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Posted: 10:29 - 15 Mar 2024 Post subject: Do the Tories want to lose the next election? |
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Obviously it's almost a certainty Labour are going to win but it seems the Conservatives are trying their hardest to help them.
Rishi Sunak says he won't return money from donor accused of racism
It's not the only thing they have done to 'upset' their own applecart and while I don't like him very much Sunak isn't an idiot, he could surely see what would happen if he didn't reject the money. (not that I disagree witth the donor - Conservative donor who reportedly said MP Diane Abbott "should be shot ).
I suspect they think the quickest and easiest way to defeat the Labour party is to have them in power and let them destry themselves.
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I think they are keeping quiet because it's not actually negative publicity.
I for one am quite comfortable with them accepting money from someone who clearly can't stand Dianne Abbot, I suspect many others are in a similar position.
Even his alleged comments aren't particularly racist, they were about how he hates her so much, he has to be careful not to consider others of the same race and gender as being like her.
I hated Dianne Abbot before I knew her race. I don't watch TV, just mostly listen to the radio and had no idea of what she looked like until she started going on about it.
Saying out loud he wishes someone should shoot her was probably a step too far, that's the kind of thing you should reserve for your interior monologue. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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I feel I should also point out that I mainly hate Dianne Abbot because she is clearly utterly incompetant and educationally sub-normal and has somehow landed up in a job which could carry some serious responsability.
Presumably via the usual means of being promoted into being someone elses problem because it's easier and quieter than sacking her. Whitehall being at the top of the metaphorical dungheap in that respect. ____________________ “Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
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Nobby the Bastard wrote: | If it were enshrined in unchangeable legislation years ago, surely car manufacturers had plenty of time to make the necessary change but have chosen to stick their heads in the sand instead. |
Why are you an apologist for coercive legislation?! It's almost like you're a Nazi or something Be curious as to when in history price fixing and quotas made the world a better place.
The ZEV Mandate is spiteful madness that yet again says "We have a problem [that we made up] and it's gonna cost lots of money and we think poor people should foot the bill." Why do socialists hate the poor so much?! Bear in mind it's a £15,000 fine if you sell an ICE car beyond your quota. That's a lot of money on a say a Corsa (ICE £19,000, EV version £32,000) but fuck all for something like an Aston Martin. It'll just sit in the options list like all the other overpriced add-ons and rich people will tick the box like they're changing the leather interior and not bat an eye.
I watched a documentary on Turkmenistan recently. In short it's the sort of place where the leaders look to North Korea for inspiration Half the GDP, half! goes straight into the back pocket of whoever's in charge and that doesn't leave much left over for the essentials... like statues of the Dear Leader covered in gold leaf so they ask government employees to "donate" their wages to such projects
How are these EV mandates any different? "But Bro, we have to tackle Climate Change!" to which I say: go fuck yourself and the horse* you rode in on, I'm sick of the lies and the grift.
What will really happen as these quotas ramp up? If the previous emissions testing scandal teaches us anything: shenanigans.
Prepare to see loads of car dealerships go under as the manufacturers pressure them to have more EVs on the forecourt. Sales numbers will be rigged to say all those cars are actually sold (and then go into the quota figures) and loads of EVs will be discounted as the usual pre-registered "5 miles on the clock, basically new" trick. Be in no doubt, someone will make a loss here and it won't be the manufacturers.
The main tool the dealers will have to offset EVs losses will be the near-new, technically second-hand ICE cars being sold at a premium. (A dry run of this was done during the Scamdemic with the chip shortage.) Nothing but EVs after 2035? The reality will be more like 2040 when a fully serviced, "as-new" with full 3 year warranty for a 5 year old ICE car will be stretching credulity to its limits.
Maybe manufacturers will try and stimulate demand by building more public charge points? Then we're back to the State asking for "donations" to the latest vanity project
Price fixing and quotas are the socialist fallacy of "I know better than The Market!" You know better than a 7 billion element distributed computational system. Of course you do
*Ironically less eco-friendly than an ICE car. ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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