"Green" policies are destroying this country

Why is it untrue? Why would anyone who signs a 15 year contract expect to be paid for more than that? If you sign a contract to be paid to do work for 2 years, after 2 years the payment stops

Why did you stop at the first sentence ?

I know we are now signing daft contracts where we will pay for electricoty even if we do not need or use it, but we haven`t reached the level where we will continue to do so or guarantee we will keep paying after the 15 year contract has expired.

What a private business may or may not do after the contract has expired is a matter for them and will have no bearing on how they price a tender for a 15 year contract. That price will be to cover all their capital costs + their opeating costs (maintenance costs included) + their profit margin over the 15 year term.

No company is going to price a tender lower than those costs and profit margin based on a hope that they may make up the difference after the contract expires. It`s business basic 101 and if you ever consider doing otherwise you will not be long in business.

Shame you only read the first sentence of that post.

Reading the rest might have made you think before attempting more of your childish nit picking.

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I read it the first time, but thanks for repeating yourself.

Are you waiting for everybody to acknowledge the astuteness of this opinion of yours? Waiting for a round of applause maybe?

The Tories are crediting the expanding of the ULEZ for them holding that seat, and Labour are blaming Khan`s expanding of it for them not gaining that seat. With the next U.K. general election not due until January 2025 it is going to be very interesting what green policies both come up with in the meantime.

Sunak, even before these bye-elections, wasn`t in favour of changing, what has been a more or less a ban on onshore turbines, because he believed it would cost the Tories votes. The Tories holding that seat because of Khan`s ULEZ is not going to change his opinion,

The ULEZ was a tory policy, conceived by the ex-Mayor of London, a bertain BJ, who used to hold the Uxbridge seat.

As part of the funding for local transport in London post covid bailout, the (tory) govt forced the London Authority to extend the ULEZ to raise more money to offset the bailout.

You couldn't make it up really

People will only support things if they make sense. They see the Green deal as direct measures against them, especially if they are put in place by people they dont trust. And those measures bare very little relation to mitigating existing problems as they occur. They feel forced and see the way politicians, institutions and the media behaves when they are challenged. They go berserk like some posters here. That in itself is an indication that they live in an alternate reality.

There is a crisis alright but those thinking a top down, police state compliance enforced system is the solution are wrong, have always been wrong and will be wrong in the future. We need to resist.

In the end we need a diversity of opinion. The Green Way is a dead end street. Their supporters continue to lose credibility as recent elections have shown. They are getting very nervous and do everything to halt the tide against them. They will fail..

You do realise we live on an island right?

They don't care, that's the honest answer. If it keeps the plebs grounded and stops them enjoying cheap holidays abroad, all the better. Back to the good old days of flights being for the rich and the rest of us make do with boats and trains.

If there is one thing both the Tory and Labour parties have learned from this Uxbridge result is that while national polls may appear to give lip service to a greening agenda, parliamentary seats are won or lost at a constuency level.

The Tory party has a large majority which Labour needs a huge swing to overcome. The Tories will not be going into the next election looking to win extra seats. They will be looking to save as many seats as they can. They had, even before these bye-elections, identified that while people natonally may say they are in favour of more turbines, they are vote losers at local level. The Uxbridge result has highlighted for them that many of these green policies are problematic vote getters at local level, and with them really having nothing to lose at this stage compared to Labour, will target those constituencies making it as uncomfortable as possible for Labour.

It will be very interesting to see what both parties policies will be going into their next general election. Or even like onshore wind, will the Tories row back on some of their green policies in the meantime.

Missing nothing, total grift