Wednesday 14th February 2018
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Wednesday 14th February 2018
Morning all.
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Morning
It's a bit chilly on the willy.
(Not a crossword clue)
It's a bit chilly on the willy.
(Not a crossword clue)
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Hope everybody knows their times tables
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No, why?HindleA wrote:Hope everybody knows their times tables
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Universal Credit: different earning patterns and your payments
Updated with payment wait reduced to five weeks instead of six,"replicating the World of work".My "week"finished Monday morning,payslip Tuesday,into bank Friday.
Universal Credit: different earning patterns and your payments
Updated with payment wait reduced to five weeks instead of six,"replicating the World of work".My "week"finished Monday morning,payslip Tuesday,into bank Friday.
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@tinybgoat
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Ha,I find it impossible to learn tables, not sure why,HindleA wrote:@tinybgoat
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/mult ... in-schools" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
but remember some useful bits like 6 X 7
& work out the rest as I go
ie 8 X 4 is 2 X 4, doubled
9 X n is 10 X n - 1 etc.
Admittedly I was bottom of class in mental arithmetic tests at 12 (speed), though never a disadvantage later.
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Darts is a good way to do mental arithmetic.
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They are removing the possibility of also working in what was our situation,in many ways they are creating the system(a false portrayal version)they are supposedly fixing.
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Re: Wednesday 14th February 2018
"Blinded by the word "benefit",increasingly of the belief need to substantially increase extra costs allowances if they are going to remove accounting for particular circumstances otherwise.
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So you have a legal right to consider work as part of an assessment for social care and income disregarded as far as charging goes but the DWP says no.Of course a possible remedy would have been to work enough to make up the difference at vast more cost in substitute care "integration"
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Does my napper in Governments get away with the "fairness" thing applied to totally different situations,potentially the people supposedly being hard done to,comparatively.
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Morning all.
Library today so will pop in this evening. Hope all's well with everyone.
Library today so will pop in this evening. Hope all's well with everyone.
If I'm not here, then I'll be in the library. Or the other library.
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9 x n is 10 x n - ntinybgoat wrote:9 X n is 10 X n - 1
I still believe in a town called Hope
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Something wrong with your link.HindleA wrote:https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ds#history
Universal Credit: different earning patterns and your payments
Updated with payment wait reduced to five weeks instead of six,"replicating the World of work".My "week"finished Monday morning,payslip Tuesday,into bank Friday.
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Oops, that explains a lot!adam wrote:9 x n is 10 x n - ntinybgoat wrote:9 X n is 10 X n - 1
(In my defence, I was walking & typing on mobile at the same time)
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Good morfternoon.
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Gone a bit quiet again? This place genuinely died on its posterior last night.
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Good-afternoon, everyone
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I left the computer in a hurry last night.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Gone a bit quiet again? This place genuinely died on its posterior last night.
I hope all is well with everyone
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Borisjohnsonitis.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Gone a bit quiet again? This place genuinely died on its posterior last night.
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I thought maybe I'd killed it with my awful anagramsAnatolyKasparov wrote:Gone a bit quiet again? This place genuinely died on its posterior last night.
TBF there wasn't much going on, even on Twitter. I guess everyone is either on half term or waiting for the garbology.
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@PF snap I think
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While everyone is talking Johnson & Brexit..
Labour announces that they plan on legistating that people in rented accommodation must be able to have pets if they want to.
Stopping landlords banning pets.
Give me strength.
(yes pets are important, esp for those who live alone, but this is really not the hot issue/topic of the day.)
Labour announces that they plan on legistating that people in rented accommodation must be able to have pets if they want to.
Stopping landlords banning pets.
Give me strength.
(yes pets are important, esp for those who live alone, but this is really not the hot issue/topic of the day.)
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Great thread! (Unless you are a Boris fan)
Great thread! (Unless you are a Boris fan)
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AngryAsWell wrote:While everyone is talking Johnson & Brexit..
Labour announces that they plan on legistating that people in rented accommodation must be able to have pets if they want to.
Stopping landlords banning pets.
Give me strength.
(yes pets are important, esp for those who live alone, but this is really not the hot issue/topic of the day.)
