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Johnson’s government ending with just 13% saying it’s competent – politicalbetting.com
Johnson’s government ending with just 13% saying it’s competent – politicalbetting.com
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Battery owners can buy it cheap in the small hours, or on sunny/windy days and sell it back to the grid at a profit on cold, dark, still nights.
That's the theory anyway.
The crisis in schools is another thing not yet visible in the urgent in tray.
I have remarked on PB before that I've been thinking about going back into teaching for September.
We are now six weeks since my application for a DBS (I've had one before, and have moved once since, in the same Police authority).
Still nowt. Target is 14 days.
Thinking of giving up and doing summat else. Have had positive responses for potential employment from several schools, but they can't just wait for my DBS to come, with no position filled. Or not come.
Another shambles.
Thats like praising someone throwing balled up socks at the guy stabbing you repeatedly for at least having a go.
Not exactly the same as the polls we saw for weeks when Johnson took over, with him being the only candidate who can win a majority. The fact we haven't seen a VI poll with Liz as leader suggests she wouldn't be winning.
Any boost is going to be shortcoming unless she gets a grip on CoL.
Everything is creaking
I would quite happily scrap DBS entirely. I don't think it ever gives an answer that affects employment.
I am not sure what happens for commercial generators, I assume they agree a contract price with the National Grid.
Many parts of the UK have experienced sweltering temperatures and a lack of rain over the last few weeks, making the ground very dry and more susceptible to flooding."
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-weather-parts-of-devon-and-cornwall-hit-by-heavy-rain-and-flooding-as-thunderstorms-begin-12673967
When Hinckley Point C comes on board then - given that also has guaranteed purchase price agreements - that may change.
Varying price of electricity != useless excess power.
The shortage of school bus drivers here is so acute that they have twice sent out postcards to everyone in my district (one of the larger ones in the state) advertising for help. As I recall, they were offering free training, benefits, and about 32 dollars an hour.
We need peaks and troughs of emotion or it's just exhausting and lacks any weight because it's not even real.
Got a PGCE and a clean criminal record. All I'm asking is that they say I have a clean criminal record. How hard is that?
I guess we could export any excess.
It was October before he got reliable election winning polling
Coire Glas, which is by far the biggest project at about 1.5GW, is moving at quite a pace now, and the Great Glen Way diversion (which is the big prerequisite and which had been the hold up) is due to open later this month.
It certainly is not morals or new information which provokes MPs to remove their leader.
It's also self proving - since MPs do not rebel like that under a competent leader, even if one liked him as PM he was no longer leading the party competently.
New commercial solar installations do not. Historic ones do.
[*] conveniently, imbalance shows up as the frequency shifting away from 50Hz so it's very easy to track.
It makes sense to pump the water up the hill - it's safe, reliable, and environmentally friendly. It just doesn't seem to be very rewarding financially (to me).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2019_United_Kingdom_general_election#2019
One 1% Labour lead versus 14 Tory leads of between 1 % and 14% in that first month of PM Boris.
Hard to credit now, of course.
https://youtu.be/cre0in5n-1E
"In the United States, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP),[1] formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a federal program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people. It is a federal aid program, administered by the United States Department of Agriculture under the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), though benefits are distributed by specific departments of U.S. states (e.g. Division of Social Services, Department of Health and Human Services, etc.).
SNAP benefits supplied roughly 40 million Americans in 2018, at an expenditure of $57.1 billion.[2][3] Approximately 9.2% of American households obtained SNAP benefits at some point during 2017, with approximately 16.7% of all children living in households with SNAP benefits.[2] Beneficiaries and costs increased sharply with the Great Recession, peaked in 2013 and have declined through 2017 as the economy recovered.[2] It is the largest nutrition program of the 15 administered by FNS and is a key component of the social safety net for low-income Americans."
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program
Although it won't, unless amended, help poorer families with food inflation, it will continue to reduce the amount they spend on food.
Perhaps something similar might help with your soaring energy costs?
(I occasionally see scandals in the program; typically a recipient will trade benefits to a small grocery store for about 50 per cent of their cash value..
@Luckyguy1983 Isn't the problem with pumped water storage that it's very expensive to build?
