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Post by captainconfident on Apr 28, 2024 18:47:28 GMT
If you think immigration is the main problem facing the country, or maybe for Tory MPs "the only think we could remotely credibly promise to fix", . . Lost my train if thought....
Oh yes, if immigration is the main problem then its not the hundreds in small boats, its the tens of thousands of yearly post Brexit immigrants. The government gets an easy ride with its sleight of hand concerning solving the boat problem while playing down its failure to honour other promises. And the solution to the boats would have been speeding up the asylum system and making a show of expelling failed asylum seekers. Instead they give hope to would be boaters by providing seemingly indefinite accommodation, however shoddy. They keep the small boats coming deliberately so they have an issue the can loudly pretend to be 'solving'.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 28, 2024 17:44:03 GMT
You don't think as they do, 'anything might be better than the current situation'? Penny with her big sword got the old boys all worked up. Maybe they are right. Bozza wasn't a lot more than a barrow load of slogans. Flash of publicity for the fresh and statuesque leader and her "New ideas" expressed in three word phrases, straight to election. I think it's plausible. Problem, she is more likely to want to lead the opposition for 5 years than chuck herself on the funeral pyre in a few months. I agree that Penny The Sword Bearer would make a reasonable - certainly better - next leader of the Conservatives. though lets face it the bar has been set pretty low. I think she will have greater appeal to the wider electorate than other candidates. But problem is: would they even choose her ? Priti Patel seems to be quite high in the list of who is being touted as a 'straw person' (yes that was deliberate). If they want to make 'stopping the boats' number one in their list, they might even think that Suella would appeal to the masses. The problem is they seem to have not a clue who the 'masses' actually are, despite their certainty about knowing what they think. I'm also with you that Penny would be much more sane to wait until after the possible defeat at the coming election before stepping forward. The idea of being the chief swordswoman going into the next election seems like insanity. Unless one takes on the role much closer to a required election date when even the most loonie of the clan can't envisage a 'late surge'. You can see an argument for Patel or Braveman among worried Tories on the right. If Reform is likely the spoiler in your constituency, how about grabbing their policies and heading for the election under a pedigree right winger? I can write the new slogan: "Leave the ECHR!". Obviously this looks better on paper than said out loud. Needs a rethink. "No Net Zero!" "Get Brexit Done Properly!". I'm on a roll here. Think they'll hire me? I would guess the danger would be a proper splinting of the party with defections, a poor look to present to the public when you need their votes. It seems there is no way to turn, and by default, Rishi will be the captain on the bridge when the ship sinks.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 28, 2024 14:58:46 GMT
I see the Sunday papers - at least my one - are full of rumours that Tory "rebels" are plotting to oust Sunak (again) and go on a 100 day policy blitz to win back support for the party. With the headline policy being "to curb immigration". Has anyone explained to loonies who seem to now make up a large portion of the PCP that the Tories recent history of having revolving door of leaders is a good chunk of their problem. The next big chunk of their problem is the endless stream of unfit to be in office retrobates that they seem to have, with the endless sequence of scandals of financial or personal propriety implications. You don't think as they do, 'anything might be better than the current situation'? Penny with her big sword got the old boys all worked up. Maybe they are right. Bozza wasn't a lot more than a barrow load of slogans. Flash of publicity for the fresh and statuesque leader and her "New ideas" expressed in three word phrases, straight to election. I think it's plausible. Problem, she is more likely to want to lead the opposition for 5 years than chuck herself on the funeral pyre in a few months.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 28, 2024 13:13:32 GMT
Yeah, sometimes. The issue is all the other times when fossil fuels are providing considerably more. eg last week when they were the largest source. That isnt likely to change due to the nature of electricity provision and demand eg inertia, grid balancing, base load etc. If other sources cant provide that 100% of the time then fossil fuels are still required or its blackouts, and those fossil fuel plants still have to be paid for when they arent being paid for electricity. If you read the second half of the report, it says These technical requirements include maintaining the frequency of electricity supplies at close to 50Hz and responding to rapid changes in supply and demand through operational reserves.
NGESO also maintains the ability to restart the grid in the case of a total shutdown, sometimes referred to as “black start”, but now more formally called “restoration”.
Increases in wind and solar capacity mean low-carbon sources are now already sufficient to meet 100% of electricity demand in some periods. However, on the technical side, the 2025 target has been a “significant engineering challenge”, Dyke says:
“Getting to the 2025 ambition has been a significant engineering challenge, which we are solving.”
Grid services have, historically, been provided by fossil fuel power plants. Over the past five years, however, NGESO has been changing the way it procures these services, as well as reforming the rules of grid operation and the way it balances the grid in real time.
For example, through its “pathfinder” projects NGESO has contracted a series of sites that can offer grid services without fossil fuels. These include “synchronous condensers”, effectively giant spinning turbines that provide grid stability without burning fossil fuels.