I feel you are maybe slightly unfair, though I take your point.
Today we've launched our plan for animal welfare. We would ban wild animals in circuses, consult landlords on giving tenants the right to keep a pet, strengthen the Hunting Act and expand affordable vet care for people on low incomes. Take a look
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Yes I've seen it.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:AngryAsWell wrote:While everyone is talking Johnson & Brexit..
Labour announces that they plan on legistating that people in rented accommodation must be able to have pets if they want to.
Stopping landlords banning pets.
Give me strength.
(yes pets are important, esp for those who live alone, but this is really not the hot issue/topic of the day.)
I feel you are maybe slightly unfair, though I take your point.Today we've launched our plan for animal welfare. We would ban wild animals in circuses, consult landlords on giving tenants the right to keep a pet, strengthen the Hunting Act and expand affordable vet care for people on low incomes. Take a look
Knowing that today would be all about Johnson & Brexit, is not the day for this.
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Good morning
There is more to life in the UK than Brexit and life goes on.
I don't think Labour intend animal welfare to be a huge announcement but they should not be derailed from doing so because some bumbling idiot decides to use today to make a vacuous speech
You could make this argument on any day at the moment as there seems to be a relay in vacuous speeches by the Government
Keir Starmer has given a strong response to the Johnson speech and so it is not as though they are ignoring it
When there is something concrete about Brexit then perhaps we can then make a day of discussing nothing else, but as you said - today is not the day for it!
There is more to life in the UK than Brexit and life goes on.
I don't think Labour intend animal welfare to be a huge announcement but they should not be derailed from doing so because some bumbling idiot decides to use today to make a vacuous speech
You could make this argument on any day at the moment as there seems to be a relay in vacuous speeches by the Government
Keir Starmer has given a strong response to the Johnson speech and so it is not as though they are ignoring it
When there is something concrete about Brexit then perhaps we can then make a day of discussing nothing else, but as you said - today is not the day for it!
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Consulting with landlords isn't really going to get very far, I suspect. I think there are good reasons sometimes for banning pets from short term furnished private rentals. The key would be in Labour's general housing policy to get more long term stable leases, like council houses, where tenants take responsibility for carpets and furnishings rather than the landlord, in which case keeping pets is much less of an issue.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:AngryAsWell wrote:While everyone is talking Johnson & Brexit..
Labour announces that they plan on legistating that people in rented accommodation must be able to have pets if they want to.
Stopping landlords banning pets.
Give me strength.
(yes pets are important, esp for those who live alone, but this is really not the hot issue/topic of the day.)
I feel you are maybe slightly unfair, though I take your point.Today we've launched our plan for animal welfare. We would ban wild animals in circuses, consult landlords on giving tenants the right to keep a pet, strengthen the Hunting Act and expand affordable vet care for people on low incomes. Take a look
It would be nice if pets could be more often accommodated in care homes as well, but I'm not sure it's something you can legislate for in terms of rights, more something to be encouraged through change in cultural attitudes and ensuring there are as few barriers as possible.
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Good piece by Abi Wilkinson on the Labour animal welfare proposals - and I must respectfully disagree with AAW about the importance of this topic.
To put it brutally, more people care about these issues than the - still pretty impenetrable to many - mechanics of Brexit.
These proposals are both right in principle and good politics.
To put it brutally, more people care about these issues than the - still pretty impenetrable to many - mechanics of Brexit.
These proposals are both right in principle and good politics.
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I've found great wisdom here in everyone's posts
I love that
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He's easily astonished, then.Chuka Umunna, the Labour MP and leading Open Britain supporter, has dubbed the foreign secretary’s speech an “astonishing exercise in hypocrisy”. (Politics Live, Guardian)
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He is easily a lot of things.......
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But it doesn't mention carrots?PaulfromYorkshire wrote:
Great thread! (Unless you are a Boris fan)
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I agree, there's a lot of anti-hunting stuff on my twitter.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Good piece by Abi Wilkinson on the Labour animal welfare proposals - and I must respectfully disagree with AAW about the importance of this topic.
To put it brutally, more people care about these issues than the - still pretty impenetrable to many - mechanics of Brexit.
These proposals are both right in principle and good politics.
