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If you want a laugh go and read the views on Sheffield Online about no deal!
Genuine comments such as people can just live off root vegetables if imports are too expensive or "its all maybe, could, possible - project fear again". etc Oh and lets not forget some are saying german car makers will force the EU to give us what they want!
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29 minutes ago, Litotes said:
I don't want to just cope - I want to prosper and the deal that the elected representatives of this country promised us to achieve this is not arriving.
Normally failure to deliver would be a breach of contract - why isn't it in this case?
Why is there no recourse for the lies that Boris has spun?
Project fear becomes a project reality... and I don't have confidence in the current leadership as their track record is abysmal in so many places (PPE, track and trace, trade deals, GFA/NI, Brexit, the CSR, Levelling up).
Currently Brexit has cost us millions of £s, cost us thousands of jobs, it looks like it will cost every household hundreds of pounds onto their food bill, it also looks like our ability to travel to europe will be restricted...
To be fair they have always loudly said ending Freedom of Movement was a major goal of Brexit. So no surprises there about the restrictions being imposed on us.
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On 09/12/2020 at 07:23, El Cid said:
There are reports of shortages(car parts shortage) stopping production at Honda.
According to the boss of Europe’s largest haulage trade body, the UK is looking at a “nightmare scenario” that will lead to “weeks, if not months” of food shortages after the Brexit transition period comes to an end in just four weeks.
So they can blame it on COVID or Brexit, but no doubt people will start to panic buy.
Hence why my freezer is full of food currently. Best get in first before the masses cotton on. We saw what happened in Spring (and there were not even real shortages....)
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On 01/12/2020 at 14:18, kjonesy said:
I have recently had an offer accepted on a leasehold property in Sheffield. As I'm aware of the potential difficulties of shorter leases, I checked with the estate agent and I was informed on two separate occasions and by two separate people that there were 899 years left on the lease.
On this basis, I have proceeded with the purchase of the property, spending money on solicitors fees, mortgage fees and a homebuyers survey.
After a query from my mortgage lender about the length and cost of the leasehold, I contacted the estate agent again to confirm, as well as asking my solicitor to look into this.
The estate agents again told me 899 years. However, my solicitor then informed me that there is in fact only 73 years left on the lease. I relayed this to the estate agent who after some investigating have agreed that they were given the wrong information by the seller.
I am very frustrated and annoyed by this, as I would not have even made an offer if I'd have known the length left on the lease, and I have now spent quite a lot of money on this property.
Surely the estate agents have some responsibility of checking this information when they are advertising a house. They have told me it's not their fault or responsibility.
Due to this, as well as numerous issues raised on my homebuyers survey, I am now very much considering withdrawing my offer.
Do I have a leg to stand on to complain to the estate agents? I can't help but feel they are responsible for this waste of my time and money.
Advice would be appreciated!
I think they usually have all kinds of disclaimers in the terms and conditions to dodge liability.
Honestly my experience is you can't trust anything an estate agent says. Some local firms are well known for their incompetence, which is why its amazing they can charge so much for doing so little.
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45 minutes ago, onewheeldave said:
And airlines-
https://fortune.com/2020/12/04/covid-19-vaccine-mandatory-required-airlines-to-fly/
the NHS has a solid track record of putting pressure on it's frontline staff to have the flu vaccine, so I wouldn't be surprised if they do the same with the covid vaccination.
perhaps most troubling of all is that even at this early stage, according to one poll, over a third of the public [37%] are in favour of it being made legally compulsory for all people in Britain to be vaccinated against COVID-19!
To be clear, from what I can see no one on this thread is claiming that long term complications are likely, it's just important to be aware, I feel, that the safety tests that have been done cannot exclude long term complications in the way that previous vaccine safety testing has, because, by definition, that can only be done with tests that actually take place over a long term.
This is correct. And two of the three use technology never tried before - hence whether there has been debate about whether we should vaccinate healthy young people at all.For sure the third is a good bet though, given it uses tried and tested tech (and is far cheaper to boot!)
