Quote from: Cassandra on Today at 04:08:35 PMDid you see the new frightening face of change on GBN the other night (Patrick Christy) as Suella Braverman tried to discuss with Fiona Lali from the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Pro Palestine students occupation of the Lawns at Kings College Cambridge.

A fully programmed 'Bot' she represents where public funds are going in supporting these frothing idealists.

She starts from 14mins 25 secs in on the video link below;

I saw this and was disgusted that this snotty brainwashed student claimed to speak for 'most of the people ' in the country ( regarding Israel) she certainly doesn't speak for me .
Fiona Lali is president of the RCP at SOAS college .
SOAS is notoriously anti semitic

This is all over tik tok , this terrible mind damaging invention that is IMO indoctrinating  young ( and not so old ) people with stuff like this .

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No good today.

I saw a YouTube video which may or may not have been true.

It said that there is a rash of Ponzi schemes running in China taking investment money for EV makers. The EV makers can show super volumes of sales and so attract more investors all the time. Sadly those EV sales are largely cars the manufacturer has regegistered then put into huge EV graveyards to rot. The suggestion was there are millions of EVs registered which were never actually bought by somebody looking to drive that are hidden away across the country. There were certainly pictures of large numbers of identical cars all parked up on fields.

I don't know if this is the video I watched but the claims are the same
https://www.mgevs.com/threads/chinese-ev-ponzi-scheme-fields-full-of-evs-unused.12286/

Other videos have said that the quality of cheap Chinese EVs is absolutely dire.

The WW1 settlement gave the Germans a justifiable complaint and directly lead to WW2 because Hitler was able to use the resentment of the German people. Quite why or how that resentment was turned against the Jews is something of a mystery to me. 

I think later generations of Germans were ashamed of what had gone before but blaming children for the sins of their fathers is never right. For instance I accept no responsibility for anything that this country may have done before I was old enough to vote. I'm not even keen on taking any blame personally for anything the country has done as my ability to guide events is close to zero.

Quote from: ansu on Today at 05:00:13 PMbut the UK doesn't want to take them back

Of course we don't. France doesn't take back any rejects that came across the channel from there.

That said I read they had caved in and taken 50 or so back.

on the weight question, as I have mentioned before the socking big battery - which takes up a third or more of the boot space, and the fact this car has a 2 litre engine to cope with the weight, mans that it weighs 4 cwts more than its 1.5 litre predecessor and whilst the acceleration is reasonable it is noticeably down of the earlier car - just as well I'm not a boy racer!

Try eBay - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/131801919083?itmmeta=01HY6G3VDGXGTYJQX7YV4RZGN5

Quote from: Michael Rolls on Today at 07:34:17 PMI have always decried the idiocy of 'net zero'. Unless we are willing to accept a considerable reduction in our quality of life it just can't happen. My current hybrid - bought under duress because Ford had discontinued what I actually wanted, a petrol 5 door Mondeo - is OK, but I am confident when it comes to change it will, in real terms, get a good bit less for trade-in than of yore, so much so that I am going to keep it for longer than usual (I normally change before the MOT is due) and smile grimly at what I am offered.
No idea why that appeared twice!

I suppose that one advantage of hybrids is that when the batteries do die a death, at least we'd still have the petrol engine to keep it going.
Yes, the inclusion of batteries and an electric motor can make the cars more 'economical' to drive, but when the batteries do give up, we'd be driving around carrying an unnecessary heavy load and consequently using more petrol.
That's what put me off buying a hybrid, and the place where we bought our car three years ago was pushing them even then.

I have always decried the idiocy of 'net zero'. Unless we are willing to accept a considerable reduction in our quality of life it just can't happen. My current hybrid - bought under duress because Ford had discontinued what I actually wanted, a petrol 5 door Mondeo - is OK, but I am confident when it comes to change it will, in real terms, get a good bit less for trade-in than of yore, so much so that I am going to keep it for longer than usual (I normally change before the MOT is due) and smile grimly at what I am offered.
No idea why that appeared twice!