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Cheaper UK Energy cap.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/may/23/energy-bills-in-great-britain-to-fall-ofgem-price-cap

> Cheaper gas means lower costs for household heating, but it also lowers the cost of electricity in the UK because a large proportion of power is generated in gas power plants.

And also because electricity costs are directly linked to the most expensive source - Gas. As a result of the artificial market and it's endless tweaks, created to support privatisation.

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Back in the day Winter Fuel Payment was a kludge designed to avoid an increase in the pension in a difficult budget in 1997 by Gordon Brown.

This suggests a very simple answer which is to abolish the WFP and increase the pension by the same amount. That just gets rid of the argument once and for all.

Of course it also increases the amount set by the triple lock so carries forward into the future.

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Even when Labour realise they've made a mistake and chose to U-Turn, they still can't do it in a way that draws a line and closes the argument. With WFA, It's still "We intend to widen the eligibility and we'll announce details in the autumn." Maybe. This doesn't look like a U-Turn. It looks like a planted story to hide something else in the news cycle.

And yet again, Labour fail to deal with the political optics.

30-May-25 18:25
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Tired : Reagan's SDI Strategic Defence Initiative "Star Wars"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

Wired : Trump's Golden Dome Missile Defence System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_system)

Old enough to remember, etc. Who are the modern SciFi authors whispering in Trump's ear? Like Pournelle and Niven in the 80s?

29-May-25 18:25
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Re the UK-EU Reset

Almost every part of Johnson’s hard Brexit deal remains, only a tiny fraction has changed. The ‘no rejoining the SM & CU or FOM’ red lines remain. Even fishing is just the same we already had.

There is no Brexit Betrayal because nothing has changed.

28-May-25 17:55
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- MaiTai (Trader Vics)

50ml Jamaican rum, 1 dash Angostura, 10ml Orgeat, 20ml Curacao or Cointreau, 20ml fresh lime juice, keep the husk, Shake, rocks, tiki garnish, lime husks, lots of mint.

Sunshine. Sunset.

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