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I hope not we need the tax.
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There is simply no need to fund the BBC anymore as anyone with the right firestick knows. Viewing the BBC without paying for a licence?
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🤣 please 🤣 Which is likely to be better for integration? A large extended family from the third world or a family from Poland?
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No need for asylum. Five years and those 100's of thousands of third world workers and their enlarged families can stay, courtesy of the Brexit dividend.
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No we are importing 10's of thousands of workers from the 3rd world that we are short of in the UK under the workers visa scheme, together with their large extended families because the country voted to leave the EU. Unfortunately unlike EU workers the poverty in their home countries is such that very few are likely to return. The few thousand asylum seekers are a mere drop in the ocean (no pun intended) by comparison. Once we removed barriers to trade we further open the UK to price based competition further reducing our standard of living.
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There are free loaders in all countries.
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I honestly think it was probably much worse before. It's now that we know so much more of what is happening around us. Even if it is a distorted truth. I think (for the UK) living standards, education and life expectancy have all fallen. The first time in 50+ years under the tory government. The UK was a large producer of oil and gas so living off those profits, we were in the EU and had access to easier trade and 3m additional workers. Now we have far less workers and a far older population greater global competition and less barriers to exploitation. When times are hard its easy to bitch about the minor things that we can blame on everyone and everything else. The reality of being past our prime is beginning to bite.
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What does any of that have to do with the price of fish? Even the WEF can count.
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Read again the quote from WEF. 'More' is the operative word.
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It was always so. Unfortunately the rose tint gets darker with age.
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On what basis? 50% more renewable world wide in 23 than 22. By 2025 1/3 of worlds electricity from renewables. Accepting that the figures are distorted by the huge program and spend in China. *Wef
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It's coming for most of the world despite some of the headlines. Hopefully we can use our lead to advantage in the growing renewable industry.
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Rachel Reeves FIRST Budget this month. I wonder who she will hit NEXT?
oowee replied to TIGHTCHOKE's topic in Off Topic
They can put 20p on a litre of fuel and it will barely be where it was. Get that vat in on private schools. Switching around vat to benefit health would be a good move but can't see that happening. Tax those paid in dividends the same as the rest of us. Hold 40% tax allowance at current level and add a percent. -
https://www.power-technology.com/news/germany-shuts-15-coal-fired-power-plants/
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The rise of renewable energy has been so fast that the closure of the last coal fired power station in the UK can be brought forward to this week. The first major nation in the world to end coal fired generation is a milestone. The UK leads the world. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y35qz73n8o
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That's the beauty of science.
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Do you listen to the radio? On our boat we don't have a tv and listen to lots of podcasts through spotify.
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I would not disagree. Other than it's often the growing opposition to conflict that calls for peace either through protest or the ballot box. Leaving unfinished business. Half completed campaigns. Political vacuums that grow new poison. Neither side can 'win'.
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They have to stop at some point as does Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran. The leadership of all sides clings to power (ala Putin) creating fear and hatred as a reason for their own existence. Families of the innocent pay the price of these wars with their blood and sooner or later they will refuse to pay. An all out war with Iran (backed by China) will have the world calling for peace.
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This is true of Islamic fundamentalists. Many fundamentalist Jews believe the opposite. Two completely opposing views neither of which can achieve it's ideal. The general populations of both sides want to live in peace. The general population pay the price of the fundamentalists zeal. Sooner or later the majority will prevail. How do you make that happen? I don't know someone like Blair? Pressure from outside. We need to win back Iran. Other seemingly intractable conflicts have been resolved.
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A brilliant tactical military strike for sure. Just as they did in 1948, 1967 and ever since says it all. It is simply not the answer.
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When you are out walking amongst stuff that can kill you with only a rifle over your shoulder it changes your perspective of the animals that you see. Great thing with gas you feel a bit chilly, turn it on and it's pretty much instant. That's where the heat pump solution falls apart.
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What did the Bulger kids get?