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Out of all the corrupt stuff that went on during COVID, that PPE story seemed ok. Supplied garments were good quality but not used, so landed up being more like an expensive insurance policy against running out. Can't believe incinerating it is better than sending it to somewhere that would use it though.

I'd assume someone has gathered a load of grants, got something on dinner roofs to get more business then fucked off the company,

The way government schemes have operated on these things the last decade from external insulation, to cavity filling to solar has been criminal and just fuelled cowboy firms that pop up fueled by a grant to then vanish and move on to the next scheme as a new firm

Another view for Perroni or Birra Morreti, what he has with the lads post match

Which of those do you oppose?

Almost good isn't that Labour plan a large insulation retro fit programme and massive expansion of renewable energy to bring electricity costs down and shifting costs from electricity to gas tariff to close the differential in cost. That is probably five years away though from decent levels of implementation.

Solar and battery prices are getting very cheap now but the scaffold costs and labour cost increases have offset the fall in costs.

Will bring max pain to the Tories, imagine if technocrat Starmer who everyone says is boring lands up being the person to kill the most successful democratic party of all time

Labour backing off in lib dem target seats
https://x.com/xtophercook/status/1805485334827798789?t=5GiHsUvTYIQUoL_VT8X-lg&s=19

Guess to book end this 14 year old thread, looks like Assange will finally be free to return to Australia and is already on a flight the Northern Mariana islands to sign a plea deal.

https://news.sky.com/story/julian-assange-will-not-be-extradited-to-the-us-after-reaching-plea-deal-13158340

Seems pretty incredible if it goes through, must be something Biden wanted completed while still on office

Agree, broken system that is no longer fit for purpose, make it a land value tax

Not a pond per se but jonsnaturalswimmingpool on Instagram is garden goals

I thought that sounds like a film from a few years ago but the film I was thinking of was a true story of a gulag escapee who walked to India
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1023114/

Apparently based on this book with great reviews The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz

Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19 November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians and after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to twenty-five years in a gulag.

After a three-month journey in the dead of winter to Siberia, life in a Soviet labour camp meant enduring hunger, extreme cold, untreated wounds and illnesses and facing the daily risk of arbitrary execution. Realising that to remain meant almost certain death, Rawicz, along with six companions, escaped. In June 1941, they crossed the trans-Siberian railway and headed south, climbing into Tibet and freedom in British India nine months later, in March 1942, having travelled over four thousand miles on foot through some of the harshest regions in the world, including the Gobi Desert, Tibet and the Himalayas.

First published in 1956, this is one of the greatest true stories of escape, adventure and survival against all odds.

The provision is in place, state school population is falling following a baby boom and is expected to have to close a lot of places in the coming years due to over supply

Viktor Frankl - man's search for meaning
Primo Levi - if this is a man

If she just likes survivor stories then Endurance by Alfred Lansing and The Tiger by. John Vaillant are both fantastic

China’s President Xi Jinping told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that Washington was trying to goad Beijing into attacking Taiwan, according to people familiar with matter.

Xi issued the warning in a meeting with von der Leyen in April 2023 that was described to the Financial Times by several people. He said the US was trying to trick China into invading Taiwan, but that he would not take the bait. Another person said he had issued similar warnings to his officials.
https://www.ft.com/content/7d6ca06c-d098-4a48-818e-112b97a9497a

I am struggling to think of all ways he's impacted my life as much as actual Westminster elected politicians.

This list parliamentary term has been large wasted through large amounts of time and political capital expanded on getting Rwanda passed, without Farage constantly banging on about small boats and taking back control for a decade, would that of been the case? Cabinet members presenting and having constant appearance on GBNews, would there of been an audience to support a dedicated station like that without Farage, I don't know but seems hard to imagine

As a south Derby resident, I think there is zero chance it doesn't stay labour, its been labour since the constituency was created in 1950. I know in my area however that the reform candidate was popular as he went out of his way to help with a planning issue that had the nimbys up in arms a few months ago

Reform took all the councillors in Alvaston at the local elections recently, so now have 6 out of the cities 51 councillors

That is a successful free market right, some regions are allowed to fail and everyone will move to the good performers

Can't see how that format can ever work, only good thing is it allows small parties to get some visibility

The sky format the night before was far better but only allowed people to see Starmer and Sunak but at least they got some scrutiny and time to talk

Think tories are suppressed by people who would of voted for them saying they won't vote this time, which elevates reforms share but yes there is no reason to think we wouldn't drift right as a nation like Europe if the right right party comes along. Farage isn't enough to attract large numbers of young people but has stated he is doing this now so fresh blood can take over for 2029, a younger charasmatic leader and some pro young people policies, more childcare, more houses etc and you could see the right getting a lot larger share. The young haven't drifted left in Europe and the UK is an outlier in that and most likely due to a fairy anti youth last decade rather than some socialist shift

Tories are fifth place now with under 50's, how do they recover from that

First poll landed with reform ahead of the tories
https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1801329280858591268?t=3dwC_98bs4QY78p_820ZLQ&s=19

Nigel Farage's Reform Party has overtaken the Conservatives in the polls for the first time
 
A Yougov survey for The Times finds that Reform has increased support by two points to 19%. Tories are on 18%.
 
The poll was carried out after Rishi Sunak launched the Tory manifesto on Tuesday
 
However eight in 10 of those backing Reform said a very large majority for Labour would be bad for the country
 
Lab: 37% (-1)
Reform: 19% (+2)
Con: 18% (nc)
Lib Dem: 14% (-1)
Green: 7 (-1)
SNP: 3 (+1)
Plaid: 1 (nc)
Other: 2 (+1)

They're going to drop a wealth tax once in aren't they? He made a big effort last night to not commit to there won't be a wealth tax

I thought the launch was OK and what he is selling realistic given how fucked everything is, he seems to be loosening up a little bit.

I'm desperately trying to spend