FFS Japan . . stop this noise. Do the hard (and right) thing and go fix your grid. Yes, you got rather screwed post war. Deal with it - and sort it out.

Also, this plan will never happen as we will be out of office on July 5th and Sunak will be living in California by July 30th, says Dimly . . .

Meanwhile, here in Scotland - where the water supply has always been publicly owned - Scottish Water announced it had received permission for an 8.8% annual increase.

Source: https://www.scottishwater.co.uk/About-Us/News-and-Views/2024/02/Water-and-Waste-Water-Charges-2024-and-2025

Advertising, political parties and religions. All of them.

I will quote George Washington to explain the why: “However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

Alternatives:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition (we use this in 1/3 of our government today - juries)

Political parties and religions. All of them.

WTF?

Things this castrofuck clown car of a government cannot pay for: junior doctors, nurses, school lunches for hungry children, council homes, roofs for schools, 40 new hospitals, keeping shite out of the rivers . . .

Things it can pay for: 2 largely broken aircraft carriers (but not enough planes for them) . . and new, home built nuclear weapons.

I, for one, am so proud our glorious MoD can defend our food banks with British made nuclear weapons! /s

That really should be cries in Englandland . . . I moved from Hertfordshire to Scotland 2 years ago (driving an EV all the way up the A1(M) . . . Chargeplace Scotland really works VERY well . . .

I did! Hello from Scotland . . .

Hello my fellow Scot!

If you need color, then I highly recommend the Epson EcoTank line of printers. No printer cartridges AT ALL - just raw 4 color ink. They cost more than most inkjet printers up front . . but more than save in the long run. And NO DRM in site . . rather difficult to put DRM into liquid ink . . .

https://epson.com/ecotank-ink-tank-printers

12 years for my primary account, 11 years for my “other” one. Like many at the time, came over during the Digg meltdown. Just before the API went to paid, used a tool to delete my 15,000+ posts/comments. Deleted both accounts in early July. Used Teddit a bit to still follow one or two subreddits, but now that has stopped working. Unless it pops up in a search, I doubt I will ever visit again. RIP.

Non paywall version here :

https://archive.li/09RTm

Non paywall version here: https://archive.li/73Df4

I live in Scotland. Read about academic research on how BBC Scotland frames stories vs. how similar stories are framed by BBC Wales:

https://www.thenational.scot/news/uk-news/23569259.bbc-scotlands-agenda-exposed-wales-comparison-academic-claims/

AND

Even within Scotland read how stories are framed by the BBC Scotland vs. STV News:

https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2023/06/30/research-bbc-scotland-news-constructs-a-far-more-anxious-and-conservative-world-than-stv-news-does/

There is no other word to describe this but bias. Not right vs. left . . . but Westminster vs. Scotland.

ROFL. Or I could just continue to pay £0.00 and not watch the BBC’s biased BS.

Trying to. This is a FANTASTIC tool to find new “subreddits” on Lemmy: https://sub.rehab/

Ok, fine, clearly good news. But PM Sir Starmer . . . just a red Tory.