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YouGov has Truss 3% behind Starmer as “best PM” – politicalbetting.com
YouGov has Truss 3% behind Starmer as “best PM” – politicalbetting.com
As well as the Redfield & Wilton numbers featured in the previous post the latest YouGov has Starmer 3% ahead as “best PM”.As can be seen LEAVE voters back Truss over Starmer by 48% to 16% which is interesting because since the Referendum Truss has switched from Remain to Leave
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Them's the breaks.
Schumer and Biden have done a kind of LBJ move (in the end) and got the votes to pass a bill via god knows what deals and arm twisting and pork barrel malarky.
He seems to be all over the media at the moment.
Or maybe he is just covering the shop while Sir K takes a two week holiday?
Within MoE Starmer and Liz are tied. Which does not suggest a big bounce for Liz when she takes over
Hard to tell since then. Blair-Brown was signalled massively in advance. Cameron-May was tangled up in the referendum, and May-Johnson was at a time when everything was bonkers.
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Exclusive - Ed Davey calls for ‘energy furlough scheme’ to avoid October price cap rise, *cancelling* the £1400 rise in its entirety and having govt absorb the £36bn cost (paid in part via new windfall tax)
But only if paired with a tranche of domestic energy efficiency measures.
I would agree it is sensible to direct to the low paid and those on benefits, even standard rate taxpayers but not a universal handout
Help, yes. Change the effective marginal price, no.
This LD policy would - even at first glance - sit within a European mainstream.
The US doesn’t have the same energy issue.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/mar-a-lago-search-warrant-fbi-donald-trump/index.html
I prefer to avoid serious immiseration and so for me it is simply question of what kind of bung and how much.
Davey seems to have got to the same answer, and more quickly than Keir, Rishi and Truss. They’ll all get there eventually.
The problem of not enough energy can't be solved by trying to buy more energy, or by a blank cheque that government will cover whatever price Saudis ask for (remember those? a 19th century banking technology, mlord). So someone will have to pay the cost, and if households don't have to change anything from 2021, it will be industry.
Might backfire if enough house fires are started by people who don’t know how to safely use an electric heater, though.
The difficulty with oil-filled radiators is that they are £80 rather than the £20 that the hot-wire ones cost, so the poorest families will not buy them.
The President’s loud complaint to John Kelly one day was typical: “You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?”
“Which generals?” Kelly asked.
“The German generals in World War II,” Trump responded.
“You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said.
Our oil remote radiators cost £130 each
Mind you I remember the time living in Berwick in the 1950s with no heating and getting dressed under the bed clothes in winter
Personally I find almost everywhere overheated in winter, I like an invigorating 18 degrees.
I concede that I must be cold-blooded, but wiki says that “a 1978 UK study found average indoor home temperatures to be 15.8 °C (60.4 °F) while Japan in 1980 had median home temperatures of 13 °C (55 °F) to 15 °C (59 °F)”.
But in the 80s they started putting insulation into new builds, and at least the room you're in is now usually properly heated.
In theory they'd have no reason to complain, they'd still have the contract they signed, but complain they would and it would dominate the news. Squeaky wheels always do.
And what seasons, for similar reasons.
(If they have a "smart" thermostat, they could lower the day time temperature even more, and begin a warm-up shortly before they get home, saving even more energy in the winter and, if they have air condiitoning, do the reverse in he summer.)
1.11 Liz Truss 90%
9.8 Rishi Sunak 10%
Next Conservative leader
1.11 Liz Truss 90%
10 Rishi Sunak 10%
Inflation: increase supply; growth: tax allowances for R&D and investment.
https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1555650334005026817
He needs to be beaten at the ballot box.
However, we are the exception; according to Google, about 90 percent of homes in the US now have air conditioning.
