Two thirds of CON members don’t think there’s a climate emergency – politicalbetting.com
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Because of the centralisation of social media ownewrship? You didn't get Master Printer Muske owning 50% of the printing shops in London.LostPassword said:
The confusing thing is that social media doesn't sound a million miles different from the early days of printing, with all sorts of mad things being printed, the same disregard for fact and the preference for what was slanderous and exciting, and democracy was born from that tumult.Gardenwalker said:A very sane father of a friend of mine, former Labour Party member, and (now retired) self-made entrepreneur, now believes that global warming is caused by underwater volcanoes.
Social media is a cancer on our democracy.
So why is it different with social media now?0 -
Already are. Had a text from my bank upping the rate to a very acceptable one.Alanbrooke said:TheScreamingEagles said:
Excellent news for savers.Alanbrooke said:Interest rates op quarter a percent
We’ve been persecuted for too long whilst mortgage holders have had it easy for the last 15 years.
What chance do you think the banks will pass this on to savers ?1 -
Hilarious to hear Sunak is a wet. Stewart, Heseltine and Clarke are wets. Hammond, Johnson, May, centrists. Sunak, Truss dries.Luckyguy1983 said:...
It is, once again though, Sunak's wet faction fixing it up for their guy (don't mention the groping allegations), then that falling through with the inevitable outcome. It's the leadership election all over again - Sunak's team used his early favourite status to contribute votes and knock everyone except the weakest candidate out; then the Tory membership wisely saw that he was even shitter than Truss and voted for her. We got Truss because of Sunak. We got Susan Hall because of Sunak.noneoftheabove said:
Unless there are some unknown things about Paul Scully, very weird he didn't even make the shortlist. I think he would have had a decent chance.Stuartinromford said:
The theory of Boris's mayorality was that Boris could do the cheerleading and appoint capable minions to do the admin for him. How much that worked is a question for the history books. Quite a bit of what came out of Boris's mind was sizzle-without-sausage which no minion could make work, no matter how capable.noneoftheabove said:
MoL is a weird job. Ideally you need a mix of Boris and a really good administrator, which ain't going to happen. Split the role in two somehow with a Cheerleader for London and an Administrator for London.NickPalmer said:
Like all generalisations that doesn't quite hold - I know several people, not all regularly Labour, who like him. The usual reason given is "a serious guy who has a positive agenda, unlike Boris". All of them strongly disapprove of Starmer's attempt to push him, and want him to say "sod off, Keir, I'm running London and we need clean air".Leon said:
I've yet to meet an actual Sadiq Khan VOTER - as in someone who openly and avowedly says "Oh yes I'm voting for him". Most people say Meh, what a boring jerk. The full-on haters really hate him. A small minority say "Oh well he';s not great but I might have to"Casino_Royale said:FPT - I've yet to meet anyone who respects Sadiq Khan.
I know a couple of New Labour SPADs who laughed out loud when I mentioned his name, and a few people in business who'd met him who said he was completely barking.
I think even the people who vote for him do so with clothes pegs on their nose.
Yet he's apparently coasting to victory again
I am sure I live in something of an ethnic bubble, more white than most of London, but that bubble is politically diverse from UKIP Brexiteers to plenty of lefties (of all classes)
I cannot find an enthusiastic Khan voter. He is eminently beatable and it is pathetic that the Tories have not found anyone to do it
Anecdata, I know. I think there is a structural problem - the Mayoral office is mostly motivational rather than policy-focused, so you really need a bit of rah-rah-London-is-great stuff, which isn't Sadiq's style. But he'll still beat the Tory candidate by a country mile.
Sadiq, on the other hand, is boring. And whilst we need more boring overall, you can have too much of a good thing in one place.
But the impossible question is- who is this paragon who wants the job of London Mayor and is capable of winning it? I don't see anyone who wants it on the centre-left, or is capable of winning it from the centre-right. And the Conservatives have trapped themselves shouting to themselves in Zone 6.
So Sadiq, who is the word "meh" given human flesh, keeps on going.
The Tory Party has a settled pro-Britain view, and a settled views on the desirability of low taxes and a small state. The wets need to stop hijacking the Tory party, and go and start a new party to get a mandate for the policies they espouse, and see how many people flock to their cause. I understand the name 'Change UK' may be available.4 -
Since more than half of car journeys are less than 3 miles, and 70% are less than 5 miles, a low electric range can cover a huge percentage of journeys.Miklosvar said:
Yes, I have only just realised what a complete scam they are. A PHEV range rover has 1.5x the diesel capacity of my actual diesel pickup. And goes about 300 yards on electric.Nigelb said:
That's rubbish, since (for a start) PHEVs will continue to be manufactured.Miklosvar said:Multiply the Titanic by Brexit by the Scotch parliament building by DRS by the groundnut scheme
Square the result
Square the result again
The number you have arrived at is invisible next to the clusterfuck that the no new ICE cars by 2030 plan is going to be. Buy a diesel truck, a 20,000 litre diesel storage tank, and a shotgun for the defence of both.
Secondhand or Mew PHEVs are, and will to be, a very good option for a LOT of people, especially given electric tariffs that only provide 3-4 hours of very cheap overnight electricity, solar panels and the British climate, or granny (ie 3 kW or 7kW) chargers being the most universal.
eg a Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV provides 30-40 miles of electric, which is practically 25-40.
It's really covering the same range slot as an Electric Quadricycle, but with a larger vehicle, Plan B, and more load options.4 -
On the technological fix front, I see there is still quite a lot of excitement over the potential high temperature superconductor LK-99. It has been confirmed to be superconducting by a second group, albeit at a lower temperature.
If this turns out to be real and manufacturable (a big IF admittedly) then a lot of (if not all) energy problems magically vanish.
It really would be a Big Deal.
Buy lead futures.3 -
Most of them are expensive and complicated, make sense only as a company car for the BIK discount. They used to be exempt from the London congestion charge but aren’t any more. You really don’t want to own one out of warranty, they’ll be expensive to maintain.Miklosvar said:
Yes, I have only just realised what a complete scam they are. A PHEV range rover has 1.5x the diesel capacity of my actual diesel pickup. And goes about 300 yards on electric.Nigelb said:
That's rubbish, since (for a start) PHEVs will continue to be manufactured.Miklosvar said:Multiply the Titanic by Brexit by the Scotch parliament building by DRS by the groundnut scheme
Square the result
Square the result again
The number you have arrived at is invisible next to the clusterfuck that the no new ICE cars by 2030 plan is going to be. Buy a diesel truck, a 20,000 litre diesel storage tank, and a shotgun for the defence of both.0 -
coughcoughonlinesafetybillcoughcoughwilliamglenn said:
If democracy requires control of the flow of information received by voters, is it really democracy?Gardenwalker said:A very sane father of a friend of mine, former Labour Party member, and (now retired) self-made entrepreneur, now believes that global warming is caused by underwater volcanoes.
Social media is a cancer on our democracy.
You will be surprised by how many people on PB will defend it, and you will be one of them. Everybody says they want free speech, then somebody says things they dislike and they ban it. What do you think "Free speech not hate speech" means?0 -
Trump's former attorney general.
Barr: “You read through the indictment & his behavior & it's nauseating. It's despicable behavior. Whether it's criminal or not, someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process fundamental to our system & self-government shouldn't be anywhere near the Oval Office.”
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1687053886400454656
But he'll still probably vote for him if he's the nominee.
Sums up the GOP.1 -
You can get over 6% on a 1 year fix all over the shop, unless "the banks" just means Coutts and the TSB to you.Alanbrooke said:TheScreamingEagles said:
Excellent news for savers.Alanbrooke said:Interest rates op quarter a percent
We’ve been persecuted for too long whilst mortgage holders have had it easy for the last 15 years.
What chance do you think the banks will pass this on to savers ?
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Did they ask if he will be voting for him......Nigelb said:Trump's former attorney general.
Barr: “You read through the indictment & his behavior & it's nauseating. It's despicable behavior. Whether it's criminal or not, someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process fundamental to our system & self-government shouldn't be anywhere near the Oval Office.”
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You have to feel sorry for @Leon, banished by the Gazette to report on some godforsaken war zone, General Melchett-style, miles from the front line, which means he has completely missed the tech hype bubble switch from AI to superconductors, from ChatGPT to LK-77.Flatlander said:On the technological fix front, I see there is still quite a lot of excitement over the potential high temperature superconductor LK-99
If this turns out to be real and manufacturable (a big IF admittedly) then a lot of (if not all) energy problems magically vanish.
It really would be a Big Deal.
Buy lead futures.0 -
He was referring to savings accounts, not mortgage loans. Unless you were referring to a savings account, in which case linky please?Miklosvar said:
You can get over 6% on a 1 year fix all over the shop, unless "the banks" just means Coutts and the TSB to you.Alanbrooke said:TheScreamingEagles said:
Excellent news for savers.Alanbrooke said:Interest rates op quarter a percent
We’ve been persecuted for too long whilst mortgage holders have had it easy for the last 15 years.
What chance do you think the banks will pass this on to savers ?0 -
Ah, but just think how good the AI will be powered by a room-temperature superconducting quantum computer.DecrepiterJohnL said:
You have to feel sorry for @Leon, banished by the Gazette to report on some godforsaken war zone, General Melchett-style, miles from the front line, which means he has completely missed the tech hype bubble switch from AI to superconductors, from ChatGPT to LK-77.Flatlander said:On the technological fix front, I see there is still quite a lot of excitement over the potential high temperature superconductor LK-99
If this turns out to be real and manufacturable (a big IF admittedly) then a lot of (if not all) energy problems magically vanish.
It really would be a Big Deal.
Buy lead futures.
It will break all current classical encryption without breaking into a sweat.1 -
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/savings-accounts-best-interest/viewcode said:
He was referring to savings accounts, not mortgage loans. Unless you were referring to a savings account, in which case linky please?Miklosvar said:
You can get over 6% on a 1 year fix all over the shop, unless "the banks" just means Coutts and the TSB to you.Alanbrooke said:TheScreamingEagles said:
Excellent news for savers.Alanbrooke said:Interest rates op quarter a percent
We’ve been persecuted for too long whilst mortgage holders have had it easy for the last 15 years.
