Thing with that sort of vote is it doesn't turn out if the cause is hopeless. What's the point of voting Reform in Bootle? But then when those same people think their vote might actually change somet… (View Post)

Trouble with that is that the real beneficiaries from that policy are people like my parents who have a solar + battery setup that means they are basically off-grid 11 months of the year. Their only … (View Post)

FTP Of course we're too full. Look at the really nice parts of the country, (eg. Derbyshire Dales) and they have one thing in common. Low population density. I've lived in umpteen different places, t… (View Post)

. The argument that "People believe immigration is the source of all the problems" thing is an attempt to engage in a fallacy which says "this thing isn't the whole cause of the proble… (View Post)

The problem is the absence of what is called "spinning reserve". Back in the good old days, when almost all our electricity was produced by burning stuff, generation worked as follows: Burn… (View Post)