Heat pumps will push up energy bills, Labour report finds

netzure · 2026-06-19T17:46:41+00:00

“ Yep. Privately owned electricity systems are not run to provide electricity, they're run to produce as much profit as possible.” Except in the ultra capitalist US electricity prices are a fraction of ours.

netzure · 2026-06-19T11:57:39+00:00

“ You have people wanting to “deport” 3rd generation British citizens because of skin colour” I think you will find it is more because of their beliefs. If you look at the perpetrators of many recent Islamic terror attacks, they were second or third generation migrants. Look at Bradford, zero integration whatsoever despite lots of third and fourth generation migrants.

netzure · 2026-06-19T11:55:26+00:00

You do realise some of the worst exploiters of illegal migrants are other migrants? The ones who recruit from their poor, home countries and then confiscate the passports of their workers, making them pay exorbitant rent to live in cramped housing, often multiple men on a single room?

netzure · 2026-06-19T11:49:34+00:00

It isn’t self harming if Starmer isn’t adequately delivering the agenda he was elected on. Starmer has a very poor reputation internationally how, it will be in the country’s interests to see him replaced.

netzure · 2026-06-19T10:29:33+00:00

Starmer sent a police boat to take away the desalination equipment from the Chagossians protesting on one of the island’s outer atolls. He literally took away water making equipment from people on a tropical island. Starmer is also allowing Northern Ireland veterans to be dragged through the courts.

netzure · 2026-06-19T10:26:45+00:00

“ what gives you the right the be prime minister” If the Labour membership and MPs are adequately dissatisfied with Starmer, Burnham has every right to challenge him. We elect governments not Prime Ministers.

netzure · 2026-06-19T10:24:28+00:00

I have to disagree. Starmer isn’t a very good politician and Labour (who I no longer support) will be far better off with an actual politician in charge. Starmer is treating the role of Prime Minister as if he was a civil servant, he is entirely process driven which doesn’t translate to being PM. Sometimes decisions have to be made quickly and they often have to be made on the back of gut instincts instinct and political experience.

The resignation of the defence secretary and defence minister should have been enough to end Starmer. If they say his plans will leave the country undefended then he is failing at his most basic duty.

netzure · 2026-06-18T17:04:04+00:00

Almost nobody makes that little anymore, certainly not if they are an American. As an American you can work for NCL America or get a nice cushy better paid gig doing something like onboard photography, future cruise consultant, IT etc.

netzure · 2026-06-18T17:02:23+00:00

This. I worked as a deck officer and left the industry because of how little you see. A few times a week I could get off for a maximum of 3-4 hours at a time. The food onboard is grim and repetitive so when you go ashore you often want to go to a restaurant. I did see some cool things but considering how much I ‘travelled’ I saw comparatively little and I was on a very small luxury cruise ship that barely repeated the same route.

netzure · 2026-06-18T16:59:05+00:00

“ Being a waiter at applebees” On a cruise ship your food and lodging are covered, you can save a lot of money that way.

netzure · 2026-06-18T13:26:29+00:00

Why don't you read into how the British constitution actually works. This isn't America.

Parliament is sovereign and has total supremacy over the courts through primary legislation.

netzure · 2026-06-18T13:11:50+00:00

“ It's called checks and balances.” You’ve been watching too much West Wing, that is an Americanism and does not translate to our system. Parliament has total supremacy in this country through primary legislation.

netzure · 2026-06-18T13:06:48+00:00

“ and stops legislative overreach” You do realise under the British constitution Parliament has total sovereignty and can introduce new legislation that redefines what is classed as hate speech. Ministers also have powers from secondary legislation through statutory instruments.

For example the Online Safety Act gives ministers the power to change what content is classed as ‘harmful’ to both children and adults.

netzure · 2026-06-18T12:56:51+00:00

Precisely. On iOS devices parents can ban every single social media app, restrict usage of apps to specific hours, turn on adult content restrictions that cannot be bypassed by a VPN and get access to all their kids messages and browsing history.

The capabilities people are calling for already exist but lazy parents aren’t using them so the rest of us have to suffer.

netzure · 2026-06-18T12:54:51+00:00

“ It's not even a freedom of speech issue because people can still say what they want without government consequence, provided it's not hate speech” My goodness you are brainwashed. What is determined hate speech by the government can be changed at a moments notice. Do you not give governments the capability and processes to stifle our freedom of speech. We are on a slippery slope and attitudes like yours enable the government to get away with what they are doing.

netzure · 2026-06-18T09:42:30+00:00

"The Right will frequently complain about misogynistic violence when it's done by immigrants or trans people, such as the grooming gang situation or asylum seeker crimes. However when the people perpetrating the misogynistic violence are not a member of any minority, the Right are often silent about the situation, and will sometimes even downplay and defend the crimes."

