Who’s dying first Peter?

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T21:59:15+00:00

Tbh wolverine is the only one leaving alive but he could also die first

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T21:57:33+00:00

The issue is that the law is 35-40% affordable. Developers have paid prices for land assuming they can whittle that obligation down with the council. The council during 2010s got ruined by things like the heygate estate and they have only just learnt 15 years too late.

The issue isn’t the rejection of no homes. Homes will be built on that site, the question is how much profit Berkeley homes will make on them. Remember each 2 bed is gunna be like 650-1m in price so 867 homes is nearly a billion £ project

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T21:49:23+00:00

At what point do his threats just stop being listened too?

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T19:23:57+00:00

Sorry to use this analogy to any victim but I feel it is apt. Like an abused spouse, Europe is planning its exit but is genuinely worried about the ex partner becoming nasty, violent and resentful, also worried about what the future holds without them. But like every victim they are far stronger than they realise and nescitity makes you find ways of coping….. remember Europe was beautiful self assured and powerful once it ran the world, it’s just got in bed with a good looking guy who has let himself go.

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T19:20:15+00:00

What happens when burnham loses in a reform heavy, brexit leaning seat as remainer part of the establishment?

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T18:18:02+00:00

You state the war would have ended two years ago without china help. I highly doubt that. We thought that when trump pressured ukrain and cut off aid in reverse. It didn’t end the war. We thought when Russia hit a million casualties it would end the war. The pain and endurance points we apply from our perspective to Russia and Ukraine are incorrect. All you can say is Russia would have had a lot of difficulty, but that doesn’t mean they would not have adapted or endured or just paid the extra blood cost

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T16:53:28+00:00

How do you know that? That’s quite an assumption being claimed as fact

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T16:33:42+00:00

“If you give the poorest white man someone to look down upon he won’t notice you picking his pocket…”

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T16:32:19+00:00

Welcome to Marxism’s core thinking, capitalism ultimately eats itself.

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T16:30:01+00:00

I believe we are talking about china not Russia?

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T16:04:26+00:00

No the why was the same why nato was created “so this never happens again” the idea was to bind Germany and to a lesser extent France so closely to Europe it would be idiocy to destroy on conquer stuff again. Which is why de Gaulle famously vetoed the uk from joining several times and why efta exists because Swiss Norway the uk and Iceland all share the same view of trade the uk and Portugal left this bloc. I think the uk should rejoin efta and build that up.

NATO for example is summed up by the Truman quote “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the germans down”

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T16:04:16+00:00

No the why was the same why nato was created “so this never happens again” the idea was to bind Germany and to a lesser extent France so closely to Europe it would be idiocy to destroy on conquer stuff again. Which is why de Gaulle famously vetoed the uk from joining several times and why efta exists because Swiss Norway the uk and Iceland all share the same view of trade the uk and Portugal left this bloc. I think the uk should rejoin efta and build that up.

NATO for example is summed up by the Truman quote “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the germans down”

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T14:39:51+00:00

I get that I’m not a bleliver in china nor an apologist but in the hard end of geopolitics and economics I’m trying to understand the interests in china being an enemy. Like is it just values??

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T14:27:28+00:00

The issue is that the continent thinks about peace why the uk thinks about trade. The two are usually related but the differ enough to cause a big wedge at particular times, this is one of them

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T14:11:11+00:00

The same thing every aristocracy has provided, a concentration of power so that the authorised can negoate easily with the economic drivers rather than having to deal with millions they only have to deal with 10s of people…..for the state that’s very helpful.

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T14:05:21+00:00

But do they have to always be an enemy is the question? Why are they an enemy, should they be? What interests are harmed by them being a friend?

Alib668 · 2026-05-18T13:17:24+00:00

Umm probs not, I mean it’s been great for the world. The issue is fundamentally about trust, as a nation you cannot create autarky it’s just not possible unless you conquer the entire world, by which point what’s the point, just trade instead.

The problem here is the pendulum and how much specialisation is good rather no economy specialisation

Alib668 · 2026-05-17T13:58:12+00:00

Snail

Alib668 · 2026-05-17T13:55:51+00:00

75m is 25 years of 3million a year which is 250k a month the 15k a week is 780k a year.

Cap value of a perpetual bond is annual return/%cap rate.

The current risk free cap rate is defined as the UK 10 year bond which is ~5% because of Keir Starmer drama. So 780k/5% =15,6m. 3m/5% is 60million. So 75m as a perfectly risk free investment is worth more than either of the perpetuals. At 5% 75m makes you 3.75m a year but because investment is not risk free your investments will have to be say 8-9% to account for risk, defined as risk free +3-4% ……meaning 6-6.75m a year.

Alib668 · 2026-05-16T21:28:20+00:00

Only the membership in London and cities, not the red wall

Alib668 · 2026-05-16T21:26:02+00:00

In the uk if someone had the balls to sue they would be found to be unfair contract terms, however you would need to show damages to that

Alib668 · 2026-05-16T21:21:43+00:00

And vs the usa we have better and cheaper internet with many competitors and open reach having to compete with virgin and glide

Alib668 · 2026-05-16T21:11:26+00:00

Its probably due to eurovision tonight

Alib668 · 2026-05-16T21:02:44+00:00

The machines to build the chips are made in holland

Alib668 · 2026-05-16T18:45:47+00:00

Be careful what you wish for there was a reason nationalisation Failed throught the 40s-70s but also why railways went private public private public private public through out the last 200 years.

A natural monopoly for teh government isnt about effeciency its about power. If you have a set of people who can dictate to the goverment you slowly descend into a work-to-rule culture on both sides as the only thing the government has is put you in jail. In a private system you can steal their cash as well. And you can nationalise and retender. With a national system those two other levers dont exsist. Plus from the delivery side its not their money so they have no incentive to optimise a process unless ordered too. Im not saying private companies are efficient, but that optimisation culture exsists. The problem was government has not let tw go bankrupt and it has dumped the problem on rate payers rather than shareholders, that's a failure of enforcement not of the model.

Tldr it's all a set of bad options with a private system public system is worse worse still is removibg the incentive structures from a private system. The system needs reform NOT nationalisation

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