I have one on my Spitfire. I love it.

Adjustable as mentioned, light as well, so dependent on the spring you use there isn’t much of a penalty compared to air.

I’ve used a few other coil shocks, but to be honest they all feel the same to me – much better than even the best air suspension in my opinion.

I had a Fox X2 before and the coil is so much better.

Only downside is that it had the ‘knocking’ issue – twice. Sorted under warranty and has been fine for 6 months or so now.

Bad in terms of policy and integrity, sure, but people don’t care about those things. They were very very good in terms of telling people what they wanted to hear, smear tactics, and coming across and likeable. The Tory campaign was VERY good at what matters in democracy – winning people over.

I think this is what Labour need to be thinking about now. The leader is vital, as is policy but they need to work out what Labour stands for, how people will be better off with a Labour government and then producing a concise way of getting that message to the electorate.

A leader and manifesto can be picked for the next election well down the line but improving the party’s image and getting people on board with what it stands for is going to take years and lots of work.

Appreciate BoJo is questionable, racist some might say, but clearly the people are okay with that

not someone who may be an anti-semite

what??!?!?!?!?

With a credible leadership taking back the centreground they could well win.

I think this is it, but I do think what ‘the centre ground’ is not so clear as it was 10/20 years ago. The idea of working class people being automatically left wing and affluent city types tending to be right wing has gone out the window (if it was ever really that true I don’t know).

Labour now needs to spend some serious time looking at the population and really deeply understanding the issues they face and how they can get them to understand that Labour will help them. This is across the spectrum, not just the ex-Labour working class leavers.

Simply keeping on banging the nationalism drum without people understanding how it can improve there lives won’t be enough, equally neither will simply settling into a traditional ‘Blair voting Tory’ style policies. There are some huge chasms to be bridged and it’s not going to be easy.

There’s nothing magical about grabbing CO2, there are various chemical and mechanical methods. All need energy, so what’s needed is events to force action, then a framework agreed internationally for sufficient plants to be built in sunny places, where they can use solar power.

I hadn’t realised that there were actual carbon capture plants in existence already, I thought it was still experimental.

The world’s first commercial carbon-capture plant opens in Switzerland

However it currently can only extract 900 tonnes a year, meaning we’d need around 40 million of those plants globally to be carbon neutral.

The UK average is ~6 tonnes per year per person, so we would need a plant for every 150 people. They cost $3/4million dolllars(?) Each
to build, so $26,666 per person.

I understand that costs would come down with economies of scale.

Could it be the monitor? Probably not but if you’ve got access to another might be worth a check.

It’s unlikely you’d be able to plug in your old hdd and the os work on a new PC , but you would be able to plug it in and access the files.

Same with the programs, you won’t be able to buy a Win7 PC and those programs just work off the old HDD, you’ll need to reinstall them

Do you know what the old graphics card is?

What are peoples takes on the ideal Labour leaders position on the climate emergency?

For me I’d want this to be a top priority, but do you think this will broaden or narrow their appeal with the general electorate?

Don’t be daft, all they’ve got to do is find a shiny suit and say they want to stay in the EU ad infinitum and they’ll all come flocking back.

👌😂

I’d agree that the next leader shouldn’t necessarily go into the next election as leader.

Brexit needs to pan out a bit and see how the country lies 2 years on.

Right now for “Labour to be electable” they need to appeal to northern working class leavers, at the same time appeal to London remainers as well as Telegraph reading “moderate” Conservatives, and also the section of their core who love Corbyn.

I do feel the situation is much more complex than the one Blair had.

Technology has repeatedly been able to solve humanity’s problems, yet is viewed in the most pessimistic light by most eco types

Part of the reason is the lack of time. The magic co2 reducers needs to be being deployed now. And yet nothing has been invented yet, let alone be going into production.

Sitting around waiting for something that may or may not happen isn’t good enough.

Reduction is needed – whilst we wait for the magic co2 reducers to be invented – and after the technology is widespread enough then we can go back to business as usual.

Fatalistic environmentalism.