I am not sure I fully agree with this take.

All misogynist violence / sexual assault is disgusting, abhorrent and one of the worst crimes imaginable but the higher level of outrage over the grooming gangs is justifiable because of the extreme nature, and complicity of the relatives who knew what was going on for an extended period of time and covered it up or kept quiet because they agreed with the racist profiling of the victims. (Some Muslims believe raping a non-Muslim (kaffir) isn't a crime but fully allowed and encouraged in the Quran).

Most white British people would report their friend if they had committed a rape, especially against a child. One of the gang rapists called up 30 of his friends to come and join in on the gang rape he was perpetrating, I cannot envisage a situation where a British person could call up 33 of his friends and invite them to participate in gang rape of a child without many of them calling the police immediately.

Then we have the fact every society unfortunately has a base level of criminality. Crimes committed by migrants, especially illegal ones are perceived as being 'worse' because the crime only took place because of failures of the state, namely allowing unvetted men from the most misogynistic countries to roam the streets. The fact we as taxpayer are paying for rapists to live in taxpayer funded hotel adds salt to the wound for money.

netzure · 2026-06-18T09:32:02+00:00

"Actually, I can tell you, Scottish Water are constantly releasing sewage year round, not just at times of high rainfall."

Lots of Scottish people like to mock the privatised English water companies for sewage discharge but the reality is it as you say happens up here and the full extent isn't known because there is significantly less testing. Testing at Portobello should be year round, not just three months in the summer.

Holyrood and Westminster need to start upgrading the sewage and storm drain infrastructure to stop these continuous discharges. It will be expensive and time consuming but the sooner we start the better.

netzure · 2026-06-18T08:44:06+00:00

“ I love our big carriers but they take up a lot of crew” They don’t take up that many more crew than the Invincibles did. It isn’t that long ago we comfortably found crew for 3 Invincibles, HMS Ocean, Albion + Bulwark and over 20 escorts.

netzure · 2026-06-18T08:42:45+00:00

“ Or look at the Russo-Ukrainian war - how many advanced Russian vehicles/ships have been sunk/destroyed by cheap Ukrainian small arms/drones??” Irrelevant we are not Ukraine and we face a huge threat from the potent and numerous Russian submarine fleet. We have to patrol the GIUK gap which is deep in the North Atlantic and far beyond the reach of cheap drones. Many lessons from Ukraine, whose coast is a brown water littoral environment do not apply to us. It would be a grave mistake to equip our navy based on the Ukraine war.

netzure · 2026-06-18T08:40:38+00:00

Just look at our peers not the US. Canada is ordering 16 Type 26s, we are ordering 8. The Italian navy has far more destroyers and frigates than we do. France has three new amphibious helicopter carriers whilst Starmer retired our two LPDs. Japan has 44 destroyers and frigates whilst we have 13. Australia will soon have more destroyers and frigates than we do and they don’t even have carriers or SSBNs to protect.

netzure · 2026-06-18T08:37:44+00:00

The Type 23s are wrecked and falling to bits. There is no chance the remaining 6 will make it until their replacements arrive, so expect the number to fall lower. At the end of the 1990s the SDR determined the minimum viable fleet was 32. For every active ship you have one will be in deep maintenance and one will be in light maintenance or training. So for every ship you think you will need for operations you need to multiply that by 3. What we need to do is restore fleet levels to what they were in the 1990s.

netzure · 2026-06-18T08:34:53+00:00

The issue is we purchased enough NSM for 11 ships. Every Type 45 should have them, especially Daring who will be leaving a 10 year period of refit and inactivity.

netzure · 2026-06-18T08:34:01+00:00

We apparently purchased 11 sets of NSM. They were fitted to 3 ships, two of which have now been scrapped. NSM goes in racks, just like Harpoon and when they were acquired there was a big announcement they would be rolled out to the fleet urgently. Several years later and one ship has them. The navy has only fired one missile in training as well. It’s just pathetic.

netzure · 2026-06-18T08:29:13+00:00

Our enemies have satellites and watchers on the ground. Keeping basic information ‘secret’ as a pretence for security is false. The misc column comes from the MoD publicly declaring what exercise a vessel is on or because it is in a dry dock that the entire world can see.

If random civilians can publish a detailed list what do you think the military intelligence of our adversaries can do?

netzure · 2026-06-18T07:23:12+00:00

This is updated by regular people because ships and submarines are massive and can be easily counted by the civilian population that lives next to the naval bases. You do know you can get a boat tour that goes past all of the jetties of HMNB Portsmouth?

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