Posts by codejunky

Re: Daft

@Roland6

"I didn't mention Brexit, just making an observation based on the viewpoints you've been expressing."

However it would be fairly bad of me to vote brexit only to desire leaving the country.

"I'm looking forward to seeing your start-up or were you intending to be more of a spectator?"

Spectator/worker

Re: Its ok

@graeme leggett

"The optics of this one case aren't good but the situation is nuanced and Germany is not turning its back on renewables."

Thats great news. And its only lignite coal, which Germany relied on to keep the lights on. The optics looked bad before the war because Germany was anticipating the lights going out in a few years because of their energy choices and lack of will to do anything about it.

Re: Daft

@Binraider

"New labour, otherwise known as Tory-lite.

Which means 40 of the last 40 years have been governed more or less by Tory politics."

Thats cute but then we have had Cameron and May and Boris aka 12 yrs of Labour-lite. So that would be the last 22 years of Labour politics.

Re: Daft

@Roland6

"I'm a little surprised Codejunky hasn't got a Greencard and followed Farage to the land-of-the-free..."

Why? I voted brexit for the good of the UK. I am happy to stay here and see if we can make a good go of it. Have you moved to your beloved EU?

Re: Daft

@Androgynous Cupboard

"Yes yes, they're in power for 9 of the last 43 years but obviously it's still mostly their fault."

Is it? Why do you feel its mostly their fault (not for criticism just interested in your opinion). You might note I didnt apportion blame at all, just pointed out that blaming one party but not others (feel free to drop libs in from the coalition too if you like) was incomplete.

Thatcher still gets blamed and she has been out of government for ages.

Re: Daft

@Binraider

"Tories can, and will do anything no matter how dumb the long term implications."

Not just tories. We are still living with decisions made by labour.

Re: dragging the country down

@AC

"This negotiation, the one confirmed by BT:"

You might want to read the headline of your link- "BT re-enters pay talks to prevent further strikes, says union". Ransom. You may or not agree with the strike but the point of the strike is to hold the company to ransom.

Re: dragging the country down

@R Soul

"It must have escaped your attention that the lying shagger, kamikaze Kwarteng and lettuce Liz have already dragged the country down: fucked economy, recklessly incompetent and criminal government, sleaze, lies, corruption, etc."

Feel better now??

"Negotiating for a pay rise in line with the rate of inflation isn't remotely like a ransom demand either."

What negotiation? They downed tools to harm their employer that they wish to gain more money from. Ransom.

Re: @wolfetone

@heyrick

"Uh, my take on this is that the salary isn't increasing in step with inflation so effectively it's a drop in pay if seen in the context of "what this amount of money actually buys"."

The salary cant always rise with inflation. If we end up in a wage price spiral then we will have much more serious problems. I dont see people complaining when wages rise faster than inflation but thats not something that can continue indefinitely.

"This, coming when the head honcho gave himself a near third extra. Is it really any wonder they're annoyed?"

I can see why that would upset them. As I said they should go get other work where they are better compensated.

Re: @wolfetone

@wolfetone

"So you'd rather the people working at BT resort to using BT branded foodbanks, rather than being paid an appropriate wage?"

Wow do you think that low of BT employees? That they are so useless and incapable that the only place that would hire them is BT? That they must be paid more by BT because nobody out there would hire them?

They obviously have a higher opinion of themselves (not bashing) that they feel they should be paid more. So they should go get a job being paid more elsewhere then.

The employer doesnt 'owe' them more just because someone has a different idea of an 'appropriate wage'. A boss doesnt just pay someone more because they have some inflated idea of what they should be paid (right or wrong), they pay to retain the worker for the job, if they feel the worker is worth it.

@wolfetone

"Pay up then."

Terrible idea. The idea of ransoms should be paid would again drag the country down as it has in the past.

Re: the good Citizens of Canada, don’t put much truck in FPTP either, eh?

@Richard 12

"Not only is it unrepresentative, it also causes polarisation and "us vs them" because you usually can't vote for anyone, you have to vote "tactically" against the party you hate the most."

Thats an awful way to vote. You should be voting for the ones you want in charge. If you always vote against the 'other' then you are never going to be happy, but if you vote for the ones you feel will do a good job then you have some hope. Even with FPTP we managed to get the brexit vote we had been wanting since labour. Do note that labour got more votes due to offering a referendum (they lied) then Cameron gained votes for his 'cast iron guarantee' (cop out being a coalition) and when he tried the gambit once more had no good way out. All because the BNP and then UKIP became credible parties with increasing support purely for representing people better than the main parties.

*not the downvoter btw

Re: Easing of Visa requirements for Indian travellers?

@Jason Bloomberg

"What I have never understood is why those who wanted brexit have been so insistent on a "points-based immigration system" which, as far as I can tell - using their parlance - invites the foreign folk in to steal our best, most well paid jobs, while keeping impoverished foreigners out so our natives are forced to do all the shit, menial, low-paid jobs."

The condensed view that I am aware of is that it isnt stealing when it comes to productive jobs requiring the rare talents found in few people globally where more of them increases the number of jobs and wealth of the country. Compared to mass immigration of low paying jobs which suppress wages at the bottom and keep low earners earning less.

Re: Easing of Visa requirements for Indian travellers?