Other key innovations include the use of batteries to manage the frequency of the grid and “grid forming inverters”, which use sophisticated power electronics to offer different types of grid support.
This development means renewable projects will be able to contribute grid stability services, such as “inertia”, that have traditionally only been offered by conventional fossil fuel generators.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 28, 2024 11:52:25 GMT
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 27, 2024 12:16:08 GMT
Teenaged Indonesia offspinner Rohmalia created a new world record for best bowling figures in women's T20I cricket on Wednesday, when she returned 7 for 0 against Mongolia in their fifth T20I in Bali. That she achieved the feat on her international debut made it all the more special.
Needless to say, Indonesia won by a considerable margin
Damn. My money was on Mongolia for that one..
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 26, 2024 18:23:27 GMT
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General P2x Discussion
Crowdstacker
Apr 24, 2024 17:40:32 GMT
Post by captainconfident on Apr 24, 2024 17:40:32 GMT
New PDLs Chalkwell Avenue £388k 14 mths 17% Upper Bond Street £422k 12 mths 16% High St Odiham £169k 10 mths 13% (High St Odiham is NOT available on Loan Pledge) I'm vaguely cross with myself for stopping investing with Crowdstacker at the point they went into real estate. 15% was an alarm bell interest rate after Lendy etc and I took my bargepole away. But it seems like they have chosen these loans carefully over the last years. Anyone know what their track record is since the change?
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 22, 2024 19:45:49 GMT
Some perspective here on Russian defence spending.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 22, 2024 18:39:51 GMT
Dry cleaners in Knightsbridge H******** C****** C******* Ltd Loan requirement £55 800 Interest rate 15% Duration: 60 months PG and second charge Funding open until 28.4.24 Established business. Looks OK to me.
Have you done an anti-money laundering check ?
Discreetly, I didn't want to air their dirty washing in public.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 22, 2024 17:30:41 GMT
Dry cleaners in Knightsbridge
H******** C****** C******* Ltd
Loan requirement £55 800 Interest rate 15%
Duration: 60 months
PG and second charge Funding open until 28.4.24
Established business. Looks OK to me.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 22, 2024 15:30:15 GMT
Not sure about the wisdom of poking the bear with 300km ACTMS. The Ukrainians have been doing perfectly well with their home made things. Its a fine line NATO treads. Surprised, I saw that I had typed NaZTO and quickly changed it. I could have got 200 roubles for that one, damn!
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 22, 2024 15:24:49 GMT
As a starter, russia is not a military superpower . Period . I am not sure we can call russian "military" a Military. I would opt more for a feral animals. There IS and Should be only one way to end this War . . . and we both know what it is. There was a Meat Grinder during WWI WWII and it is now. This is how so called russian "military" works and the only way they know. No Respect for humanity At All. Anyone know what he's talking about ? I need to report this informations to my comrades. Maybe you get more than the usual 200 roubles this week!
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 22, 2024 13:30:09 GMT
In this war, armour is being used as a delivery service behind the lines, unloading their human cargo who then go forward on foot. As opposed to tank echelons which punch through enemy defences. No armour has made a "breakthrough", mainly due to mines and drones. It is right to see the defensive arrangements as strongpoints rather than front line, second line trenches. Between large strong points are any number of small outposts, fortified craters, ditch positions, small dug fire points.
Strongpoints are sited such that they have fire support from two or more nearby strongpoints such that if one falls, approach to the position is covered by others in succession along with numbers of small firing positions. So a glide bomb can eliminate one strongpoint, but then there is the next and the next. Blowing up strongpoints with air launched glide bombs is expensive, risks the aircraft and the destroyed position still has to be assaulted on foot under enfilade fire from several other dispersed redoubts. At the current rate of advance the Russians will be in Kyiv in decades.
The only risk to the Ukrainians is that the Russians discover an area of the battlefield where the defenders are short of munitions. However the Russian objective, Chadiv Yar had been known for weeks, so you can be sure they are assaulting a position into which a lot of thought and planning has been put and adequate defensive weaponry. Better idea might be to find a weak point somewhere else but the problem for the Russians is that any build up of forces is seen immediately.
In 1916 and 17 the Germans were engaged in intense battles on an Eastern Front with Russia over 1000km long. On the Western front, the allied Somme, Nivelles and Passchendaele offensives were met with an allied manpower advantage up to and over 6:1 and yet German defences did not break even once. Excepting the first massed tank attack Cambrai 1917. Attack is far more costly than defence and we spend our time morning the victims of our attacks in Ww1, rather than those of our defensive battles of 1914 and 1918. There is only so long that an army can keep banging away before mutiny sets in.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 22, 2024 11:39:53 GMT
The term "Meat grinder" originates from Russian soldiers' descriptions of their own army's human wave attack methods. The very fact that this is what the Russian army has been reduced to doing speaks to their utter lack of any ideas how to unlock and break through Ukrainian defences.
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