kevinjohnsonmbe
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Burden of proof would fall to the machine owner / user not HMRC - who / where has it been booked out to? Follow the audit trail and then “look” at anyone involved in the audit trail. Nobody wants HMRC crawling up their ass!
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I heard they were teamed up with the DVSA at Tamar Bridge pulling over hire company delivery wagons checking fuel on machines out for delivery - seized if red found! Also, some local plant hire firms are specifying - if it comes back with any trace of red you’ll be billed for flush and filter change. It may start to pinch if people start to react....
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Maybe naive - maybe enlightened.... Plenty of small fry went to the wall because they played the margins and got burned. There’s ample fat on the bone for the big boys to play a loss leader to gain market share. It’d only take 1 to do it and the compareyourbollox type websites would be all over it like a tramp on chips. Watch this space for more visionary business tips in between gardening.... 😂
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“...more money than they know what to do with...” Im guessing that’s a short hop to bankruptcy no?
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You not think it’d be a fairly shrewd business (not to mention morally commendable) move? If 1 of the big energy companies said, right, we’ll take the hit and reduce retail prices to £Xx (even if that were a loss leader), the masses would flock to change supplier - thus capturing market share and presenting the. corporate image as being the ‘good guy?’ Maybe naive on my part but if I were a multi million £ CEO I’d certainly be thinking along those lines..... Meanwhile, I’ll get on a pot up my peas 😂
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I’m not the biggest fan of Sheila Fogerty on LBC, but she had a feature on last week where some charity bloke had been on a home visit and found a woman heating a tin of beans over a candle and making toast with a fork off the gas fire and too afraid to ask for help for fear of having kid taken away. Also mention that food banks are now rejecting donations that need cooking because folk can’t afford the gas / electric to cook meat & veg. This is the reality for some and I can’t help but think there really is a quantum shift in ‘compliance’ coming.... PS - there’s no sense at all coming out of any political party at present. Taxing energy companies is no good - that’ll just funnel money into government where it’ll be wasted. Solution - energy companies take the ‘pain’ out of profits, government remove / reduce VAT + other taxes paid by user and proper revisit of fracking.
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More a case of what’s not really making the news (or at least not so much as it should.) Has anybody noted the “changes” on their smart meter? Shocking! I can see real problems ahead of this is not addressed. CEO of energy company quoted as saying “...we’ve got more money than we know what to do with...” Oh f*cking really!
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She is a rare case - it is both what she says and how she says it that turns the milk sour...
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How much has signing up to Woodsure cost you?
kevinjohnsonmbe replied to Woodworks's topic in Firewood forum
After getting the email to tell me I’m off the list of BSL producer suppliers (last week or the week before) I’ve now just received the snivelling email telling me the deadline for proving the additional eligibility criteria to remain on the list has been extended to June. I wonder if some bright spark realised just how many currently / previously eligible producer suppliers were saying bollox to it and they realised the scheme would likely collapse? Careful what you wish for - W⚓️S set out to make it so administratively cumbersome that only the big players can be arsed and that is all you’ll be left with. Extend it as far as you like - you’ll not get another penny out of me by way of subscription. -
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kevinjohnsonmbe replied to Paul Munds's topic in Trees and the Law
You say you’ve ‘spoken’ to church warden. Might pay dividends to actually write to the parochial church council. There is still no obligation for them to furnish you with anything - but at least you will have a correspondence trail and will have formalised the request to the suitable organisation entity. Of course another option would be for you to commission your own inspection with a suitably qualified inspector - if the tree is in a publicly accessible position there should be no barrier to access. Going to cost you a few hundred squid - but having to fund it yourself often defines how much you really want it.... 😂 -
Agreed - as an info graphic, it has its flaws. But it’s not really designed to appeal to the sort of ‘thinking’ audience of AT. If it said (instead of coal fired power station) massively over subscribed national infrastructure resulting in excessive supply v demand price inflation fuelled by shareholder profit over consumer protection, amplified year on year by decades of government failure to properly invest in critical infrastructure and a general lack of appreciation of the ‘value’ of the asset from users resulting in eye watering waste and complacency, further amplified by lazy building regulations and a general complacency from the masses (I could continue but I think I’ve already smashed the available space in the (mis?) infographic 😂😂👍🏻
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I don’t think anyone that cares to think about it would disagree fundamentally with your statement. The question though is - is the ‘pain’ of the current ‘measures’ worth the effort or is it all just smoke and mirrors?
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Have you seen this
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You’d struggle to find a greater example of human contradiction. All as we’ve done is export the manufacturing footprint (and the end of life waste implications) overseas and told ourselves we’ve reduced our carbon footprint. I favour the example I have in mide of the madman Mayor Khan’t.... (take that which ever way you think best suits) Punitive and crushing penalties for vehicular use within central London..... Yet presents massive, naught but recreational NYE fireworks display as a cause celeb...... Contradiction...... Struggle to find a bigger.
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You’re dealing with a very ‘special’ type of animal in the civil service though.... I’d be cautious of citing the exception as proof of the rule! Single biggest “plus” for us - wife applied for a job she fancied, selected for interview, stated her interest in progressing to interview but only on the basis of WFH with occasional trips to HQ (Portsmouth based job.) Bloke doing the recruiting said well, since I haven’t been in the office for past 6 months I don’t see why not. That was a 1 year contract which is just about to expire and they have offered another 2 year extension. Mrs sits in the conservatory in her under crackers briefing the Second Sea Lord and is being paid a pretty penny to boot. Me - well I think Clint says it well enough 😂
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Brilliant 😂
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Blair & Brown.... will we never be free of their bungling, flawed ideologies: ALEX BRUMMER: Why Labour can't take the moral high ground over P&O Ferries | This is Money WWW.GOOGLE.CO.UK Keir Starmer's Labour is hyperventilating over the decision of P&O Ferries to sack 800 crew and replace them with less...
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I wouldn't say I like him Mark - he is cringeworthy in many regards, but in others he talks more sense than most pf the current government AND opposition combined...
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From the babe that tried getting into Farage about being on RT.....? 😂
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Like that complete W⚓️ James O'Brexit trying to make EVERYTHING that happens "a Brexit issue." Utter knob cheese...
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If this is true P&O should be treated as a pariah company and boycotted. Apparently, all UK staff sacked and replaced with cheaper foreign crew. Ive just been looking at crossing options for a short continental jaunt - won’t be using P&O if this is true: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/live-po-ferries-updates-dover-6817383.amp
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I wouldn’t want to get into the actual £s in each bracket you’ve punted there Jay. What I would observe though is that I’d consider the differential between the brackets is too narrow to properly recognise and reward the varying levels of experience / expertise between the brackets.
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Here’s the mis-match (in my interpretation) from what you’ve described. Firstly, just to say, I suspect our attitudes to work generation are broadly similar. I’ll do the jobs I like for the people I like - anything else can go whistle. I’m not chasing the income. But on that basis, I pay not by the hour, but by the day. The job is costed by (a reasonable assessment) of time required and then each person has the agreed amount of money / day. If we all graft and finish by 14:00 - so be it. What happens if you’re paying by the hour and the job finishes at 14:00 - do you pay the full day or just the hours worked? If you pay the full day then you’re misquoting the hourly rates you pay.
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It’ll have ‘character!’ 😂 and blood, sweat and tears 😂😂 No such thing as a free lunch - just imagine the stories you’ll be able to tell 👍🏻
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The “Blob.’
