A friend tells me renewable energy (namely failing to switch the grid over to gas supply for a rest period) is responsible for the Iberian blackouts.
“a friend”
If said friend is not a professsional high voltage electrical engineer who builds & maintains modern electrical grids /and/ has source inside the Spanish electrical utilities then their opinion on the cause of the Spanish blackouts is worth about as much as mine, i.e. little or nothing.
Is it so hard to wait a few days for an initial analysis to be published by people who actually know what they’re talking about?
Didn't expect the Pollievre result, should have listened.
Last year there was talk about what our Tories could learn from him, and i believe he talked about housing a lot. Hopefulky any lessons ours take will not reflect on that point and go super nimby instead.
Sorry, but the housing thing is a dreadful idea. The Conservatives should stay well clear. From my observations of Facebook groups in Edinburgh, you get a toxic mix of:
destroying our green and pleasant land
you only need this housing because of our record immigration
depressing house values for "poor" pensioners
House building hurts every core Conservative demographic.
Well, the core Conservative demographic is now so small that the Tories will be most likely fourth on Thursday. They need new ideas to attract new voters, or the grim reaper will come for the Party itself, not just the membership.
I'm just not convinced a policy that simultaneously drives more people to Reform and to nimby Lib Dems is a brilliant idea. The renting, Labour/Green voting class does not strike me as an obvious source of new Conservatives to replace those voters.
It's very difficult to see a route out for the Conservatives.
The key is to get much more housing built so that the renting class have a route out of renting and can become home owners instead.
Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.
How will renters afford to buy these putative new houses? They just as expensive as the existing housing stock.
So, having solved the trans debate yesterday I have stuff to do today but if anyone wants to compile a list of tricky or sensitive issues for me to address in equally forthright, definitive fashion please let me know. Thinking middle east, Sunni/Shia, Israel/Gaza, Jaffa Cake cake or biscuit.
Just the tricky ones pls and I'll come back to you.
A friend tells me renewable energy (namely failing to switch the grid over to gas supply for a rest period) is responsible for the Iberian blackouts.
If this anecdote happens to be true, then it its the "FAILING to switch the grid over" which was responsible, not that one of the generation methods was being renewable energy.
A friend tells me renewable energy (namely failing to switch the grid over to gas supply for a rest period) is responsible for the Iberian blackouts.
“a friend”
If said friend is not a professsional high voltage electrical engineer who builds & maintains modern electrical grids /and/ has source inside the Spanish electrical utilities then their opinion on the cause of the Spanish blackouts is worth about as much as mine, i.e. little or nothing.
Is it so hard to wait a few days for an initial analysis to be published by people who actually know what they’re talking about?
No, it isn't hard but that isn't how news works. With a few exceptions there is much more newsworthiness in discussion of matters that are not known and haven't happened than there is in what has happened. Once the cause of the failure is known the media will lose interest.
Davey congratulates Carney on winning the election and points out that voters in England have an opportunity on Thursday to do the same by voting against the Trump "bootlicker" Nigel Farage
This is a warning for Farage. He needs to keep a distance from Trump
His problem is nowhere near as bad as Poilieivrieriererei’s, Trump isn’t threatening to invade Devon, nonetheless the pitfalls are now apparent. The moron Trump is a menace to all right wingers in the West (tho he is also a problem for incumbent lefties like Starmer)
Davey congratulates Carney on winning the election and points out that voters in England have an opportunity on Thursday to do the same by voting against the Trump "bootlicker" Nigel Farage
This is a warning for Farage. He needs to keep a distance from Trump
His problem is nowhere near as bad as Poilieivrieriererei’s, Trump isn’t threatening to invade Devon, nonetheless the pitfalls are now apparent. The moron Trump is a menace to all right wingers in the West (tho he is also a problem for incumbent lefties like Starmer)
I thought he was threatening in invade Essex, via Clacton.
Reform are the NIMBY party, we’ve had pylons for decades and they want to stop them being built.
This is what I mean when I say whatever Labour try to do, the NIMBY establishment will oppose at any turn. They really need to tell them where to go.
And with that, fin.
I still don't get your 5 strikes and out thing.
WRT pylons, there are two ways to avoid them. 1) Build high-use energy industries near to the power generation source. Instead of cast pylons to carry energy from Scotland down to the Varsity Crescent for datacentres, build those in Aberdeenshire where the power is onshored 2) Build power generation where the pylons already are. As you can't build renewables in Nottinghamshire etc that means building coal / gas which takes time and leaves us reliant on the forrin
Fukkers have a third way - don't bother with woke things like AI datacentres or anything else which needs power. Nor do you have to actually reopen the coal mines or rebuild the coal power stations - you just chant Net Zero is woke and mysteriously we're transported back to 1978!
Five strikes and out is doing several things.
1) LOOK AT ME! 2) Limiting the time he/she is wasting posting on PB (a lesson for us all) 3) Not allowing engagement - PB works best with conversations, not just isolated posts.
Whilst it increases the pre-existing "missives from on high" tone of his posts, it does decrease their frequency. So, on balance, I'll take it.
Didn't expect the Pollievre result, should have listened.
Last year there was talk about what our Tories could learn from him, and i believe he talked about housing a lot. Hopefulky any lessons ours take will not reflect on that point and go super nimby instead.
Sorry, but the housing thing is a dreadful idea. The Conservatives should stay well clear. From my observations of Facebook groups in Edinburgh, you get a toxic mix of:
destroying our green and pleasant land
you only need this housing because of our record immigration
depressing house values for "poor" pensioners
House building hurts every core Conservative demographic.
Well, the core Conservative demographic is now so small that the Tories will be most likely fourth on Thursday. They need new ideas to attract new voters, or the grim reaper will come for the Party itself, not just the membership.
I'm just not convinced a policy that simultaneously drives more people to Reform and to nimby Lib Dems is a brilliant idea. The renting, Labour/Green voting class does not strike me as an obvious source of new Conservatives to replace those voters.
It's very difficult to see a route out for the Conservatives.
The key is to get much more housing built so that the renting class have a route out of renting and can become home owners instead.
Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.
How will renters afford to buy these putative new houses? They just as expensive as the existing housing stock.
Of course they are, because there aren't anywhere near enough of them. Build many, many, many more and prices would come down. Competition works to drive down prices.
And with enough competition it won't just be new homes that are cheaper, the existing stock will be too as both rise or fall together.
Of course that's why some people want regulations to prevent new homes, as they want the state to get in the way of competition to drive up the price of their asset. No Conservative should be backing regulations designed to increase prices and decrease competition and distort the economy though.
Reform are the NIMBY party, we’ve had pylons for decades and they want to stop them being built.
This is what I mean when I say whatever Labour try to do, the NIMBY establishment will oppose at any turn. They really need to tell them where to go.
