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Friday 28th February 2020
Mistakenly had mania whiz on Question Time (6,6).
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Not a great time to have a bunch of clowns in charge. US similarly compromised by ideological cuts to public health by cavalier far right numpties who want the trappings, but not the responsibilities, of power.'They have no idea': government failing on coronavirus, say GPs
Doctors say NHS 111 giving wrong advice and not enough patients being tested for virus
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Anyway, a type of commonhold was introduced into UK law in 2002, to address the very issues associated with leasehold that are now affecting more and more people but it's clear developers aren't going to give up the leasehold racket voluntarily. Indeed, the expansion of leasehold to houses, which would normally be sold with the freehold and have none of the issues that require lease or commonhold in the way flats do, is jawdroppingly exploitative. I'm not expecting our spiv government to do anything to stop this sharp practice any time soon, unfortunately, but it's good these stories are out there to warn off those who may otherwise have been caught unawares.
What is strikingly absent from this article is any questions about the role of the solicitors whose job it is to advise buyers when helping them purchase a new build house. At first I couldn't understand how people didn't know what they were signing up to - until I discovered that developers were offering to pay buyers solicitors fees if they use a solicitor supplied by them. Which explains how people were deceived. What I don't understand is why complaints about poor advice from solicitors hasn't led to compensation and investigations by the SRA leading to solicitors being struck off for clear conflicts of interest.Leasehold property buyers 'misled by developers'
Anyway, a type of commonhold was introduced into UK law in 2002, to address the very issues associated with leasehold that are now affecting more and more people but it's clear developers aren't going to give up the leasehold racket voluntarily. Indeed, the expansion of leasehold to houses, which would normally be sold with the freehold and have none of the issues that require lease or commonhold in the way flats do, is jawdroppingly exploitative. I'm not expecting our spiv government to do anything to stop this sharp practice any time soon, unfortunately, but it's good these stories are out there to warn off those who may otherwise have been caught unawares.
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How do people get mortgages if they're unable to get insurance for their property in the event of floods?
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Morning all.
This is a worrying development. Did someone mention McCarthy?
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This is a worrying development. Did someone mention McCarthy?
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So Turning Point UK has set up a website where ppl can anonymously submit evidence of what they call “overt political bias” by “leftist lecturers” — apparently UK unis are “overrun” by them. So, in other words, they are creating lists of academics and gathering data about people.
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Spotted in amongst replies on that twitter feed - is it the case that Johnson is hiding out in his country estates because if he doesn't finish a book sometime very very soon he has to repay a six figure advance?
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Excellently put.Willow904 wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/ ... us-say-gpsNot a great time to have a bunch of clowns in charge. US similarly compromised by ideological cuts to public health by cavalier far right numpties who want the trappings, but not the responsibilities, of power.'They have no idea': government failing on coronavirus, say GPs
Doctors say NHS 111 giving wrong advice and not enough patients being tested for virus
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Not sure whether we've had this before but it's pretty interesting...
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Well, who'd have thunk it?
Turns out that gazillions of extra customs forms will need loads more people filling them in!
UK races to find extra 50,000 staff for post-Brexit paperwork
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -says-gove
"Red tape!"
"When do we want it?"
"Pretty bloody quickly!"
Turns out that gazillions of extra customs forms will need loads more people filling them in!
UK races to find extra 50,000 staff for post-Brexit paperwork
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -says-gove
"What do we want?"A race to hire 50,000 people in the next six months to process Brexit paperwork is under way after the government confirmed they would be needed for border operations.
But experts have warned it will be a challenge to train enough people in time to be competent in the complexity of customs declarations and the second layer of red tape involving entry and exit declaration forms that are mandatory for trading with the EU.
The Road Haulage Association has warned that the number of declaration forms for tariffs alone will rocket from the current 50m a year to 200-250m a year.
"Red tape!"
"When do we want it?"
"Pretty bloody quickly!"
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Will these 500 people be from the economically inactive sector?RogerOThornhill wrote:Well, who'd have thunk it?
Turns out that gazillions of extra customs forms will need loads more people filling them in!
UK races to find extra 50,000 staff for post-Brexit paperwork
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -says-gove
"What do we want?"A race to hire 50,000 people in the next six months to process Brexit paperwork is under way after the government confirmed they would be needed for border operations.
