Nilbop posted:

The list of boondoggles England chooses to fund rather than feeding the poors continues to grow.

OwlFancier posted:

I'm glad to have you back, fuctifino, I was wondering if you'd just given up on the forum in disgust.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Sorry about your mum (I think?!?), and definitely sorry about you getting screwed over. But why 8% specifically? Like why not just gently caress you over down to zero?

NotJustANumber99 posted:

I don't think I could inherit from my dead mum like essentially 90% while my brother gets the leftovers and not just gently caress that off and re divvy up the money.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Do you have your dad's wishes recorded anywhere? That might be grounds to contest the will if you do.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

If there was probate on your dad's Will then it will be on public record (probate though is not always necessary depending on size of estate).

Tesseraction posted:

Congrats on your dead ma, fuctifino.

Ms Adequate posted:

[snip]
So yeah long story short big sympathy fuct, it's a poo poo situation to be placed in.

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'Labour won't turn on spending taps' says Starmer

[quote]Sir Keir Starmer is to warn that the UK will face "huge constraints" on public spending if his party win the next General Election.

On Monday, he will say anyone expecting an incoming Labour government "to quickly turn on the spending taps is going to be disappointed".

Growing the economy is set to be a battleground for both Labour and the Conservatives at the next election.

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In a speech to economists and think-tanks later on Monday, Sir Keir will say economic growth "will have to become Labour's obsession if we are to turn around the economy".

But he will argue that decisions taken from the government and previous Conservative administrations for the past 13 years "will constrain what a future Labour government can do".

HopperUK posted:

Mate can you not completely cut ties and never see these people again? You shouldn't be seeing someone who's hurt you and threatened you. Please be safe.

Scatterfold posted:

fully agree that the show is brilliant, but the soundtrack is dreadful; that recurring faux-classical piano theme sounds like something you'd be subjected to as hold music on the phone to HMRC (and is repeated as much)

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A fuming dad was left outraged after he was quoted £71,000 for a week-long holiday in the West Country. Paul Nickerson hoped to rent out a modest home for his family, but was left speechless with his quote.

However, the owner of the three-bed home in St Ives, Cornwall, wanted a whopping £10,232 per night for the week stay.

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Paul, a Conservative councillor for Minster and Woodmansey in Beverley, East Yorkshire, was disgusted with the price, which is more than double the UK annual wage of £31,000, reports Cornwall Live.

Speaking to Hull Live, the dad said: "It's a supply and demand issue and they're exploiting it. A lot of people in the UK need and want a holiday, but many will not be able to afford them.

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Boris Johnson’s appearance before the Covid-19 inquiry is not until Wednesday but it is already making headlines in the Netherlands amid a mixture of amusement and alarm at claims he asked for British spies to plan a “raid” on a Dutch vaccine plant.

The operation – according to sources who briefed Johnson’s employer, the Daily Mail – would have taken place against the backdrop of a tit-for-tat row in March 2021 between the then prime minister and the EU, which was moving towards restricting exports of vaccines across the Channel.

An “enraged” Johnson asked security services to draw up “military options” to obtain “impounded” doses of AstraZeneca vaccine from a plant in Leiden after Britain had negotiated a deal with the company.

Dead Goon posted:

I am always mildly perplexed/amused that Toyah Wilcox is married to the dude from King Crimson.

TACD posted:

Severance

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Revealed: Sellafield nuclear site has leak that could pose risk to public
Safety concerns at Europe’s most hazardous plant have caused diplomatic tensions with US, Norway and Ireland

Sellafield, Europe’s most hazardous nuclear site, has a worsening leak from a huge silo of radioactive waste that could pose a risk to the public, the Guardian can reveal.

Concerns over safety at the crumbling building, as well as cracks in a reservoir of toxic sludge known as B30, have caused diplomatic tensions with countries including the US, Norway and Ireland, which fear Sellafield has failed to get a grip of the problems.

The leak of radioactive liquid from one of the “highest nuclear hazards in the UK” – a decaying building at the vast Cumbrian site known as the Magnox swarf storage Silo (MSSS) – is likely to continue to 2050. That could have “potentially significant consequences” if it gathers pace, risking contaminating groundwater, according to an official document

Cracks have also developed in the concrete and asphalt skin covering the huge pond containing decades of nuclear sludge, part of a catalogue of safety problems at the site.

These concerns have emerged in Nuclear Leaks, a year-long Guardian investigation into problems spanning cyber hacking, radioactive contamination and toxic workplace culture at the vast nuclear dump.

