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Steven P

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  1. That's fine - I don't know the site or location so just asking away you see.
  2. Does the landlord loose business from the parking I wonder? Vested intersts
  3. 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)
  4. 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.
  5. So long as you are all sorted then that makes the world good.
  6. 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.....)
  7. 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.
  8. MONTY+PYTHON+ONLY+CAME+HERE+FOR+AN+ARGUMENT - Recherche Vidéos WWW.BING.COM
  9. John Prescot stands to mind, a quick hook sorted any protests against him, not sure prison time is needed.
  10. Trying to work out if you are being serious here or not
  11. 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).
  12. Well, why should they have all the fun? (I don't condone throwing things at politicians, never recommend but....)
  13. "Dear people of Scotland. We're selling milkshakes all weekend. Have fun. Love BK. #justsaying"......
  14. Wrong thread there.....
  15. Stood for UK election 7 times, got elected 0 times. Was whinging that the election was bad timing for him because he was going to be working on Trumps election - but suddenly is available to stand again (did anything change in the US?). Claims he is going to take 60 seats of the Tories yet the polls reckon Reform UK will get 0 seats - so I guess splitting the Tory voters and giving Labour or the Lib Dems an easier victory. Read this morning that he is a major shareholder of Reform UK - not so much a political party as a business out to make money... which is where his heart is, his bank account. I don't like the man, but can't see him upsetting the UK political landscape this year with any degree of success.
  16. If I understand it right, signed up for 6 month and he will let you out of the contract a month early - you don't have to pay for the last month.... so you will have paid rent for 5 months... so you are entitled to stay for 5 months. If he wants you out a month earlier then he has to allow you to pay only 4 months rent and all is then fair and even. Keep everything in writing, copy in the agent and ask the contract to be cancelled at 4 months so he can get his new tenant installed. If you still have an agreement I would be tempted to be in the place tomorrow, unfortunately keys went back. Shelter have a lot of good advice - you don't need to be homeless and I think have tool kits and template letters to cover a lot of situations. The agents know the form and that the legal advice you are getting is generally sound using these.... which might prompt them to pay up. I think something like give them 3 chances, chance 3 is saying "settle up or small claims court" and then start proceedings - minimal costs involved. 50-50 that when the agency gets the legal papers they will settle, if it goes to court and it goes your way you can claim time and expenses - court decides this I think but add it into the claim... but shelter has good advice. After that citizens advice are also very good - I've never used the though
  17. Meds? Conversation has moved on you see, but I wasn't saying that Biden was taking anything other than the prescribed drugs.. however since you repeated it, that is another thing Trump often says with no evidence and I suspect is a fabricated story.... or lie. However for Trump, 12 of his peers have unanimously decided he was lying 34 times in this case.
  18. Didn't he just get convicted 34 times for lying about his hush money payments?
  19. Most US mass shootings in the last 20 years or so have been carried out by the legal owner of the gun google reckons. My view is if there are more guns available then there will be more reaching the hands of the criminals.
  20. No. There are errors and he needs to try again. Luckily I have a space at the end of my garden......
  21. Similarly "Stinky Poo" an "I love you"
  22. Got to love the USA. In 2024 days between mass shootings, maximum achieved so far: 13 UK mass shootings since 2000: 19, which the US had achieved by January 17th this year alone. Always a good argument for gun controls and never a good argument to relax them. However it looks like Donald Trumps conviction has barred him from owning guns for 1 year... so watch this space if he gets elected that the requirements for gun ownership will change and 'white collar' crimes such as fraud won't count. Sorry, went all political there, don't know what came over me then.
  23. 12 month warranty?
  24. It is possible but I forget the exact state needed to do it - we had fluorescent tubes in the garage, wired separate to the main fuse box in the house - We've got the main electricity company fuse, split in 2, 1 supply to house circuit breakers, the other to the garage (traditional) fuse box. Every so often the garage lights would trip the house. I think it was to do with the capacitance in the garage - fluorescents capacitors - that did it. Motors have inductance which is kind of anti-capacitance so maybe something similar happening here when the motor is running? ... but for the life of me I can't remember what it was. I know the bloke who told me, interesting man, but he retired about 4 years ago
  25. If you are set on a saw, check out Lidl or Aldi, cheap battery saw, couple of spare batteries no problem. If you are still set on a petrol chain saw for pallets, go Stihl MS170, it is all you will need if you want a brand name, else check out lidl or Aldi again, less than the £100 plus you will be getting brand new and a warranty. Else keep talking, you remind me of someone, the name will come back to me shortly

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