Off Topic Politics Thread

Is there a link to all of that? Like to hear his response

 

I am glad Johnson doesn't negotiate the transfer in or out of our players. We would never sign anyone and would never sell anyone.

What a great way to open negotiations by saying this is my final offer take it or leave it.

He'll get around the Benn Act and he will be able to blame the EU for not accepting his offer.

 

Dunno, have they?

 

My prediction is that Boris's border plan will be vague and unenforceable and for the EU to reject it on that basis.

I'll read what the proposal is though. Hopefully he is planning to produce the document in text like May did so I can scrutinise it.

 

I see that Meghan is suing the Mail then...........I don't read the mail so have no idea what this is all about..........Something about a private letter? Have they been running a campaign against her? As she alleges?............

 

I don’t read the Mail either, but it’s pretty hard to miss the way the media have had that woman in her sights from day 1. It’s rather chilling considering what happened to her mother in law.

 

Agreed...........Cannot figure.........Why the hell is this newspaper still in existence? The media seems to be getting more and more derogatory with false news and quotes seem to be the norm.

 

It’s been going on for ages Beddy, it’s just that the lying and overt racism is probably getting worse.

While we are on the subject, did you know that all the myths about how terrible and undemocratic the EU is started with a young journalist working on the Telegraph, where he had got a job after being sacked for making up stories while working for the Times.

His name was Boris Johnson, I wonder what happened to him?

 

Seriously, I get a more balanced and informed view of British politics by reading this thread than I do from watching/reading any of the media.

 

Print media is dying, and the Internet provides limitless competition for our dwindling attention spans, so the gutter press are getting ever more desperate in their efforts to be heard.

 

That doesn't surprise me.............Makes you wonder what people see in him?

 

The same as people see in Trump. He's a populist. He's the smiley face on the monster.

 

So what does that say about we, the people? You and me may not want to be led by these tin pot spivs, but it seems that plenty of our friends and neighbors do. Why? What’s going on?

 

Do they see something we cant see.......? Or maybe too blind to see?............

 

Who knows? We all see something different, I guess. Like 32,000 people at St Mary’s all watch the same game and see something different.

What I do know is, there have been several governments and leaders I haven’t agreed with or even liked very much. But this is the first time I have ever felt so much distrust in the motives of our country’s leader.

I don’t believe a single thing Boris Johnson ever says, and I don’t think that for one second he would ever put the country’s interests in front of his own. And he has somehow managed to assemble the most unprincipled cabinet in UK history.

As for Trump, he’s clearly insane. But that was obvious before he was elected.

 

I think that could be argued for Boris too...........

 

They can't see through the facade. You only have to compare Buffoon's 1 and 2 to see the similarities:

A remarkable lack of respect for institutions and Parliament.
Appealing to an electorate with heavily biased perspectives, falsehoods and downright blatant lies.
A lack of respect for the rule of law and actually breaking it.

It's true that the Buffoon loud mouth in the USA is has gone completely off the rails now, but our own Buffoon PM has only been in office for a very short time and he has achieved nothing positive and managed to polarise opinion even further. That's almost exactly the same as the POTUS. And any personal endorsement from either to either ought to taken with a large dose of salt. Isn't it ironic that, those in the USA who oppose Trump are also warning us against the dangers of Brexit? They're also having quite a laugh at the expense of our Buffoon Johnson. And who can blame them?

 

Labour wants to build lithium battery plants and infrastructure for £2.3bn at Swindon [Honda's by then closed factory site], Stoke and South Wales. The factories would supply cars. This is part of Labour's rollout of a Green New Deal - very similar to the one written by Senator Bernie Sanders in the USA.
Conservatives want to spend £1bn on electrification of transport - no details as yet.

Whilst this is all very welcome, a couple of issues. How are Labour's factories going to build car batteries to the exact specification required by all and sundry, whenn it is an ever evolving technology, subject to change on a daily basis, in some cases?
Andrea Leadsom's £1bn is welcome, but until we see where it is going I'd reserve judgement. For example, they are using large expanses of solar panels to power [and I kid you not] hundreds of nodding donkeys pumping oil out of the ground in Texas, USA. So beware of the detail.

I can suggest some immediate improvements to Labour's idea, which will let the batteries churn out with no problem. Make them stationary energy storage batteries for sources of renewable electricity generated in the UK. Nobody, but a total dullard could object to that vision, and it's one area we are light on. Yes, one would have to bring in many of the materials, but that's the same for almost every manufacturing facility. And the product would be local to the UK, and not requiring constant upgrade, because they would last for 30 years at least, saving billions of pounds in stored electricity, and helping to balance out the grid. This is the current single problem with renewables. When it's night time solar panels don't work [staggeringly the very newest, best developments can even generate electricity in moonlight], and when it's totally calm the wind turbines don't turn [this happens very rarely in reality]. But often there's too much sunlight and too much wind. And then they actually have to turn these things off because they are producing too much electricity. Hence battery storage. The massive ones already deployed, for example in Australia, are already saving millions of dollars. It's a total no-brainer.

 

I agree totally about storage batteries. When I had a solar array installed at my old house about 7 years ago I paid the extra few thousand for a storage system as well. In those days the batteries were just lead acid car batteries (which put a strain on my ceiling joists!) but they did the job. The control software had a hierarchy of choices, so in daytime with strong sunlight, any power usage came straight off the PV panels, with the surplus going into the batteries, and any further surplus going into the grid. I had a 4kwh array, which pointed almost due South, so it worked pretty well even in dim daylight. At night, power came first from the batteries, and only then from the mains. The money from the feed-in tariff, over a full year, completely offset my electricity bill. And when I sold the house, I made sure I got the installation costs back!

As you say, technology has moved on so fast, that both PV panels and storage batteries are so much more efficient. It should be mandatory in building regs that any new building with a vaguely south-facing roof has to have a full PV array with batteries. Tesla even make PV cells that look exactly like roof tiles, so no issues with spoiling the street scene in pretty villages.

And I seem to recall from one of those Fully Charged videos you posted, TSS, that one use of lithium ion car batteries from EV’s which had come to the end of their useful life would be to use them for storage systems for domestic solar arrays, which would be the best of both worlds!

 

Exactly so Chilco. Really glad to read details of your old installation. Just shows that PV panels really worked well in the past.
I think you'll find that regs are being got together which insist upon solar panelled roofs. I don't know when, but I have read this. As you say, any vaguely south facing roof should be suitable. This will undoubtedly influence roof design and house orientation in the future, tree coverage, etc, if designers take this properly onboard. Of course, if they incorporated Tesla's solar roof tiles, then they would be presented with fewer problems. Tesla are at last offering a set up in the UK: https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/solarroof?redirect=no


Amazing that you can't see the cells in those tiles. I love the Tuscan ones, of course. For those who don't know, the white block is a battery wall pack.