Oh, look... who is he working for?

It's supposed to be his constituents. The ones who gave away their vote to him in the vain hope of "change".

They also don't explore the "why" of it either. Who makes money out of Brexit. Not ordinary folk.

The ultra-wealthy, who don't have to expose their wealth to the auditors under new EU laws, certainly.

The big multi-nationals who can soak the extra red tape at the borders & break small competitors.

Remind me. How many small British businesses have folded because Brexit has quadrupled red tape at the border with our nearest trading neighbours since Brexit?

Do you even know?

Rude people who repeatedly use ad-hominems (when they've run out of adult arguments) get blocked.

Few read old posts. Happy to let them waste their life replying into the aether on mine.

Sad really when you think about it. All this anger and rage. Against what?

A weakened diurnal weather constraint leads to longer burning hours in North America Weakened constraints of the day-night weather cycles are making wildfires burn longer and harder to control across North America.

Original research paper for the scientists: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wildfires used to 'go to sleep' at night. Climate change is turning them into prime burning hours Burning time for North American wildfires is going into overtime. Flames are lasting later into the night and starting earlier in the morning because human-caused climate change is extending the hotte...

"Fires used to die down or even die out at night as temperatures dropped and humidity increased, but that's happening less often. The number of hours in North America when the weather is favorable for wildfires is 36% higher than 50 years ago"
phys.org/news/2026-04...

Vote Refrom, get Tory

Reform's nightmare week of polling Whisper it quietly, but Reform UK have just suffered their worst ever week of polling.

Reform’s nightmare week of polling

For Reform this week, the bad news really did come in threes

A striped cat appears to be “yelling” at a kitten with the exact same coloring. The kitten’s eyes are wide open and their ears pinned back.

you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now

Text and graph. "in it's 2023 publication, the UN estimated that, in it's medium scenario, the global population would peak in 2086 at around 10.4 billion people. This year's edition brings this peak forward slightly to 2084, with the population topping at just under 10.3 billion" Graph shows rise from 8 billion in 2022 to 8.25bn in 2024 & the two projections thereafter to peak and then falling back towards around 10Bn in 2110.

Yep. The rate of increase slowed down even further between 2022 and 2024, but won't peak until the current generation's children are born at a global replacement rate of less than 2.2.

Depending on global factors like the availability of contraception (particularly in Africa), & wars, famines etc

My cousin's had to resort to a sticker on his older Tesla:

"Bought before Musk became barmy"

Applies as much to the far right here in the UK.

Register a protest vote against Labour in the local elections by all means, but give your vote to a party that is worthy of it, not one that is two-faced: smiles man-in-the-pub on one side but race-hating-conspiracy-fuelling on the other.

It led to unnecessary inflation.

I won't answer your ad-hominems.

I loved the EU for freedom of travel, for less red-tape for British exporters at the border (many of whom have gone under), for the support for our hill farmers, for harmonising legislation to higher standards.

The key underlying driver for sustained (not short term) inflation is energy prices. As such, we're in for a bumpy ride if Trump's war continues.

wrt Inflation, you might want to read this paper:

"By contrast, sustained rises in labour market “tightness”, that is, strong demand for labour relative to supply, does lead to sustained inflation."

That was a Brexit effect as many specialists left

www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/...

Of course it isn't. However being able to measure it - where, when, how, who and why - is step 1 towards addressing it.

In the past it was either accepted as "normal behaviour", or through shame. Women are now realising they are not the ones who should be ashamed. Like Gisèle Pelicot they say "non"

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Why UK electricity pricing makes no economic sense Electricity prices rise with gas, even when cheaper power dominates, exposing flaws in how the system operates

What the Labour Government SHOULD be doing is changing the formula for Electricity Supply companies purchasing electricity from Generators.

At the moment it's based on the price of the highest, not average, costing unit supplied in a day. We consumers pay.

eastangliabylines.co.uk/energy/why-u...

Actually watching your Party Political Broadcast (gasp!) from last week on the BBC as I was curious what you would say. Would getting rid of the hated (and outdated) TV licence & rolling it into general taxation be a vote-win?

It means those who can most afford it pay for BBC. Low income = free.

Number crunching: Iran war

From the new Private Eye, out now.

On the topic of vetting rows, shouldn't there be calls for Farage to resign given how many dire candidates have actually passed Refuk's vetting...?

Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

Isn't this against the 4th Amendment? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_...

It's amazing how many people around Starmer have had to fall on their proverbial sword, but the person responsible for directing them has not.

Local elections won't affect Welsh Independence dramatically. That's a National government decision. Even if a Plaid/Green win built momentum, them winning Local would still register as a protest vote before the main event.

Vote away.

"Something stinks"

Cat in box.

Morning 😂.

I went to the library to get a book on Pavlov's dog and Schrodinger's cat.

The librarian said that she thought it rang a bell but wasn't sure if it was there or not!

Image of white mug from Etsy with a red handle and interior. On it are the words "DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GRIND YOU DOWN"

As Margaret Attwood repeated:

Cartoon of a well-fed man in army uniform with a bloody sword by his side, being served by three fat waiters with piles of cash at a restaurant table. In the background are tables with a doctor, teacher, scientist and artist with empty plates at tables with patched tablecloths labelled Healthcare, Education, Sciences and arts.