I am sure this compromat leaking is completely unrelated to the news linking Boris with a comeback at Reform.

Farage scared of allowing his supporters a free vote between him and Boris shocker.

Richest 4%? Show us the gap between the richest 1% and the richest 0.1% vs the bottom rather than dragging down the multiplier by deliberate widening the boundaries to imply its not even more lopsided when you look at the rich as people who travel by private jet and super yacht.

Do the wealthy need to cut their emissions? Of course, but stop pretending that they emit anywhere near the amount of the actual rich.

The issue is the branded tat that schools insist upon such as blazers, jumpers, skirts, etc. Its almost always overpriced compared to the basics from Asda and Tesco.

Ban the branded shit and you fix at least half the problem.

Till they come after you for doing so.

The way it will work is a public crackdown on a couple of the big providers, then a few high profile cases where unlicensed VPN usage will be a tacked on offense with additional penalties for those getting investigated.

Its the same with the identity checks now, big porn sites and the like have them or will have them very soon, some small scale stuff does not and might get away with not implementing it. Using such small scale sites then becomes grounds for further investigation if you get swept up with it later.

These things are never about 100% compliance, there will always be those who can work around it. However working around it will in itself become an offense and grounds for further investigation.

Yup, do you have a license to use that VPN bruv?

I have been saying this is the long term aim of this style of legislation for years.

They knew when they implemented IPA back in 2016 that VPNs would be an ongoing problem and have been chipping away at the perception of them since then.

It gets worse if you compare Jane with Janet and John who both earn say 50k each, as they still get that child benefit despite their combined net income being about double what she earns.

They simply refuse to look at household income, and treat even married couples as singletons living separately for this.

Those who purchased farms to avoid paying IHT such as Clarkson can usually afford to pay for a good accountant to help them plan avoiding as much IHT under the new rules as possible as its quite generous if you have at least seven years (and money for a good accountant) before your kids will inherit.

Those who are actual multi generational farmers, even if that’s just the parents and the children they want to inherit the farm, there aren’t that many who are over the threshold for a married couple plus the various exceptions if they can go the seven years.

Its those who lack the time or lack the quality advise that will struggle, its not a huge number, less than 500 farms a year should be dragged into paying more without proper planning at the seven years to implement it due to allowances. I think thats the only bit I do not like, as once again we have allowed a loop hole for those who can and should be paying more tax and the expense of everybody else.

Two decades ago we needed the water companies to fix their leaks rather than paying bonuses, dividends, and loan repayments to help the former.

At least that long ago we needed more reservoirs rather than allowing the cost and nimbies to stop them.

But right now we need to be cutting back on new data centres and other new projects that can’t afford their water debt. Stop making the problem worse without an actual plan or funding to fix it.

Its possible that the local businesses have lost business because terminally lazy people can no longer park directly outside their shops and will not walk a short distance to them, this should be extremely easy for the business to prove if its actually true, I have my doubts its a significant amount. I suspect the people most inconvenienced by not being able to park outside the businesses are those that actually work there. This is the only remotely serious suggestion I see from the anti bike lane crowd in this instance.

My local village center is meant to be no parking on the high street, has had times its been enforced properly and times its been ignored due to pressure by local businesses. Recently they started enforcing it, directing people to the free (under two hours) car parks on the edge of the high street. Car parks were full with people who own and work in the shops, so they prevented them from parking in the car parks all day, so now they park on the residential streets off the high street enforcement area.

The completely made up and arbitrary fiscal rules? The ones we could change at any moment, for say, defense spending?

Sick of them refusing to address the actual problem. Triple lock costing too much money right now? I know let’s fix it by reducing the amount of people claiming it for an extra year, years from now. Punishing the very people actually contributing the tax revenue to pay for the pension and the triple lock today.

If you are spending too much money now you either need to reduce the money being spent now by binning the triple lock or increase taxation this year and be hones thats what its (part) paying for. Except you too chicken shit to do that.

The threat he is trying to make is around the government being on the hook for the loans and urgent improvement works at a time the government is trying to cut costs.

Should we nationalise it? Yes but it needs to be in such a way that we write off the costs of doing so as much as possible. I have no idea how we can protect ourselves in doing that without causing at least some problems downstream.

this will go nowhere due to large bribes donations

This is about being able to charge more for Saturday delivery like most other “premium” delivery companies as they sure as shit wont be cutting the hours that they expect the Posties to work.

Because second class has a decent service level, even now, its possible to time your parcel delivery for a Saturday reasonably accurately for a low(er) fee. Drop second class then push up the prices for 1st class parcels.

Then when they can, with a more friendly Ofcom, they will stop first class on a Saturday and switch to a proper Saturday delivery tariff.

Train Sim World. Yes Dovetail have their problems, yes its expensive if you want a lot of the latest DLC (why, its not multiplayer so doesn’t decrease in popularity like multiplayer game DLC), yes its not a well optimised graphical tour de force. But damn is it relaxing to play with multiple levels of difficulty that are entirely optional. Its possible to get hundreds of hours of replay from a single route if that’s what you enjoy.

Phone use is meant to be detectable by the latest automated cameras, along with seat belt use that are on trial last I heard. If it works as good as they say they do then I suspect a lot of people will be facing a ban.

Any conversation around salary has to include their generous pension scheme (better than civil servants), significant expenses that they are allowed to claim for their lifetime in parliament, expensive freebies such as Taylor Swift or access to an Arsenal box, subsidised food and drink, and the opportunities offered for additional salary from outside jobs and lobbying. Oh and if they lose their seat the get a decent pay out, significantly more than statutory redundancy. And for the small number who might have a baby in office, six months full pay, far more than statutory again.

Just focusing on salary when its only part of their actual net income makes it appear meaner than it actually is. They should be forced to stick to statutory requirements as that would incentivize them to improve it quicker rather than yet another exception.

UK as an adult you often have to pay for this per request and there is a limit on the number you can request at once. As it can take weeks or even months to complete while you wait for your turn in the queue so it makes it very hard to stack requests.

As a kid I used to love this service as it was free without real request linits and a lot faster. I could just pre order books that hadn’t come out.

I stopped using my local library because of it as their planned fiction book selection is basically large print romance or war stories or westerns.

And I think that at some point enough people will have had enough that they take on production of that themselves via open source projects.

Sure, some will always be driven by cost, thats never going to change, but self sustainability will become more desirable as main stream brands, not just temu tat, drops in quality.