And with that, fin.
Of course underground cables are more expensive than pylons. The question after yesterday's festival of candle-light on the Costas should be about resilience, not just cost.
So, having solved the trans debate yesterday I have stuff to do today but if anyone wants to compile a list of tricky or sensitive issues for me to address in equally forthright, definitive fashion please let me know. Thinking middle east, Sunni/Shia, Israel/Gaza, Jaffa Cake cake or biscuit.
Just the tricky ones pls and I'll come back to you.
Jam or cream on top? (No pressure, but the Devon police have been told to look out for those giving the wrong answer...)
A friend tells me renewable energy (namely failing to switch the grid over to gas supply for a rest period) is responsible for the Iberian blackouts.
“a friend”
If said friend is not a professsional high voltage electrical engineer who builds & maintains modern electrical grids /and/ has source inside the Spanish electrical utilities then their opinion on the cause of the Spanish blackouts is worth about as much as mine, i.e. little or nothing.
Is it so hard to wait a few days for an initial analysis to be published by people who actually know what they’re talking about?
Rejoice. Canada points the way to defeat the right.
Kinda. The right's vote increased significantly.
Canada points the way to how to deal with Trump/bullies. Put in office somebody who will stand up to Trump - and take alternative paths around him. Replacing Starmer with Farage is not the answer.
A friend tells me renewable energy (namely failing to switch the grid over to gas supply for a rest period) is responsible for the Iberian blackouts.
Unless you're referring to 'a friend' in the 'a spy' meaning then I'd not place too much weight on it without other credentials.
I had a friend who believed in the power of crystals and that chlorination and fluoridation of drinking water were a plot to kill the masses*. I distanced myself a bit when I realised he was a total loon.
It will be interesting with the blackouts whether it turns out to be some stupid cockup somewhere or a rare and previously unexperienced manifestation of physics asserting itself over engineering.
*to be fair, chlorination is a mass murder exercise when it comes to waterbourne pathogens, but I don't think that's what he meant.
It's certainly true that a fossil fuel powered grid has more 'inertia' (the ability to smooth out frequency fluctuations) simply because of the way generators work.
A grid more reliant on renewables for supply (particularly solar) needs to have that designed back in. Which is not particularly difficult, as Texas has shown. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy20osti/73856.pdf
My WAG is that something extra happened to tip the system into instability. And once that's fully diagnosed it ought to be readily preventable in the future.
Davey congratulates Carney on winning the election and points out that voters in England have an opportunity on Thursday to do the same by voting against the Trump "bootlicker" Nigel Farage
This is a warning for Farage. He needs to keep a distance from Trump
His problem is nowhere near as bad as Poilieivrieriererei’s, Trump isn’t threatening to invade Devon, nonetheless the pitfalls are now apparent. The moron Trump is a menace to all right wingers in the West (tho he is also a problem for incumbent lefties like Starmer)
Bit too late for Nigel I'd have said. There's an abundance of footage of him acting like Trump's butler. The British Right is split between those like Farage and Badenoch who took the knee to MAGA and those who were, rightly, more circumspect. Actually Jenrick falls into the latter camp, so he might reap the benefits later.
Reform are the NIMBY party, we’ve had pylons for decades and they want to stop them being built.
This is what I mean when I say whatever Labour try to do, the NIMBY establishment will oppose at any turn. They really need to tell them where to go.
And with that, fin.
I still don't get your 5 strikes and out thing.
WRT pylons, there are two ways to avoid them. 1) Build high-use energy industries near to the power generation source. Instead of cast pylons to carry energy from Scotland down to the Varsity Crescent for datacentres, build those in Aberdeenshire where the power is onshored 2) Build power generation where the pylons already are. As you can't build renewables in Nottinghamshire etc that means building coal / gas which takes time and leaves us reliant on the forrin
Fukkers have a third way - don't bother with woke things like AI datacentres or anything else which needs power. Nor do you have to actually reopen the coal mines or rebuild the coal power stations - you just chant Net Zero is woke and mysteriously we're transported back to 1978!
A party that opposes the pylons being built from Norwich to Tilbury will clean up. It’s the one thing that seems to unite people of all political persuasions round here. People would rather higher energy bills than the neighbourhood ruined
A year after they've been built nobody will even notice them any more.
Farage I suspect will wisely keep himself away from Trump going forward.
With the state of Trump's polling, everybody will.
I wonder if Trump will try to fix the polling with some sort of presidential order at some point? 'Clearly anti-American' to publish such findings after all.
Wouldnt be a surprise if Trump goes after the pollsters in a serious way.
President Donald Trump has said pollsters that have shown his approval ratings sliding in recent weeks should be investigated for "election fraud."
Trump cited recent polls from The New York Times, ABC News/The Washington Post, and Fox News, which put his approval rating on 42 percent, 39 percent, and 44 percent respectively.
Responding to the polls, Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday: "They are negative criminals who apologize to their subscribers and readers after I win elections big, much bigger than their polls showed I would win, loose a lot of credibility, and then go on cheating and lying for the next cycle, only worse."
THEY ARE SICK, almost only write negative stories about me no matter how well I am doing (99.9% at the Border, BEST NUMBER EVER!), AND ARE TRULY THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!
He is just such a twat.
The world should ban the use of the word "Trump". Jut refer to the President, if you bothered reporting him at all. THAT is the way to get to him. Ignoring him.
Many Germans have a problem distinguishing between e.g. Harry and hurry, between the short "a" and "u" vowels. say these two at a normal "English tempo" and over half will say they can't hear the difference, or have no idea which is which.
This mix-up some times leaks into speaking these vowels as well.
Last were there was a CDU politition who regularly called the US President "TRAMP"
Explains the failure to dent the German charts of Sham 69's "Hurry Up Harry"...
Didn't expect the Pollievre result, should have listened.
Last year there was talk about what our Tories could learn from him, and i believe he talked about housing a lot. Hopefulky any lessons ours take will not reflect on that point and go super nimby instead.
Sorry, but the housing thing is a dreadful idea. The Conservatives should stay well clear. From my observations of Facebook groups in Edinburgh, you get a toxic mix of:
destroying our green and pleasant land
you only need this housing because of our record immigration
depressing house values for "poor" pensioners
House building hurts every core Conservative demographic.
Well, the core Conservative demographic is now so small that the Tories will be most likely fourth on Thursday. They need new ideas to attract new voters, or the grim reaper will come for the Party itself, not just the membership.
I'm just not convinced a policy that simultaneously drives more people to Reform and to nimby Lib Dems is a brilliant idea. The renting, Labour/Green voting class does not strike me as an obvious source of new Conservatives to replace those voters.
It's very difficult to see a route out for the Conservatives.
The key is to get much more housing built so that the renting class have a route out of renting and can become home owners instead.
Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.
How will renters afford to buy these putative new houses? They just as expensive as the existing housing stock.
Build enough & rents fall. It’s not rocket science.
Oh Canada! With Trump and the power of Trump having been defeated, its time to listen to Carney. The previous US-led free trade world "is over". Instead of wazzocking around like Starmer trying to obsequiously crawl to defend this former world order we should ally with our brothers and sisters in Canada in building the new one.
You don’t want to alienate the US institutions. Trump is like a bad dream but we will wake up.
Davey congratulates Carney on winning the election and points out that voters in England have an opportunity on Thursday to do the same by voting against the Trump "bootlicker" Nigel Farage
This is a warning for Farage. He needs to keep a distance from Trump
His problem is nowhere near as bad as Poilieivrieriererei’s, Trump isn’t threatening to invade Devon, nonetheless the pitfalls are now apparent. The moron Trump is a menace to all right wingers in the West (tho he is also a problem for incumbent lefties like Starmer)
It is interesting that the alt-right is starting to, if not split, then at least show strain. Musk is out of the inner circle; Joe Rogan disapproved of illegal rendition; Jordan Peterson (in Britain in June) suggested Andrew Tate attracts losers. The problem with Trump though is partly his volatility. If he'd choose a position and stick to it, politicos of right and left could adjust to the new normal. As it is, any announcement has a half life of hours rather than weeks or months.
Farage? Farage is NOTA. It is a mistake for Conservatives and Labour to point to Reform's policies or lack of same – a category error. What they must do instead is make NOTA-voters' lives better.
As for Pierre Poilievre, there will be Twixed photos of his meetings with Kemi and Jenrick but no voter in Britain has a clue who he is or why he has a French name, so no harm done.
Didn't expect the Pollievre result, should have listened.
Last year there was talk about what our Tories could learn from him, and i believe he talked about housing a lot. Hopefulky any lessons ours take will not reflect on that point and go super nimby instead.
Sorry, but the housing thing is a dreadful idea. The Conservatives should stay well clear. From my observations of Facebook groups in Edinburgh, you get a toxic mix of:
destroying our green and pleasant land
you only need this housing because of our record immigration
depressing house values for "poor" pensioners
House building hurts every core Conservative demographic.
Well, the core Conservative demographic is now so small that the Tories will be most likely fourth on Thursday. They need new ideas to attract new voters, or the grim reaper will come for the Party itself, not just the membership.
I'm just not convinced a policy that simultaneously drives more people to Reform and to nimby Lib Dems is a brilliant idea. The renting, Labour/Green voting class does not strike me as an obvious source of new Conservatives to replace those voters.
It's very difficult to see a route out for the Conservatives.
The key is to get much more housing built so that the renting class have a route out of renting and can become home owners instead.
Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.
How will renters afford to buy these putative new houses? They just as expensive as the existing housing stock.
Build enough & rents fall. It’s not rocket science.
So, having solved the trans debate yesterday I have stuff to do today but if anyone wants to compile a list of tricky or sensitive issues for me to address in equally forthright, definitive fashion please let me know. Thinking middle east, Sunni/Shia, Israel/Gaza, Jaffa Cake cake or biscuit.
Just the tricky ones pls and I'll come back to you.
Jam or cream on top? (No pressure, but the Devon police have been told to look out for those giving the wrong answer...)
Given that they're the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary they will be conflicted themselves.
Didn't expect the Pollievre result, should have listened.
Last year there was talk about what our Tories could learn from him, and i believe he talked about housing a lot. Hopefulky any lessons ours take will not reflect on that point and go super nimby instead.
Sorry, but the housing thing is a dreadful idea. The Conservatives should stay well clear. From my observations of Facebook groups in Edinburgh, you get a toxic mix of:
destroying our green and pleasant land
you only need this housing because of our record immigration
depressing house values for "poor" pensioners
House building hurts every core Conservative demographic.
Well, the core Conservative demographic is now so small that the Tories will be most likely fourth on Thursday. They need new ideas to attract new voters, or the grim reaper will come for the Party itself, not just the membership.
I'm just not convinced a policy that simultaneously drives more people to Reform and to nimby Lib Dems is a brilliant idea. The renting, Labour/Green voting class does not strike me as an obvious source of new Conservatives to replace those voters.
It's very difficult to see a route out for the Conservatives.
The key is to get much more housing built so that the renting class have a route out of renting and can become home owners instead.
Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.
How will renters afford to buy these putative new houses? They just as expensive as the existing housing stock.
Build enough & rents fall. It’s not rocket science.
Didn't expect the Pollievre result, should have listened.
Last year there was talk about what our Tories could learn from him, and i believe he talked about housing a lot. Hopefulky any lessons ours take will not reflect on that point and go super nimby instead.
Sorry, but the housing thing is a dreadful idea. The Conservatives should stay well clear. From my observations of Facebook groups in Edinburgh, you get a toxic mix of:
destroying our green and pleasant land
you only need this housing because of our record immigration
depressing house values for "poor" pensioners
House building hurts every core Conservative demographic.
Well, the core Conservative demographic is now so small that the Tories will be most likely fourth on Thursday. They need new ideas to attract new voters, or the grim reaper will come for the Party itself, not just the membership.
I'm just not convinced a policy that simultaneously drives more people to Reform and to nimby Lib Dems is a brilliant idea. The renting, Labour/Green voting class does not strike me as an obvious source of new Conservatives to replace those voters.
It's very difficult to see a route out for the Conservatives.
The key is to get much more housing built so that the renting class have a route out of renting and can become home owners instead.
Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.
How will renters afford to buy these putative new houses? They just as expensive as the existing housing stock.
Build enough & rents fall. It’s not rocket science.
As an alternative, develop triffids, have 99% off people blinded by a meteor shower (or was in Russian nukes?) then there will be housing aplenty for all still alive after 3 months.
We DO clearly need more housing, but its not easy to magic that up. Housing needs builders, plumbers, sparkies, roofers etc. What realistically do we have the capacity to build? I'd be interested in the ideas of modular, kit homes as starters. Not everyone aspires to a three bed semi.
So, having solved the trans debate yesterday I have stuff to do today but if anyone wants to compile a list of tricky or sensitive issues for me to address in equally forthright, definitive fashion please let me know. Thinking middle east, Sunni/Shia, Israel/Gaza, Jaffa Cake cake or biscuit.
Just the tricky ones pls and I'll come back to you.
Jam or cream on top? (No pressure, but the Devon police have been told to look out for those giving the wrong answer...)
Given that they're the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary they will be conflicted themselves.
Good morning, everyone.
Did you hear about the Devon and Cornwall music festival?
It was cancelled after organisers couldn’t agree who should go on first, The Jam or Cream.
