Heating oil prices in the UK have trebled in a week. 2 million homes, no price cap protection, no warning.
Heat pumps + solar are multiple times more efficient, don’t require an oil tank and oil deliveries and are an insurance against such frightening price spikes.
No rush lads, it's not like you've only got three years until the next election to demonstrate material change or anything.
I feel like given events in the Middle East, if I were the government I would want to be a bit more ambitious than planning to approve one (1) small modular reactor by the end of the Parliament.
It's just silly really, 10+ years to development any new gas fields.
Completely insane to think Labour would use a phrase like "our daughters" 😂
This is good I think.
Since the takeover?
God it's embarrassing
Strong correlation between flags and incedibly sad high streets in S Yorkshire.
"Welcome to Decline" -- still one of my favourite graphs from last year. In the late 1970s, Britain's economic fate very clearly split in two. How much you blame Thatcher will depend on your politics, but her leadership is useful to understand the timing. tomforth.co.uk/welcometodec...
How to win a time war
It's ehat happens everywhere else in the world, including london
Ah how dull, if you won't read or listen what's the point.
I keep saying, they're not making that case. I am. If the powers were available, they would just use them and Westminster would have nothing to do with it
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I think CfC has good proposals on this. As I said, WY is not making the case
Well right now they can't have either, and only local powers have any certainty attached.
Depending on Westminster whims is incredibly bad for business, and has resulted in lots of studies and no metro
Then they won't use those powers, no problem. Let them decide
Just let W. Yorkshire decide 😂
They clearly think it's something worth doing, let them make the compromises between cost and quality needed.
We should, as most of the rest of Europe do. It's not even devolution of funding, it's devolution of tax/borrowing powers
But they do suggest local taxes in that report 😁
I wouldn't be making the case if I was them to introduce new powers, but if those powers existed they would 100% be using them instead of gambling on Westminster approval
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It's a simpler ask than "please reform all local government funding mechanisms"...
It was the right decision to remove victorian trams, also right to build modern systems now... just let cities raise taxes locally
It would self fund if it could, but does not have the power to do so
Can you explain more about this - what election?
They can't pay for it because they can't levy taxes or take out bonds
The whole point is just let Leeds raise its own taxes to pay for it 🙄
That's just so self fulfilling though
I think that's just because of the current incentives, there are no benefits to councils of building
People who live in London decide 🤷♂️
That is the one small lever they have 🤷♂️
More importantly, it has minimal incentives or opportunities to raise taxes
I don't think so if the incentives were right. They currently want to build lots