@Boris_1762 @Object_Zero_ @LilyWonderland5 And our government then gets the tax revenue from it.
Unlike when we import that gas from Norway/Qatar, where their governments get it.
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@Object_Zero_ @LilyWonderland5 Why do you think it is ring fenced? It might go to the UK due to proximity to supply but if someone else offers more money off it goes there
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The UK is 51-55° North, it is on the same latitude as Siberia, and Alaska.
In the UK, 26.6 million of the 28 million households are heated with natural gas.
The British government is concerned about the country’s vulnerability to natural gas shocks.
The government’s solution is that the UK must produce less natural gas domestically. So a 70% windfall tax is applied to domestic gas production.
British voters agree. 🤔
As a result, there now isn’t enough gas for electricity generation. Electricity prices are rising.
The British government is concerned about the country’s vulnerability to electricity price shocks.
The government’s solution is that the UK must produce less electricity. A 55% windfall tax is now applied to electricity generation.
British voters agree. 🤔
It’s difficult to be sympathetic here, maybe a sympathetic approach is that the UK is a good case study for mass delusion? Maybe people have been manipulated to feel this way?
If they haven’t, then it’s difficult to be sympathetic.
Rachel Reeves@RachelReevesMP
Working people shouldn't bear the brunt of global gas price shocks while electricity generators make exceptional profits. So we're taking action to help break the link between high gas prices and high electricity prices, meaning stronger protection against future energy shocks.
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@MR_275_285 @jk_rowling @campbellclaret Is this a parady mysoginy post?
If so, well done, impeccably executed.
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@jk_rowling @campbellclaret Trust me, your appearance on their show would have zero impact on the viewing / listening figures. Don't get above yourself dear.
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Mmmm. Bit weird 👇🏻 but hey ho … for all those claiming we won’t listen to people who share @jk_rowling views we have in the past asked @jk_rowling who said no. She is a leading voice and therefore we would happily talk to her on LEADING. Previous attempts have been rebuffed.
J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling
@ForWomenScot @campbellclaret Live footage of @campbellclaret and @RoryStewartUK just in.
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@Statford_Bridge That's a hundred things to blame him for, but a hamstring injury for someone who's had repeated injuries all year?
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Another free week to prepare, another muscle injury. Honestly impressive how shit this guy is.
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@obioneyouknowme @griffitha Google "Train Operator Resourcing Agreement"
That's the 2008 agreement that meant roles had to be advertised internally
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This guy would no doubt have seen ‘no business case’ to replace horses with engines either. Embarrassing.
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@obioneyouknowme @griffitha Find me an advert then, because records state they haven't advertised for a tube driver job since 2008.
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@MD00009 @griffitha Well it isn't
Funny thing
There's loads of recruitment emails sent out to all that register and even adverts on YouTube !
You can find them.
Outlawing your thoughts would be better.
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@Thighsofsteel1 @andyt5678 @Jacob_Rees_Mogg If you think £8bn per mile of track for an already tunneled underground line that barely gets 30mph is plausible, you are part of the problem
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@MD00009 @andyt5678 @Jacob_Rees_Mogg That was built new, not converted. Add in Inflation and stricter UK laws plus conversion is always hugely more expensive than building new and you are well north of 2trillion
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Driverless trains should be introduced as soon as possible to stop a hard left union holding London to ransom.
Andrew Griffith MP@griffitha
This guy would no doubt have seen ‘no business case’ to replace horses with engines either. Embarrassing.
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@Thighsofsteel1 @andyt5678 @Jacob_Rees_Mogg That's for the new build of a 350km/hr earthquake proof high speed line...
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@MD00009 @andyt5678 @Jacob_Rees_Mogg Here is an example. China paid £6.8bn for its 'driverless' Beijing–Zhangjiakou railway. Its 108 miles long. That gives us £63million per mile. We have 20.000 miles of existing lines (not including, Steam railways, Metros and Underground. That's a base figure of £1.26trillion.
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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Sure moggy. Just stump up the 500 Billion pounds it could easily cost, along with the massive disruption to London all over at least 15 years. It’s been studied LOTS it would be more cost effective to rip out the underground and start again. Which ain’t gonna happen.