Probably responded with an indifferent shrug or “someone will invent something”

I’ll buy a nuclear car if you make it better value than my diesel. I’ll buy solar if someone comes up with a technology with a better return on investment. I’ll stop my quarterly trek to London if someone comes up with decent VR.

I know you’re being glib, but it’s this attitude that is the problem.

It doesn’t need to be “I’ll stop using diesel when a better cheaper solution comes along” , its has to be “I’ll stop using diesel now, work around the changes that will bring, and maybe in the future be able to go back to how things are now but with clean energy”.

One child voucher per woman. A global exchange where the vouchers can be bought and sold. Money will naturally move to people less able to cope with climate change and population will be quickly reduced.

Vouchers will move to the rich, increasing the amount of people in rich countries , who emit the most co2 anyway.

People in poor countries will then have no children with all the problems that would bring.

This gets said a lot, but take a step back and think about it.

The oil industry will keep making petrol as long as you want it for your car.

………

The issue is that for things such as cars, society isn’t set up enough for people to not have one. It’s easier to not have a car if public transport is good, employers let you work from home, school is close etc.

These things are societal level rather than individual. Change needs to come from both the top and the bottom.

Many councils are going to start charging companies a substantial tax for every car parking space on their sites.

The final nail in the coffin for the town centre. A good time to invest in business parks though. And concrete or steel manufacture.

How is that green?

Not all business are in town centres, some are in business parks where they will be taxed too. Unless I’ve misunderstood your point how would this make it more likely to build business parks?

Our only hope really is that technology will save us

I think many people believe it will and so do nothing. Electric cars are just making people think they can buy their way forward.

It’s basically selling us more shit.

It really is this. I think too many people think that just around the corner is some technology that will allow for a 1:1 swap for each thing in their lives that will be “green” and that life can continue on as it does now.

Even the phrase “green” I think is misleading and should be banned unless something is actively a net positive for the environment.

A car should only be allowed to be called green if it emits a negative amount of co2.

Otherwise it’s just another thing damaging the environment, albeit slightly less than an ICE car.

If you ask people “Do you care about the environment?” Nearly all will reply yes.

If you were then to ask them what steps they’ve taken to back up that action, most people will reply that they recycle and “try to do their bit” , which in reality means very little.

Is the climate emergency not perceived as a real or something to care about?

Sadly the level of inconvenience it takes to reduce personal emissions is simply too high for people it seems. And business will not do anything that puts them at a competitive disadvantage unless forced to.

Isn’t it industry that needs to change most anyway?

It’s society that needs to change wholesale

This report says that to keep this target alive, the world needs to cut emissions by 7.6% every year for the next 10 years.

EU Emissions planned to be cut to 55% of 1990 level

To achieve those goals it’s going to need to be so much more than just scraping out yogurt pots and walking to the shops once a week.

The only 2 ways I can see this happening is either by mass nationalised infrastructure that is invested in heavily by government to go green, or by legislation of a combination of huge widespread tax cuts for green businesses and equally huge penalties for non green businesses and industries.

The timetable for these to be implemented globally seems woefully short, and the fact that so many people seem to be indifferent at best means I see little hope for the future.

Facing Extinction by Catherine Ingram – This blog post is a depressing read, but one I find hard to argue against

I think the enormity of the task ahead is hidden from view. It’s not “lots of people doing small things” it’s “literally everyone doing huge changes”

I found This calculator useful. I’ve entered all my details honestly enough which then made it easier to implement the low hanging fruit of changes that cost the least and have the biggest impact.

Keir Starmer was a QC and Human Rights defence Lawyer before he was the head of the CPS, he was Knighted for his services to the Law.

He’s a Sir and a studied Law at Oxford, but he’s the Son of a Nurse and a Tool Maker and was given the name Keir in honour of the first Labour MP.

Starmer would be great IMO, in ‘normal’ times. My fear is all those things above are just weapons to bash him with now.

“He’s a sir! He doesn’t speak for you! He’s a remainer! He defied the will of the people! He’s a tricksy Human Rights PC gone mad lawyer who got x off of y charges!”

Labour will need to have all the rebuttals fully in place and ready to go with whoever they choose.

