Mike Cude
@mccude.bsky.social
Ex RAF, ex Telecoms engineer, now retired! Except from Taekwon-Do, nobody really retires from that! ITF style VI degree, and now instructor. Open University graduate, member of Mensa. Hobbies - Lego and very amateur astronomy.
Quite agree, cannot understand why student loans have such an excessive amount over base rate, daylight robbery!
November 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Quite agree, cannot understand why student loans have such an excessive amount over base rate, daylight robbery!
While pushing the switch to EV by 2035 narative this government seems to want EVs to be as unattractive as possible. Very expensive public charging, VED added next year and now 3p per mile extra. Public charging only EV's are already more expensive to run than ICE, why buy an EV voluntarily?
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
While pushing the switch to EV by 2035 narative this government seems to want EVs to be as unattractive as possible. Very expensive public charging, VED added next year and now 3p per mile extra. Public charging only EV's are already more expensive to run than ICE, why buy an EV voluntarily?
Everyone will be forced to by EV eventually, it's another tax on rural living pensioners. It can cost as little as 2p per mile IF you can charge at home, so adding 3p per mile is a massive % tax. If you can't charge at home then EV's are already more expensive to run than a petrol by a big margin!
November 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Everyone will be forced to by EV eventually, it's another tax on rural living pensioners. It can cost as little as 2p per mile IF you can charge at home, so adding 3p per mile is a massive % tax. If you can't charge at home then EV's are already more expensive to run than a petrol by a big margin!
Trump, bought and paid for!! $’s are all that drives him.
November 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Trump, bought and paid for!! $’s are all that drives him.
What bothers me is how any education system can spew out people as dumb as this person, did he even go to school?
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
What bothers me is how any education system can spew out people as dumb as this person, did he even go to school?
My EV switch is wrong move. With additional costs being added to EV owners I’ve done the math and it’s no worth it. Back to ICE I go. Once again the serving government con the public by enticing a switch and later pull out the rug, and we fall for it every time!
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
My EV switch is wrong move. With additional costs being added to EV owners I’ve done the math and it’s no worth it. Back to ICE I go. Once again the serving government con the public by enticing a switch and later pull out the rug, and we fall for it every time!
Is the Budget about to penalise EV drivers for making the switch? EV’s are expensive to buy, EV’s are expensive to run if you cannot charge at home, VED added from April, now included in London Congestion charge. With rumours of extra costs coming, why did I switch again? ICE is my next choice!
November 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Is the Budget about to penalise EV drivers for making the switch? EV’s are expensive to buy, EV’s are expensive to run if you cannot charge at home, VED added from April, now included in London Congestion charge. With rumours of extra costs coming, why did I switch again? ICE is my next choice!
Billionaires won’t be embarrassed because most of them are psychopaths!
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Billionaires won’t be embarrassed because most of them are psychopaths!
Don't forget he threatened to annex Greenland and make Canada the 51st State.
November 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Don't forget he threatened to annex Greenland and make Canada the 51st State.
Hang on a minute, do the protestors not count as being the "public", what a load of tosh!!
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Hang on a minute, do the protestors not count as being the "public", what a load of tosh!!
And all the time the energy compainies are making vast profits off the consummer by linking to the highest gas price on the market, maximising the difference between cheaper renewables, (or touted as such with such great aplomb). It's a massive con at our expense.
October 31, 2025 at 9:18 AM
And all the time the energy compainies are making vast profits off the consummer by linking to the highest gas price on the market, maximising the difference between cheaper renewables, (or touted as such with such great aplomb). It's a massive con at our expense.
He's talking about himself surely........!!
October 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
He's talking about himself surely........!!
What about the cost burden on the domestic users??
October 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
What about the cost burden on the domestic users??
Elephant in the room!! Why are fuel bills to the consumer so high? Compainies are making a lot of profit out of consumers!
October 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Elephant in the room!! Why are fuel bills to the consumer so high? Compainies are making a lot of profit out of consumers!
Then why is the cost to the consumer so high? Decouple electricity cost from gas prices now would be a good start.
October 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Then why is the cost to the consumer so high? Decouple electricity cost from gas prices now would be a good start.
That’ll be when Grump stops throwing his teddies out of his cot.
October 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
That’ll be when Grump stops throwing his teddies out of his cot.
although I'm hoping history doesn't remember him at all.....!!
October 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
although I'm hoping history doesn't remember him at all.....!!
It's fear of a system that doesn't put the "right" people first, i.e. those with the money!
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
It's fear of a system that doesn't put the "right" people first, i.e. those with the money!
“Useful” is redundant, “Farage is a tool” would be enough.
October 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“Useful” is redundant, “Farage is a tool” would be enough.
He’s an arrogant POS!
October 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
He’s an arrogant POS!
I'm so glad neither I or any of my family live in the USA right now. That was not reasonable force by any stretch of the imagination, that cop needs to take a long hard look at himself in the mirror!
October 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I'm so glad neither I or any of my family live in the USA right now. That was not reasonable force by any stretch of the imagination, that cop needs to take a long hard look at himself in the mirror!