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Is it victim culture Eggs? Somebody elses' fault? Somebody elses' responsibility? Rather than a situation that that individual needs to address? The company must be paying (at least) the national minimum wage? The individual's problem with that is that the company is not paying enough to satisfy the "life needs" of that person. This could be overcome by either: - the person taking more work at the same rate - upgrading / improving skills so as to increase income capacity - move to other employment that better values (pays for) her skills - increase income by decreasing outgoing (adjust life style to fit within available funds) And it's the last point which highlights the over generous nature of the current social security system - that it might be seen as a viable option instead of work clearly identifies that it is too good to be true and perpetuates dependance. It's perfectly natural for people to want what is beyond their capacity to achieve. I do it most days! It's the essence of capitalist aspiration. It's what they choose to do about it that matters. Moan, blame 'the system', steal..... or graft and save until they can reach what they want? I've avoided the key issue (I think) you have an ideological issue with and that's the profit level of the company in comparison to the employee's salary? It doesn't seem fair I agree. But who owns the solution the person that wants more or the person that has more?

From April 2013, It's quite long one at over 1hr 40, but the biggest surprise for me comes in the first 11mins. Tristram Hunt, a celebrated and learned Marxist - who'd have thought that he would be amongst the first to resign shadow cabinet on the election of Corbyn to the Labour leadership? How odd? Could it be that, despite being such a strong proponent, spouting such Marxist advocacy in 2013, despite his academic idealism and declared social conscience, he simply wasn't able to get alongside what must surely be Labour's closest manifestation of Socialism for many decades? Ain't that strange..... Marxist socialism - Great in theory, not so attractive in reality?? And if the prospect of Socialism, in reality, has such an adverse effect upon a fully signed up card carrying comrade, how the hell are the Labour party under Corbyn expecting the (sane) proportion of the electorate to react?

3:13 "...but people won't work unless they have a motivation like money or food to keep them going...." Brilliant! There are just shy of 2 million like that already in the UK! 3:18 "....people will work on projects of their own choosing because they find the work fun and interesting......" I'm howling now! :laugh1:

Didn't mean to get you drawn into a UK / US debate Ted. The cartoons make me chuckle, if I could find UK variants I would post 'em - Blair, Brown, Cameron, Osborne, Corbyn, Abbot, Johnson etc would all make excellent characters. Just makes me chuckle (and it's a lot less stressful (and pointless) than getting sucked into a political debate with folks that ain't never going to respond to rational argument or the lessons of history.

chttp://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogues/es-group/catalogue-id-ed10440/lot-b540849c-f1b0-4b70-a44b-a53a00ec407c bit off topic but might be of interest to someone?? http://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auction-catalogues/es-group/catalogue-id-ed10440/lot-b540849c-f1b0-4b70-a44b-a53a00ec407c

They are both wrong! Arborists breath volcanic lava, pass rose water and lay golden nuggets!

Go on, give us a clue......

Shave off! That's about the first time I've been able to agree with your post! Are you having a tamazepan night?? (Don't take that too seriously, it'd be a dull world if we all agreed all the time!)

👍🏻👍🏻😂 Maybe interpreted slightly differently, but no doubt the comedic value is priceless!

Watching Blackadder the Third on Dave ja vu, hilariously similar to today's politics!

Sorry missed original post, you might try Lynher training at Gunnislake (Lynher Training | Training, Delivered) They are running Lv4 at the moment I think.

That's what I was thinking.... It would have to "...obstruct or interfere with the view of drivers of vehicles or pedestrians, or the light from a public lamp...." in order to warrant a notice under s154(1) of the Highways Act 1980 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/154 It looks, from the pictures, like a quiet residential road. Difficult to state categorically how much light is being lost and the hazard that the (estimated) light loss might cause. Maybe a bit of pole pruning around the lamp but it looks like a bit of strong arm tactic from LA? Anything in writing?

Interesting. Is the tree owner a willing party to having the tree cut back or are they feeling compelled to do so as a result of liaison (is it written or verbal?) and threat of financial penalty from the council? Difficult to see from the pictures and without your knowledge of traffic flow etc, but does it really represent an obstruction to light from a public lamp? If so, by how much? Is it a public lamp? As mentioned earlier, is the lamp in someone's garden? Does that classify as a public lamp? Interesting to see if the council are confident enough to progress to serving a notice.

There was a hilarious sketch on HIGNFY last night. Picture of Corbyn / Xi Jinping. One of the panel put a quote to the picture " so, tell me how this communism thing works", then someone else said "who's asking who?" Not so funny when written, but if watched on Iplayer you'd get the drift! I was howling!

Needs lateral or innovative thinking in logistics infrastructure (but it's not beyond the wit of man surely?) Rail, canal, short sea voyage. Probably too many MSc 6 figure salaries that haven't got the common sense to look back in time to find the solutions of the future. Whooooa! Nearly slipped back into a former life as a Chartered member of The Institute of Logistics & Transport then...... Now where's my chainsaw?

The crossword is pretty genuine!

I'm scoping a small forestry flail and a finger bar for avant/multione at the moment but hyd rather than PTO drive. Will post up any good contenders I come across. These are pretty awesome but a bit too niche to warrant the purchase price for the time being! http://www.mcconnel.com/remote-control-technology/_product/20/robocut/

Thieving scum. Oh for the chance to meet that fat bstard.

Rascal! I'm not sure I want to think about what a copatent person might spend most of the day doing though!!! 😬😷😱

Aspirational perhaps, but not in reality which is closer to: http://m.westbriton.co.uk/time-wages-Cornwall-25-average-UK/story-11462320-detail/story.html You'd have to be 200/day to be doing 1000/week. The many "pay" threads on here don't seem to suggest it's realistic for PAYE staff? I'm not disagreeing about the need for that level Eggs, just can't see that it's actually available??

I'm not sure if you're leg pulling there Mr Egg? 4 years in 52k pa? That can't be what you meant can it?

It probably grates to have to buy it in but in some cases it really is the best option - and I think this is one of them.....