@jk48800 @ClimateWarrior7 Why do you think the driver slowed down?
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Direct descendent of William Sugg
Up a ladder Bergabung Ekim 2021
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I have obtained clear and unambiguous proof that Erika Kirk assassinated JFK.
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@AscendedYield Monetarism decimated industrial capacity in order to quell a short term inflationary spike.
The hysteresis from this era has left us in a virtually unrecoverable position.
She was a liberal, just of the neo bent, the very ideology that underpinned a century of relative decline.
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@RollingHedge It actually makes sense, they can't test the trains at full speed without wasting further millions building a new dedicated test track.
And they can't test them on the HS2 line until it's finished, which means they'd have no trains available to run on opening.
Catch 22.
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Ianucci himself could not conceive of something THIS batshit mental.
Now they propose, and wait for it cos it if it doesn’t make you laugh you’ll cry, to have…
Wait for it…
SLOWER TRAINS TO SAVE MONEY
Fuck all the way off you retards. Everyone connected to this should be fired.
What a joke.
GBTT — Great British Think Tank@GreatBritishTT
🔴 HS2: £46.2bn SPENT. NO TRAINS. £43.6bn on the surviving route. £2.6bn on cancelled Phase 2. Up £6bn in 6 months. Now considering slower trains to save money. Source: DfT, Feb 2026 gbtt.info/hs2.html
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@FUDdaily It looks like the Chinese have gulled Starmer into paying for another one of their container ports.
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This is pretty good actually. I argued for this a few years ago. Trade investment loans are the best form of development aid.
BASEDANDBOUGIE@basedandbougie
🚨BREAKING! The 🇬🇧UK plans to lend £746 Million to 🇳🇬Nigeria to help them refurbish their Ports. The consistent aid given to African is getting out of hand! Africa has received more “aid” in the last century than Britain did after the Blitz. The UK received $3.7billion in aid from the US and this was after a BRUTAL WORLD WAR and they used that money wisely to rebuild the UK into the state we see today. Not only that, most of the African politicians are living better than European politicians in 20 bedroom mansions whilst the general Africa public live in poverty …. Where is this aid going ???
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@TheStalwart I'd normally take such alarmism with a pinch of salt, but I can't, we've run out.
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For the first time in history, the UK could become a net importer of salt. spiked-online.com/2026/03/26/the…
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@LoftusSteve It won't be abolished for a simple reason.
The unearned rents from using gas to set the marginal price don't actually accrue to CCGT plant owners, but the rest of the market that cashes in, their production cost is no higher.
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A lot of people seem to get really mad about gas setting the marginal price. Decoupling it (which will never happen) would save £4-5bn per year.
But scrapping carbon taxes would save far more, likely around £8bn per year now, and £11bn by 2030.
Robert Boswall@RobertBoswall
Should carbon taxes go or stay? To help the debate I have made an interactive and visual carbon tax calculator: robertboswall.com/carbon-tax
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@PolemicTMM That's more like a £3000 tribute to keep the fields that surround your house away from "grubby developers" which is a coded word for "unwashed masses" and "social housing".
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Allotments. Now there is something I can imagine Private Equity cashing in on. They did it with vets and dentists.
Private allotments in rich areas.
Tabitha can pay £3000 a year to grow £38.60 worth of veg.
Life Is But a Dream@Rishardtrading
Allotment wars. Originally allotments were community charity to deal with the evils of enclosure later passed onto to councils who neglected them because of cost and snobbishness. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
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@ClimateWarrior7 This works, miners are giant space heaters, the only downside is the noise that rivals living next to Heathrow.
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A computer can "mine" Bitcoin, but you'll use more electricity than the Bitcoin is worth.
However the laws of physics tell us that all the energy used to mine the Bitcoin, 100% of it, ends up as heat.
Hear me out. Bitcoin mining water heater.
Ecco. Bitcoin mining costs = zero.
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@RusGarbageHuman £1 in 2008 would be £1.65 today, even using the government's crooked inflation figures.
Fuel isn't particularly expensive in real terms, growth has been flatlining and the currency is trash.
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⛽️Diesel close to hitting £2 a litre (~$10/gallon) at motorway stations right now. Petrol is right behind.
I passed multiple services at £1.98.
Remember the national outrage when it first hit £1 in 2008? This is DOUBLE.
And that’s only the visible part.
🪔Heating oil is through the roof for 1.5 million UK households.
🔥Gas & LPG have spiked 20p+ across rural areas, impacting non gas main communities.
Travelling is becoming unsustainably expensive at this rate. Reminder that 60% of your fuel cost is tax and government charges.