But experts have warned it will be a challenge to train enough people in time to be competent in the complexity of customs declarations and the second layer of red tape involving entry and exit declaration forms that are mandatory for trading with the EU.
The Road Haulage Association has warned that the number of declaration forms for tariffs alone will rocket from the current 50m a year to 200-250m a year.
"Red tape!"
"When do we want it?"
"Pretty bloody quickly!"
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So...50,000 new staff.
Say £20k each.
Add NI/Pension of 30%
Additional cost to business just for this....£1.3bn.
Say £20k each.
Add NI/Pension of 30%
Additional cost to business just for this....£1.3bn.
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B-b-BuT.......i ThOuGhT bRoWn SoLd AlL oUr GoLd????RogerOThornhill wrote:Not sure whether we've had this before but it's pretty interesting...
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Who's getting their gold out of the UK? Why?
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... or-repairsStorm damage leaves councils facing big cuts to pay for repairs
Public services to suffer after tens of millions of pounds of damage to roads and bridges (Guardian)
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Of course, the government could offer to help out there. But will they?
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If you get down to the end of that thread it would seem that the gold didn't actually physically move...citizenJA wrote:Who's getting their gold out of the UK? Why?
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Holy crap.
Not only did I pass my WCA, they've moved me to the Support Group so no messing about with jobcentre appointments 'preparing for work' and all that nonsense. Now maybe I'll calm the fuck down. I hope so because I'm literally shaking after getting off the phone. I do believe a little dance is called for then a trip to Tesco to splurge on their most expensive bottle of wine. I've been afraid to spend money for months. I can't explain what it feels like to have this weight lifted off my shoulders (and brain). Now I can actually think about other things for the first time in what feels like aeons. And hopefully contribute something other than angst crazed nonsense. I'm sorry you've had to put up with it.
Not only did I pass my WCA, they've moved me to the Support Group so no messing about with jobcentre appointments 'preparing for work' and all that nonsense. Now maybe I'll calm the fuck down. I hope so because I'm literally shaking after getting off the phone. I do believe a little dance is called for then a trip to Tesco to splurge on their most expensive bottle of wine. I've been afraid to spend money for months. I can't explain what it feels like to have this weight lifted off my shoulders (and brain). Now I can actually think about other things for the first time in what feels like aeons. And hopefully contribute something other than angst crazed nonsense. I'm sorry you've had to put up with it.
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Here you go. Or isn't this what you had in mind?
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Here you go. Or isn't this what you had in mind?
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Don't worry, your contributions are always interesting. Even if sometimes in the Chinese sense of that word......Sky'sGoneOut wrote:Holy crap.
Not only did I pass my WCA, they've moved me to the Support Group so no messing about with jobcentre appointments 'preparing for work' and all that nonsense. Now maybe I'll calm the fuck down. I hope so because I'm literally shaking after getting off the phone. I do believe a little dance is called for then a trip to Tesco to splurge on their most expensive bottle of wine. I've been afraid to spend money for months. I can't explain what it feels like to have this weight lifted off my shoulders (and brain). Now I can actually think about other things for the first time in what feels like aeons. And hopefully contribute something other than angst crazed nonsense. I'm sorry you've had to put up with it.
"IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS???!!!!111???!!!"
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Thanks AK that genuinely made me laugh out loud.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Don't worry, your contributions are always interesting. Even if sometimes in the Chinese sense of that word......
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More this kind of thing PF.
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Very happy to hear this update Sky.Sky'sGoneOut wrote:Holy crap.
Not only did I pass my WCA, they've moved me to the Support Group so no messing about with jobcentre appointments 'preparing for work' and all that nonsense. Now maybe I'll calm the fuck down. I hope so because I'm literally shaking after getting off the phone. I do believe a little dance is called for then a trip to Tesco to splurge on their most expensive bottle of wine. I've been afraid to spend money for months. I can't explain what it feels like to have this weight lifted off my shoulders (and brain). Now I can actually think about other things for the first time in what feels like aeons. And hopefully contribute something other than angst crazed nonsense. I'm sorry you've had to put up with it.
Would 3 bottles at 1/3 the price not be better?
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Credit where credit is due and stopped clock etc but it was good to see this.
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Or that maybe someone might start up a similar one t'other way round...