He did not get reliable solid majority winning polling till October. Much of the first months polling was in the 20s, it was a flaccid initial bounce, but it was still a bounce
By stuff, I mean everything, pretty much. Cost of living and inflation, of course. Applying for a passport. Booking a driving test. Stopping small boats crossing the Channel. Arresting and prosecuting criminals quickly and successfully. Resolving industrial disputes on the railways and elsewhere. Getting your hip replacement in a reasonably time. Finding an NHS dentist. Getting a GP appointment. Getting a prompt DBS check.
I could go on - there's lots more. But when the basic functions of government are in disarray, it's hardly surprising that folk don't think it's competent.
We only use about 4 to 6 kWh overnight in the summer.
Assume 6kWh at a future 50p per unit, that's £3 per day for maybe 150 days of the year = £450 per year for batteries that cost £5k+ and last for 10 years. Not a good payback.
In the winter of course we use a lot more electricity overnight (air source heat pump heating) but I doubt we generate enough spare PV electricity during the day to charge the battery.
(If someone could invent a cheap 10,000 kWh battery I'd be interested.)
Ditto questions like do you trust this or that politician or politicians in general? The psychologically steered answer is No! Because this implies you're a shrewdie not easily fooled, which most people identify as.
This wise old owl stuff having been said, of course in the case of THIS government and Boris Johnson any member of the public who detects any competence or trustworthiness at all needs their head examined.
From here, the necessary votes are going to be much harder to chisel at.
1.1 Liz Truss 91%
11 Rishi Sunak 9%
Next Conservative leader
1.09 Liz Truss 92%
11 Rishi Sunak 9%
It’s Blairism back again
I think I have done a poor job of explaining how the purchase price agreements for renewables, the renewable levy and the electricity markets work together.
Let us imagine that you have a 1MW solar plant that was guaranteed £100/MWh for any energy it produces.
What happens is that the power is sold to electricity retailers at whatever the prevailing price of electricity is. So, it might be £10/MWh if there are massive amounts of renewables being generated and demand is low, or it might be £250/MWh if demand is high, and gas is the marginal generating plant.
To ensure that the generator gets £100 irrespective of the underlying energy price, the government enters into contract-for-difference transactions. I.e., it agrees to pay the different between the market price and the contracted rate.
This means that pumped storage firms are paying £10/MWh for power (if that is the prevailing price) irrespective of the purchase price guarantees from the government.
The reason why electricity bills contain the renewable levy is to compensate the government for the losses on the contracts-for-difference they have taken out. However, right now, they are mostly making money because (due to the very high prices of coal and natural gas) the intraday floor has been above the guaranteed prices in most occasions. It could therefore - and probably should therefore - be suspended.
I think she needs (if no big bounce early election) to fight to try and get a result of ca 38% each and 280 seats or so so its one heave back after a weak labour minority for a term. Thats the best i can see them doing unless a freak bounce occurs.
* They might soon lol
It is also worth noting that the government is currently making good money, because the wholesale price of electricity has been well above purchase price agreements.
Talking of which - we have to pay availability payments to CCGT, OCGT and engine set operators to sit there doing nothing so that they can fire up when there is no sun or wind.
The whole generating system is a bit of a bugger's muddle. And coming soon, the dispatchable power agreement for power plants with carbon capture.
I just checked and the per hour pay is just under 31 dollars an hour -- but the benefits are probably worth another 10. Their web site is a little obscure, but I think both full and part time work are available:
Lake Washington School District: https://www.lwsd.org/
If I read that schedule correctly on my quick click-through, beginning teachers start at about 56K a year
Housing costs are high in this area, though.
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Thoughts and prayers with the anti-Labour "left" as they see Keir do something smart for working people...
https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1559244975854030849
(I haven't done the sums but there's a lot of sea out there.)
Short term, yes this government has royally fucked up on this as on so many things. It's not irretrievable though.
No one other than Mogg and Hannan will give a flying f*ck about brexit after the next two winters.
TM screwed up badly in quite a few areas but canning tidal was surely one of the worst.
Hasn't she already promised CoTE to around ten different no- hopers?