The country that started this war and the chaos in fuel markets is the same one calling to flood Europe with mass 3rd-world migration too.
Is this a deliberate plan to break 🇬🇧Britain and 🇪🇺Europe?
Callum@AkkadSecretary
In Thailand fuel is being rationed Australia is fucked Europe is ~$11 a gallon Meanwhile in Florida its $3.9 or £0.77 a liter. Americans simply are not feeling the real effects of this war, most you get is a grumble about price whilst the rest of the world dies.
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This reminds me of one of my favourite charts of all time, from a Motability self-promotional piece
bernoulli_defect@BernoulliDefect
Another example: 93% of the cars bought by the government subsidised Motability scheme are manufactured outside of the UK What this means is that we’ve spent a Crossrail amount of money (£16B over a decade!) on juicing demand for foreign manufacturing (automation heavy, high tech) and domestic low productivity growth industries like car dealerships, vehicle maintenance (low automation, low value), and insurance. If the £~3.5B/year spigot of government money going to Motabilty was turned off, all of the jobs in dealerships and insurance it ‘created’ would fade, and its car fleet would age and depreciate. Despite spending a biblical amount of cash, I doubt any sustainable industries have been created, and it’s long term impact pales in comparison to other spending options that will exist in decades to come, like Crossrail or Manchester’s tram network.
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@2hT4you @Real_SinaptiX @StealthQE4 The US market is incredibly fragmented due to refinery and pipeline constraints.
There can be an ocean of oil in Texas, but they still import refined product on tankers in the west coast.
Different grades of crude are imported because refineries are limited in what they accept.
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@LampLighterBot @Real_SinaptiX @StealthQE4 Nope, we produce oil in the us too, about 800 percent more than other countries
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Gonna start seeing these kind of videos globally in a few weeks.
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@Real_SinaptiX @StealthQE4 Nope, California imports refined products from overseas.
The US is by no means an autarky, it's a complex supply chain and there isn't enough in land pipeline capacity.
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@StealthQE4 Don't panic, but if you do, ensure that you panic first.
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@PolemicTMM That's just another way of saying "you're all going to be poorer" and people don't have the bargaining power to demand higher wages to offset higher prices.
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@ClimateWarrior7 You just need to play your "right side of history" card and they will instantly let you off.
It's obviously vital to have an unaccountable authoritarian police state that monitors every utterance for Wrong Think but they do occasionally make mistakes and drag in the Good People.
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I for one never anticipated that, when we implemented harsh crackdowns on speech, the police would end up coming for US!
Jvnior@Jvnior
🚨🇬🇧 BREAKING: DOCTOR ARRESTED FOR ANTI-ISRAEL TWEETS ON X Dr. Rahma Adwan (@doctor_rahmeh) was ARRESTED today by London MET Police for the 5th time. They sent 7 officers to detain her for criticizing Israel and jewish crimes on X. Please repost this. Make this viral.
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@ClimateWarrior7 @machpodfann He's the Secretary of State for Health now you know.
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@machpodfann I give him 5/10. I think my jokes didn't go down too well.
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This is a clear case of massive tranphobic. This trans man was brutalised simply because they were demonically possessed. Can happen to the best of us.
Billboard Chris 🌎@BillboardChris
Trans-identified female lawyer berates judge, pulls trans card, gets found in contempt, resists arrest, screams “I can’t breathe,” and yells for people to call 911 as she’s fighting police. Absolutely glorious performance. Women should not take testosterone.
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@ClimateWarrior7 She passes brilliantly, the officer's handled them like they were dealing with a black man.
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@John_Stepek @RollingHedge The price of bottled water is determined by private companies and traded globally.
The fact you're suffering a drought is totally unrelated to us blowing up the dam 10 miles away and filling the pipes with concrete.
Besides, rebuilding the dam will take a long time, why bother.
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@AscendedYield The British government itself is a national security threat to its own country. 🤷♂️
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Go all in on net zero and then realise everything is made in China
Financial Times@FT
UK says Chinese wind turbine maker poses national security threat ft.trib.al/c3NetVO
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@ClimateWarrior7 Her and Suzy Izzard's random musings on any given subject totally trumps detailed policy papers that have been drawn up by so called experts with decades of experience.
Always trust the feels, not the reals.
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What I love about celebs is they have really no filter. They never start nitpicking and asking themselves "Is this true?" or "Are the sources of this reliable?"
They just get straight in there denouncing or promoting or whatever.
Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚@hippyygoat
LOVED HER MUSIC AND LOVE HER HUMANITY❤️ Annie Lennox… We are all being driven MAD with this cruelty! Thank you for being a voice of decency and compassion.
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