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Well done you've just figured out why less than 1% of the population own most of the land.

Who would I be arguing with exactly? I think you may be reading tone where none was given.

Are you under the impression people are buying land (land being rural land, not an acre in central London) in the UK for the sake of it? It's not priced in the same league as the USA, it's expensive, if it's not earning a return then it's not happening. So unless you're starting a some sort of windfarm or solar farm, it's generally going to be for farming.

Also, do you realise the opposition party in the UK, Labour e.g. the Guardian, are seriously contemplating pushing a LVT. So they aren't pushing these stories to punish their own. They're pushing these stories to justify what they'll do. And that adds to why would anyone buy any real chunk of land in the UK right now.

As an FYI - a quango is a nonsense lobbying group, it's not independent, anything they come out with can be considered nonsense. Doesn't matter who they work for, it's always doctored stats and the taxpayer getting rinsed.

I'm struggling to see why the gymnasts at the Guardian consider this a problem. We live in a globalised world, our food comes from supermarkets, shipped across the world so they are year round available, with logistics trains so efficient (e.g. no one will willingly pay more) that can't handle people buying even a small amount more of their usual groceries without descending into chaos as we saw recently. The UK in particular, now does not have an overly generous farming subsidy scheme that effectively forces tax payers to pay over the odds to subsidise politically beneficial areas like it used to. And to those with money to burn who can afford to buy land, why would you, for all the reasons above it's not a good investment compared to the other options out there.

In countries that are per capita massive food producers, they are willfully destroying their own industries as part of a drive towards ESG, see Netherlands. So clearly, only an idiot would invest in this area.

Unless they are suggesting we all revert to a medieval lifestyle of subsistence farming I don't understand why the champagne socialists are out in force again. And if they are suggesting that, they are being willfully stupid around the UKs and their own NIMBYism. Obviously they won't be picking their own grapes though, it's just for other people.

Edit :: For a solid source, see Jeremy Clarksons the Farm. £10 million farm, net income, £2ish. £2, not £2 million, £2. Doesn't take a genius to figure out why no ones desperate to snap up land.

Feudalism didn't end in violent land reform, it largely ended after a pandemic that killed off a significant number of the workforce and it became a sellers market for the serfs. Turns out we just crippled the world economy for decades avoiding the sequel.

Yes, bring back Clippy!!!

A four year old would be able to run rings around the current government, yet Starmers Labour can't. I truly despair.

Then again, the absolute trainwreck that next year's election in the UK will be, is going to be nothing compared to how the US is looking.

How ironic.

And yet somehow the reality is a "mistery" to you. Language isn't culture. If it was you wouldn't have the sort of Chinese-gate tik-tok nonsense happening right now.

Also English people do not make up the United Kingdom. Nor do they constitute the entirety of British influence. But that's a trivial matter to a world expert such as yourself, who can't even remain consistent in a baseless rant.

Who'd have thought those in charge were a bunch of hypocrites?

It absolutely is not. It's about risk of absconding. Secondly, no, cash bail is not a thing in the UK. Someone being arrested in the UK for extradition is not part of the UK justice system, they are merely passing through at the request of a foreign nation. Unsurprisingly, foreign nationals can't have their passport taken away by a foreign country, who'd have thought?!?!??!

It doesn't sound like you're familiar with the UK system either. Bail in the UK means adherence to specific conditions, i.e. live somewhere the police can find you, stay away from the victim and don't leave the country. It doesn't involve cash changing hands. If you've done something very bad, or are a big flight risk you will not be granted bail, but again, not a money issue.

The person you're responding to is referencing that sentencing is done by a judge who is supposed to be more objective when determining sentence, as opposed to emotional juries who simply determine if they are guilty or not of accused crimes.

Even Ryan Reynolds is using it to write advertising copy, https://youtu.be/_eHjifELI-k, I would say it's pretty well known. Not to mention all the get rich quick with ChatGPT nonsense that's popping up, that's squarely aimed at non-tech people.

So add those sites to the standard blocklists most ISPs already put in place for new customers and let parents decide if they want to remove them, just as they have to for porn and gambling. This is just a gimme for the security services under the "think of the kids" mantra.

People died because of the last set of protests. That's not a reasonable consequence of a public protest.

We already have those, https://youtu.be/FS5FT-4Kx7E

You miss the point. Universal payer is not the utopia you think it is. People at the bottom may pay less, but people at the top pay more, "distributing and diluting these costs". That results in relatively well earning professions paying high company and income taxes, resulting in identical fees for fitting a socket in the UK (a universal payer society) as the US (a look after yourself society). Ergo, you've shifted the money around but fundamentally haven't changed anything, you carpenter isn't going to work for minimum wage suddenly because his tax burden won't allow it.

But universal healthcare is paid for by taxes on people who earn good money, which these people do. The costs being thrown around in this thread are about on par with the UK anyway.

He's going to ask him to travel all the way around the world to a country that's not one he's in control of?

How do you get that? In the UK our nuclear weapons are US bought so we don't use any fissile materials we make, and my understanding was submarine reactors are very different to traditional utility scale reactors, to the point that different companies produce them.

If you're subject to an investigation they'll put retention policies on them to stop that. If you're not, sure you can delete them and wait for them to disappear out of the backup windows, but then you'll need everyone who got that email to do the same.

As I was told in my first day of training at a large investment bank, "If you have something sensitive to discuss, pick up the phone".

Defund the police, reparations, affirmative action.... Yeah totally super right wing talking points in Europe.

That disengenuiously misrepresents the problem of cancel culture. Cancel culture is the propagation of a vocal minority conspiring to stop certain topics being discussed, i.e. deplatforming. What cancel culture should be is that some shill hawking defunct idea's can't sell enough tickets to a talk to cover costs and therefore stops, or they end up with no followers and no audience, not someone else taking away my ability to hear certain topics.

That's not what the person I'm responding to said, nor what the article says. The person I'm responding to clearly didn't read the article, it actually says due to a tight labour market unemployment will rise only slightly during the predicted recession. You clearly didn't read the comment I replied to who said for 3 years unemployment has increased, when it has not.

This is a perfect example of why politics is now a tribal mud flinging fest.

Pretty comprehensive list here, https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-of-vat-on-different-goods-...

Looks lower than ever, https://www.statista.com/statistics/279898/unemployment-rate...

We do already, there's several VAT values, necessities are supposed to be VAT free for instance. Has some quirks in it, so you end up with the Jaffa Cake Vs Biscuit debacle - https://www.astonshaw.co.uk/news/jaffa-cake-tax/#:~:text=The....

Because they effectively pay 85% tax on the income already. Look up the Crown Estate. The UK government taking it over would result in it being sold off at bargain basement prices to fund a voter winning 5 min fix and there'd be nothing to show for it in 50 years.

I have several Blink camera's, can attest they do indeed last more than a year. Front of house that gets more than usual traffic has lasted around 2 years between battery changes, back of house around 3 years so far. Using Duracell batteries if that makes a difference.

It probably would be an absolute hell-scape as you imagine, but for someone looking to make a name for themselves, it's an incredible opportunity to jump in, carve out a solid niche and then use that leverage to push your career forward. I can understand those who are leaving as that not what they signed on for, but there's a lot of people who would gladly roll the dice for that opportunity, I would've 5 years ago.

You mean West Germany paid a fraction of what they received under the Marshall plan to Israel, and Israel alone. Doesn't really seem to put right the slaughtering they did all across Europe including the slaughtering they did to their own who weren't considered good enough.