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- Comment on ‘I’m British, British Asian, English’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity 1 week ago:
To add to this:
Asian or Asian British
Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi Chinese Any other Asian background
- Comment on ‘I’m British, British Asian, English’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity 1 week ago:
Have you ever completed a census?
White English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British Irish Gypsy or Irish Traveller Roma Any other White background
- Comment on ‘I’m British, British Asian, English’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity 1 week ago:
I know where he’s born. Don’t conflate nationality and ethnicity.
He’s British.
- Comment on ‘I’m British, British Asian, English’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity 1 week ago:
British.
- Comment on ‘I’m British, British Asian, English’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity 1 week ago:
If I’m born in China, am I Chinese?
- Comment on ‘I’m British, British Asian, English’, says Rishi Sunak in riposte to racially charged debate over identity 1 week ago:
English? No.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 2 weeks ago:
Possible to do from bed as well
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
But they answered the question…
- Comment on Do people eat this? 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t the US have pasta in jello (actual jelly, not natural eel gelatin)?
By 1930, there appeared a vogue in American cuisine for congealed salads, and the company introduced lime-flavored Jell-O, to complement the add-ins that cooks across the country were combining in these aspics and salads. Popular Jell-O recipes often included ingredients like cabbage, celery, green peppers, and even cooked pasta.[10]
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 2 weeks ago:
I’ll save you replying to my requests for linkage. You were likely referencing their 2024 manifesto. I still disagree that those are “Puitin policies”, we clearly have different viewpoints and won’t persuade one another.
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 2 weeks ago:
building more gas turbine power stations
Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?
cutting stamp duty on the biggest properties I don’t think oligarcs are too concerned about a few extra thousand pounds to pay!
Btw… Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?
pulling out of the European Defence Fund
Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?
cancelling our human rights act
Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?
repealing the Equalities
Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?
“scrapping” the BBC
As I already said, it’s the licence fee, not the BBC. The licence fee is unfit for 2026 and it should be scrapped.
stopping the boats (any method that really does it will be basically either impossible or illegal)
How is that a “putin policy”? Russia are the ones behind it - look at Baltic/Russian borders for illegal crossings facilitated by Russia and Belarus. Not a Russia friendly policy at all. You’re wrong.
defending our borders (more insular isolationism is what Putin really loves)
Listen to yourself. Which country in the world doesn’t defend their borders? Wrong
deporting illegal migrants (which would quickly become an ICE-style scandal deporting natives who look different and dwarf the Windrush scandal)
How tiresome. Is that Russia friendly? No. Wrong again!
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 2 weeks ago:
We’ll have to wait 50 years to know, but even if we are, it’ll be much much less under any sane government, but it would be more if left to Reform.
No, it’s a certainty. You and the other user are fixated on CCGT generation. My reply was to the other user, not you. They said “Gas will not last another 50 years at all.” and I am saying it has more uses than CCGT.
It’s absurd to accuse someone of cherry-picking and then cherry-pick a time when the National Energy System Operator has invited bids for the Demand Flexibility Service because the price of gas-generated electricity is too high.
No it’s not. They looked at a dashboard at 22:30 and tried to portray the UK as if it is representative of a peak usage time. Let’s see how those stats are today… oh, 50% is generated by CCGT (gas) at 7pm, cool. That was my point.
A majority, but not a supermajority. Only about 60% of UK homes burn gas for heating despite all the encouragement and inducement since the 1970s in a scandal that makes promotion of diesel cars look like playschool stuff, and a farcical and pathetic target-missing attempt to encourage heat pumps in the last 10 years (target: 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028, latest number I’ve seen: 91,000 per year and no, that’s not missing a digit).
Wrong. It’s closer to 85%. Where did you get the 60% figure from? I’m not replying to your irrelevant addon about heat pumps (go back up this chain to remind yourself of what we’re talking about)
So? Buying gas and thereby driving the market price up is enough to benefit Russia. When you hear a gas boiler roar, it’s helping fund Putin.
They sell it for far less.
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 3 weeks ago:
Which three? Which three are Putin policies? I’m not addressing the rest of your response until you name which three Reform policies are Putin policies which got us to where we are.
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 3 weeks ago:
I know.
OP said Putin policies, which is false. There’s enough disinformation floating about without adding to it.
For the record, Farage is a cunt.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 3 weeks ago:
Worse than spying - manipulating politics and social cohesion. Many teens have died (example: pass out challenge), right-wing governments have almost been elected out of nowhere (Romania) and mentally ill people have been preyed upon heavily.
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 3 weeks ago:
Read what I said again: we’ll be using gas in 50 years.
Your cherry picked statistics for a windy day at 22:30 are a poor example. Check again at 17:00.
Maybe have a think about the majority of homes central heating.
While you’re at it: go learn about how fertiliser is made using natural gas (we import all our fertiliser now anyway, thanks Ed!)
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 3 weeks ago:
So many to choose from! Proceeds to list zero policies 😀
We’re using gas for the next 50 years whether it’s Reform or the Greens. That curries more favour with the US or Qatar than it does Russia. You’re reaching for that to be a “Putin policy”
Scrapping the licence fee… that 1/2 of the population who should pay, don’t.
Thanks for responding at least.
What would Putin oppose? Let’s see… the top three from Reform’s site:
- stopping the boats (I know, I know)
- defend our borders
- deport illegal migrants
- Comment on Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK 3 weeks ago:
I’ll bite. I’m excited for your response.
Which Reform policy is a Putin policy?
- Comment on Why Do We Keep Fretting About the Future of the Full English? 3 weeks ago:
What kind of shite is this supposed to be?
- Comment on UK study to examine effects of restricting social media for children 3 weeks ago:
Negatively, I think we all know.
- Comment on Starmer pulls Chagos bill after Trump backlash 3 weeks ago:
What does that have to do with the article?
This is good for Britain.
- Comment on Starmer pulls Chagos bill after Trump backlash 3 weeks ago:
Who?
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- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 4 weeks ago:
Adding to your comment: Lithium brines are extracted through drilled wells, it’s not always ore.
- Comment on xkcd #3193: Sailing Rigs 5 weeks ago:
Here’s one such kite on a catamaran: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKs_yZFRiKI
- Comment on Two-thirds of UK voters wrongly think immigration is rising, poll finds 5 weeks ago:
Peak Lemmy to be downvoted for this comment.
- Comment on If it fits... 1 month ago:
American pickup, US styled sidewalks…
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 7 months ago:
Right. Doesn’t change the fact about UK law considering their actions terroristic… You know, what this thread is about.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 7 months ago:
It’s what UK law considers terrorism.
