Steven P

I think you have have completely missed Sime42s point here. Nothing to do with jealousy. It is the attitude 'I am just like you, I also know hardship' while banking his next million - having to do without Sky TV - big tears here - where many in the country are having to also do without a warm house, consideration between clothes or meals, watching their childrens friends go off on trips while taking them home hungry again, overcrowded houses 3 kids to a room. He knows hardship though, he didn't have sky TV, he is just like us. I'm sure you can relate to the hardships growing up that he never endured. The lecture "you can better yourselves" and forgetting that we cannot just pick up a phone to a mate from your public school days or Oxford / Cambridge education to get a leg up. Grafting from the bottom upwards - in this forum humping logs about while saving to pay for training rather than lifting the phone "Daddy, I could do with....." Rarely see a politician get to the top who came from a council sink estate, they always have a leg up - hardships to them is no Sky TV - hardships to the rest of us is very different. Sure some of us get a lucky break - right place, right time - but that is what it is. In recent years an average wage is creeping closer and closer downwards to the minimum you need for lifes essentials.... and a lot is to do with political decisions. "I endure hardship, just like you".... no you don't. 1/3

So cannot suggest not digging the path just there, that has been done. To help get a better answer, I assume it is a path for walking on only, what about fully loaded wheel barrows or similar? That might allow you to go shallower with the foundations How much walking up and down that path will you be doing? Once a week to get a spade out the shed or constantly all weekend while the kids are playing outside type of use? Top surface going to be slabs still? How often do you want to relay the path if the roots lift it? I might be very wrong but a sand foundation might work - it will be better for the roots than hardcore and allow them to grow, however it will need more maintenance in the future to level it off every few years and apply more sand. From personal experience the drive along my garage 'council' style paving slabs (600x400?) is just on 75 - 100mm of sand, foot traffic and the occasional full wheel barrow, being used most days, I've redone some this year for better drainage but has lasted 10 years still being level.

No, I just clammed up, there is a time and a plaice for that, I wasn't wanting to mussel in on the working bragging rights

Or you have made an error of judgement with which link to post and posted on about European politics instead of UK politics - either way looks like you made the error of judgement there. Right, beer number 3, here we go.

Are you inventing things again it would appear he commented after you posted the link and rationality would suggest he was commenting about that link. How odd.

I should point out that I'm only here tonight for the attention and argument while the beers cool and before I start a busy shift in the morning.

These guys seam to think there is a far right, I wonder if anyone would agree enough with this article to share it in the group?

Positions of power are very favourable financially and I guess you don't marry into massive wealth without being a shrewd investor yourself. Even after power he will still command a decent wage - £20k a night speaking gigs for a year or so at least

Don't know but for £30 worth of rocks and £5 of copper pipe, £300 sounds like a decent profit to me. I can make you one if you want, discounted for members to £250? Free roll of tin foil (noting in the supermarket the Turkey foil was reduced last night for you all)

Duh... cannot prosecute a US President, they will just pardon themselves and get away free... which is what Trump is banking on in November (3 more criminal court cases around the corner for him so far)... So if there is a credible case (which I doubt.. but will be happy to be corrected) then watch this space about 2 years after he has left office. Trump is not the president and is unable to pardon himself. Hs past criminal activities can catch up with him. You should pay more attention to how the world works. Biden, what crime do you think he is above the law on? And what evidence do you have apart from the word of a convicted criminal? Going up another post, Farage, for a city trader he has no clue on finances does he? Cut all those taxes, he will still need to fund society and the increases he proposes... which will hit the average to high earners... or is he just playing true to form and is just relishing the media spotlight on him with no substance to what he says.

what batteries do you have?

tax payer, he paid so yes.

I can't say but if the RSPB were the leaseholders / owners / occupiers and manage the land then it is up to them how the land is managed at their cost. If that includes setting out and making parking bays with an honesty box (which is what it looks like) then their business. If it is the local council who own and manage the land then the RSPB are chancers and deserve what they get. A thought I had while I was out at lunch, you wouldn't walk into a school building to take a dump because 'we' have paid for it and you need a poo? Schools cost the tax payers a lot so why not get your moneys worth?

