True, but that was your original question I think? And I think that this article is suggesting that the UK is a net importer for oil and gas - the EU exports are for the refinement into products that we can actually use - we don’t refine our own products.

I think we’re 2nd, closest to France - a little ahead - but some way behind Germany
Does that help?

Yebbut sovvrinty, and flags up lampposts

Clarkson speaks deliberately inflammatory stuff not infrequently with tongue in cheek, but is right on both counts here. The NHS is creaking and yet most patients are rightly eternally grateful for it.
I suggest, though, on cost - that ‘afford’ and ‘willing to pay for’ are not the same thing.

Oh dear!

Whoops!

Kinnock is one of the finest proponents of progressive thought in this country and the best prime minister we never had.

😉

Well, *without* people, maybe?

I posted this replying to a different point but it’s just as relevant here:

‘Crucial to.. caring for people - ….ill (especially) or not - is that the essential component is *people*. All the technology in the world doesn’t change that.
That means investing in and training of people.” (Edited)

This is such an important point. Sadly, hard work - for many - brings relatively very poor rewards.
If only things were different.

Crucial to the practice of caring for people - whether they are ill (especially) or not - is that the essential component is *people*. All the technology in the world will never provide a substitute for the human touch.
That means investing in people. And training of people.

Whoa!! But what about Reform voters top three??
Thatcher
Johnson!!!!!!!
Wilson 🧐

Making life more difficult for migrants helps nobody.
Making it harder for people fleeing war and persecution to find safety helps nobody.
Labour pushing xenophobia as policy helps nobody.
Pandering to far right politics doesn't combat far right rhetoric or "build trust in politicians"
#r4today

UK faces highest inflation in G7 this year and next, IMF warns.

Biggest cause is profiteering led by energy, water and food businesses. No govt checks it.

Real average wage stuck at 2008 level. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Govts needs to remove cash from the rich.

This is the ‘offensive’ tweet that the right wing press/current Reform Party spokespersons like to tell everyone about.
On a scale of 1-10 in the context of today’s climate of ‘protection of freedom of speech’ how far past one would you score this for a) offensiveness and b) hypocritical response?

She certainly seems practised in that particular art.

Alex Philips: “It’s not provocative, it’s ’ordinary’ ‘working class’ people fed up with being told that flying the flag is ‘racist’ saying well OK then here’s a flag on the roundabout and on zebra crossings - take offence at that.”

Which is being provocative. Isn’t it?

So, immigrants will be obliged to have A level standards of English to qualify for right to reside.
A level standards!!!!!
That’ll put them at a higher qualification level than very many ‘indigenous’ Brits.

Won’t it?

Which school of Christianity do the Trumps follow, again?

😏

Yeah, but, you know…. If they had to part with some more tax they wouldn’t be able to afford weetabix …. And would have to go and live in Monaco, or somewhere a bit cheaper….

Could we ask our flag erecting patriots to do this or face being deported to wherever their ancestors originated from?

Is it just me or do elected Reform officers attract more attention because of misbehaviour than the other Parties?
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