Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

[Gutter Boy]

Labour really need some fresh innovative ideas to kick things off, feels like they just want to wait for endless reports and commissions, whether that's because they don't want to make decisions or know the money isn't there (likely both) I'm not sure.

I'm not sure if they're really viable yet but Rolls Royce (and others) are designing SMRs, this is an area we could take the lead in and generate cheap regular power and export the technology elsewhere. High end engineering is definitely something we should focus on, lots of opportunity there.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1873667975112438228

They are a big terrorism risk. How do you guard them if there's 100 of them, compared to the 5 current sites?

And also, does every town really want it's own potential Sellafield in it?

We should be going for nuclear phase out pretty soon after fossil fuel phase out. Anything but wind and solar is just delaying the future.

 

[Gutter Boy]

I think the UK and EU should move to sanction The New First Lady under foreign interference and national security legislation.

I would particularly favour bringing back the full Gerry Adams voice masking whenever his comments are aural.

 

[Batspur]

I think the UK and EU should move to sanction The New First Lady under foreign interference and national security legislation.

I would particularly favour bringing back the full Gerry Adams voice masking whenever his comments are aural.

Yeah that will work. As if we could do anything to change this lunatic.

Why do you hate democracy?

 

[Gutter Boy]

Yeah that will work. As if we could do anything to change this lunatic.

Why do you hate democracy?

What is democratic about malign foreign actors and foreign governments sowing discord, manipulating public discourse and discrediting public institutions? He's just a tin pot Margarita Simonyan.

 

[Kompakted]

Labour really need some fresh innovative ideas to kick things off, feels like they just want to wait for endless reports and commissions, whether that's because they don't want to make decisions or know the money isn't there (likely both) I'm not sure.

I'm not sure if they're really viable yet but Rolls Royce (and others) are designing SMRs, this is an area we could take the lead in and generate cheap regular power and export the technology elsewhere. High end engineering is definitely something we should focus on, lots of opportunity there.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1873667975112438228

Labour didn't need to do anything. Sunak and Hunt had got the economy growing again already, business and investor confidence was booming at the thought of a moderate government with a huge majority coming into power and closing the chapter on all the tory infighting and chaos we've had. All they had to is sit back and take the credit as things improved. It's what Blair did. And be positive. New broom time.

Instead they've been "interventionist", changing stuff they didn't need to change and justified it by telling everyone things were much sh**er than anyone could have possibly imagined.

Now they're surprised nobody wants to invest in the UK, businesses don't want to hire more people and consumers are thinking twice about stretching themselves and splashing out.

 

[Batspur]

What is democratic about malign foreign actors and foreign governments sowing discord, manipulating public discourse and discrediting public institutions? He's just a tin pot Margarita Simonyan.

I’m afraid I’m not sure what you mean.

Americans voted in their millions for trump. Do you mean Musk and his 280 million in donations?

 

[Kompakted]

Wes Streeting says he is ashamed of NHS winter problems

The health secretary sees patients left crying and distressed, as hospitals declare critical incidents.

www.bbc.co.uk

I wish for once politicians would just level with people. You'll never improve the NHS winter crisis. It happens every year, under every government. And the reason is very simple: you can't resource an organisation based on a short annual spike period. Just as Royal Mail can't maintain enough postal workers through the year to cope with Christmas, the NHS can't recruit and train the number of doctors and nurses and have the number of beds necessary to comfortably cope for two months of the year when flu decides "it's party time".

 

[Batspur]

Wes Streeting says he is ashamed of NHS winter problems

The health secretary sees patients left crying and distressed, as hospitals declare critical incidents.

www.bbc.co.uk

I wish for once politicians would just level with people. You'll never improve the NHS winter crisis. It happens every year, under every government. And the reason is very simple: you can't resource an organisation based on a short annual spike period. Just as Royal Mail can't maintain enough postal workers through the year to cope with Christmas, the NHS can't recruit and train the number of doctors and nurses and have the number of beds necessary to comfortably cope for two months of the year when flu decides "it's party time".View attachment 18428

So we just give up? Let it run through and let the bodies pile high as Johnson said.

Of course we can fix this. It’s actually happening. Extra beds are being put in place. Of course we cant save everyone. But lets not forget. The average age of someone dying of covid was 82. Thats ons figures. The average age of someone dying in this country is 80.

You do the math. They fudged up a generation because of a different flu.

 

[Gutter Boy]

I’m afraid I’m not sure what you mean.

Americans voted in their millions for trump. Do you mean Musk and his 280 million in donations?

Yeah, The New First Lady - Musk. International protocol has always been that foreign governments dont comment on domestic matters of other countries. Its active hostility, the thing you only get from rogue states like Russia.

 

[Gutter Boy]

Wes Streeting says he is ashamed of NHS winter problems

The health secretary sees patients left crying and distressed, as hospitals declare critical incidents.

www.bbc.co.uk

I wish for once politicians would just level with people. You'll never improve the NHS winter crisis. It happens every year, under every government. And the reason is very simple: you can't resource an organisation based on a short annual spike period. Just as Royal Mail can't maintain enough postal workers through the year to cope with Christmas, the NHS can't recruit and train the number of doctors and nurses and have the number of beds necessary to comfortably cope for two months of the year when flu decides "it's party time".View attachment 18428

Simple solution - nationalise all healthcare and convert all the botox, fake tits and hair transplant facilities and staff to providing important care

 

[Danishfurniturelover]

I genuinely thought Lowe was dead after Southampton, was shocked when he popped up the other week, I must have missed him somewhere

Bloody south coast yobbo is he.

