You seems to fail to see how days work. Winter is much shorter days due to the way the earth is tipped. This has a much more drematic effect in other parts of the nation. Mainly north.

As for starmer and brexit. Yep you are correct.

But the nation is not readdy to admit it yet. The numbers are still close to 50% either way. And its not just tory voters that support it.

Unfortunatly the crap " no voters failed to back us up" still appelase to far to many brexiters

So yep getting in with the EU is our only option. But any gov fighting for it will drag us back into split parliments that cant agree on anything trade related.

Agreed. We already do. Less then we did. But still sizable

Leaving parts of the nation dark before 3pm in the middle of winter.

Terrible.

Almost as bad as IP firms stripping the whole reason copyright was created. By lobbying to change copyright terms to forever. Locking it out of the public domain.

We have a huge satellite parts industry (huge gdp wise) we also sell arms tech. Mainly armor for assets. But on the more consumer level. Spirits and intellectual properties music chip design rf techs etc.

We import way more then we sell on a per capita basis. But trump seems to do his maths on a $ for $ basis where any lower population nation will look like they don’t buy as much from the US as they sell. Hence why canda is also in the tarrif attacks.

Clocks go back in winter. Where parts of the UK with the shortest days get dark in the early pm. So we make bst 4pm hit at 3pm In winter ensuring children are home before dark… As the days get longer in summer we set it forward again to stop us haveing sunlight at 11pm in the part ofvthe UK with the longest days.

Remember before the railways standardised UK time in the 1800. Different cities set clocks to match their own midday. When the UK standardised to allow tail times to be managed. The whole nation using the same clock/time created odd issues with day time at the extreams.

Nope def not. I was not disagreeing with your point. Just the stupidity of daylight savings. As an old fart I’ve watched the subject come up every time. Folks rapidly realise it ain’t so stupid when they realise the real reason we still do it.

Its just one of those things that makes me grin. Farmers claim cities need it urbanites think its for farmers. Yet it has always been about their kids not walking home at 3pm in the dark. Then a decade or so later the MPs forget about it and have another debate.

We have all grown so used to it we only remember the 2 annoying days a year .

Just as a correction. Railways was set up as a privrate enterprise then nationalised. But unlike most of the rest the rail system was fairly national before gov involvement.

Sewers sorta. They were started as city states long before democracy was a thing iE most cities had basic systems in feudal times. But roll out to rural villages etc was def modern gov.

Electrical grid much the same but started in the 1900s. Privrate city systems some run by local gov some entirly privrate. Standardisation and national unification was def gov in 1938.

Same with the gas grid. A mix of privrate and city run town gas systems from mid 1800s linked and nationalised in 1949. (PS worked for British gas during the privatisation process)

big stupid things like daylight savings time,

In part because the population dose not agree on doing so.

Its been discussed in parliment several times over the decades. Each time the MPs realise voting to end it is voting for school children walking home in the dark through most of winter. So reject it.

Played is a bit strong.

Everyone including starmer had a pretty good idea what trump would do.

But pissing him off has no possible positive. So playing along while trying to form deals else where is really the only option.

Its not like we can force trump to be reasonable. Replacing the US as a trade partner while hoping they fix their democracy. And keeping as much of an allied status untill then. Really is all the UK can do ATM.

Tariffs harm UK trade. But they also harm US customers. At a time when the US has the same cost of living issues we do.

Dispite trumps dumb mathematical claims. We import more per person from the US then they do us. So responding in a tarrif war will lose our gov more support then him.

It is a trade war where you and me choosing to boycott US products is way more effective to the UK then expecting our leaders to try and lay down the law.

Avoiding big US names harms trumps funders with way less harm to our econ long term.

Edit: this means dump coke pepsi(walkers as well) apple, amazon, google, etc etc.

Trumps maths forgets his own parties funders refuse to manufacture in his nation. Him or us applying tarrifs have no effect on most big US corps that fund the GOP. Because we do not actually import their products from the US. We just send profit to the corporate overlords.

Boycotting the US companies manufacturing and selling outside the US to avoid taxation and high labour costs. Harms his party.

Executive and board compensation as a result of any deal of this nature should be public money.

Cold flowing water is very very different from a warm swimming pool. Especially when dressed.

The current in the Thames can get dangerous for strong adult swimmers in certain areas. (Or the whole upper thames at certain times of year)

Strong adult swimmers dying in parts of the Thames is far from unheard off.

This report was released in August.

The government had it well before any of their current choices were even discussed.

The issues pointed out by disabled. Have been reported on by local news for years.

The national media even covered the pavement parking situation for wheelchairs and guide dogs a few times.

No one gave a shit.

This is why disabled feel invisible. And exactly why the gov thinks this is something they can get away with.

Never let facts get in the way of a good joke.

But just over 7% of brits claiming any disabled benefits.

Please remember these numbers are in no way backing for the crap the government is doing. Most disabled work.

Even most on disabled on benifits work. PIP is not about income. It is about covering the difference in cost for disabiled to live anything close to equally in society. Including getting to and fr work.

Please. Brexit was years ago.

So has no effect on trade prices and availability years later?

You have a fucking big hole in your logic.

Anyone who thinks their actually are pip claiments taking the piss. Either have absolutely no idea what pip has been like for the last 14 years.

Or are delusional.

Getting pip is often impossible without legal action for those who actually deserve it. Hence the huge number of rejected claims who have won in court compared to before this.

Claims for mental health have been even harder.

Unfortunately your claims are part of the evidence how much false crap the media has been spreading on the subject.

Industry groups are furious.

Likely the best sign it’s the right thing to do.

Until the cost of using plastic matches the cost of removing it from our environment. No one is truly going to provide the support needed to bring the cost of safer replacements down to a point where industry will care.

Just like all damage to the environment. Until world governments are willing to agree to make those profiting pay all current and future costs of clean-up. Capitalism will never accept its role n the task.

Remove carrots and start some application of fucking big sticks.