Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 6:28 am
Morning all.
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Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 6:39 am
Vauxhall one of my ex constituencies when Stuart Holland was MP.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 6:54 am
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/ ... d-unveiled" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Radical plans to end huge costs of buying a freehold unveiled
Law Commission draws up options enabling leaseholders to extend or buy more cheaply
Radical plans to end huge costs of buying a freehold unveiled
Law Commission draws up options enabling leaseholders to extend or buy more cheaply
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 7:15 am
Sky'sGoneOut on form last night, following Tinyclanger's link --
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... russia-cbs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Donald Trump now says he holds the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, personally responsible for his country’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election, further walking back a statement on Monday that drew bipartisan rebukes.
Asked if he agreed with US intelligence assessments that Russia meddled in the election in 2016, Trump replied: “Yeah, and I’ve said that before, Jeff. I have said that numerous times before, and I would say that is true, yeah.”
Asked what he had said to Putin during a one-on-one meeting the two had in Helsinki on Monday, Trump replied: “Very strong on the fact that we can’t have meddling, we can’t have any of that.”"
Honest to god it's like listening to a fucking five year old. At least five year olds have an excuse in that their brains are only partially developed and they have a limited range of experience. But it's not like people didn't know what to expect from him. They voted for him knowing he was a cretin. They voted for him knowing he was a narcissistic freak. They voted for him knowing he would happily lie to their faces. They voted for him knowing he was a racist misogynistic sex pest. So having him essentially behave in a way that Republicans would previously have regarded as traitorous then try to pretend it didn't happen isn't going to make the slightest bit of difference. He said it himself, he could shoot people and his followers would still vote for him.
If you swapped Trump for Nixon and put them in the same Watergate situation Trump, nowadays, would get away with it.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... russia-cbs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Donald Trump now says he holds the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, personally responsible for his country’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election, further walking back a statement on Monday that drew bipartisan rebukes.
Asked if he agreed with US intelligence assessments that Russia meddled in the election in 2016, Trump replied: “Yeah, and I’ve said that before, Jeff. I have said that numerous times before, and I would say that is true, yeah.”
Asked what he had said to Putin during a one-on-one meeting the two had in Helsinki on Monday, Trump replied: “Very strong on the fact that we can’t have meddling, we can’t have any of that.”"
Honest to god it's like listening to a fucking five year old. At least five year olds have an excuse in that their brains are only partially developed and they have a limited range of experience. But it's not like people didn't know what to expect from him. They voted for him knowing he was a cretin. They voted for him knowing he was a narcissistic freak. They voted for him knowing he would happily lie to their faces. They voted for him knowing he was a racist misogynistic sex pest. So having him essentially behave in a way that Republicans would previously have regarded as traitorous then try to pretend it didn't happen isn't going to make the slightest bit of difference. He said it himself, he could shoot people and his followers would still vote for him.
If you swapped Trump for Nixon and put them in the same Watergate situation Trump, nowadays, would get away with it.
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Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 7:56 am
He's visiting/staying tomorrow,subject to neither of us getting lost.He's going for the disheveled look so will be in good company.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 7:58 am
I have the advantage of having a vague idea where I live.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 7:59 am
Sky not Trump.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 8:02 am
Only charging £50,which I think is very reasonable,more.if he doesn't want to sleep.in the shed.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 8:13 am
Morning all. Library day today so won't be here for long.
Quite like this...
Quite like this...
Gerald Ratner
@geraldratner
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It should have been obvious — I thought it would be obvious — but I would like to clarify, just in case it wasn’t. In a key sentence in my remarks, I said the word crap when I meant quality. Thanks Donald.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 8:22 am
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... unications" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Research and analysis
Research supporting Help to Save communications
(Government's nabbing of Labour's savings gateway scheme(but characteristically different,which they cancelled and I would have benefited from,yet another reason to hate them)
Research and analysis
Research supporting Help to Save communications
(Government's nabbing of Labour's savings gateway scheme(but characteristically different,which they cancelled and I would have benefited from,yet another reason to hate them)
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 8:28 am
Also ditched caring with confidence,really petty stuff but easy hit swept up in can't afford bollox.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 8:35 am
That's the HMRC that pursued monies for two years on a non existing "business",after repeatedly being told.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 8:47 am
Labour's wasn't just low income necessarilly ,a small recognition in essence,transfered to default charging for a hospital bed with the election of the coalition of shits.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 9:09 am
Re ESA u-turn
https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... dated-2011" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... dated-2011" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 9:19 am
"When I said 2014,I meant 2011"
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 10:37 am
On Chris Heaton-Harris, new junior minister in Department for Exiting the EU
Universities deplore ‘McCarthyism’ as MP demands list of tutors lecturing on Brexit
Universities deplore ‘McCarthyism’ as MP demands list of tutors lecturing on Brexit
Chris Heaton-Harris, Conservative MP for Daventry and a staunch Eurosceptic, wrote to vice-chancellors at the start of this month asking for the names of any professors involved in teaching European affairs “with particular reference to Brexit”. Neatly ignoring the long tradition of academic freedom that universities consider crucial to their success, his letter asks for a copy of each university’s syllabus and any online lectures on Brexit.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 11:25 am
Genuinely brilliant - and depressingly convincing - cartoon.frog222 wrote:
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Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 12:10 pm
HindleA wrote:I have the advantage of having a vague idea where I live.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 12:10 pm
Good-afternoon, everyone
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 12:12 pm
Piddling three years difference, who cares?HindleA wrote:"When I said 2014,I meant 2011"
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 12:29 pm
HindleA wrote:Re ESA u-turn
https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... dated-2011" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Wednesday’s report by the public accounts committee outlined how the department failed to take legal advice when transferring claimants to ESA, failed to make basic checks and ignored evidence and complaints that the process was flawed.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 12:46 pm
I don't have any confidence in this government
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 12:49 pm
Will any back-payments be considered part of claimants' taxable income for this year (or whatever year in which the back-payments are received) - or will they be apportioned to each relevant year?citizenJA wrote:HindleA wrote:Re ESA u-turn
https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... dated-2011" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Wednesday’s report by the public accounts committee outlined how the department failed to take legal advice when transferring claimants to ESA, failed to make basic checks and ignored evidence and complaints that the process was flawed.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 1:01 pm
Even some Tory MPs are now contradicting the "official" line about the Swinson (non) pairing.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 1:01 pm
Doesn't your accountancy team handle that, PorFavor?