@werdsmith

"It's more a case of the Tory members that voted know that the brexit folk will not vote tory if Rishi is to be PM"

So it couldnt be because Truss actually seemed to have a plan other than business as usual? Maybe they didnt think high tax red tory continuation was the way forward and maybe a bit of good economic policy would be a good idea (which was expected to bring us a shallower recession than now expected)?

"Rishi is from a family that immigrated from East Africa and brexit folk don't like immigration"

It amazes me how racist remainers are. All they do is bang on about skin colour, the projection is stunning.

Re: Easing of Visa requirements for Indian travellers?

@ckm5

"Isn't that pretty much why Liz Truss became PM? Because she's white as the driven snow"

It amazes me how people still call the tories sexist, racist etc. Considering the people who have held top positions in government it has been the tories leading the way.

Re: You're all smart people (cough cough)

@heyrick

"On the flip side, they may well earn more in a year than most people do in a lifetime."

Which is why it is better to have them here than to try and kill the goose that lays the golden egg.

Re: The problem is

@Missing Semicolon

"Massive bribes to corrupt Governments."

Unfortunately thats how a large part of the world works.

Re: Lack of energy policy for 30 years, nuclear costs

@AC

"Labour closed more coal mines, but redeployed the miners into other more profitable mines."

Sounds like a good way to make a profitable mine less profitable (if true).

Re: Lack of energy policy for 30 years, nuclear costs

@VoiceOfTruth

"1. It's not coal, which was then very out of favour with the Tories."

Labour closed more coal mines than the Tories.

"2. It's quick to build, unlike nuclear."

To be fair that makes sense when energy was needed asap. It would provide time to build other energy generation (as you say nukes).

"3. There was no real opposition to gas burning, unlike nuclear."

Very true. This was greenies opposing nukes. For over a decade now there have been plans and then no action due to opposition to nukes. Clegg rejected nukes during the coalition because they wouldnt be online until 2022.

"4. Gas plants are cheap"

And extremely necessary for the green madness garbage. Otherwise the lights go out.

"Points 2 and 4 are market factors"

They sound like market factors but was government policy. Market factors would be not shutting down the coal plants we already have. If it was market factors we would have more gas storage which takes decades to provide a return but would be worth it but for government energy policy.

"The scale and speed at which China does this is staggering. They really have mastered large scale infrastructure. We in the West (collectively) lack vision these days."

Well said but this is where they have proven that increased free market produces prosperity while their previous approach cause starvation and poverty. Cheap energy changes everything.

I dont think people quite realise that expensive energy increases the amount we are taxed, poorer public services as well as the direct costs we face. Unfortunately green madness has caused a lot of damage

@Pascal Monett

"The Greenies in Germany have been very vocal about nuclear for the past fourty years, talking about pollution and keeping our planet clean, and now they don't even squeak when new coal plants are being built ?

Fucking hypocrites."

Yup. The fantasy land of fairies and unicorns is sweet for a while until reality hits and their lights go out. The rest of us have been pointing this out for a while. But now the panic sets in and anything goes because the ideology doesnt provide the energy needed to live.

Re: Lack of energy policy for 30 years, nuclear costs

@VoiceOfTruth

"We have not had a real energy policy in this country for 30 years. "Let the market decide" was the mantra from the shut-everything-down Tories"

I havnt seen much of the market being allowed to do anything for energy. We have power generation but we must shut it down because of the new religion. Nukes have been planned then blocked by govs fearing greenies who have opposed nukes until very recently. Vast amounts spent on monuments to the sky god in hopes it will fart at the right time to produce some electricity. Fossil fuels will be banned by the gov in a couple of decades but then they cry there is a lack of gas storage that has no ROI due to green madness.

"Meanwhile China has plans to build 150 nuclear power stations, and given their evident ability to manage large scale infrastructure projects (their high speed rail system dwarfs every other country in scope) they will likely do it."

Nukes coal and more, China seems serious about improving itself while we westerners hobble ourselves. I must admit to a little amusement that Germany is removing wind turbines so they can mine lignite coal.

@Def

"Because as average global temperatures continue to increase"

Which is better for life and certainly better than global cooling. It is better for food production and the well-being of those already alive (less lethal than the cold).

Add to that how we have advanced mitigation techniques to deal with less attractive climates and that the climate changes naturally so mitigation techniques work against that too and things are looking up.

Re: Please help me here

@Lars

"Everything is left wing when you are on the far right."

Just as everything is right wing the further left the politicians go.

Re: If a mistake is bad enough ...

@Lars

My issue is I cant think of any politician at the moment who is worth voting for and unless something changes soon there wont be anything worth voting for come a GE

Re: "Zero Truss Architecture"

@John Smith 19

"Indeed zero trust in any politician?

How could you make such a political system work."

Government is limited to the jobs we need government for.

Re: Please help me here

@Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells

"They're going to have a stroke when Boris comes back."

I dont know how that would balance for my opinion. Early Boris showed some promise but later on my opinion wasnt so positive. Yet watching the shrieking and crying could be quite amusing.

Re: Obvious solution

@Yet Another Anonymous coward

"everyone is forced to be prime minister in turn, at gun point"

I wouldnt be shocked if this was required as who would want this poison pill in this party or any other?