There is a huge swathe of people in this country that long for moderate, centre ground politics and are so horrified by right wing Trumpist populism on the one side and hard left leanings on the other, that they feel politically bereft.

I know FPTP messes things hugely, but why did these people not vote LD? or Green even as a protest?

A LD bump in votes would of been a catalyst for some movement in the centre. They ended up -1 seats.

Corbyn/Momentum get a lot of (possibly justified to an extent) stick for being too far left for people, but if those people cannot be bothered to vote for the one centre party on offer then they are to blame too. That or the numbers are not as big as some people think.

The Torys *aren’t* lurching to the right, quite the opposite. They’ve been blatently chasing the votes Labour walked away from.

The “Get Brexit Done” crowd. How was Labour ever supposed to get them back?

from today forward I intend to follow their lead and look after number one, sod everyone else.

Hard though it is, we need to go the other way. We now need compassion more than ever.

Or you could just get on with, work, play, cycle and look after your family whilst being as philanthropic as you can without carrying a depression around in your head that you can have little impact upon.

Easier said than done for many people I think.

Can someone write in a short concise non political paragraph of as few words as possible why the UK is apparently now doomed to failure?

The SNP now have clear control of Scotland and will now exert all force in trying to leave the UK.

Yup, it is pretty tough for farmers at the moment

Interestingly near us, every sign in a field has been Lib Dem. Massive ones too.

Normally there would be the odd one or 2 and it would be Con.

It is still an extra number for the party even if they didn’t win.

Exactly. Even in the bluest of blue seats, every non Tory vote is a sign of disagreement.

The change may start small, but it has to start somewhere.

They’re proposing nothing more than sensible state regulated free market capitalism

Yeah, that’s my thoughts. The Labour plans still have capitalism folks! Lots and lots of it in fact.

To me, this is the compromise! This is the middle ground, socialism where it’s needed and works best, capitalism where it doesn’t.

The EU are going in the opposite direction with 4th Railway package:

EU seals mass rail privatisation

I only have experience using Swiss Rail and SNCF, and both have been excellent. From the article you linked (which by it’s title is never going to be balanced!) but still:

“Railway privatisation in the UK was a laboratory experiment that was designed in the EU.

“It has been an expensive failure which continental governments would be foolish to imitate. “Separating trains from track and privatising train companies to set up liberalised and allegedly competitive rail operations has been massively expensive to taxpayers and passengers.

“We have the highest fares in Europe and we know all about the taxpayer subsidies,” he said.

Can you honestly disagree with that?

Saying you’ll nationalise all the water and power companies within your first 100 days in government, as John MacDonnel did yesterday, but that’ll you’ll be the ones deciding what you’ll be paying for them is quite ‘to the barricades’ in most peoples book.

The actual quote is:

‘In our first 100 days we will start the processes of bringing water and energy into public ownership.

Daz – you do realise that there’s a whole world between the unfettered, unregulated free-market capitalism being offered by the present Tory party and your solution of revolutionary ‘to the barricades’ socialism

What you call ‘selling out’ other people refer to as ‘compromise’.

What kind of compromise policies would be in your perfect manifesto?

I’m not convinced the current Labour manifesto could be described as “‘to the barricades’ socialism” when nearly every part of it is happening in other countries (many in Europe) that wouldn’t be called socialist countries.

Whatever the ok gesture may or may not of started as, it’s now both innocent and very sinister, depending on what you want it to be.

If someone does it to signal they are a racist #### and gets called out on it the defence is “lol! I’m just trolling you, can’t believe you think the sign is far right! Lol! ”

At the same time it signals to the people who know what your real intent is.

In the context of a debate on Brexit, which I think we all know has some serious racist undertones (not everyone obviously), with actual racists on the panel….

but they’re extreme in some of their Liberal ideas.

Out of interest what policies put you off?

If Labour had fewer policies it would be so much easier for them. Its about optics and the Tories understand this. The Labour campaign has been a bit of a mess. Every new election promise makes the others less believable.

