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@liburghal.bsky.social
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Going to go out on a limb here and ask why the the drive to reduce standing charges has been such a mission? I agree that moving it onto the unit rate helps incentive cutting use, but there is a fixed cost of maintaining an energy network. Though I may be completely misunderstanding something.
Burnham promise to cut standing charges from gas bills is not straightforward: apparently they'll let energy companies recover same costs via the unit rate of gas rather than fixed fee consequence: low use - lower bills high use - even higher bills www.ft.com/content/8eda...
Where is the option for the correct answer of "What is the correct number of diagnosed?"
With much media coverage of a government report that ADHD and autism are being over-diagnosed, a claim which some experts have disputed, half of Britons now believe that the conditions are being over-diagnosed Over-diagnosed: 50% Under-diagnosed: 17% About right: 17% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
Completely acceptable to separate out into the "Standard Biscuit" and "Fancy Biscuit" categories. Anyone who says a "standard" biscuit outranks a "fancy" biscuit is lying. The same goes for crisps.
I asked you your favourite biscuit and you said 'oh a hob nob' or 'digestive' or 'bourbon' and you thought it would make me think you authentic and real but you should have said 'the poshest ones I can find for the posh ones are the best' as that is the truth you hide and now I know you are a coward
Thank you to AI for finally forcing people to take the "Does this really need to be connected to the internet?" question seriously.
The boss of a French supermarket chain targeted by cyber attacks that forced its fridges to overheat has described the incident as an “unprecedented” and “extremely serious” attack on the country’s food security www.ft.com/content/6908...
Better off households will likely use significantly more gas per resident than poorer households. Subsidising them moving over to heat pumps will have a comparatively larger impact on gas demand, prices and carbon emissions. We live one big societal ecosystem, these things aren't isolated!
Better off households will likely use significantly more gas per resident than poorer households. Subsidising them moving over to heat pumps will have a comparatively larger impact on gas demand, prices and carbon emissions. We live one big societal ecosystem, these things aren't isolated!
Two of the three biggest geopolitical conflicts this decade have actively involved petrostates, and their confidence that comes from a suit of armour that is global reliance on fossil fuels. National security is as much domestic resilience as it is bombs and bullets.
I don't really know what to say about the fact HM Treasury can't seem to get its head around the fact that heat pump grants are industrial policy not household subsidy. It doesn't signal great depth of policy thinking. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Perfect example of arbitrary cliff edges leading to regional inequality. Why does a couple earning £89,000 in Sunderland deserve support, but another earning £91,000 in Oxfordshire not?
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He will play the martyr card for fundraising regardless of whether he is arrested. So the simple answer is to just arrest him.
‘This is playing into his hands’/‘this will allow him to play the martyr card’/‘this will help with his fundraising’ are all really bad takes. Criminals should be arrested and charged with crimes.
@luketryl.bsky.social, a very intelligent and well spoken Lib Dem member asked at one of your fringe events about whether the Lib Dem policy platform is gimmicky and incoherent. Would be interesting to see numbers and focus groups on whether people connect "Lib Dem" and "Tax Cutting"
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The usual moral “I’ll support anything as long as the rosette is red” voids in the replies to this. The reality is that Sunak did take real political damage in sacking Braverman and taking the whip from Anderson. Starmer and Burnham both useless on this.
I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.
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