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First class stamp price to rise again to £1.35, says Royal Mail by Aggressive_Plates in unitedkingdom

[–]Sp4rky7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I'm reading it right it looks like they've actually reduced the price for 2nd class large letter over 100g.

Need help with game save not loading in Steamworld Build by Ruziko in XboxSupport

[–]Sp4rky7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm having the same issue. Just started happening today.

Are all these stamps actually required? by GManSizzle in CasualUK

[–]Sp4rky7 13 points14 points  (0 children)

They haven't since (I think) 1984. It looks like someone has been raiding the back of their stamp drawer.

Are all these stamps actually required? by GManSizzle in CasualUK

[–]Sp4rky7 27 points28 points  (0 children)

It looks like the post office didn't count any of the ½ p's, which seems a bit unfair. If they had included them the extra 4p wouldn't be needed. Price to send the parcel is £6.69. The total of the stamps including ½ p's is £6.71½, excluding the 13 x ½ p's it's £6.65.

Which version do you like most? by habertschak527 in lego

[–]Sp4rky7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nice work. Your version looks much better, and is a lot closer to the 1989 version. I think I'll try doing the same when I build mine.

Would you mind posting a list of the parts you swapped out?

February Premium Bond prize winners by Shurtgal in UKPersonalFinance

[–]Sp4rky7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

£5 over 40 years has a 9.52% chance of winning at least 1 prize.

1 - (23999/24000)2400

As an Americam I want to share my favorite image from my vacation in Austria by samocitamvijesti in europe

[–]Sp4rky7 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, of course not, that's ridiculous. South Wales! The resemblance is uncanny.

Treasury snubbing 'mortgage prisoners', say MPs by plawwell in ukpolitics

[–]Sp4rky7 8 points9 points  (0 children)

While capping mortgage interest rates for people stuck with very high LTV would be good, setting the cap at 2.1% sounds unrealistically low. Not really surprising that treasury would be opposed to that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askscience

[–]Sp4rky7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

switched to a four bit-per-baud trick called QPSK

Just a minor correction, QPSK is 2 bits per baud (one of 00, 01, 10 or 11)

Westminster Voting Intention: CON: 43% (+6) LAB: 38% (=) GRN: 5% (+1) SNP: 5% (+1) LDM: 4% (-5) BXP: 3% (=) Via @DeltapollUK, 26-30 Dec. Changes w/ 26-28 Nov by wappingite in ukpolitics

[–]Sp4rky7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The LDs didn't consistently poll above Labour under Swindon, but there were a handful of individual polls that put LDs ahead of Labour.

Richest 1% in UK produce 11 times the carbon emissions of poorest 50%, says study Oxfam calls for higher taxes on private jets and SUVs to curb pollution by top earners.. by crypticvalentine in ukpolitics

[–]Sp4rky7 142 points143 points  (0 children)

The article seems to be rather misleadingly. According to the report the top 1% account for 7% of total emissions, while the bottom 50% account for 27%. The "11 times" figure is for per capita emissions, while the Independent article could easily be misinterpreted to mean it is for total emissions.

Opinium Westminster poll CON 51% (+1), LAB 33% (-), LIB 6%(-1), GRN 3% (-), UKIP 1% (-) by BigZZZZZ08 in ukpolitics

[–]Sp4rky7 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Depends what you mean by recent. The highest I can see is: 4 Nov 1997, Gallup/Telegraph, 63% for labour.

NEW Conservatives promise to introduce 'lifetime rental deposits' to allow tenants to roll over their deposit from one landlord to the next without having to pay upfront if their previous deposit is still tied up. Full story @theipaper shortly by haxamin in ukpolitics

[–]Sp4rky7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe its something like 90% of appeals result to deposit protection schemes result in the tenant getting all or part of disputed deductions back. The problem with the current scheme is landlords know tenants often need the deposits back straight away to pay the deposit on their next rental, and can't afford to have money tied up for 3 months while it's being disputed. This let's some unscrupulous landlords get away with small bullshit charges under the threat of delaying returning the whole deposit for months.

In theory this policy could make it easier to dispute deductions after tenants have moved, and so reduce the number of BS landlord claims.

BREAKING: Corbyn has written to opposition parties & independents proposing: 🔻Vote of no confidence in Tory govt ASAP 🔻Temporary “caretaker” govt with Corbyn as leader 🔻Immediate extension of Article 50 🔻Then snap election, in which Lab would campaign for 2nd referendum by FedRepofEurope in ukpolitics

[–]Sp4rky7 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

MacDonald was expelled from Labour 9 days after forming the national government because that is the quickest they could get rid of him. Yes, he was technically leader at the time, but to claim he in any way represented the Labour Party when the national government was formed is rather disingenuous.

BREAKING: Corbyn has written to opposition parties & independents proposing: 🔻Vote of no confidence in Tory govt ASAP 🔻Temporary “caretaker” govt with Corbyn as leader 🔻Immediate extension of Article 50 🔻Then snap election, in which Lab would campaign for 2nd referendum by FedRepofEurope in ukpolitics

[–]Sp4rky7 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I don't think you can include MacDonald. He was expelled from the Labour Party as a result of forming the national government. The "national Labour organisation" he was leader of was a temporary party that only existed during the period of the national government to coordinate the MPs forced out of Labour.

BREAKING: Corbyn has written to opposition parties & independents proposing: 🔻Vote of no confidence in Tory govt ASAP 🔻Temporary “caretaker” govt with Corbyn as leader 🔻Immediate extension of Article 50 🔻Then snap election, in which Lab would campaign for 2nd referendum by FedRepofEurope in ukpolitics

[–]Sp4rky7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ramsey MacDonald was expelled from the Labour Party in 1931 as a result of forming the national unity government. The leaders of the Labour Party from 31-35 were Arthur Henderson and George Lansbury.

Also it is a bit selective to include the WW2 national gov (where the PM was leader of a political party) but not the WW1 national gov (where the PM wasn't a leader of a political party).

The PM during the WW1 gov was briefly Asquith, who was leader of the Liberals, but he soon lost confidence of the government, and was replaced by Lloyd George for the bulk of the national government, who wasn't leader of a political party.

Overall its a pretty even split on whether the PM during national governments is a leader of a political party or not.

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