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Aug 15, 2019 4 tweets 1 min read Read on X
1/ What is JC up to?
Why the GE-then-PV strategy?

I reckon he has 2 objectives:
1. PM.
2. Brexit.

4 scenarios:
A. A50 extension for PV-then-GE
-remain probably wins PV
-BXP surge in GE splitting Con vote
-Lab remainers return from LD/GRN (scared by BXP)
-JC PM ✔
-NO Brexit❌
2/
B. A50 extension GE then PV
-BXP split Con vote because brexit has not happened yet
-Remainers vote for Lab to GTTO.
-JC PM✔
-JC *welches on remain option for PV
-Brexit happens✔

*maybe keep remain option in PV but campaign really hard for lexit
3/
C. ND 31st Oct /GE 1st Nov
- BXPers all vote Con
- Lab remainers vote for LD rejoin
- JC not PM ❌
- Brexit ✔

D. ND 31st Oct / GE Jan 2020.
- Tories and BXP destroyed
- JC PM ✔
- Brexit✔

B or D are JC's preferences. But he cannot control the timing for D. Hence B.
4/
Of course, AS USUAL, we are too busy navel-gazing to remember there is another party involved: the EU.

They might just say " Soz Jezza, we will give you an extension for a PV, but not a GE - what's the point of a GE between 2 brexiter parties?" Christ, I would laugh!

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Jan 17
Brexit has a new trilemma, even worse than "Leave the SM & CU AND No NI/IE border AND no NI/GB border".

Now it is "Growth AND low immigration AND stay out of the SM &CU"

If Brexit just makes us poorer, parliament after parliament, decade after decade, it cannot stand.

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It may take some time; the English have an unmatched ability to keep going long after everyone - including themselves - can see it's not working. (Watching a retired bank manager taking on a space smaller than his car can be hours of fun - or piano vs. staircase half-landing.)
2/
But eventually people will have enough of getting poorer and the prospect of getting ever-poorer, when there is an alternative just there for the taking.

The trilemma faced by Brexiters like Bill Cash, ranting about immigrants, is their red lines on immigration & SM/CU are

3/
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Dec 12, 2023
I have seen various estimates of how much extra peak demand would be added to the UK grid if all 23 M gas-fired Domestic Boilers were swapped for ASHP's overnight.

The average UK dwelling is 90m2 and typically has radiators sized on rule of thumb at 100W/m2...

1/
So... in theory, if all the Heat Pumps were working at 82 deg flow/ 71 deg C Return, and all the radiators in the UK were simultaneously putting out 9 KW per dwelling, that comes to 207GW of heat. Which on a very cold day would require 100GW of Electricity. (Shock horror!)

2/
But that is nonsense. In reality, most ASHPs operate at 55 Flow / 50 Return and at those water temperatures radiators that emit 9kW at 82/71 will emit about 4kW.

So... what if we keep the old boilers instead of replacing them and just retrofit an ASHP in series?

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Nov 30, 2023
A couple of days back I tweeted how the Government now permits employers to pay migrant workers in shortage occupations 20% less than the going rate.
(Which Article 45 of TFEU would have prevented, before Brexit)

Let's see if, the BBC covered it?

1/
Yes: they covered it back on 17th July.


How did they cover it?
Badly. Anyone reading it would think it just applies to builders, carpenters and fishing industry - people not like "us" (managers, engineers, scientists, actuaries, vets etc)

2/bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
Anyone using the BBC for information would think it just affects some horny-handed types on building sites and - who knows - maybe bring back the good old days of Polish plumbers who could re-do your ensuite at 1 weeks notice.

They wouldn't think it might affect THEMSELVES

3/
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Nov 27, 2023
Either the Tories have not thought through the implications of the post-brexit immigration rules... or they have thought them through all too well.

I have a nasty inkling of what they might be up to, but it takes a bit of explaining.

Let's start with "before brexit"...

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Article 45 TFEU is a fundamental right of workers which entails the abolition of any discrimination based on nationality as regards remuneration. Plain-speak: an employer could not underpay an immigrant from Italy, say, just on the basis that they were not from the UK.

2/
Prior to brexit the majority of migrant workers were from EEA countries and this rule protected them.

It was not legal for a UK employer to bring in "cheap foreign workers" to undercut UK staff, and as result immigration from the EU was heavily skewed toward the jobs...

3/
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Nov 14, 2023
Here we have Electricity and Gas prices in Euro per 100kWh, in February 2023, throughout Europe.

Where it gets REALLY interesting is when you compare the ***ratio*** of Electricity price to Gas price: See next tweet.

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The UK has by far the highest ratio of Electricity price to Gas price.

This is a result of Tory Government policies:
1. Gas for electricity incurs a Carbon Tax, whereas gas for boilers does not.
2. The price of ALL electricity is set by the price of Gas-fired electricity.

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.... which, of course, includes the Carbon Tax!

3. The government loads "policy" costs - such as the warm homes discount for poorer households - disproportionately onto electricity bills; £140 uplift for electricity vs £34 for gas.

Why does it matter?

3/
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Nov 13, 2023
More lies about heat pumps from Net Zero Watch: "Heat Pumps are too loud to be installed in millions of homes".

Not true.

The Telegraph has taken a fairly decent report

and totally misrepresented its findings.

1/ apexacoustics.co.uk/wp-content/upl…
This graph from the report is for a heat pump on the rear wall of a house, and shows how noisy it may be before it exceeds official (MCS) guidelines.

The vertical axis is the Heat Pump noise rating and the horizontal is distance to the neighbours nearest window.

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Let's say the neighbour's window is 3.1m away: then the noisiest acceptable heat pump will be 51 dB(A) if there is no garden fence, 56dB(A) if there is a partial barrier and 61dB(A) if there is a solid wall.

So far, so good... but then the report goes a little awry...

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