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Preaching to the converted there I can assure you ?‍♂️. I’ve worked for Norwegian outfits and the difference is night and day. I agree with everything you say but unfortunately as I said in the same post we have to live with a full on capitalist ideal in UK sector, basically a handful of companies are giving a fuck and doing it right the rest are just there to rape it for max profit min expenditure. My point was the rate that Andy mentions is slightly misleading as in it was the gross figure for Norway, and the differences between the two sectors are huge in many ways. The pragmatic long term view Norway took has indeed paid off big time. My own view is a form of nationalisation or part ownership of many key industries should be in place and at the very least our oil should be sourced on a form of fair trade type set up not from any friendly that month regime regardless of its human rights record etc etc. The one thing we are never gonna match is the numbers ie Norwegian population and the money generated from oil per head versus UK population etc etc.

Total joke ?‍♂️

Not everyone is on anywhere near that and as Andy will say that’s not quite the reality of the situation, taxation in the Norwegian sector in Andy’s case for example is eye watering. There is a huge misconception that oil and gas equals loads of money, unfortunately in the UK sector that is not the case. You are right in as much as many are in the same boat so to speak. I’m pretty much convinced now that the cure is gonna be worse than the virus.

EnQuest to axe hundreds of UK roles - News for the Oil and Gas Sector WWW.ENERGYVOICE.COM The struggling UK oil and gas sector was dealt another blow on Tuesday as EnQuest confirmed it... There you go Mark you can advise them all to get a proper job.

I certainly know of your political leanings as you never miss a chance to yap on about them. As for your operation I do recall you bragging about how your accountants had managed to get you a low tax bill due no doubt to the ease of setting up ltd company type operations in the UK Do as I say not as I do it seems Mark. Not uncommon when it comes to the left

What is a Proper job ffs do you have any idea of the different roles carried out in support of North Sea operations !!!!! I fear not nor the reality of doing a trip that for those vessel based and not on rotation that might be anything from 4-12 weeks at min 12hrs a day 7 days a week. There’s plenty of lads from mine and your way making a living from it too. This ranks up with the dumbest of your statements. The thousands of guys looking at possible redundancy and subsequent worries about how they house and feed families would not appreciate the left wing envy bullshit from a tax dodging fake ltd company director. Oil won’t go out of favour it’s just the extreme capitalist shite we have to deal with on a day to day basis that’s causing this and let’s not forget unless you ain’t noticed a worldwide virus issue ?‍♂️?‍♂️. Seriously Mark you don’t half let yourself down at times with the sheer volume of pseudo left wing socialist shit you spout on here.

Yeah me too, forced unemployment curtesy of corona.

This is in some respects true but more measures need to be put into place to protect those whom are being hit financially, the loopholes within the systems put in place so far are huge. Many myself included are earning zero with no chance of any assistance. Currently I’m living off what in reality is funds that belong to HMRC not me. I’ve 2 options they are give all I have to said HMRC and bring myself under the threshold that would allow me to get assistance or carry on as I am looking after my family and paying my mortgage, bills etc. Council tax is in now I see no sign of a break from that ?‍♂️. The end result may well be that we save many of the most vulnerable but the prospect of losing my house is somewhat altering my perspectives of the whole way this is being handled. Policies and assurances need to be put in place that at the end of this people’s homes are protected. No doubt taxation will go up and with it the aggressive third party contractor methods used in its recovery. Many will come out of this with no ill effects physically or financially. A sizeable numbed will sadly die but an even greater number will be reduced to virtual servitude if the current methods of tax recovery and penalties etc upon self assessed individuals are put back into place as soon as the lockdown is eased. The saying you quoted is indeed valid but also there is nothing as cruel as Mother Nature, Death is a part of life and the most vulnerable you mention are sadly often neglected and die in significant numbers with no publicity.

Whose rules ? see mark end of day we are all human.

