Yet more despicable tomfoolery from this disgrace of a government. Who* knew?
(*Everybody. It's what they do now. It's called 'rebalancing')
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[Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...
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(*Everybody. It's what they do now. It's called 'rebalancing')
rogersix
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- Jan 18, 2014
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is that a different thing to leveling up? it's hard to keep up with it all
tragedy for the young women
West Hoathly Seagull
Honorary Ruffian
It's true it was only a council by-election, albeit one with a much greater turnout than usual (42%), but the Lib Dems held the ward of Corstophine/Murrayfield (yes, where the rugby stadium is) in Edinburgh with a considerably increased majority on Thursday. The electorate in the ward is huge, at around 20,000, as Scottish councillors are elected by PR, in multi-member wards. Corstorphine is solidly suburban, while Murrayfield is just about the most prosperous area in the whole of Edinburgh, with large villas. It used to be a Tory stronghold when councillors were elected under FPTP. The Tories won the first preference vote in 2017 quite comfortably, but their vote was slashed in half last year, with the Lib Dems winning 50% (their percentage on Thursday was 56, with the Tories falling back by about the same percentage).
Your suggestion is therefore a good one, though whether this will apply in a General Election is another matter; in Scotland at least, a large proportion of the middle class vote went Lib Dem in 1997 and stayed with them until the SNP landslide in 2015. There are signs of this happening in England - see Tunbridge Wells last year, and quite a few council by-elections recently (there may of course be local factors involved in these). Middle class southern England did not take to Boris Johnson as the Red Wall did. I suspect with a more moderate Labour leader, and Jo Swinson not losing any political sense in proposing to revoke Article 50 without a referendum (Lib Dem support plummeted after that), the Tory majority would have been considerably narrower.
Yes, Alastair Burt was a decent MP. He was one of those kicked out by Boris Johnson for rebelling over the proroguing of Parliament. I don't think he got the whip back in 2019, and opted to retire. If you are left-leaning, you would probably have disagreed with him much of the time, but he was widely respected across the House of Commons. The same happened to David Gauke, Antoinette Sandbach, Caroline Spelman and a number of others.
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TomandJerry
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- Oct 1, 2013
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Cost of living criss ? What cost of living criss?
Rishi Sunak’s new private heated swimming pool uses so much energy that the local electricity network had to be upgraded to meet its power demands, the Guardian has been told.
Rishi Sunak’s new private heated swimming pool uses so much energy that the local electricity network had to be upgraded to meet its power demands, the Guardian has been told.
The Clamp
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Nurses and teachers are using food banks. Pensioners are choosing between heating, eating or neither.
Just read this a couple of times and take it in.
“Rishi Sunak’s new private heated swimming pool uses so much energy that the local electricity network had to be upgraded to meet its power demands, the Guardian has been told.
While many Britons are facing increased electricity bills – and are trying to limit their energy usage – extra equipment was recently installed in a remote part of North Yorkshire to provide extra capacity from the National Grid to the prime minister’s constituency home.
This followed Sunak’s construction of a new heated swimming pool, gym and tennis court in the grounds of the manor house he occupies at weekends. Engineers had to install a substantial amount of equipment and a new connection to the National Grid that runs across open fields”.
Just the manor house he “occupies at the weekends” .
www.theguardian.com
Yes he’s paying for it “out of his own pocket”. Ahem, cough. But my point is, while the masses struggle, this little piggy has all the luxury he could imagine .
Just read this a couple of times and take it in.
“Rishi Sunak’s new private heated swimming pool uses so much energy that the local electricity network had to be upgraded to meet its power demands, the Guardian has been told.
While many Britons are facing increased electricity bills – and are trying to limit their energy usage – extra equipment was recently installed in a remote part of North Yorkshire to provide extra capacity from the National Grid to the prime minister’s constituency home.
This followed Sunak’s construction of a new heated swimming pool, gym and tennis court in the grounds of the manor house he occupies at weekends. Engineers had to install a substantial amount of equipment and a new connection to the National Grid that runs across open fields”.
Just the manor house he “occupies at the weekends” .
Rishi Sunak has electricity grid upgraded to heat his private pool
PM will pick up cost of upgrade work in North Yorkshire, and no suggestion he received preferential treatment
www.theguardian.com
Yes he’s paying for it “out of his own pocket”. Ahem, cough. But my point is, while the masses struggle, this little piggy has all the luxury he could imagine .
