[mattomac]

I expect the next headline will be... London benefits most, it will certaintly help those places with rich and poor areas

[Andy McDandy]

Can I just say that's a really fucking shit cartoon from 'Newman' there? Hell, at least Paul Thomas put in some fucking effort.

[soulboy]

Can I just say that's a really fucking shit cartoon from 'Newman' there? Hell, at least Paul Thomas put in some fucking effort.

Bricks and bricks and bricks and bricks and bricks and bricks and bricks and bricks...







(and a hidden fox)

[Tubby Isaacs]

Live in my ends?

How old is Antonia Bance? Is that now common parlance in Tipton?

Might be South London, which is where she's originally from. And not a posh part, if you've heard her speak.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Can I just say that's a really fucking shit cartoon from 'Newman' there? Hell, at least Paul Thomas put in some fucking effort.

One of the Guardian's cartoons recently was Brant standard. Starmer coming out of a revolving door and Burnham going in.

I haven't looked at any since. I expect they've done John Healey on a tightrope, holding a balancing stick with "backbench demands" on one end, and "market confidence" on the other.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Live in my ends?

How old is Antonia Bance? Is that now common parlance in Tipton?

Might be South London, which is where she's originally from. And not a posh part, if you've heard her speak.

Nope.

[The Weeping Angel]

God, Reeves was a terrible chancellor, wasn't she?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Yeah. Obviously had to go...

[Oboogie]

Does anybody know the rationale for dropping plans for solar carports, they seem very popular in other countries.

[Boiler]

It's idiotic. They're common in France, I'm led to believe - but maybe here they'll just get twats lobbing bricks onto them because cOnTrOl!!! BugZ!!!

[Youngian]

India's having success by laying solar along canals to reduce evaporation. Win win.

[Oboogie]

It's idiotic. They're common in France, I'm led to believe - but maybe here they'll just get twats lobbing bricks onto them because cOnTrOl!!! BugZ!!!

Presumably they won't work if they have the Cross of St George painted all over them?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Does anybody know the rationale for dropping plans for solar carports, they seem very popular in other countries.

Probably cost and time, compared with building very large solar farms a short distance from the main grid.

[Tubby Isaacs]

God, Reeves was a terrible chancellor, wasn't she?

Is it possible the effect of the "jobs tax" has been overstated, I wonder? Or is it too early to tell?

Some of the tax rises are sub-optimal, in a Dan Neidle way, but the important thing to me is that at least taxes did rise to pay for the spending we need.

[Oboogie]

Does anybody know the rationale for dropping plans for solar carports, they seem very popular in other countries.

Probably cost and time, compared with building very large solar farms a short distance from the main grid.

They're already on the grid and the land's already paid for, the costs are the frames and the panels themselves which would be paid for by the landowners. As I say, it's works well elsewhere, I can't see the problem unless it's political pressure.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Fitting would be much more expensive per unit, with the added cost of the frame, higher maintenance. We're adding solar pretty well with the current strategy of domestic customers adding their own and very large solar farms. Perhaps some supermarkets will choose to contribute towards this and it'll get more common.

People like stuff like this much more than very large solar farms in fields, so I doubt it's political pressure.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Interesting article from one of the few good Guardian writers, Heather Stewart. Has productivity been underestimated?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... atistician

There's the considerable caveat that the new estimate comes from some people who previously advised Reeves, though they are credible people. Comments are barely adult.

Reeves was and will more than likely remain a product of a system that worships greed over people's living standards. She was unashamedly advocating for trickle down neoliberal economics, which has been shown over fifty years to be one of the main drivers of wealth inequality.

Neoliberalism is boosting working rights, raising taxes for public spending, and having close to the highest minimum wage in the world, apparently.

We are in the age of the zombie economy. Fantasy and reality are interchangeable as shown by the proclamations of Trump and Starmer.

Starmer, just like Trump, making shit up all the time.

So it is all really a best guess and should never be called "data" as "data" would suggest accuracy. The government should do what is in the interests of the vast majority of the population and ignore big money influence and dodgy "data".

How on earth would you know what was in the interests of the vast majority if you didn't measure anything? Clever man uses inverted commas though.

One of Reeves' biggest blunders was going around talking about 'deregulation' all the time, when the public associate that word with broken Britain, being ripped off, and disasters like Grenfell. And of course use of that word signalled an intent to carry on with Thatcherite economics

Funny, other places manage to build railways and power stations without them blowing up, for far less than we do. Is France "Thatcherite"?

I was always wary of government statostics ever siince Tony Blair's people measured EU immigration by just counting the numbers arriving at Gatwick and Heathrow -

Did he indeed?!

I'm afraid Reeves lost me when she said she was "listening to the concerns of the non-dom community."

She put up taxes on them. That's more than any politician this chap supports has ever managed to do.