Davey congratulates Carney on winning the election and points out that voters in England have an opportunity on Thursday to do the same by voting against the Trump "bootlicker" Nigel Farage
This is a warning for Farage. He needs to keep a distance from Trump
His problem is nowhere near as bad as Poilieivrieriererei’s, Trump isn’t threatening to invade Devon, nonetheless the pitfalls are now apparent. The moron Trump is a menace to all right wingers in the West (tho he is also a problem for incumbent lefties like Starmer)
It is interesting that the alt-right is starting to, if not split, then at least show strain. Musk is out of the inner circle; Joe Rogan disapproved of illegal rendition; Jordan Peterson (in Britain in June) suggested Andrew Tate attracts losers. The problem with Trump though is partly his volatility. If he'd choose a position and stick to it, politicos of right and left could adjust to the new normal. As it is, any announcement has a half life of hours rather than weeks or months.
Farage? Farage is NOTA. It is a mistake for Conservatives and Labour to point to Reform's policies or lack of same – a category error. What they must do instead is make NOTA-voters' lives better.
As for Pierre Poilievre, there will be Twixed photos of his meetings with Kemi and Jenrick but no voter in Britain has a clue who he is or why he has a French name, so no harm done.
If he's got the temerity to flaunt a Franch name, he might actually be French. Shocking. A definite "sell" signal for many in the NOTA camp.
Tbh I think the bigger story here may be that apparently a US aircraft carrier had to make a hard turn to evade incoming fire—I’m guessing maybe for the first time in 80 or so years. Just how close did this incoming fire get? https://x.com/tshugart3/status/1916978293766574193
Didn't expect the Pollievre result, should have listened.
Last year there was talk about what our Tories could learn from him, and i believe he talked about housing a lot. Hopefulky any lessons ours take will not reflect on that point and go super nimby instead.
Sorry, but the housing thing is a dreadful idea. The Conservatives should stay well clear. From my observations of Facebook groups in Edinburgh, you get a toxic mix of:
destroying our green and pleasant land
you only need this housing because of our record immigration
depressing house values for "poor" pensioners
House building hurts every core Conservative demographic.
Well, the core Conservative demographic is now so small that the Tories will be most likely fourth on Thursday. They need new ideas to attract new voters, or the grim reaper will come for the Party itself, not just the membership.
I'm just not convinced a policy that simultaneously drives more people to Reform and to nimby Lib Dems is a brilliant idea. The renting, Labour/Green voting class does not strike me as an obvious source of new Conservatives to replace those voters.
It's very difficult to see a route out for the Conservatives.
The key is to get much more housing built so that the renting class have a route out of renting and can become home owners instead.
Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.
How will renters afford to buy these putative new houses? They just as expensive as the existing housing stock.
Build enough & rents fall. It’s not rocket science.
That depends on who's bidding for the lovely new houses.
And even if it did happen, do we want current mortgage holders to fall into negative equity?
Yes. All investments can go down as well as up.
I am entirely OK with personally going into negative equity, even if I fall into negative equity I will still own my own home and will be making my own repayments and any dip into negative equity is typically temporary at most. Whereas never-ending escalating prices are a horrendous alternative that have been an utter disaster.
So, having solved the trans debate yesterday I have stuff to do today but if anyone wants to compile a list of tricky or sensitive issues for me to address in equally forthright, definitive fashion please let me know. Thinking middle east, Sunni/Shia, Israel/Gaza, Jaffa Cake cake or biscuit.
Just the tricky ones pls and I'll come back to you.
Jam or cream on top? (No pressure, but the Devon police have been told to look out for those giving the wrong answer...)
Given that they're the Devon & Cornwall Constabulary they will be conflicted themselves.
Good morning, everyone.
Got to get through Devon to get to Cornwall though...
Didn't expect the Pollievre result, should have listened.
Last year there was talk about what our Tories could learn from him, and i believe he talked about housing a lot. Hopefulky any lessons ours take will not reflect on that point and go super nimby instead.
Sorry, but the housing thing is a dreadful idea. The Conservatives should stay well clear. From my observations of Facebook groups in Edinburgh, you get a toxic mix of:
destroying our green and pleasant land
you only need this housing because of our record immigration
depressing house values for "poor" pensioners
House building hurts every core Conservative demographic.
Well, the core Conservative demographic is now so small that the Tories will be most likely fourth on Thursday. They need new ideas to attract new voters, or the grim reaper will come for the Party itself, not just the membership.
I'm just not convinced a policy that simultaneously drives more people to Reform and to nimby Lib Dems is a brilliant idea. The renting, Labour/Green voting class does not strike me as an obvious source of new Conservatives to replace those voters.
It's very difficult to see a route out for the Conservatives.
The key is to get much more housing built so that the renting class have a route out of renting and can become home owners instead.
Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.
How will renters afford to buy these putative new houses? They just as expensive as the existing housing stock.
Build enough & rents fall. It’s not rocket science.
That depends on who's bidding for the lovely new houses.
And even if it did happen, do we want current mortgage holders to fall into negative equity?
We might not want negative equity but if it is inevitable then perhaps a state-backed WeBuyAnyHouse (.com) could be created, or WeRollOverAnyMortgage (subject to safeguards against abuse) because too much money disappears into housing costs rather than expanding the productive economy.
Davey congratulates Carney on winning the election and points out that voters in England have an opportunity on Thursday to do the same by voting against the Trump "bootlicker" Nigel Farage
This is a warning for Farage. He needs to keep a distance from Trump
His problem is nowhere near as bad as Poilieivrieriererei’s, Trump isn’t threatening to invade Devon, nonetheless the pitfalls are now apparent. The moron Trump is a menace to all right wingers in the West (tho he is also a problem for incumbent lefties like Starmer)
It is interesting that the alt-right is starting to, if not split, then at least show strain. Musk is out of the inner circle; Joe Rogan disapproved of illegal rendition; Jordan Peterson (in Britain in June) suggested Andrew Tate attracts losers. The problem with Trump though is partly his volatility. If he'd choose a position and stick to it, politicos of right and left could adjust to the new normal. As it is, any announcement has a half life of hours rather than weeks or months.
Farage? Farage is NOTA. It is a mistake for Conservatives and Labour to point to Reform's policies or lack of same – a category error. What they must do instead is make NOTA-voters' lives better.
As for Pierre Poilievre, there will be Twixed photos of his meetings with Kemi and Jenrick but no voter in Britain has a clue who he is or why he has a French name, so no harm done.
Yes, it’s a problem for Kemi, Bobby and Nige, but hardly terminal
And, like say, Starmer has his own difficult path to tread, For every photo of Farage with Trump there will be photos of Starmer practically fellating the Don in the Oval
I've said before I'd be entirely comfortable with local Councils and thus local elections being abolished and power in the Councils being handed back to local people being freed to do as they choose without any Council busybodies getting involved.
