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Rorschach said:
Brilliant. I'm definitely going to do this. So something like this kit to get going?
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We might need a home brew thread.
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That's much more like the later kits I've done, it's a lot more involved. I'd start with something simpler like: thehomebrewcompany.ie/simply-mild-ale-18kg-p-5760.html as it will produce a reasonable beer for not a lot of money.
 
richie_spur said:
That's much more like the later kits I've done, it's a lot more involved. I'd start with something simpler like: thehomebrewcompany.ie/simply-mild-ale-18kg-p-5760.html as it will produce a reasonable beer for not a lot of money.
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Thank fudge. It looked a bit complicated. That is way simpler. I'll report back on quality if and when I get tinkled on it.
 
P.D. said:
Food prices are insane, I get delivery and what you get for your money just gets less and less. I'm now eating a lot healthier which is also a lot more expensive plus 2 kids. Also got self inflicted type 2 diabetes and now eat a lot of specialist low carb stuff which has ridiculous prices - I'm paying £4/5 for a loaf of bread.
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I "bake my own bread" with a bread maker.
Panasonic machine is about £120 from John Lewis ( two year guarantee) £15 for a large bag of flour (15kg).
My own recipe is a egg, and half milk half water for the fluid, 500-550 gr of flour, a teaspoon of salt and sugar and a sachet of dried yeast.
Honestly I have had people buy the machine after tasting my loaf and my family fight over it.
Use it almost every day.
 
glasgowspur said:
I "bake my own bread" with a bread maker.
Panasonic machine is about £120 from John Lewis ( two year guarantee) £15 for a large bag of flour (15kg).
My own recipe is a egg, and half milk half water for the fluid, 500-550 gr of flour, a teaspoon of salt and sugar and a sachet of dried yeast.
Honestly I have had people buy the machine after tasting my loaf and my family fight over it.
Use it almost every day.
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What amount of milk + water?
 
Mikey10 said:
The fact that he announces the party’s formation without having a name for it says everything.
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Well to be fair, their new publicist probably vetoed "Friends of Hezbollah".

Zarah Sultana is a complete airhead too. I used to follow her on twitter. She once posted a picture of a load of tory MP prospectuses she'd thrown in the bin with a tagline along the lines of "tories trying to get me to vote them onto committees, this is where they all end up". I wonder how long its taken her to be advised that select committees are made up of representatives from all parties and she wasn't being asked to "vote tory", she was being asked to select the tory representatives that may be most appropriate for her constituents needs or her own beliefs.

Another classic Sultana post, sat on a LNER service from King's Cross to Leeds that was delayed due to a signal failure. She called for nationalisation of the railways to prevent this sort of thing from happening not realising that LNER was a public entity created to nationalise the East Coast franchise following the failure of Virgin Trains east coast. And of course the signal in question was owned and maintained by Network Rail, another nationalised public body....
 
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Corbyn appeals to some of us. He has broad support in my view. PR voting would give us a real democratic parliament. And I'd imagine the left would make a real dent.
 
LutonSpurs said:
Corbyn appeals to some of us. He has broad support in my view. PR voting would give us a real democratic parliament. And I'd imagine the left would make a real dent.
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Well there's no doubt that if he can get it off the ground then Labour will be under the same "pincer attack" as the tories are. With the tories its been Reform to the right and Lib Dems to the left. With Labour it's been Reform and a tickle to the Greens on the left but yes, i agree they could take a good chunk of votes away....
 
Mikey10 said:
Two general election results say that’s not the case. The second of them saw a historic level of defeat under his leadership.
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Its an odd one though - while I dont think he was ever going to be PM, he got 40% of the vote in 2017. Theresa May has got to be the only party leader to come out of a GE in which her party got over 43% and not get a huge majority.

I think Starmer convincing him to u-turn on Brexit resulted in the 2019 collapse as Labour voters in leave areas voted for the tories to ensure it went through.

Starmer actually got Labour fewer votes in 2024 than Corbyn achieved in either of his elections.

And I feel sorry for Sunak and Hunt because they are night and day over Starmer and Reeves in terms of competence - but people were just sick of the tories after party gate and the Liz Truss debacle so they got in by default. Honestly you could have put up Mr. Blobby with a red rosette for PM in 2024 and he'd have got a super majority...
 
Have driven through France and Spain this year and Germany in previous years and looking at their roads and infrastructure maybe what we need is a little spell of dictatorship to get ours up to scratch.
Just keep them away from things like foreign policy, the armed forces and propaganda.

Can't sleep as a massive thunderstorm is kicking off overhead.
 
Mikey10 said:
Two general election results say that’s not the case. The second of them saw a historic level of defeat under his leadership.
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The first one he did really well. Didn't reflect the seats but he was close.

The 2nd one was about Brexit. Corbyn has always been a euro sceptic but the centrists wouldn't allow it within his own ranks.
 
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