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2 hours ago, L00b said:
International political point-scoring by Williamson, JRM, Hancock, Patel <etc> is one that you really don't need to worry about, I'm sorry to say.
In case you haven't heard (because there doesn't seem to be much Brexit reporting in UK media lately, never mind factual), the negotiating long knives are currently coming out in France, The Netherlands, Denmark and a few others: they're unhappy with how easy Barnier is taking it on Frost and the UK, and would rather the deal negotiations get back-burnered into next year. I don't need to go further about that one, I think.
Williamsons' jingoistic optics are seen and understood for what they are might be, i.e. helping Johnson with some extra political capital at home to get a deal past the ERG headbangers, same as all the other jingoistic optics since Lancaster House in 2017.
But you're in serious danger of getting written off everywhere now, especially now that Biden is incoming to the White House and Trump's "clout" has been made redundant. The EU27, with UK-bordering countries ahead (France, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany), stayed fairly quiet for the past 4 years and just got on with adapting to a Brexited UK: they don't need a deal now, anywhere near as much as they may have needed one 4, or even 2, years ago. E.g. there's been tons of new ferry lines opened between Ireland and the Continent, towards making the UK redundant as a landbridge, and the rest is in keeping.
To be honest it's a lesson many English need to learn the hard way. There's no convincing committed brexiteers, but perhaps the hard reality of life next year will:
We've already stocked up on food.
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On 01/12/2020 at 11:35, melthebell said:
I disagree, all these shops that are failing are having issues anyway and are failing to adapt, too big, too old. Most are in massive buildings that will be massively expensive to rent, run. they fail to adapt to change.
The pandemic is just the thing thats pushed them over the edge, they were slowly moving to the edge anyway.
I went in Debenhams on the Moor a few years ago and it was just awful. Stuff piled up all over and not much choice on any products. Never went in again. Not surprised they went under.
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41 minutes ago, whiteowl said:
This is a good, short, article explaining why they normally take so long - written by a doctor at Cambridge University :
"So next time somebody expresses concern at the astonishing speed the vaccine trials have happened at, point out to them that ten years isn’t a good thing, it’s a bad thing. It’s not ten years because that is safe, it’s ten hard years of battling indifference, commercial imperatives, luck and red tape. It represents barriers in the process that we have now proved are “easy” to overcome. You just need unlimited cash, some clever and highly motivated people, all the world’s trial infrastructure, an almost unlimited pool of altruistic, wonderful trial volunteers and some sensible regulators."
Its also 10 years so they can see if people have any long term effects I believe. We are shortcutting that for good reason, but when people can find this out for themselves and hear the government claiming its "100% safe" (as they have done in recent days) its more likely to stop people taking it. On the other hand if they were more honest and said yes there is a small risk some people will have an issue in the long term (or even in the short term - after all not even 100k have taken it yet, so presumably we cannot know about a 1 in 10 million very nasty reaction), but that is outweighed by the need to end the pandemic people may be more likely to listen.
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On 28/11/2020 at 20:51, Longcol said:
It is fairly recently that there has been shown to be a link between vitamin d deficiency and hospitalisations due to covid.
My dearly beloved first mentioned this (not the article but some preliminary findings) a couple of months ago and promptly bought us a years supply of vitamin d tablets.
I think the link has been known for donkeys years. We still don't know if vitamin D prevents disease though. Correlation is not causation. No harm in taking it in case, and anyway for other reasons we all should be taking it during Winter.
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1 hour ago, Bigal1 said:
It is not designed to improve life for the car driver indeed exactly the opposite
I would be interested to know how many cyclists there are currently in this area every day and how many extra cyclists the council expect to justify the cost of the cycle lanes - of course this will be top secret to avoid accountability
I don't think cyclists would increase that much. e.g. I live out in Walkley - I am unlikely to cycle around the shops in the city centre unless there is a safe car free route from Walkley to the city centre I can ride. It might be more useful to put these kind of routes in and put cycle storage on the edge of the city centre where they arrive.