What chance do you think the banks will pass this on to savers ?
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It seems fairly unlikely that this will be immediately (or even anytime) usable for large scale power transmission - but even as a proof of principle, if it pans out, it's very exciting.Flatlander said:On the technological fix front, I see there is still quite a lot of excitement over the potential high temperature superconductor LK-99. It has been confirmed to be superconducting by a second group, albeit at a lower temperature.
If this turns out to be real and manufacturable (a big IF admittedly) then a lot of (if not all) energy problems magically vanish.
It really would be a Big Deal.
Buy lead futures.
Sell helium futures.1 -
See my edit.noneoftheabove said:
Did they ask if he will be voting for him......Nigelb said:Trump's former attorney general.
Barr: “You read through the indictment & his behavior & it's nauseating. It's despicable behavior. Whether it's criminal or not, someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process fundamental to our system & self-government shouldn't be anywhere near the Oval Office.”
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/16870538864004546560 -
Thank youMiklosvar said:
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/savings-accounts-best-interest/viewcode said:
He was referring to savings accounts, not mortgage loans. Unless you were referring to a savings account, in which case linky please?Miklosvar said:
You can get over 6% on a 1 year fix all over the shop, unless "the banks" just means Coutts and the TSB to you.Alanbrooke said:TheScreamingEagles said:
Excellent news for savers.Alanbrooke said:Interest rates op quarter a percent
We’ve been persecuted for too long whilst mortgage holders have had it easy for the last 15 years.
What chance do you think the banks will pass this on to savers ?0 -
He didn't, Gove did approve a new coalmine in Cumbria howeverMalmesbury said:
While Corbyn actually said he wanted to reopen coal mines....HYUFD said:
Cameron, May and even Boris were pro action on climate change, pro net zero and Boris put forward the petrol cars ban.Nigelb said:NickPalmer said:I was talking to a member deep in the selection process in a winnable seat - one applicant is really majoring on climate change, another is focusing on aid for victims of scandals (Post Office, Hillsborough, etc.). She's leaning to the first as she thinks that, with NHS and cost of living, that will be the key theme in the election. But I wonder if it is (I'm not sure that victims will be either, sadly). People who agree it's happening and important are already not voting Tory, whereas for cost of living the position is less clear-cut, so perhaps we should be focusing on that?
Conversely, Sunak seems to be pursuing a core vote strategy to fight the looking wall of Tory abstentions - "we might lose but let's motivate the remaining supporters to actually vote".
What we're seeing here is how the right blames the left for their own foolishness.Casino_Royale said:So over 2/3rd of Conservative members do believe climate change is caused by humans and almost 90% think it's real?
Margaret Thatcher first alerted the world to its dangers. Decades ago. Because she understood the science. All Conservatives revere her and should understand that. But she was practical too.
What we're seeing here is the consequences of allowing this issue to be entirely captured by the activist Left, which fuels polarisation.
The Tories have been in power for the last decade - how and why is "the activist left" setting their agenda ?
However the left via Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion have overreached and Sunak has seen an opportunity post Uxbridge and is now pushing a more pro motorist and pro oil and gas agenda
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-34398851
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/07/uk-first-new-coalmine-for-30-years-gets-go-ahead-in-cumbria1 -
Trump needs to be growing potatoes on a prison farm in Minnesota for the rest of his life, with one of those mad Usonian totted-up prison sentences that comes to 276 years or so. IMO.Nigelb said:Trump's former attorney general.
Barr: “You read through the indictment & his behavior & it's nauseating. It's despicable behavior. Whether it's criminal or not, someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process fundamental to our system & self-government shouldn't be anywhere near the Oval Office.”
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1687053886400454656
But he'll still probably vote for him if he's the nominee.
Sums up the GOP.1 -
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Hopefully you can recover from this bout of hilarity long enough to tell me anything vaguely 'dry' that Sunak has done with his Premiership.noneoftheabove said:
Hilarious to hear Sunak is a wet. Stewart, Heseltine and Clarke are wets. Hammond, Johnson, May, centrists. Sunak, Truss dries.Luckyguy1983 said:...
It is, once again though, Sunak's wet faction fixing it up for their guy (don't mention the groping allegations), then that falling through with the inevitable outcome. It's the leadership election all over again - Sunak's team used his early favourite status to contribute votes and knock everyone except the weakest candidate out; then the Tory membership wisely saw that he was even shitter than Truss and voted for her. We got Truss because of Sunak. We got Susan Hall because of Sunak.noneoftheabove said:
Unless there are some unknown things about Paul Scully, very weird he didn't even make the shortlist. I think he would have had a decent chance.Stuartinromford said:
The theory of Boris's mayorality was that Boris could do the cheerleading and appoint capable minions to do the admin for him. How much that worked is a question for the history books. Quite a bit of what came out of Boris's mind was sizzle-without-sausage which no minion could make work, no matter how capable.noneoftheabove said:
MoL is a weird job. Ideally you need a mix of Boris and a really good administrator, which ain't going to happen. Split the role in two somehow with a Cheerleader for London and an Administrator for London.NickPalmer said:
Like all generalisations that doesn't quite hold - I know several people, not all regularly Labour, who like him. The usual reason given is "a serious guy who has a positive agenda, unlike Boris". All of them strongly disapprove of Starmer's attempt to push him, and want him to say "sod off, Keir, I'm running London and we need clean air".Leon said:
I've yet to meet an actual Sadiq Khan VOTER - as in someone who openly and avowedly says "Oh yes I'm voting for him". Most people say Meh, what a boring jerk. The full-on haters really hate him. A small minority say "Oh well he';s not great but I might have to"Casino_Royale said:FPT - I've yet to meet anyone who respects Sadiq Khan.
I know a couple of New Labour SPADs who laughed out loud when I mentioned his name, and a few people in business who'd met him who said he was completely barking.
I think even the people who vote for him do so with clothes pegs on their nose.
Yet he's apparently coasting to victory again
I am sure I live in something of an ethnic bubble, more white than most of London, but that bubble is politically diverse from UKIP Brexiteers to plenty of lefties (of all classes)
I cannot find an enthusiastic Khan voter. He is eminently beatable and it is pathetic that the Tories have not found anyone to do it
Anecdata, I know. I think there is a structural problem - the Mayoral office is mostly motivational rather than policy-focused, so you really need a bit of rah-rah-London-is-great stuff, which isn't Sadiq's style. But he'll still beat the Tory candidate by a country mile.
Sadiq, on the other hand, is boring. And whilst we need more boring overall, you can have too much of a good thing in one place.
But the impossible question is- who is this paragon who wants the job of London Mayor and is capable of winning it? I don't see anyone who wants it on the centre-left, or is capable of winning it from the centre-right. And the Conservatives have trapped themselves shouting to themselves in Zone 6.
So Sadiq, who is the word "meh" given human flesh, keeps on going.
The Tory Party has a settled pro-Britain view, and a settled views on the desirability of low taxes and a small state. The wets need to stop hijacking the Tory party, and go and start a new party to get a mandate for the policies they espouse, and see how many people flock to their cause. I understand the name 'Change UK' may be available.0 -
The Lady's not for (Global) Burning.TheScreamingEagles said:Mrs Thatcher would be disgusted.
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Khan is relatively popular in London. Whether that’s him or the favourable Labour brand, who knows?
Despite Uxbridge, Tories are toast here in this great city. I’d be surprised if they win more that 10 seats here.0 -
which.co.uk is also worth checking; I look at both; but it might be an idea to wait a day or three to give the banks tyime to respond. Looks as if Shawbrook got their retaliation in first - upped at least one account on 1 August.viewcode said:
Thank youMiklosvar said:
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/savings-accounts-best-interest/viewcode said:
He was referring to savings accounts, not mortgage loans. Unless you were referring to a savings account, in which case linky please?Miklosvar said:
You can get over 6% on a 1 year fix all over the shop, unless "the banks" just means Coutts and the TSB to you.Alanbrooke said:TheScreamingEagles said:
Excellent news for savers.Alanbrooke said:Interest rates op quarter a percent
We’ve been persecuted for too long whilst mortgage holders have had it easy for the last 15 years.
What chance do you think the banks will pass this on to savers ?1 -
And thank you tooCarnyx said:
which.co.uk is also worth checking; I look at both; but it might be an idea to wait a day or three to give the banks tyime to respond. Looks as if Shawbrook got their retaliation in first - upped at least one account on 1 August.viewcode said:
Thank youMiklosvar said:
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/savings-accounts-best-interest/viewcode said:
He was referring to savings accounts, not mortgage loans. Unless you were referring to a savings account, in which case linky please?Miklosvar said:
You can get over 6% on a 1 year fix all over the shop, unless "the banks" just means Coutts and the TSB to you.Alanbrooke said:TheScreamingEagles said:
Excellent news for savers.Alanbrooke said:Interest rates op quarter a percent
We’ve been persecuted for too long whilst mortgage holders have had it easy for the last 15 years.
What chance do you think the banks will pass this on to savers ?1 -
Rereading The Making of the Atomic Bomb, I'm struck just how anti-commerce (not even plain uncommercial) tended to be the culture of British science, pre-WWII.
And of course after WWII we had no money.
Arguably that explains much about our economy today.0 -
I wouldn't trust him with my spuds.MattW said:
Trump needs to be growing potatoes on a prison farm in Minnesota for the rest of his life, with one of those mad Usonian totted-up prison sentences that comes to 276 years or so. IMO.Nigelb said:Trump's former attorney general.
Barr: “You read through the indictment & his behavior & it's nauseating. It's despicable behavior. Whether it's criminal or not, someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process fundamental to our system & self-government shouldn't be anywhere near the Oval Office.”
https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1687053886400454656
But he'll still probably vote for him if he's the nominee.
Sums up the GOP.1 -
Power transmission is a tiny tiny part of what you could do with such a substance. It would be an total and utter revolution.Nigelb said:
It seems fairly unlikely that this will be immediately (or even anytime) usable for large scale power transmission - but even as a proof of principle, if it pans out, it's very exciting.Flatlander said:On the technological fix front, I see there is still quite a lot of excitement over the potential high temperature superconductor LK-99. It has been confirmed to be superconducting by a second group, albeit at a lower temperature.
