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The Tories have already took away the carrot for 90% of the population. There's only the stick - as shown by the increasing numbers of homeless. The rich are left overincentivised because they're under no pressure to innovate and reinvest, because they're free to hoard their wealth and circumvent tax. Because the job market is so saturated with job seekers that you can offer any wage you like under any conditions. And it's so easy to get returns by investing in London that the idea of getting involved in enterprise in the regions is comparatively pointless. The free market only works when both sides have choice and information. When one side is completely unskilled, and has been told that they need to accept the first job offered to them or be completely cut-off from any income, and they're already short on 3 months' rent, that's not a free market. That's called monopsony - a buyer's market, and the unemployed are left selling themselves not because theres any carrot on offer, but because the stick is right behind them ready to make them homeless in a moment. Please just say you're comfortable and don't give a shit about the rest. I can respect that. It just comes off as disingenuous when you try and talk about this stuff like you've got a wider reason for your beliefs.

Thinking that Nudge was a bloke does make this a tad odd now.... Anything you want to tell... any closets for sale??

Seriously, screw every single one of you. First I watch this documentary on Netflix which is brilliant and I want to take off of work tomorrow so I can binge the rest of it. Secondly, I downloaded the F1 game on my phone, which is actually quite nice as well, and in total, I've wasted many hours today on F1, whereas 2 days ago I didn't know shit about it other than the fact that @Tommy had a serious crush on this Hamilton chap. Oh, and to add to the misery, there isn't a fecking race for a week and a half! Go to hell.

Pit-Stops are between 2 seconds and 2.5, the best ones are anyway. As time has progressed they have gone quicker, in the past they were longer, you had to refuel in previous years, and tire changes in general were longer. In this day and age a pit-stop usually takes longer if the front wing needs replacing. But a standard pit-stop around 2.5 seconds, may seem like a rookie mistake but the pressure is intense. Last yeah in Bahrain it happened to Kimi and he broke his mechanics leg.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2017/02/atomic-rooms-beijing-china-housing/?utm_source=reddit.com Fascinating read and kind of silly how expensive living is in Beijing.

Get used to your new national anthem.

Our work here is done fellas. Another one down the rabbit hole of formula racing!

Cheers buddy, if you ever need sun cream rubbing in on a beach let us know. Only joking.

It's one pit crew per team (not per driver) as per F1 rules.

Oh Vettel.

Don't pay too much attention to it; it's just an additional standalone sponsor's (DHL) award and doesn't have anything to do with actual F1 championship standings!

The fastest rendezvous and docking with the ISS mission is successful! Also this is proper rocket porn:

Progress cargo ship launch on Soyuz to the ISS is live; T-10 minutes as of now.

That investment in job creation and education, and the enforcement of liveable wages, is the best way to get people into the workforce, as opposed to pushing swathes of incapable people onto the job market, chasing small amounts of insecure, unliveable work at pain of homelessness. That our economy is fundamentally unbalanced towards an unstable financial sector concentrated around London, and that without improved infastructure and without incentivising the creation of new industries in the regions, that wealth will concentrate in London and the bulk of the country will stay stuck on the post-industrial shitheap. That lower-income households are extremely disproportionately burdened by excessive rents and utilities overcharges, and that expanding the housing supply and establishing public control over utilities will create a great deal more economic freedom for those on lower incomes. And that all of this can be funded by enforcing tax laws properly, as opposed to turning a blind eye and allowing money to be unproductively sucked out of the economy just because half the government are tax dodgers.