Prices of the electricity we use to charge

[MikelBikel]

 

[Peter.Bridge]

You don't need a large farm for it to be valued at more than a million pounds. of course the return on the money if you had to buy it would be risible.

Exactly, because agricultural land has become a tax loophole, pushing up the price.

 

[soundwave]

you watch the council will ban you from growing ur own food soon n be round with a concreate mixer

 

[flecc]

Did you know that the Nordic nations (Sweden and Norway) are sending out civil defence pamphlets warning the population to lay in a month's supply of necessities?

I have kept a month's worth of food in house since the Russian invasion of Ukraine and also a longer term food store of 30 kilos of wheat and a hand grinder. In the current instability - especially since permission to use ATACAMs on Russian territory, I suspect that most people in the UK have NO IDEA how vulnerable the just in time food delivery system is. Can you recall how the supermarkets emptied at the beginning of covid?

If things got a bit awkward with the Russians - the shelves would be empty in two days.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/18/europe/nato-sweden-finland-wartime-guidance-intl/index.html

Having had the experience of living through WW2 and the consequent rationing and shortages, I have always had large reserves of stored food at home. I've also got plenty of emergency lighting, cooking and heating equipment.

I'm still amused about the reaction of neighbours when we suffered some series of power cuts, both in the early 1970s and the 1980s, one lasting nearly two days. It baffled them that my flat was well lit at night and emanating live television programs! They were all very grateful though when their homes were abruptly plunged into total darkness and I turned up at their doors, handing them candles and matches.

There's a very silly development in plumbing now that has spread here that you may not be aware of. It's replumbing flats and houses with no hot or cold water tanks, just relying on the pressurised mains and instantaneous on demand water heating. Of course this means one is totally reliant on the water and electricity company supplies and cannot even flush toilets if the water supply is cut off. Even more so where a macerating toilet is fitted.

And worst of all, those supplies of dried pasta, rice and flour etcetera that we've laid down cannot be used without any stored water.

Bonkers.
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[soundwave]

the council point blank refused to fit a mixer unit to my gas combi boiler to heat the hot water and fitted a 9.5 fk kw electric $hit shower.

i even offered to pay for it nope!

it is clear they want rid of gas and have everything on electric cant even fit a log burning stove to a council house because of health and safety.

17 falty knackerd inverts up the road trying to explode is fine tho as last 25 years and dont even need checking

 

[AndyBike]

Another right wing yt channel that pushed brexit, which has cost the UK £100 billion in lost income.

The farmers share the blame for that with 66% of them voting for brexit.

Besides any business should pay inheritance tax, just like the rest of us and especially ones that are valued at £3m

Do you see the telegraph, the daily mail, gb news coming forward to fight for some south Asian business owner so he is exempt from taxation when passing the business down to his kids ?

The truth is these media giants, whom are owned by billionaires do not give a crap about small businesses or small farms, their concern is primarily to do with land owners who bought the land not to produce food but as a method of tax avoidance.
Like James Dyson. Top brexit promoter, bought land to avoid tax, and post brexit took his company to the EU
Or Jacob Rees Mogg, another brexit exponent, whom after getting brexit tok his £70m investments out the UK
Richard Tice. made millions off brexit.

I dont understand why people listen to these thieves, after all they couldnt give a rats about the common man, or the smaller farmer for that matter. Their allegiance is to their own ilk and their own pocket.

Farage,Tice Mogg and others want all social security to be gone, for the nhs to be private, because it would save them 2% or 3% off their tax bill

 

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only the stupid ppl pay tax that cant afford the legal advise to get round it like a off shore bank account.

i put in the right to buy and they want to see whats in my ass even cash shoved up it from everyone living here

cant borrow money from family as unsecured loan or will need a loan agreement setup with interest or must be given as a gift and declared as such via solicitor letter.

fkn 1800 quid for conveyancing solicitor that does what??? i cant just go to the bank get the cash and dump it at reception at there corrupt corporation because there not able to even count cash anymore

wonder how many bags of 5ps you will need for 60 grand

 

[Ghost1951]

I dont understand why people listen to these thieves, after all they couldnt give a rats about the common man, or the smaller farmer for that matter. Their allegiance is to their own ilk and their own pocket.

Farage,Tice Mogg and others want all social security to be gone, for the nhs to be private, because it would save them 2% or 3% off their tax bill

You ought to know that the much vaunted NHS is one of the worst performing health service in Europe - FAR below others which receive broadly similar proportions of the GDP of their nations in funding. The NHS has more money than it has ever had and is almost at the highest level of GDP it has ever had in funding - only bettered during covid pandemic. Yet in spite of the vast sums of money - about £156 Billion, a great many people can not see a GP and will be fobbed off with a nurse or a pharmacist instead.

Waiting lists are longer than ever before. It isn't the money - it is the service and the organisation.
Just ask Flecc about his experience.



We are bang in the middle of the European average for funding as a proportion of GDP and down with the dregs like Montenegro and Bosnia in the outcomes table.

We have stupidly sanctified the bloody thing and the left go bonkers at any idea of change. It is noticeable that Streeting has said it isn't the money and it needs to change. The eminent medical professor, Sir John Bell has said so too, and blames the medical profession.

Oxford leading scientists calls for urgent shake-up of healthcare system

The British Medical Association (BMA) has come under fire from Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Professor Sir John Bell.

www.oxfordmail.co.uk

In Europe the most successful medical systems are part insurance funded and part state funded and they work extremely efficiently and deliver great outcomes. Any time the subject is brought up among left minded people here - such as yourself - they usually start jumping around like gibbons and shouting about the hideous American system. THAT IS NOT IN ANY WAY TYPICAL of insurance based European systems.

Look how far down the rankings in Europe our health care system is:

Health index of countries in Europe in 2023 | Statista

In 2023, Norway ranked first with a health index score of 83, followed by Iceland and Sweden.

www.statista.com

From Google ->
"Many European countries have private healthcare providers, including those with national health systems and those with social health insurance systems.

• Primary care
  In 15 European countries, including Denmark, Ireland, Norway, France, and the United Kingdom, primary care is mainly provided in private settings.
  
  
  
• Specialist care
  In Germany, Norway, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, specialist care is provided by private solo practices or private group practices.
  
  
  
• Hospitals
  In France, Germany, Portugal, and Spain, 20% of hospital capacity is covered by private for-profit hospitals.
  
  
  
• Non-profit hospitals
  In Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK, private non-profit hospitals are funded through public channels. "