If this turns out to be real and manufacturable (a big IF admittedly) then a lot of (if not all) energy problems magically vanish.
It really would be a Big Deal.
Buy lead futures.
Sell helium futures.
Shame it is probably "50 years" in the future, like fusion power (which it would of course enable).
Also sell neodymium futures.2 -
That's allegedly feedstock rather than energy in general. Specialist coal for steelmaking. BUT "The vast majority of the coal produced will be for export, as most UK steel producers have rejected the use of the coal, which is high in sulphur and surplus to their needs."HYUFD said:
He didn't, Gove did approve a new coalmine in Cumbria howeverMalmesbury said:
While Corbyn actually said he wanted to reopen coal mines....HYUFD said:
Cameron, May and even Boris were pro action on climate change, pro net zero and Boris put forward the petrol cars ban.Nigelb said:NickPalmer said:I was talking to a member deep in the selection process in a winnable seat - one applicant is really majoring on climate change, another is focusing on aid for victims of scandals (Post Office, Hillsborough, etc.). She's leaning to the first as she thinks that, with NHS and cost of living, that will be the key theme in the election. But I wonder if it is (I'm not sure that victims will be either, sadly). People who agree it's happening and important are already not voting Tory, whereas for cost of living the position is less clear-cut, so perhaps we should be focusing on that?
Conversely, Sunak seems to be pursuing a core vote strategy to fight the looking wall of Tory abstentions - "we might lose but let's motivate the remaining supporters to actually vote".
What we're seeing here is how the right blames the left for their own foolishness.Casino_Royale said:So over 2/3rd of Conservative members do believe climate change is caused by humans and almost 90% think it's real?
Margaret Thatcher first alerted the world to its dangers. Decades ago. Because she understood the science. All Conservatives revere her and should understand that. But she was practical too.
What we're seeing here is the consequences of allowing this issue to be entirely captured by the activist Left, which fuels polarisation.
The Tories have been in power for the last decade - how and why is "the activist left" setting their agenda ?
However the left via Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion have overreached and Sunak has seen an opportunity post Uxbridge and is now pushing a more pro motorist and pro oil and gas agenda
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-34398851
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/07/uk-first-new-coalmine-for-30-years-gets-go-ahead-in-cumbria
Not much help to UK indistry there. Great for competitors.0 -
Wilkos enter administration0
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Help to the Cumbrians who will get well paid jobs thereCarnyx said:
That's allegedly feedstock rather than energy in general. Specialist coal for steelmaking. BUT "The vast majority of the coal produced will be for export, as most UK steel producers have rejected the use of the coal, which is high in sulphur and surplus to their needs."HYUFD said:
He didn't, Gove did approve a new coalmine in Cumbria howeverMalmesbury said:
While Corbyn actually said he wanted to reopen coal mines....HYUFD said:
Cameron, May and even Boris were pro action on climate change, pro net zero and Boris put forward the petrol cars ban.Nigelb said:NickPalmer said:I was talking to a member deep in the selection process in a winnable seat - one applicant is really majoring on climate change, another is focusing on aid for victims of scandals (Post Office, Hillsborough, etc.). She's leaning to the first as she thinks that, with NHS and cost of living, that will be the key theme in the election. But I wonder if it is (I'm not sure that victims will be either, sadly). People who agree it's happening and important are already not voting Tory, whereas for cost of living the position is less clear-cut, so perhaps we should be focusing on that?
Conversely, Sunak seems to be pursuing a core vote strategy to fight the looking wall of Tory abstentions - "we might lose but let's motivate the remaining supporters to actually vote".
What we're seeing here is how the right blames the left for their own foolishness.Casino_Royale said:So over 2/3rd of Conservative members do believe climate change is caused by humans and almost 90% think it's real?
Margaret Thatcher first alerted the world to its dangers. Decades ago. Because she understood the science. All Conservatives revere her and should understand that. But she was practical too.
What we're seeing here is the consequences of allowing this issue to be entirely captured by the activist Left, which fuels polarisation.
The Tories have been in power for the last decade - how and why is "the activist left" setting their agenda ?
However the left via Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion have overreached and Sunak has seen an opportunity post Uxbridge and is now pushing a more pro motorist and pro oil and gas agenda
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-34398851
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/07/uk-first-new-coalmine-for-30-years-gets-go-ahead-in-cumbria
Not much help to UK indistry there. Great for competitors.1 -
DAMMIT!RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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WrongHYUFD said:
He didn't, Gove did approve a new coalmine in Cumbria howeverMalmesbury said:
While Corbyn actually said he wanted to reopen coal mines....HYUFD said:
Cameron, May and even Boris were pro action on climate change, pro net zero and Boris put forward the petrol cars ban.Nigelb said:NickPalmer said:I was talking to a member deep in the selection process in a winnable seat - one applicant is really majoring on climate change, another is focusing on aid for victims of scandals (Post Office, Hillsborough, etc.). She's leaning to the first as she thinks that, with NHS and cost of living, that will be the key theme in the election. But I wonder if it is (I'm not sure that victims will be either, sadly). People who agree it's happening and important are already not voting Tory, whereas for cost of living the position is less clear-cut, so perhaps we should be focusing on that?
Conversely, Sunak seems to be pursuing a core vote strategy to fight the looking wall of Tory abstentions - "we might lose but let's motivate the remaining supporters to actually vote".
What we're seeing here is how the right blames the left for their own foolishness.Casino_Royale said:So over 2/3rd of Conservative members do believe climate change is caused by humans and almost 90% think it's real?
Margaret Thatcher first alerted the world to its dangers. Decades ago. Because she understood the science. All Conservatives revere her and should understand that. But she was practical too.
What we're seeing here is the consequences of allowing this issue to be entirely captured by the activist Left, which fuels polarisation.
The Tories have been in power for the last decade - how and why is "the activist left" setting their agenda ?
However the left via Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion have overreached and Sunak has seen an opportunity post Uxbridge and is now pushing a more pro motorist and pro oil and gas agenda
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-34398851
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/07/uk-first-new-coalmine-for-30-years-gets-go-ahead-in-cumbria
NEAR THE END OF 2015, Britain's last deep coal mine, Kellingley, in North Yorkshire, saw its last shift of workers come up from underground. In an interview earlier that year, while running to be leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn raised the idea of reopening some of Britain's collieries
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-923X.13000#:~:text=Corbyn and the coal mines,-NEAR THE END&text=In an interview earlier that,we can develop coal technology.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/labour-leadership-contender-jeremy-corbyn-98174110 -
Aw shucks.viewcode said:
And thank you tooCarnyx said:
which.co.uk is also worth checking; I look at both; but it might be an idea to wait a day or three to give the banks tyime to respond. Looks as if Shawbrook got their retaliation in first - upped at least one account on 1 August.viewcode said:
Thank youMiklosvar said:
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/savings/savings-accounts-best-interest/viewcode said:
He was referring to savings accounts, not mortgage loans. Unless you were referring to a savings account, in which case linky please?Miklosvar said:
You can get over 6% on a 1 year fix all over the shop, unless "the banks" just means Coutts and the TSB to you.Alanbrooke said:TheScreamingEagles said:
Excellent news for savers.Alanbrooke said:Interest rates op quarter a percent
We’ve been persecuted for too long whilst mortgage holders have had it easy for the last 15 years.
What chance do you think the banks will pass this on to savers ?
The interesting change in bank accounts is the rise in limited access accounts - sort of in between unlimited access, and fixed term with penalty for withdrawal. Often get missed out of such reports, but worth a look. But IANAE so DYOR.2 -
I shop there! Obviously not often enough! Christ, the high street is being gutted!viewcode said:
DAMMIT!RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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The surprise is surely that it has taken this long.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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Sure, they'll get jobs. But during the arguments over it, Mr Gove et al stressed how important it was for steelmaking, with the clear implication it was for UK industry.HYUFD said:
Help to the Cumbrians who will get well paid jobs thereCarnyx said:
That's allegedly feedstock rather than energy in general. Specialist coal for steelmaking. BUT "The vast majority of the coal produced will be for export, as most UK steel producers have rejected the use of the coal, which is high in sulphur and surplus to their needs."HYUFD said:
He didn't, Gove did approve a new coalmine in Cumbria howeverMalmesbury said:
While Corbyn actually said he wanted to reopen coal mines....HYUFD said:
Cameron, May and even Boris were pro action on climate change, pro net zero and Boris put forward the petrol cars ban.Nigelb said:NickPalmer said:I was talking to a member deep in the selection process in a winnable seat - one applicant is really majoring on climate change, another is focusing on aid for victims of scandals (Post Office, Hillsborough, etc.). She's leaning to the first as she thinks that, with NHS and cost of living, that will be the key theme in the election. But I wonder if it is (I'm not sure that victims will be either, sadly). People who agree it's happening and important are already not voting Tory, whereas for cost of living the position is less clear-cut, so perhaps we should be focusing on that?
Conversely, Sunak seems to be pursuing a core vote strategy to fight the looking wall of Tory abstentions - "we might lose but let's motivate the remaining supporters to actually vote".
What we're seeing here is how the right blames the left for their own foolishness.Casino_Royale said:So over 2/3rd of Conservative members do believe climate change is caused by humans and almost 90% think it's real?
Margaret Thatcher first alerted the world to its dangers. Decades ago. Because she understood the science. All Conservatives revere her and should understand that. But she was practical too.
What we're seeing here is the consequences of allowing this issue to be entirely captured by the activist Left, which fuels polarisation.
The Tories have been in power for the last decade - how and why is "the activist left" setting their agenda ?