But the fact that parties campaigning in the "local" elections are campaigning on who the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is, makes a mockery of the local conceit anyway.
Oh Canada! With Trump and the power of Trump having been defeated, its time to listen to Carney. The previous US-led free trade world "is over". Instead of wazzocking around like Starmer trying to obsequiously crawl to defend this former world order we should ally with our brothers and sisters in Canada in building the new one.
You don’t want to alienate the US institutions. Trump is like a bad dream but we will wake up.
Isn't it much more the case of the US institutions needing to wake from their bad dream?
Didn't expect the Pollievre result, should have listened.
Last year there was talk about what our Tories could learn from him, and i believe he talked about housing a lot. Hopefulky any lessons ours take will not reflect on that point and go super nimby instead.
Sorry, but the housing thing is a dreadful idea. The Conservatives should stay well clear. From my observations of Facebook groups in Edinburgh, you get a toxic mix of:
destroying our green and pleasant land
you only need this housing because of our record immigration
depressing house values for "poor" pensioners
House building hurts every core Conservative demographic.
Well, the core Conservative demographic is now so small that the Tories will be most likely fourth on Thursday. They need new ideas to attract new voters, or the grim reaper will come for the Party itself, not just the membership.
I'm just not convinced a policy that simultaneously drives more people to Reform and to nimby Lib Dems is a brilliant idea. The renting, Labour/Green voting class does not strike me as an obvious source of new Conservatives to replace those voters.
It's very difficult to see a route out for the Conservatives.
The key is to get much more housing built so that the renting class have a route out of renting and can become home owners instead.
Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.
How will renters afford to buy these putative new houses? They just as expensive as the existing housing stock.
Build enough & rents fall. It’s not rocket science.
As an alternative, develop triffids, have 99% off people blinded by a meteor shower (or was in Russian nukes?) then there will be housing aplenty for all still alive after 3 months.
We DO clearly need more housing, but its not easy to magic that up. Housing needs builders, plumbers, sparkies, roofers etc. What realistically do we have the capacity to build? I'd be interested in the ideas of modular, kit homes as starters. Not everyone aspires to a three bed semi.
I don’t want to be /too/ Polyanna-ish about the possibilities building more house offers to the UK, but at the moment we’re not even trying.
2/3 of London boroughs didn’t break ground on a single house in the first quarter of this year. That’s how bad it is.
Lol. I promised I'd be remarkably modest if all my bets came in, and I am sticking to that.
However, ALL HAIL MY BRILLIANCE.
I shall be treating myself to caviar at lunch with some of my winnings.
I lost double what I've just won on Trump (the swine) in November, so this is a clawback for me.
Basically, I'm OK at British and Canadian elections but shit at US ones.
It’s been a good election for PBers.
IanB2 got on the Liberals at 10/1 (I got them at 4/1).
Viewcode went for 1/2 on the Liberals at the weekend.
We tipped PP to lose his seat at 14/1.
I nearly went wobbly on Sunday morning with the shy Tories but held my nerve.
It's a salutory lesson that good value losers occasionally come in, and are brilliant winners, and that's why you should keep doing it wherever odds are significantly out of step with the real probability.
Lol. I promised I'd be remarkably modest if all my bets came in, and I am sticking to that.
However, ALL HAIL MY BRILLIANCE.
I shall be treating myself to caviar at lunch with some of my winnings.
There was a book by Mark Coton, who created the Racing Post's Pricewise column during the Thatcher hegemony, in which he cautioned punters not to boast about their triumphs. The foreword mentioned he relaxed by drinking the fine wine he had bought in bulk after Nashwan won the Derby.
Lol. I promised I'd be remarkably modest if all my bets came in, and I am sticking to that.
However, ALL HAIL MY BRILLIANCE.
What were your bets?
1. I’m genuinely intrigued and
2. This is an opportunity to gloat IN DETAiL
(1) Liberal most seats (2) Liberal minority (3) PP to lose his seat
I'm up £365
What's interesting is that I thought that (2) and (3) were likely to be off-setting although clearly still value. (ie if the Libs did so well that PP lost he seat, they would have a majority - if the Libs only had a minority, chances are that PP would survive) - To have won on both sides of that is particularly impressive so kudos...
Who’s having a worst morning. Pierre Poilievre, Donald Trump or Liz Truss…
What’s Liz done now?
Taking a step back, I doubt its Trump. After all he is still the President of the USA, and will be for nearly four more years. He's won two (some say three) presidencies.
Reform are the NIMBY party, we’ve had pylons for decades and they want to stop them being built.
This is what I mean when I say whatever Labour try to do, the NIMBY establishment will oppose at any turn. They really need to tell them where to go.
And with that, fin.
I still don't get your 5 strikes and out thing.
WRT pylons, there are two ways to avoid them. 1) Build high-use energy industries near to the power generation source. Instead of cast pylons to carry energy from Scotland down to the Varsity Crescent for datacentres, build those in Aberdeenshire where the power is onshored 2) Build power generation where the pylons already are. As you can't build renewables in Nottinghamshire etc that means building coal / gas which takes time and leaves us reliant on the forrin
Fukkers have a third way - don't bother with woke things like AI datacentres or anything else which needs power. Nor do you have to actually reopen the coal mines or rebuild the coal power stations - you just chant Net Zero is woke and mysteriously we're transported back to 1978!
A party that opposes the pylons being built from Norwich to Tilbury will clean up. It’s the one thing that seems to unite people of all political persuasions round here. People would rather higher energy bills than the neighbourhood ruined
A year after they've been built nobody will even notice them any more.
Good morning
Opposition to pylons is vocal if you are affected and accusation of NIMBY if you are not
It seems house prices and saliability are compromised whenever any new pylon scheme is proposed and it is likely that opposition will intensify from across affected communities and politics
I expect Lib Dems, Reform and Conservatives to lead the charge against
“We are just in the car back from focus groups this weekend in Beverley, Hull,Scunthorpe & Peterborough and without doubt the disillusionment was the worst I’ve heard, in every group it was anger; despondency or misery about the state of Britain that doesn’t feel sustainable.”
Davey congratulates Carney on winning the election and points out that voters in England have an opportunity on Thursday to do the same by voting against the Trump "bootlicker" Nigel Farage
Ah yes. So voters here should abandon the third party at the last GE (ignoring regional parties with an independence agenda) to coalesce behind the left-most of the two major parties and therefore see off the right-most of the two major parties? That's what Davey is urging, right?
Who’s having a worst morning. Pierre Poilievre, Donald Trump or Liz Truss…
What’s Liz done now?
Taking a step back, I doubt its Trump. After all he is still the President of the USA, and will be for nearly four more years. He's won two (some say three) presidencies.
