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Major obstacle removed for UK to clinch Brexit deal within weeks

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Forgive me but this is a lazy take designed to sow division and animosity.

The EU members will have strength in certain areas, the UK will have strength in others. The point of the negotiations is to agree on how to best take each forward so the output is better than before for both parties. Otherwise the EU should simply say, "no talks capitulate or nothing". Which it clearly isn't doing.

So when you hot take "the UK isn't negotiating from a position of strength", that begs the question "what do you mean by this"?

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Heat pumps and insulation would cut UK living costs more than new oilfields, study suggests

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No I mean not tender for private contracts to do this. Actually do this in a nationalised way.

Setup a department, NIS (the afore mentioned National Insulation Service), with the motto warmth at the point of use, build a workforce that goes town by town coldest to hottest parts of the country and adds the required missing insulation to however many homes need it starting with low income homes.

Everyone is so keen on nationalising everything so why not kickstart this and do some good. I say the same thing about home building. Set up a government home building project entirely run by government employees funded by the state. I can understand how there would be NIMBY protectionism against that (can't build that here you'll lower the value of my mansion) but who would argue against insulation?