Spoke to a retrofit assessor over the weekend who was laid off last month because of the cancellation of ECO and uncertainty in funding for energy efficiency. 10,000s of people in the same boat. The danger is when funding does finally come, no one is there to do the work and skils are wasted.

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Well if that's the way the analysis is done it's not going to be very realistic - what research has shown AIUI is that after insulation, people on very low incomes "comfort take" and use the same limited energy budget but this now buys them more heat.

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(Despite repeated nagging from, OK, mainly me, DESNZ has entirely failed to come up with a credible estimate of the RoI realised via healthier households after energy saving work is done. Thus IMO, massively miscalculating the potential benefits. And yes, I have ben asking since 2013)

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Mass migration was in fact entirely normalised to this generation, actually more so than to generations born after the Commonwealth Immigration Acts were passed in the 1960s

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Israel in its 1967 boundaries is a recognised UN state member and as such has all the rights and duties of all other states. It's not difficult to say, and if you can't, then some people would reasonably assume that you're ok with dismantling that state by force.

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