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Really? I can think of several untruths uttered by many MPs but I’m struggling with Polanski. Can you help me?

Farage is just another tool in the box that Trump will pick up, use and put back when he’s finished with it. And what kind of tool is Farage? A chisel!
And that makes Trump a chiseller!

“I never knew a man, who could tell so many lies. He has different story for every pair of eyes. How can he remember who he’s talking to? I know it ain’t me, I hope it isn’t you”.
Neil Young.

Wow! I take it you do a lot of miles?

I’m not aware of that tariff. I’m on Intelligent Pro 7.5 pence per KW between 11.30-5.30.

Many if them work for the oil companies. Reform is basically funded by oil companies and therefore they are only too pleased to spout energy nonsense.

Good for you. And cheap off peak electricity for the whole house. What’s not to like?

Yes but none if that has a direct effect on the growth of EV chargers. The figure I gave earlier of EV chargers outnumbering petrol pumps don't even include the roughly 1 million home chargers. If you count those, "petrol pumps" are outnumbered by more than 15-to-1. Don’t believe the oil companies!

It’s not just that chargers are growing; petrol stations are disappearing. In 1970, there were nearly 40,000 petrol stations in the UK. Today, there are only about 8,350 left. Many are being sold off by companies like Shell to be converted into—you guessed it—EV charging hubs.

Droning on I’d say

I was listening to an “expert” on LBC this morning talking nonsense about electric vehicles. He wants to open up the oil and gas fields in the North Sea without any appreciation that any gas or oil that comes out is owned by foreign companies and will be sold to us at standard prices.

Today in Epsom.

Wow!

I’m with Octopus and they have an app which shows a map with all the charge points on it. You can plan your route and plan a charge and they have negotiated an 8% price reduction. If you lease a car from them, they’ll even put a home charger in for free!

Here’s a screen shot of our popular supermarkets showing those with chargers. Not all have them but they’re all committed to putting them in so they’ll grow. You’ll not see a petrol pump at Lidl but you can often charge and shop at the same time

Just like petrol car drivers, hardly anyone charges from O-100% so the time spent charging is not very much. I have a home charger and my car will do 250 miles on a charge so i’ve never even charged away from home. I bet you will see them now we’ve mentioned them. They’re literally everywhere!

Well they do exactly that already in China. Thing is, EVs and the infrastructure here in the UK are rapidly and silently improving. It sounds like a bold claim, but as of March 2026, Public EV charging points now outnumber individual petrol pumps in the UK by nearly two-to-one!

If you are considering a new EV, be aware that due to the escalating war, anything coming from China by boat, and that includes Teslas will probably have to go the long way round. This will possibly effect the price and will definitely effect the delivery time.

Can’t argue about the mining but hopefully a better solution will be found. I can argue about hydrogen though. Latest research and conclusions suggest it’s not viable as a domestic fuel or for cars. Maybe suitable for heavy industry or perhaps lorries.

Yes but only 3p per mile and that only after 2028. Tax is rising from £10 per year to £200 but there’s still a significant saving over petrol if you have a home charger and a cheap overnight rate. I’m not sure if it’s worth the change if you have to charge away from home.

Wind is the backbone of our green energy, providing up to 37% of our total electricity on its own. On a windy day in the South East, it’s highly likely that my EV is being charged almost entirely by offshore turbines in the North Sea. I expect prices will rise though as gas is effected by the war.

Petrol is already going up at the pumps and some analysts reckon it might reach £1.50 per litre by the summer. The government actually extended the 5p fuel duty cut until August 2026 but after that there will be a staggered reduction of the 5p. It going to come as a shock. Good time to think EV?

The headline was, “Photos show dignified transfer for 6 US soldiers killed in the war in the Middle East”.
Dignified! Trump showed up wearing a baseball cap. He might just as well have worn his jacket with the Mr Clutch logo emblazoned on the back!

I looked up the Board of Peace website.

No news since 22 January.

Trump says (on the site) that it has the chance to be one of the most consequential bodies ever created.

I’d love someone to ask him why it hasn’t featured in his Iran strategy.

Oh, Trump has the same bins as we have!

Cyprus isn’t a NATO country but the UK is and our bases there are considered to be legally BritishTerritory. So if Iran attacked our bases, theoretically that would be an attack on us.

How?

Trump actually said this. He really did.

“Spain actually said that we can’t use their base... We could use their base if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody’s going to tell us not to use it, but we don’t have to."

Source- BBC last night. Of course the cost to the US includes the three F-15 jets that were shot down, approx $90 million but someone has to pay for them.

The US is burning $1,000,000,000 every single day on the war in Iran.
In just a few days, the US and Israel have dropped more bombs and fired more missiles than Ukraine has used in 4 years against Putin.
What’s going on?