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Did you make little copy cat jokes about Hunt who had zero financial expertise before becoming chancellor.
Or is it just misogynist comments that get you so excited you decide to repeat them?

13.03.2026 14:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

No he would have said "I'm really pissed so I'm off to bed"

13.03.2026 12:41 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The old people greedy mafia can't even allow the under 60's to have anything

11.03.2026 18:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What makes it more disappointing is Ed is a deeply serious politician who never engages in cheap stunts to get publicity
Oh hang on...

11.03.2026 18:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can we have Clement Attlee instead as he did more to win the war and was certainly more popular at the end
If not maybe Churchill in comatose in a drunken slumber with two generals saying to each "let's get on with it while he can't interfere"

11.03.2026 18:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'm starting to think President Xia might be a little bit smarter than Donald Trump

11.03.2026 14:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Isn't she aware of the over 1 million households in the UK who use heating oil and are facing massive increases now?

11.03.2026 13:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The fact that it's coffee in a can is more reason than the price not to buy it
The US habit of drinking brown bitter water flavoured with sugar syrup of some kind or UHT full fat mile in a massive cup and calling it coffee up to recently was their worse export

11.03.2026 12:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was Charlie Sheen in the end I think

10.03.2026 22:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Maybe he's an AI Ayatollah
Or like Colin Akavito saying "Justice" as he sets off drones

10.03.2026 22:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That's a surprise isn't it
I'd have thought they'd have arranged a big outdoor event
Where there would be entertainers maybe Coldplay & Cat Stevens
Then "Moji" would be brought in by drone at the end & give a big speech
Come on lads get it on

10.03.2026 22:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'd much rather have him as PM now that Farage or Badenoch
Mind you it would be fun to see Polanski talking to Iran, Israel and the US about his "diplomacy led defence policy" You know what I think they'd listen to him and call the whole thing off and have a great big peace party instead

10.03.2026 21:50 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I need a very large heat pump - it would need planning permission
Then a new boiler and associated plumbing
The new boiler has to be on an outside wall - the current one isn't.
Then 22 radiators replacing as they aren't suitable for the low heat
I doubt that would be completed in a day

10.03.2026 08:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I was quoted by multiple suppliers two years ago £30,000 to install a heat pump & associate radiator system
It's a complex job in old farmhouses like mine
I'm not a millionaire is exactly why I've not had it done
I suspect it would be £40k+ now

10.03.2026 08:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Is there a boiler that will run off oil and solar?
Would I also need two sets of rads because my current ones aren't suitable for heat pumps?
Is it really economically viable to install a heat pump +which is very expensive for me) for approx 25% to replace of my oil use?

10.03.2026 08:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 6 📌 0

The only country that can act in that way is the US because the dollar is the reserve currency of world debt
If we do as you say the cost of our debt which is held in dollars would sky rocket
It's somewhat sad that you believe this rubbish you have been fed
Populism is rubbish

09.03.2026 17:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So you honestly think that Governments can simply print money with zero consequences?
You are the economic equivalent of a flat earther or COVID denyer
Have a nice day

09.03.2026 15:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Well if they are there about 4 of them in on it who all came up with the same answer
But as you say you don't know all the details of my set up

09.03.2026 15:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I've installed solar, I've paid for a sewage waste treatment plant for my house
Trust me I've undertaken extensive investigations with a number of suppliers and they all say it's not financially viable

09.03.2026 15:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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You simply cannot understand economics if you think being a fiat currency allows you to print more money to pay for things
Below is one of many examples you can look up
Have a nice day

09.03.2026 15:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You have been watching too much Richard Murphy

09.03.2026 12:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Do you have any idea of the costs of geo thermal, tide energy or the environmental destruction of an extensive river project in the UK
Micro Nuclear & hydrogen plants are perhaps the answer but it's some time away

09.03.2026 12:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Also if I'm investing in a long term massively expensive green energy project you bet it's highly relevant if a political party is going to come into power who'd stop the project
You don't appear to live in the real world

09.03.2026 12:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Do you have an EV?
I doubt it because you'd know the running costs are increasing via on the highway charging (more than ICE) , road tax & upcoming mileage costs
Wishing something doesn't make it true

09.03.2026 12:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We have over 50% of energy from renewables and have invested massively to do that
It's going to be v expensive to close the gap more
50% voting Tory/Reform & lots of the other 50% want NHS, transport etc spending
It's political madness to spend more

09.03.2026 12:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If we print more money then the value of the pound drops
Despite what Polanski says this is economics 101
Given that most commodities are energy, steel etc are traded in dollars it's a particularly stupid in an energy crisis or if you want import to build
Fiat currency= populist nonsense

09.03.2026 12:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Wales is poorer then NI and where the heating oil is used in North Wales below that average
I'm sorry but the increase in costs doesn't impact a household in NI anymore than a home in Bala
Have a nice day

09.03.2026 12:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've tried everything as I've sorted my electric & car
This is a 400+ year old farmhouse with heavy old cast iron rads
The reworking of the water & rads is £20k+(2 years ago)
I suspect the project now would be £35-40k
It's just not feasible yet with a house of this nature

09.03.2026 12:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That's impressive to use only 300 liters more in winter than in summer
You must have fantastic insulation
Have a nice day

09.03.2026 12:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So you just have it topped up every week?
So now as we move into spring you have 2500 LTRs of fuel?
I've two as well but I've got to say over a 15 year period your strategy wouldn't pay
But up to you

09.03.2026 10:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0