The Tories have to convince everyone that they are not going to sell the NHS
Labour have to convince everyone that they are not going to “bankrupt the country like last time” (NB I know it wasn’t Labours fault but lots of people still think it was! Boris saying it today- unchallenged of course)

All of this ignores the elephant of Brexit though. The Cons could (and pretty much have) no manifesto and still get an insane amount of votes purely because they claim to “Get Brexit Done”. At one point Brexit Party was polling at 25%.

Labour having the perfect manifesto but being remain would not get those voters back.

There are an awful lot of people who historically voted Conservative, don’t want Boris as PM, don’t want Brexit, don’t like the Trumpificatuin of UK politics, don’t want the government to neuter the legal system and other restraints on executive power, and simply aren’t impressed with post 2016 Tory “government” so far… they should be ripe for the “let’s give the other party a chance” vote.

And how are Labour not meeting every one of those criteria already?

Meaningless twaddle. He wasn’t PM, was he? So it can’t be counted as a win, even with the most generous of spin.

I don’t think anyone has claimed it as a win have they?

The point I’m making is Corbyn got a similar percentage of the vote as Blair in 2001 and 5% more in 2005.

The fact that those votes weren’t in the correct seats is vital, but to make out 2017 was this disastrous landslide and Corbyn was unpopular isn’t really true is it? He was roughly on pre Iraq Blair levels, and then more popular than post Iraq Blair.

It’s FPTP… what the big two parties can achieve as regards voters swapping parties at a general election is entirely different to what a smaller third party like the LibDems can, at this kind of election.

That’s true, but I still struggle to see where a reamin hard centre-left Labour would get it’s votes from.

If we take that chart, and assume that all 30% Labour leavers go Tory and all remainer Torys go Labour then it cancels it out. Torys still get Brexit voters, Labour still pick up some Lib Dem voters.

We are still in a similar boat. Why would a leave voting Tory vote for a pro-remain Labour? What possible policies could they offer, what level of charismatic leader would that require?

Where else could they get votes from?

In 97 etc Labour were beating credible opponents. In 2017 Labour were trying to beat a Tory part in chaos that had caused chaos with a leader who turned out to be useless.

In 2017 we had the confusion of Brexit which has clearly seriously muddied the waters in how people vote.

6 weeks or so ago I was of the opinion that a more centrist, likable leader would of walked this election for Labour, but now I’m not so sure.

Brexit has skewed everything.

What policies could a centre-left Labour party possibly offer to a remainer Conservative to get them to switch?

We’ve seen that the so called Tory ‘moderates’ haven’t switched en-masse to the Lib Dems, despite effectively offering a manifesto that should 100% appeal to them perfectly. Ok, so Tory polls have been buoyed by the Breixt party decision not to stand but by how much?

Brexit party vote was around 13% throughout Sept-November. Cons about 35%. Brexit now down to 3 and Cons to 43%. The ‘moderate’ remainer Torys simply haven’t switched to the Lib Dems, just as they would not have switched to a centre left Labour party, and even if they did it would still make the polls roughly even.

Not a walk in the park like so many seem to think.

Blairism was flawed but it got them elected.

In 97 Labour got 43.2% of the vote.
2001 40.7% ,
2005 35.2%.

2017 Labour got 40.0% of the vote.

Due to FPTP the number of seats obviously don’t work out proportionally, but this idea that 2017 was an abject failure by Corbyn doens’t really add up.

One question, if the coal mines had been kept open over the last thirty years would Corbyn be fighting to close them now because of climate change or is he secretly thankful to Thatcher that she did the job for him?

I’d assume he’d close them down, but in an orderly manner and invest heavily in a transition to green industries to replace the loss of jobs from the mine closures.

Essentially what the 2019 Manifesto states.

The Times – Amazon ready to cash in on free access to NHS data (paywall)

More info on this Twitter thread

The NHS isn’t even for sale, it’s being given away free.

Mrs Binners is very proud today. She’s a Wigan Lass and this is where she’s from ‘welcoming’ Joris Bohnson

“Cakes now being packed away”

:)

I’ve had this happen to mine when I overfilled it.

Didn’t leak again and worked fine.