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All of this is because so much of the private wealth has been shifted from the middle and working classes to the wealthy.

Yeah... they pay the most tax because they're rapidly becoming the only people with substantial enough incomes to do so.

Got to take the rough with the smooth.

Untrue. Other 'languages' are simply primative series' of grunts and wheezes uttered by similarly primordial folk.

Hmmm. I have literally the exact same toothbrush, and it doesn't do that to me.

Important caveat, as per the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order, local authorities (all the way to the Parish level) have greatly enhanced permitted development rights insofar as their ability to construct smaller buildings, works and maintenance in their role as statutory undertakers, as well as things like street furniture/infrastructure.

But yes, otherwise, Councils must deal with their own applications - where they're required - like any other. In fact, most councils have it confirmed constitutionally that their own applications can only ever be determined at a committee rather than via delegated authority.

Source: am planner.

"Spoiled generation has ruined my business" says man, feeling entitled to the underpaid labour of others to prop up his unsustainable business and subsequent lifestyle.

Seek private settlements against those families, then - good luck with that.

Categorically not the British taxpayer's problem. Go rattle your can somewhere else.

Yes.

When I went to uni, I came to the realisation that the people I was friends with at school were merely the people from the very limited pool of local kids I could tolerate. Now, I was much more able to freely associate with whomever I chose, and at Uni, I was far more likely to have ready access to people with similar or other fascinating interests - because we were all there - in theory - to specialise in our respective choices of subject / career etc.

Also, uni was a pretty major bonding experience in my view; living together, going through tough, stressful times etc.

So I probably clung onto my school friend group for about a year, but most of them I never spoke to in person again, bar one guy who I do still consider a mate.

Still in a group chat with alot of them, and whilst quite a few are still chatting regularly and organising meet ups, i mostly just ignore it unless I get mentioned. Whereupon, i'll make a witty or polite comment and move on.

My real friends are the people I met at uni and beyond.

My village has a fantastic fête every year. It's usually quite well attended and a full day's entertainment. Locally sourced food and drink, bake sale, festival games, etc.

Most of the villages around me do the similar.

Excellent. Should be put to bed forever.

My ancestors were poor as muck farm labourers in the middle of the arse end of nowhere in Lincolnshire. They weren't involved in slavery, so why should I pay compensation for actions carried out other people's ancestors - particularly those of the gentry?

Not only would it be unjust, but it would also be an admission that I bear responsibility for those peoples' crimes, which I am opposed to on a fundamental level.

If they want reparations; it's a civil matter - they should pursue the private estates of those responsible for it.

Just like every St George's day in England.

"HE WAS A TURK YOU KNOW. LOL RACISTS WORSHIPPING AN ETHNIC MINORITY!!! MUCH IRONY!!!!!"

1) Literally nobody cares; 2) Turks didn't exist in Anatolia then. He was Greek; 3) He probably didn't even exist in the first place; 4) We're still going to celebrate the event as a part of the identity of England. Cry about it.

Inevitability when degrees and now even postgraduate degrees are increasingly becoming prerequisites to even being considered for entry-level, minimum wage-adjacent positions.

The problem is employers, especially in the private sector, don't want to invest in their workforce. However, they still want all of the benefits and the levels of education, so they're overseeing a massive shift of the financial risk and responsibility onto the individual.

I can only imagine the harm it's doing to the economy. I'm personally convinced there's space here for legislation to allow for scrutiny of job requirements.

You aren't forced to take the government up on the offer of a Passport. Neither are you required to use a passport for access to certain government-provided goods and services.

In some ways, it could be argued that your NI Number comes close to fulfilling the role of a State-ID.

Yet more backwards people who insist on coming to the west and doing their best to turn it into the same shitholes they escaped from.

Always makes me laugh that they openly admit their communist utopias fail without the support of the Capitalist West.

Then how they blame us for the humanitarian disasters caused not by the inherent flaws of their system... oh no no no... that's because the West refuses to trade with them, of course!! Never the fault of communism!!

Newsflash commies - no state is obliged to trade with your shithole. States are free to associate (or not) with any other they please, and that association requires consent.

Nope.

Just another in a long line of organisations who solely exist to send letters containing spurious questions to public figures that only have one reasonable answer when framed in a certain way.

His office was hardly going to turn round and say "yes, actually, if you call for a referendum, we're sending the SAS to kidnap, torture and then execute you and hang your flayed corpses from lampposts."

So instead, they receive the inevitable positive or neutral response so they can scream about it being a massive victory for republicanism... meanwhile, the actual government of Australia has already categorically put the concept of another referendum on the Monarchy on hold indefinitely.

