🇬🇧Cllr Kevin Buck 🇬🇧

For all those who blame renewables for the high price of energy, this is the reality. When renewables are providing the highest proportion of energy to the grid, the price drops. When gas does it, it more than doubles. It is FF's that keep energy prices high, renewables lower it!

@DanielJHannan So you believe someone who has worked all their lives and paid for all the pensioners who came before them, is not now entitled to the same pension using the same rules! There are some despicable people around!

The language here - "raided" - is why it is so hard to reform pensions, however unaffordable they become. People imagine there is a pot of money into which they have paid, rather than present pensions being funded by present taxes.

@DanielJHannan Ironic that benefits are affordable apparently, but pensions aren’t!

@PhilxxUK Perhaps you should educate yourself on 21st century automotive matters, instead of living in the 1970’s!

You're talking nonsense. I'm talking real-life experiences. You definitely need to talk to more people. Maybe I should show you the picture of a garage selling 4 yo Teslas for £20-25k. In the meantime, I will stick with my petrol, knowing I'm supporting 1000's of people in the motor trade, petrol stations, and much more. Perhaps you should focus on arguments to do with getting young people into work.

Why do I dislike Hybrid cars so much? From an engineering point of view, they are a massive and complex compromise. They require ALL of the components of an ICE (an ICE, a fuel tank etc) AND all of the components of an EV (battery, motor etc). All that engineering comes at a huge compromise, small ICE, small motor, small battery. All that compromise comes at a cost of performance, reliability, cost and simplicity. Hybrid’s most likely to catch fire and more expensive to maintain. As for the driving experience…..! On holiday ATM. Couldn’t get an EV, so settled for this. A new car and it’s frankly terrible. More switches and buttons than a SpaceX launch, bongs and bleeps every 10 seconds for no known reason, but the worst thing is the driving experience! It’s awful!! Every time you stop, the engine stops and when you go to pull away, it feels like it’s going to skate itself apart as it starts up again. Also awful to drive. Next time, I’ll get a straightforward ICE with auto box if no EV’s!

@gryffdj @BladeoftheS Trust me, it’s possible to be a lot worse than today, as BR proved!

@BuckCllr @BladeoftheS That’s today you are talking about?

Before Margaret Thatcher the UK had much cheaper rail, much cheaper mail, some of the cheapest Energy and Fossil Fuel in Europe and the cheapest water in Europe. Because we owned it.

So much to unpack. Nobody said EV’s are zero emission. They are zero tail pipe emission. All cars produce emissions. 70% of electricity currently comes from FF today. That number was higher, it’s falling YoY. Also, an EV charged using electricity from a coal fuelled power station, is still less polluting than an equivalent ICE burning FF’s. Only the clueless would post something like this?

Opmerking voor mensen die "in de wetenschap geloven". Batterijen maken geen elektriciteit, ze slaan het op. 70% van alle elektriciteit komt van fossiele brandstoffen. Daarom is het onwetenschappelijk om te zeggen dat EV's nulemissie hebben. Wat jij gelooft is geen wetenschap.

@PhilxxUK ‘I’ve got a mate who….’ Facebook stories don’t work with me. Peer reviewed data does!

Well. Explain this. I know people who could walk into a dealership and pay cash for an EV. Degree qualified, architect, a professor, and civil engineer who have no interest in buying EVs at this time. One just gave up his 25-year-old Honda. Another drives a 15 plate Yeti, the other a Volvo. And on it goes, not one of my degree qualified professional friends drives an EV or has any interest in an EV. If one did following a conversation this week, I would pass this on. Smart money keeps it safe. Plus I chatted with a Cambridge based engineer who commutes in his VW 1.0 Polo.

@PapaKgosi7 We have been a 100% EV house for many years! I’ve been EV only for around 7. I orders a German auto, as no EV’s available. This was the ‘equivalent’, absolute box of rattling bolts!

@BuckCllr The answer is right in front of you. Stick to EVs. I'm an EV proponent myself and I wish I lived in a country like Norway or China, which understood that EVs are the future and invested in charging infrastructure or incentives the private sector to do so.

@PapaKgosi7 No, you should stop buying Hybrids!

@BuckCllr A house owner is more likely to die in a house than a homeless person, so should we stop buying houses?

@Mike_M_Klotz FSD is proven safer than humans. If we follow your rationale, human driving is not to be lauded!

This is a danger to society, not something to be lauded.

@PhilxxUK It is, trust me!

@BuckCllr Er! No it's not.

@MeyasAlexandros @D162Michele So the only choice is your way, or you dead. Glad you posted that on social media!

