kevinjohnsonmbe

I wasn’t gonna bother with a reply - you 2 were doing it for me ???

1 x migrant actually equates to how many family members that may visit, how many trips ‘home’ in a life time? I actually mean all flavours, colours, creeds, breeds, etc. The virus (Whether it be COVID or Ash dieback ( perhaps to a lesser degree but illustrative none the less)) doesn’t really transport itself very far. It’s the movement of PEOPLE (and/or international trade) that is the root of the problem. An unpalatable reality maybe, but pretty simple really.... Doesn't the current situation drive home the obvious reality that international travel is a bad idea? People all over the world are breathing cleaner air because the planes are grounded and car travel is minimised. How many premature respiratory disease deaths have been avoided as a direct consequence of C19? C19 mortality rates need to be adjusted in relation to the reduction in air pollution respiratory disease related deaths. What a crazy time we live in! Those with ‘green’ leanings must recognise the benefits of a cessation of international travel. That must cause some intellectual conflict with open border types....

Does anyone that supports international migration and a So-called ‘world without borders’ still need any evidence for the dangers of unrestricted migration?

Have you got an authoritative source for these bonkers suggestions? Not a media reported interpretation of what he said but rather the first person transcript. Granted, it does appear, from the reporting, that he is as daft as a fish but is it the reporting or is it what he actually said. Genuinely, I’m open to be convinced one way or the other but it has to be first person recorded script not what has been ‘reported.’

Consumers' right to cancel detail is fairly well set out here: Cancelling a service you’ve arranged WWW.CITIZENSADVICE.ORG.UK When you can cancel a service, how to get your money back, how to negotiate with the business. Your obligations (if quote provided at the customers premise) is set out here: Door to door sales - GOV.UK WWW.GOV.UK Doorstep selling, regulations, written notice of the right to cancel, exemptions, penalties Somewhere in the middle of the 2 is the quote sent by email / mail after leaving the potential customers premise. Have you incurred any loss? Equipment hire or staff costs? If yes, and all your paperwork is in order and it is outwith the cancellation period which you provided to the customer and if it's worth the bother.... On one occasion, I spent several hours on site visits, 3 journeys because I wanted to speak to the son of the elderly lady as well as the elderly lady, arranged additional staff and MEWP for 1 particular job. Got it all agreed and signed off, 1 week before start date they cancelled and got their nephew to do it weekends and evenings (he worked for a utility arb firm.) That's OK I thought, I'll take it on the chin, apologise to the climbers and cancel the MEWP. The son of the elderly lady had his furniture re-upholstery shop at the address. He was very proud of his product and I spent a bit of time in there chatting because it was interesting. I wonder if he ever figured out who it was that phoned him from a big flash country house 160 round trip miles away asking if he'd come and take on a long term, large scale re-upholstery task. It was a cracking wedding I was at, might have had a few beers and got on the phone....

Are you pulling my chain Mr S? A swede is called a turnip. Was your intended question - what do they call a turnip? It just gets weirder at this point..... A turnip is a turnip but that can mean swede OR turnip ??? I know, and I live here ?

Bugger, I just couldn’t do it, finger wavered over turnip but the opportunity to see Big J in melt down was too good to miss ????

I have to say, he’d be quite justified in doing so. It IS fake news and he’s every justification for calling any journo that perpetuates it (like C4 News last night) a total liar. That said, given the options J has presented, I’d go turnip and then call the vote invalid on the basis that the wrong turnip has been elected. In Cornwall, a turnip is what might generally be called a swede everywhere else this opening the avenue for a mid-count!

I’m struggling to understand what it is you’ve actually done.... Are you saying you paid someone £600 on the empty promise that they’d get you some leads with customers you’ve never met and at prices they won’t question.... I’m genuinely at a loss for words!

I can't understand why they went with a national approach rather than a regional one. Other than the obvious Londoncentric mentality of Westminster maybe. Metropolitan centres with international air / rail hubs and population density are vastly different beasts to the rest (majority?) of the nation. With proper / strict movement restrictions (M25, Wales, Cornwall etc etc - I'm sure there are more that could have been defined) surely there could have been a tiered approach to the whole thing rather than a national one...

Doubtless some elements of truth in that....

Same in Cornwall. ? Had to watch this again..... (I'm actually crying now ! ???)

They (the government) (a) shouldn't be focussing on item specifics - they should be focussing on 'effect', more importantly, (b) they shouldn't really even be focussing on 'effect', that should be local / departmental, they should be focussing on strategy! (I'm kind of agreeing with you Mark (about the numbers thing) and the attached post isn't directed 'at you' it's just that it kind of fit the point

Just a little tweak.... ?

You haven’t got it wrong mate, you’ve just assimilated the information the BBC wanted you to from their 1 minute edited version of an hours briefing. They’ve cut and spliced entirely separate sections to present a message that never actually existed in the first place. Straight out of the Jon Sweeney playbook.

That’s ‘dark’, but bloody funny....

Fair play, if you took your news feed from the BBC you’d maybe be justified in thinking Trump a total fool that suggested drinking or injecting bleach as a cure for C19. There’s no getting away from the fact that he does come across as a total loon at times. But it just doesn’t add up. How can he have achieved so much if he is the buffoon that he is portrayed as? Is it media misdirection and misinformation? I can see why some are fundamentally opposed to him but anyone with an ounce of intelligence must be questioning the sources of their opinion forming material.

This crisis has exposed that the Army is the only part of the state that actually works WWW.TELEGRAPH.CO.UK It remains the British instinct to believe that, if all else fails in a crisis, the Armed Forces are always there to pick up the...

I said at the beginning, there will probably never be a better opportunity / justification case for universal income (including some wealth redistribution) than that which we have under the current situation. Everyone gets the same, those that choose to work harder get to top their own income up in relation to the effort they make.

I don’t disagree it’s a tough pill Mick. Mate of mine has 130 blokes sat at home on furlough because he simply can’t get the bulk supplies he needs (because the suppliers shut down rather than thinking it through properly.) On the plus side, there’s a sudden explosion of builders doing private cash jobs (or home improvements) and topping up their 80% very nicely thank you very much.... What ever system is put in place there’ll be genuine needy and greedy grabby. If only such things were simple...

Nothing at all to disagree with there. I'm seeing far more people that are milking this system as a cash cow than not. Take the supermarkets for example, prices creeping up, trading and profits through the roof, yet they are still drawing down the advantages that are meant for 'struggling' businesses. 7,000+ second homes in Cornwall & Scilly opted for business rates (on the basis of an occasional holiday let) rather than pay council tax (then receive rate relief so pay nothing) are creaming 100s of k in state aid whilst the local economy bombs. https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/claims-second-home-owners-cornwall-3962892 How is that right and proper? How come MPs got a one off £10k payment for working at home? The system is shot full of holes but adding more is not a solution....