on the mind and DNA of an ancestor - for example sightings of Roman Soldiers walking down a road made a huge impression on someone 2000 years ago and burnt into the memory bank.
I think it's effectively like instinct, memories and lessons learnt that get stored in an animal brain and passed down generations to help survival. Most experiences are wiped but some stay for whatever reason.
It could of course just be a load of bollocks but i like it as an explanation for ghosts....
So, some hassle and expense to come, no doubt, after we're allocated to another supplier and then switching from whoever that is to whatever passes for a decent deal at present (and a bit annoying as we had a fairly decent deal running through to March).
Edit: Does indeed seem hot off the press as it were, if you trust Pesto
https://www.itv.com/news/2021-09-22/avro-energy-provider-with-12-m-customers-latest-hit-by-financial-difficulties
How can we be righteously indignant with each other with our absolutist takes when reality is so stubbornly complicated?
There's procedures to protect customers being moved over to suppliers of last resort and its reasonable for that to be underwritten - but no bailout for failed business models.
Must be one of the bigger 'small ones'?
It's the downside of banging on about "taking back control". The government (certainly a modern Conservative one) doesn't want to be in control of lots of stuff; it's difficult and dangerous. But a lot of the public don't see it that way.
Bailing out the banks was a big one. And we recently bailed out pretty much the whole economy during lockdown. There might have been some others in between.
Easy for it to seem like a normal function of government.
It'd be too much of a can of worms to step in now. Given failed businesses have already collapsed if the government stepped in to bail out the next one before it collapsed there'd be uproar about why all the others weren't saved too.
Moral hazard is a real issue and its not a bad thing that all these dodgy companies who failed to hedge have gone bust. Hopefully shareholders of other companies that sell long and buy short will stress test their business model and get hedges in place where required.
Green, with 250,000 customers, has also collapsed
https://twitter.com/emilygosden/status/1440679495183130632?s=20
My belief is misidentification, and misperception. Years ago, my slightly batty aunt, saw the ghost of a little old lady in white crossing the road near Warminster, ironically enough at a place called Dead Maids. I was following in a second car and saw a barn owl flitting across. Preconceptions matter. She was convinced of the reality of ghosts and took the flitting white thing to be that. I, brought up in the Wiltshire countryside, expect to see 'ghost' owls on a regular basis.
Quite a fiscal transfer to the private energy companies if so and I would imagine there will be some shenanigans by those smart treasury depts to ensure the revenues are maximised.
The govt was talking about 6-10 providers in the end game. How many do we have now?
Plus if I was sitting in the treasury dept of, say, EDF, I would be looking at rinsing the govt for every penny possible.
I don't see how the govt does this without huge grants to the remaining GasCos.
That's different to bailing out failed companies. The underwriting is going to a successful company offering a service not a failed one that screwed up.
Ghosts are products of the human mind. Sadly in many ways.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1017268/Report_of_the_Independent_Review_of_the_Regulation_of_BetIndex_Limited._Final_version_130921_.pdf
Summary of their findings:
Could have done better
Lessons must be learned
Updated frameworks and memorandums.
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In reality, regulators were naive and incompetent (not simply could have done better), no accountability (so why will the lessons be learnt), its being whitewashed and forgotten.
I don't know anything really about the sector, but it just doesn't seem like a good business to be in for a small company. You don't control the production, you are totally at the mercy of a market you can't control in anyway plus government caps prices, you have to deal with pain in the ass public. Doesn't seem like an easy buck opportunity.
You talk, rightly, about moral hazard but what incentive is there for consumers to make more informed choices if they are themselves bailed out of poor decisions.
The big six will survive due to their generation profits. The two green suppliers - Ecotricity and Good Energy - say that they're hedged and safe.
I don't know anything about the others.
The fact his approval rating has dipped below 50% also means the GOP are likely to retake at least the House next year in the classic midterms protest vote
Public ownership looks the way to go for retail energy supply. One entity, simple tariff, uniform stable pricing, strip out all the needless complexity.
https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2006/11/fanatics_in_the.html
https://twitter.com/Malbrunot/status/1440680486691430407
Were that on the table (without any of the extra gubbins) and we had votes on it I think the UK would (today) go for it by a clear margin. We'd see it purely as an economic and trading arrangement, and about free collaboration between independent nation states.
However, that wasn't what was on the table: we were told we had to take or leave full membership with full free movement, European citizenship and ever-closer political, legal and economic union, and ever greater EU-level legislative scope creep over national legislation, or become a satellite with no votes, or take a cold hard full exit.
We all know its federalist ideology, so it ultimately became about making a decisive break for national self-governance and we took the cold hard full exit. If the middle option was available *with* votes/ unanimity, limitations and caveats then we'd have gone for that.
I think the most likely long-term outcome of Brexit is that we end up back there in a loose outer tier of associate members after 20-30 years, once the EU and the UK have both come to their senses, and the current generation of politicians are long gone.
Losses = Socialism = Goes to the state/Redistributed across the industry
Like much of our mixed economy its a rigged game favouring capital, sometimes more than just capitalism would.
The downsides are (a) we are always "on", (b) we obsess over curating ourselves online as opposed to real-life relationships, which is bad for our mental health and leaves a lot of breadcrumbs that can come back to haunt you later and (c) we are able to be watched, filmed and tracked wherever we go.
I don't feel "free" most of the time now. I really don't.
https://www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/0e3adc0d-69f8-4a59-aaaf-2257a78f6b1f
Seriously, is there anything he can start doing and signalling that changes your mind?
https://twitter.com/TomTugendhat/status/1440563840534474759
It’s always fun to se a bust company blaming regulatory failings, for their own failure to hedge the material price at under the retail price, especially when they were selling future prices into the retail market.
Hard to see why taxpayers should be effectively subsidising the energy prices of people who signed up to below market prices with companies that couldn't deliver.
Boris Johnson, when asked about Joe Biden's concerns over the Northern Ireland protocol, told reporters: "The president actually in our meeting yesterday, I don't think it came up at all. We had a meeting of over 90 minutes & it wasn't raised."
cf. the White House readout: https://twitter.com/BBCJLandale/status/1440690141459222544/photo/1
Note New Zealand also the only nation in the Anglosphere Commonwealth realms still not to have agreed a FTA with post Brexit UK
Get-rich-quickers are going bust, and the more solid ones seem to be being supported.
And we have robust customer protection measures in place.
Markets doing their job.
Forcing energy companies to sell below cost creates more problems than it solves.
Let the free market sort itself out.
The action the govt should be taking is keeping the £20/wk UC uplift. Perhaps even raise it a bit more.
"people on one side of this dispute tend to misrepresent the other side. Rational scientists who are doubtful about Darwinism are abused. And expressions such as 'Creationism' are used to suggest that a complex, nuanced position is in fact a crude Hillbilly superstition."
and
"I am sure some supporters of ID do so for tactical reasons, and actually believe (but keep quiet about their belief) that the Genesis account of the creation of the world is literally true, and is an accurate and factual description of events - that the Earth was made in six days and is only a few thousand years old. This I, and many other Christians, do not agree with. I think the scientific evidence on the age of the planet simply contradicts this view."
https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2021/08/25/for-78-year-old-biden-not-being-trump-is-no-longer-enough/