The government in Oslo on Monday announced new rules limiting the sale of power to foreign countries as heatwaves threaten Norway’s hydroelectric power generation.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/08/08/ftse-100-markets-live-news-inflation-interest-cost-living/ (£££)
Bosses at Intel to invest billions in EU instead
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-urged-to-come-up-with-microchip-strategy-5875rwlcs (£££)
Eddie Jones: Public schools’ fury as England head coach suggests privately educated players lack resilience
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/eddie-jones-public-schools-fury-as-england-head-coach-suggests-privately-educated-players-lack-resilience-9c6px2ffl (£££)
Same in politics. Vote Truss.
https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1556809096879284227?t=TxE6ffY5hTpRCu98DKjMbQ&s=19
If the goal is to secure the documents, it may not necessarily imply that they're going to try to lock up Trump.
First, assuming that this involves mishandling or unauthorized removal of classified information, their presence at Mar-a-Lago is ipso-facto evidence — in other words, the substance of the documents are not what the FBI is interested in; it’s whether they are there, period
Aiui the penalties for mishandling these government documents can include disqualification from office. Trouble is I can't find where I read that so DYOR as they say.
Based on the heuristic that the theory that disappoints the most people is probably true, I reckon maybe they're just trying to secure whatever confidential intelligence the stupid fat fuck insisted on storing at home with the golf trophies, and they're not going to try to lock him up or anything.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11093225/Tory-MP-Laura-Farris-quits-Partygate-inquiry-keeps-reason-secret-avoid-risk-prejudice.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-11093467/ALEX-BRUMMER-Greedy-bosses-betrayed-Margaret-Thatchers-privatisation-dream.html
The Brexit excuse? Privatisation was a brilliant
magic money treepolicy and it's unfair that it has all gone wrong.https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/northerners-earn-8404-less-despite-27688744
It is a lot more expensive to life in the South, partly because of the higher salaries paid there..
It's extraordinary what damage one man can do to democracy.
Then there is something I've pointed to in the past. Our utilities have been sold overseas.
I'd rather have Stuart Lancaster back than the hater of privately educated, given how much Eddie Jones hates the privately educated, he must be a shoo-in to be a Labour MP in the future.
I was leaning towards Rishi, but now I’m backing Liz
here have been a lot of twists and turns in this leadership race. It seems more than a month ago that the starting gun was fired by the prime minister’s resignation. Since then, we have had parliamentary hustings, TV debates and membership hustings — not to mention Twitter spats and WhatsApp wars.
It has been a tough campaign for everybody. There has been a lot of in-depth policy debate about the future of our party and country, much of which has been productive and insightful. And it’s important that there has been a contest, because it’s right that the candidates have been tested under pressure — we need to know that our next prime minister has what it takes to lead. But there has been a darker side to the campaign too. The blue-on-blue attacks have been bruising and have left me concerned for the good reputation of our party.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-was-leaning-towards-rishi-but-now-im-backing-liz-cjx9p3hdp
Mr. 1000, but don't heat pumps cost a small fortune to install, including potentially needing new radiators?
Long term efficiency savings at the price of massive short term cost and inconvenience is a tough sell (if we get more heat waves that will become a little easier but the cost remains substantial).
Innumerate and cynical. No comparison with the N 5 or 12 years ago, despite that being the implication of the headline. The comparison is with London.
Does the Mirror really have this level of contempt for its own readers?
On this basis, they could have said "South Easterners earn £7016 less, despite etc" - looking at the official numbers on median salary for 2021.
I’ve thought of that one for this winter…
For instance, if you said people drive older cars in the north, I could retort that you need to factor in the price of cars and that older cars are cheaper. It is true but it might be just a distraction from your main point.
Former Downing Street figures are preparing to give evidence claiming Boris Johnson misled Parliament over what he knew about the partygate scandal, The Telegraph can reveal.
This newspaper has talked to three people contacted by the committee investigating whether the Prime Minister misled MPs about what he knew about the lockdown-breaking gatherings.
All three have alleged that Mr Johnson did not give the fullest account of the facts as he knew them at the time. One has agreed to give evidence to the committee, and two others are considering likewise.
