The #citroen #ami is a pretty cool little #electric #car https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/elec.. It's a little #expensive for 8000 #thousand #pounds , but the #idea is interesting. Unfortunately it is a little bit of a #deathtrap though. I think they can do better.
Would you look at that, #ev 's are not going to be #tax #exempt from 2025-2026 due to an estimated #tax #shortage of 2.1 #billion #pounds https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/uks-je.. This means that the *only* people that had *any* #benefit from this #tax #exemption are the #rich , #funded by the #poor . Anyway, I still believe that #electric #vehicles in their current form are a #mistake and will not work.
I said this the other day: https://coffeespace.org.uk/blogs/eu-ener.. #nuclear #power is needed #immediately in the #uk https://www.zerohedge.com/political/go-n.. 700 #million #pounds is not nearly enough though. We should also push back on #decommissions for as long as we #dare so that there is significant #overlap in #power #output . Glad to see #china being pushed out of #sizewell in #suffolk too.
Apparently this #partygate thing in the #uk is finally now leading to #fines , meaning that it was #immoral and potentially #criminal too: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/u.. Somehow I doubt #boris will #pay his, and they'll easily shrug off the 800 #pounds ...
The #government #burned is #excess of 9 #billion #pounds of #ppe that was either #defective or #outofdate https://www.devonlive.com/news/uk-world-.. What an exceptional #waste of #money .
Very interesting, the #us apparently has some 1.4 #billion #pounds of #surplus #cheese sitting in #storage below ground in #missouri https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/02/cheese-.. Apparently this is because the #american #government #subsidize #dairy . As one #comment points out, that's a lot of high #calorie #food sitting there encase of #emergency ! In theory cheese should stay good for a long time too!
Apparently #uk #labour #mp #jessphillips was #paid 15k #pounds to #present a single #episode of the #bbc 's #haveigotnewsforyou https://www.lotuseaters.com/labour-mp-je.. I'm not sure that #politicians should be being paid for appearances on #state #funded #tv ... Essentially the #taxpayer is paying for a #politician of the #opposition to #preach their #ideology at their #expense - something deeply wrong about that.
Oops, looks like over 600 #thousand #pounds has gone missing in the #snp - money which was set aside for a second #referendum https://www.lotuseaters.com/scottish-pol.. #police #scotland are looking into the matter... Not surprised at all...
Now #jamaica is looking for #reparations from the #uk on the scale of 7.6 #billion #pounds for historic #slavery between the years of 1533 and 1807: https://www.lotuseaters.com/jamaica-to-s.. A great point is that it was #black people who sold #white people slaves... The UK traded in slavery, but were not the source of it. The UK also never had slaves on its own lands, as #british air was thought to be too pure to be inhaled by a slave.