@RuariJM @DeborahMeaden The price difference is actually around 10% - so, £20 on basic models. The cost per drying cycle is half that for older technology so a customer will recover that additional cost after just 20-30 cycles.
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Neil MacFadyen
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Neil MacFadyen
@MacFadyenNeil
Retired financier
London, England Katılım Şubat 2012
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You mean... Let the market operate?
At present, heat pump dryers are three to five times as expensive as the latest conventional models - which also feature some condensing elements - and it takes over five years to make up the difference.
It could be that, in a couple of years, heat pump dryer tech will have improved & prices will have fallen to a competitive level. If they do, they will win the battle. If they don't, no amount of legislation will make it so. See "renewable energy" for other, real world examples.
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Or just keep the one you have until it is time to replace and then buy one which will be cheaper to run…. I think JRM is losing it..
Jacob Rees-Mogg@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
Fight the blob, buy a tumble dryer, you have nothing to lose but your mangle. Buying a tumble dryer is now an act of resistance telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer…
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@WhiteHouse Cat check: The person holding the most cards in Uno is losing
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@AaronSwney @SkyNews That's perfectly true. Just one problem: if you don't have valid visa, you won't be allowed onto the plane in Paris - or anywhere else for that matter. Airlines get heavily fined if they don't ensure passengers have a visa.
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@SkyNews Flights from Paris to London for £29. You can seek asylum upon arrival in to London if you can prove your life is in danger.
They come across the channel for a reason.
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BREAKING: Two women die while trying to cross Channel in small boat
news.sky.com/story/two-wome…
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@NJ_Timothy @CCHQPress Shoplifting went through the roof because the last Tory effectively decriminalised all theft under £200. Labour have scrapped that.
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What does it take for a shoplifter to go to prison under Labour?
Thanks to their abolition of short term sentences, only 0.3% are projected to get a custodial sentence.
No wonder shoplifting is through the roof. dailymail.com/news/article-1…
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@RicHolden @CCHQPress @Conservatives @UKLabour I'd forgotten all about Richard Holden. The stench of mediocrity and corruption is back
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The @Conservatives Plan for Drivers will end @UKLabour War on Motorists:
⛽️ Oppose Labour’s Fuel Duty hikes
⚡️Scrap Labour’s ban on diesel & petrol cars and vans
🛑 End blanket 20mph speed limits
🚎 Free up our Bus Lanes & end 24/7 limits
📋 Fix the Driving Test backlog with 200,000 more tests
🚧 Launch a Pothole Patrol with new tech for every council and accurate data collection
Only @KemiBadenoch & The Conservatives will Get Britain Moving Again
thesun.co.uk/motors/3891322…
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@sophie_summerz @ChildOfAlba Not necessarily. The Sentencing Guidelines are very broad, ranging from 4-19 years depending on the severity of the crime but with an option to impose a life sentence in the most extreme cases. The judge warned Ashby today that a life sentence was a possibility.
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@ChildOfAlba Rape carries a life sentence.
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John Ashby has pleaded guilty to the religiously aggravated rape and assault of a Sikh woman he believed was Muslim.
He followed her home from a bus, attacked her with a stick, strangled, and raped her while calling her a "Muslim bastard" and claiming he was a "British master."
Sentencing is scheduled for Friday.
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@Jesse_Norman @CCHQPress Oooh! Jesse had his big boy pants on. Seriously, we need to move away from this ridiculous point-scoring nonsense and work for the good of the country not tribal allegiances.
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This morning I highlighted the Prime Minister's contemptuous treatment of the Speaker yesterday, demanded an apology to him and to the House, and pressed the Leader of the House on the fate of the Defence Investment Plan, which he promised WILL be published.
youtu.be/08gxeNRBwCU
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@piersmorgan @nadhimzahawi Just an hour later, we now know that neither Starmer nor Lammy were aware of the security clearance issue. Should they have known given Mandelson's colourful past. Probably. But that's not the same as lying. Even you know that Piers.....
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This was a lie. The Prime Minister now has urgent questions to answer.
Greg Heffer@GregHeffer
Starmer on 5 Feb: "There was... security vetting carried out independently by the security services, which is an intensive exercise that gave him clearance for the role, and you have to go through that before you take up the post."
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@griffitha @CCHQPress £15bn is a drop in the ocean compared with the £3.0 trillion debt the country was saddled with because of the previous government. It's thoroughly depressing that all you can do is snipe and talk down the country. You should be ashamed.
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This is a landmark moment. 4.92%!
Unlike during the global financial crisis, markets are functioning well today but have demanded an eye-watering price on the UK's prospects.
The core issue is lack of trust in the Chancellor and the serial lack of headroom every time she presents a forecast.
The 'print' of this deal will cost everyone in the UK.
Mohamed A. El-Erian@elerianm
As detailed in the press release below, the UK completed its largest-ever issuance of Gilts, which carried the highest issuance yield in almost twenty years. #economy #markets #uk #bonds
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@nadhimzahawi You were an MP for 14 years and held 9 Ministerial roles. The IRGC hasn't suddenly changed its spots. Instead of sniping from the sidelines now, why didn't the government you were a senior member of do something?
