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But have they? All the media is talking about is rubber boats of illegal immigrants, numbering a few tens of thousands a year, which serves for nothing but winding people up. At the same time, legal immigration from mainly outside the EU, numbers hundreds of thousands a year. This is kept rather quiet by comparison, but these people are needed and welcomed, to do the jobs the British cannot be arsed to do. Someone has to pay the taxes to support the cost of benefits Britain!

The thing is, with LED lighting, each light can put out multiple colours. Therefore, much less lighting is actually required, so it is relatively cheap. Loudspeaker technology has not really changed, so not a lot really required there. Modern amplification is Class “D”, which is cheap compared to the Class “AB” of 20 years ago. Wireless microphone systems are quite expensive, I’ll admit, but not eye watering. So, where is the 1.6 million going?

Big, decent shows always have their own lights and sound. Any changes made will not impact really big shows.

That is roughly double the low rate tariff over copper. I only have my land line for two reasons. Firstly, many people know the number as I have had it for nearly four decades. Secondly, regardless of where my mobile is, I know exactly where my land line phone is in case of an emergency. If I cannot keep my number, there is even less reason to have a land line. If they come to install fibre to my house, they can do so to the box outside. Not required inside.

The problem with 20mph zones on iom is that they are not patrolled and the limits not enforced. That was straight from the horses mouth. I asked. So, I live on a close, 20mph, but the speed of some of the vehicles is astounding. May as well stick the no limits sign up!

This government can absolutely bankrupt our island, and it will make absolutely no difference to anybody’s future. Tractor run was brilliant!

That is one of the reasons this wind farm is a bad idea. 20-30 smaller ones would be easier to transport, install, maintain, and less impact if one is down for maintenance. Stick them on Jurby Airfield. Jobs a goodun!

By that principle, geothermal makes even more sense as it works 100% of the time. No need for additional interconnect.

There are three charities, The one with the most tokens gets a fixed amount. The other two receive an amount based on the number of blue tokens submitted

They are fed. They are not reliant on natural food growing in the tank.

Yes, but in most of those cases, such as reservoirs and drinking water, you don’t want living things, or at least to minimise them. @NoTail correct, bug how old is the breakwater! As I said earlier, it does recover, but not quickly. Where brother lives, about 40 years ago, his waterfront condo was built. 30 years ago, there was virtually no sealife. 20 years ago, there was seaweed anda few fish. 5 years ago, the large fish had returned. I even saw s turtle (not the type you see in the sea around here). That was just a small development of a 100 metres of dock and 100 or so condos. @The Phantom See above.

At the end of the day, ig is s profit, not a loss. Keep up the good work, Stu!

I guess you missed biology class when they talked about food chains. You see, our seaweed cannot grow where there is too much lime. If there is no seaweed, there are no small crustaceans, sea horses, small fish. In which case, no bigger fish. Your few blocks of cement (sic) are actually hundreds of tonnes of cement over a large area. The amount of work to install these “few blocks of cement” will decimate the area, and the lime will prevent it returning to normal for decades.

Lime. It dissolves easily in water (water soluble) and drastically changes the pH of water increasing the alkalinity (pH 11-13), which causes burns (just like an acid burn) on fish and kills fish and other aquatic life.

Correct, 20-30 years later when the environment (food) has recovered, the fish return.

If you are talking about the destruction of the sea bed, cement is poisonous, so kills any life around it. As for other sea life, installation / anchoring to the sea bed requires considerable blasting, which kills fish and most other sea life.

I have never advocated offshore. It is simply preferable to onshore because offshore can bd much bigger. Transportation is not an issue.

Thing is they already get cheap nuclear power via interconnects from France. They (supposedly) have sufficient resilience should that fail. There really is little point. On your fishing point, you do realise that the installation of offshore wind turbines absolutely destroys the surrounding sealife? Not just the sea bed. Everything. But it is all progress, I suppose!

Jersey has even less requirement for one. And less money to waste!

I guess they are some of the ones older people volunteer to look after because people like you are too busy. Like the kids grand parents pick up from schools for free because parents are too busy. Or the retirees who run the clubs charities for nothing. But as you say, there is no point in the elderly. They don’t contribute. They don’t need to drive. Meanwhile, your car is sat unused all day. Whom is the one who does not need a car?

Exactly! It is the young and fit whom should be walking and cycling. Most catch the bus already. God forbid they might have to not look at their phones and check Facebook for 20 minutes whilst driving.

Not short sighted at all. It is the young who have been brainwashed into believing that they can stop or reverse global warming. They have never driven before so will not miss it or know any different. They cannot afford electric vehicles nor the insurance to go with it. They cannot even afford driving lessons these days. It is the obvious place to start.

Be better to stop issuing licenses to new drivers. They are the biggest danger on the roads and the most likely to have crashes.

I am not sure I see a problem. A number of insurance companies pay out on notification of a terminal illness, prior to death. In which case assisted dying, and the death certificate would be virtually irrelevant.

The biggest profiteers of road fuel is the government. 52.95P of every litre (plus vat) is the additional tax for using IC vehicles. So you can stuff your extra road tax on IC.