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As long as they keep the spivs and chancers out of the equation it'll be great.

I remember the cunts who wanted to dig up Mrs. B's garden rather than get a cherry-picker to do the cavity insulation (she'd not long died at the time). Having now learned just how many houses have problems with damp and mould because of that stuff and facing huge bills to rectify it, I'm glad I literally told them to get the fuck off my property.

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Our old house also had problems caused by cavity wall insulation. It’s not the easy quick win it’s made out to be.

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Rachel From Accounts latest.

The UK government borrowed less than expected in December, official figures show, after record-breaking receipts, giving a boost to the chancellor.

Public sector net borrowing – the difference between spending and income – was £11.6bn last month, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, compared with £18.7bn in the same month a year earlier.

Economists polled by Reuters had expected borrowing to be £13bn in December. The figure is closely watched by the City as it shows how much the government is borrowing to finance its spending plans and whether it is exceeding its target for the year.

Ruth Gregory, the deputy chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said: “The public finances are finally showing signs of improvement in recent months.”

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Government admits its approval for Buckinghamshire AI datacentre should be quashed
Campaigners hail U-turn during legal challenge over proposed centre an ‘embarrassing climbdown’

Rayner seems to have been at fault here. I don't know if the Government can redo the planning process.

Decarbonising the electricity supply is preceding apace, perhaps faster than it actually needs too (unlike other parts of the climate strategy, like replacing gas boilers with heat pumps). Can we really not supply these data centers sustainably in the near future?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... al-quashed

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Lambs to the Slaughter!

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/j ... MP=bsky_gu

The celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has accused the government of cooking up a kitchen nightmare at restaurants across the country with tax changes that he says will make hospitality businesses “lambs to the slaughter”.

Ramsay, whose company operates 34 restaurants in the UK including Bread Street Kitchen, Pétrus and Lucky Cat, said the industry was “facing a bloodbath”. He said restaurants were closing every day as a result of rising business rates, which came on top of higher energy, staffing and ingredient costs and little growth in consumer spending.

“I’ve never seen it so bad,” Ramsay told the Standardnews site. “When I look ahead to April, when the budget measures come in, I think those of us in hospitality are lambs to the slaughter.”

He said the fact that businesses were still recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, during which many restaurants were forced to close for months as part of government-ordered lockdowns, meant the situation was even worse than after the 2008 financial crisis.

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Cheerful thoughts from Stephen.

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Oh god there's more.



Famously, Jack Straw, David Blunkett, Charles Clarke, John Reid, Jacqui Smith, and Alan Johnson were renowned for their social liberalism.