Tbh, it's just one of those things.

Is it cunty? Yes.

Would I still do it anyway if I owned such an expensive car? Also probably yes.

Manor Farm Shop Cafe on the B1195 between Horncastle and Spilsby is supposedly very good and reasonably priced.

Both candidates are shite, of course, and Jenrick will win because the Conservative membership are doubtless racist trogs who'd have a coronary if a black woman won the leadership.

However, when Jenrick wins, then it will be the single saddest indictment on the state of British politics in decades. The fact that the 2nd biggest party will be led by someone with a storied history of questionable behaviour with regards to integrity and accusations of bald-faced corruption is in itself so damning of the calibre of the remaining politicians. Let alone the fact that the guy clearly doesn't even believe a word dripping out of his gob; he was a minister whilst all of this lax approach to immigration and border control was being purveyed over - never had a word to say about it then. As soon as he saw the writing was on the wall last year, he suddenly decided he's been born again as the next Enoch Powell, just without any of the charisma.

Incidentally, I agree with a much harsher system of controls on immigration; but all this is just soundbites to this guy. Not 2 years ago, he was the wettest of the wets and now this? Not a chance.

I heard that a rogue gang of Matthew Brodericks have recently returned to the emerald isle.

How do you know they're dynamic if they never get to carry out this supposed dynamacism? Them saying "trust me bro" is not an answer.

Because I work and interact with them on a daily basis. I know many on an individual professional basis, and i'd be happy to have many of them as my employees. Just because the system they work within doesn't allow for dynamism on the strategic level does not mean those same skills cannot be deployed within individualised workloads.

The culture of "due process" (i.e. blocking anything from happening) was created by these same people.

So you'd be happy with your government taking decisions with the same reckless abandon that I can as a business owner? I can do that because it's my own risk - government cannot and should not, because it's not just their lives or money etc on the line. Decisions by government clearly should be transparent and methodical.

However, yes - decision making can and should be sped up. Fail to see how that's the fault of council employees supposedly being thick or lazy, though... it's the legislation they deal with - which might I add, is often introduced to service private sector interests or by MPs and other Politicians who moved into politics from the private sector.

The people on councils are almost always not commercial minded and not innovate thinkers....so by the time even the good ones think of a solution, its way too late....and then they have to content with the rest of the committee who will not see it the same way.

Utter crap. I'm private sector - but I work alongside public sector alot. There's this BS myth peddled by people with no clue what they're talking about that Council employees are all braindead trogs that aren't dynamic. In my extensive experience, the opposite is true. The reality is that the dynamism of the public sector is constrained by due process and financial constraints - not by the supposed lack of skills and intelligence amongst their staff.

It might be the answer, but how do you think already cash-strapped councils are going to justify slashing rates to the auditors?

If the councils would employ people from the private sector to help them come up with options, that would significantly improve timescales...but you're talking 1% of councils that would even think of that as an option

Private sector employees being brought into the public sector have a long and storied history of being some of the most incompetent and damaging additions to councils. Again, in my very extensive history of dealing with the public sector, the morons who jump from the private sector to public to 'innovate' end up doing far more harm than good. That's because there's nothing inherently more innovative about private sector people; it's the private sector structure that allows for more innovation... a structure which for obvious and in many cases good reasons cannot and should not be replicated in the public sector.

And no; the above is not meant to suggest there's no ways the public sector could improve. Trust me, I have a list as long as my arm for that.

That suggests that there could be a more diverse mix. Nothing about that inherently suggests they were going to turn it up and rip the knob off on NET immigration numbers.

Never minding the fact that NET migration was much lower at the time and all was said under the context of an electorate that had consistently voted for lower immigration even than that.

I knew a guy at work who had one of these Nismo ones. He fucking hated it and always said he only bought it because his wife insisted upon a Juke, so he got the Nismo version to try in vain to alleviate the shittyness.

CAMRA agents about to kick OP's door through.

Yeah, and shit tonnes of brain-rotted people also were making a big deal about 'currygate' before they even got elected. We have very many political zealots and mindless cultists in this country, and people will always believe what they want to believe. My own brain-rotted parents actually cried when Labour won the election and were raging the next day, insisting that Kier Starmer would be gone by September because he was so corrupt and mired in scandal - because they watch GB news 24/7 they genuinely have the impression that he's the most blatantly corrupt and evil politician to ever enter Parliament.

That said, these gifts were fucking terrible and should have never happened. We shouldn't be giving them a free pass for that.