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  1. Me neither. Nor do I believe the guff from Irene that it's the Council who "drove out McDonalds" by refusing permission for their alterations. The planning docs say the proposals were withdrawn by the applicant not refused by the council. The McDonald's kept going for a very long while after all that and was even occupied by Stone The Crows for a period long after McD's vacated. If the council were supposedly that desperate to take possession and knock it down, they took a long time to do it.
  2. Wow. All the buzzwords in one load of doom monger waffle. I need to start a bingo card. You really are not going to give up your delusion that a 'socialist Labour' is what people want and will solve all the problems. The People have spoken many times and they clearly do not want what your lot are selling. Oh and for the record, voter preference for Conservatives over any form of Labour has been going on a lot longer than simply post 1980s . Go wise up on your political history and you will see how many more conservative prime ministers have been in power over Labour. Does that not tell you something?
  3. Bull. Woman earning £500k a year, living in a £4m house who has sent the past couple of years milking her husband's illness for TV documentaries, newspaper articles and interview appearance fees pleading poverty..... Hmmm. Nothing to do with six figure debts from her late husband's failed company which she herself signed into Liquidation over two years ago. Yes. It has to stop. Time for Garroway to bore off.
  4. Well what you deludedly expect and actually receive are two very different things. The owners of the retail park will know full well who their customer base is. It has been designed and is operated predominantly for customers arriving by private car and at least 11 of its 19 tenants are businesses where cash transactions will be very much in the rarity. We are looking at furniture shops, high value electricals, home improvement stores and a travel agent here. Exactly the sorts purchases that normal people will not be paying with wads of cash, therefore no pressing demand for an ATM. Just because you want to act like some rebel against electronic payments doesn't mean the rest of the world is. If you want to be inconvenienced by insisting on cash, that's your problem.
  5. Absolutely. Something seems very fishy here. Another woe is me documentary and accompanying interviews. Another cash injection on the back of her late husband's illness. Based on the report she is earning £544k a year from her tv work, which, even after the substantial tax, equates to more than someone's annual salary every month. They live in a £4m property. Even if half of her monthly income was on this 'extortionate' care - it still left nearly £9k a month to pay everything else. Cut your cloth accordingly - everyone else would have to. Maybe sell the £4m house and buy somewhere else. Im sure £2m could still buy something nice leaving the other £2m to pay for these supposed debts. Seems to me that there is some excuse making and playing for sympathy here. Banging on about care costs and struggling when its obvious that the hardship has REALLY came from of her husband's failed company. Interesting also that she claims in the article that she had no legal authority on the failing business yet a quick glance at companies house shows her named as a shareholder and the one who signed the Liquidation paperwork over two years ago. Pity the journalist failed to mention things like that. Although that wouldn't have resulted in a nice gooey life interest sympathy seeking piece.
  6. State pensions, jobseekers allowance, employment and support allowance, maternity allowance, bereavement allowance.... Its not all simply handed to the NHS.
  7. Quite surprising. Less than 3 months ago I walked into the Halifax meadowhall and opened an account for myself with nothing more than my driving licence and a quick credit check using my credit card. They didn't mention anything about requiring a special appointment. In fact, I just sat with the advisor filled in the application myself using their iPad and job was done in about 5 minutes. Maybe you were just unlucky with your particular branch.
  8. No. I just prefer to enjoy my lunch hour rather than wasting time at a bank when I can do the same transaction much more conveniently from home, at a time beyond 9-5 or even at the weekend. Its not 1975 anymore. Telephone and internet banking exists.
  9. But you had to waste part of your lunch break and spend time physically having to go to a branch to "sort it in 5 minutes". Whilst a 40 minute waiting on hold is not ideal, I would still prefer to be able to call them at my convenience from the comfort of my home while sat in my PJs.
  10. Not a surprise. Ha d a feeling that was going to happen after they refurbished The Moor branch and did nothing with High Street. They really don't need two centre branches these days.