That's fine - I don't know the site or location so just asking away you see.

Does the landlord loose business from the parking I wonder? Vested intersts

That's a fairly honest assessment, I wouldn't fall out with anyone over the Brexit vote but I do think the benefits outweigh the possibility of an invasion of Bulgarians - I do believe that most people will live in the country they are born in and the numbers quoted at the time (by Farage) to suggest millions heading this way were well off the mark. However clever media presence from him lead many to believe this. Noting that the countries he quoted are still well away from EU membership. We do agree on the immigration thing though, Farage is focussing too much on the desperate 20 or 30k crossing the channel on small boats and the 1.2 million government authorised immigrants (then we take off the 500k who emigrate) - the ones "coming to steal our jobs" are a much bigger problem - making concrete cancer. Cut that right back, housing supply will improve, energy security will improve, job prospects for the young will improve. However immigration is not a factor of Brexit else this number would be a lot lower, it never was - we always had a say in who could settle here from outside the EU (EU immigration numbers have dropped, outside the EU (we always controlled that) have risen)

It would surprise me to be honest if the RSPB were putting signs up to charge for parking on the publicly owned part of the road - the parking surely applies to what they control. If the land is publicly owned do the RSPB lease the land then? Similarly for the access to the hut, where does council ownership start and stop? I can understand if the Scouts want to keep random strangers off their land if they have 20 or 30 children running about, the odd random adult wandering about must be a nightmare. See I don't know the site so can't really comment but I would be surprised if the RSPB were charging for access to public roads and the council were accepting of that.

So long as you are all sorted then that makes the world good.

Entitlement or just a lack of respect I wonder? Leave nothing but footprints and take nothing but memories if you are on someone else land. I reckon a lot of landowners wouldn't be too bothered if everyone who went on the land respected it, left it as they found it but you get the idiots who think that land owner is the bin man providing a forest of free firewood. If the land owners pops along to ask you to move then accept and respect their wishes and similarly if they ask you to chip in to pay for upkeep of a parking area, fences, bins or whatever then why not? (It is littering that gets me - mostly because that is what affects me most, into 'my' wood windblown off the road but the number of -worldwideburgerchain- bags dumnped within 5m of the council emptied (daily) litter bin... deep breath SP, deep breaths.....)

Farage is the most significant insignificant failed politician there is. He alone isn't responsible for Brexit but his constant focus for it, his media presence and tenacity gave a very public face to the thinking of the right wing of the Conservative Party. To please them Cameron held the Brexit vote, but it would ever have got that far without the mouthpiece. The Conservative MPs were never as vocal as Farage on the TV, radio or papers. It is true he didn't cause Brexit, it is the idiots who voted for it, but he was one of the main causes that the vote was held in the first place. A mistake that will take generations to 'fix' and return to some of the safeguards the EU has put in place for Europe, to allow free movement of goods and people (noting that works both ways, can't argue at passport control when we are queuing to go on our holidays) and all because of some fallacy that we don't actually like the Belgians. Thinking here things like the working time directives where truck drivers hours were limited (and doctors), we were limited to 40 hour weeks (anything over is voluntary), and so on. Trade, and our standards were all aligned allowing goods to move without checks and free trade to happen.

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John Prescot stands to mind, a quick hook sorted any protests against him, not sure prison time is needed.

Trying to work out if you are being serious here or not

Tory Leadership? I don't think he has the inclination to go for that. Noting in the last few months he has mentioned he would 'if he was asked' and hinted that might be his long term plan, the Tory party have indicated there is nothing in their rules to bar his membership, some suggesting he would be made welcome. And yet.... his membership of the Tory party seams missing. Small first steps are necessary. I think he would if the Tory party all turned up on his doorstep and asked, he would then say "Ahh, OK then".... However true to form - all words and bluster, and no action. Take 60 seats of the Torys but I can't see him putting in the hours touring the country like the others will be doing, a few TV and radio shows will do him just fine. Same with Brexit - all words and bluster but as soon as the vote was cast he ran off to the US so he didn't have to do any of the actual hard work (He just stuck around as a MEP till he got his years in and then a very healthy pension).

Well, why should they have all the fun? (I don't condone throwing things at politicians, never recommend but....)