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Punk Food Bandita: “It was just a party” This is a fairly typical comment on social media that I’m seeing about the Christmas Party that didn’t take place in number ten last year. A party that didn’t take place so hard, that ministers even made a video practising saying that they didn’t have the party, just in case someone asked if they had a party, and still managed to balls that up. There was cheese and wine, said Allegra Stratton. So clearly it couldn’t have taken place last year, but obviously some time during the 1970’s. And so what if they did, eh? Why shouldn’t they have a party, bleats anyone who still actually thinks the government gives the slightest **************** about them and doesn’t care if they are left dead in an open sewer they pay rent for, as long as that Jeremy Corbyn didn’t get in. It boggles my mind why people are wondering why we might be pissed off. Those very people had put London in tier 3 just a couple of days before. It’s not just about the risks of transmission and all the people who died or spent Christmas alone, that people are angry about. The Tories gave police powers to fine and arrest people for doing this very thing. They told us to grass our neighbours up. Just a few months before their little soirée, victims of domestic abuse stayed in violent homes with their kids because they thought they weren’t allowed to leave, as it was literally weeks before the government thought to announce publicly that they could do so without being arrested. I know vulnerable young people that were dragged to the floor for daring to be outside alone under these laws, despite the fact that there were never any actual curfews in place. The ink on their legislation will only stain our skin, as every rave kiddie who ever got battered by the police for dancing in a field post 94’ when the CJB revisions came into play will remember. Why did the copper who was literally stood outside during the party that definitely didn’t happen do absolutely nothing? Why weren’t the participants charged under their own Covid laws? Or the part V of the Criminal Justice Act just for a laugh, for what are the dreary Tory soundbites we are constantly subjected to if not An Emission Of Repetitive Beats? Of course we know the answer to that. The rules just aren’t supposed to apply to them. I don’t just mean Conservatives, all the parties have the same vast reserves of entitlement. Of course they are going to be surprised about us booting off about it though. We’ve let them get away with it for centuries, and it absolutely isn’t the worst thing they’ve ever done to us. Not by far. They’ve used austerity measures like a knife across the throats of the disabled for years. They decimate our youth, domestic abuse and mental health services then expect gratitude when they give a penny back out of the millions they took. They expect to keep their jobs after countless allegations of bullying and sexual harassment. They are literally laughing at us, and now it seems, even film themselves doing it. What more will it take before we say enough?

Private healthcare has become the norm, It shouldn't be that way but it's how it has been allowed to happen. I would pay money for surgery to avoid waiting lists but that shouldn't have to be the case. You don't know what you've got till it's gone

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Professional Tree Inspection is worth going for - that opened up doors for me. Contact local arb consultants and make yourself known to them.

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You should probably contact your insurance company; if they suspect the subsidence is related to moisture abstraction by vegetation they will engage the services of a suitably qualified arboriculturalist.

Well said.

I think that's fair for emergency call outs.

On site from 0800 to 1530 is 7.5hrs. So nearer £1500. Then back to the yard and servicing stuff, so they're quite long days.

I would be wanting at least £200 per hour for a 3man crew with van/chipper. That rate would increase significantly if the works were inside the M25.

Universal Basic Income is likely to be the future whether you like it or not. It's nothing to do with loonie lefties. AI and automation are going to make millions of people redundant from their jobs.

Does that go for yourself?

Sorry, I didn't explain myself, they have been trying on their latest ventures; I think that euc was put in in the days before forethought.

I'm breaming that you've got your mojo back.

It might help.

It was quite bad up here. My mate and her bairn tumbled across this. The council have been installing semi-decent tree pits on their latest ventures.

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Do you really think that you could kill all the rats? You're tapped pal.

All of them? That's a bit harsh.