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In which we always fail. We build wind farms with imported parts for example. We used to make the parts, like wind turbine blades, but were outcompeted and have largely shut down that production. And those three things do nothing for our negative balance of payments. .

Yes, it was Blair/Brown who really made an art of that, but they've all still presented it as investment. At least one of Starmers spokesmen mentioned one part of the problem, low productivity, but still not with any understanding of the root of our economic malaise. Measuring productivity as...

I've said from the outset that Starmer is Blair mark 2 and he's now made that clear with his promises: 1) No nationalisation, so we would be stuck with paying the shareholders of foreign companies their profits every time we pay our electricity, gas and water bills or catch trains. 2) Growth...

That was the world where bicycles could fly without being hit by a car first :) .

Which will now cost more now taken over by the French. Brexit continues to provide only bad news. Still, as a budding third world nation I suppose we can go back to drumming on tree trunks to communicate with each other. .

I agree Bosch motors also break, and have done since their earliest days. But don't try to kid us that the Daum Impulse motors are reliable, the Impulse 2 in particular is very far from that, most failing well within 2000 miles. How else do you account for bikes receiving up to FIVE...

Possibly for you since you are clearly a severely medically compromised person. I did get the original Covid infection in May 2020, a very unpleasant severe cold in effect, something I've not suffered from in many years, but with no problem despite my heart troubles. Realising early in 2021...

You are wrong again. The Met Police refused to investigate and stuck to that for a long time, so the parties had no consequence. It as only after a lot of foolish people kicked up a huge fuss that the police felt forced to investigate, so the outcome was a consequence of their misguided...

The government's own evidence over three years of Covid to date and all two years to date of the vaccines says I am right. This is not a matter for opinion. I've simply used the government's own tools and data and reported what they say. That shows that we are being consistently lied to...

That wasn't part of partygate that I posted about. There's a difference between serious and inconsequential. .

There were no consequences whatsoever. .

I wouldn't be surprised. I intensely dislike Johnson, but as I've made clear in previous posts, he should not have been forced into resignation by the parties and lies issues which were wholly unimportant. By all means sack him on performance grounds, but not on such inconsequential issues...

The Covid vaccines have been nothing other than a huge confidence trick, earning fortunes for the pharmaceutical industry. Just 10 weeks after they started going into arms in the UK I posted on 8th March 2021 that they were proving to be not vaccines at all, though appearing from reports to...

Much better to buy an e-bike with a motor that doesn't have to be rebuilt after only a few hundred miles. Thats how these Kalkhoffs used to be when they fitted Panasonic motors for the early years from 2009. The switch to the German Daum motors, (renamed Impulse), was a disastrous mistake. .

Maybe, but remember, any privately owned e-scooter is still illegal on the roads at present, being a non-type approved, unregistered motor vehicle. So anyone owning one can be behaviourally suspect in police eyes. Arrest is provisional, only indicating suspicion. .

They have to pay it so will have to keep the portal open or an alternative. No doubt you won't be the only one in this position. All over the country councils are struggling with the extra burdens and lack of money, many like mine have declared bankruptcy and are living on grants from the...

Emphatically yes. Water too. .

The Madhouse economics of the UK. I will shortly be paying £263.70 income tax TO the government. I have just received the £150 government grant via council tax. In November I will be receiving the double Winter Fuel Allowance of £600 from the government. From about then I will be receiving...

I avoided it, knowing what it would be like. However I'm getting very annoyed at the deliberate playing down of those who have refused the vaccines, like that program saying it is 4 million Britons. In fact just over 6 million in England alone have not received both the first and second jabs...

The easy way is to just let then take it off your council tax bill, but since i'd alreadyt paid mine in full, I couldn't use that option. So I too went for payment, but found my entirely valid council account being rejected online with nonsense about wrong password etc. Clearly they are...