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Max Templer

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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Whilst London swelters Southwark Council refuses to turn the heating off. Glad to see @londoncentric.media @jim.londoncentric.media cover this.

The Londoners who can't turn off the heat
While most of us are busy lamenting the lack of air con, some of London's residents are stuck with the heating permanently switched on.
Heat networks supply heat to flats from a central source, often a communal boiler, through pipes that carry hot water. But in many London blocks this is impossible to switch off.
A resident of the mid-century Gilesmead estate in Camberwell told London Centric that Southwark Council fitted a new heating system back in 2014.
But he said that the system installed was designed for a five-bedroom house, not a one or two-bed flat. "We have a 220 litre hot water tank in every flat. And that is kept at a temperature of about 80°C, 24/7.

"At any time, there's about 8,000 litres of hot water in the building. And that emanates an enormous amount of heat, which needs to be there at all times, because otherwise we don't have our water."
His heating unit sits in a cupboard that once housed a wardrobe: "I open that door, it's hot like a sauna."

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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Coming back to this exchange in the wake of the heatwave this week. Not sure that @antoniabance.bsky.social and other Red Wall MPs desire to “rethink net zero” has aged very well tbh.

Tim Bale post with a link to a story saying “Red Wall Chair Joins Labour MPs Calling for Net Zero Rethink”. Tim says “Crushingly predictable. I honestly wonder sometimes whether these ‘Red Wall MPs’ might be the death of Labour. Antonia Bance MP responds saying “We are the reason there is a Labour a government…”

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Max Templer @maxtempler.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Nostalgia is suffocating the UK. It’s been decades since workers in these industries were important parts of Labour’s voter coalition and/or major employers in the UK. The weird desire to pretend it’s still 1960 stifles the ability to build on our current strengths (e.g. HE).

Al Carns’ Instagram post saying:
“Labour was chiselled out of the mines
Hammered out of the shipyards
Forged in the factories
That is the tradition I serve.”

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