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Right to buy is justified for those who stay in the same property for more than 10 years, the huge discount is not. Currently, it's 60% off the price of a house, capped at £102,400. I would suggest a much lower cap, 30% and capped at £50,000. Every government has done that. Curbing immigration...

Starmer and Yvette Cooper cut legal immigration by half in 2024. Did it work? No. Why would a few hundred deportations work?

They still have to serve their sentence. Justice is still served. Noted. Incidentally, I agree with Farage's call for Starmer to nominate a number of Reform for the Lords. a) won't get us very far, it would take us to where the USA are legally at the moment but still far from Farage's goals as...

Saneagle has had a lot of crank motors. He even created his own before Bosch made it what is now the cornerstone of the ebike industry. I think Saneagle is a bit obsessed with ironing out all weaknesses in ebikes. Crank motors have more weaknesses than hub motors. I accept that all solutions are...

Parliament can make new laws and revised existing ones but this is not an absolute concept or power. Laws are drafted by government lawyers. They are civil servants. They then have to be translated into statutes. The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel translates government policy into clear...

Let's just address a few points you made. 1. Immigration Act 1971. This Act has been revised a few times over the year but the essence remains the same. Essentially, illegal migrants entering the UK without valid visa and overstayers are in covered by this Act. I think we can agree on that...

I never said that. We have parliament to look after laws.

You misunderstood what democracy is. It's just a system of law. The overarching concept is to live in a society, you must accept and obey its laws. If you don't, emigrate or leave and live alone. Imagine some immigrant (like me) pick and choose what laws I like to respect and which I don't. What...

OK, he is not your guy. I will accept that. Cummings doesn't understand democracy and government as much as he thinks he does. Government is the machine that we need to keep running, in good times and bad times, even when it doesn't work properly. The important point to remember is government is...

OK. I watched a few interviews of your guy, Cummings, and also refreshed my history lessons on the 1840s and the 1848 revolution. Cummings fancies himself a new architect of democracy with a f... you attitude to the establishment. He is already so myopic that he cannot see beyond his own echo...

It's just a silly test for marketing. The important point is EV tech is maturing fast because the car market is ready for the switch over to EVs in the next 2-3 years. Recently, if you watch tv ads for EVs, all the new EVs are equipped with long range, fast charging capable batteries. CATL which...

A little bit. I think he is or would like to be more like Steve Bannon.

I have no knowledge of the European history of the 1840s nor the deep state, TBH. Cummings cited Klemens von Metternich who was of course one of the most important politicians of the period, it will take some time to make sense of the context. Still, I wonder where did I see people who wear...

You succeeded. You have always been so factual for years and years

Calling his Lishui controller a turd is totally unjustified. I thought you are better than that.

So those failures* have absolutelynothing to do with half baked project objectives and milestones, changes in political leaderships, public finance and regulatory obstacles then? * such as Osborne's Northern Powerhouse, HS2, Priti Patel's Rwanda scheme etc

so he's got a good track record on political wins in the 2016-2021 era. His notable claim to fame was the 3 word slogan 'take back control'. That proves is he's a good political hack. That does not qualify him for the role of reforming the Civil Service or government machine though. He may have...

Could you sum up the differences between the old lishui setup and your OSF implementation beside the change of LCD?

You and I have got some proven managerial skills over our 50 year working life but Cummings? What managerial skills has he got? He's got a degree in History! He's good with languages too, I give you that but would you trust him to manage your savings? His education and career past has not...

Cummings talked about how to reform the Civil Service as if he were Sir Humphries in 'Yes, Prime Minister'. That guy in the Grenfell saga is not typical of the caliber Cummings was talking about and he already admitted that it was a mistake. Much more than Cummings ever admitted to anything...