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  1. If say 20 million signed it, the King could choose to exercise his powers to dissolve parliament and thus force a fresh election.
  2. It's a 686 (nothing wrong with that BTW) with a minor facelift, finished in black and with a laminate stock. Cheap looking and cheesy IMO. Good luck trying to sell it at £3K
  3. Is there no one in the government who can spell "Investors"? This is meant to attract foreign investment. What a hopeless bunch of numpties we've got running the country. 😮
  4. Prostate cancer is now the 2nd most common form of cancer in the UK and only slightly behind breast cancer. I too had a stage 4 diagnosis in Jan 22, almost 3 years ago. I had no surgical or radio intervention, just chemo and androgen (testosterone) deprivation. I'm on no other meds at all and can wee normally again. The oncologist does a phone consultation every 6 months and I have a psa test every 3. I rang up to get my last psa result and it was still stable. My next is due on Nov 7th. It may be that Chris Hoy has a more agressive type than me but since my diagnosis at least 2 powerful new treatments have been released for use by the NHS to throw in when the cancer becomes resistant to the androgen deprivation. They still say that remission isn't realistic but the new drugs increase life expectancy. Physical fitness with a diet high in good things and low in junk really help too.
  5. The only betterment Sue Gray ever worked for was Sue Gray. Once again, Starmer's weakness and ineptitude means she gets a pointless job at a stonking salary because she has the power to hurt him badly.
  6. But you can be arrested for having metaldehyde slug pellets in your shed. What a country!!!
  7. Highly probable IMO. Although he has some form when comes to lobbying for his personal beliefs.
  8. Dale Vince owns Ecotricity which has it's HQ here in Stroud and which employs a fair number of people. The story goes that he used to be a traveller and built a wind powered electricity generator and somehow converted that simple idea into a business. He does like the sound of his own voice but undoubtedly has an agenda to pursue any course which benefits his business interests, himself and his image and to hell with any dissent. In other words a perfect Labour Party supporter.
  9. A Rayburn is essentially a boiler with some attributes of a cooker. Fair enough if that's what you want, but the real deal is the Aga which is essentially a cooker that can also be fitted with a water jacket.
  10. Love it 🤣 You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear...
  11. EVs - as we know them today - will never be the choice of more than a small percentage of car owners. In my town alone there are hundreds of cottages and houses that have no vehicle access direct to their property. A few hundred yards down the lane from here there are 12 cottages set at right angles to the lane and even the three that have a track to their back gardens still park a longish way from the cottages. In the lane there are maybe 2 street lights relatively near but they're on the opposite side of the road so they can't be used as charging points. Perhaps by 2030 Mr Milliband (if the commissariat are still in power) can offer a solution for these cottage dwellers, but without radical new technology I can't see what would work. I've read several articles about JLR and it sounds like they have no more idea than us what, if anything, they'll be producing in the future. I wouldn't be surprised if they turn out to be the first major casualty of the Nett Zero hysterics.
  12. Ford, VAG, Volvo and possibly JLR are scrapping their "100% EVs by 2025" mantra but the huge fines imposed on them for not meeting the idiotic EV quotas means that, along with the costs of returning to produce mostly ICE cars, job losses are inevitable. The mandarins insist that car makers should "push" EV sales but that's just stupid. It's the customer who decides and range anxiety, lack of charging stations and the sheer inconvenience of EVs means most people will continue to choose ICE cars until there's been a major step up in battery & charging technology.
  13. Now, you won't spend the millions I'm giving you on private jets for your relatives will you?
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