I think a switch to PR would be more practical, and more effective.

Second-hand Nissan Leaf?

Energy prices are set to keep gas-fired power stations profitable because we need those power stations to keep the lights on. Sometimes. As we build out more renewables, the need for gas diminishes, but we still need it.

I agree with the proposition that we ought to be pushing for more renewables, but cutting the electricity prices so that gas-fired power stations close, whilst simultaneously eliminating the incentive to build more solar & wind… just doesn’t seem very smart.

That sounds like a terrible idea. Just one step away from a return to 1970s-style price controls. Unless you nationalise all the farms too, you end up just encouraging producers to shift to other crops, and that way lies Soviet style bread queues.

If you want to support poorer people, it’s far cheaper and easier to just give them more money.

As I understand it, much of the genuine need to food banks in the UK (remember, a relatively new phenomenon) is down to the inflexibility of Universal Credit. It used to be that you could sign on, and get cash in your pocket pretty immediately. Nowadays, there’s weeks of waiting. Let’s fix that, rather than trying to get the government into the supermarket business.

I literally think that Corbyn would struggle to organise a piss-up in a brewery.

Rents wouldn’t go up in general, because the rental market is driven by wages, not by landlords’ costs. Landlords already charge as much as the market can bear.

If there’s a negative consequence, it would be on the supply side. If letting becomes less profitable, then there’s less money for renovating and maintaining rental properties.

A timely reminder to never accept a caution (unless you are damn sure you would also plead guilty in court - because that’s essentially what you’re doing).

But what style of boot do you want?

The latest Ubuntu defaults to using Wayland. On my Framework, it would freeze the whole box every few days. I switched to Xorg, and it was much better. (It’s an option on the login screen - just clock the little cog and choose Xorg before you log in.)