  11. What decade are you in? I am a damn sight older than you claim to be, but even I had my own passbook account, as did many of my junior school classmates. In fact, at that time, a representative of the Yorkshire Bank used to come into school once a week so we could pay our pocket money into it. By the time I reached teenager, I had my own junior account with a cash card and then a few years later a Solo debit card which was widely used. Kids these days are even more sophisticated. It's certainly not uncommon to see junior school age kids with their own prepaid debit cards or bank accounts with regular visa debit cards for those a bit older. Banks offer kids accounts as a routine service. Have done for decades. Kids are getting their own smartphones before they reach 10, they embrace a basic concept of the internet even earlier. Their world is digitised right from nursery to home to school to friends to work. Of course kids living in that world will expect to be able to buy things online, or add some music to their screaming service or download some game onto their devices... Just take a look in some of the supermarkets at the gift cards and prepaid things that can be bought. A good proportion of it is certainly not aimed at adults. The days of a quid out of mum's purse every week or £5 clipped to a birthday card from Grandma are long gone. It's very different and given your claimed age, it seems quite bizarre that you come out with such stuff. You're at least 15 years behind the rest of us most of the time.
  12. They're not wrong though. Hardly a stretch to figure out how someone like Putin's mind works. The world has been watching and reacting to his behaviour for a long time.
  13. No. Simple maths: 365 Tory seats is MORE than the 203 Labour ones and MORE than the 48 SNP ones and MORE than the 11 Lib Dem ones and MORE than the 8 DWP ones and MORE than the 15 other party ones.... 365 is also MORE than half of the available 650 total seats, hence, what's the word..... Oh yes. MAJORITY. How is this so hard for you to understand.
  14. Nobody cares. That's not how the our general election results are calculated. It's seats. The Tories won the last election because they were the party with majority seats. The Tories were 80 seats over. Spin the maths all you want. They are still the party in office right now and the party who has been in office for the majority of the time throughout this present and last centuries - approx 72 years compared to Labour's 37 years.
  15. Not a poor argument at all. You seem to admit you haven't voted since an election 17 years ago, so what gives you right to be criticising the electorate's choice like you did in post #25921. In my opinion, those who choose to ignore engaging in the selection of their political representative and utilise some of those voting rights that people fought for, quite frankly don't have any merits to be complaining if the vote doesn't go their way. It's not a minority. We have first pass the post political scoring. The leader of the party who achieves the majority share of seats wins PM's position. It's how it's always been just the same as it was when Labour won their elections - nobody seemed to be bitching about the game rules then. Even when they have taken baby steps to bring an alternative system and held a referendum, it was rejected by over 67% of us taking part in the vote. Nothing which changes the fact that the Tories have held the a prime ministerial office over 2.6x more than Labour.
  16. Yes absolutely. I'm glad somebody else mentioned it. Seemed a lot of talk about the benefits that people have from dogs but very little talk about the dog's own welfare. For all the talk of how loyal and loving and comforting dogs are to people, they are still a significant financial and time commitment. They're not some thing to be petted and give comfort when people feel like before being shoved away in a basket for hours on end when they want to go on a day trip or go out to work all day or get out to their favourite nightclub somewhere. It always concerned me when alarming numbers of my work colleagues, as did seemingly many other people, suddenly decided to get a dog during the covid lockdowns. Now they all seem moaning and complaining after being told they need to get back into the office at least X days a week or worrying about having to pay hundreds in dog sitter fees. Some are even going as far to give them away. These are living breathing animals, not toys. It's a serious and measured decision to be made before committing to one.
  17. Ah the old.... "my vote choice is right and everyone else's is wrong"
  18. Well prepare to be disappointed because throughout history the Tories have had the majority of the power. This sudden landslide shift to Labour has happened before but it never lasts long term. There is always a knee jerk whenever a bright new Labour leader gives their we can change everything and fix all the problems with their magic wand promises..... Then the cracks start to show, Labour over promises and under delivers and everyone goes running back to the Tories. Since the start of the 20th century there has been 25 different people as prime minister. Only six of them were Labour compared to 16 of them being a conservative. The message is very clear.