I wonder if Trump himself genuinely believes that Biden stole the election.
Who’s having a worst morning. Pierre Poilievre, Donald Trump or Liz Truss…
What’s Liz done now?
Taking a step back, I doubt its Trump. After all he is still the President of the USA, and will be for nearly four more years. He's won two (some say three) presidencies.
The Mad King was ranting on truth social late yesterday trying to win it for Poilievre
Lol. I promised I'd be remarkably modest if all my bets came in, and I am sticking to that.
However, ALL HAIL MY BRILLIANCE.
I shall be treating myself to caviar at lunch with some of my winnings.
There was a book by Mark Coton, who created the Racing Post's Pricewise column during the Thatcher hegemony, in which he cautioned punters not to boast about their triumphs. The foreword mentioned he relaxed by drinking the fine wine he had bought in bulk after Nashwan won the Derby.
Which is why I try and be modest and self effacing in all circumstances, like this year I decided to be less conceited and my friends worried if I could manage it, I told them not to worry it would be easy for somebody as brilliant as me.
You are spectacularly missing the point. It was my right of way as a pedestrian. The cyclist didn't slow down, disobeying the red light, and missed me by a centimetre or two.
I think you are spectacularly missing my point. If you rode a bicycle to get around (eg getting to work and back like I do), then the last time someone 'nearly hit' you wouldn't be a few years back. You would be having to take evasive action to preserve life and limb every other day. Or you would be in hospital/dead within a week after trying to argue with a 3.5 tonne rental van 'but it's my right of way!'
Tbh I think the bigger story here may be that apparently a US aircraft carrier had to make a hard turn to evade incoming fire—I’m guessing maybe for the first time in 80 or so years. Just how close did this incoming fire get? https://x.com/tshugart3/status/1916978293766574193
Don't know the facts so can't say for sure but it has the whiff of a story concocted to cover up somebody dropping a bollock.
There are hard and fast rules about handling aircraft based on the sea state and ship's condition. We used to spend days driving round the Atlantic looking for calm weather so we could change a Harrier engine.
Ultimately, the vast and powerful carrier strike group has the mission of protecting the carrier so even if the emergency maneuver story is true then there has been a lapse somewhere.
Currently, there is a legal exemption from sex equality laws that means only women can work in the breast screening service. The radiographers' professional body has proposed ending this and letting men work too, given current staff shortages. Kemi Badenoch opposes the suggestion, saying "most if not all" women would prefer a female radiographer. This reminds me of my late mother, a doctor herself, who said she'd much rather have a male radiographer for a mammogram.
Reform are the NIMBY party, we’ve had pylons for decades and they want to stop them being built.
This is what I mean when I say whatever Labour try to do, the NIMBY establishment will oppose at any turn. They really need to tell them where to go.
And with that, fin.
I still don't get your 5 strikes and out thing.
WRT pylons, there are two ways to avoid them. 1) Build high-use energy industries near to the power generation source. Instead of cast pylons to carry energy from Scotland down to the Varsity Crescent for datacentres, build those in Aberdeenshire where the power is onshored 2) Build power generation where the pylons already are. As you can't build renewables in Nottinghamshire etc that means building coal / gas which takes time and leaves us reliant on the forrin
Fukkers have a third way - don't bother with woke things like AI datacentres or anything else which needs power. Nor do you have to actually reopen the coal mines or rebuild the coal power stations - you just chant Net Zero is woke and mysteriously we're transported back to 1978!
A party that opposes the pylons being built from Norwich to Tilbury will clean up. It’s the one thing that seems to unite people of all political persuasions round here. People would rather higher energy bills than the neighbourhood ruined
A year after they've been built nobody will even notice them any more.
Even if that were true, which I doubt, it doesn’t make it a good thing. Plenty of tragic things happen that people move on from, but it doesn’t mean life is not worse than it was before.
I play football in Grays, and as I turn into the road where the ground is, huge pylons start to dominate the sky. I find it quite depressing, and reminds me that Grays is a bit of a khazi. It doesn’t bother me to be a NIMBY, I’d rather pay higher energy bills than have the pylons spoil the beauty of the countryside
Lol. I promised I'd be remarkably modest if all my bets came in, and I am sticking to that.
However, ALL HAIL MY BRILLIANCE.
I shall be treating myself to caviar at lunch with some of my winnings.
There was a book by Mark Coton, who created the Racing Post's Pricewise column during the Thatcher hegemony, in which he cautioned punters not to boast about their triumphs. The foreword mentioned he relaxed by drinking the fine wine he had bought in bulk after Nashwan won the Derby.
Which is why I try and be modest and self effacing in all circumstances, like this year I decided to be less conceited and my friends worried if I could manage it, I told them not to worry it would be easy for somebody as brilliant as me.
When you finally get a gong, it will be for services to modesty. You will probably have to pose for photographs in the Gold Room holding the Sapphire Sceptre of Imperial Modesty (which you are not allowed to take home with you).
“We are just in the car back from focus groups this weekend in Beverley, Hull, Scunthorpe & Peterborough and without doubt the disillusionment was the worst I’ve heard, in every group it was anger; despondency or misery about the state of Britain that doesn’t feel sustainable.”
The whole thread is illuminating. Farage looking evermore likely to reap the benefits, despite the Trump connection
Do you know any of those places ?
The comment about the steelworks was also interesting. I get the sense that large swathes of the country outside the golden triangle think (not without good reason) that they've been left to rot, by successive governments ever since deindustrialization took hold in the 80s.
The idea that Reform offers any solutions is fanciful.
Tbh I think the bigger story here may be that apparently a US aircraft carrier had to make a hard turn to evade incoming fire—I’m guessing maybe for the first time in 80 or so years. Just how close did this incoming fire get? https://x.com/tshugart3/status/1916978293766574193
Don't know the facts so can't say for sure but it has the whiff of a story concocted to cover up somebody dropping a bollock.
There are hard and fast rules about handling aircraft based on the sea state and ship's condition. We used to spend days driving round the Atlantic looking for calm weather so we could change a Harrier engine.
Ultimately, the vast and powerful carrier strike group has the mission of protecting the carrier so even if the emergency maneuver story is true then there has been a lapse somewhere.
Or "somebody dropping a bollock" is a less embarrassing get out than under fire Hegseth having to admit the Houthis shot down a US plane...?
Who’s having a worst morning. Pierre Poilievre, Donald Trump or Liz Truss…
What’s Liz done now?
Taking a step back, I doubt its Trump. After all he is still the President of the USA, and will be for nearly four more years. He's won two (some say three) presidencies.
I wonder if Trump himself genuinely believes that Biden stole the election.