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Why is the UK Government not doing so? 👇🏽
Nervana Mahmoud@Nervana_1
Imagine… Trinidad and Tobago is now among the countries designating Iran’s IRGC as a terrorist organisation — while the UK continues to hold back.
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@AlexLeTissier @JamesBlunt Who is your private? And on which of their possessions do you use it on? Please learn English
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@Prophetius @RpsAgainstTrump You should have told Orban about this crucial info. Perhaps he wouldn't have conceded defeat before you posted your comment....
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@RpsAgainstTrump Doesn't matter, the cities get counted first, you're missing the rural areas that are in general favorable to Orban. People will lose their shit when Orban wins despite early numbers not being in his favor.
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UPDATE: Hungarian election 45.7% of the vote counted:
TISZA has 135 seats (supermajority),
while Fidesz (Orbán) has 57
WOW
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@DanNeidle Good result but the real scandal is that HMRC and the professional bodies do very little to prevent dodgy tax avoidance schemes. Instead of targeting "advisers", HMRC go after the "little people" - many, if not most, of whom will have been seduced by slick sales patter.
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An update on the attempt by a tax barrister to sue me for £8m.
Last month, the High Court threw out the claim.
The Court then made a highly unusual order: Mr Kamal was required to pay all of our costs, £146,644.
And today I received payment in full.
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@ArchRose90 @nadhimzahawi @waitrose You'd think that a "senior" politician (and yes I probably do mean past it) like @nadhimzahawi would at least fact check before shitposting
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This is Walker Smith.
After dedicating 17 years to Waitrose, he was recently dismissed.
The reason? For attempting to stop a shoplifter nicking Easter eggs.
Yes you read that right. He should be applauded, not sacked.
Shameful @waitrose. Re-employ Walker Smith!
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@TamsinLisa @London_W4 @SeraphimMarq Oddly enough, people were able to successfully navigate London without mobile phones just 15/20 years ago. Of course, they weren't making bullshit politically motivated statements
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@heatherthefair @London_W4 @SeraphimMarq I can’t follow where I’m going if it’s not out!!! Fuck it, I’m not bothering going, too much like hard work
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DO NOT TAKE YOUR PHONE OUT IN PUBLIC IN CENTRAL LONDON! Was stood waiting to cross the road at corner Marble Arch and Oxford Street just now and turned to see bloke on very fast electric bike heading up behind me. I turned and he turned away. I stood and watched as it was obvious what was going to happen next and sure enough, he snatched the phone of a young woman stood at the bus stop. Then off down Oxford Street for more. Face fully covered. If we had a police force in London this could easily be stopped, but instead, dozens of people a day have their lives made shit by these vermin. I’m in a shop writing this. Put your phone away on the streets. Take care. Be safe.
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@TamsinLisa @London_W4 @SeraphimMarq There were 70,000 phone thefts in London last year (15% down on 2024 btw). 70,000 too many but still only 1 per hundred residents). For context, unless you go around waving your phone in public, on your one day trip to London, you have a 1 in 36,500 chance of an issue.
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@London_W4 @SeraphimMarq I’m due in London on Saturday and need my phone to navigate.
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@IsabelOakeshott Quite right too, eh Isobel? The Dubai authorities have arrested 60+ people for sharing videos. Where is your outrage for that?
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TWO arrests? Are you having a laugh?
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@MayorofLondon
The appalling scenes in Clapham in recent days are absolutely unacceptable and those responsible will face the full force of the law. Two arrests have been made and the Met is continuing to investigate. There will be an increased police presence in the area in the coming days, with officers providing support and reassurance to residents and businesses.
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This would be more valid if Bodyshop and Ted Baker hadn’t gone into administration before Labour came in and Carpetright just 19 days after… I haven’t checked the rest but… really? It is tough and will get tougher but a bit of balance here… the ONS is a good source of accurate facts…
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All these companies have formally entered administration, insolvency, or equivalent restructuring since Labour came into power:
• Ted Baker
• The Body Shop UK
• Carpetright
• Homebase
• Claire’s UK
• Play Music Today
• Homes Direct 365
• Russell & Bromley
• ISG
• Ardmore Construction
• Denby Pottery
• Speciality Steel UK
• Westbridge Furniture
• Belfield Leisure
• Rekom UK
• Fusion Lifestyle
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@keebsonx @andytwelves My aunt, a primary schoolteacher in Glasgow in the 80s, used to talk about the challenge of kids coming to school with poor English. She also used to talk about how those kids routinely outperformed their "local" peers by the time they moved to secondary education
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@andytwelves I spoke to a primary school teacher last week in Wiltshire, who says this is absolutely accurate.
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EXC: .@GoodwinMJ’s new book “Suicide of a Nation: Immigration, Islam, Identity” is out now, and I’m only 5 chapters in and have found a huge amount of what appears to be false quotes and basic misinterpretations of data, that appear to be AI hallucinations.
Matthew, can you explain the claims you made in the book that I’ve outlined in the below thread?
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