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I'm left wondering whether, as there are a fair number of Spiked contributors that are actually employed in universities, that they know the "Unis are full of lefties" is utter bollocks.spiked
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Right-wing student group Turning Point UK is encouraging students to rat on their left-wing professors who they say are ‘indoctrinating’ students. One example cited is of a professor offering a Marxist perspective on health policy. This is mini McCarthyism
Or that maybe someone might start up a similar one t'other way round...
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Oh my.
Really? I mean, really?
Really? I mean, really?
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38% of Americans wouldn't buy Corona beer "under any circumstances" because of the coronavirus, according to a recent survey.
Just to be abundantly clear: There is no link between the virus and the beer.
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I mean, when you think you might have possibly underestimated the potential of humans for gullibility - they do something to prove you wrong
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It's one of my daughter's fall-back home-consumption beers when she visits me. I warned her that this would happen. It was only a matter of time.AnatolyKasparov wrote:I mean, when you think you might have possibly underestimated the potential of humans for gullibility - they do something to prove you wrong
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I got that. It's a private entity moving gold off their UK balance sheets. Why? Why now?RogerOThornhill wrote:If you get down to the end of that thread it would seem that the gold didn't actually physically move...citizenJA wrote:Who's getting their gold out of the UK? Why?
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Who else thinks of the Corona soft drinks that were around when we were kids?
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Cigar producers must also be getting twitchy.
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(cJA edit)Sky'sGoneOut wrote:---
I can't explain what it feels like to have this weight lifted off my shoulders (and brain). Now I can actually think about other things for the first time in what feels like aeons.
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I know a bit about what you're describing above. Government shouldn't do this to people. It's not helpful, safe or justifiable.
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PorFavor wrote:Cigar producers must also be getting twitchy.
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Me!AnatolyKasparov wrote:Who else thinks of the Corona soft drinks that were around when we were kids?
Mondays - and if you were lucky he'd come after I came home from school in which case I'd get to choose what to have.
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Where's HindleA?
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trying to score some lasagnaPorFavor wrote:Where's HindleA?
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More rain predicted the next few days
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Labour therefore needs to believe in and champion a vision of the general public as decent, progressive, and reform‐minded. It helps that there is plenty of evidence to back up such a reading, but the point about myths is that they represent powerful tools for understanding, and hence, defining the social world. It is a real problem, therefore, that we so often find the left perpetuating derogatory, judgmental myths about small town and suburban Britain. Arguments about ‘left behind’ Britons or the ‘white working class’ perpetuate unhelpful myths which simultaneously flatten the complexity of lives lived and give succour to voices from the radical right.
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Highlights some of the issues,I keep banging on about.
There is a school of thought that suggests what the sector needs to solve its very real problems is more regulation, more training and qualifications for workers and more money.
"Years ago, I realised that using a traditional care agency, with its regulation and training, would not enable me to thrive. The care workers seemed to lose sight of me as a person in the quest to undertake the tasks they saw as their primary role. I heard about a different way to get the help I need and since then have used a direct payment to employ my own assistants; a decision I have never regretted."
"resonate with the values, beliefs and understanding of people who use services – in other words, the experts."
Highlights some of the issues,I keep banging on about.
There is a school of thought that suggests what the sector needs to solve its very real problems is more regulation, more training and qualifications for workers and more money.
"Years ago, I realised that using a traditional care agency, with its regulation and training, would not enable me to thrive. The care workers seemed to lose sight of me as a person in the quest to undertake the tasks they saw as their primary role. I heard about a different way to get the help I need and since then have used a direct payment to employ my own assistants; a decision I have never regretted."
"resonate with the values, beliefs and understanding of people who use services – in other words, the experts."
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This is not removed by (in various ways less likely to) local authority employees)
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Were they the ones who would drive around in a truck and give you a refund for bottles?AnatolyKasparov wrote:Who else thinks of the Corona soft drinks that were around when we were kids?
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Yes.Sky'sGoneOut wrote:Were they the ones who would drive around in a truck and give you a refund for bottles?AnatolyKasparov wrote:Who else thinks of the Corona soft drinks that were around when we were kids?
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My first "venture" was picking up (glass)coca cola bottles from the beaches in Cyprus returning them for a piastre each(if memory serves)
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You've got money on the brain . . .
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I saw that!
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At mine ,in between two homes for the foreseeable ,the idea was to bounce about a bit,unfortunately the weather" interfered "
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