  19. Sorry 😐, stupid voice recognition and no editing function! I meant to say you could be on a low income council estate with families still taking pride in their homes using whatever little money they have to do them up and keep them neat..... ..... ....There could be former industrial wastelands transformed into premium housing with lots of new families and communities developing equally there could be former streets for the rich and privileged which become desolate and run down to become the new bad area...
  20. About as "fair" as you singling out those two specific categories of workers as if they are special and deserve some kind of discount or exception privilege. Every job is argued essential if an organisation is going to choose to pay money to someone to do it. That I would agree with to a point. However globalisation increase in remote working is giving more opportunities for people outside London or other big cities to be earning City wages whilst remaining living in their location . No. "Londoners" are not. What an insulting generalisation. There are plenty of flat capped Northerners buying property to let out too. The population have always been like that . You always seem to be desperately portraying it to be a tory issue. There's been a wealth divide and difference between those who have and those who have not for centuries. People make areas good or bad not simply wealth. You could be on a low income counsellor state with families taking Prague in their homes, using my local money. They have to do them up and keep them neat. Or you could be on some millionaires row surrounded a fading gaudy fixtures and unkempt gardens because the owners don't care. That could be former industrial waste. Language are transformed into premium housing with lots of new families and communities developing equally there could be former streets for the rich and privileged which become desolate and run down to become the new bad area. It is clear that has technology and the world of work continually develops, we are building an increasing middle class who are far more educated, aspirational and ambitious than their predecessors. I never see that something negative. The world evolves. Opportunities are still out there for those prepared to take that step and grasp them. People wallowing in the past, expecting things to be handed to them on a plate or those two or three generations on still banging on about Thatcher& co ruining their lives need to be kicking themselves up the backside. Inequality is a basic part of human nature and so is the default of looking after number one. Even the 'poorest' in this country still are more than prepared to reap rewards and take advantage of other nations elsewhere. Just the same as our ancestors are doing hundreds of years ago. It's deluded to believe it's going to be any sort of balance of equality.
  21. Its not comparatively. It might be above average and applicable to the top end qualified professional jobs but there are other factors at play here. Average price in Surrey is £632k compared to £214k in South Yorkshire. Average rent in Surrey £2,400 a month compared to £909 in South Yorkshire. Sample commuter season ticket (13 mile journey). Surrey has £2,400 South Yorkshire £1,100. There are plenty of "working people" down south too. They are not all millionaires driving around in a Bentley.
  22. What are the missing 7% I wonder. Either way, interesting there are technically more people who dont identify as Christian than those who do. What a surprise Nigel Farage talking balls just to draw attention to himself. This paragraph in the article sums it up for me. Typical fuss over nothing that rolls around every year. “....Throughout the year, messaging at the station also celebrates festivals from other religions including Easter, Christmas, Passover, and Diwali to mark the beliefs of our colleagues and passengers"
  23. Ah yes. overlooked that line. So again a perfect example of waste. Use the Priory rather than send her to the £5m Mental Health Care Department that the Mid and South Essex Trust had at their disposal.
  24. I am not denying that. If you read my post, I made it clear that the NHS should be providing core clinical treatments and emergency services. Looking after the disabled, natural cause illness, elderly fragility and palliative care is part of that core clinical treatment. What I am not agreeing with is propping up the serial abusers, self harmers, malingerers, timewasters, dangerous activities, lifestyle choices.... Anna, SOME patients are a nuisance. SOME patients deserve to be blamed for their own conditions (even more so why they ignore the previous advice/treatment/refuse services offered). SOME patients should be made to pay when they overuse and abuse the service. SOME patients are more than capable and should be taking responsibility for nursing and caring for themselves instead of sitting on their backsides expecting the state to pick up the tab.
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