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Johnsond

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  1. Today’s brief by her was a total and utter insult to people’s intelligence Andy. The patronising rubbish that was coming out of her mouth was disgusting, worse still was none of the questions by the media representatives contained anything that even remotely held her to account.
  2. As much as I understand the desire to protect people I truly do not think she neither realises or cares about the damage this is doing to people’s economic and mental wellbeing, I know from my own experience that the financial stress is starting to take its toll and that my kids are desperate to get back to school.
  3. Currently listening to Sturgeon giving her daily propaganda talk. I’m more than ever convinced that she is totally deluded in regards the value of the drastic measures being taken versus the actual reality of the worries for most working class people in particular small business and self employed wondering where this is all going. Protect the NHS she keeps saying. Hospitals other than Covid 19 units are virtually deserted intensive care usage in Scotland less than 20% of capacity ?‍♂️?‍♂️?‍♂️?‍♂️ Tbe desire to hang onto the power and control this gives her is blatant.
  4. The phrase protect our NHS is still being bandied about up here in Scotland to justify yet more control and an extension of a totally bogus and ineffective lockdown. Current intensive care utilisation north of the border is lower than anywhere else in UK, depending on what source approx 20% of total capacity ?‍♂️?‍♂️.
  5. Deploy army on Border to stop lockdown trips, says Highland councillor WWW.THENATIONAL.SCOT THE army should be deployed on the Border to stop people who flout lockdown restrictions travelling... The sheer stupidity of this is beyond belief. The SNP is dragging Scotland down a different route for purely political reasons. Army on the borders WTF, who do these arseholes think they are ?‍♂️. Are we not allowed to think for ourselves or take our own precautions or do we need a control freak SNP government to dictate how we exist and function on a day to day basis.
  6. You read that wrong man ?? jokes aside if I was gonna protest I’d have put a bit of effort into the sign. Lockdown is done for now Mark even up here in Scotland it’s just totally ineffective.
  7. The girl being lifted in the picture
  8. The silence in the media regarding the number of illegal immigrants crossing the channel is deafening. What’s maddening is the fact they are brought ashore once and if intercepted mid channel. The media won’t even call them what they are ie Illegal, instead it refers to them as immigrants.
  9. Agree it was never a full on effective lockdown ?‍♂️I’m up in Aberdeenshire and regardless of what shite sturgeon is putting out about Scotland vs England or believing her own propaganda there most definitely isn’t one in place up here neither.
  10. Local Chinese in my home village were Hong Kong Chinese and hated the mainland Chinese authorities.
  11. Really?? Yeah the facts are out there for sure what about the Brazilian guy on the tube ?? The guy killed at the G20 protest etc etc take a hard look at his background at cps and some of his decisions.
  12. Wouldn’t bother with any of that build a decent base with a good membrane below it. Let it go off and then put some good treated sole plates down with a dpc between those and the concrete base. I have used decent Hili anchor bolts to secure the sole plates with good results ( don’t rush ref the drilling as you need the concrete to be pretty hard rather than green so 2-3 days min curing time) Then just crack on with the build, good airflow under and through the base of the structure to avoid dampness will do more for longevity than overthinking the concrete base. If you are building from scratch try and make sure the rain run off does not lie on the concrete base ie have an overlap at edges to allow rain to fall clear of base or good guttering helps.
  13. Buy a roll of visqueen and once you have levelled and sorted the base put this down and everything thereafter goes on top of that, that’s no more than you will ever see done on sites. 150-200mm of decent concrete on top of a membrane you will have no probs. The timber structure no doubt will be on it own timber sole plates which you can also put a dpc in between those and the concrete.
  14. Concrete is in itself waterproof if thick enough, end of day there are concrete rigs and even hulls out there at sea. I’d lay a plastic membrane below the whole pour and build the shutter reinforcement etc etc on it. There are loads of different types of additives out there that can improve its properties but the price starts to go up if you order them from one of the bigger suppliers. Best thing you can do is tell them what you want it for and the tech guys at the supplier will give you a spec, end of the day they are supplying thousands of cubes of the stuff. concreting is like many things it’s all about the prep, make sure the shuttering is spot on as nothing worse than watching it pop. Powerscreeds and power floats are east to get from most big hire chains too. Are you building walls up from the base or is it a timber type structure ?? how many cube ??
  15. Look into his past and his track record at the cps before you want him as PM and don’t be fooled by the bullshit knighthood dished out for towing the line.
  16. Hopefully a glimmer of light in England with some movement on restrictions. I’m in same boat up here in Scotland ref zero income and assistance as are many. Good luck ?
  17. Look a bit further into his track record and past decisions and there is a lot that’s not good in regards whom he did and did not prosecute, in particular the aftermath of the saville case.
  18. Lucky bugger Still on stby here, poss glimmer for next month but until Sturgeon gives ground I’m in the shit
  19. Andy if you want a couple of oversize DF beams rather than use good Oak let me know bud.
  20. No such thing as tax free mind They are not superhuman and nor do they have all the answers, my own view is like all of us in life they are probs winging it somewhat with a bit of expert advice. Probs no different to any other government.
  21. All banter and the likes aside Mark and I include those deluded political leanings of yours ?. The possibility of not finding a vaccine or cure ever is one that maybe people should consider ie common cold or flue !!. Where does that leave us ? We are most definitely not the masters of this planet, Mother Nature has given us all a reminder of that for sure. The other thing that has been shown is that we can not rely on technology and science all the time and that sad as it is death is a part of life and comes to us all at some point. The virus is maybe something we in the west have to learn to live with just as others in less developed areas live and die with multiple other diseases every day. There is no outcry regarding the number of malaria deaths every year !!. I’m not being pessimistic, optimistic or fatalistic even I just think we are at a point now that we just have to try and get on with it. ?‍♂️Hopefully it works out for the best.
  22. I do hope in the interest of good socialist ideals you declare those gambling earnings mind

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