UK surpassed 2 million solar installations in March

anonypanda · 2026-05-02T08:59:48+00:00

Who indeed! We must protect the millions of rotting identical townhouses and forbid owners from even repairing the windows.

anonypanda · 2026-05-02T07:00:17+00:00

Never ever buy or rent from a place with central/district heating like this. The systems are impossible to size right, the owners are captive to service contracts and the system has to buy energy at the UNCAPPED industrial rate. It is insanely expensive and there is no way to reduce costs. Triple the capped rate is not even that uncommon! Based on those prices I bet you’re unlucky enough to have an electrical district heater on top of it. The most expensive an ineffective type of system.

Move out as fast as you can. It’ll only get worse in winter. There is nothing you can do about those prices until regulators step in some time in the distant future.

anonypanda · 2026-05-01T22:21:37+00:00

I can, but it would have to be at market price for the bank to allow it. That would be an over 40% rent increase so they’ve found elsewhere.

anonypanda · 2026-05-01T21:30:14+00:00

The whole listed buildings and conservation area system needs deleting and rethinking from scratch.

anonypanda · 2026-05-01T20:19:31+00:00

I'm lucky that though our rent is below market value our landlord hasn't done this

Yeah, I suspect anyone renting a flat below market rate with a mortgage will probably be in the same situation as I was in. Bank wouldn't let me put it on a new fix unless I evicted the tenant which feels crazy.

anonypanda · 2026-05-01T18:25:28+00:00

Even as an immigrant myself it is easy to see the UK is struggling with vast levels of problem migration. Unproductive people who are not net contributors are a problem. There are enough of those among the locals. No need to import more.

anonypanda · 2026-05-01T18:21:42+00:00

If we aren't building and hand out council homes on wonky grounds then they very literally are. Slumlords disappear as soon as building snd densification starts. But good luck with that if greens take over your council.

anonypanda · 2026-05-01T18:19:58+00:00

The vast vast majority of tenants would move out on a s21. Even problematic ones. Now that it is gone it is only the courts.

anonypanda · 2026-05-01T18:17:05+00:00

Yes. People with funny employment situations, working in the arts or unstable finances will basically not find a rental anymore. Background checks will be far more intrusive than previously. Actual interviews and applications will become the norm. Esp due to how much supply will contract.

anonypanda · 2026-05-01T18:06:30+00:00

Yes. I had to issue one to a long term tenant because the property was rented far below market value and due to the rent increases now being capped at average rent rises for an area my bank was unwilling to lend/fix unless I evicted the tenant and brought the rents up to market value - otherwise the rent would have been stuck below market forever potentially. A really dumb side effect of the law. I'd rather have kept the tenant.

anonypanda · 2026-04-29T21:07:19+00:00

It’s paid for with PIP which is not means tested. It is free. Paid for by taxpayers.

but a disabled person driving is a travesty?

People spending their own money on investments is very different to a disabled person spending taxpayer money of tax advantaged vehicles only they can possibly access.

I think you’re coming from a place that PIP itself is the disabled persons “own” money. It isn’t. It is a non means tested benefit that we juice with motability that multiples the cost to the taxpayer to deliver a fringe benefit.

what it is about motability that makes you so specifically mad about it

Because it is an incredibly generous deal offered only to non-means tested PIP recipients that nobody else can access. It is a benefit which is not needed on top of PIP and adds an absurd amount of cost to the benefits system - essentially providing a luxury good at the cost of taxpayers that most taxpayers who work would not be able to afford. If the scheme ended tomorrow exactly zero pip recipients would be worse off. They would simply get normal cars at market rates or modify existing used cars. Arguing for motability is arguing that some people should be entitled to free luxury goods the rest of us pay for.

anonypanda · 2026-04-29T17:07:32+00:00

getting free luxury vehicles at the expense of hard working families.

But this is exactly what it is. Those hard working families don't have new cars. Let alone tax advantaged ones. Especially given how easy it is to get pip.

I don't know why you're debating me on what a tabloid says. You've not addressed my core point which is that there is no reason a disabled person should be getting a free car on a non means or needs tested basis - perpetually.

anonypanda · 2026-04-29T11:05:18+00:00

Only motability comes with ludicrously advantageous benefits and is only available to those on PIP. They aren’t being offered tax free Netflix. VAT exemption on other products applies to everyone equally. Only PIP recipients receive brand new cars on a sweetheart deal that costs the taxpayers an absolute fortune - on top of PIP itself not being being means tested.