 

[Danishfurniturelover]

So borrowing at a 20 year high and worse then the disastrous Liz Truss ballsed the budget up.

Not good at all

 

[Grays_1890]

Yeah, The New First Lady - Musk. International protocol has always been that foreign governments dont comment on domestic matters of other countries. Its active hostility, the thing you only get from rogue states like Russia.

Yeh but its kind beautiful that Space Goebbels, Trump and the likes of Farage are falling out, like some science experiment involving rats. Jokes aside you are absolutely correct, its a more brash version of Russia and its blatantly actions to feather his own nest

 

[P.D.]

They are a big terrorism risk. How do you guard them if there's 100 of them, compared to the 5 current sites?

And also, does every town really want it's own potential Sellafield in it?

We should be going for nuclear phase out pretty soon after fossil fuel phase out. Anything but wind and solar is just delaying the future.

I'm sure there's ways of safeguarding them, we don't need 100 of them if they provide enough power for roughly 1m people each. Maybe 10 at most would be enough with the other nuclear power stations and renewables.

I think there's a huge role for nuclear, it provides consistent power over many many years. I'm a big fan of renewables but the facts remain that when the sun doesn't shine or when the wind dies down there's no energy, maybe storage of excess will work but as of now it's totally unproven at that scale and countries need certainty over power supplies. Everything I read says most renewables only operate because they're heavily subsidized as it is at present so adding more unproven technology into the mix won't lower costs.

They also need to sort out this ridiculous pricing where electricity is set at the highest available unit price instead of the actual supply costs, no idea how this isn't raised more regularly in the news.

 

[Kompakted]

They are a big terrorism risk. How do you guard them if there's 100 of them, compared to the 5 current sites?

And also, does every town really want it's own potential Sellafield in it?

We should be going for nuclear phase out pretty soon after fossil fuel phase out. Anything but wind and solar is just delaying the future.

I'm sure the Civil Nuclear Constabulory would love the variety of locations to stand outside wearing aviators and posing with their MP5s

 

[Kompakted]

I'm sure there's ways of safeguarding them, we don't need 100 of them if they provide enough power for roughly 1m people each. Maybe 10 at most would be enough with the other nuclear power stations and renewables.

I think there's a huge role for nuclear, it provides consistent power over many many years. I'm a big fan of renewables but the facts remain that when the sun doesn't shine or when the wind dies down there's no energy, maybe storage of excess will work but as of now it's totally unproven at that scale and countries need certainty over power supplies. Everything I read says most renewables only operate because they're heavily subsidized as it is at present so adding more unproven technology into the mix won't lower costs.

They also need to sort out this ridiculous pricing where electricity is set at the highest available unit price instead of the actual supply costs, no idea how this isn't raised more regularly in the news.

I've long said that the green lobby's campaign against nuclear is self-defeating. Nuclear is clean, not producing any emissions other than steam, relatively renewable and the waste can be safely dealt with. There isn't another form of clean energy that produces the amount of energy we need to sustain current consumption levels and get to where we need to get to emissions wise quickly.

 

[Gutter Boy]

I've long said that the green lobby's campaign against nuclear is self-defeating. Nuclear is clean, not producing any emissions other than steam, relatively renewable and the waste can be safely dealt with. There isn't another form of clean energy that produces the amount of energy we need to sustain current consumption levels and get to where we need to get to emissions wise quickly.

How is the waste safely disposed of? Its chucked down old mines, then leaks into the sea.

We're having to try and invent universal languages to warn successor species in hundreds of thousands of years not to mess with the catrosophically deadly tombs we're creating everywhere

 

[Rorschach]

I've long said that the green lobby's campaign against nuclear is self-defeating. Nuclear is clean, not producing any emissions other than steam, relatively renewable and the waste can be safely dealt with. There isn't another form of clean energy that produces the amount of energy we need to sustain current consumption levels and get to where we need to get to emissions wise quickly.

The anti-nuclear stance is quite muted among climate folk now, for the most part. Most if not all experts are for retaining existing nuclear power. New nuclear power makes zero financial sense though, considering the quicker cheaper and cleaner options.

 

[Rorschach]

How is the waste safely disposed of? Its chucked down old mines, then leaks into the sea.

We're having to try and invent universal languages to warn successor species in hundreds of thousands of years not to mess with the catrosophically deadly tombs we're creating everywhere

I think the waste problem can be fixed by packing it in cyber trucks, attaching it to Musk's rockets and sending them into the sun with him as pilot. Win win.

The waste issue is rightly seen as the lesser of two evils at the moment. Getting to zero carbon emissions (not net zero - that is a con) is the problem of our time. The waste issue is important but is something that is not existential to the species (all of them). A bigger problem might be the decommissioning of existing plants when seas rise and/or rivers fall.

 

[Batspur]

I think the waste problem can be fixed by packing it in cyber trucks, attaching it to Musk's rockets and sending them into the sun with him as pilot. Win win.

The waste issue is rightly seen as the lesser of two evils at the moment. Getting to zero carbon emissions (not net zero - that is a con) is the problem of our time. The waste issue is important but is something that is not existential to the species (all of them). A bigger problem might be the decommissioning of existing plants when seas rise and/or rivers fall.

Net zero is the biggest con of our lifetime.

A noble idea but utter gonads