Taipan wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 9:21 am So growth down and now inflation up, but the budget was about growth right!

And she lied on her CV, no wonder her budget backfired. She now she's doubling down by robbing the public sector pension pots.

Insulating a van will be pricey, what can be done to insulate yourselves?
What are your beds now, insulting mats help a lot. How much are better sleeping bags?
Getting out of a warm bed into a cold van won't be nice but how much are you willing to spend on the few nights that happens?

I had an email recently with the copy nothing tagline and immediately wondered how they were going to replace seatbelts or the tired concept of four wheels. Even without that advert they lost me. I looked on their website a few weeks back and everything was almost black, to the point I couldn't see ...

These are hopelessly unsuitable for UK roads. Those low profile tyres and very expensive alloys wouldn't last five minutes if the owner wanted to exploit even a fraction of the performance. First failure to avoid a pothole would be very costly. Even a parking nudge of a kerb would ruin the rims. It...

If it was really fptp then one person would get to be dictator for a few years at a time and make all decisions by themselves

That certainly seems like an age / generational thing cause it doesn't really happen to me...maybe a raised eyebrow but certainly no pressure. The kids at work don't drink at all :lol: It might be a woman thing, my wife gets it from a few of her friends but the only person who didn't like me being ...

Personally think that we, as a nation should dump the fptp and constituencies, and go for PR, which although less 'personal' than the current system does mean your vote actually matters. It would make things harder to govern, but should put a stop to the lobbying and backslapping we have now! What ...

I still love wfh but I used to do a fair bit before 2020. I don't mind going into the office but after various acquisitions and rounds of redundancies I'm unlikely to see anyone I know in the office. So I'm looking at moving even further away than my current 2 hour commute in the hope that wfh is he...

Did Colin Chapman say 'just add weight'?
It's an abomination worse than the Mustang Mach-e.

I think I saw a bit of this speech earlier, it was someone at cop29 on the news anyway. It started ok saying developed countries would need to pay more, then got a bit suspicious saying it wasn't charity and then got ridiculous saying the only way to do this was changing the whole world finance syst...

I guess that confirms that you don't have to be smart to get a college degree. Or, in the US at least, you can't be poor to get a college degree. A colleague of mine over there was happy with his daughter's choice for her medical degree as it was in state so cheaper than my son's uni degree in Engl...

Horse wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 5:43 pm Ironic that 'TLA' isn't an acronym,:)

It is a three letter abbreviation.

Police have asked people to stop sharing graphic images of a pensioner who was decapitated when he was hit by a bus in Edinburgh city centre. Social media has been flooded with photographs and videos of the 74-year-old’s remains after the collision at the heart of the capital’s nightlife district o...

I thought it said million pound house in Catford, that would be a 2 bed terrace in a rough area.

Seems a fair summary is £40bn tax hike with a low growth trajectory? And not the end of it, the IFS thinks she's still telling the same lies as before the election. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj72wxw8jxo Chancellor Rachel Reeves insisted on Wednesday that her huge revenue-raising Budget w...

Oh noez, Good old Tommy's been sent to prison for 18 months! They say he was racist, but all he wanted to do was have people treated differently, depending on what country they were from (or if they were Islamics). In the belief that would somehow be better for him and other English whites. What co...

Pension tax free allowance will be hammered, CGT threshold lowered / % raised. NI going up All to subsidize public sector workers, their pensions, ( whilst they will be excluded from the rises), and pay the train drivers more. Re the 20 Bn black hole - has it actually been audited? And how much did...

It might be possible to have some sympathy for good old Tommy Robinson if he was similarly interested in other paedo trials, where of course in the UK the perpetrators are predominately, indisputibly whiteys . But of course he isn't, he's simply triggered by the brown ones, so let's not waste any t...

I'd be very tempted to factory reset the phone and reload the apps, normally I'd try and find the fault but if a bad link was used then I wouldn't mess around.

Is the WhatsApp issue only with one person, are you sure the problem is your end?