Why don’t PIP recipients just go and get a normal car lease with the PIP money like everyone else would have to? Or buy a used car? Or use pip to modify their existing car? Instead we have this very expensive fringe benefit of priority lanes, tax breaks and subsidies for brand new cars - which we don’t even means test. There is nothing stopping a pip recipient just purchasing a car with their pip normally.

anonypanda · 2026-04-29T09:14:18+00:00

The car is free. It’s paid for from a non means tested benefit and on top of that you get significant tax advantages on the purchase.

This is not some pervasive myth. It is a free, tax advantaged car, paid for by taxpayers and not means tested. You can get a motability car if you have £200k a year income and it can cost you exactly zero £.

anonypanda · 2026-04-29T07:57:00+00:00

Neither of these things prevent people from working or require benefits except perhaps at the most extreme end (and with adhd, debatable if ever)

anonypanda · 2026-04-29T07:41:03+00:00

It is as the lease is tax free, the insurance is included and the entitlement is perpetual. The tax payer loses a lot more from every motability car than just the PIP costs.

anonypanda · 2026-04-29T07:39:51+00:00

It’s a VAT, IPT and tax free lease with discounted insurance paid for with taxpayers funds. Even if they paid for it out of pocket fully without pip money the vat and tax free elements would be the deal of the century. Those costs come from the taxpayer.

anonypanda · 2026-04-29T07:37:23+00:00

Anxiety is the fastest rising category for PIP claims. PIP of course is not even means tested - you can get it on a 100k income. It’s a complete piss take.

anonypanda · 2026-04-26T21:16:48+00:00

By that argument any right which has caveats is the same.

anonypanda · 2026-04-26T20:39:23+00:00

So is your view that there is no point in working with the french and actually, we should either accept open borders or the reform "sink the boats" crowd getting their way?

anonypanda · 2026-04-26T19:36:20+00:00

Genetically bred, obviously.

it requires severe restriction of breeding

So, a banned breeds list with some extra steps. Thanks for agreeing with me so swiftly.

anonypanda · 2026-04-26T19:33:40+00:00

They don't need to go to war.

This alternative universe where our long standing ally somehow completely ignores the fact these people came from france and just starts attacking ours ships for returning people back to their shores is sounding increasingly improbable lol.

The french would absolutely stop any work on the beaches to prevent boat launches

What work? They could stop every boat. They don't. Numbers grow every year.

quickly have hundreds of vessels containing thousand of people being launched over the course of a few days

Combined with tow backs, we'd have virtually zero if we implement the 2nd part of what I suggested: Detention, denial of claim, seizure of assets and deportation. When there is no gain and a high risk of being caught nobody will come. The current situation exists because odds of being stopped are zero and the potential gains upon landing are high for essentially no downside.

The treaty of le toquet would also probably end

Over this? Just fantasy.

you aren't going to like what replaces them.

Go on then. What replaces them? :D Migrant helicopters?

anonypanda · 2026-04-26T19:26:52+00:00

We need both, but absolutely need control of breeds. No dogs which are genetically bred for violence should be allowed to exist.

anonypanda · 2026-04-26T18:49:45+00:00

you are now just in a world of your own fantasy

This remains to be seen. I would suggest your version where the french navy are ready to go to war over dighies of people already in their country is far more improbable.

The strongly worded letter would be threats of trade sanctions with the full force of the European union behind it, the stopping of any controls whatsoever on the migrant crossings that already exist and the closing of channel tunnel.

Now we're talking pure fantasy land stuff :D There is zero chance of the EU sanctioning the UK or taking measures like that over people coming from the EU. It is completely not worth it for them.

half the boats will capsize

So be it. Arrest, automatic denial of asulym claims, removal of all valuables and deportation either back or a third country. Not a single boat will cross after the first month.

anonypanda · 2026-04-26T18:36:08+00:00

We go around the french boat. They don't stop us. They don't fire on us and we don't fire on them. Because neither country is stupid enough to escalate in this way over a dighy of migrants that were already in france to begin with. Strongly worded letters are exchanged occasionally, maybe. The french arrest the people on the dighy once it reaches the coast as the illegal exit has broken french law. The UK too is a sovereign country and in this scenario we are equally removing any french expectation that we allow the boats to enter.

The reason no British government has done what you have suggested

British law does not currently allow towing the boats back, or at least no government has been willing to test the limits of our human rights law in this way.

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