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Re: Reform Party

Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 8:41 pm
by Yug
If, if, RUK had even one tiny shred of credibility, they definitely haven't now.

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 12:52 pm
by davidjay
Yug wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 8:41 pm If, if, RUK had even one tiny shred of credibility, they definitely haven't now.
You don't need credibility to con the gullible.

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 12:59 am
by The Weeping Angel
Of course this will be all over the news.


Re: Reform Party

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 1:29 pm
by davidjay
There is no way they won't implode by 2029.

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 1:33 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Farage apparently conceded that a better deal could be done with the EU today. Was that the first time?

Funnily enough, he didn't explain what it should be.

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 2:43 pm
by Youngian
Probably red tape on imports and exports but common regulation means a common court to arbitrate between parties in dispute. Or unelected foreign judges telling us what to do. Sovereignty is all Farage has left in the bag.

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:55 pm
by mattomac
I wonder why they did a poll over the weekend.

It usually the least reliable time to do one.

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2025 1:28 pm
by Youngian
Remember when Farage was proudly boasting about his role in Johnson’s victory?
Boris Johnson was “one of the most damaging prime ministers in this country’s history”, according to the chairman of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Zia Yusuf also said the disgraced ex-PM, found to have deliberately lied and lied again to parliament over Partygate, would not be welcome in his party.
“History will judge Boris Johnson as one of the most damaging prime ministers in this country’s history.”

The rise in net migration during Mr Johnson’s time in power was “a total betrayal of everybody who voted for Brexit”, he said. “He took public spending close to Soviet Union spending.

He also branded the Tories an "extremely left-wing party" in government. He did say that ex-home secretary Suella Braverman would be welcome in Reform UK.https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 94084.html

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2025 2:13 pm
by RedSparrows
I beg, implore, beseech one of these fuckers to open a book for once in their miserable fucking lives.

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2025 3:04 pm
by Samanfur
Admitting that they read a book even once wouldn't go down well with their base.

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 5:14 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Heavyweight analysis here.
Tice says renewables cannot be cheaper because backup is needed.

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to realize that the cost of renewables plus backup must be more than the cost of backup. It’s basic common sense.
Using something as back up costs the same as using it all the time. You read it here first.

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 5:16 pm
by Malcolm Armsteen
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 5:14 pm Heavyweight analysis here.
Tice says renewables cannot be cheaper because backup is needed.

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to realize that the cost of renewables plus backup must be more than the cost of backup. It’s basic common sense.
Using something as back up costs the same as using it all the time. You read it here first.
"I didn't have a starter so I'm not paying for a starter..."

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 5:58 pm
by Killer Whale
You would be surprised how many times that argument gets deployed. Or maybe you wouldn't.
The fact is that gas turbine stations in particular can spin up from idle with very short notice. Yes, they have to be kept maintained, but that's a background cost.

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 6:15 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Inheritance tax payable only for farmers with renewable energy on their land.


Re: Reform Party

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 6:21 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Ha ha ha.

He's such a danger to business that he wants them to warn investors about them?

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 6:22 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Killer Whale wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 5:58 pm You would be surprised how many times that argument gets deployed. Or maybe you wouldn't.
The fact is that gas turbine stations in particular can spin up from idle with very short notice. Yes, they have to be kept maintained, but that's a background cost.
It's almost like gas storage exists too.

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 6:33 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Is it only infrastructure for cables that has to go underground? How many constituencies do they think there are in rural Lincolnshire?

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:09 pm
by Killer Whale
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 6:21 pm Ha ha ha.

He's such a danger to business that he wants them to warn investors about them?
To be fair, he seems to have a feeling of how much anti-corporate sentiment there is out there. I'm sure that it was to quite a large extent behind Trump's victory, which, in that sense, was one of the greatest examples of bait-and-switch in history.

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:10 pm
by Killer Whale
Tubby Isaacs wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2025 6:33 pm Is it only infrastructure for cables that has to go underground? How many constituencies do they think there are in rural Lincolnshire?
Yeah. Stick the roads and drainage dykes underground, too.

Re: Reform Party

Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 8:11 pm
by Malcolm Armsteen
Fargle underground?

We wish...