Its an interesting question. I'm currently reading KL - about the Nazi concentration camps (not a fun read) and listening to the Rest Is History on Munich. Two things play on my mind. I think a great many Germans believed that they were doing the right thing under the Nazis. The We Have Ways guys (Al Murray and James Holland) are doing stuff on 1945 currently and keep returning to ask 'why didn't Germans just give up?' For me its complex - fear of the Russian invader, fear of being shot if you didn't but also we miss the sense that Germans were defending their homeland, and often believed that they were in the right, and that all the world is against them, unfairly,
Now we may scoff at that idea, but we live in a time when we mostly accept that people can believe that they were born in the wrong body, billions still believe in God(s) and its entirely possible that Trump thinks that he did beat Biden and skullduggery prevented his win.
Reform are the NIMBY party, we’ve had pylons for decades and they want to stop them being built.
This is what I mean when I say whatever Labour try to do, the NIMBY establishment will oppose at any turn. They really need to tell them where to go.
And with that, fin.
I still don't get your 5 strikes and out thing.
WRT pylons, there are two ways to avoid them. 1) Build high-use energy industries near to the power generation source. Instead of cast pylons to carry energy from Scotland down to the Varsity Crescent for datacentres, build those in Aberdeenshire where the power is onshored 2) Build power generation where the pylons already are. As you can't build renewables in Nottinghamshire etc that means building coal / gas which takes time and leaves us reliant on the forrin
Fukkers have a third way - don't bother with woke things like AI datacentres or anything else which needs power. Nor do you have to actually reopen the coal mines or rebuild the coal power stations - you just chant Net Zero is woke and mysteriously we're transported back to 1978!
A party that opposes the pylons being built from Norwich to Tilbury will clean up. It’s the one thing that seems to unite people of all political persuasions round here. People would rather higher energy bills than the neighbourhood ruined
A year after they've been built nobody will even notice them any more.
Good morning
Opposition to pylons is vocal if you are affected and accusation of NIMBY if you are not
It seems house prices and saliability are compromised whenever any new pylon scheme is proposed and it is likely that opposition will intensify from across affected communities and politics
I expect Lib Dems, Reform and Conservatives to lead the charge against
Happy to offer a reasonably priced sailability assessment for posters' houses, just message me. Follow-up consultancy on ballasting, sail plan or foil modifications can be quoted for.
Currently, there is a legal exemption from sex equality laws that means only women can work in the breast screening service. The radiographers' professional body has proposed ending this and letting men work too, given current staff shortages. Kemi Badenoch opposes the suggestion, saying "most if not all" women would prefer a female radiographer. This reminds me of my late mother, a doctor herself, who said she'd much rather have a male radiographer for a mammogram.
But then she spent a decade performing several thousand vasectomies.
Tbh I think the bigger story here may be that apparently a US aircraft carrier had to make a hard turn to evade incoming fire—I’m guessing maybe for the first time in 80 or so years. Just how close did this incoming fire get? https://x.com/tshugart3/status/1916978293766574193
Don't know the facts so can't say for sure but it has the whiff of a story concocted to cover up somebody dropping a bollock.
There are hard and fast rules about handling aircraft based on the sea state and ship's condition. We used to spend days driving round the Atlantic looking for calm weather so we could change a Harrier engine.
Ultimately, the vast and powerful carrier strike group has the mission of protecting the carrier so even if the emergency maneuver story is true then there has been a lapse somewhere.
The carrier group has dropped several bollocks on this deployment, so that's pretty well a given. I was just curious as to whether the carrier might have been under any significant threat... taking on a bunch of 3rd world insurgents.
It's not a great look for what's supposed to be the apex of naval power.
Currently, there is a legal exemption from sex equality laws that means only women can work in the breast screening service. The radiographers' professional body has proposed ending this and letting men work too, given current staff shortages. Kemi Badenoch opposes the suggestion, saying "most if not all" women would prefer a female radiographer. This reminds me of my late mother, a doctor herself, who said she'd much rather have a male radiographer for a mammogram.
I heard this on the news this morning and was amazed that men didn’t give scans to women.
I go for full STI checks every few months just to be sure/careful and it’s always a female nurse who does the checks which are inevitably intimate - I would never think of demanding a male nurse as I just want the tests done.
Surely at least mammogram patients should be in a situation where they have to demand a female radiographer so the majority who want to get it done asap can crack on and those with concerns about a chap doing it don’t bung up the system.
Tbh I think the bigger story here may be that apparently a US aircraft carrier had to make a hard turn to evade incoming fire—I’m guessing maybe for the first time in 80 or so years. Just how close did this incoming fire get? https://x.com/tshugart3/status/1916978293766574193
Don't know the facts so can't say for sure but it has the whiff of a story concocted to cover up somebody dropping a bollock.
There are hard and fast rules about handling aircraft based on the sea state and ship's condition. We used to spend days driving round the Atlantic looking for calm weather so we could change a Harrier engine.
Ultimately, the vast and powerful carrier strike group has the mission of protecting the carrier so even if the emergency maneuver story is true then there has been a lapse somewhere.
Or "somebody dropping a bollock" is a less embarrassing get out than under fire Hegseth having to admit the Houthis shot down a US plane...?
The Mad King said in an interview that whiskeyleaks was "going to get it together"
Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kwWEr-Hr_I
Poilievre .
Apparently Paul-ee-ev-rrruh. I am told.
But that Paul-ee looks a bit elided, to me. My first reading would be "pwal" not "paul". Perhaps North Americans mangle French, as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK8MZeRPjhg
If said friend is not a professsional high voltage electrical engineer who builds & maintains modern electrical grids /and/ has source inside the Spanish electrical utilities then their opinion on the cause of the Spanish blackouts is worth about as much as mine, i.e. little or nothing.
Is it so hard to wait a few days for an initial analysis to be published by people who actually know what they’re talking about?
Just the tricky ones pls and I'll come back to you.
His problem is nowhere near as bad as Poilieivrieriererei’s, Trump isn’t threatening to invade Devon, nonetheless the pitfalls are now apparent. The moron Trump is a menace to all right wingers in the West (tho he is also a problem for incumbent lefties like Starmer)
In Québécois French (and français de Belgique) the third syllable is de-emphasised.
And with enough competition it won't just be new homes that are cheaper, the existing stock will be too as both rise or fall together.
Of course that's why some people want regulations to prevent new homes, as they want the state to get in the way of competition to drive up the price of their asset. No Conservative should be backing regulations designed to increase prices and decrease competition and distort the economy though.
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/new-indie-press-conduit-books-launches-with-initial-focus-on-male-authors
Canada points the way to how to deal with Trump/bullies. Put in office somebody who will stand up to Trump - and take alternative paths around him. Replacing Starmer with Farage is not the answer.
A grid more reliant on renewables for supply (particularly solar) needs to have that designed back in.
