I can’t begrudge people wanting to stay in a house they’ve lived in for years, raised a family in and probably lost a partner in. Wouldn’t be easy to say goodbye to that.
It’s easy enough to turn radiators off and shut doors to rooms you don’t use.
If you’re upset over this because you’re genuinely going to struggle, then you should probably see what benefits you’re entitled to. Chances are there’s something you can claim.
Hoever, I suspect most of the people who are upset are Daily Mail reading, £600,000 house living types, on a massive final salary pension, who are annoyed that this means they might have to sit in economy class when they fly to their fifth holiday of the year. And those people, can get bent.
Is that a great idea? Most of the New Towns became shitholes.
I know somebody from Skelmersdale, and the only place they’d been that was worse was Blackpool.
If I remember correctly, the problem was the scheme explicitly forbade the council from building a replacement house.
I think that was later changed, but by then the damage was done and the housing stock was decimated.
I do think you should be able to buy a council house that you’ve been living in if you want, but at the full market rate of building another equivalent home, and it should be enforced that they do build another. If a council currently has no plans for building more, then tough titties, you’ll have to go on a waiting list.
They’d get a lot more people onto heat pumps if they didn’t block grants on any unit that can cool as well as heat.
Even then, I think I’d still want gas to heat my hot water. The electrical system can’t cope with doing that on demand. I used to have a hot water tank, and I’m not going back to that. Combi boilers are so much more convenient.
Heating systems can afford to be slow though.
I’m pretty sure I saved more than this 30% (which given it’s in a headline, is going to be an absolute best case scenario) by going to Agile Octopus.
When you’re no longer having fun.
Guess they’ll die. What a shame.
That’s what happens when you fail to maintain things for 30+ years, syphon off all the money for shareholders, and then cry poverty when the government decides that just flushing everyone’s shit into the river isn’t an acceptable way to deal with it.
Tighten the rules further and nationalise any company that can’t keep up. Should never have been privatised in the first place. I, a fairly normal person, cannot pick and choose which company provides my water like I can with electricity, gas and internet. So what’s the point of having a company run it?
Not to worry, I’m sure all those people who wanted to “tek r cuntry bak!” will be lining up to wipe old people’s arses.
If you want the worst, it’s Medal of Honor Underground.
I mean, fair play for trying to get a cutting edge PS1 game onto the GBA, but why would you persist if that’s all you could do with it?
They should add Severn Trent to that list, and then renationalise the lot.
Grab an Amiga emulator and get Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions.
That’s what happens when you let Harvey open the mail.
Thunderdome! Six men enter. One man leaves.
No it’s alright you see because Our Tommeh said was for Our Countreh.
It did seem ridiculous building a treasured monument next to a main road.
Maybe they’ll build it somewhere more suitable next time.
Timmy Mallett.
Because if you were on Operation Yewtree, you’d for sure have had a look at his history. The fact that they’ve found nothing indicates the man is clean.
Wow, big numbers. Really worth doing.
I would personally never steal TV, simply because if I’m going to watch something, it’s not just going to be the second half of a movie I’ve seen a dozen times before.
I hear it becomes much more pleasant to use if you install Jellyfin.
Automated numberplate recognition systems have spoilt so much fun.
I live in the East Midlands, so I’d agree. Just about everything around here is a former something town, be it mining, manufacturing, whatever. Anything that isn’t is some picturesque place is a scrabble of smackheads and vapeshops.
Really need to start giving tax breaks to big companies to build their shit in unpopular places and have good public transport so people can get to it.