However the left via Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion have overreached and Sunak has seen an opportunity post Uxbridge and is now pushing a more pro motorist and pro oil and gas agenda
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-34398851
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/07/uk-first-new-coalmine-for-30-years-gets-go-ahead-in-cumbria
Not much help to UK indistry there. Great for competitors.1 -
At a guess, I'd imagine they've been negatively affected byRochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
a) being in town centres, thus carrying high rents and rates and facing competition from B&M, Homebargains etc
b) competition from Amazon
c) debt interest
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Never heard of them but 12,000 jobs apparently. not good.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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I swear to God I'm a bloody jinx! Every shop I go to falls to bits! How is Boots doing? Is that going to collapse as well?Flatlander said:
The surprise is surely that it has taken this long.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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The high st will be replaced with much needed homes. Its not a bad thing....viewcode said:
I shop there! Obviously not often enough! Christ, the high street is being gutted!viewcode said:
DAMMIT!RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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My daughters don't shop on the High Street - despite my wife dragging them round the stores etc..viewcode said:
I shop there! Obviously not often enough! Christ, the high street is being gutted!viewcode said:
DAMMIT!RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
They buy online and return stuff they don't want.
Their friends are all like this. They see shopping as a chore, rather than the whole "go into the store to browse" thing.1 -
Just so you know, my bookshop is closed today!viewcode said:
I swear to God I'm a bloody jinx! Every shop I go to falls to bits! How is Boots doing? Is that going to collapse as well?Flatlander said:
The surprise is surely that it has taken this long.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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Germany are heading out of the women's world cup despite being the number 2 ranked team, unless they score a goal against South Korea in the last 10 mins.
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Let me guess, they'll browse online/insta reels for ages instead?Malmesbury said:
My daughters don't shop on the High Street - despite my wife dragging them round the stores etc..viewcode said:
I shop there! Obviously not often enough! Christ, the high street is being gutted!viewcode said:
DAMMIT!RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
They buy online and return stuff they don't want.
Their friends are all like this. They see shopping as a chore, rather than the whole "go into the store to browse" thing.0 -
https://www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk/CD137047/Boots-recoups-losses-as-post-tax-profits-rocket-to-15mviewcode said:
I swear to God I'm a bloody jinx! Every shop I go to falls to bits! How is Boots doing? Is that going to collapse as well?Flatlander said:
The surprise is surely that it has taken this long.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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They had a 'what exactly is this shop for' vibe, a bit like Woolworths did.Miklosvar said:
Never heard of them but 12,000 jobs apparently. not good.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
You want to buy cheap tat in person? Go to Poundland etc etc etc.0 -
We get all our household bits and pieces from there and always have done. What a tragedy.Miklosvar said:
Never heard of them but 12,000 jobs apparently. not good.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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That's a, how do you say it? A bingo?Flatlander said:
They have a 'what exactly is this shop for' vibe, a bit like Woolworths did.Miklosvar said:
Never heard of them but 12,000 jobs apparently. not good.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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Noooooooooooo.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
I suppose if it's too good to be true it is very often too good to be true.1 -
Yup - shopping in social mediaMortimer said:
Let me guess, they'll browse online/insta reels for ages instead?Malmesbury said:
My daughters don't shop on the High Street - despite my wife dragging them round the stores etc..viewcode said:
I shop there! Obviously not often enough! Christ, the high street is being gutted!viewcode said:
DAMMIT!RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
They buy online and return stuff they don't want.
Their friends are all like this. They see shopping as a chore, rather than the whole "go into the store to browse" thing.
An infinite store front, with very low rent.1 -
If you look at high streets that have been mostly converted into flats (is Cardiff one?), they're only good if the buildings pre-conversion were good, and if the high street was crap architecture, the post-conversion flats are worse. England was supposed to be prosperous, not bloody Central Europe! At least they had the sense to rebuild pretty!Mortimer said:
The high st will be replaced with much needed homes. Its not a bad thing....viewcode said:
I shop there! Obviously not often enough! Christ, the high street is being gutted!viewcode said:
DAMMIT!RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
Agh, I am miffed.0 -
I'm sadly not suprised. I use one local to me for homebrewing stuff and other bits and bod and this year they just have not had the stock so I have been going to Boyes instead.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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Well they used to be Wilkinsons and then came back as Wilko, they may well do the same thing again.Andy_JS said:
We get all our household bits and pieces from there and always have done. What a tragedy.Miklosvar said:
Never heard of them but 12,000 jobs apparently. not good.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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Oh, right, that's it. Start building a barricade, I'll get the AR-15s.Mortimer said:
Just so you know, my bookshop is closed today!viewcode said:
I swear to God I'm a bloody jinx! Every shop I go to falls to bits! How is Boots doing? Is that going to collapse as well?Flatlander said:
The surprise is surely that it has taken this long.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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That's a mighty interesting position you occupy in the UK if you have never heard of Wilkos.Miklosvar said:
Never heard of them but 12,000 jobs apparently. not good.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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In my home town, because of a quirk of historical geography, most of the closed shops were C18/19 stone jobs which used to have the shopkeeper or his assistant living above, so all they needed to do was convert the shop into extra living quarters, maybe with the shop window replaced by masonry infill and a smaller domestic size window. So the contraction of the shopping centre has actually worked well - it's not even noticeable which the old shops are.viewcode said:
If you look at high streets that have been mostly converted into flats (is Cardiff one?), they're only good if the buildings pre-conversion were good, and if the high street was crap architecture, the post-conversion flats are worse. England was supposed to be prosperous, not bloody Central Europe! At least they had the sense to rebuild pretty!Mortimer said:
The high st will be replaced with much needed homes. Its not a bad thing....viewcode said:
I shop there! Obviously not often enough! Christ, the high street is being gutted!viewcode said:
DAMMIT!RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
Agh, I am miffed.0 -
Fair enough. It would be interesting to see the split but still-Con vs ex-Con.HYUFD said:
The figures were for 2019 Tory voters and as the poll also showed voters as a whole back more licenses for oil and gas in the North Sea and as Uxbridge showed in outer London ULEZ is unpopularbondegezou said:
But there aren't many Tory voters these days. Appealing to them won't win you a general election (or a London mayoral one). The Con-to-Lab swing in Uxbridge wasn't enough to get a Labour MP elected, but would see Sunak out of No. 10 if repeated nationally. Sunak needs to reach former Tory voters.HYUFD said:Given the Uxbridge by election Tory hold on an anti ULEZ ticket and the recent poll showing 67% of Tory voters back new oil and gas licenses in the North sea as do UK voters overall by 42% to 27% whatever Extinction rebellion, Just Stop Oil and Greenpeace think it is unsurprising Sunak is rowing back from too much anti car and anti fossil fuels action.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2023/07/31/aac1f/1
Whoever replaces him as Tory leader will likely be just as pro car and net zero ambivalent. Labour voters however are much more pro action on climate change as are LDs, by 47% to 24% Labour voters think the government was wrong to issue new oil and gas licenses as do LD voters by 38% to 32%.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2023/07/31/aac1f/1
Labour Mayor of London Sadiq Khan also remains as pro ULEZ expansion as ever whatever Uxbridge voters thought
ULEZ will be old news by the general.0 -
I'm not sure it should be all on your shoulders @viewcodeviewcode said:
I shop there! Obviously not often enough! Christ, the high street is being gutted!viewcode said:
DAMMIT!RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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Out in the sticks. From a google, they sell stuff I get off ebay or from Mole Valley. Hoover bags and such.TOPPING said:
That's a mighty interesting position you occupy in the UK if you have never heard of Wilkos.Miklosvar said:
Never heard of them but 12,000 jobs apparently. not good.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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Not if it's coming to a town or city near you.bondegezou said:
Fair enough. It would be interesting to see the split but still-Con vs ex-Con.HYUFD said:
The figures were for 2019 Tory voters and as the poll also showed voters as a whole back more licenses for oil and gas in the North Sea and as Uxbridge showed in outer London ULEZ is unpopularbondegezou said:
But there aren't many Tory voters these days. Appealing to them won't win you a general election (or a London mayoral one). The Con-to-Lab swing in Uxbridge wasn't enough to get a Labour MP elected, but would see Sunak out of No. 10 if repeated nationally. Sunak needs to reach former Tory voters.HYUFD said:Given the Uxbridge by election Tory hold on an anti ULEZ ticket and the recent poll showing 67% of Tory voters back new oil and gas licenses in the North sea as do UK voters overall by 42% to 27% whatever Extinction rebellion, Just Stop Oil and Greenpeace think it is unsurprising Sunak is rowing back from too much anti car and anti fossil fuels action.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2023/07/31/aac1f/1
Whoever replaces him as Tory leader will likely be just as pro car and net zero ambivalent. Labour voters however are much more pro action on climate change as are LDs, by 47% to 24% Labour voters think the government was wrong to issue new oil and gas licenses as do LD voters by 38% to 32%.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2023/07/31/aac1f/1
Labour Mayor of London Sadiq Khan also remains as pro ULEZ expansion as ever whatever Uxbridge voters thought
ULEZ will be old news by the general.
And why wouldn't it be.1 -
Sad for the people losing jobs, and sad for the (mostly smalltown) High Streets which will have a gap in them. Whilst there were better places to buy gardening stuff, stationery, hardware and so on, they tend not to be ubiquitous in the way that Woolworths was and Wilko is (for a bit longer anyway).Andy_JS said:
We get all our household bits and pieces from there and always have done. What a tragedy.Miklosvar said:
Never heard of them but 12,000 jobs apparently. not good.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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I think the Tory brand is trashed beyond recovery for about a decade in London.Stuartinromford said:
Besides,Sandpit said:
Where’s the Londoner Andy Street?Leon said:
I've yet to meet an actual Sadiq Khan VOTER - as in someone who openly and avowedly says "Oh yes I'm voting for him". Most people say Meh, what a boring jerk. The full-on haters really hate him. A small minority say "Oh well he';s not great but I might have to"Casino_Royale said:FPT - I've yet to meet anyone who respects Sadiq Khan.
I know a couple of New Labour SPADs who laughed out loud when I mentioned his name, and a few people in business who'd met him who said he was completely barking.
I think even the people who vote for him do so with clothes pegs on their nose.
Yet he's apparently coasting to victory again
I am sure I live in something of an ethnic bubble, more white than most of London, but that bubble is politically diverse from UKIP Brexiteers to plenty of lefties (of all classes)
I cannot find an enthusiastic Khan voter. He is eminently beatable and it is pathetic that the Tories have not found anyone to do it
There must be one somewhere, a successful and well-known London businessperson willing to stand against an unpopular mayor. My first thought would be someone like Charlie Mullins, if he’s not enjoying his money too much, then I realised that he’s now 70 so probably wouldn’t want to do it.
