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Climate change denier Jacob Rees-Mogg has been put in charge of tackling climate change.

Aren’t we footing most of the estimated £20B bill for Sizewell C? And there’s already talk that the cost is going to double. If you’re assuming that privatisation has spared us the cost of investment in new power plants and things like maintenance of the grid I think you’re going to be...

France is buying the remaining shares in EDF for €9.7B. On that Basis the French government could have brought EDF twice if they didn’t have any shares in it in the first place for that £100B. To say we’re being taken for mugs is an understatement.

Convenient for the energy companies

The more I hear about this proposed help for energy plan the more I’m convinced she’s taken this Thatcher tribute act too seriously. She seems to be intent on kicking off with her poll tax moment. I can see there being a mass bill payment strike yet. It needs something big to happen before...

Economist Richard Murphy just on the radio saying that Liz Truss’ energy plans are going to drive inflation because it protects energy companies exceptional profits with the tax coffers picking up the cost. Predicting that the Bank of England could raise interest rates as high as 4% driving...

Nailed on relegation now.

Allegedly Boris is odds on to lose his marginal seat at the next GE so he’s being moved to Dorries safe seat at the next GE hence Dorries is going to the HoL’s. (Edit) although that wouldn’t stop her being in the government, Lord Frost for example.

For many years now most of the security workers I’ve seen are African, not sure how that’s EU freedom of movement issues. I worked in warehouses for a couple of years between a career change when there was very little EU workers, my brother got me the job and he’s worked there pretty much his...

Some talk about how she’s going to have to appoint a cabinet from an even shallower talent pool than Boris did. To quote Jonathan Pie (albeit he was talking about Boris’ cabinet reshuffles) it’s like moving cat shit around on a litter tray.

A) there wasn’t an oversupply. We’ve consistently had the lowest unemployment rates and highest job vacancy rates since the 70’s and 80’s. A period when our workers were going the other way. I’m sure you remember the sitcom Auf Wiedersehen Pet due to the high unemployment and lack of job...

Boris’ claim that “they changed the rules halfway through” causing some confusion. Anyone?

The thing is freedom of movement was controlled, they were coming here to work, if there was no jobs they wouldn’t come. The majority came to work in sectors that always have and always will pay minimum wage, last time I checked the government set that so if wages were being suppressed that was...

12 years of getting their own way

Doesn’t surprise me. I know the care home where my wife used to volunteer has gone from a majority European workforce to a majority African workforce in the last couple of years.

I mentioned it the other day but the government is actively trying to recruit 160k workers to work in the care industry from India and Philippines. I think they intend for them to be qualified nurses but there’s a technicality somewhere that they can’t go straight into the NHS so the plan is...

Which was very fitting.

The Dutch had a good spell in Sri Lanka too.

Lots of museums would be empty for starters.