I no longer go to the city centre, it's just far easier to get things delivered than have the hassle of driving there in traffic + trying to find somewhere to park (often car parks were full and I noticed in lockdown a number have even been removed entirely). In fact I found a far better variety of shops online (no not amazon - lots of independent shops all over the country now offer delivery).
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Yes I heard them. There have been a lot of burglaries and car thefts around the area in recent weeks. Hopefully the helicopter got track of some of the swine and caught them!
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On 22/11/2020 at 08:08, Thorpist said:
I tend to disagree that VIN plates are not an effective deterrent but I don't have see how the effect one way or another can be measured. If it was just a case of removing a number plate and driving off with a new one fitted with no tractability I think car theft would soar.
I do agree that the cost of administering the system would be a factor but as previously stated with the explosion of e-bikes something has to be done to to deter the theft or people will be wary of purchasing what is an expensive product and the movement for more cycle lanes will fade away.
The main point is that there is a need to do something . I do not know the answer but it certainly needs
addressing by government.
Neither do I, but my experience of burglary was that the police had little interest in dealing with it (and I know others who had the same experience). So hardly surprising there is so much theft - seems a fairly risk free crime.
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22 hours ago, melthebell said:
strangely theres scientists out there that have been fighting previous outbreaks of coronavirus, sars, swine flu, bird flu, ebola etc
Who have spent their whole lives devoted to learning and fighting viruses
sadly just seen a post on facebook from south yorkshire news about a young lad that got beaten up for backing up a tram driver when he told two lads to wear masks. The whole of the comments were from young (i presume) people A: mentioning he should mind his own business and B: They shouldnt wear masks if they dont want to. the virus being a hoax and them being real truthseekers was thrown in there as well
Yes the comments are shocking. Nearly all saying he deserved to get beaten, some even saying the beating wasn't severe enough to teach him to keep his mouth shut. Real eye opener how much scum we have in this city.
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On 18/11/2020 at 13:41, Baron99 said:
My bold.
When this story was muted at the weekend, I saw someone from the motor industry bemoaning the fact that the decision to get rid of petrol & diesel cars was going to be brought forward by 10 years to 2030 & that this would be difficult for the motor industry to develope the new technologies to meet the deadline.
Whenever I hear something like this, I'm reminded of 6 years, 10 months. That was the length of time from the pledge made by Kennedy to the US landing on the Moon. All the technology had to be invented, go through research & development, built & tested from scratch. The motor industry isn't starting from the point of 'What's a car engine' are they?
A deadline focuses the mind, so rather than the motor industry moaning about the time scale, just get on with it. Or is your average family saloon more mechanically complicated than a Saturn 5 rocket?
I don't think so.
Does the motor industry have the financial resources of the US government? The former has to make a profit every year, the latter can run large deficits for years on end.
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11 minutes ago, taxman said:
Certainly compared to Lockdown 1 this one is nothing like it. The streets were empty in April/May. Car use and public transport use was down. People were staying at home. This time around the roads are just as busy as usual....where is everyone going?
A lot of people are just going shopping for food more, driving out to go for a walk. People are far less scared this time round and won't be e.g minimising food shopping trips now we know its very low risk.
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On 15/11/2020 at 14:00, Anna B said:
We are all responsible for them, some acknowledge it, and some don't.
As you might expect, I largely blame the Conservative governments of the last 40+ years. We didn't get into this mess overnight, but it was their policies that broughtit about. Blair's Labour government did little to stop it (and neither will Starmer,) and yes, people have personal responsibility as well, but that's assuming we all start from a level playing field which we don't.
Rents are out of control, so are house prices, and inflation is on the rise no matter how the government try to spin it. Talk to people who have to watch every penny about food prices, and see what they say.
We are told we live in a rich country, so homelessness and poverty are not acceptable. We pay our taxes to deal with problems like this and to help those less well off than ourselves. The gap between rich and poor is widening substantially and that affects everyone. But of course not everybody pays their fair share do they? So the government should get a grip on those tax avoiding / evading it, like they keep promising but they never actually do. The richest have got substantially richer ever since the financial crisis, how do you think they manage it?