And also - he may have paid for it out of his own pocket; but the electricity company staff were organising all this work, and then carrying it out - so, they were spending time doing something to benefit a wealthy individual instead of sorting other issues that would benefit the wider public on the network. It's the opportunity cost that's important here. And, as you imply - 'I've got loads of money and so can get what I want - sod the rest of you plebs'.Nurses and teachers are using food banks. Pensioners are choosing between heating, eating or neither.
Just read this a couple of times and take it in.
“Rishi Sunak’s new private heated swimming pool uses so much energy that the local electricity network had to be upgraded to meet its power demands, the Guardian has been told.
While many Britons are facing increased electricity bills – and are trying to limit their energy usage – extra equipment was recently installed in a remote part of North Yorkshire to provide extra capacity from the National Grid to the prime minister’s constituency home.
This followed Sunak’s construction of a new heated swimming pool, gym and tennis court in the grounds of the manor house he occupies at weekends. Engineers had to install a substantial amount of equipment and a new connection to the National Grid that runs across open fields”.
Just the manor house he “occupies at the weekends” .
Rishi Sunak has electricity grid upgraded to heat his private pool
PM will pick up cost of upgrade work in North Yorkshire, and no suggestion he received preferential treatment
Yes he’s paying for it “out of his own pocket”. Ahem, cough. But my point is, while the masses struggle, this little piggy has all the luxury he could imagine .
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Unusually for this current cabal, here is a report of something completely legal and above board 
The construction of the prime minister’s pool at his home in Richmond, north Yorkshire, involved extra equipment to boost capacity from the national grid, according to The Guardian. Reports of the upgrade come as MPs raised concerns that soaring energy bills have led to the closure or reduction in opening hours at an estimated 350 public swimming pools.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...y-grid-to-heat-his-private-pool-b2299169.html
His judgement and timing could be a little better however
Rishi Sunak ‘pays to upgrade electricity grid to heat his private pool’
The construction of the prime minister’s pool at his home in Richmond, north Yorkshire, involved extra equipment to boost capacity from the national grid, according to The Guardian. Reports of the upgrade come as MPs raised concerns that soaring energy bills have led to the closure or reduction in opening hours at an estimated 350 public swimming pools.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...y-grid-to-heat-his-private-pool-b2299169.html
His judgement and timing could be a little better however
As post above - how many other electricity faults/issues that benefit the wider public could have been sorted in the time the engineers and so on spent upgrading the grid for a rich man's second home vanity project?Unusually for this current cabal, here is a report of something completely legal and above board
Rishi Sunak ‘pays to upgrade electricity grid to heat his private pool’
The construction of the prime minister’s pool at his home in Richmond, north Yorkshire, involved extra equipment to boost capacity from the national grid, according to The Guardian. Reports of the upgrade come as MPs raised concerns that soaring energy bills have led to the closure or reduction in opening hours at an estimated 350 public swimming pools.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...y-grid-to-heat-his-private-pool-b2299169.html
His judgement and timing could be a little better however
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Burgess Hill had a prolonged power cut yesterday.
TomandJerry
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- Oct 1, 2013
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The good old magic money tree has been shaken....
Rishi Sunak unveils £5bn extra defence spending ahead of Aukus summit in US
No wonder we can’t afford to pay nurses and teachers inflation matching pay increases. There was the £500m to France to pay them for what they used to do when we were in the EU too.
Now, when will they get those tax cuts for our richest citizens sorted next!
nicko31
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13% rise for pensioners this year too, there's money for people that vote Tory.
If you don't vote Tory there's not much, oh and we're make it hard for you to vote too!!
We all get that payrise one day - although if they put back the state retirement age ( my guess: Hunt announces this on Wednesday ) then we have to wait longer to get it.
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Hang on plenty of us pensioners have never voted Tory.!
nicko31
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Agree, but mostly they do. Infact I have one of my parents has now ditched them for the first time ever.
Generally without this group they could never win an election.
The Clamp
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Yet more Tory sleaze and corruption.
Plough the f***ing lot of them into a ditch.
www.theguardian.com
Plough the f***ing lot of them into a ditch.
Tory MP asked to justify raising donor’s business issues in Commons
David Simmonds says rules were complied with after his local party association received thousands
www.theguardian.com
nicko31
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Well every single Tory MP voted last night for their disgusting Illegal Immigration Bill.
Every single one of them is complicit. The real neo-fascists waste no time bragging about it.
Every single one of them is complicit. The real neo-fascists waste no time bragging about it.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
To be fair, some of them abstained, whether through cowardice or not actually being at work.