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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poundland sold for £1⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
To be clear. US form took on 30m in debt. Plus a promise to borrow 30m more if certain goals are achieved.

So it’s technically 30 to 60m and £1
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨£2.5 billion for prototype fusion energy plant⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Having looked it up and answered my own questions.

Yeah they are actually building a portable star.

And while it is very much an experiment. It is based on a smaller successful fusion plant from 2022.

So honestly using your guess. 7.5b 2045 and failing. Is still pretty fucking amazing amount the UK learns about a new future technology. And well worth the risk for the expertise we would gain.

If it actually works the UK will be helping the world make more. And the odds are pretty high compar d to the UKs first fission plants.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨£2.5 billion for prototype fusion energy plant⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Ah did a little googling myself. No expert. But for anyone else wondering.

Both is the answer

The first positive consistent fusion was achieved in 2022. So over COVID. I may have missed it due to hiding ;)

But yes this is experimental. But fully expected to be the first full scale power plant. So Def worth the UK gaining the experience and solving the issues.

It is not expected till 2040. So 2.5b is way less over 15 years then it seemed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨£2.5 billion for prototype fusion energy plant⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Have I missed some news. Last I heard no one had gotten a positive output from fusion for more the a few seconds.

Is that no longer the case. Or is this 2.5b for an experiment that may not work?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real reasons people do not have the number of children they want revealed in new report⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Raising children requires hope for he future.

Of course the first post ww2 generation to see lower prospects then their parents. Will hesitate to bring children into that future.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sizewell C power station to be built as part of UK’s £14bn nuclear investment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
If funded by private investment. Yep.

If funded as tax payer investment in important inferstructure. Nope
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toxic pesticide levels found in tampons 40 times higher than legal limit for water⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
A guess.

But considering it is glycophate. Used as a weed killer and pest controller.

The only source would be cotton.

All non organic modern farms world wide use glycophate. Because plowing is considered bad for the climate. If farmers do not plow turning over the soil and releasing co2. Then the only way to prevent weeds is chemicals. Hence glycophate.

Given cotton is used mainly for clothing etc. I imagine it has lower requirements for such toxins compared to food production.

So my guess. It is believed to be all brands. The article states varicose brands were tested and all had high levels. But given the low numbers I doubt the press is confident enough to single out any of these brands.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not if you want those debtors top invest in anything in your nation again.

The nation is then faced with a banking industry that refuses to trust any large government projects. So we then have to find the money for any investment before building.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Honestly, if Honestly, if we nationalized now. The debtors would expect the gov to pay. And it would be hard to refuse. At least without harming our national credit/trust.

Let the fuckers go bankrupt. Spend some time letting the military have to provide clean water. Aka 70s stand pipes.

Then rebuild them as a nationalized company. This way the debtors cannot claim Thames water was anything but a dumb investment on their part.

It is very likely the extra 3b they just borrowed was only allowed because the banks consider potential nationalisation a risk reduction strategy. Fuck letting them screw taxpayers by funding failing companies. we nationalized now. The debtors would expect the gov to pay. And it would be hard to refuse. At least without harming our national credit/trust.

Let the fuckers go bankrupt. Spend some time letting the military have to provide clean water. Aka 70s stand pipes.

Then rebuild them as a nationalized company. This way the debtors cannot claim Thames water was anything but a dumb investment on their part.

It is very likely the extra 3b they just borrowed was only allowed because the banks consider potential nationalisation a risk reduction strategy. Fuck letting them screw taxpayers by funding failing companies.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Now it is impossible to decide if you are genuinely stupid or a troll.

Asking to reference a lack of ambiguity. After I have posted multiple explanations of exactly how the phrase aligned standards can only mean the standards used to produce and regulate UK food production must match. Yet you have not managed challenge a single one.

Yeah go shove your own head up your arse you troll.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Urgent ‘do not eat’ warning issued for popular meal sold in Tesco and Morrisons⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Hence why I said. Warn folks about the error…

If someone sees a don’t eat warning. They will also see a potential allergy warning or contains fish warning. In. The same place.

So informing people of the error and refunding any returns. Is no more risk then the initial sale was. And also produces a little less food and packaging waste then this.

So save n humans. Or save the same number if humans plus kill the earth less.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
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Yeah bad wording on my part. Sorry I’m working on multiple things ATM.

I ment you are seeing ambiguity that is not there.

As I explained else where. The rest of the media and even fararge in another news article last night. Seems to disagree that this deal meets any Brexit claim.

They see no abniguity in this meaning all UK food production domestic and export. Must continue meet EU equive standards to ensure less documentation is needed.

It has after all been the crux of the UK EU trade issue from day one.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yes I am. Based on a whole history of treaty talks since Brexit where the whole topic was based on trading standards and how alignment was why we could not join the customs union.

