kevinjohnsonmbe

Are you currently towing a chipper behind the 4x4? It not, have you considered a tipping trailer instead of a truck conversion?

It’s definitely an interesting scenario. Im all for non-cash transactions. I take your point about days ‘work’ v potential earning capacity for the same amount of ‘time’ but I rather doubt it’s the sort of ‘work’ that is being exchanged for rent that one might ‘normally’ associate with income earning work. I suspect a days ‘work’ might actually be clearing a drain, weeding the veg plot, fixing a fence - you know, the sort of thing any homeowner might do for their self anyway and so you might be over estimating the ‘value’ of a days work in your work v rent comparison Andy. That whole woofing thing is popular up the road here. Transients exchange a bit of graft for food and shelter but it’s not really graft - it’s more like dicking around, ½ stoned ½ pissed, tossing your life away avoiding council tax and bumming state benefits.

Would £15/hr push those that are currently below the personal allowance tax threshold above it? Havent done the numbers - not that bobvererered really - wouldnt it be about right though? Here - have a pay rise.... HMRC - joinck - we’ll av that 🤣

Can’t help but think we’re heading inexorably towards mass civil unrest. There is only so much the average Joe will tolerate. I don’t mean the career / lifestyle, bastard privileged socialist rebel children of middle class parents... I mean the essential, tax paying, working, small business, self employed types who are reaching the end of their patience with systemic corruption, nepotism and incompetence. A small mutiny on the Penzance - London train shows what happens when you push people too far. https://sencynews.com/passenger-mutiny-forces-packed-train-to-reverse/ The Davids can overthrow the goliaths!

To take that phrase to a whole new level - what about TCB and his hideous Mrs dodging stamp duty on a swanky London Town house because it was bought through an offshore shell? Pandora papers.....

Nudging

What do you think would happen if you gave an idealistic, immature and irresponsible teenager a thousand pounds? Chances are, they’d piss it up the wall and forget what they were meant to do with.... Who’d be be responsible - the spotty oick or the person giving the money? Thats the Welsh NHS under Labour - bitch.

LABOUR 😂😂😂

Welsh NHS is Labour chopper 😂

Can we have before the news breaks in this thread as well? Guess what the latest military aid to the civil authorities request is.... post script - apparently the news has already broken: https://www.ambulance.wales.nhs.uk/Default.aspx?gcid=1831&lan=en Volunteers with C1 licence urgently sought for ambulance driving in Wales. Not much cop having more ambulances - it’ll just mean there are more waiting to unload at ED

A timely Trump reference JD 👍🏻 Those in the sanctimonious, self righteous, holier than thou anti Trump camp might reflect on the ramblings of Russel Brand on the subject. Enjoy whilst bathing in the salty tears of neo-liberals the (Western) world over.

Says the Guardian 😂 Whats interesting is that definition by skin colour is pretty much exclusively frowned upon by propagandists like the Guardian when it might show certain ‘tendencies’ are associated with notable demographics. (Unless they happen to be ‘white’ of course) Wouldn’t want to ‘unfairly’ generalise and fuel the segregation would they.... Unless.... I’d suggest rather than ‘white’ or ‘other’ they’d be better focussing on ‘internal’ and ‘external’ classifications when referencing terrorist tendencies. After all, who decides what constitutes ‘far’ right and what happens to that definition when the presumed qualifying criteria apply more accurately to groups or individuals that are non ‘white?’

He never even got to us before 2.

Agree Stubby although I don’t know forestry. Can’t imagine why it wouldn’t work - at least to some degree. Set your targets for the day - when they’re done they’re done. I used to see our postman parked up in a discreet lay-by everyday about 3 at the end of his run. I asked him once why he did it. He said if he goes back to depot before 4 they’ll give him a missed delivery run to do so he hides til 5 past 4. And you wonder why highly unionised workforces object to vehicle trackers....

That's the difference between 'pricing' the job and 'doing' the job. I'll 'price' a job for a fair day. When we're 'doing' it, it's full on until it's done and that's the days work done. Usually 08:30-09:00ish on site, rare to still be there after 14:30. Everyone gets the days rate regardless and they can still get home early or do something of their own afterwards. Any fool can make a days work last a day, the pay and motivation is better if you go at it hard and get it done early.

Might be worth a quick check to ensure the TPO was actually confirmed - or not.

Phew...... when I started reading that I thought you were going down the line of not knowing the circumstances under which Bolam would bare his arse 😳 Was quite a relief when you veered off towards tree circumstances 😀

My Nan used to get a crate of bottled Guinness from the Doc for itOn! 😂

That belongs in the "Jokes" thread Mark 😆 Even Labour can't stand Corbyn 😆

Whilst the village stock quip was meant in jest, made me stop and wonder what we have created that supposedly passes for 'society' these days. Example - there's a report of a creature that has taken to having a dump in public places before he gets on the bus in the morning in a nearby village as reported in the attached pic from social media (I using that as a fairly tenuous 'relevance check' for the making the news today thread.) About half the comments that have followed seem to focus on him being the vulnerable victim in need of 'help' and the other half advocate moderate to extreme vigilantism. If we accept that he needs 'help' then he joins the seemingly ever increasing line of characters that need some sort of assistance fitting into society and appear unable to take responsibility for their own behaviour. The alternative is to beat the idiot with a hazel stick until he realises the error of his ways. Is that a bit too close to Sharia? I'll mull it over and hopefully not have the misfortune to encounter this miscreant before I've succumbed to the woke agenda that will probably designate HIM as the victim.....

I think referenda are rather out of fashion (except for wee cranky - and even she doesn't really want one) since they got their fingers burned by 17 million FOs 😆

But as soon as Steamer mentioned it in his speech, the hysterical baying mob reacted as if he was referring to some great, almighty Diety. Many of us have had life changing / saving experiences with the NHS (I guess the overwhelming majority were actually born with the assistance of that service - not sure if Stubby pre-dates NHS??) and whilst there is much to be immeasurably grateful for, the whole institution has become like some sacred beast that may never be questioned and must be fed an ever increasing sum of money just to keep it ticking over. If ever there was a subject that would benefit from less 'heat' and more 'light' "NHS - the next 50 years" would be it.

Planned and prepared then all of the above too....

You forgot village stocks and public flogging - apart from that - where do I sign.....🤣

Yeah, I heard that mate - talk about the blind leading the blind!