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Post by adrianc on Apr 28, 2024 8:11:07 GMT
gridwatch.co.uk/www.ofgem.gov.uk/energy-policy-and-regulation/policy-and-regulatory-programmes/interconnectorsImport France IFA = 1GW (2GW capacity) France IFA2 = 1GW (1GW) France Eleclink = 1GW (1GW) NL = 1GW (1GW) Belgium Nemo = 850MW (1GW) Norway (NSL) = 850MW (1.4GW) Export Ireland Moyle = 450MW (500MW capacity) Ireland EW = 530MW (500MW) Denmark = 60MW (1.4GW) Usage = 28GW I make that net import of 5.1GW, so 18%. UK renewable generation is 37% (includes biomass, excludes nuclear), UK carbon neutral generation is 52% (includes nuclear, excludes biomass) The import countries are all primarily nuclear or renewable generation. UK fossil generation is 16%. It's importing gas and oil from the gulf and from the eastern fringes of eurasia that are the threats to energy security, not importing "green" electricity from next-door neighbours in the EU and EEA.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 28, 2024 7:38:00 GMT
Has everyone sorted out their Voter ID for the elections We're all the kind of people who will have perfectly acceptable photo ID already - passports, driving licences. We're not the ones that the blatant attempt at disenfranchisement and gerrymandering is aimed at. Only Police & Crime Commissioner round here, too. One candidate from each of the main four parties, plus one from a hate-based extremist party. We've had precisely zero from any of the main four, my mother (lives in the same area) has had just one from the bigot. Looking at the online promises, they're all for good things and against bad things, except for the one who's against lots of good things.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 27, 2024 16:27:10 GMT
Quick question... Which general election manifesto was the first to introduce the right to buy council housing? Answer: Labour, 1959... The issue isn't the right to buy. The issue is that local authorities can't replace the stock. The 1959 change didn't give the right to buy, just a possibility to buy, which already existed in a limited way from 1936 apparently. '1.1 Before ‘right to buy’
Legislation on the construction and sale of local authority housing was introduced from the end of the first world war onwards:
The Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act 1919 introduced council housing to the UK for the first time.
The Housing Act 1936 permitted local authorities to sell their social housing stock to tenants with ministerial consent.
The House Purchase and Housing Act 1959 removed the requirement of ministerial consent for sale. Tenants were still unable to purchase their home without agreement from the local authority.
1.2 Housing Act 1980
In 1980, the then government passed legislation which enabled many local authority tenants to buy their home at a discounted rate. This followed a pledge in the 1979 Conservative Party manifesto to give local authority tenants the ‘right to buy’ their own home. The manifesto said that helping people into home ownership was one of party’s “five tasks”. After winning the subsequent general election, the new Conservative government introduced the Housing Act 1980. This act gave the tenants of over 5mn local authority houses in England and Wales the right to purchase their home.....'1959 was a Labour manifesto pledge. They lost the election. It didn't happen. www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1959/1959-labour-manifesto.shtml"Housing Labour's policy has two aims: to help people buy their own homes and to ensure an adequate supply of decent houses to let at a fair rent.
As a first step we shall repeal the Rent Act, restore security of tenure to decontrolled houses, stop further decontrol, and ensure fair rents by giving a right of appeal to rent tribunals.
The return of a Tory Government would mean further rent increases and the decontrol of many more houses. We say this despite the official Tory assurance that there will be no decontrol during the life of the next Parliament-for we remember what happened last time.
During the 1955 Election Mr. Bevan prophesied that rents of controlled houses would be increased if the Conservatives came back to power. Two days later the Conservative Central Office denied this, and said there was no truth in his statement. In 1957 the Conservative Government introduced the Rent Act.
Under the Tories, home purchasers have been subject to unpredictable and burden-some increases of interest rates. Labour will bring interest rates down. We shall also reform leasehold law to enable leaseholders with long leases to buy their own homes.
Council building of rented houses has been slashed under the Tories chiefly as a result of higher interest rates and the abolition of the general housing subsidy. We shall reverse their policy by restoring the subsidy and providing cheaper money for housing purposes. We shall encourage councils to press on with slum clearance.
