the long awaited defenestration of the greased piglet (sort of)

'above his head flew a banner with the emblem of the sun and moon'  - marco polo described the appearance of the great khan in battle. 

once again it is julius ceasar season in the tory party (what already? it seems like only a minute ago we were breaking teresa may's little heart.)

here we await the defenestration of the greased piglet from one of the upstairs windows of number ten downing street (surely to be reported as a tragic accident).  er. except it's probably not happening until tuesday now. 

STOP PRESS: no he has in fact stood down (which means he remains in role until the autumn) 

'tis done' (is it too early to start drinking?) 

boris just wanted to get on with 'an enormous amount of stuff' (there's a grasp of detail for you) but they won't let him (cads and rotters the lot of them). 

and so there will be no vote of no confidence him. and also he gets to stay in office until the autumn. 

horsemouth spent a lot of time writing his blog this morning in the 'he won't go (he'll have to be chucked)' basis and then he went (er. sort of), so he rewrote it in a 'he's gone (but he's not gone yet)' fashion. please don't tell me there's more wriggle in the pig... as nasruddin says it's a long time til autumn... 

ok looks like the tory party have spotted that one and decided to spike his guns and chuck him now anyway. ladies and gentlemen - the defenstration of the greased piglet is back on!

ok so now that he's (not) gone let's talk about him like he's no longer here. 

david davis has heard of 10 candidates for the job of PM already, and they tell me that michael gove is available. superficially the field is quite wide (any tory MP only possibly excluding chris pincher and the rapist who is temporarily banned from  parliament) but really it has to be someone untainted by the previous regime and a brexiteer/ brexit convert (to keep those people happy). now seeing as boris's cabinet was crammed with every talentless brexiteer bandwagon jumper  he could find the tories may find that boris has rather tainted the pool. 

gove, hunt, sunak, the bald one - jesus but it's a sorry shower of shits. it is important to remember that boris is getting it in the neck (in part) is for not being right wing enough, for not being fiscally conservative enough. whoever is elected will be elected on a platform of to hell with the poor. 

whoever the tory party elects (fast process) will be governing unelected by the people, it will be tempting to go for a rapid election but on the other hand if the economic news continues to be bad (which it will) the tories won't want to be having an election while there's an economic 'feel bad' factor - so they may try and stretch it out until tuesday 2nd may 2024. 

horsemouth would actually predict next autumn. 

today horsemouth waits in for the dude coming to inspect the house and issue an EPC certificate. 

once again some more of horsemouth thinking out loud. 

one of the key reasons for doing this is to help the co-op meet its regulatory requirements.  the government has legislated that co-ops needs to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, with intermediary targets of a 68% reduction by 2030 and a 78% reduction (and  a minimum energy performance certificate of C on the co-op's properties) by 2035.

frankly this is all quite a way off (and so may be achievable). the amount of social housing stock in the country is still vast, the housing associations, councils and TMOs are under-capitalised to do all the work required. there is (some) government money for it (but not enough for all of it).