Pimlico Plumbers donated £22,735 to the Conservative Party in 2015, and Mullins donated more than £48,000, in the two years to July 2017. He was a business adviser to David Cameron and George Osborne, and has been a vocal critic of Brexit.
In January 2018, Mullins announced that he would no longer be a Conservative Party donor, and declared his candidacy as an independent at the 2021 London mayoral election (which had been scheduled for 2020, before being postponed) but Mullins did not appear on the ballot paper. In March 2018, Mullins said he would financially support the Liberal Democrats to support their campaign to prevent Brexit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Mullins
If a party chooses to chase retired homeowners, that's a valid choice and overall an electorally sound one. But it has consequences.
Here is Susan Hall AM's latest selfie. Look at the kissy-kissy-doggie.
But fail completely to comment on the antisocial pavement parkers all the way up the street forcing wheelchair users, pram / buggy pushers and mobility scooter users into the traffic. Except that if there is no convenient drop kerb they will unable to turn around and will be stranded.
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"OPINION
DAVID BROOKS
What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?
In this story we anti-Trumpers are the good guys, the forces of progress and enlightenment. The Trumpers are reactionary bigots and authoritarians. Many Republicans support Trump no matter what, according to this story, because at the end of the day he’s still the bigot in chief, the embodiment of their resentments, and that’s what matters to them most.
I partly agree with this story; but it’s also a monument to elite self-satisfaction.
So let me try another story on you. I ask you to try on a vantage point in which we anti-Trumpers are not the eternal good guys. In fact, we’re the bad guys."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/opinion/trump-meritocracy-educated.html0 -
There isn't a climate emergency. The change in terminology could have been predicted, though. Less so the change from global warming to climate change. Next the line is bound to be do this or go extinct. Then it will be we're so sorry but some of us have to take one for the team.
To try to stop the climate changing is to be a Cnut. (In the monarchist sense.)0 -
Isn't there a blanket pavement parking ban in London?MattW said:
I think the Tory brand is trashed beyond recovery for about a decade in London.Stuartinromford said:
Besides,Sandpit said:
Where’s the Londoner Andy Street?Leon said:
I've yet to meet an actual Sadiq Khan VOTER - as in someone who openly and avowedly says "Oh yes I'm voting for him". Most people say Meh, what a boring jerk. The full-on haters really hate him. A small minority say "Oh well he';s not great but I might have to"Casino_Royale said:FPT - I've yet to meet anyone who respects Sadiq Khan.
I know a couple of New Labour SPADs who laughed out loud when I mentioned his name, and a few people in business who'd met him who said he was completely barking.
I think even the people who vote for him do so with clothes pegs on their nose.
Yet he's apparently coasting to victory again
I am sure I live in something of an ethnic bubble, more white than most of London, but that bubble is politically diverse from UKIP Brexiteers to plenty of lefties (of all classes)
I cannot find an enthusiastic Khan voter. He is eminently beatable and it is pathetic that the Tories have not found anyone to do it
There must be one somewhere, a successful and well-known London businessperson willing to stand against an unpopular mayor. My first thought would be someone like Charlie Mullins, if he’s not enjoying his money too much, then I realised that he’s now 70 so probably wouldn’t want to do it.
Pimlico Plumbers donated £22,735 to the Conservative Party in 2015, and Mullins donated more than £48,000, in the two years to July 2017. He was a business adviser to David Cameron and George Osborne, and has been a vocal critic of Brexit.
In January 2018, Mullins announced that he would no longer be a Conservative Party donor, and declared his candidacy as an independent at the 2021 London mayoral election (which had been scheduled for 2020, before being postponed) but Mullins did not appear on the ballot paper. In March 2018, Mullins said he would financially support the Liberal Democrats to support their campaign to prevent Brexit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Mullins
If a party chooses to chase retired homeowners, that's a valid choice and overall an electorally sound one. But it has consequences.
Here is Susan Hall AM's latest selfie. Look at the kissy-kissy-doggie.
But fail completely to comment on the antisocial pavement parkers all the way up the street forcing wheelchair users, pram / buggy pushers and mobility scooter users into the traffic. Except that if there is no convenient drop kerb they will unable to turn around and will be stranded.
Rolling out in Scotland later this year.0 -
'New Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has told BBC Wales he does not want to reopen coal mines.Malmesbury said:
WrongHYUFD said:
He didn't, Gove did approve a new coalmine in Cumbria howeverMalmesbury said:
While Corbyn actually said he wanted to reopen coal mines....HYUFD said:
Cameron, May and even Boris were pro action on climate change, pro net zero and Boris put forward the petrol cars ban.Nigelb said:NickPalmer said:I was talking to a member deep in the selection process in a winnable seat - one applicant is really majoring on climate change, another is focusing on aid for victims of scandals (Post Office, Hillsborough, etc.). She's leaning to the first as she thinks that, with NHS and cost of living, that will be the key theme in the election. But I wonder if it is (I'm not sure that victims will be either, sadly). People who agree it's happening and important are already not voting Tory, whereas for cost of living the position is less clear-cut, so perhaps we should be focusing on that?
Conversely, Sunak seems to be pursuing a core vote strategy to fight the looking wall of Tory abstentions - "we might lose but let's motivate the remaining supporters to actually vote".
What we're seeing here is how the right blames the left for their own foolishness.Casino_Royale said:So over 2/3rd of Conservative members do believe climate change is caused by humans and almost 90% think it's real?
Margaret Thatcher first alerted the world to its dangers. Decades ago. Because she understood the science. All Conservatives revere her and should understand that. But she was practical too.
What we're seeing here is the consequences of allowing this issue to be entirely captured by the activist Left, which fuels polarisation.
The Tories have been in power for the last decade - how and why is "the activist left" setting their agenda ?
However the left via Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion have overreached and Sunak has seen an opportunity post Uxbridge and is now pushing a more pro motorist and pro oil and gas agenda
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-34398851
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/07/uk-first-new-coalmine-for-30-years-gets-go-ahead-in-cumbria
NEAR THE END OF 2015, Britain's last deep coal mine, Kellingley, in North Yorkshire, saw its last shift of workers come up from underground. In an interview earlier that year, while running to be leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn raised the idea of reopening some of Britain's collieries
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-923X.13000#:~:text=Corbyn and the coal mines,-NEAR THE END&text=In an interview earlier that,we can develop coal technology.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/labour-leadership-contender-jeremy-corbyn-9817411
In an interview in August, Mr Corbyn said in future "high quality coal" in south Wales could be mined again.
But he told Radio Wales re-opening mines was not his policy. "It was one question about one mine, I'm not in favour of reopening the mines."
He said he wanted a "sustainable energy development policy, a green development in all aspects of energy generation".
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Looks to me like a load of overgrown bushes are the real problem?MattW said:
I think the Tory brand is trashed beyond recovery for about a decade in London.Stuartinromford said:
Besides,Sandpit said:
Where’s the Londoner Andy Street?Leon said:
I've yet to meet an actual Sadiq Khan VOTER - as in someone who openly and avowedly says "Oh yes I'm voting for him". Most people say Meh, what a boring jerk. The full-on haters really hate him. A small minority say "Oh well he';s not great but I might have to"Casino_Royale said:FPT - I've yet to meet anyone who respects Sadiq Khan.
I know a couple of New Labour SPADs who laughed out loud when I mentioned his name, and a few people in business who'd met him who said he was completely barking.
I think even the people who vote for him do so with clothes pegs on their nose.
Yet he's apparently coasting to victory again
I am sure I live in something of an ethnic bubble, more white than most of London, but that bubble is politically diverse from UKIP Brexiteers to plenty of lefties (of all classes)
I cannot find an enthusiastic Khan voter. He is eminently beatable and it is pathetic that the Tories have not found anyone to do it
There must be one somewhere, a successful and well-known London businessperson willing to stand against an unpopular mayor. My first thought would be someone like Charlie Mullins, if he’s not enjoying his money too much, then I realised that he’s now 70 so probably wouldn’t want to do it.
Pimlico Plumbers donated £22,735 to the Conservative Party in 2015, and Mullins donated more than £48,000, in the two years to July 2017. He was a business adviser to David Cameron and George Osborne, and has been a vocal critic of Brexit.
In January 2018, Mullins announced that he would no longer be a Conservative Party donor, and declared his candidacy as an independent at the 2021 London mayoral election (which had been scheduled for 2020, before being postponed) but Mullins did not appear on the ballot paper. In March 2018, Mullins said he would financially support the Liberal Democrats to support their campaign to prevent Brexit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Mullins
If a party chooses to chase retired homeowners, that's a valid choice and overall an electorally sound one. But it has consequences.
Here is Susan Hall AM's latest selfie. Look at the kissy-kissy-doggie.
But fail completely to comment on the antisocial pavement parkers all the way up the street forcing wheelchair users, pram / buggy pushers and mobility scooter users into the traffic. Except that if there is no convenient drop kerb they will unable to turn around and will be stranded.0 -
And the unpruned hedge. Just as bad, esp. if it is thorny.MattW said:
I think the Tory brand is trashed beyond recovery for about a decade in London.Stuartinromford said:
Besides,Sandpit said:
Where’s the Londoner Andy Street?Leon said:
I've yet to meet an actual Sadiq Khan VOTER - as in someone who openly and avowedly says "Oh yes I'm voting for him". Most people say Meh, what a boring jerk. The full-on haters really hate him. A small minority say "Oh well he';s not great but I might have to"Casino_Royale said:FPT - I've yet to meet anyone who respects Sadiq Khan.
I know a couple of New Labour SPADs who laughed out loud when I mentioned his name, and a few people in business who'd met him who said he was completely barking.
I think even the people who vote for him do so with clothes pegs on their nose.