edited to add
this was an attempt at a joke
edited to add
this was an attempt at a joke
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 1:03 pm
UK government needs out of that House and into more reputable offices
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 1:42 pm
Preparing for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union on 30 March 2019
First published on
19 July 2018
https://ec.europa.eu/info/publications/ ... ch-2019_en" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 1:48 pm
"If a powerful institution wants to make people choose a certain thing, the best strategy is to make it difficult to choose the alternative."
- Brett Scott
author of The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... osing-atms" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 1:50 pm
PF Income related ESA non taxable.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 1:52 pm
Ready - or disrupted? Or ready to be disrupted?Giving evidence to the Commons public administration and constitutional affairs committee this morning, the acting cabinet secretary, Sir Mark Sedwill, said the UK would be ready for a no deal Brexit. He told MPs:
We will be ready but we shouldn’t assume it will be smooth, if it’s a disruptive outcome ...
We do have confidence in our ‘no deal’ planning, we know that it will be disruptive for them and for us if there is no deal and that we haven’t been able to find some other arrangement. (Politics Live, Guardian)
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 1:54 pm
I thought it was taxable. My mistake.HindleA wrote:PF Income related ESA non taxable.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 1:56 pm
Contributory ESA is.
https://www.gov.uk/income-tax/taxfree-a ... e-benefits" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://www.gov.uk/income-tax/taxfree-a ... e-benefits" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 2:07 pm
Interesting article. Requires some thinking about. Certainly "pocket money" and "tooth fairy payments" don't easily lend themselves to digital payment. And buying an ice-cream at the beach with a debit card just feels wrong to me!!citizenJA wrote:"If a powerful institution wants to make people choose a certain thing, the best strategy is to make it difficult to choose the alternative."
- Brett Scott
author of The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... osing-atms" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 2:17 pm
Supreme Court Hears Final Challenges Against Controversial Single Parent Benefit Cap
The government’s controversial benefit cap reduction is in its final day of hearing today.
https://rightsinfo.org/supreme-court-to ... nefit-cap/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The government’s controversial benefit cap reduction is in its final day of hearing today.
https://rightsinfo.org/supreme-court-to ... nefit-cap/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 2:28 pm
I didn't care for his supermarket checkout example. Banks may not require me as a customer but supermarkets do. I don't use self-checkouts. If I've made up my mind to purchase something at a supermarket, I'll wait in the line for a person to do it. If there aren't staff available for checking out, the market has lost my business.Willow904 wrote:Interesting article. Requires some thinking about. Certainly "pocket money" and "tooth fairy payments" don't easily lend themselves to digital payment. And buying an ice-cream at the beach with a debit card just feels wrong to me!!citizenJA wrote:"If a powerful institution wants to make people choose a certain thing, the best strategy is to make it difficult to choose the alternative."
- Brett Scott
author of The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... osing-atms" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 2:31 pm
This is becoming a pattern, isn't it? The government introduces cuts to essential benefits with the excuse that they are trying to incentivise people into work but then apply them to people they themselves have designated as not required/expected to work.HindleA wrote:Supreme Court Hears Final Challenges Against Controversial Single Parent Benefit Cap
The government’s controversial benefit cap reduction is in its final day of hearing today.
https://rightsinfo.org/supreme-court-to ... nefit-cap/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 2:34 pm
Indeed,you can be in work,as well.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 2:39 pm
If you are very much like the "any participation may be used as evidence against you".McVey's response to my point about removing the ability to work and receive housing support for homeowners was work more hours as a remedy,even though not expected to.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 2:45 pm
How dare you not fit into easy fit categories and binaries.There is no grey in their black and white imaginary World.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 2:52 pm
Hello. My name's tinyclanger and I live on Mars.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 2:52 pm
Yes I do.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 2:53 pm
"Should only be temporary".Should exist as long as circumstance remains.The view of the "fallen" sinner.Far more organisation,use of energy,conscientiousness,budgeting skills etc required than ever as a full time "worker".Itself about half required to live every day with a long term illness.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 2:59 pm
Well,I can't disprove it.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 3:20 pm
I actually work quite hard,it is just I do an excellent impression of doing naff all.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 3:24 pm
My use that as my epitaph.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 3:26 pm
You don't actually talk to people,it's sounding horns,thumbs up or hand signals.Am learning the etiquette.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 3:46 pm
20-25 years ago,I remember a supermarket where you picked up a hand held scanner on entry and did it yourself,with spot checks.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 3:47 pm
Might confuse (or alarm) some people, given the future circumstances!HindleA wrote:My use that as my epitaph.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 3:52 pm
I intend to haunt the enactors of misanthropy,bollox to the rest in peace.
Re: Thursday 19th July 2018
Posted: Thu 19 Jul, 2018 3:57 pm
My brother was shopping,not me,clarification.Extreme allergic reaction to spending money is long held.