This is great
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I know that they pick the phone ins for these clips, but yesterday I watched about a dozen james o'brien clips on youtube, and it's amazing the number of people who call in, absolutely convinced they master a subject, to just fall apart when asked something really basic about it. I get being ignorant, but why showcase it on national radio for everyone to see? The brexit calls are incredible, o'brien always asks for a positive of brexit and the brexiter callers can't give one.
I do enjoy listening to James O'brien on a morning working from home, but my favourite presenter for handling numpties is Nick Abbot. The collection of calls on YouTube is somewhat of a masterpiece
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So it was in a serious fraud's office then?
Boom
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I mean I for one applaud their ability to consistently make it rain more in Scotland
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1009810/regional-annual-rainfall-uk/#:~:text=UK: regional annual rainfall 2011-2021&text=Rainfall in Scotland peaked at,1,341.3 and 1,460.7 millimeters, respectively.
that said given that they let 38% of it leak away probably a good job they have a lot more to start with
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15340682.third-scottish-water-leaks-reaches-tap/
and for comparison if you put scotland as a stand-alone country they would be I think the third worst in Europe
and I guess the rest of the Uk would probably fall roughly in line with france?
but yeah no hosepipe ban like most of the rest of the UK
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But surely it matters more to control leaks when you have less coming in, i.e. down South? Another way of putting it, their job isn’t to control leaks; rather it is to supply water sustainably. Makes no sense to spend billions on leaks when you don’t need to.
In the last 16 years Scottish water has reduced leakage by almost 60%, sounds like excellent progress to me and seems to be outperforming the private companies by quite a margin.I mean I for one applaud their ability to consistently make it rain more in Scotland
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1009810/regional-annual-rainfall-uk/#:~:text=UK: regional annual rainfall 2011-2021&text=Rainfall in Scotland peaked at,1,341.3 and 1,460.7 millimeters, respectively.
that said given that they let 38% of it leak away probably a good job they have a lot more to start with
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15340682.third-scottish-water-leaks-reaches-tap/
and for comparison if you put scotland as a stand-alone country they would be I think the third worst in Europe
and I guess the rest of the Uk would probably fall roughly in line with france?
but yeah no hosepipe ban like most of the rest of the UK
I mean I for one applaud their ability to consistently make it rain more in Scotland
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1009810/regional-annual-rainfall-uk/#:~:text=UK: regional annual rainfall 2011-2021&text=Rainfall in Scotland peaked at,1,341.3 and 1,460.7 millimeters, respectively.
that said given that they let 38% of it leak away probably a good job they have a lot more to start with
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15340682.third-scottish-water-leaks-reaches-tap/
and for comparison if you put scotland as a stand-alone country they would be I think the third worst in Europe
and I guess the rest of the Uk would probably fall roughly in line with france?
but yeah no hosepipe ban like most of the rest of the UK
- The report – "The Privatised Water Industry in the UK: An ATM for Investors" – shows that the 40% real increase in English water bills since privatisation in 1991 has not been due to higher investment, as claimed by OFWAT and the companies themselves, but is a result of ever higher interest payments on £47 billion of debt, accrued due to £50 billion paid in dividends to shareholders.
- In Scotland, real bills are still the same as they were 17 years ago, whilst English bills have increased by over 16% in real terms over the same time period.
- Publicly owned Scottish Water invests over one-third more on a per capita basis than the private English companies - £282 per household per year over the last 17 years, compared with only £210 per household per year in England - contradicting claims by the English companies and their regulator, OFWAT, that price rises in England have been due to high levels of investment.
- Since 1991, the surplus money available to the English companies to pay dividends averaged £0.15 billion per year, but in every single year except 1995, the dividends actually paid to shareholders far averaging almost £2billion. The gap was bridged by borrowing year after year, building the £47billion debt mountain that exists today
https://www.gre.ac.uk/news/articles...er invests,regulator, OFWAT, that price rises
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Anyone watching this cnut sunak getting interviewed on BBC1.
Literally such a patronising, condescending ignorant twat that constantly speaks over people. Does he have no self awareness, especially after previous interviews, of how much of a cnut he comes across.
Literally such a patronising, condescending ignorant twat that constantly speaks over people. Does he have no self awareness, especially after previous interviews, of how much of a cnut he comes across.
That idiot Nazi bitch Braverman is at it again...
UK must curb influence of European human rights rules, says Braverman
https://www.theguardian.com/law/202...pean-human-rights-rules-says-suella-braverman
UK must curb influence of European human rights rules, says Braverman
https://www.theguardian.com/law/202...pean-human-rights-rules-says-suella-braverman
Bloody human rights. Should deport the cats with the foreigners
It is well understood that human rights laws are driving up the cost of heating and eating.
She cited three examples as ways rights groups were, she said, abusing the current system: trying to prevent deportations of overseas offenders; allowing human rights considerations in court cases such as one in which four people were acquitted of criminal damage for toppling a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol; and the approach to trans rights in schools.
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Black Lives Matter and the trans community, destroying the UK.
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Black Lives Matter and the trans community, destroying the UK.
Braverman said it was completely legal for schools to refuse to admit a child who identified as transgender, and to not use a child’s preferred pronouns, or let them wear a particular uniform, if they remained biologically their birth gender.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/202...pean-human-rights-rules-says-suella-braverman
https://www.theguardian.com/law/202...pean-human-rights-rules-says-suella-braverman
This woman is one of the most dangerous politicians in the UK. Total loon.
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"Number 10 has denied that any drinking games were played during this meeting, and that any reports of damage are wildly exaggerated"
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With negotiation skills like that Boris Johnson could be United’s next CEO.
Why do you assume that Boris was negotiating for everyone and not just for himself?
Did anyone expect anything different. I can imagine how it went:
Boris:
Well good morning.
We are here today not to come up with anything, but to give the plebs the impression that we are trying to do something for them.
Ok. Now we have got the business of the day over, lets all do what we have been doing all along.
Let's all get pissed up and play a few games.
And remember. Mums the word. No talking to the press or Dominic Cummings eh.....
He should use uSwitch like they used to tell everyone else to.
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@sun_tzu can you reply to these points? I'm not well versed in this area and would like to know more
Good point.
A glimpse of where we *could* be heading…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62514970
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62514970
What the hell would that do to mortgage rates?
I imagine they’d go up similarly
Well the Argentinian ones seem to have gone up nearly 20% in two weeks (or after whatever delay the Argentinians have in their system for benchmark rates to mortgage rates) , so... yeah. Not great.
Welcome to boomer paradise.
I don’t see how you can be classed as having defaulted on a payment if you are in the black, so to speak. If you didn’t pay your DD one month and yet had still paid for more than you had used I don’t quite see how they’d be able to threaten to call the debt collectors in.
I would like to see the data but you'll have to be insane to take out a mortgage under those conditions.
Boris is not even pretending to work.