Yet he's apparently coasting to victory again
I am sure I live in something of an ethnic bubble, more white than most of London, but that bubble is politically diverse from UKIP Brexiteers to plenty of lefties (of all classes)
I cannot find an enthusiastic Khan voter. He is eminently beatable and it is pathetic that the Tories have not found anyone to do it
There must be one somewhere, a successful and well-known London businessperson willing to stand against an unpopular mayor. My first thought would be someone like Charlie Mullins, if he’s not enjoying his money too much, then I realised that he’s now 70 so probably wouldn’t want to do it.
Pimlico Plumbers donated £22,735 to the Conservative Party in 2015, and Mullins donated more than £48,000, in the two years to July 2017. He was a business adviser to David Cameron and George Osborne, and has been a vocal critic of Brexit.
In January 2018, Mullins announced that he would no longer be a Conservative Party donor, and declared his candidacy as an independent at the 2021 London mayoral election (which had been scheduled for 2020, before being postponed) but Mullins did not appear on the ballot paper. In March 2018, Mullins said he would financially support the Liberal Democrats to support their campaign to prevent Brexit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Mullins
If a party chooses to chase retired homeowners, that's a valid choice and overall an electorally sound one. But it has consequences.
Here is Susan Hall AM's latest selfie. Look at the kissy-kissy-doggie.
But fail completely to comment on the antisocial pavement parkers all the way up the street forcing wheelchair users, pram / buggy pushers and mobility scooter users into the traffic. Except that if there is no convenient drop kerb they will unable to turn around and will be stranded.0 -
The Tories haven't won most seats in London at a general election since 1992.MattW said:
I think the Tory brand is trashed beyond recovery for about a decade in London.Stuartinromford said:
Besides,Sandpit said:
Where’s the Londoner Andy Street?Leon said:
I've yet to meet an actual Sadiq Khan VOTER - as in someone who openly and avowedly says "Oh yes I'm voting for him". Most people say Meh, what a boring jerk. The full-on haters really hate him. A small minority say "Oh well he';s not great but I might have to"Casino_Royale said:FPT - I've yet to meet anyone who respects Sadiq Khan.
I know a couple of New Labour SPADs who laughed out loud when I mentioned his name, and a few people in business who'd met him who said he was completely barking.
I think even the people who vote for him do so with clothes pegs on their nose.
Yet he's apparently coasting to victory again
I am sure I live in something of an ethnic bubble, more white than most of London, but that bubble is politically diverse from UKIP Brexiteers to plenty of lefties (of all classes)
I cannot find an enthusiastic Khan voter. He is eminently beatable and it is pathetic that the Tories have not found anyone to do it
There must be one somewhere, a successful and well-known London businessperson willing to stand against an unpopular mayor. My first thought would be someone like Charlie Mullins, if he’s not enjoying his money too much, then I realised that he’s now 70 so probably wouldn’t want to do it.
Pimlico Plumbers donated £22,735 to the Conservative Party in 2015, and Mullins donated more than £48,000, in the two years to July 2017. He was a business adviser to David Cameron and George Osborne, and has been a vocal critic of Brexit.
In January 2018, Mullins announced that he would no longer be a Conservative Party donor, and declared his candidacy as an independent at the 2021 London mayoral election (which had been scheduled for 2020, before being postponed) but Mullins did not appear on the ballot paper. In March 2018, Mullins said he would financially support the Liberal Democrats to support their campaign to prevent Brexit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Mullins
If a party chooses to chase retired homeowners, that's a valid choice and overall an electorally sound one. But it has consequences.
Here is Susan Hall AM's latest selfie. Look at the kissy-kissy-doggie.
But fail completely to comment on the antisocial pavement parkers all the way up the street forcing wheelchair users, pram / buggy pushers and mobility scooter users into the traffic. Except that if there is no convenient drop kerb they will unable to turn around and will be stranded.
They can occasionally win the Mayoralty as Boris proved but London as a whole is safe Labour now0 -
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I'm very surprised and sad to hear that. Hope you have exciting future plans?Mortimer said:
Just so you know, my bookshop is closed today!viewcode said:
I swear to God I'm a bloody jinx! Every shop I go to falls to bits! How is Boots doing? Is that going to collapse as well?Flatlander said:
The surprise is surely that it has taken this long.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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Most high streets now are coffee shops, takeaways, hairdressers, nail bars and estate agents mainlyMalmesbury said:
My daughters don't shop on the High Street - despite my wife dragging them round the stores etc..viewcode said:
I shop there! Obviously not often enough! Christ, the high street is being gutted!viewcode said:
DAMMIT!RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
They buy online and return stuff they don't want.
Their friends are all like this. They see shopping as a chore, rather than the whole "go into the store to browse" thing.0 -
IS there no end to the evil of the Blue team ?MattW said:
I think the Tory brand is trashed beyond recovery for about a decade in London.Stuartinromford said:
Besides,Sandpit said:
Where’s the Londoner Andy Street?Leon said:
I've yet to meet an actual Sadiq Khan VOTER - as in someone who openly and avowedly says "Oh yes I'm voting for him". Most people say Meh, what a boring jerk. The full-on haters really hate him. A small minority say "Oh well he';s not great but I might have to"Casino_Royale said:FPT - I've yet to meet anyone who respects Sadiq Khan.
I know a couple of New Labour SPADs who laughed out loud when I mentioned his name, and a few people in business who'd met him who said he was completely barking.
I think even the people who vote for him do so with clothes pegs on their nose.
Yet he's apparently coasting to victory again
I am sure I live in something of an ethnic bubble, more white than most of London, but that bubble is politically diverse from UKIP Brexiteers to plenty of lefties (of all classes)
I cannot find an enthusiastic Khan voter. He is eminently beatable and it is pathetic that the Tories have not found anyone to do it
There must be one somewhere, a successful and well-known London businessperson willing to stand against an unpopular mayor. My first thought would be someone like Charlie Mullins, if he’s not enjoying his money too much, then I realised that he’s now 70 so probably wouldn’t want to do it.
Pimlico Plumbers donated £22,735 to the Conservative Party in 2015, and Mullins donated more than £48,000, in the two years to July 2017. He was a business adviser to David Cameron and George Osborne, and has been a vocal critic of Brexit.
In January 2018, Mullins announced that he would no longer be a Conservative Party donor, and declared his candidacy as an independent at the 2021 London mayoral election (which had been scheduled for 2020, before being postponed) but Mullins did not appear on the ballot paper. In March 2018, Mullins said he would financially support the Liberal Democrats to support their campaign to prevent Brexit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Mullins
If a party chooses to chase retired homeowners, that's a valid choice and overall an electorally sound one. But it has consequences.
Here is Susan Hall AM's latest selfie. Look at the kissy-kissy-doggie.
But fail completely to comment on the antisocial pavement parkers all the way up the street forcing wheelchair users, pram / buggy pushers and mobility scooter users into the traffic. Except that if there is no convenient drop kerb they will unable to turn around and will be stranded.2 -
It was a comment on viewcode being a jinx.Luckyguy1983 said:...
I'm very surprised and sad to hear that. Hope you have exciting future plans?Mortimer said:
Just so you know, my bookshop is closed today!viewcode said:
I swear to God I'm a bloody jinx! Every shop I go to falls to bits! How is Boots doing? Is that going to collapse as well?Flatlander said:
The surprise is surely that it has taken this long.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
We're open (to everyone else) as usual!1 -
He back pedalled after a massive backlash.HYUFD said:
'New Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has told BBC Wales he does not want to reopen coal mines.Malmesbury said:
WrongHYUFD said:
He didn't, Gove did approve a new coalmine in Cumbria howeverMalmesbury said:
While Corbyn actually said he wanted to reopen coal mines....HYUFD said:
Cameron, May and even Boris were pro action on climate change, pro net zero and Boris put forward the petrol cars ban.Nigelb said:NickPalmer said:I was talking to a member deep in the selection process in a winnable seat - one applicant is really majoring on climate change, another is focusing on aid for victims of scandals (Post Office, Hillsborough, etc.). She's leaning to the first as she thinks that, with NHS and cost of living, that will be the key theme in the election. But I wonder if it is (I'm not sure that victims will be either, sadly). People who agree it's happening and important are already not voting Tory, whereas for cost of living the position is less clear-cut, so perhaps we should be focusing on that?
Conversely, Sunak seems to be pursuing a core vote strategy to fight the looking wall of Tory abstentions - "we might lose but let's motivate the remaining supporters to actually vote".
What we're seeing here is how the right blames the left for their own foolishness.Casino_Royale said:So over 2/3rd of Conservative members do believe climate change is caused by humans and almost 90% think it's real?
Margaret Thatcher first alerted the world to its dangers. Decades ago. Because she understood the science. All Conservatives revere her and should understand that. But she was practical too.
What we're seeing here is the consequences of allowing this issue to be entirely captured by the activist Left, which fuels polarisation.
The Tories have been in power for the last decade - how and why is "the activist left" setting their agenda ?
However the left via Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion have overreached and Sunak has seen an opportunity post Uxbridge and is now pushing a more pro motorist and pro oil and gas agenda
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-34398851
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/07/uk-first-new-coalmine-for-30-years-gets-go-ahead-in-cumbria
NEAR THE END OF 2015, Britain's last deep coal mine, Kellingley, in North Yorkshire, saw its last shift of workers come up from underground. In an interview earlier that year, while running to be leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn raised the idea of reopening some of Britain's collieries
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-923X.13000#:~:text=Corbyn and the coal mines,-NEAR THE END&text=In an interview earlier that,we can develop coal technology.
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/labour-leadership-contender-jeremy-corbyn-9817411
In an interview in August, Mr Corbyn said in future "high quality coal" in south Wales could be mined again.
But he told Radio Wales re-opening mines was not his policy. "It was one question about one mine, I'm not in favour of reopening the mines."
He said he wanted a "sustainable energy development policy, a green development in all aspects of energy generation".
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That’s another old denialism chestnut. “We can’t stop the climate changing.”Peck said:There isn't a climate emergency. The change in terminology could have been predicted, though. Less so the change from global warming to climate change. Next the line is bound to be do this or go extinct.
To try to stop the climate changing is to be a Cnut. (In the monarchist sense.)
The Cnut analogy works if king cnut had himself changed the environment so much that the tide came in way higher than before, and then claimed he couldn’t change it back.