My interest is in the environment and nature rather than animal welfare but those things go together for many.
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I'm completely at a loss for words having read Johnson's today
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Kindest description of said speech I have seen is "load of waffle".
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... leaving-eu" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;He said the UK government would be irresponsible if it committed to having regulatory alignment in emerging sectors such as artificial intelligence or robotics or bioscience, where he said the UK “may want to do things differently”.
"Differently" in what sense, exactly? More recklessly and irresponsibly? Or more restrictive and ethically constrained?
These details are important.....
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Dover will face permanent traffic jams stretching 20 miles out from the port from March 2019 unless Theresa May agrees to the EU’s proposals for a Brexit transition period, the organisation representing the shipping industry and ports has said.
David Dingle, the chairman of Maritime UK, said lorry drivers could be stuck on the main approach roads to Dover for up to two days if there was no deal for a transition. (Politics Live, Guardian)
How many more times do they need to point this out before the "Brexiters" will listen?
(Despairing rhetorical question)
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Unhelpful waffle, at that.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Kindest description of said speech I have seen is "load of waffle".
The EU are already wary of the UK trying to undercut EU countries with reduced workers rights and environmental protections and have indicated they will mitigate attempts to do so through the kind of trade deal they are willing to agree. I suspect they'll be very interested in the new "freedoms" Boris wishes to exploit and will downgrade the amount of access to EU markets they are willing to grant us accordingly.
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You are TALKING BRITAIN DOWN, and are probably being paid to do so by the SHADOWY SOROS CABAL!!PorFavor wrote:Dover will face permanent traffic jams stretching 20 miles out from the port from March 2019 unless Theresa May agrees to the EU’s proposals for a Brexit transition period, the organisation representing the shipping industry and ports has said.
David Dingle, the chairman of Maritime UK, said lorry drivers could be stuck on the main approach roads to Dover for up to two days if there was no deal for a transition. (Politics Live, Guardian)
How many more times do they need to point this out before the "Brexiters" will listen?
(Despairing rhetorical question)
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When's the next "Brexit" speech, and who's delivering it?
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -fall-flatBoris digs himself in deeper as his usual tricks fall flat
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May is supposed to be doing one I think? At some point. When she gets round to it.PorFavor wrote:When's the next "Brexit" speech, and who's delivering it?
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For clarity AAW I was laughing with you here - it may not have come over that way.AngryAsWell wrote:Yes I've seen it.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:AngryAsWell wrote:While everyone is talking Johnson & Brexit..
Labour announces that they plan on legistating that people in rented accommodation must be able to have pets if they want to.
Stopping landlords banning pets.
Give me strength.
(yes pets are important, esp for those who live alone, but this is really not the hot issue/topic of the day.)
I feel you are maybe slightly unfair, though I take your point.Today we've launched our plan for animal welfare. We would ban wild animals in circuses, consult landlords on giving tenants the right to keep a pet, strengthen the Hunting Act and expand affordable vet care for people on low incomes. Take a look
Knowing that today would be all about Johnson & Brexit, is not the day for this.
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And Fox and DavisAnatolyKasparov wrote:May is supposed to be doing one I think? At some point. When she gets round to it.PorFavor wrote:When's the next "Brexit" speech, and who's delivering it?
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MetroIn the first speech, being held on Wednesday, the Foreign Secretary will call for national unity over withdrawal. Then, on Saturday, May will detail the ‘security partnership’ that the UK wants to maintain with the EU. Davis, the Brexit Secretary, and Dr Fox, International Trade Secretary, will also set out their agendas. Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington, who backed Remain in the 2016 referendum, will also deliver a speech. The PM will then round off the process in an address setting out how she sees the overall relationship between the UK and Brussels post-withdrawal.
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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:And Fox and DavisAnatolyKasparov wrote:May is supposed to be doing one I think? At some point. When she gets round to it.PorFavor wrote:When's the next "Brexit" speech, and who's delivering it?
But certainly not Jeremy Corbyn.
The real fight starts
well, in a bit I suppose.
What a disaster UK politics is.
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@PaulfromYorkshire
Thank you.
Vaudeville is alive and kicking.
Thank you.
Vaudeville is alive and kicking.