VB.NET isn’t all that uncommon - it isn’t exactly Fortran, and it’s still maintained by Microsoft. I know a senior engineer that still writes a lot of new code in VB.NET because he’s just used to it…

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“Reform UK government will deliver in 100 days - or I will blame everyone else but myself”

You’re saying “tone policing” to ridicule it, but as a political party that needs to attract the general public to get elected - yeah, policing tone is actually kinda important. Not saying everything should be bland or a 300-page nuanced policy analysis, but you need to bring people with you, not alienate them.

They are a green party, funnily enough. They don’t “need” to become a socialist party.

A heat pump still costs a hell of a lot more than a high gas bill or a new boiler.

New boiler: £3000
New heat pump: £12000 (without subsidy)

You’d have to increase a new boiler by a lot to make a heat pump worthwhile currently, and then you’ll find most people would be able to afford neither.

I have my own reservations about the motion, but it isn’t really antisemitic. I think calling something “antisemitic” is simply used as a shortcut to discredit anything they don’t like related to Israel and Judaism. There’s never any reason given for something like this being antisemitic, it “just is”.