Capitalist

Look out the window Mark the sun is shining this morning so try and let a bit of that bounce off you. Regarding defeatist that’s not quite how I see it more akin to being jaded after watching all my life a succession of labour then conservative then labour then conservative ?‍♂️?‍♂️. The saying you can’t please all the people all the time is very true, you can’t realistically expect any government to be totally ahead of every game and expert in all fields. If they had shut down things as the Chinese did the civil liberties crowd would have went nuts. My own view is as an island nation we missed a golden opportunity to seal all borders and cut nearly all commercial flights out right at the beginning , ( Globalisation ??) I’ve no doubt they acted on advice but hey ho I’m not whining about it. Im not here to support or deride anyone so don’t feel the need to sit and put up links to any good work that’s being done. On a different totally non political note once this is all done I’ll be down in Northumberland to see family and will need a dozen or so logs to mill up to do some repairs at my sisters stables, any ideas ??. You can buy me a coffee too and put it on ltd company expenses ?

I’m not the one dripping about things Mark (You do get that point I presume )so I’ve not yet left my box as you so ineloquently put it. All I asked is rather than the constant non political affiliation tory drip fest was throw in a few positive ideas. You can’t keep saying the same back as the question was originally asked of yourself ?‍♂️?‍♂️. Anyway you need to get to sleep or you will be too tired to fulfil your director roles or take advice from your accountants ref tax reduction. PS Everyone needs a GOOD accountant I’d agree, 30 yrs self employed I’ve seen a few at both ends of scale. you are not the only one who sees social injustice or has been skint mark, you know where I came from.

Mark I’m not the one whom comes on here relentlessly dripping on about Boris or the Tories. All governments are cunts ?‍♂️ You not worked that one out yet !!. I asked you in an earlier post to put up a few answers or positive ideas etc etc etc rather than the standard left wing anti tory whinge fest. I presume you ain’t an unintelligent guy and the fact that you have realised that going ltd and partaking of a bit of right wing capitalist style tax burden reduction in life would back that presumption up, but as others have alluded to you definitely are blinded by the regional labour indoctrination.

Mark it’s a waste of time as your mind is made up as it has been on many occasions, to be honest If id posted as much discredited shite as you I’d not be banging the same drum still. The negativity is tiring bud, stick some answers or ideas up for a change eh

Yawn ? bloody yawn ? Mark for once give us a positive and tell us what the answer to all this is in your opinion rather that just pointing out or putting links up to anything that half agrees with how you view tories and Boris.

PM sent Chris

I can only dream of such order and neatness ?

Find my mill tends to be doing the more mundane stuff too Steve. Was out today milling cladding and beams for my own use, nothing exciting but the ability to knock up your own timber is very handy at the moment.

Lot to be said for this, to be honest I considered it for a good while prior to building my own trailer. I’d have been looking at a 16ft as a min and having owned a tri axle in that length I know what a solid decent tool they are and I think the levelling could be done easy enough with the same type of legs you see on most of the woodlands trailers retrofitted to some fabricated outriggers or box passed through between chassis and bed. . I looked at possibly putting the mill to one side and putting bolsters on the other to do as you say and carry the wood milled back. What put me off in the end was the weight and the fact they are very low at the back end for getting into some places. Milling tomorrow for my own use and luckily it’s close to home but still a pain to have to stack the timber and go back later with the ifor to collect.

Well that’s me enlightened ? ?

?‍♂️?‍♂️Enlighten me geordie slang Meister

Probably what the Americans thought when steptoe and abbot where masquerading as the opposition.

Ffs get over it and change the record. We had the election, your predictions were proven to be totally wrong. Let’s get through this unprecedented situation and a few years down the line we will have another general election then you can cast a vote to make a difference as you see it. Be careful what you wish for as ltd company sole trader type set ups don’t really sit well with your left wing citizen smith type socialist heroes.

Citizen smith never misses a chance. Hopefully Starmer as much as I hate his London elite credentials will at least form a credible opposition as opposed to those pair of fucking idiots you blindly worship. She had no soul and was nothing more than a lying racist angry woman, some of the same genes she’s passed onto her son I see.