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It's coming if we are forced into a trade deal with Trump to avoid tariffs. The demand for new homes is coming largely from new household formations and an ageing population retaining homes. The projected requirement for homes has remained largely unchanged since 2016. Rather than bother with taxing farmers to get access to land there are proposed planning changes to better enable compulsory purchase, willing seller or not.

I don't do much tv but that sounds worth a watch. Did you seen the meteorite shower?

Trump appoints Pete Hesgeth Fox News morning tv host as Sec of Defence ( 3 million employees and a budget bigger than most countries one of the most important jobs in the world) . ''The war in Ukraine is important but it pails into insignificance compared to the war on wokeness'' 🤣 Drain that swamp.

Yep. It should have been an easy watch but for the cloud 😞

I have seen your work it looks amazing it's hard to understand the situation re pricing. I don't know your rates but here it's almost impossible to get work done. In Plymouth I am paying £70 an hour for engineers, carpenters, or electricians or riggers and they are mostly booked six months ahead.

I am Chew Vally. I went out at 1030 it was cloudy, went to top of the mendips it was the same gave up at around 1200.

I was out late trying to find some clear sky to watch the meteorites. No luck despite looking for a couple of hours. Imagine my frustration when I woke to a hard frost showing the cloud cover had cleared at some point in the evening.

This seems to me a fair view of reality. I would not want to do their job for any amount of pay. Given the background it's incredible the civilised approach of police officers to members of the general public in ordinary dealings. It's a long way ahead of the police forces that I have had the misfortune to deal with around the world.

Now that is a great idea. Here for the recycling you have to book in. My Hilux needed a ticket which was limited to certain days and restricted visits. It's not the simplest for occasional use but easy enough once you know the system.

Incredible and an unusual subject. Do you paint anything or do you have a preference?

Manufacturers certainly BMW, Nissan, Renault and Toyota have long had hydrogen In their plans for cars. When I worked on the first strategy for ev's in 2005 this transition was in the plan. Ev's like the first ice vehicles are getting cheaper. Range is increasing. Hydrogen is just another transition, the same role out challenges that currently face ev's will apply. Fossil fuels are finite. At some point we have to transition.

Thankyou Gordon. So rather than walking away as suggested it's more of a scaling back / realignment of targets.

I did and found nothing other than BMW predicting selling a record 1/2 a million ev's. If you have something tangible share it.

Or being human?

Very nice.

Walks like a duck etc. Interesting position for the UK with Tariffs on the Horizon and the UK looking very isolated. Trade deal and take the Trump golden shower or throw our lot in with the EU. I would not want to tread that path. ''A global trade war will be hellish for the Starmer government, especially if it is forced to choose sides between the EU and the US. It has never looked more lonely to be Brexit Britain paddling about in the mid-Atlantic as Typhoon Orange masses on the horizon.''

Exactly the gist of the discussion.

What evidence?

Yep that's a fascist in action. When is the bonfire of books?

I would take my guidance from accepted medical professional opinion in the UK.

The farmers that I know with any sort of holding have put the farm into a company structure. Nice pension earner to retain a building and rent it back to the business. Of course if you are buying land specifically for the purpose of avoiding IHT that would otherwise be due then this change is nicely targeted.

You can keep your own fetus, of course everyone is entitled to their own views on such a subject. Fortunately the UK is a modern democracy and is driven more by science than beliefs.

🤣 Wow you do have it bad. Might be worth reading the rest of the thread for context. 😘

This is the problem for Democracy. The further you get into respecting everyone and everything the harder it gets to make a decision to move forward on anything. Unfortunately the likes of Trump and Johnson that seem able to capture the imagination of the people are the least able to deliver.

🤣 Trump says Europe can do one so they will have no choice. Trump's victory is a victory of the information space with no clarity of policy. Europe need to exploit that for it's own ends. Europe of course a multi headed unit with 27 different opinions is not going to frame a viewpoint anytime soon.