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I am a specialist at creating carbon dioxide. I have done it all my life. Do they use Paypal?
Great news, cask beer fans: UK shortage of CO2 menaces fizzy crap taking up tap space
A carbon-dioxide shortage in Blighty may rid bars and pubs of that fizzy nonsense taking up the tap space of proper cask beer. [Oy! Some of us like a good lager – ed.] The UK Food and Drink Federation today issued an alert – just in time for the World Cup – that the country was in danger of running out of the CO2 gas that is …
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Monday 25th June 2018 07:46 GMT werdsmith
"Northern Beer"
As in the style of beer that would be classic traditional northern beer. Pretty crap.
However, ales from northern breweries - as in styles of beer without any particular geographic attachment. Pretty good. Just like decent ales from anywhere else.
"eee, look at tha's flat soothern beer, it's got no foamy 'ead on it ya soft soothern panseh".
"fuck off twat, I want a drink not a shave"
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Monday 25th June 2018 08:40 GMT LucreLout
Re: Or ...
brew your own. Incredibly satisfying. And fizzing.
"Incredibly saitsfying" is a phrase that has been used to describe my home brew as often as the phrase "maginificent and large beyond comprehension" has been used to describe my manhood. So, not very often, or never, if you prefer precision.
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Friday 22nd June 2018 21:21 GMT tfewster
"Government must act with urgency to assess the issue as quickly as possible and support the industry through any period of restricted supply."
1) A Government acting with urgency may have assessed the issue in time for the next world cup,
2) What has a Free Market problem got to do with Government? It's a bit daft the suppliers all shutting down at once, without stockpiling some, but it's bloody stupid not to secure your supply when you know it's an annual shutdown and expect a big demand this year.
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Saturday 23rd June 2018 16:50 GMT H in The Hague
Re: Bravo madam!
"A government which does not believe in the invisible hand of the free market is left wing."
Having been in business for over three decades I respectfully suggest that the effectiveness of the invisible hand of the free market is somewhat overestimated. Yes, I believe in mostly free markets, but sometimes we need a bit of regulation to lubricate them, and to protect the vulnerable in society, and the environment.
Incidentally, although the term was coined by Adam Smith (who used it only once in The Wealth of Nations), he also advocated a range of state interventions in markets. See the leader article in one of the sections of this weekend's edition of the Financial Times, that famously left wing newspaper.
So, by your definition Adam Smith is left wing!?!
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Sunday 24th June 2018 08:10 GMT John Stirling
Re: Bravo madam!
A proper conservative government would stick to asking shareholders their friends sponsors in the City
FTFY
Could we please move on from childish tribal stereotyping.
A proper government of whatever philosophical persuasion will act as best they can to deal with the very complex problems they face on a daily basis for the benefit of their electorate.
If we the electorate had slightly higher standards with regard to the honesty of our politicians they would be more honest.
Doesn't matter if you like it, the 'free' (hah) market drives our choice of politician as much as it does markets.
Corruption and dishonesty are inputs into that process as much as anything else and as long as we (political) consumers continue to purchase what is peddled we'll continue to get it.
There are occasional attempts at grown up honest government from the fringes, but they rarely get far.
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Monday 25th June 2018 10:22 GMT tiggity
Re: Bravo madam!
@ John Stirling
"If we the electorate had slightly higher standards with regard to the honesty of our politicians they would be more honest."
Electorate can not do much (I would like a "none of the above" option - that would be fun in our (not very democratic) First Past The Post system if it won
When all the candidates are flawed then the elector is stuck - spoiled ballots ignored, low turnout matters little as even if only a handful of people voted the winning MP would be elected.
At best your choice is do I pick the candidate that is as preferable as a poke in the eye with a sharp stick (PITEWASS), the one that is PITEWASS with stick covered in faeces, or the one that is PITEWASS where stick covered in Ebola.
When all choices are varying degree of unwanted, you have no (meaningful) choice
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Sunday 24th June 2018 09:13 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Bravo madam!
I believe in mostly free markets, but sometimes we need a bit of regulation to lubricate them, and to protect the vulnerable in society, and the environment.
In the UK there's little evidence that the bunglers of government can get the balance right. Telecoms regulation is almost non-existent, energy regulation is prescriptive, intense and interventionist, neither market works well for consumers. Rail regulation has achieved very mixed outcomes, with some excellent operators such as Chiltern, Grand Central and many more that are awful (although the state owned system was even worse in overall performance terms).
The only good example I can think of is water regulation, which usually strikes a good balance between customers, environment, economics and corporate interests. But you'll find few people that will believe that - and even then it is occasionally subject to political meddling.
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Monday 25th June 2018 10:43 GMT tiggity
Re: Bravo madam!
@Ledswinger
"The only good example I can think of is water regulation"
Tell that to people on metered water who shower / bathe themselves & kids less than they would like due to the cost
As we have a few dry days on the trot in the UK, there are already predictions of water shortages / hosepipe bans - most water companies lose huge amounts (over 20% of water lost through leaks before reaching homes / businesses) - massive leakage (waste of resource) does not stop huge monopoly profits and loads of cash going to shareholders. A proper regulatory system for water would stop any consumer price hikes until leakage was low (0 is obviously not possible, but below 5% )would be an initial achievable target)
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Monday 25th June 2018 11:06 GMT Roland6
Re: Bravo madam!
Tell that to people on metered water who shower / bathe themselves & kids less than they would like due to the cost
Depends on what you mean by 'less', when I was growing up having one bath a week was common.
Having moved from unmetered to metered, I think, unless your household is a very high water user there little in it, I suspect that to many the issue is the perception that metered will be more expensive.
most water companies lose huge amounts (over 20% of water lost through leaks before reaching homes / businesses)
Need to be careful about this statistic, a year back we had a 'leak', in the vicinity of the local distribution point, some seven miles away. To fix the leak all the water in the local distribution network had to be drained away, once the leak was fixed the pipes could be refilled, flushed and repressurising the distribution network. All the water 'lost' as a result of that single leak is included in that 20% figure...
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