Reddit/BBC reacts by complaining about jobs and taxpayers leaving
Wise redditor notes that net zero is not to blame for high energy costs destroying industry it's actually privatization 
Net zero is not really to blame for that, although it is a convenient scapegoat.
The issue is that the electricity and broader energy industry has spent the last 35 years living off the inheritance of the nationalised energy industries.
Now that inheritence is finally wearing out and the pseudo market in electricity is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1jlq1xa/steel_tycoon_lakshmi_mittal_plans_to_leave_uk/
Bongland has second highest amount of millionaires fleeing
Definitely between a rock & a hard place on this one.
On one hand if you're resident here you should be paying your fair share of taxes.
On the other hand, the UK has the 3rd largest outflow of USD millionaires in the world, behind China & India (in total, not per capita, where we're 1st by some margin). Even with their tax breaks most of these people contributed significantly more to the UK coffers than the average tax payer.
Edit: I lied, we're 2nd as of 2024. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-millionaire-migration-in-2024/
.webp?h=11 "Nuzzles, pounces on you, UwU, you're so warm!..")
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If they can't get steel in Bongland I'd imagine Nissan are leaving too. I only mention that so I can post this rad gif of a 1980s Nissan Fairlady:
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The taxpayer burden on Sunderland would be ruinous if Nissan shuts down
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Who pays tax in Sunderland?
I went to College in Newcastle. Chinese hate Japanese less than Geordies hate Sunderland-ers (? No idea what they call themselves?).
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Mackems. Sunderlands only contribution to the economy is the Tombola head office and the Nissan factory. If one of them goes it becomes Middlesbrough but with a metro connection to Newcastle.
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Ah yes- the Metro. Because the morning journey into the city center was always improved by the strong smell of last night's spilled extra-strength lager and piss.
THERE'S A REASON EVERY OTHER URBAN TRANSIT DOESN'T HAVE UPHOLSTERED SEATS.
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Its part of living in the city, how disabled are you?
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Sundancers
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Sanddancers is south shields, Sunderland is Mackems.
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ah, northcels and their little tribes
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Ah, no- that's South Shields...
The garden spot of Tyneside.
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everything above Watford is 'The North', it's all the same mate. Never even been tbh.
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I accidentally went to university there.
I was lied to and told it was a fun place where it was easy to make friends. Turned out to be code for "everyone is drunk all of the time".
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They're called Mackems.
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Smack 'ems on their lil butts and get em back in chains to work for free
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Ah, the real reason he (Silent Hill 2 spoiler)
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Well it's a good thing it's not like Nissan will collapse in the next year or anything. Oh wait.
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Honestly, I'm surprised Nissan hasn't collapsed already.
I assume just sheer Japanese autism has prevented that for the past decade.
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They've been being propped up by the gov for a while, they even tried to get Honda to buy them but that fell through
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They cant get new steel. But they can use recyled steel. EU is ran on recyled steel. Diffrence is. You can recyle steel using electricity. But to make new steel. You need to burn coal. You cant just heat up iron ore to turn it to steel. You need to burn.
This is fine and dandy. Until any disruption happens and then you are left standing peepee in your hand. Even EU walked back going to recyled steel only. And kept handful of blast furnaces.
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the most beautiful production car in the world imo
i sat in one and the interiors were bad though. it can't be helped for a car from that era
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babe that's what restorations are for
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It certainly looks British
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It is rad though
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