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Very true, but it's never worked in politics and never will. There is no longer a place for a true socialist Labour party in this country. Blair tried the confidence trick approach and ultimately failed, which is why Starmer couldn't succeed doing the same. The only way Labour can ever come...

Corbyn would also have lost, but far less badly since the left support him but dont support Starmer. Hence that disastrous result. Whats on offer is a repeat of Blair. A well to do barrister pretending to be Labour leading a party of MPs split beween being true socialists and those who are...

I said that because I'd like to see Scotland back into the EU. We'll all be back in eventually, at first bit by bit with a myriad of little agreements, leading to eventual EEC status at least. .

Of course, we are politically separate, you have your own Scottish government for social matters. Hopefully soon for everything. .

A nice idea, but it cannot work here, the people are too selfish. The slightest hint of a social conscience and the Tories and their press will scream Communism, Trotskyite, Marxist and the people will believe them. And if that doesn't work well enough they will fabricate disgusting lies...

As I've consistently said, that is not what Labour needs to do, adding yet more dishonesty to our appalling two faced politics. Best that Labour stick to their principles and slip honestly into oblivion, accepting that in this small "c" conservative country we no longer have an electorate of...

As I forecast for both, Starmer was the wrong man to take over the Labour party and Hartlepool went blue, in a big way. With a loss of that scale in a former Labour seat, Starmer should step down. The loss wouldn't have been that great under Corbyn since he could hold onto the old left wing...

They do, indeed most of the earlier e-car lithium batteries have had outstanding durability. .

Despite being a motor vehicle fan I've always felt the same way. It was a pity that the authorities didn't prevent street parking back in the 1920s when it started to intensify. It's strange that they didn't since horses and the vehicles they pulled were always taken off the streets previously. .

It'll be like the Icelandic cod wars again, the fishing boats will send the Royal Navy packing. .

Hopefully we'll follow, since it's solely a cosmetic whitener with no other value that I know of. I wonder where this leaves the titanium staples sometimes used in internal surgery such as the many used to hold my inguinal hernia patch in place? .

After 10 years some are claiming very little loss of range, but that's on the earlier batteries with maximum of 50 kW charging and lower mileages. The makers are getting ever more confident of good battery life, but from everything I've seen on this they probably aren't good enough yet for...

That's irrelevant since we only have a handful of pre 2019 e-cars and those like mine are charged at home 90% or more of the charges. There's already far more chargers than those of us who ever charge away from home. The really rapid expansion in e-cars and their usage is happening now with...

E-car news This week in Britain we reached over 15,000 charging locations, having 23,000 charge points and over 40,000 plug in connectors. There are now less than 6000 petrol/diesel filling stations left in Britain. Sales of e-cars this year are 130% up on last year and that was a huge...

That problem is a long way off. For a long time mainly the half of the population who can charge at home will buy them, and it will take many years to manufacture those over 15 million e-cars. The lamp post chargers aren't rapid ones so once you've plugged in, it's yours for the night or...

Of course, but the variations in the treatment of e-cars are so great we each need to say what our circumstances are for any understanding. .

We have lots of two car households, but very often they are couples who each run their own car. So the costs and bureaucratic effort are not a problem for each, especially since they can have cheaper multi-car household insurance and even cheaper if one is an e-car with no VED (road tax). .

There will indeed be grid increases, but primarily for home heating with gas being abandoned. No grid change is necessary for 700 watts per household average during the night. There's that and more to spare then. 9 to 11 kW showers, so what? Does the whole population shower between midnight...

Zlatan, I knkw you hate being wrong and have said so, but on all of this you are wrong but too stubborn to admit it. We already know electricity prices are going to rise to pay for nuclear etc, but they won't rise to anything like petrol levels for e-cars because they cannot., That's because...

Oh dear. Once again please do some thinking before posting. Yes it can take 8 or 9 hours for a full charge on the typical 6.6 kW point, but most people don't cover anything like 100 to 200 miles every day to completely empty their battery. That 200 miles is well over the national average...