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Quite right! Where will it all lead? Before you know it they’ll be wanting independence 😂

Been posted before.... Its bollocks. “Woke” is a term applied to virtue signalling wankers that think any perception of a “supposedly” hard done by minority deserves greater privilege and exception than the majority. Current examples - obviously - include positive discrimination in favour of certain ethnic groups, overt anti Semitism (which, oddly, coincides with false anti racism narratives), terms like ‘chest feeding’ rather than breast feeding, attempts to change school language from boys and girls to ‘learners’ and so the list continues. It’s been an insidious but relentless campaign of gradually eroding what most (sane) people consider the very foundations of a decent society. If the loony left head bangers and the white privileged, guilt ridden liberals keep going down the “woke” path they will either wither into social, political and economic insignificance (as appears to be playing out in front of our very eyes), or they will achieve their ultimate aim and reduce this country to a similar sort of 3rd world caliphate shite hole as so many others around the world.

I’d suggest the result of this by election speaks more of the desperate state of the Labour Party than it does the Tories. Labour behind even the Greens and a lost deposit. Yes, a kick in the nuts for the Tories, but another nail in the coffin for Captain Hindsight.

It may not be ‘pretty’ Egger, and of course yome right it may be perceived as lowering the tone of the adjacent des res s s s, and that is one (understandable) POV, but that’s all it is, a POV. Another POV might be, perhaps the LA might be better served seeking out someone that has actually contravened a law - maybe a benefit thief, a fly tipper or a TPO breach for example.

Horrible film! Similar those Damien films - only good part of them was the Rottweilers!

Can’t remember all of it but I do know it always includes 666 (and a dose of the crabs) beastly devil womanthing!

Never, ever ‘talk to’ someone who wants to pull your pants down (stand fast Saturday night down Union Street with a classy Janner girl!) They have ‘got’ what they have got by way of info and detail UNLESS you give them something more. (a) you’ve absolutely NOTHING to gain by acknowledging their enquiry - especially as Huck says above. If they have anything to substantiate a complaint / attempt an enforcement they already have it and should disclose it to you. All you will do by engaging them is give them more. (b) why do people automatically assume a letter from an ‘authority’ requires them to acquiesce with the provision of time? Time equals money, matey from LA is on the clock and being paid whilst he expects you to meet him for free - not even free, it’s at a loss to you since it’s time you could be earning. I’d possibly be prepared to consider a compromise - to a very limited degree - as Les says. Send him an email and tell him he can reach you by phone between x o’clock and y o’clock on z day where you can spare him a couple of minutes from your busy on-site work schedule to receive the full details of the complaint (which should have been stated in the letter previously sent) and to consider answering (without any obligation or commitment) specific questions and he may have. Another option (if a member of FSB or covered by home legal protection) invite him to send any future correspondence via your legal representative. A whopping big chip pile on the front drive should help too - there is no law, statute or regulation which precludes you from top dressing your flower beds 😂

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It was just a figure of speech - weme to poor in the sticks to even afford the travel to B&Q. It’s ‘Trago Mills’ hereabouts - otherwise know as ground zero or the nations biggest jumble sale!

I’d bet if they have, they haven’t bothered to learn from previous experience - you know, like any ‘normal’ person would 😂

Did they write to you? Would you share the letter (redacted)? Be interesting to see the tone and content. Arrange for them to visit midday, midweek when you’re out on a job. If they turn up, you’ll be out at work.... No case to answer M’Lud....

Egger, in ‘modern parlance’ that is called car sharing / car pooling. Many LAs and large corp’s actuallyENCOURAGE / INCENTIVISE such activities as part of a carbon reduction/ traffic management plan. It’s just a case of playing ‘em back at their own game! They don’t like it up ‘em! (Bloody auto correct!)

You can’t move for Rozzers in Kernow at moment K! Weme miles away and they’re EVERYWHERE! A car was pulled over and all occupants arrested for ‘suspicion of going equipped and suspicion of intent to cause a public nuisance’ because they had paint, flares and loud halers in the boot! Thinking twice about that trip to B&Q this afternoon......

If you ask what ‘they’ think is acceptable you are immediately conceding that ‘they’ have some form of ‘authority’ to express (and potentially enforce) an opinion. ‘They’ have absolutely no ‘authority’ to dictate how many vehicles a man may park at his place of residence. There are already ‘laws’ in effect which define what may ‘legally’ be used (including parking) on a public highway and regulations as to the avoidance of nuisance or obstruction of said highway. There is nothing, so far as I’m aware, that defines the number of vehicles someone might own and use.

