Making the news today....

[eggsarascal]

11 minutes ago, Stere said:

Excel corvid f**k up

 

 

 

 

 

Test error 'should never have happened' - Hancock

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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But the health secretary says the glitch "has not substantially changed" ministers' Covid-19 assessments.

 

Hang on, Hancock announced that PHE had been pulled out of track n trace weeks back and it was all being outsourced to third party contractors.

[Johnsond]

Watching the big announcement ref the new drive to wind energy etc etc, I wonder if anyone has pointed out to Boris or Nicola that virtually none of the Mono piles or jackets currently being installed around the UK coastline are made here, same applies to the turbines and blades etc. The ships, barges, jack ups etc are almost exclusively foreign flagged, owned and crewed. The companies whom are actually putting these in are predominantly overseas energy providers looking to make huge returns in the long run off the brutish consumer. Jackets constructed in of all places China ??, and UAE yards with huge amounts of cheap labour then shipped half way around the world in the name of green energy ?‍♂️?‍♂️. 

The wasted opportunities are bordering on criminal yet it never seems to even get a mention. We are not the new Saudi of wind energy at all. we are nothing more than an unregulated cash cow right now getting a few scraps of work from an industry that should be providing highly skilled training and jobs for tens of thousands of UK workers not lining the pockets of multi national companies and shareholders, 

I despair at the lack of vision, ambition and foresight etc of UK management and successive governments. 
 

Edited October 7, 2020 by Johnsond

[Stubby]

Big lorry carrying Amazon boxes overturned blocking both East bound and West bound carriageways of the A27 early this morning . Taken all day to get it upright and clear .  Driver not in a good way , one car crashed into it but minor injuries  only  . Images are on the net . How TF he managed that God only knows .

[Mick Dempsey]

Is it World Mental Health day again? 
 

Cue loads of bollocks on social media and celebs talking about their struggles to gain column inches.

[David Cropper]

9 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Is it World Mental Health day again? 
 

Cue loads of bollocks on social media and celebs talking about their struggles to gain column inches.

What happened to "Hello, I'm Mick of the Samaritans,  I'm listening"? 

[eggsarascal]

1 minute ago, David Cropper said:

What happened to "Hello, I'm Mick of the Samaritans,  I'm listening"? 

I don't know which would be worse, getting through to Dempsey or getting through to Johnson if you were just about to throw ya self off a motorway bridge.

[Mick Dempsey]

3 minutes ago, David Cropper said:

What happened to "Hello, I'm Mick of the Samaritans,  I'm listening"? 

I’m not diminishing the experience of people who genuinely have issues (or maybe I am, opinions will vary) I’m bemoaning the concept of mental health as a commodity by celebs, if you haven’t had issues that you can have an article about in some publication or online source, then you’re no one these days.

 

[David Cropper]

4 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I’m not diminishing the experience of people who genuinely have issues (or maybe I am, opinions will vary) I’m bemoaning the concept of mental health as a commodity by celebs, if you haven’t had issues that you can have an article about in some publication or online source, then you’re no one these days.

 

That's a very serious response. Sod it, I'll ring Mr Johnson hopefully he won't tell me to bugger off again and man up.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

2 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

 

Edited October 10, 2020 by kevinjohnsonmbe

[Johnsond]

On 07/10/2020 at 13:31, Johnsond said:

Watching the big announcement ref the new drive to wind energy etc etc, I wonder if anyone has pointed out to Boris or Nicola that virtually none of the Mono piles or jackets currently being installed around the UK coastline are made here, same applies to the turbines and blades etc. The ships, barges, jack ups etc are almost exclusively foreign flagged, owned and crewed. The companies whom are actually putting these in are predominantly overseas energy providers looking to make huge returns in the long run off the brutish consumer. Jackets constructed in of all places China ??, and UAE yards with huge amounts of cheap labour then shipped half way around the world in the name of green energy ?‍♂️?‍♂️. 

The wasted opportunities are bordering on criminal yet it never seems to even get a mention. We are not the new Saudi of wind energy at all. we are nothing more than an unregulated cash cow right now getting a few scraps of work from an industry that should be providing highly skilled training and jobs for tens of thousands of UK workers not lining the pockets of multi national companies and shareholders, 

I despair at the lack of vision, ambition and foresight etc of UK management and successive governments. 
 

This is the sort of thing I spoke of, Companies from all over the world getting in on this free for all that we will pay for.