At the last count there were seven million households in Britain with no bath, and over three million sharing or entirely without a w.c. The Tories have tried to induce private land lords to improve their property by means of public grants, with very small success. Labour's plan is that, with reasonable exceptions, local councils shall take over houses which were rent-controlled before 1 January, 1956, and are still tenanted. They will repair and modernise these houses and let them at fair rents. This is a big job which will take time and its speed will vary according to local conditions.
Every tenant, however, will have a chance first to buy from the Council the house he lives in; and all Council tenants in future will enjoy the same security of tenure as rent-restricted tenants."
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Post by adrianc on Apr 27, 2024 15:32:37 GMT
You do like to pick your sources, don't you? Judge Andrew Napolitano's podcast. Napolitano is a Trump loyalist, who used one of his regular slots on Fox News (before he was sacked amongst sexual harrassment allegations) to claim that British Intelligence were bugging Trump Tower at Obama's request, argued the civil war was about taxes not slavery, that inter-racial marriage and same-sex marriage are indistinguishable (and, obvs, wrong), is a 9/11 denier. Meanwhile, Mearsheimer claimed in the early days of the first Gulf War that it'd be a walkover, has argued for a decade that the US is on a collision course for war with China, thought Ukraine should have kept its post-USSR nukes, and... <drum-roll> thought in 2014 that the annexation of Crimea etc was all the US's fault... Oh, and that Sweden and Finland joining NATO increases their threat from Russia, too. So, yeh. You're not straying far from finding stuff that merely supports your preconceptions, are you? I cant comment on these allegations you are making against these highly respected individuals. They're all very well documented. Simple facts, in other words. www.thedailybeast.com/judge-andrew-napolitano-resurfaces-on-newsmax-after-fox-news-ouster-over-sexual-misconduct-claimswww.huffpost.com/entry/andrew-napolitano-fox-bus_n_788219www.jstor.org/stable/24483306I thought you "did your own research"? A very large part of that is validating the credibility of sources, y'know.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 27, 2024 15:21:03 GMT
An excellent independent summary of the situation in Ukraine. You do like to pick your sources, don't you? Judge Andrew Napolitano's podcast. Napolitano is a Trump loyalist, who used one of his regular slots on Fox News (before he was sacked amongst sexual harrassment allegations) to claim that British Intelligence were bugging Trump Tower at Obama's request, argued the civil war was about taxes not slavery, that inter-racial marriage and same-sex marriage are indistinguishable (and, obvs, wrong), is a 9/11 denier. Meanwhile, Mearsheimer claimed in the early days of the first Gulf War that it'd be a walkover, has argued for a decade that the US is on a collision course for war with China, thought Ukraine should have kept its post-USSR nukes, and... <drum-roll> thought in 2014 that the annexation of Crimea etc was all the US's fault... Oh, and that Sweden and Finland joining NATO increases their threat from Russia, too. So, yeh. You're not straying far from finding stuff that merely supports your preconceptions, are you?
