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So you support mice and voles, but not elephants or children?

They probably could work out where it was heading.

You are right, it isn't nudge theory. It is a full-blown shove in the back.

So the consumer want face increased costs? Just like the working person won't end up paying the increased employer NIC costs through higher consumer prices.

Theoretically heat pumps are more efficient than boilers, producing something like 3.5 times as much heat energy as the electrical energy used to do so. Problem is electricity costs 4 times as much as gas (on my tariff) and so the heating is higher cost. So energy efficient but not cost...

"Should" is such a big but empty word. I far prefer "must". I didn't realise I could heat my home on a couple of Duracells.:)

I have no idea what that means,

I’m not convinced that the UK should be leading the way on this. Im certainly not convinced that a system requiring taking heat out of cold air is going to prove all that effective, especially when the power cuts start. It is very expensive to run. And then no one will be able to charge their...

I think it is, yes. If the argument about heat pumps had been won it would be unnecessary. Taxes can often be a means to direct people to live their lives in a certain way, eg tobacco duty and the £2 to come on a bottle of vape liquid. When I vaped I was buying them from onepoundliquid. Not...

Unlike this generation of Labour political pygmies, Prescott had been a working man doing a real job. RIP

You may be laughing now ………………..

Tut tut, no capital j and a capital U please.

Left wing middle class elite - “we have failed to win the argument, how can we enforce our unrealistic desires” ”Hit the bastard plebs in the pocket - again and again until they give up”

Starmer - “we aren’t going to tell people how to live their lives.” Milliband - oh yes, we are. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14112121/Controversial-plans-introduce-boiler-tax-manufacturers-slammed-industry-experts.html

He had better get a move on then. One of the things about getting older is that time passes by so fast. The next 4 years will be gone in a flash. Immigration will not have gone down, no growth, missed housing targets, hugely increased energy bills - and no Tories to blame.

It’s about feelings, not actuality, You know, like how things can be a hate crime if you that’s how you feel that it is. Governments need a feel good factor if they are going to get a second term, things look they are going to get worse and some life long enemies have been made. For some of...

I thought that the score of only 29% of Labour voters feeling better off whilst 20% feel worse off was a surprise given how competent people seemed to feel a Labour government would be. Still, its early days. Not all of the inflationary consequences of the budget have fed through yet.

The problem is, it's the middle aged folk who have the money to buy these things. This will backfire badly - quite an achievement for a manufacturer with a 100% EV ambition. Especially at a time when many other manufactures are frantically reversing their own EV plans because of cost and lack...

Not when they go out of business, he won"t.

At least I am not so big an idiot as to have voted for Labour. Voter remorse? https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/two-five-britons-think-they-are-worse-labour-was-elected