[Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...

[Blue Valkyrie]

3 hours/7 pints on Fridays for our offices. 1970s/80s.

I would love to find a job which allowed lunchtime drinking like I had in the early 90s.

Perhaps I'll send my CV to Downing Street

 

[rogersix]

Looks like you were incorrect, Starmer went for the jugular putting in an unusually competent performance. Boris has been written off many times on NSC but this is the first time he is in real trouble. Intersting to see if he can confound political norms and his critics once more (I doubt it) .... logging on NSC after yet another Boris victory in a year or two would be deliciously entertaining though.

so you want buglecunt to continue as the nations leader?

 

[nicko31]

Yet many strive to come to our great land. Can't be all bad.

We're still a rich western that speaks the world language so people will want to come here, but that doesn't mean a corrupt cabal can't f**k it up

 

[pasty]

I would love to find a job which allowed lunchtime drinking like I had in the early 90s.

Perhaps I'll send my CV to Downing Street

It was almost obligatory at Amex back then

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Yet many strive to come to our great land. Can't be all bad.

The recent advert for scientists from abroad brought in a grand total of zero applicants.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

I don’t that really matters anymore.

To do what Johnson did here goes beyond anything I’ve ever seen in politics. He just lied - pure and simple. And we we were facing the biggest impact on our day to day lives since the war.

This is beyond justification by anyone, regardless of your politics. A liar is a liar - no matter what their views or political affiliations are.

He’s an absolute disgrace.


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But to slate Johnson for being a liar is as pointless as slating a lion for savaging a wildebeast. It was no secret that he was a liar and a fraud before the people of Britain elected him. His true nature wasn't hid from us in the slightest.

It's the people who voted for him that are the disgrace.

If you're one of those, next time you're in a ballot booth, try to vote on the basis of something other than your most base instincts

 

[nicko31]

so you want buglecunt to continue as the nations leader?

If it upsets people on the other side I'd say yes. Its all that's left...

 

[Is it PotG?]

The recent advert for scientists from abroad brought in a grand total of zero applicants.

I was led to believe that the rubber boats were full of potential applicants.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

But the EU's gas usage is pretty consistent, if anything decreasing recently. Has there really been a seismic shift in the number of coal fired stations shut in the past year and our demand for gas correspondingly increasing?

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Either way we do need more reliance in the form of more renewable generation and energy storage.

Completely agree with your final sentence. However Germany has completely shut its coal fired power generation and the UK is not far off the same. There is a dangerous reliance on wind power because of the speed of the shutdown and the increase in demand as the world has emerged from lockdown. There is actually a forecast shortage of electricity in Germany in the coming years unless they do something about it. I can’t comment on your chart because there may be lots of factors at play including the expansion of the LNG market. There is also demand destruction with high prices and stock drawdown. All conflicting factors but it is undeniable that without coal generation and with Russia controlling gas supply and the shortfall not made up with LNG there is a squeeze this year and that is not forecast to end any time soon.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I was led to believe that the rubber boats were full of potential applicants.

Sauce?

 

[Lower West Stander]

But to slate Johnson for being a liar is as pointless as slating a lion for savaging a wildebeast. It was no secret that he was a liar and a fraud before the people of Britain elected him. His true nature wasn't hid from us in the slightest.

It's the people who voted for him that are the disgrace.

If you're one of those, next time you're in a ballot booth, try to vote on the basis of something other than your most base instincts

I would be extremely careful what you say.

How I voted is none of your business. I find your comments deeply offensive.

You really need to take a step back and think before you post something like that.


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[pb21]

Completely agree with your final sentence. However Germany has completely shut its coal fired power generation and the UK is not far off the same. There is a dangerous reliance on wind power because of the speed of the shutdown and the increase in demand as the world has emerged from lockdown. There is actually a forecast shortage of electricity in Germany in the coming years unless they do something about it. I can’t comment on your chart because there may be lots of factors at play.

Thing is I don't understand why the price of gas is going up in the EU when there is less demand for gas in the EU. Surely if demand is decreasing then the price should reflect that decreased demand?

I did see this article, that suggested the first half of the year demand was up on 2020, but that was due to a cold winter and that 2020 was a low demand year.

In the first quarter of 2021 gas consumption in the EU was higher than in the same months of 2020, and closer to the upper range of the last five years," the EC said.

https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/...n-q1-up-76-on-year-on-heating-power-demand-ec

I don't see in the data, or words, anything to suggest we are having to rely more on gas for power, as a result of windfarms or shut down coal fired power stations.

Again in that article

EU gas production fell sharply by 11% year on year in Q1, amounting to just 13.8 Bcm, the EC said.

"During Q1, similar to the previous quarters, gas output was below the 2015-2019 range, reflecting the dwindling trend of gas production in the EU," it said.

Maybe that's an issue, and this:

Despite the fall in production and rise in demand, imports also fell in Q1, with total net extra-EU gas imports totaling 78.5 Bcm, down 3% year on year.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I would be extremely careful what you say.

How I voted is none of your business. I find your comments deeply offensive.

You really need to take a step back and think before you post something like that.


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He said. ‘The people who voted for him. IF you are one...’.

Don’t be so defensive

 

[Danny Wilson Said]

I would be extremely careful what you say.

How I voted is none of your business. I find your comments deeply offensive.

You really need to take a step back and think before you post something like that.


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He said ‘If’. But if you’ve got something you want to confess ...

 

[rogersix]

Yet many strive to come to our great land. Can't be all bad.

you've completely missed the point

 

[Lower West Stander]

He said. ‘The people who voted for him. IF you are one...’.

Don’t be so defensive

Disappointing from a mod.

That was an insult to many, not me.


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[rogersix]

I was led to believe that the rubber boats were full of potential applicants.

silly billy

 

[dazzer6666]

But to slate Johnson for being a liar is as pointless as slating a lion for savaging a wildebeast. It was no secret that he was a liar and a fraud before the people of Britain elected him. His true nature wasn't hid from us in the slightest.

It's the people who voted for him that are the disgrace.

If you're one of those, next time you're in a ballot booth, try to vote on the basis of something other than your most base instincts

Presumably the same description applies to anyone who voted for Blair given he lied to start a war ?

 

[Baldseagull]

I was led to believe that the rubber boats were full of potential applicants.

Might be, but it will take our Home Office about 12 to 18 months to process their asylum claim.

 

[Simster]

I would be extremely careful what you say.

How I voted is none of your business. I find your comments deeply offensive.

You really need to take a step back and think before you post something like that.


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He's said nothing that isn't true. You need to wind your neck in.