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Slick wrote: Wed May 21, 2025 8:56 am What do we make of all these Ukrainians being arrested for the fires at Starmers houses?

Russian hires?

I think he will be disappointed it wasn’t Reform voters.

It does sound like a lot see themselves having less prosperous future than their parents, and even feel attacked by 'DEI' and 'woke'. But, on the latter, I've asked some people... how do these things ACTUALLY affect YOU? Almost never. On the former, we all need to band together to hold ...

Anecdotal again but...

Also our Lead Member for Schools and SEND Transport currently isn't able to sit because they are refusing to complete their 'woke' DBS check.

This is what really worries me since my daughter's EHCP is going to a funding panel next week and the council has now been ...

Surely everyone thought that the main reason Brexit was voted for was immigration.

Most Brexiters (but not Yeeb tbf, it was always "pool shitters" with him) would argue the point if you said it was about immigration. They would say you were calling them racist or whatever and it was actually ...

As an anonymous Labour MP pointed out last week, their problem isn’t that they’re not delivering, it’s that people hate what they’re delivering

The MP should grow a pair ! If they want to be popular they should fuck off somewhere else; it was popular decisions that got you into this ...

Double contribution agreements work and make sense when you’re talking about similar sized countries with similar levels of wealth and people moving both ways. None of which apply here which makes it utterly bonkers.

Time will tell and no science behind this prediction, but expect inter company ...

Back from holiday in the land of the Black Mountain (Montenegro). Two fantastic episodes of turbulence on the flight home which I very much enjoyed as a break from the arse numbing boredom of the metal tube. My daughter very much enjoyed snapping her father sleeping with his mouth open. And then ...

75,000 as of March.

https://www.zap-map.com/news/uk-hits-75000-electric-car-charge-point-milestone?utm_source=Zapmap+Registered+Users&utm_campaign=0cf2c042b5-ZM_NL_6TH_MARCH&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-683de584a7-117189445

YMMV on reliability and accessibility.

We have a massive amount of ...

We're running slightly off topic but meh, worthy chat...

is the public charging network in the UK growing at a decent rate? Our rollout has slowed a bit due to a change in govt and a relatively hostile attitude to EVs generally. (We have coalition partners echoing MAGA themes and using the word ...

Following up on the above I would say in the last 12 months my use of supercharge network, which is weekly, I would say typically no more than a dozen Tesla for 20+ non-Tesla. There has been a massive influx of Tesla in the last 12 months, especially in London due to ULEZ, but they are still lower ...

I doubt that. The majority of EVs sold so far would probably be Teslas although that percentage will shift rapidly now... so there's probably more demand for the Supercharger network numbers wise.

Have you driven an EV Shaggy? Do you own one or report from a long term use base, or are you ...

Probably the only decent reason for owning a Tesla is the Supercharger network. Always empty bays when the other networks have a queue of expensive Mercs and Porsche waiting for the few high speed chargers. Must hurt when you have spent 100k on a car and you are waiting behind a 10 year old ...

Well you know the way the analysts in Space Karens pockets have been saying how the plummeting sales were down to the changeover to the new Model-Y (the best selling model), well if this review is reflective of the new model, I don't see any great turn around any time soon.

Tesla Model Y (2025 ...

The RFU should have done this nigh on 30 years ago instead of the moratorium on professionalism, the stupid old farts. Taken control from day one and used the existing clubs to feed up to franchises like New Zealand did for Super Rugby.

which is fine if one supposes those new entities would ...

I get not wanting to use Swift, for the cost if nothing else, I don't get people wanting to put themselves at risk of being controlled by China and Russia. So if you want to avoid Swift use a Swift adjacent service perhaps that looks like Swift, smells like Swift, but just happens to be cheaper ...

It might just be a reaction to you. You do come across as very needy.

Kerrist, pop psychology from another public school twonk.

I think it's more likely that it's the likes of you they hate and rugby is simply a proxy for that class divide.

You really are an odd person. Not privately ...

As I keep saying, it's a class thing. My football supporting friends in Eng aren't antipathetic to rugby, they actively hate it. They pretty much see my interest in rugby as a sort of betrayal, only partly allayed by the understanding that in France, it is pretty much a working classes game ...

One thing to remember is it can often cost you more to do the assessment of everyone than you will save. For example assessing all pensioners would have cost more than the free tv licences.

it's a fair point that in many systems a certain level of waste is preferable to the costs of correctly ...

What happened?

Never ending vitriol to English people, beer thrown at my wife and others who were not Welsh, some really unsavoury singing that was against English (assume these were from clubs?), a couple of drunken twats being overtly sexual to women, a couple of roughing up of fans ...

