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Hopefully GL will not keep his word on fracking.

Attended three universities and sveral post grads and who makes money from green - ness?
It is expected to be one of the biggest money spinners of the next few decades
Search and you will find.
A big short on fossil?
I'm not here to explain to you how to make monet investing in a scam.
A boiler room fraud but using exclusively green wood chips
Those that produce 7 times more polution than natural gas.
Do your own homework.

It's five to seven and I'm still banging my head against the wall with someone who doesn't understand what a theory is. There is no fact to theories. Science is never certain and should always be up for debate. The minute uou hear the phrase - there is no doubt, you know this has abandoned the scientific method.

If there isn't enough food to feed everyone, then spending time transporting these people around the world instead of producing food is counter productive. It is not a solution. It is a problem in itself.
We can always produce more food, if we pollute the land more, cut down more forests or bleed the land so much we all eventually suffer. Unless we change our ways loss of habitats of species and eventually a stable viable ecosystem we will suffer an ecological crisis. I don't see the climate either important or relevant. We need sustainability. Increasing populations are not. There is only one end game. Calamity.

97% of 'professionals' bought and paid for by climate 'interested' bodies are not impartial. 90% tory politicians will tell you Boris tells the truth.
90% of 'scientists told everyone to eat margariine full of trans fats- as it was healthy.
90%+ of dieticians tol people in the eighties and nineties to eat low fat food - even though it was made healthy with copious amounts of sugar. Sugar will make you fatter and more unhealthy than the equivalent fat.
Chief whiz statistician from imperial college told us the millions in the uk that would die from bird flu, sars. covid etc... Yet they were mostly or completely wrong.
Copernicus really got threatened when he suggested that the earth orbited the sun.
Science is too often wrong. Early twentieth century saw scientists looking for uses for radium and decided to put it in a medicine. One being a drink you could sip throughout the day. Like Irn Bru. But instead of Iron it was full of Radium isotopes. The most common being ra 226, quite stable relatively but quickly produces trace amounts of radon which is 2.5 x 10^6 times more radioactive than uranium.
Science eh? what would you do without it.
Beware who you trust. Even if it is 97% of the houses of parliament.

97% of those who are paid to work in the 'climate industry' anfd their left wing mates. I am a scientist . I know lectuerers, chartered engineers etc and only one of them is a lefty fascist climate looney.

Thanks for the info. I remember well the pre production era and A2uk's posts were often informatvive and regularly extremely entertaining to hear the antics of the scourge of French casinos. His view from the fearless edge of life gave a novel perspective and with the loss of his views and presence we are all the poorer.
RIP

BP up 4.5% HUR down 5%.
Severe disconnect with OP

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"House prices have not really changed" "20-50% of wages"
The represents a rise of a £100K house to £250K - not a figure I would call unchanged. To me that difference is enormous.
"Half of Germany rents their home. Germany's economy is +20% richer than the UK."
Germany has run a trade surplus for the last 20 years at times reaching 300 bilion, UK on the other hand has been in deficit for all of this century with our GDP per capita aboyr 15% lower.
This is likely to have more to do with the fact that Germany's sconomy relies on manfactured exported goods where the UK relies more on building ever and ever more houses that is always slightly less than the number of people it imports so that demand/supply is always>1
When I first bought a house it cost me £8750. It has just been valued at £225,000.
I bought it while houses were 4.2 x income . Now the ratio is 8.8.
Which seems to me over twice as pricey
Until the country gets it's population crisis under control, houses will continue to be unaffordable.

You do know the object of interest is prob some hairy 32 stone geezer recently retired trying to creatively pay his gas bill?

Johnsonis the most dishonest and worst marxist prime minister we have had fior some time, I used to think Blair was our worst PM, but now Johnson looks to take over the crown. I have been no fan of his ever, yet there remain millions brainwashed by the lefty media who find themselves aligned with this fake tory.
In the interests of fairness let's tax those who find themselves in unusual profit. Average house prices have gone up 50K. Therefore in the interests of fairness we need to tax every homeowner about 25K?
Why pick on Energy? Is it because it's an easy target or because it's right. Johnson is no better than a highwayman.

