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[Mark J]

3 hours ago, Johnsond said:

No satisfaction at all  in being right about any of that Mark I can assure you. He most likely wasn’t thought we had some proper good bbq, music and drinks sessions with a rake of people present during lockdown. Funnily enough we all survived. I see he’s gotten a tidy little number to see him by eh Mark 🤔seems to be the way of things. 

Nick Clegg will now paid up to £15m a year by Facebook 

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"Everything changes but it all stays the same" used to be the tune, now they've been blatantly shown to be even worse by mocking us all; I had to watch a webcast of my mate's Dad's funeral and couldn't be there to support her while those scuzzbuckets were just getting hammered and telling us what to do. Absolute shitehawks they are. **************** those people and **************** Starmer and his Blair lookalike party too. I hope you have a good weekend. 

 

 

[Mark J]

On 14/06/2023 at 21:48, trigger_andy said:

I’m with you on your  “Moonbat” understanding. I quite agree. I fully understand that with every knob-jocky protest that goes against the will of the common man the “powers that be” will use this against us. It’s infuriating in its simplicity.

 

I was down in Brazil helping deliver Norwegian “renewable” tech to the locals. Was asked to go down this week actually. 
 

You’d be surprised at how much of my job these days is in renewables or carbon capture. It’s money for old rope and I can tell you, it’s where the money is. God Damn it’s where the money is $$$$. 
 

So please understand that my POV is not solely from where my living comes from. Look into “Northen Lights” it’s the same tools we run in an oil producing well that gets run in a carbon capture well.  Im doing the same job regardless. 
 

Regarding  your last paragraph, I wholeheartedly agree. And it’s why I stated what I did in my reply. We’re losing our freedom

inch by inch and that lands purely at the feet of those selfish enough to sacrifice the greater good for their minority hobby
 

 

I looked into 'Northern Lights', I bet you're giggling away in your Tesla . What do you need to be qualified in in order to really cash it in on offshore work? I met an 22 year old Norwegian valve specialist when I was in Thailand with my lass in 2002 and he was drawing a fair sum for a 4/3 or similar rota.  

[trigger_andy]

9 minutes ago, Mark J said:

I looked into 'Northern Lights', I bet you're giggling away in your Tesla . What do you need to be qualified in in order to really cash it in on offshore work? I met an 22 year old Norwegian valve specialist when I was in Thailand with my lass in 2002 and he was drawing a fair sum for a 4/3 or similar rota.  

The main thing you need to be to cash it in is be Norwegian, get a Norwegian Contract and work in Norway. 
 

There is a demand for certain roles that there is not enough Norwegians for so they look to Denmark and the U.K. (and further afield). In Norway you really need University Education or your apprenticeship in the off-shore industry to get a foot in the door. From the likes of the U.K. they’ll let that go if you have 10 or more years in your field. 
 

Most rotations are 2 on 4 off now. As I’m a Rig-Gypsy I’m 4 weeks available then 4 weeks off. Over the last ten years I’ve averaged 95 days a year. 

[Mick Dempsey]

Howard Donald off of Take That is the next one in the stocks for Wrongthink.

Pitchforks lit and angry mob descending..

[Johnsond]

The mortgage bomb about to explode under middle-class Britain

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From trophy life to unaffordable nightmare: how the mortgage-holder's dream collapsed

Whilst the case in hand is a tad on the extreme side I do wonder if the 6% will indeed be the disaster they say. The BOE seems to be a bit of a failed one trick pony on this, the actions they take seem to benefit only the banks etc and for me the interest rate rises are akin to a good old medieval bleeding, bring out the leeches as a treatment to cure all issues. 

[trigger_andy]

33 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

The mortgage bomb about to explode under middle-class Britain

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From trophy life to unaffordable nightmare: how the mortgage-holder's dream collapsed

Whilst the case in hand is a tad on the extreme side I do wonder if the 6% will indeed be the disaster they say. The BOE seems to be a bit of a failed one trick pony on this, the actions they take seem to benefit only the banks etc and for me the interest rate rises are akin to a good old medieval bleeding, bring out the leeches as a treatment to cure all issues. 

Record inflation, crippling energy costs, wage increases under the rate of inflation so essentially a wage cut, taxation thresholds not increasing but wages rising (below the inflation rate) and now mortgage rates heading to 6% to cap it all off. It's going to be one hell of a shitshow. 

[donnk]

the bill for the idiotic lockdown is now due.

[doobin]

1 hour ago, donnk said:

the bill for the idiotic lockdown is now due.

That's small fry. This is the bill for kicking the can down the road and then keeping rates needlessly and shamelessly low for well over a decade following the 2008 banking crisis. And to top it off, we just imported cheaper goods and workers to keep us feeling rich. The over-leveraged should have been left to go to the wall, instead they were rewarded, more people were forced to join the Ponzi scheme to put a roof over their heads and now we are facing a seriously painful time.

 

Asset inflation has divided society. An average job doesn't pay for anywhere near a historical average standard of living, and those who work harder not only recieve a fraction of the lifestyle the same efforts would have afforded them a generation ago, but are taxed into oblivion. Meanwhile those with assets are barely taxed upon them.

 

Zero interest rates have destroyed this country. There's no way out without extreme pain or possibly even bloodshed. It really is that bad.

 

 

[Johnsond]

56 minutes ago, doobin said:

That's small fry. This is the bill for kicking the can down the road and then keeping rates needlessly and shamelessly low for well over a decade following the 2008 banking crisis. And to top it off, we just imported cheaper goods and workers to keep us feeling rich. The over-leveraged should have been left to go to the wall, instead they were rewarded, more people were forced to join the Ponzi scheme to put a roof over their heads and now we are facing a seriously painful time.

 

Asset inflation has divided society. An average job doesn't pay for anywhere near a historical average standard of living, and those who work harder not only recieve a fraction of the lifestyle the same efforts would have afforded them a generation ago, but are taxed into oblivion. Meanwhile those with assets are barely taxed upon them.

 

Zero interest rates have destroyed this country. There's no way out without extreme pain or possibly even bloodshed. It really is that bad.

 

 

I wouldn’t disagree with much of that other than the covid/small fry comparison. What is amazing is literally a few clicks on google will give a rough picture of where we are yet people seem to be oblivious to it or live under the illusion that the state will keep sorting them out. Us being in Debt suits many of the worlds biggest financial organisations just fine and dandy. 

[Will C]

6 hours ago, Johnsond said:

The mortgage bomb about to explode under middle-class Britain

APPLE.NEWS

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From trophy life to unaffordable nightmare: how the mortgage-holder's dream collapsed

Whilst the case in hand is a tad on the extreme side I do wonder if the 6% will indeed be the disaster they say. The BOE seems to be a bit of a failed one trick pony on this, the actions they take seem to benefit only the banks etc and for me the interest rate rises are akin to a good old medieval bleeding, bring out the leeches as a treatment to cure all issues. 

I can’t read the article, would you be able to copy n paste for us Luddite’s that can’t get round the paywall and refuse to pay to read the news!