@GammonGazette @Jenny_1884 It was hotter than 1976 in both 2018 and 2025 😆🤣
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Correcting the record since before it was fashionable.
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@Jenny_1884 This is an amazing post & the replies just show you how much the climate emergency morons are wrong! Can you imagine if we had a 1976 summer? The left would have a full-on meltdown.
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It was hotter in 1976 than it is now so these people spewing this nonsense need to sit this one out.
Who remembers the heatwave in 1976?
We had fun & lived to tell the tale
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@chatswithem Do you mean the south of France where the map clearly shows its 31? 🤣
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These charts are absurd
The Met office is a renowned liar
My brother lives in the south of France - and hates hot weather. He says it is nice and not too bad.
These stupid colour charts mean nothing
They use ground source these days vs air source like they used to do
They use weather stations that were once isolated in the middle of nowhere that are now surrounded by buildings or next to runways or somethings which heat local areas
The whole thing is a sham and fearmongering campaign for the bigger scam of netzero
It's lovely
People are happy
Cold kills ten times more
Relax and enjoy 😎
RS Archer@archer_rs
Apparently climate change is a myth.
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Every time it’s hot a particular group cry global warming in an attempt to introduce more measures that increase the cost of living for ordinary folk
Yet it was this hot 82 years ago
Sky News@SkyNews
BREAKING: The all-time May record temperature of 32.8C has been matched for the first time in 82 years #liveblog-body" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">news.sky.com/story/weather-…
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82 years….
You mean before SUVs, mass airline travel, recycling, ULEZ, windmills, 15 minute cities & when the UK population was half the size…..
It was just as hot as today
Sky News@SkyNews
BREAKING: The all-time May record temperature of 32.8C has been matched for the first time in 82 years #liveblog-body" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">news.sky.com/story/weather-…
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Indeed, UK emissions per capita are below the world average. One reason why the economy is stagnating.
Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social@RichardBentall
@7Kiwi In breaking news: The UK is 0.84% of the world's population.
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@PaulJohnson65 @defossardf Plus of course we’re near or at capacity on many lines. Remember the days when HS2 was slated yo be operational by now? 😆 I think they could do a lot with off peak, maybe German style.
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@PaulJohnson65 @defossardf Indeed it does. I’m not saying it will or should happen as a priority. But it’d be a positive growth lever. Probably other ones to pull first!
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I really hate posting about infrastructure, it doesn't interest me at all, but Britain is going to experience a hellish real-life experiment in the dangers of nationalisation in the next few years. Essential and functional lines are going to be cut and starved of money, performative ticket price cuts will not make up for a collapse in service, standards or reliability.
Murky Depths@TheMurkyDepths
Thameslink will be taken over by govt in coming weeks. Shortly after service cuts commence. It includes stations in areas of major housing growth. Just one direct train per hour from north Kent stations to the Elizabeth line will result. fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2026/05/24/tha…
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@defossardf It’s simply not an area where privatisation works because there’s no good way of making it competitive. Everything in the virtuous cycle has to stem from competition
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@defossardf For a start the rolling stock is remaining privatised so I’m not sure you’ve done enough research. I don’t see why management / CS would decline in quality - if anything a centralised structure should be positive instead of 20 different franchises.
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@defossardf The key change would be to see subsidies reach mainland European levels. It’s not a profit-making enterprise but clearly pays back economically much more widely if you get more people moving. That requires new lines though.
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@defossardf It’ll make barely any difference. Railways were already 40% subsidised, run on margins of 1-2% by private companies under strict guidelines by govt. Some lines have been nationalised for years. LNER service better since. Most European countries subsidise up to 70-80%.
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@SimonMagus It is interesting to note current govt are: reducing low-productivity jobs with higher employer NICs/min wage, reducing migration. That in itself, and nicely timed alongside advent of AI, should force capital deepening (investment in innovation)
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@SimonMagus 8/ economy tilted towards low productivity sectors. A cheap waiter can only serve so many tables. Basically the opposite of the virtuous cycle
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Problem with all this is that it doesn't tell us what caused the stagnation in productivity growth. Just that this slowdown is a big factor in our woes. What changed sometime around 2001?
Richard Jones@RichardALJones
A good FT piece from Martin Wolf arguing, rightly imv, that at root of UK's political woes is a 20 yr long slowdown in productivity growth "a good economy — one with widely shared economic growth — is a necessary condition for political stability in a liberal democracy"...
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@_Unknown_D_ Hard to square from my end also. Would be good to hear what the ratio is for peers in other European countries.
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I don’t get this, why does the government need to spend to create jobs for young people? We need the government to simply get out of the way, lower taxes, reduce red tape and the private sector will do the rest.
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
Government spends 25 times more on benefits than jobs for young people, says Milburn bbc.in/4dF7vr3
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@rationalplan1 @DuncanStott Which infrastructure projects did they start? They had rock bottom rates and all I can think of was progressing Elizabeth line and botching up HS2. Who says DFT / treasury furious and why would they be?
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@DuncanStott The thing is, the DFT and the Treasury were reportedly furious that Cross rail was smashing passenger targets. One the few successful things the Cameron government did was resist calls to cancel infrastructure projects. They started some new ones.
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Welcome to Britain, where we build a massively successful infrastructure project then don't even try to replicate it. London's Crossrail 2 plans are mothballed, and hopes of crossrails in Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow exist only as twinkles in railway geeks' eyes.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@MayorofLondon
The Elizabeth line has transformed how Londoners move across the city. 🚇 Tottenham Court Road station is now the busiest Tube station, with 63.4m journeys in 2025 (Northern, Central & Elizabeth line connections).
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Indeed. It is so popular that they have to exclude it's data from national rail figures. Any other sensible country would immediately look to follow up that success with a second or third such line (Paris did). The UK?
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@MayorofLondon
The Elizabeth line has transformed how Londoners move across the city. 🚇 Tottenham Court Road station is now the busiest Tube station, with 63.4m journeys in 2025 (Northern, Central & Elizabeth line connections).
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@NicholasTyrone I mean Labour are 4/7 to win the by election and Reform 15/8. So it’s not as if the bookies are making Reform favourites.
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I think there is this widespread assumption in London that Burnham will walk this, which just seems way wide of the mark to me.
Politics Betting Club@politicsbetclub
Today, Reform hit a historical high of 3.95 to win the Makerfield by-election, while Andy Burnham fell to a historic low of 1.57 in the Next PM market.
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