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Google shows the following rates of fire incidents in the UK in 2022 and 2023: Dwelling fires 27,202 26,974 There were 270 incidents of ebike fires. The number is trivial. Including fires outside the home the numbers are much greater: Again these incidents span 2022 and 2023 Fires...

So there were 270 fires caused by ebikes, 10,500 fires caused by cooking activities, and almost 2000 fires caused by smoking....... Thanks for confirming my impression that ebikes are a trivial risk and that we should be saving lives by forcing people to live on cold sandwiches while not...

Did you know that 40% of the second homes in the government data are homes not within the United Kingdom? https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-housing-survey-2021-to-2022-second-homes-fact-sheet/english-housing-survey-2021-to-2022-second-homes-fact-sheet

Then deal with the lack of building rather than planning to confiscate , or tax people's property with repressive taxes. Why not confiscate people's savings and spend it on the NHS or some other thing the government might like. Why not force them to sell their luxury goods because some other...

You do seem highly volatile and prone to hyperbole. I do not believe that she posted KNOWN falsehoods or racist or Islamic tropes. This is your shocking indoctrination programme talking. You have had your mind taken over by malign forces and see racism everywhere you look. I am not going to...

Data from QBE an Insurance company derived from an FOI request to all UK fire services. total 270 fires in 2023. How many chip pan fires were there? How may fires started by cigarettes were there? This is a storm in a teacup. Vested interests are keen to fan the flames of panic.

Last week, I spent a few days near Keswick where similar holiday let pressures exist. I will be going there again next week. I was discussing with some friends the question of why in places like that it is absolutely impossible to get permission to build anything new. At the time we were walking...

So say you. I say nonsense (like most of what you have said here over the last fortnight).

I can understand the resentment that I think I detect in that post by Az. Younger people have a very tough time in paying the costs of putting a roof over their heads, but his prescription would not solve the problem and never could have. The numbers of people with multiple houses are small, but...

So what? The questions are; will she be charged; and was her arrest excessive? See linked article: https://www.turbulenttimes.co.uk/news/front-page/law-and-order-state-harassment/ EDIT: By the way, you still seem to think that this woman needs to prove her innocence. She certainly doesn't.

I don't know the writer of this post, or anything about him, but I found what he had to say quite interesting. https://www.turbulenttimes.co.uk/news/front-page/law-and-order-state-harassment/

You seem to have forgotten or never knew that it is not up to her to prove her innocence, but for the prosecution to prove her guilt. Unless, unknown to me she is some sort of Tommy Robinson activist, she will not be charged, and if she was, charged and prosecuted she would be found not guilty...

They won't. I'd put money on it. Those red and bold clauses above, are required for the person to commit an offence, and they are not met. It would be different if say Tommy Robinson, or a well known hard right propagandist had re-tweeted it, and more so if such a person had been the original...

What you say above does not meet the demands of the law. I say you will soon see that the case is dropped, and that it was dropped for the reasons I outlined above. It is my feeling that the police exceeded their lawful powers in arresting this woman.

They haven't brought a case. She was simply arrested and detained in cells. It is for the CPS to decide on charging and it is my opinion, given the law as shown above that they won't charge her. This particular offence can only be tried in a magistrates court I think, so a jury is not going to...

I have taken a look into the offence and I say now that there is not a cat in Hell's chance that the woman will be convicted. Section 179 creates a criminal offence of sending false communications. A person is guilty of this offence if they: send a message; conveying information that they...

I agree with you. Earlier I was speculating on the thinking which has prevented a serious house building programme.

Then you are most generous and forgiving fellow. How typical is that? People I know are always checking what the value of their houses are. One of the big estate agents even featured the tendency in an advert, encouraging people to check market prices and sell their homes. There was a time not...

I'm hoping mine will arrive on schedule tomorrow and that it won't need any cable re-routing or steerer shenanigans to get it going. Mine will be heavier and more clunky I suspect since the frame is steel and not Reynolds fancy light-weight tubes.

Long term mortgage deals would cause a rise in house price inflation. How? Easy - it would allow people to bid more for the property they desire. The exact same effect was attached to the frankly stupid 'help to buy' initiatives brought in by the Conservatives. The cause of the ever rising costs...