Mitigating climate change is about reducing the amount we are changing the climate, not increasing it.3 -
At least we have got to the stage where people accept it is happening, and will continue to do so.Peck said:There isn't a climate emergency. The change in terminology could have been predicted, though. Less so the change from global warming to climate change. Next the line is bound to be do this or go extinct.
To try to stop the climate changing is to be a Cnut. (In the monarchist sense.)
All you have left is arguments over semantics.
The positive externalities of mitigation are worth it, even if they don't have a big impact on global emissions and the rate at which temperature increases.
Investment in adaptation is almost certainly worth it, particularly for flooding on the east coast and air conditioning in hospitals.1 -
And Charidee shops and bookies.HYUFD said:
Most high streets now are coffee shops, takeaways, hairdressers, nail bars and estate agents mainlyMalmesbury said:
My daughters don't shop on the High Street - despite my wife dragging them round the stores etc..viewcode said:
I shop there! Obviously not often enough! Christ, the high street is being gutted!viewcode said:
DAMMIT!RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
They buy online and return stuff they don't want.
Their friends are all like this. They see shopping as a chore, rather than the whole "go into the store to browse" thing.1 -
It had been looking pasty, stock and footfall wise for a while.Malmesbury said:
https://www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk/CD137047/Boots-recoups-losses-as-post-tax-profits-rocket-to-15mviewcode said:
I swear to God I'm a bloody jinx! Every shop I go to falls to bits! How is Boots doing? Is that going to collapse as well?Flatlander said:
The surprise is surely that it has taken this long.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
But their prescription medicine stock checker was a godsend when I was struggling to source both the originally prescribed drugs and the re-prescribed alternative for an ear infection for my daughter recently. Saw the drug was in, checked with them and got it put aside at 8.30, grabbed the script from the chemist it was submitted in and was, with great relief, back at Boots, medicinev n hand at 8.45.
Shouldn't have been necessary but was very glad of it, having been lukewarm on Boots for a few years.
The other shocker on the quest was the in-store Lloyd's at Sainsbury's in the course of packing up, in-store pharmacy seemingly never to return (I think that may be national).2 -
Shopping in a high street is so last centuryTaz said:
I'm sadly not suprised. I use one local to me for homebrewing stuff and other bits and bod and this year they just have not had the stock so I have been going to Boyes instead.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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Pavement parking is a huge deal for disabled people and people wheeling prams around. It's become more prevalent as people buy SUVs that require more space, and have the clearance to mount the kerb.Taz said:
IS there no end to the evil of the Blue team ?MattW said:
I think the Tory brand is trashed beyond recovery for about a decade in London.Stuartinromford said:
Besides,Sandpit said:
Where’s the Londoner Andy Street?Leon said:
I've yet to meet an actual Sadiq Khan VOTER - as in someone who openly and avowedly says "Oh yes I'm voting for him". Most people say Meh, what a boring jerk. The full-on haters really hate him. A small minority say "Oh well he';s not great but I might have to"Casino_Royale said:FPT - I've yet to meet anyone who respects Sadiq Khan.
I know a couple of New Labour SPADs who laughed out loud when I mentioned his name, and a few people in business who'd met him who said he was completely barking.
I think even the people who vote for him do so with clothes pegs on their nose.
Yet he's apparently coasting to victory again
I am sure I live in something of an ethnic bubble, more white than most of London, but that bubble is politically diverse from UKIP Brexiteers to plenty of lefties (of all classes)
I cannot find an enthusiastic Khan voter. He is eminently beatable and it is pathetic that the Tories have not found anyone to do it
There must be one somewhere, a successful and well-known London businessperson willing to stand against an unpopular mayor. My first thought would be someone like Charlie Mullins, if he’s not enjoying his money too much, then I realised that he’s now 70 so probably wouldn’t want to do it.
Pimlico Plumbers donated £22,735 to the Conservative Party in 2015, and Mullins donated more than £48,000, in the two years to July 2017. He was a business adviser to David Cameron and George Osborne, and has been a vocal critic of Brexit.
In January 2018, Mullins announced that he would no longer be a Conservative Party donor, and declared his candidacy as an independent at the 2021 London mayoral election (which had been scheduled for 2020, before being postponed) but Mullins did not appear on the ballot paper. In March 2018, Mullins said he would financially support the Liberal Democrats to support their campaign to prevent Brexit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Mullins
If a party chooses to chase retired homeowners, that's a valid choice and overall an electorally sound one. But it has consequences.
Here is Susan Hall AM's latest selfie. Look at the kissy-kissy-doggie.
But fail completely to comment on the antisocial pavement parkers all the way up the street forcing wheelchair users, pram / buggy pushers and mobility scooter users into the traffic. Except that if there is no convenient drop kerb they will unable to turn around and will be stranded.
Obstruction of a pavement is an offence UK wide.1 -
The ensuing damage to the pavement is also a plague. But (as usual) externalities, so fuck the ratepayer.Eabhal said:
Pavement parking is a huge deal for disabled people and people wheeling prams around. It's become more prevalent as people buy SUVs that require more space, and have the clearance to mount the kerb.Taz said:
IS there no end to the evil of the Blue team ?MattW said:
I think the Tory brand is trashed beyond recovery for about a decade in London.Stuartinromford said:
Besides,Sandpit said:
Where’s the Londoner Andy Street?Leon said:
I've yet to meet an actual Sadiq Khan VOTER - as in someone who openly and avowedly says "Oh yes I'm voting for him". Most people say Meh, what a boring jerk. The full-on haters really hate him. A small minority say "Oh well he';s not great but I might have to"Casino_Royale said:FPT - I've yet to meet anyone who respects Sadiq Khan.
I know a couple of New Labour SPADs who laughed out loud when I mentioned his name, and a few people in business who'd met him who said he was completely barking.
I think even the people who vote for him do so with clothes pegs on their nose.
Yet he's apparently coasting to victory again
I am sure I live in something of an ethnic bubble, more white than most of London, but that bubble is politically diverse from UKIP Brexiteers to plenty of lefties (of all classes)
I cannot find an enthusiastic Khan voter. He is eminently beatable and it is pathetic that the Tories have not found anyone to do it
There must be one somewhere, a successful and well-known London businessperson willing to stand against an unpopular mayor. My first thought would be someone like Charlie Mullins, if he’s not enjoying his money too much, then I realised that he’s now 70 so probably wouldn’t want to do it.
Pimlico Plumbers donated £22,735 to the Conservative Party in 2015, and Mullins donated more than £48,000, in the two years to July 2017. He was a business adviser to David Cameron and George Osborne, and has been a vocal critic of Brexit.
In January 2018, Mullins announced that he would no longer be a Conservative Party donor, and declared his candidacy as an independent at the 2021 London mayoral election (which had been scheduled for 2020, before being postponed) but Mullins did not appear on the ballot paper. In March 2018, Mullins said he would financially support the Liberal Democrats to support their campaign to prevent Brexit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Mullins
If a party chooses to chase retired homeowners, that's a valid choice and overall an electorally sound one. But it has consequences.
Here is Susan Hall AM's latest selfie. Look at the kissy-kissy-doggie.
But fail completely to comment on the antisocial pavement parkers all the way up the street forcing wheelchair users, pram / buggy pushers and mobility scooter users into the traffic. Except that if there is no convenient drop kerb they will unable to turn around and will be stranded.
Obstruction of a pavement is an offence UK wide.
Edit: not to mention the old person who falls over as a result.2 -
Can you nip into Sports Direct please, if you can spare the time.viewcode said:
I swear to God I'm a bloody jinx! Every shop I go to falls to bits! How is Boots doing? Is that going to collapse as well?Flatlander said:
The surprise is surely that it has taken this long.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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My local one isn't in a high street.Pagan2 said:
Shopping in a high street is so last centuryTaz said:
I'm sadly not suprised. I use one local to me for homebrewing stuff and other bits and bod and this year they just have not had the stock so I have been going to Boyes instead.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
However, I am being pedantic, your point is right. Most of my home brew stuff I get online, I just get top ups from there, Most of my other purchases are online
Working from home a chunk of the time just makes it alot easier.
They have gone into administration before and come back. Not so sure they will this time.0 -
Glad to hear it.Mortimer said:
It was a comment on viewcode being a jinx.Luckyguy1983 said:...
I'm very surprised and sad to hear that. Hope you have exciting future plans?Mortimer said:
Just so you know, my bookshop is closed today!viewcode said:
I swear to God I'm a bloody jinx! Every shop I go to falls to bits! How is Boots doing? Is that going to collapse as well?Flatlander said:
The surprise is surely that it has taken this long.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
We're open (to everyone else) as usual!0 -
All species go extinct at some point its not a big deal, something else will evolvePeck said:There isn't a climate emergency. The change in terminology could have been predicted, though. Less so the change from global warming to climate change. Next the line is bound to be do this or go extinct. Then it will be we're so sorry but some of us have to take one for the team.
To try to stop the climate changing is to be a Cnut. (In the monarchist sense.)1 -
Which is weird, because the massive new St James' Quarter in Edinburgh is essentially a pedestrianised High Street.Pagan2 said:
Shopping in a high street is so last centuryTaz said:
I'm sadly not suprised. I use one local to me for homebrewing stuff and other bits and bod and this year they just have not had the stock so I have been going to Boyes instead.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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From your photo, you seem to be, er, taking quite a long time?Pagan2 said:
All species go extinct at some point its not a big deal, something else will evolvePeck said:There isn't a climate emergency. The change in terminology could have been predicted, though. Less so the change from global warming to climate change. Next the line is bound to be do this or go extinct. Then it will be we're so sorry but some of us have to take one for the team.
