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  • Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK

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  • building more gas turbine power stations

    Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

    cutting stamp duty on the biggest properties

    I don't think oligarcs are too concerned about a few extra thousand pounds to pay! Btw.. Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

    pulling out of the European Defence Fund

    Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

    cancelling our human rights act

    Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

    repealing the Equalities

    Is this in their manifesto? Can you link to it please?

    “scrapping” the BBC

    As I already said, it's the licence fee, not the BBC. The licence fee is unfit for 2026 and it should be scrapped.

    stopping the boats (any method that really does it will be basically either impossible or illegal)

    How is that a "putin policy"? Russia are the ones behind it - look at Baltic/Russian borders for illegal crossings facilitated by Russia and Belarus. Not a Russia friendly policy at all. You're wrong.

    defending our borders (more insular isolationism is what Putin really loves)

    Listen to yourself. Which country in the world doesn't defend their borders? Wrong

    deporting illegal migrants (which would quickly become an ICE-style scandal deporting natives who look different and dwarf the Windrush scandal)

    How tiresome. Is that Russia friendly? No. Wrong again!

  • Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK

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  • We’ll have to wait 50 years to know, but even if we are, it’ll be much much less under any sane government, but it would be more if left to Reform.

    No, it's a certainty. You and the other user are fixated on CCGT generation. My reply was to the other user, not you. They said "Gas will not last another 50 years at all." and I am saying it has more uses than CCGT.

    It’s absurd to accuse someone of cherry-picking and then cherry-pick a time when the National Energy System Operator has invited bids for the Demand Flexibility Service because the price of gas-generated electricity is too high.

    No it's not. They looked at a dashboard at 22:30 and tried to portray the UK as if it is representative of a peak usage time. Let's see how those stats are today.. oh, 50% is generated by CCGT (gas) at 7pm, cool. That was my point.

    A majority, but not a supermajority. Only about 60% of UK homes burn gas for heating despite all the encouragement and inducement since the 1970s in a scandal that makes promotion of diesel cars look like playschool stuff, and a farcical and pathetic target-missing attempt to encourage heat pumps in the last 10 years (target: 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028, latest number I’ve seen: 91,000 per year and no, that’s not missing a digit).

    Wrong. It's closer to 85%. Where did you get the 60% figure from? I'm not replying to your irrelevant addon about heat pumps (go back up this chain to remind yourself of what we're talking about)

    So? Buying gas and thereby driving the market price up is enough to benefit Russia. When you hear a gas boiler roar, it’s helping fund Putin.

    They sell it for far less.

  • Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK

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  • Which three? Which three are Putin policies? I'm not addressing the rest of your response until you name which three Reform policies are Putin policies which got us to where we are.

  • Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK

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  • I know.

    OP said Putin policies, which is false. There's enough disinformation floating about without adding to it.

    For the record, Farage is a cunt.

  • TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture

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  • Worse than spying - manipulating politics and social cohesion. Many teens have died (example: pass out challenge), right-wing governments have almost been elected out of nowhere (Romania) and mentally ill people have been preyed upon heavily.

  • Lucky hit

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  • Right in the slit.

  • Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK

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  • Read what I said again: we'll be using gas in 50 years.

    Your cherry picked statistics for a windy day at 22:30 are a poor example. Check again at 17:00.

    Maybe have a think about the majority of homes central heating.

    While you're at it: go learn about how fertiliser is made using natural gas (we import all our fertiliser now anyway, thanks Ed!)

    Oh and we have never been a major importer of Russian gas.

  • USA Today

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  • Worse than ISIS? Get a grip.

  • Paper is the new privacy measure.

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  • Well if you look up "vintageweave" on Threads, they're based in "Los Angeles, CA 90048" so I doubt they aren't making up bullshit for likes.

  • Paper is the new privacy measure.

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  • Does there need to be a reason for someone to lie?

  • Paper is the new privacy measure.

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  • That the Threads comments we are commenting on aren't real.

  • Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK

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  • So many to choose from!

    Proceeds to list zero policies 😀

    We're using gas for the next 50 years whether it's Reform or the Greens. That curries more favour with the US or Qatar than it does Russia. You're reaching for that to be a "Putin policy"

    Scrapping the licence fee.. that 1/2 of the population who should pay, don't.

    Thanks for responding at least.

    What would Putin oppose? Let's see.. the top three from Reform's site:

    • stopping the boats (I know, I know)
    • defend our borders
    • deport illegal migrants

  • Ex-Tory Home Secretary Braverman defects to Reform UK

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  • I'll bite. I'm excited for your response.

    Which Reform policy is a Putin policy?

  • Captain of suspected Russian shadow tanker in French custody

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  • And, what else does it say?

    On Thursday, the French navy intercepted the tanker - named the Grinch - which President Emmanuel Macron said was "subject to international sanctions and suspected of flying a false flag"

    Thr whole point is that they're not actually registered under the flag they fly...

  • German media likens US border patrol official’s coat to ‘Nazi look’

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  • If you say so.

  • German media likens US border patrol official’s coat to ‘Nazi look’

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  • You're right here.

    A knee length coat in -20°c temperatures? Outrageous - the Gestapo wore that!

    These posters need to get a grip: screaming Nazi all the time has successfully diluted the word and its meanining.

  • Paper is the new privacy measure.

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  • I guess we just believe everything written on Meta Threads.

  • Paper is the new privacy measure.

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  • Delivering food to neighbours but need to write the address down?

    Sounds a bit far-fetched, no?

  • Why Do We Keep Fretting About the Future of the Full English?

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  • What kind of shite is this supposed to be?