The development gives the clearest indication yet of what material Harriet Harman, the Labour chairman of the privileges committee, is starting to gather as part of her investigation.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/08/08/boris-johnson-misled-parliament-partygate-downing-street-ex/
Or, we might see the opposite. Will companies look to save money by requiring staff to work from home so the firm can save on its heating bill?
There is still a huge amount of work to do on the skill-base, and customising it correctly for each installation is not a universal skill yet. In principle an ASHP should be not much more complex to install than say a gas boiler, but we have been doing those for more than half a century. And there are more different types around - for example one currently fashionable approach is called 'hybrid heat pump', which uses a heat pump alongside another heat source eg which is more efficient at lower temperatures.
I am not sure if we are even yet at a point where one can be installed to include cooling, or if it still requires an extra diddle at maintainer access level, or a DIP switch, to un-cripple the configuration. It *was* a regulatory rule in the UK that cooling was not allowed under the Govt scheme; that may have gone.
Was X custard cousins with members of the KGB?
Also as I lagged the loft last summer the savings we made were really noticeable. It was only about a hundred quid to do as well. Added a few lap vents to minimise risk of condensation in the loft.
The majority of the Republican party enabled him even when it was quite clear what he was; the degradation of the Supreme Court is a result of a project which long predates him, which he had little or no real interest in.
He was both catalyst and figurehead, but they’d quite likely have found an alternative.
Trump is a gangster. The Fibbies and others have amassed a pile of evidence of his multi-layered RICO and yet when anyone starts to dig into this the scream political interference.
Trump should be facing 50 years in jail, not the ballot box.
That bus left some time ago.
Lock him up!
Lock him up!
Seriously America, how stupid do you have to be to have fallen for *that*
You asked for an updated on my portable air con / heat pump. I'll be testing further next weekend, but it seems effective.
Insulated air ducts are important, as for me will be properly plumbing it in through a hole in the wall - rather than using the insulated plywood piece I have made cut for a window to the conservatory whilst experimenting.
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1 - In hot weather this is quite capable of lowering my downstairs temperature by several degrees quite quickly, whilst using about 1kW+ of power. I have not had seriously hot temperatures since it arrived.
2 - The extra control via wifi is worth it for the extra £20 or so. I aim to be working to the thing coming on between 7am and 11am when the temperature is above 19C, which can be programmed.
It uses a generic App known as TUVA.
Strong average hours a week but low productivity from me this winter.
Asda ‘shaming poor families’ by putting cheap food in bright yellow packaging
Asda has defended its new budget range of items after being accused of ‘shaming’ poor people with bright yellow packaging.
The chain recently replaced Smartprice products with new Just Essentials branding, its ‘largest ever budget-friendly range’, which is intended to help shoppers combat the rising cost of living.
It includes fresh meat, fish and poultry, bakery, frozen and cupboard staples as well as washing up liquid, toilet roll, shampoo and other toiletries and household essentials.
However, the bright yellow design of the new range has led some people to claim that it stands out too much and gives ‘poverty markers’ to shoppers.
All previous Smart Price items had white packaging.
One shopper said the bright colour screams: ‘We are poor!’
Another added it suggests ‘people on lower incomes should have a basket full of poverty markers’.
But Asda said its customers were ‘loving’ the range.
https://metro.co.uk/2022/08/08/asda-shaming-poor-families-by-putting-cheap-food-in-bright-yellow-packaging-17145967/
But it is a regulated industry. So regulate the fuckers to do the strategic national infrastructure part. They won't invest otherwise so force them to do so as part of their operating license.
The 30 year failure of all governments to properly "regulate the fuckers" is the failing. Yes they should never have been flogged off abroad cheaply, but having done that they should at least have been forced to do what they need to do.
Davey's consumer politics is really just standard energy Nimbyism - "I'll make somebody pay who isn't you."
On the last point, isn't a couple of hours morning and evening just SoP?
In well insulated houses airtight houses it will take 24 hours for the house to drop by 1-2C. Quite often getting the heat out in the autumn / spring / summer is as big a problem as getting it in in the winter.
And often the place will be run as a single heating zone, with the UFH slab heating providing a buffer.