That is BRILLIANT! Love it 😂 Don’t tell ‘em your name Pike! So what? So a bloke parks a couple of work vehicles at his home address.... sign written, sprinkled with fairy dust and painted fluorescent orange, so what? Bloke in the next village parks a Western Power 4x4 on his drive - doesn’t mean he’s secretly coordinating the SW England strategic power network from a clandestine loft conversion, just means he’s lawfully parking an insured, taxed and roadworthy work vehicle either on the public highway or at his place of residence after he’s finished work. Small business is being CRUSHED by officialdom! These people are the true, unsung heroes, the last rebels of the wild frontier, in an increasingly office bound, add no value, compliant population of docile white collar mongs that bow down to ‘authority’ in what ever misguided / misapplied form it may take we should recognise, value, rally to support and defend the right of a working man to place bread on the table. Don’t fear the ‘pig’ because it may enjoy rolling in shit (at tax payers’ expense.) If the pig comes knocking, lather yourself in shit grab the pig by the neck and pull it into the shitpool!

Don’t worry! If you are simply parking a work vehicle at your home address just tell them it’s none of their business.

Dangerous / dead?

If you can even get materiel at the moment - desperate shortage of posts in SW!

Anyone remember the title of the thread where there was a discussion about LAs sending yellow planning notices to agents / applicants for them to post? It appears to have just started hereabouts and I recall it being discussed previously.

I know yome right Egger, yome know yome right, was even talking to a mate about it earlier and HE knew (and wanted some of it) straight away! His Mrs, sat across the table however, and mine if I even broached the merest hint of the idea, are ‘aving NONE of it! Looks like it might be a somewhat shorter - but lads only - adventure.

That’s the sort of well considered, deeply thoughtful experience and advice I value most from this forum. Nice one Egger, I’ll renew my passport and get packed 🕶🌤⛵️

Can’t help but think the cost of remounting a x? Year old MEWP on a later vehicle (plus cost of later vehicle) would put you ½ way towards a box new tracked MEWP. I’m on a mad saving spree for a tracked MEWP but may get distracted and piss the money away on a years sailing the world in a charter yacht.... Its in the balance at the moment 🤪

I hate tax Mull, can't deny it. I guess, it would be more accurate to say I hate systemic governmental waste of money when that money is generated by taxing my hard graft. There's no way round it, waste, incompetence, corruption etc etc etc are endemic - albeit we'll all have differing ideas and thresholds for what constitutes waste, incompetence etc and what is appropriate, sensible and VfM tax spends. You can't blame the corporates for exploiting / utilising* (delete as appropriate) existing national and global tax regimes. I'd suggest we ALL do it - albeit on a much smaller scale. Governments use tax 'breaks' (and penalties) to incentivise certain behaviours but it has taken too long for all/any government to properly catch up with legislation to effectively tax offshore corporates and tax havens of the super rich. I don't 'blame' Starbucks / Apple / Branson for what they do, I've got an ISA so I guess that makes me just as bad as them - on a much smaller scale - but the principle is the same. The masses that patronise these corp's are just as bad as the corp's themselves - again, as I type on my Mac, I guess that makes me just as culpable. Now that the global financial elite have been forced to recognise the fragility of the existing Ponzi scheme that is tax, and the global pandemic has forced a re-think on propping it up, they have had to seek a means to harvest income from sources that were previously off limits. Thatcher and Reagan promoted and implemented the 'trickle down' principles of macro economies which, with the passage of time, can be seen to have been a flawed concept and a failed process. They couldn't have known it at the time but 'we', with the benefit of hindsight, can now see it as a failed process. What we do know is that communism / socialism will ALWAYS fail. No point arguing any other way.

I’d refer you to the news headlines Mark. G7 proposal - albeit, needs to be approved by G20 - but undeniably a massive step in right direction. What ‘actually’ comes to fruition, and when, is another story but that’s global politics - glacial! What a state anyway. The Corps act (exploit) within existing law, laws don’t change quickly, global economics follows the money, people bitch about profit and wealth disparity then go out and whore themselves to the corporate consumer heroin. 🤨

That’s a big part of the ‘fragility’ of the stats that feed into ‘Arb accidents’ which result in half baked cock eyed ‘initiatives’ that impact upon professional practitioners. Farmers, amateurs, have a go heroes and chippies - all full of bravado and good ideas but their cock ups result in long term implications for the industry.