Which is not particularly difficult, as Texas has shown.
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy20osti/73856.pdf
My WAG is that something extra happened to tip the system into instability.
And once that's fully diagnosed it ought to be readily preventable in the future.
https://bsky.app/profile/rolandmcs.bsky.social/post/3lnwvnxgsbc2q
Male authors
Female authors
Unknown sex of author
That would save a lot of time in choosing books to buy.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/22/austin-texas-rents-falling/
Farage? Farage is NOTA. It is a mistake for Conservatives and Labour to point to Reform's policies or lack of same – a category error. What they must do instead is make NOTA-voters' lives better.
As for Pierre Poilievre, there will be Twixed photos of his meetings with Kemi and Jenrick but no voter in Britain has a clue who he is or why he has a French name, so no harm done.
And even if it did happen, do we want current mortgage holders to fall into negative equity?
Good morning, everyone.
Gee how ground-breaking, the concept that competition works.
Competition is healthy. We need much more of it.
We DO clearly need more housing, but its not easy to magic that up. Housing needs builders, plumbers, sparkies, roofers etc. What realistically do we have the capacity to build? I'd be interested in the ideas of modular, kit homes as starters. Not everyone aspires to a three bed semi.
It was cancelled after organisers couldn’t agree who should go on first, The Jam or Cream.
Tbh I think the bigger story here may be that apparently a US aircraft carrier had to make a hard turn to evade incoming fire—I’m guessing maybe for the first time in 80 or so years. Just how close did this incoming fire get?
https://x.com/tshugart3/status/1916978293766574193
I am entirely OK with personally going into negative equity, even if I fall into negative equity I will still own my own home and will be making my own repayments and any dip into negative equity is typically temporary at most. Whereas never-ending escalating prices are a horrendous alternative that have been an utter disaster.
However, ALL HAIL MY BRILLIANCE.
Carney’s victory will further embolden the Lib Dems – their Trump stance is winning them support in the local elections.
https://bsky.app/profile/georgeeaton.bsky.social/post/3lnwxvmifbk2i
https://x.com/DecodingFoxNews/status/1917002631492604337
Who’s having a worst morning. Pierre Poilievre, Donald Trump or Liz Truss…
And, like say, Starmer has his own difficult path to tread, For every photo of Farage with Trump there will be photos of Starmer practically fellating the Don in the Oval
But the fact that parties campaigning in the "local" elections are campaigning on who the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is, makes a mockery of the local conceit anyway.
1. I’m genuinely intrigued and
2. This is an opportunity to gloat IN DETAiL
2/3 of London boroughs didn’t break ground on a single house in the first quarter of this year. That’s how bad it is.
Makes up for some of my F1 bets (although, to be fair, Norris was 0.7s off Russell in Bahrain...).
(2) Liberal minority
(3) PP to lose his seat
I'm up £365
Basically, I'm OK at British and Canadian elections but shit at US ones.
IanB2 got on the Liberals at 10/1 (I got them at 4/1).
Viewcode went for 1/2 on the Liberals at the weekend.
We tipped PP to lose his seat at 14/1 and went for Liberal minority too.
I nearly went wobbly on Sunday morning with the shy Tories but held my nerve.
Stand to be corrected, but a 14/1 tip 2 days from the event must be on the podium.
Opposition to pylons is vocal if you are affected and accusation of NIMBY if you are not
It seems house prices and saliability are compromised whenever any new pylon scheme is proposed and it is likely that opposition will intensify from across affected communities and politics
I expect Lib Dems, Reform and Conservatives to lead the charge against
“We are just in the car back from focus groups this weekend in Beverley, Hull,Scunthorpe & Peterborough and without doubt the disillusionment was the worst I’ve heard, in every group it was anger; despondency or misery about the state of Britain that doesn’t feel sustainable.”
https://x.com/luketryl/status/1916966965777760267?s=61&t=GGp3Vs1t1kTWDiyA-odnZg
The whole thread is illuminating. Farage looking evermore likely to reap the benefits, despite the Trump connection
Nigel Farage conceded defeat and moved on to talking a second referendum which sent the price out.
He will not be happy this morning
There’s a touch of copy cat going on with some 😇
There are hard and fast rules about handling aircraft based on the sea state and ship's condition. We used to spend days driving round the Atlantic looking for calm weather so we could change a Harrier engine.
Ultimately, the vast and powerful carrier strike group has the mission of protecting the carrier so even if the emergency maneuver story is true then there has been a lapse somewhere.
I thought he was out to destroy them
Currently, there is a legal exemption from sex equality laws that means only women can work in the breast screening service. The radiographers' professional body has proposed ending this and letting men work too, given current staff shortages. Kemi Badenoch opposes the suggestion, saying "most if not all" women would prefer a female radiographer. This reminds me of my late mother, a doctor herself, who said she'd much rather have a male radiographer for a mammogram.
I play football in Grays, and as I turn into the road where the ground is, huge pylons start to dominate the sky. I find it quite depressing, and reminds me that Grays is a bit of a khazi. It doesn’t bother me to be a NIMBY, I’d rather pay higher energy bills than have the pylons spoil the beauty of the countryside
The comment about the steelworks was also interesting.
I get the sense that large swathes of the country outside the golden triangle think (not without good reason) that they've been left to rot, by successive governments ever since deindustrialization took hold in the 80s.
The idea that Reform offers any solutions is fanciful.
Now we may scoff at that idea, but we live in a time when we mostly accept that people can believe that they were born in the wrong body, billions still believe in God(s) and its entirely possible that Trump thinks that he did beat Biden and skullduggery prevented his win.
Follow-up consultancy on ballasting, sail plan or foil modifications can be quoted for.
'Look who's telling us not to vote for Carney..'
(also applies to Big Daddy Trump of course)
YouGov / Sky / Times voting intention
RefUK 26%(+1),
LAB 23%(nc),
CON 20%(nc),
LDEM 15%(-1),
GRN 9%(-1)
Change on last week.
https://x.com/samcoatessky/status/1917081391080046888?s=46&t=CW4pL-mMpTqsJXCdjW0Z6Q
It's not a great look for what's supposed to be the apex of naval power.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1606896156636308
I go for full STI checks every few months just to be sure/careful and it’s always a female nurse who does the checks which are inevitably intimate - I would never think of demanding a male nurse as I just want the tests done.
Surely at least mammogram patients should be in a situation where they have to demand a female radiographer so the majority who want to get it done asap can crack on and those with concerns about a chap doing it don’t bung up the system.
Vote Farage, get Tory One Million a Year Immigration figures. Vote Kemi, get Farages “sacked for Home Working” 😆
You really can’t add the party’s opinion poll numbers together and get the seat Forecast. Fools Gold.
So he doesn't have it together right now then...
But you are right