Steven P

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....)

"Dear people of Scotland. We're selling milkshakes all weekend. Have fun. Love BK. #justsaying"......

Wrong thread there.....

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.

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

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.

Didn't he just get convicted 34 times for lying about his hush money payments?

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.

No. There are errors and he needs to try again. Luckily I have a space at the end of my garden......

Similarly "Stinky Poo" an "I love you"

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.

12 month warranty?

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

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

Too cynical scbk.... trying to work out the same.... Me, if it was just pallets for kindling, a crow bar / pry bar, working against one of the sleepers that have blunted the chain and they will just pop apart.

However back to Trump - I see he has just spoken for about half an hour, said nothing apart from it being a political witch hunt against him, which starting the prosecution might be, but the jury found him guilty so perhaps a political witchhunt was justified? He didn't say much else of interest though

Well, this is an interesting quote from the article, "It is not unusual for the subjects of government investigations to say they don’t recall an event or a conversation in order to avoid issues such as perjury. The special counsel did not release the transcript of the interviews with Biden, so some context is unclear. Former President Donald Trump, the current Republican front-runner, has boasted of his own vast memory but has also at times said in legal proceedings that he does not recall certain events." Both selectively forgetting things?

To be honest since it is mostly Trump peddling stories about Biden, apparent drug misuse and mental capabilities it is very tricky not to mention him. Take Trump out of the story and... there is no story. Mental capabilities and age I do think there should be an upper age limit for positions of power, perhaps 75 and you have to give up office. More than usual retirement age to benefit from worldly experience, and about the time when physical capabilities start to decline a bit quicker.

Ahh, so 'meds' are 5 common or over the counter prescription drugs (the type all old people will get). The only other common reference that he takes any other is of course, from Trump. Not sure I would rely on that as a source of truth.

His other number 1 fan in the UK, Morgan was similarly disappointed.

I guess then that you cannot say "what meds" ? another figment of your imagination then (or Trumps actually)

What meds?

Not sure about a genius dealmaker, Trump is best buddies with Putin remember, and Kim Jong Un, and didn't he have a love in with Xi Jinping? Perhaps just get them together over a beer and tell them to behave (and I hear his old pal, Epsteins place is empty, perfect secluded island away from the press... a great judge of character?)

Weirdly with Biden, I haven't turned on the news and thought "WTF" nearly as much as I did when Trump was in charge there. Appears to have quietly just done the job.