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Post by adrianc on Apr 26, 2024 21:57:54 GMT
I also think as good labour people the fact they both got money out of right to buy (a despised by labour Tory policy) which presumably they objected to on principle, sticks in the throat of people struggling to get into council housing. Quick question... Which general election manifesto was the first to introduce the right to buy council housing? Answer: Labour, 1959... The issue isn't the right to buy. The issue is that local authorities can't replace the stock.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 26, 2024 21:52:40 GMT
QI informs me the chances of an American president dieing in office is a 8 in 44 Perhaps a decade ago - but now 8 in 46, surely? (Four natural causes, four shot, fwiw) If we introduce a bit of actuarial guesstimation, only a fool would say that either of the current pair had anything close to that low a risk of adding to the natural causes tally. But it seems a safe bet to me that while Joe might have a smallish head start on Donald, lifestyle and diet are very likely to have a say in the outcome... Biden alive at 86? Trump alive at 82? Place bets.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 26, 2024 15:19:35 GMT
If on the other hand she has broken electoral rules by registering to vote where she should not have been Strange how that didn't pop up at all until the "but tax!" story had started to die down. Lord Ashcroft (former Tory vice-chair) broke the story at the start of March in a serialisation of his biog of her. A local (wall seat) Tory MP introduced the registration as a way to get the police to re-open the closed investigation, in mid April. Only HMRC and Zahawi know for sure, but the penalty is understood to be 30% - which would be RIGHT AT THE VERY top of "inadvertent error", but low-to-mid-range for "deliberate evasion". Not that you can "inadvertently" channel a share sale through a Gibraltarian trust... The investigation into his tax affairs included the Serious Fraud Office and the National Crime Agency's International Crime Unit, came to the attention of the government when the Cabinet Office raised questions on his appointment as chancellor, then only became public later when a journo submitted an FoI to ask if any ministers were under tax investigation.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 26, 2024 11:47:18 GMT
Is that a mis-spelling of Farage or someone in the Labour party, serious question. I thought it would be the woman who kept crossing her legs in front of Boris triggering his downfall. Angela 'two homes' Rayner ... not sure she will be in role by GE. It's astonishing how much traction something so trivial has gained - along with the sheer hypocrisy of the Tories on this. Rayner *might* owe ~£1,500 of CGT from selling her former home after she got married. Meanwhile, it's only just over a year since Nadim Zahawi (formerly both party chair and Chancellor of the Exchequer) paid a 30% penalty on top of back tax, a total estimated to be nearly five million quid, to settle a dispute with HMRC over deliberate CGT evasion from funnelling YouGov share sales through an offshore trust. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nadhim-zahawi-tax-settlement-penalty-hmrc-b2266163.htmlIt's the exact same playbook as the "beergate" non-event being hyped to deflect from the Downing Street piss-ups.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 26, 2024 11:21:58 GMT
Why is it always "pensioners"...? Apart from a decade and a half of the pension triple lock, at a time when many people's real income has fallen, there's house value wealth. That's the main reason why more than one in four over-65s lives in a household with net wealth of more than £1m. To turn that round, a large majority of households with net wealth of more than £1m have an over-65 in them... It's neither sinful nor surprising that the demographic who've worked the longest have amassed the largest savings and/or property wealth. Those successful wealthy pensioners you apparently hold in contempt still pay their fair share of income and other taxes. As for the triple lock, it safeguards some of the poorest people in the land. Remember the state pension is only something like half the national minimum wage, so no committed socialist should ever resent the triple lock, for many pensioners their only glimmer of hope. "Contempt"? Who said anything about contempt? I'm merely pointing out that "pensioner" is not the same thing as poor. We know that this government do not care one jot about people in poverty, only those most likely to vote for them.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 26, 2024 8:50:10 GMT
...having defected from the SNP after losing the leadership election to Yousuf post-Sturgeon. I think she came third. Distant. 11% of the vote in the first round. That would make things interesting - she's the religious nutter one that's against pre-marital sex, homosexuality (not just equal marriage), abortion, Sunday trading, etc etc.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 25, 2024 22:31:14 GMT
Can I refer you to the wording of both ECHR and UN Universal Declaration? I think they stand for themselves. Which bits of them do you disagree with? You said the west should set an example that encourages others to follow. Or similar wording. Correct? p2pindependentforum.com/post/492456Saudi, Congo, DRC are all members of the UN and have all ratified the universal declaration. Do you think they're following it?
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Post by adrianc on Apr 25, 2024 21:41:05 GMT
That appears to give a lot of power to the single independent MP (who represents Alex Salmond's Alba party) ...having defected from the SNP after losing the leadership election to Yousuf post-Sturgeon.
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Post by adrianc on Apr 25, 2024 21:39:15 GMT
Lets rewind a little. You said the west should set an example that encourages others to follow. Or similar wording. Correct? Can you explain why ? Can I refer you to the wording of both ECHR and UN Universal Declaration? I think they stand for themselves. Which bits of them do you disagree with?
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Post by adrianc on Apr 25, 2024 21:38:27 GMT
If charismatic Keir has a stroke or gets depressed or has an affair and has to resign then we get a Putin sympathizer running the country. Sorry, Farridge would be Labour deputy PM?
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