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You don't have to buy an electric car and you don't have to buy a heat pump. Have you been walked to the heat pump shop by a government employee? Also they do work.

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Tbh I think it is a bit of a mess. There's one good heavyweight. Will be interesting to see if Itauma can step up but tbh I think Usyk would be a great in any era and there's nobody to even get halfway to him in this one. And that's the blue riband event. Crawford Vs Canelo should have been a great fight but ended up very one sided. Not much else to get excited about.

Nuclear is very much part of the mix. But it's also incredibly expensive and takes an age to get built so a mix of nuclear, wind, solar and tidal are needed. The good news is the government has taken big strides forward on nuclear this year and has got funding in place and signed contracts to get them going.

Really kinda sick of the trump white house thinking they can shut down dissent across the globe by threatening legal action and tariffs against people, organisations and countries. We really should be shunning America for the next 4 years and very clearly tell their people why. They're no longer an ally that can be trusted.

Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) reports for anybody wanting to explore the science behind human caused climate change and also what we can do about it. https://www.ipcc.ch/reports/

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Clean energy is far, far cheaper than fossil. Clean energy is better for the environment than fossil. Clean energy production looks and smells better than huge fossil power plants. Clean energy is and will create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Clean energy gives the UK an opportunity to develop technologies to sell to the world. There's literally no benefits to fossil energy over clean. And that's before we mention the climate emergency that really is an emergency no matter how much science you choose to ignore.

Currently watching Gillingham Vs Crawley on TV. Both teams attacking each other. Balls into the box. Shots, headers, hard running, tackles, relatively direct kinda football. It's so much more interesting than the top two divisions. This is what we need to get the fans going.

Do you mind me asking.... Where do you generally sit on immigration and politically? There's not much talk of this on here ATM and I'm wondering whether any of our more right wing commentators see this as a positive, or are willing to say it could be. BBC News - UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c231x8rj1zpo

Honestly embarrassed for you that you've written out this load of absolute nonsense.

The BBC's legal letter to him is pretty robust in terms of their defence.

Not if you stop that as well.

I'm not sure it's about replacing. Tax is by it's nature anti inflationary, because it's taking money out of the economy. I don't think it's about fine tuning taxes as such. I think his general point is giving the wealth of the nation to the richest is a political choice and you should have the same team revenue by making different tax choices that target the rich so the poor can keep more and be taxed less.

Apparently anybody normal that could buy if landlords weren't. You seem to have a very dim view of people looking to buy. Do you mind me asking so we understand where you're coming from: are you a landlord yourself?

Not expertise but I have read up on it quite a bit. The starting point is understanding that money and debt are the same thing. Money is only created in two ways: either a central bank creates additional money (and when that money is sent into the economy it becomes a government debt as something has been given out and is repaid when returned), or it's created by banks (who are licensed to literally create money when they lend, they don't have to actually have the money) when borrowed by people or businesses. Again that creates a debt. So all money creates a debt. And so all money is either government debt or private debt. And to grow the economy, more money must be created. Which means government debt and/or private debt must increase, because money doesn't grow on trees, it must be created through creation of debt. Next tax. MMT says that governments with a fiat currency cannot run out of money, they can always create more money, but inflation is an issue - nobody wants a loaf of bread to cost a trillion pounds, so tax is used to dampen the effect of new money entering the economy, which is inflationary. Tax doesn't fund the government. Tax doesn't go into a special fund that's used to pay for things, it just gets removed from the economy. The government simply creates the money it spends and tax is an anti-inflationary device. Where taxation falls in the economy, and therefore where wealth is allowed to accrue, is an entirely political decision. There's lots of other aspects, including around why national debt isn't necessarily a bad thing, but that's the starting point. It's worth watching some Richard Murphy videos on YouTube who is an MMT advocate.

A mate of his wins an award and he's congratulating him. maybe he thinks he should be able to use his social media like anybody else, rather than constantly worrying what football fans think of everything he does. Football is his job and he has a life outside it. Some of us should have too.

Public schools used to be paid for by public endowments hence the name. Eton is technically a public school. They are private schools that are paid for via fees and the term public school is outdated.

Good news, let's hope landlords stop buying them. My mate sold that kind of house on the edge of the city a few years ago. Wanted to sell to a first time buyer of he could. Estate agent basically said it would be impossible because landlords would immediately outbid the first time buyers. They were proven right. Landlordism has wrecked the housing market. We have nearly 3 million landlords. 3 million. That's millions of homes first time buyers couldn't buy. And also millions of additional buyers causing prices to increase.

Most renters want to buy and can't because the bottom of the market is utterly saturated with landlords.

It's quite straightforward. I believe in a meritocracy. I believe in equal opportunity. You didn't be able to buy your kid an advantage. Plus private schools take in the best teachers, taking them away from state education. It's not that I don't want some people to have something, it's that I want everybody to have equity and then their talents decide where they can go. There's no reason state education can't have setting based on ability or even set itself up to have academies for the greatest minds, but it should be based on merit, not a parent's bank balance.

Private schools shouldn't exist.

The point of growth is that you don't need to raise tax levels to raise tax income. So I can accept there may be ways to spend more wisely, to create growth, and I agree we can't add more taxes on working people as cost of living is ridiculous right now. We need to borrow to redirect expenditure, borrow to invest in growth creation and also raise taxes on wealth. They're the only palatable options.

They've done plenty to grow the economy - it's just all in the form of longer term projects like GB energy, nuclear energy commissioning (linked to GB energy), over £100bn in additional capital spend. What they haven't been successful at is shorter term growth, that I would agree with. They need to focus on growth now and cost of living. In economic terms, no public spending is waste. It's true you could spend less, but again that would have a anti growth effect as that will be less money finding it's easy into the economy. There's a difference between quality spend and spend. If you want to cut ineffective spend that's fine but I would prefer to spend it differently rather than cut the spend.

He just needs to tell us, plainly and openly, exactly what the problems are, how big they are, and what the plan and timescale is for fixing them.