[Crabcakes]

I am impressed Starmer has taken the lead in saying the welfare bill was wrong and it was down to No. 10, and his further support for Reeves.

It was a mess, but it’s refreshing to see a leader actually have the buck stop with them rather than trying to fob it off onto an underling or just pretend it didn’t happen.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Or as The Guardian called it “bitter recriminations”. Those may come when the tax rises come, but that’s what should have happened anyway.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Markets back down to where they were when it looked like Reeves might resign. Quite how the usual suspects explain this, I don't know. Perhaps they fell because they thought someone more "neoliberal" was going to replace her?

Perhaps we could hold elections for "the markets". Maybe Jez could run and tell them what interest rate they're allowed to charge.

[Tubby Isaacs]

NHS plan announced. I see the usual folk are quickly out of the traps- she says in another post she hasn't read it. Aren't professionals supposed to do that before they steam in?

PFI was a very complicated thing involving very long deals, with construction and running costs. I think it's unlikely these are repeated, not because all of them were bad but because they're a gift to opponents of across the spectrum. I'm sure there will be private firms involved in building the centers and owning the existing buildings that the NHS will rent. This will be represented as "PFI" by various commentators who think the government's never rented private buildings before.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Some good news here. This was approved and mostly delivered by the Tory Government. Shame they stalled a load more of these, and onshore wind, but full speed ahead now.

This is what local "campaigners" said about it. Proper Chris Morris 'what if a madman broke in with a machine gun.." energy.

"These batteries, which are untested at this scale, are prone to runaway fires leading to massive explosions and the emission of toxic hydrogen fluoride gas that can kill or maim over a large area.

"An explosion would have the energy of a small nuclear bomb. Lithium-ion batteries have a history of spontaneous fires that cannot be put out with water and can throw flames 70ft high.

"We are concerned for the safety of our families and particularly our children in the nearby primary school as well as the loss of an important wildlife and amenity area."

[Boiler]

There's a report on the release of fluorine compounds here when Li-ion batteries burn (from Nature magazine) and another here (from Science Direct).

[Tubby Isaacs]

I'm not great at reading reports like that nowadays, sadly. Is there are threat of 70 foot flames and dead primary school kids?

[Andy McDandy]

See those panels? Paedos can hide between and under them.

As for the hospital building, who the hell do they think is going to build them? We don't have a nationalised brickie force, and I've never seen a radiologist carrying a hod.

[Killer Whale]

I'm not great at reading reports like that nowadays, sadly. Is there are threat of 70 foot flames and dead primary school kids?

Not far from there is an absolutely massive LNG storage site at the Isle of Grain. How they stop that lot from blowing up and taking most of Kent with it is not luck, but engineering, and safety discipline.

[Tubby Isaacs]

See those panels? Paedos can hide between and under them.

As for the hospital building, who the hell do they think is going to build them? We don't have a nationalised brickie force, and I've never seen a radiologist carrying a hod.

Yeah, the building aspect of it doesn't sound particularly daunting anyway. The NHS has long experience of housing non-hospital services in other buildings, which are often less than state of the art. It wouldn't be like building a load of new hospitals.

[Crabcakes]

An explosion would have the energy of a small nuclear bomb.

As opposed to, say, an explosion at a nuclear power plant that would have the energy of a much larger, dirtier, nuclear bomb.