Confirmation in today's release of the Mandelson Files from Pat McFadden, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, that the primary motivation of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) is to tax productive people to funnel money to those on benefits.
We have been saying this for a long time but it's good to have clear evidence from a cabinet minister that it is indeed true.
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Everyone hates on England but driving a piece of shit car round country roads like you’re a ps1 rally driver, with a cig in your right hand, tunes blaring, sun blazing, empty McFlurry on the floor, makes you truly understand why its God’s own country.
This is our local tube station as is and as reimagined with homes on top. Which do you prefer? Beautiful buildings do not just create homes. They improve places. It is beyond insane that there is literally a bungalow a few hundred yards from both the Palace of Westminster and Waterloo Train Station. In a world where Create Streets were setting planning policy beautiful, popular intensification of this types of site would be embedded by right following provably popular pattern books so there was no planning risk or equity capital requirement at all, only the need to raise debt for the construction. The good news is that....
My top five favourite pints:
1. Airport pint. Out of office on. The first of the holiday 🍺
2. Balcony pint on holiday while Mrs Bandy gets ready. Take yer time luv 🍺
3. Hotel bar pint while you “get your bearings” 🍺
4. Sunday pint with the dog 🍺
5. Train pint or can 🍺
>Shut down North Sea exploration
>Build no new nuclear since 1994
>Ban onshore shale extraction
>Cease to be a net energy exporter
>Oh no energy prices go up
>Punish people with even higher taxes
>Refuse to admit this was all avoidable
The energy debate in Britain has to be the most retarded in the world, eclipsing even the Germans.
To anyone who has just started to listen-in, Britain appears to be the only part of the world where exploiting domestic hydrocarbons has zero impact on markets and is net negative to the national finances, and where the environmental impact is apparently uniquely damaging.
We taxed the N Sea oil & gas sector into oblivion, while importing £10bns worth from the Norwegians—from the same sea. We banned onshore shale gas exploration while importing it from the US. We’ve de facto banned coal mining and blew up our coal plants without reliable replacement.
We de sold off and de facto euthanised our civil nuclear sector, while making it virtually impossible to build new plants—those plants being built left ruinously expensive.
What new capacity we’ve built is made up of unreliable solar and wind, both of which require vast direct subsidises to be economical; and biomass, the largest producer of which is a former coal plant refitted to burn N American forests—with worse emissions and being more expensive than coal.
We sold off and decommissioned almost all our gas storage, leaving us with maybe 2 days capacity.
Our electricity production has contracted some 20% since 2005, while our population has increased by roughly the same.
The result: we have the most expensive electricity in the industrial world. What industry we had left is disappearing, and the wealth along with it.
Despite the wars, the prices and the loss of industry and the impact on our national BoP, our leaders have done precisely sweet F-ALL about it—Nay! They have double downed on the absurd policies.
Either we’re uniquely retarded, or we’re governed by utterly corrupt officials who are in the pocket of vested interests. Frankly, I think it’s both.
Hard times create bespoke Chesterfields. Bespoke Chesterfields create good times.
Good times create soulless Ikea benches. Soulless Ikea benches create hard times.