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@andyt5678 @griffitha That's more than £200k per metre of track. Who the fuck is trying to justify that as the cost?
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@griffitha My father was a principal engineer behind stage 1 of DLR. Automating the tube was considered even back then. Even back in the 80’s the costs would have been in the region of a hundred billion pounds. Now even more. It would be cheaper to rip it out and start again.
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@jacob_pepp62028 @suchan104 @griffitha £70bn is more than £175k per metre of underground track. It's quite clearly a fantasy figure.
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@suchan104 @griffitha The most optimistic guess is automating the tube will return 90p for every £1 spent
Not counting the economic disruption and you will still need control/ station/ maintenance staff
Promise me you are a fake account and no where near offering genuine business advice.
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@BoyfromAuz @ElliotMalin A report written by open anti semites. Kinda predictable and worthless.
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Every other actual genocide was met with stark population decline that threatened the existence of the groups.
Outside of the Holocaust, in Srebrenica we saw 20-30% population reduction, in Rwanda we saw 80% population reduction.
Not accounting for births the death toll in Gaza is 3.24%.
I don’t think you know what genocide actually is, Evan.
evan loves worf@esjesjesj
Two things here. 1. In the holocaust Jews often had informal schools in both the ghettoes and the camps. 2. The idea that a genocide only counts if it looks exactly like the holocaust is denying every other genocide in history
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@ElliotMalin Genocide isn’t a scoreboard based on “% killed”. The UN Genocide Convention defines it as acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
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@QueenCafard @SirSimonClarke Let house builders start competing on quality then.
Currently they only compete on "it takes 5 years and a miracle to get approval" hence they have zero need to actually build anything decent once they get it.
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@SirSimonClarke What the country is crying out for is more identikit box houses that look like they were designed by children. Concreting over the countryside should only be allowed if the houses are attractive.
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This sounds totally mad. *Every* single new development, regardless of size? Needing a dedicated new surgery of its own? With no discretion as to other local infrastructure that might be needed more?
What modelling have they done, if any, about the impact on housebuilding, already at a record, devastating low?
Noa Hoffman@hoffman_noa
Ed Davey announces new Lib Dem locals policy that all new developments must come with a GP surgery - he says no new doctors = no new developments Davey says funding guarantees for GPs must be in place before any residents move in to new builds
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@pacer142 @leahsmithh7 Isn't it only 120mg that's available over the counter?
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@David__Osland That's because we've impacted shitloads of Asians, who have small children.
It's not complicated.
Weird you're making an anti immigration post in reply to something about breakfast though.
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British five year olds are 5cm shorter than kids of the same age in continental Europe
Julia Hartley-Brewer@JuliaHB1
The breakfasts are not free. They are paid for by taxes - mostly on parents who feed their own kids. Most of these 10,000 children would have had a perfectly healthy breakfast at home without these clubs. This isn't about helping the poorest kids, it's the state taking over the basic job of parenting.
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I'm sure @Seb_Anderssen will tell me this is boiler plate, but there are literally 4 pages (nearly 10%) in the accounts about how Chelsea are mitigating risk of climate change on the business. Incredible.
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@Steward_Peter7 @DaveWil05666003 @mamith1988 @thetimes You might want to question what other beliefs you have had are also false...
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@MD00009 @DaveWil05666003 @mamith1988 @thetimes Sorry, I was only repeating what we were originally told. That if you paid for private health insurance, the NHS component of your NI payment would be deducted. This appealled to the rich, who could find much cheaper insurance, for their contribution to the NHS was higher.
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NHS ‘second worst in developed world for avoidable deaths’ #Echobox=1776070903" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/…
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@DaveWil05666003 @mamith1988 @thetimes If memory serves me right, you have to take out a private medical insurance.
However, unless you and your family are rich enough for BUPA you will be doing your family a disservice by diverting funds away from the NHS
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@andrew_lilico Both those are groups who don't have "go and earn a wage" as a core goal.
People on working are benefits do, or at least they should if the system worked.
That's the difference I see.
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It's always been the case that students, pensioners & those on benefits got discounted ticket prices for various things. That's never been particularly controversial before now.
tyro@DoubleEph
@andrew_lilico I think the question people are asking is why being on benefits should entitle you to this? Kids can’t work so we can understand that
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