Anyone else struggle to get too excited?

My excitement was destroyed some time ago by a large number of Welsh fans that were quite hideous to every English travelling fan.

What happened?

Never ending vitriol to English people, beer thrown at my wife and others who were not Welsh, some ...

Paddington Bear wrote: Mon Mar 24, 2025 10:02 pm Anyone else struggle to get too excited?

My excitement was destroyed some time ago by a large number of Welsh fans that were quite hideous to every English travelling fan.

Yeeb should chuck-in a purchase price element to his road-tax changes, If you want to spend £90k+ on the most powerful twin-motor BMW or Tesla with Long Range batteries that also happens to weigh 2300kg, then you should pay more tax. Cheaper and lighter versions of your 5 seater prestige EV ...

Maybe, but the government wants to accelerate adoption of EVs and if they are fundamentally not able to support such simple tasks as stated above, plus being penalised by a taxation regime, it will fail.

Yeeb should chuck-in a purchase price element to his road-tax changes, If you want to ...

Weight can’t be ignored though , small EV’s are heavier than our dads Sierras & cavaliers and are helping the roads churn up (commercial vehicles are also heavier than 30 years ago)

Not ignoring the weight, but if you need/want an EV that can carry 5 people and do over 200 miles on a ...

Have actually worked out a fair vehicle tax system for Uk:

A. Co2 , seems to range from nearly zero (let’s say 1) to 320 g for a large petrol luxury
B. Length in metres, so most would be 4 to 5.98 for a rolls Royce cullinan
C. Width, say 1.8m fiesta up to a 2.2m Roller
D. Weight in mteric ...

Have actually worked out a fair vehicle tax system for Uk:

A. Co2 , seems to range from nearly zero (let’s say 1) to 320 g for a large petrol luxury
B. Length in metres, so most would be 4 to 5.98 for a rolls Royce cullinan
C. Width, say 1.8m fiesta up to a 2.2m Roller
D. Weight in mteric tonne ...

Appreciate that a not insubstantial cohort of rugby fans struggle walking to the fridge but Murrayfield, Aviva and pushing it a little Stadio Olimpico are all very much walkable from the centre.

And I said ‘should’, there’s a reason people rave about trips to the Rec and it isn’t for the ...

Against Italy and Wales

How does that invalidate the considerable stride in changing almost completely how the team attacks? The relevance of the opposition is only a fact if you just look at the score and not the nature in how it was achieved.

They were boo'd at Twickenham in round 3 ...

I wouldn’t say Scotland have regressed. We’re standing still. Exciting backs, check. Struggling pack, check. Can’t play for 80 minutes, check. Shit the bed v Ireland, check. Games lost through not taking chances, check. Victories made closer than they should be by switching off for spells in ...

He may also care about the home nations performed against Australia, making Scotland the dominant party within the squad and Sione T (once recovered) the captain.

He may also look at which teams and players have improved since then. Whereas Ireland and Scotland have regressed somewhat and ...

Surprisingly the chemical tanker still has emergency power available, radar is still working and some fire water mains/monitors on deck are still operating.

Notwithstading that it'll probably end up a total constructive loss due to the damage amidships, the tanker looks in better condition of ...

Surprisingly the chemical tanker still has emergency power available, radar is still working and some fire water mains/monitors on deck are still operating.

I thought most were closed in the 50s and 60s? A lot of governments since then to identify and correct the problem?

https://www.fillthathole.org.uk/

Used this for over 20 years. Local authorities just ignore it.

I thought the Labour plan was simply redistribution of wealth?

If you look at some of the policies you can see this, inheritance tax on farmers so they have to sell land (hopefully for housing), public services and pay rises, changes to private pensions forcing individuals to spend more, etc ...

as a fellow complete ignoramous, I'd imagine they'd close them at low tide before an anticipated high tide flooding event, so that the Thames has room to flow into?

I should have said they close them *for* high tides, so you might be right. Regardless, London is at risk. If another winter ...

Alfie

Are politics becoming more principled again? Resigning from the cabinet for that seems a big step forward from parties during quarantine, affairs and Barnard castle type behaviours...

One paper was running a story that she wanted her phone upgraded, was not eligible, so she used the ...

Are politics becoming more principled again? Resigning from the cabinet for that seems a big step forward from parties during quarantine, affairs and Barnard castle type behaviours...

One paper was running a story that she wanted her phone upgraded, was not eligible, so she used the mugging as ...

Carpenter called fingers because, well, the inevitable injury from working with power saws.

Ships electrician called plant pot, because he was as much use on the ship as a plant pot.

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