Expecting a fucking news article to teach you the topics you seem to have missed. Is expecting ELI5

And you you did suggest a meaning, when you openly interpreted the article as a good benefit of Brexit. And stated that it said nothing about domestic food standards.

You were specifically claiming we had some form of double standard that applies to food we export and food we don’t.

Nothing in the article claims that. And I can assure you we as a nation do not. So you invested that meaning to make your rather pathetic point about the deal matching some Brexit benefit.

I made a very clear pretty close to ELI5 maybe 10. Of why I and the other poster was able to interpret the “aligned to EU standards” as relating to domestic sales. Based entirely on facts differing news have covered in detail while May and Bojo were negotiating.

Your failure to understand such simple points. Is likely why you voted Brexit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yet you fail to provide a clear unambiguous interpretation on what else alignment of food standards means.

Or exactly how it is even possible for our food standards to meet the EUs. Without it requiring domestic sales to meet those same standards.

You are asking for ambiguity in something you alone seem able to miss interpret. The rest of the Brexit crowd are not seeing this as a win for them. Just you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Your need for an ELI5 is not my issue.

It’s not a confusion. Our standards are what we require folks to sell food in the UK. If our standards and the EU are aligned. You have to be pretty fucking stupid to keep insisting that dose not relate to domestic sales.

What the fuck else do you think standards aligned actually means.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sure. But that is not the EUs problem. It is an issue with the UK. And not one we needed to leave the EU to fix. But instead agree on a party willing to change it.

The UK electorate has not been able to do that.

Much like most other EU nations got to vote on expansion of the EU mandate.

Our democratic leadership chose not to. So we again voted them in power so did get to vote.

The whole Brexit argument was based on UK government failure being pushed as EU issues. It sure as hell was not the EU as an org that lacks democratic ideals.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yep they did.

Every nation in the EU is a democracy it is a requirement.

They elect there leaders. Those leaders send representatives to the council.

And citizens elect mep that approve or reject council mandates.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You mean the arbitrary climate goals Germany and all members of the EU made up.

The EU is not some nebulous org that doesn’t exist without it’s members. Germany was a huge part of the members calling for these goals.

As was the UK in absolutely everything brexiters complained about.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yes it dose just not in ELI5 language.

Alignment of on EU food standards clearly states our own standards must math the EUs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Reread.

Alignment of UK food standards. Means our own standards must continue to meet the EUs.

This is the only reason the EU will ever accept removal of documentation confirming the standards followed in food it will eat.

And exactly what remainers claimed about EU trade throughout the ref.

It is also the exact reason the US trade deals keep failing. Their food standards do not meet ours. So importing US food into the UK would mean deals like this. Where our food standards must align are impossible.

It really is not that complex. If your standards don’t meet those of the folks your selling to. Your companies are required to proove the items sold meet their standards not yours. Hence all the last 4 years of difficulties selling to the EU.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK should have an “exit tax” like Australia and Canada. The UK is an international outlier in not charging Capital Gains Tax (CGT) on wealthy people who leave the country⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Unfortunately the reason it won’t happen. Is it will be seen as also an entrance tax.

Discouraging wealthy investors from settling in the UK.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
States it in the article
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Nope. We are required to keep our food standards equal to the EU.

So also on items we sell to ourselves. Not an omission at all. And the very point that brexiters kept arguing. We have always been able to sell to other nations using Thier standards. We are not allowed to accept other standards.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deal with EU will make food cheaper and add £9bn to UK economy, says No 10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yep. By following EU rules on the items we sell. With no control of those rules. Exactly as remainers claimed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks to the american FPTP voting system, Nigel Farage could obtain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yes theoretically.

But then so could you and I. But ATM the odds of us being made a gov minister are about the same. At least for me. You may have won a few MP elections I do not know about.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks to the american FPTP voting system, Nigel Farage could obtain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Def Possible. But given, such positions are political in a coalition. Again, the lack of power of vote risking party makes it unlikely.

I’d guess it’s more likely under a majority, where he gains a reputation for a specific subject. Under FPTP, coalitions tend to need to appeal to the multi MP parties to survive.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks to the american FPTP voting system, Nigel Farage could obtain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
As an independent under FPTP.

Nope that can never happen. He can only ever win one seat.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Massive’ increase in pensioner shoplifters in past year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not to mention the telegraph claimed source. A private security company. Conveniently claiming they have no documentation because their customers (the supermarkets) do not want negative publicity.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Urgent ‘do not eat’ warning issued for popular meal sold in Tesco and Morrisons⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Can only guess.

But it seems logical that the rules would define contamination, as including any ingredients not listed on the packaging.

That said. Issuing an "Urgent ‘do not eat’ warning ". Seems like an over reaction. Rather than warning folks of the error. Returns will be refunded and listing the real ingredients.