joeboon.bsky.social
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Keep going
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We could also change the way the electricity market is priced. Marginal pricing is just plain weird, and capacity market payments can produce adverse incentives.
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Ah yes thats the big one. I don’t have experience of countries with PR but it must be better than wasting votes, or even times when the party with the most votes loses.
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I agree it shouldn’t be stacked by parties.
Just uneasy about “the democracy thing”, in case it becomes stacked with party faithfuls.
I wouldn’t say the House of Commons and its history of legislation is a glowing endorsement of democracy.
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War is bad. Thank you for your attention in this matter.
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What have they done now?
Careful what you wish for. We don’t have PR so the majority don’t get their choice elected to the Commons.
Also note that democracy seems to yield fast laws designed to attract votes.
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Up at 4 to do the milking
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Because the public will pick up the costs again. And we will pay to look after the waste products for the next 250,000 years.
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“creating 10,000 jobs, the government will say”
That is £1,420,000 per job.
“A total of £330m of contracts have been signed with local companies”
That leaves £13,870,000,000.
How much do we pay for the electricity?
Who pays for decommissioning?
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Sizewell C will get at least £14.2 billion public money. That’s £14,200,000,000.
“creating 10,000 jobs, the government will say”
That is £1,420,000 per job. Bad deal!
“A total of £330m of contracts have been signed with local companies”
That leaves £13,870,000,000 for companies elsewhere.
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Decommissioning nukes in the UK is a public cost.
Sizewell A will take 100 years and huge costs.
The recent use of explosives to flatten the turbine hall was called:
"novel and forward-thinking technological solutions”
"proactive and innovative methods of working”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Oh no strike price, but the public cover the financial risks during construction so investors are protected. Nice work if you can get it.
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I want to know the strike price the government agreed for the electricity generated.
The UK public are already being fleeced by EDF and Hinkley Point C. The UK will have the most expensive electricity in the world.
It is also over budget and no-one is saying who will pay to decommission it.
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Sizewell C will get at least £14.2 billion public money. That’s £14,200,000,000. M
“creating 10,000 jobs, the government will say”
That is £1,420,000 per job.
“A total of £330m of contracts have been signed with local companies”
That leaves £13,870,000,000.
news.sky.com/story/sizewe...
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And supplying shoddy goods so that..
- medical front-line staff didn’t have the protection they needed
- more citizens died
- tory donors made millions in profit
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And Companies House still shows their Nature of Business as
56101 - Licensed restaurants
56103 - Take-away food shops and mobile food stands
when the company was dissolved in 2022.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/1050...
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And Companies House still shows their Nature of Business as
56101 - Licensed restaurants
56103 - Take-away food shops and mobile food stands
when the company was dissolved in 2022.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/1050...
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Please give the workers the means of production. That should stop the whining Marxists.
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Is he having a poo?
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If he was brown the patriotic mob would have punished him by, err, attacking some people in hotels.
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True. find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/1073...
And it only cost £12 to set one up back then.
Daily Mail headline incorrect shocker.
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Looks like the Daily Mail are wrong again. According to Companies House the company was dormant and then closed in 2020. One set of accounts and no sales.
find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/1073...
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“They also said Israeli troops stationed nearby had opened fire.”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Wasn’t even about religion. He blatantly says it is about the colour of someone’s skin. Very traditional racism.
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Yep. Unprecidented
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Please don’t try to claim that Bedminster is the ballsack of Bristol
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Can’t decide if this is vogon or jazz poetry
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Rescue a parrot. From a tree. “Rescue a parrot from freedom” more like!
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Tut tut promoting violence. Surely yeeting into the sun would be proportionate.
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Digital exclusion is like having a finger chopped off.
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Really useful to understand digital exclusion.
But if you are going to cut phone based services or in-person local offices then you don’t want to discover how many people will lose access to that service because they don’t have access to the internet.
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Reminds me of this song from 2016 (imagining what 2020 would be like). BBC comedy.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=N1yk...
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And to think this is one of his better characteristics