Well we don't pay our taxes to deal with problems like this - we have one of the lowest tax rates in western europe and we can see the result. If we want to fund NHS, police, help poor people etc it costs money. Other countries make people pay a lot more tax to fund it (and that includes low earners, not just the super rich).
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On 06/11/2020 at 02:59, Westie1889 said:
I honestly don’t really understand who people are referring too when they describe ‘the working class’ these days as it seems to bracket everyone within that group as hard done too and struggling financially which I don’t think is true.
Some of the wealthiest people I know are working class. e.g. one is a builder who made his fortune when young (< 40) in the trade
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13 minutes ago, Becky B said:
Just to clarify - you said "no test, no home leave" in your post (#2610).
How do you suggest preventing students taking 'home leave' if they've chosen not to have a test?
My bold. You could say the same about the 'flu vaccine - yet I've never seen this considered in past years. I'm willing to be corrected...
covid is not flu.
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11 hours ago, PRESLEY said:
Where does it say in my post about locking anyone up, Today a BBC news reporter stated every student was expected to be tested before they went on leave he then followed by saying, but some will not not bother, I suggested an idea to make sure all Students get tested. My question to you is, where is the big beef in getting tested in the situation the World is in at the moment, if I thought there was a chance of harming/killing my parents/parents or grandparents I would make sure I was OK before going anywhere near them. End of.
Well seems a lot of people are opposed. Have seen facebook posts about people being outraged that children will be tested.
10 hours ago, Thirsty Relic said:I'm not so sure about all the focus on students. I get that many students proving positive is worrying, particularly in geographic areas with many students in them (like Sheffield) who then adverslt affect the areas Covid stats. I wonder how much of this is due to the fact that they are tested more than the general population.
As to the discussion on these pages as to whether all students should be tested as a precondition of going home, we can't, and there appears to be no plan to try and enforce it.
What is more revealing is that a number of surveys are coming out suggesting that far more of the population than you may expect would not agree to be vaccinated.
A lady on the news around 6pm (I think it was on ITV) suggested around 15% wouldn't. A Reuters study I read reported that 22% interviewed said " they would definitely or probably not get a coronavirus vaccine" .
With those sorts of figures, I hope posters realise the folly of even attempting to force the vaccine on people. In any case, if 78% took the vaccine and the 4 week lockdown has the expected effect, there will be less Covid around, and fewer unvaccinated to catch it. I would expect trhe NHS to be able to comfortably treat the worst of those affected at that time.
OTOH why should someone who does not want to be vaccinated be allowed into crowded pubs, concert venues etc?
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16 hours ago, El Cid said:
How come for years they always said there cannot be a cure for the common cold. Along comes COVID19 and there is a 90% effective vaccine within 12 months. COVID19 is in the same virus catagory as the common cold.
because the common cold does not cause tens of thousands of deaths in each wave.
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50 minutes ago, El Cid said:
Its our largest employer, there will always be lots of vacancies. But I do agree, there seems to be a lot of vacancies, with millions unemployed.
Presumably most people just made unemployed are not qualified to be nurses, doctors etc.
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1 hour ago, West 77 said:
To whoever holds the bonds they sell to raise the money.
and whom currently holds those bonds and how did they come by the money?
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3 hours ago, littlebasher said:
The whole scheme is an embarrassment, it's not solving anything.
How will that improve traffic heading up the A628 through Hollingworth or Tintwistle.
If they can't do it right first time, why even bother doing it at all
Right. If I understand correctly where it links it essentially links in *after* you pass through all the congestion hot spots coming from Sheffield!
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4 hours ago, West 77 said:
Ed Balls said yesterday it is going to take over 50 years to pay back the money borrowed to fund what has and is being spent because of Covid-19. Furlough has been to generous in my opinion.
Who are we going to pay it back to?
Time To Hoard, Panic Buy?
in Padders' Bar: General Discussions
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That kind of news will lead to the opposite. After we saw what happened in March we stockpiled over the last few months in anticipation of the masses getting wind of the shortages and the inevitable empty supermarket shelves.