To try to stop the climate changing is to be a Cnut. (In the monarchist sense.)0 -
And me, the council tax payer, who had to pay for the personal injury claim.Carnyx said:
The ensuing damage to the pavement is also a plague. But (as usual) externalities, so fuck the ratepayer.Eabhal said:
Pavement parking is a huge deal for disabled people and people wheeling prams around. It's become more prevalent as people buy SUVs that require more space, and have the clearance to mount the kerb.Taz said:
IS there no end to the evil of the Blue team ?MattW said:
I think the Tory brand is trashed beyond recovery for about a decade in London.Stuartinromford said:
Besides,Sandpit said:
Where’s the Londoner Andy Street?Leon said:
I've yet to meet an actual Sadiq Khan VOTER - as in someone who openly and avowedly says "Oh yes I'm voting for him". Most people say Meh, what a boring jerk. The full-on haters really hate him. A small minority say "Oh well he';s not great but I might have to"Casino_Royale said:FPT - I've yet to meet anyone who respects Sadiq Khan.
I know a couple of New Labour SPADs who laughed out loud when I mentioned his name, and a few people in business who'd met him who said he was completely barking.
I think even the people who vote for him do so with clothes pegs on their nose.
Yet he's apparently coasting to victory again
I am sure I live in something of an ethnic bubble, more white than most of London, but that bubble is politically diverse from UKIP Brexiteers to plenty of lefties (of all classes)
I cannot find an enthusiastic Khan voter. He is eminently beatable and it is pathetic that the Tories have not found anyone to do it
There must be one somewhere, a successful and well-known London businessperson willing to stand against an unpopular mayor. My first thought would be someone like Charlie Mullins, if he’s not enjoying his money too much, then I realised that he’s now 70 so probably wouldn’t want to do it.
Pimlico Plumbers donated £22,735 to the Conservative Party in 2015, and Mullins donated more than £48,000, in the two years to July 2017. He was a business adviser to David Cameron and George Osborne, and has been a vocal critic of Brexit.
In January 2018, Mullins announced that he would no longer be a Conservative Party donor, and declared his candidacy as an independent at the 2021 London mayoral election (which had been scheduled for 2020, before being postponed) but Mullins did not appear on the ballot paper. In March 2018, Mullins said he would financially support the Liberal Democrats to support their campaign to prevent Brexit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Mullins
If a party chooses to chase retired homeowners, that's a valid choice and overall an electorally sound one. But it has consequences.
Here is Susan Hall AM's latest selfie. Look at the kissy-kissy-doggie.
But fail completely to comment on the antisocial pavement parkers all the way up the street forcing wheelchair users, pram / buggy pushers and mobility scooter users into the traffic. Except that if there is no convenient drop kerb they will unable to turn around and will be stranded.
Obstruction of a pavement is an offence UK wide.
Edit: not to mention the old person who falls over as a result.0 -
Well the scots have always been a century behind. I dont expect it to be more than a decade before its full of vacant shop spacesEabhal said:
Which is weird, because the massive new St James' Quarter in Edinburgh is essentially a pedestrianised High Street.Pagan2 said:
Shopping in a high street is so last centuryTaz said:
I'm sadly not suprised. I use one local to me for homebrewing stuff and other bits and bod and this year they just have not had the stock so I have been going to Boyes instead.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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You have to ask what point Cnut thought he was making, mind. How can you be king of England and Denmark and take a look at the fens and the Wadden sea and the several dozen major ports you are king of and not notice that actually kings can absolutely stop the tide coming in?Peck said:There isn't a climate emergency. The change in terminology could have been predicted, though. Less so the change from global warming to climate change. Next the line is bound to be do this or go extinct. Then it will be we're so sorry but some of us have to take one for the team.
To try to stop the climate changing is to be a Cnut. (In the monarchist sense.)
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I plan on being dead sometime in the next 30 years so relaxCarnyx said:
From your photo, you seem to be, er, taking quite a long time?Pagan2 said:
All species go extinct at some point its not a big deal, something else will evolvePeck said:There isn't a climate emergency. The change in terminology could have been predicted, though. Less so the change from global warming to climate change. Next the line is bound to be do this or go extinct. Then it will be we're so sorry but some of us have to take one for the team.
To try to stop the climate changing is to be a Cnut. (In the monarchist sense.)0 -
I think they key thing for that development is the close proximity to a train station, bus station and tram stop. It's rammed.Pagan2 said:
Well the scots have always been a century behind. I dont expect it to be more than a decade before its full of vacant shop spacesEabhal said:
Which is weird, because the massive new St James' Quarter in Edinburgh is essentially a pedestrianised High Street.Pagan2 said:
Shopping in a high street is so last centuryTaz said:
I'm sadly not suprised. I use one local to me for homebrewing stuff and other bits and bod and this year they just have not had the stock so I have been going to Boyes instead.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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The default is that you can't pavement park, but there may be marked bays where it is permitted. More significantly, if the rules aren't enforced, it becomes de facto permitted.Eabhal said:
Isn't there a blanket pavement parking ban in London?MattW said:
I think the Tory brand is trashed beyond recovery for about a decade in London.Stuartinromford said:
Besides,Sandpit said:
Where’s the Londoner Andy Street?Leon said:
I've yet to meet an actual Sadiq Khan VOTER - as in someone who openly and avowedly says "Oh yes I'm voting for him". Most people say Meh, what a boring jerk. The full-on haters really hate him. A small minority say "Oh well he';s not great but I might have to"Casino_Royale said:FPT - I've yet to meet anyone who respects Sadiq Khan.
I know a couple of New Labour SPADs who laughed out loud when I mentioned his name, and a few people in business who'd met him who said he was completely barking.
I think even the people who vote for him do so with clothes pegs on their nose.
Yet he's apparently coasting to victory again
I am sure I live in something of an ethnic bubble, more white than most of London, but that bubble is politically diverse from UKIP Brexiteers to plenty of lefties (of all classes)
I cannot find an enthusiastic Khan voter. He is eminently beatable and it is pathetic that the Tories have not found anyone to do it
There must be one somewhere, a successful and well-known London businessperson willing to stand against an unpopular mayor. My first thought would be someone like Charlie Mullins, if he’s not enjoying his money too much, then I realised that he’s now 70 so probably wouldn’t want to do it.
Pimlico Plumbers donated £22,735 to the Conservative Party in 2015, and Mullins donated more than £48,000, in the two years to July 2017. He was a business adviser to David Cameron and George Osborne, and has been a vocal critic of Brexit.
In January 2018, Mullins announced that he would no longer be a Conservative Party donor, and declared his candidacy as an independent at the 2021 London mayoral election (which had been scheduled for 2020, before being postponed) but Mullins did not appear on the ballot paper. In March 2018, Mullins said he would financially support the Liberal Democrats to support their campaign to prevent Brexit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Mullins
If a party chooses to chase retired homeowners, that's a valid choice and overall an electorally sound one. But it has consequences.
Here is Susan Hall AM's latest selfie. Look at the kissy-kissy-doggie.
But fail completely to comment on the antisocial pavement parkers all the way up the street forcing wheelchair users, pram / buggy pushers and mobility scooter users into the traffic. Except that if there is no convenient drop kerb they will unable to turn around and will be stranded.
Rolling out in Scotland later this year.0 -
Shows how the dwindling band of aging con members is totally out of touch with reality frankly.
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YepPro_Rata said:
It had been looking pasty, stock and footfall wise for a while.Malmesbury said:
https://www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk/CD137047/Boots-recoups-losses-as-post-tax-profits-rocket-to-15mviewcode said:
I swear to God I'm a bloody jinx! Every shop I go to falls to bits! How is Boots doing? Is that going to collapse as well?Flatlander said:
The surprise is surely that it has taken this long.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
But their prescription medicine stock checker was a godsend when I was struggling to source both the originally prescribed drugs and the re-prescribed alternative for an ear infection for my daughter recently. Saw the drug was in, checked with them and got it put aside at 8.30, grabbed the script from the chemist it was submitted in and was, with great relief, back at Boots, medicinev n hand at 8.45.
Shouldn't have been necessary but was very glad of it, having been lukewarm on Boots for a few years.
The other shocker on the quest was the in-store Lloyd's at Sainsbury's in the course of packing up, in-store pharmacy seemingly never to return (I think that may be national).
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lloyds-pharmacy-sainsbury-shut-down-b2356317.html1 -
Yes. We need to invest in mitigation AND reduce CO2 output AND improve energy efficiency AND investigate carbon capture AND reduce methane output AND… We’re past simple solutions. We need all the solutions.Eabhal said:
At least we have got to the stage where people accept it is happening, and will continue to do so.Peck said:There isn't a climate emergency. The change in terminology could have been predicted, though. Less so the change from global warming to climate change. Next the line is bound to be do this or go extinct.
To try to stop the climate changing is to be a Cnut. (In the monarchist sense.)
All you have left is arguments over semantics.
The positive externalities of mitigation are worth it, even if they don't have a big impact on global emissions and the rate at which temperature increases.
Investment in adaptation is almost certainly worth it, particularly for flooding on the east coast and air conditioning in hospitals.2 -
The move to shopping online will kill it, trying to fight the inevitable I am afraidEabhal said:
I think they key thing for that development is the close proximity to a train station, bus station and tram stop. It's rammed.Pagan2 said:
Well the scots have always been a century behind. I dont expect it to be more than a decade before its full of vacant shop spacesEabhal said:
Which is weird, because the massive new St James' Quarter in Edinburgh is essentially a pedestrianised High Street.Pagan2 said:
Shopping in a high street is so last centuryTaz said:
I'm sadly not suprised. I use one local to me for homebrewing stuff and other bits and bod and this year they just have not had the stock so I have been going to Boyes instead.RochdalePioneers said:Wilkos enter administration
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What if David Brooks is the monument to elite self-satisfaction here ?Andy_JS said:"OPINION
DAVID BROOKS
What if We’re the Bad Guys Here?
In this story we anti-Trumpers are the good guys, the forces of progress and enlightenment. The Trumpers are reactionary bigots and authoritarians. Many Republicans support Trump no matter what, according to this story, because at the end of the day he’s still the bigot in chief, the embodiment of their resentments, and that’s what matters to them most.
I partly agree with this story; but it’s also a monument to elite self-satisfaction.
So let me try another story on you. I ask you to try on a vantage point in which we anti-Trumpers are not the eternal good guys. In fact, we’re the bad guys."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/opinion/trump-meritocracy-educated.html0 -
Is Wilkos closing due to the lack of a feelgood factor?1