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Despite the political spin, it's perfectly obvious why Rachel Reeves was in tears during the HoC debate on welfare payment reductions. The realisation had finally dawned that she has taken on the hopeless task of balancing the UK's books. Hopeless because even the easy low-hanging fruit can't be plucked. We are supposed to believe that "the adults are now in charge", but like most of the guff from the Labour propaganda machine, exactly the reverse is true. Everything they've done to allegedly improve the economy has actually made our situation worse. The international bond markets have taken notice, and a 1970s type Sterling crisis is looming. How long this will take is anyone's guess. Some economists say it will strike in 2026. But one thing is for sure: this hopeless government won't last out it's five year term, and it will ALL end in tears!

Hey Ian! There's a mind-numbingly simple solution to your constituent's problem. So simple that even a Labour MP couldn't miss it if they really wanted to facilitate "change" (you know, that nebulous thing that Two-tier is always going on about!) Here's what you do: you go shopping for a rubber boat, the flimsier and cheaper the better! Then you drive your poor constituent down to the channel coast, inflate it and put this poor guy in it. You only need to push him a few hundred feet out to sea, and simply abandon him. Maybe hand him a letter to hand to the first human rights lawyer he comes across pointing out how his right to unlimited UK resources for his medical condition are being violated - a mere detail, but you get the idea? Before you completely abandon him, make sure he knows to pretend he can't understand the local lingo - hardly a challenge for a Geordie in Kent - and keep repeating "I asylum seek", until he's put up in the mandatory five-star accommodation! Starmer's legal buddies will take care of all the rest for you. Just go for it! The resulting publicity could improve your dire re-election prospects like nothing else could! All those worries about having to get a real job soon could be at an end!

I'm launching an appeal for a missing sentence! Aren't they paying you enough, Nicole?

At my age, the world is increasingly full of mysteries. Mind you, I DO in fact know what a woman is! 😅

I think he just posted on the wrong thread, Eggy! Will try to move it to somewhere meaningful. 😊

Yes, the so-called Democratic Party is now packed out with crazies. If they can't rig the vote, they will use any other means to prevail. There are elements in the Labour Party that, if they ever get power, will never relinquish it. They scream fascist at their opponents, but are in fact the real fascists.

Well... that didn't work, did it, Blob Party?! Going to have to think up some new ruses! I've always wondered how you can get away with attributing phobias to people's perfectly natural leanings. Probably the same reasoning that manufactures "non-crime hate incidents". Bad day for Stonewall - well, bad decade anyway!

Message Handling Protocol??? The BBC isn't a place for politics? You must be joking!

Thanks Eggy! I reckon it's chicken and egg(y) here: they depend on keen users flagging up new installations, and if practically no one is using it yet then practically no one will report it. ZapMap only covers the UK, so I've actually only referenced it once in the last five years. BUT if you are in the UK (and don't have a Tesla) it's the primary goto.

If you buy the right EV, there are no such problems. We go anywhere in Europe without any worries as to charging. The car knows where it's going to charge and when; it even predicts which chargers will be free when it arrives. The normal spacing of 160Km for superchargers is now being filled-in to 80Km in many places. In countless thousands of Km travelled, we've never had to wait to get charged anywhere. Forward planning gets us free energy at a hotel overnight, but we don't depend on this. I've even been toying with taking the car over to North Africa now there are a limited number of superchargers along the North African coast, but this is unlikely to happen as the last convenient car ferry from here ceased to run in the 1970s! So... it will probably be a discounted ferry trip to Greece in the spring for the car. I made an extremely long mains industrial-strength mains lead for our little charging block to pull out on an occasion when someone tells us the nearest domestic socket is too far away, but so far there's never been a need for it. But we still take it as extra insurance. You can go one heck of a distance on an overnight charge from just about any domestic socket. Indeed, for around a year this was our only way to charge the car out here in the sticks, but proved perfectly satisfactory. The only real motivation to install the wall charger was that we brought one with the car before we really knew what we were doing: it was collecting dust. The minimum selectable charge rate for the car is a bit on the high side at 5A though - a lower setting would enable us to use limited solar over the day directly, and spread the charge more evenly overnight. In regular daily use, it's normally fully charged (to 80%) by around 4 or 5am, even when it starts cheap rate charging after 1am. The mistake most people make when buying an EV is they assume they are buying just another car, rather than buying into a complete ecosystem. This echoes people who used to but computing equipment from spec sheets and reviews rather than looking at what applications were available and compatibility issues. The media is the main culprit here, though, as there is just so much garbage printed in the regular motoring columns, and the huge advertising spend of German manufacturers means they can't publish an objective view. So-called Hybrids: exactly why someone would buy into all the problems of lesser BEVs, and all the problems of ICE at one and the same time, is something I find hard to understand. It's always amusing to see someone with a plug-in hybrid trying hard to avoid buying dinosaur juice, though!

Cartoon? Google Data Center Under Construction in Central Ohio

Poor show this still isn't on Zapmap: it's probably missing a load of potential users! Can someone with a Zapmap account, and who can mark an exact position, please submit it? A tiny bit difficult from here! https://www.zap-map.com/add-a-charge-point