@BuckCllr @D162Michele Bingo you got it ..the West has freedom with immunity for the bourgeoise to rape , thieve, swindle and launder Billion. That's how the Epstein class and their pals get to rule in The US and it's vassal states. No accountability and impunity for all their crimes.

What is it about communism that makes Westerners suddenly become historians, economists, and philosophers all at once? What are you afraid of? free healthcare? 🇨🇳

@FluentInFinance Not sure if you e been living under a rock, but I’ve got some news for you, they do!

Raise your hand if you agree that any company led by a CEO who lives in a mansion, drives a luxury car and flies in a private jet SHOULD PAY TAXES. ✋

@MeyasAlexandros @D162Michele The size of the economy is irrelevant, the 25% of any economy is not! Look what the UK economically did to itself when it left the EU!

China with it's internal market dwarfing any other country on Earth is far less dependent on exports than most industrialised European economies, Germany for instance. Chinese billionaires are heavily regulated and will never be Able to influence the Economy in the way Musk, Bezos and the other Oligarchs do American. They would never be allowed to seize power. Someone as corrupt as Trump would have been executed a long time ago

@HealthRanger What a silly uninformed post! The UHI would grow in proportion to the exponential value AI creates.

Elon promises a "Universal High Income" for everyone. Let's suppose that means $10K per month for 100 million Americans. Here's the math: 100 million people × $10,000/month × 12 months = $12 trillion per year. To put that in context, total federal spending in fiscal year 2024 was roughly $6.75 trillion, and total federal revenue was about $4.9 trillion. So this single program would cost nearly twice the entire existing federal budget and about 2.5× all federal tax revenue. It would roughly triple total government spending overnight. U.S. GDP is roughly $29 trillion. A $12 trillion UBI program would equal about 41% of total GDP -- being directed as cash transfers to a subset of the population. For comparison, all current federal transfer payments (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans' benefits, etc.) combined run around $4–5 trillion. The M2 money supply (cash, checking deposits, savings, money market funds) sits at roughly $21–22 trillion. If the program were funded by money creation rather than taxes, injecting $12 trillion per year would expand M2 by roughly 55% in the first year alone. Even if a portion were funded through taxation (which just redistributes existing money), the sheer scale makes it nearly impossible to fund without massive monetary expansion. The inflationary pressure would be enormous, for a few reinforcing reasons: First, demand-side shock -- putting $10,000/month into 100 million hands would massively increase consumer spending, but the economy's productive capacity (factories, housing, workers, supply chains) can't scale anywhere near that fast. When far more dollars chase roughly the same quantity of goods, prices spike. Second, labor supply contraction -- $120,000/year tax-free would exceed the median U.S. household income (~$80,000). Many workers would reduce hours or exit the workforce entirely, shrinking the supply side at the exact moment demand is surging. That's a double squeeze on prices. Third, velocity effects -- lower-income recipients tend to spend transfer income quickly, so the velocity of money would increase, amplifying the inflationary effect beyond what the raw money supply numbers suggest. A rough (and conservative) estimate: mainstream quantity-theory-of-money reasoning would suggest that a 55% expansion in money supply, combined with rising velocity and falling output, could produce annual inflation well into the double digits -- plausibly 30–50%+ in the first year or two, potentially accelerating into a hyperinflationary spiral if sustained. Historical parallels (Weimar Germany, Zimbabwe, Venezuela) all involved governments printing money at scales far smaller relative to GDP, and still produced catastrophic inflation. So no, Elon doesn't understand economics. And yes, a "Universal High Income" would quickly lead to hyperinflation and currency collapsing, thrusting almost everyone into extreme poverty.

Failed semantics. Did the communist regime control and approve all the recent Chinese billionaires (China now 2nd in the world for creating billionaires). Around 25% of China’s economy is made up of global exports in to capitalist economies. Without capitalism, China’s economy collapses. If it talks like one, walks like one, trades globally like one and produces billionaires like one, it is one!

@BuckCllr @D162Michele China has a Socialist market economy . The market does not dictate terms to the government. The government dictates the terms to the market

@Heccles94 Harry loves inefficiency (it’s what he’s used to), because Harry is clueless about most things in life, as his posts constantly prove!

His net worth is over $200,000,000,000 and he is making 8,000 people redundant. This is what’s wrong with society.

@CorboDT @BladeoftheS Agree. There is appropriate regulation, however, the trouble with all regulators,is they never know when to stop!

@BuckCllr @BladeoftheS Proper regulation is required for so many things, and successive governments should and could address them.

Everything "left-wing cranks" said about Starmer has been proven 100% correct. Everything "sensible liberals" said about Starmer has been proven 100% wrong. Funny that.

I'm so disappointed that a man who came to power off the back of a secretive campaign & who lied his way to the top hasn't turned out to be a champion of transparency and honesty.