The "debate" thread

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Things like PV will also help, as they can delay or smooth spikes in demand on a house by house basis, rather than the current situation of requiring the top % of the grid to have really short response time, and hence a reliance on Gas (which has the fastest black-start response time of all generation fuels).

Do you even know what a black start is? I fail to see how a power station with the self-contained ability to start to generate from a blackout has any bearing on your argument. Only a handful of power stations in the UK even have black start as our grid is stable (black start is imperative in countries like South Africa). It requires the use of a diesel gen set to support the auxiliaries to enable the gas turbines to fire and synchronise, it's nothing to do with their ability to get on load quickly - that's a whole different kettle of fish.

Put a cap on bankers bonus's aswell, should help the interest rates and will be easier on first time buyers for houses

I agree to a certain extent, but you can't reduce the incentive on massively stressful, long hours, high paid jobs, or people wont want to do them. People think bankers just roll from golf course to executive lunch all day and occasionally casually check the shares inbetween glasses of expensive bubbly. The reality is most of them spend less than 4hours of their day outside their offices. They then do market forecasting etc over the weekends in some cases to make sure they're ready for the trading during the day. The whole work ethic is turned up to about 15 for the types of baker who we all assume are sitting back 'raking in the big bucks'. If you remove the incentive, it removes that drive for the few of us who can push that hard to make it to to the top... and as much as everyone overlooks it, we do need the bankers....

have you even met a banker? My ex girlfriends brother was a banker with ING, he used to get a bonus of more than half his salary which was already obscene enough. He didn't work particularly hard, never did more than 9 hours, wasn't particularly stressed out, quick to flash the cash and reamed his expenses with "entertaining customers" paying for every taxi and meal out for about a 2 year period - like he couldn't afford it. Overworked they are not, and only a fool offers sympathy for them.


As for sorting this country out, get rid of the JSA automatic entitlement unless you have a valid reason such as a debilitating disease. Someone mentioned PAYG, I like that. Needs extreme measures to sort out the third generation dole dossers. Something radical like introduce a license to have children, thus ending people's means to automatic drip feeding off the government by pumping out sprogs. If you can't afford to support the children and give them basic quality of life - no children allowed. f*ck you, why should I pay for them.

All these twats just find ways and means to screw the benefits system. benefits should be capped at £20K a year per household or something.

As for the immigrants - we've caused it ourself. Eastern Europeans are happy to come in and do jobs for 5 quid an hour scrubbing floors because we've brought up entire generations of scum that would rather sit on their ass and get paid double to do so.

Dude your maths is terrible.

I earn about 35k pa and my monthly basic take home is only 1900 so theres no way 25 gives a take home of 1800

Forgive my ignorance, but aren't you a PCSO? When did they start earning 35K a year?