Mmm after all Prince Charles said in 2008 we have 9 years to save the planet. So 5 years ago it went kaput. I must have got up late that day.
These Junkthink experts all have a qualication in Doommongering from Imperial college.
Funny by now we should have had Manhattan ,West side NY and half the British coast underwater too. Lloyds head office and the Bank of England will be underwater next, but apparrently thery're all so wet it won't make any difference.
On a more sensible note I see Barclays billion pound share buyback has seen them jump 3% already. While Lloyds seems to be ineffectual. Sid's law.

In 1995 average UK house price was under 4.5 times average income. In february 2022 house prices were 8.9 times average income. Representing a doubling in price in 26 years relative to income.
Unchanged is a far stretch from the figures.

Well in the past we have ghad several recessions that lasted two quarters. A recession can start anytime but cannot bew identified or declared until 5-6 months later. A recession could start in Q2 although we would not know until the end of Q3. But it could start in Q2 - but not be official until later. A recession must start at the beginning of the first of the two quarters and not when it's declared otherwise you could be declaring a recession that only begins when it might already be over.

Although down today it did go up almost as much yesterday? So it lost yesterdays gains.
Uncertain times. Vix doing well.

Well my stats say France recieved 120,000 applications of which 15% were approved whereas the UK recieved less than half of France but approved more. You have 4.5 x the chance of a successful application in the UK than France.
Odd sort of statistic.
As you say you're welcome to your facts but can't have any opinions. Or was it the other way round?!

Well it's as ever supply and demand. Average UK house starts last 12 months 162.000. Average UK occupancy 2.4. ( despite people suggesting demographics lowerin occupancy historic occupancy is generally lower ) This would suggest that new people into the country exceed the 388,000 that this building level would support. Until we build more houses than people we import, prices will rise. Tis since it is not sustauinable will eventually end in tears unless carefully tapered.
A madness that Gov will not discuss. It's all about GDP expansion to defray debt. A ponzi scheme system.

New high for Shel or rdsb? There was a rise through 2017/2018. It was todays price jun3 2017 when crude was just over 50 dollars it rose to just over 2700 end may 2018 when crude was hovering around 73 dollars. It then fell back through 2100 on it's rapid decline to sub 1000 Mar 2020 - covid time. When oil was on its way to the depths also. If we had seen the crude price at current level pre pandemic we would probably be £10 north of where we are today.
But Shel hadn't gone full Greta in them days. Much else had affected the SP too, not just crude SP.

I am sorry I was vague on the subject of total or net migration numbers. IThis was the result of government figures also being deliberately vague. They guess it using ststistical sampling. Like Covid numbers.
The relentless increase in the salary multiple rquired to buy an house is principally due to supply/demand which in turn is affected by other factors like investment, but it only remains a good investment with strong demand.
I have a suspicion that building more houses might not ease the pressure but simply increase immigration, the government are akin to a drug addict/alcoholic where feeding their needs is an ever upward spiral.
Many factors like demographics affect demand, but the figures show not much change there

26.4 million households 2011 @2.3 per house ( 9.5% of houses considered overcrowded)
27.8 million households in 2019 @2.39% per house (2020)
These numbers tell you that between these dates 3.3 million more people were housed with occupancy density slightly higher than when we were considered to be 9.5% overcrowded.
Boris wanted 250,000 new houses this year enough foe 597,000 miore people but only got about 216,00 for 512,000.
He wants another 300,00.
Or to put it another way he is planning yet bigger migration numbers unless the birthrate is also going to do a sudden upturn.
My point is and always was that this whole 'plan' is unsustainable, ill concieved nay dangerous n a world where security may be measured by your self sufficiency. The 'plan' also neglects the fact that the 1960 Britain had decades or centuries sometimes millenia of infrastructure ( roman A roads) and housing an extra 20 million people since the sixties requires a growth of infrastructure in housing! but also roads, railways, waterways, recreational facilities,sports grounds, schools, hospitals, shops, car parks, civil offices, power generation and grid, water, gas, food,
I could go on, but I think if we want our children to ever have a decent way of life, we are currently exceeding the speed limit in the wrong direction. I called it a ponzi scheme because the process, the expansion curve and the outcome are likely congruous.
He is building a new Hong Kong on Thames. Sweat shop UK
My figures only include England. NI, Scotland and Wales all add to flow.