Sellafield, a sprawling 6 sq km (2 sq mile) site on the Cumbrian coast employing 11,000 people, stores and treats nuclear waste from weapons programmes and nuclear power generation, and is the largest such facility in Europe.

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The director of a new pressure group hoping to become a “focal point” for anti-immigration sentiment across the UK has called for “action on the streets” to “force the issue” on to the agenda of political parties.

The project, called End Mass Migration, has links to Reform UK and is based among the insidious network of think-tanks and lobby groups at 55 Tufton Street which fuelled Liz Truss’s brief spell as Prime Minister.

The group’s director, Neil Philip Anderson, stood as a Brexit Party candidate at the 2019 election, securing just 1.9% of the vote, and is a former director of Tufton Street’s principal immigration think-tank, Migration Watch UK, which has used misleading figures to stoke anti-asylum seeker sentiment.

Anderson launched this new project, which aims to challenge what it calls “the myth that mass immigration is beneficial to the UK”, in October at a Tufton Street conference with a speech entitled Five Years Left to Save Britain: A Call to Action.

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Brits should stock up on torches and candles to prepare for power cuts, Oliver Dowden says

Britons should stock up on torches, battery-powered radios and candles to prepare for power cuts or cyber the deputy prime minister has said, as he announced plans for a national “resilience academy”.

Oliver Dowden suggested people stock up on analogue supplies, including first aid kits and torches in order to prepare for communication blackouts, according to The Times.

The visit came as he outlined plans to launch a national “resilience academy” to help people and businesses prepare for future pandemics, natural disasters and digital communication blackouts.

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Usually, when a train terminates at a bay platform (comes in one way, goes out the other) the driver will take their key out, leave the cab, walk to the other end of the train, key in, doors closed, drive train out the other way.

However, at peak times, there's no time to do that (and besides, the platform's probably busy enough to make it difficult for the driver to force their way along.) So what happens is that as the inbound driver gets out at the far end, another driver gets in at the other end to take the train out the other way. This is what stepping back is.

The inbound driver, once they've left the train, presses a plunger on the platform to tell the outbound driver "I have left the train, you may go." Then, assuming the signal is clear, the outbound driver is settled into their cab and everything is in order, the train leaves the other way.

So naturally, it's very important to remember to plunge.

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It’s sunnier in Dubai, the visa lasts longer in the US and the wages are better in Canada. Many foreign care workers had already been thinking of quitting Britain for similar jobs elsewhere before the home secretary announced on Monday that dependants of new applicants would no longer be welcome.

Experts say the move, effective from next spring, will only make England’s severe care staff shortage worse amid international competition for people willing to look after society’s most vulnerable on low pay.

And, sure enough, Annie, a care worker from Botswana who was one of the first to arrive last year under the scheme inviting foreign care staff and their families, is already filling in the forms to switch to Canada.

“I wouldn’t have come,” she said when asked about James Cleverly’s new ban on bringing dependants. “It will affect a lot of people. Some of us are already looking at going to Australia, Canada or America because of the living conditions here, the amount of money I am paid, the rent.”

Annie has been working 15-hour days in Wiltshire and Somerset caring for elderly people. She makes about £1,500 a month and spends about two-thirds of that on rent. She brought her husband and daughter with her – some of the 120,000 dependants who accompanied 100,000 care workers on the scheme in the year to September.

Announcing his crackdown on Monday, Cleverly said too many of these were “drawing on public services rather than helping grow the economy”. Annie’s husband is learning to drive so he can become a care worker too.

In East Anglia, Jonathan, a care worker from the Philippines who had brought his wife and nine-year-old daughter with him, said: “This will reduce numbers. The reason overseas workers come here is the opportunity to bring your family and I don’t want to live separately from my family. Most of us have the same objective: to bring our families here.”

He is trained in complex care needs but earns just £11 an hour, which he described as “shockingly low”. Coming without family was unappealing he said, not least because “the weather in this country is depressing”.

“If you go to Saudi, Dubai or Hong Kong it’s sunny, so the psychological impact [of being away from family] is less,” he said.

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Is the Rwanda policy a vote winner? One High Street has its say

As the government unveils a new treaty to deliver its Rwanda plan, we sought the views of people along one High Street about the controversial policy to deter migrants from crossing the channel.

"If you look on there," says Vince Ayris, lifting down a large artillery shell casing engraved with 400 names, "you can see the name of every British soldier killed in Afghanistan."

Over the din of the shoe repair and key cutting machines, the 61-year-old recounts how he delicately etched one of these shiny casings for each of the bereaved families who saw their military relative come home in a coffin.

"I met the Queen for doing this," he says, proudly polishing the one he keeps on display in his shop. "She shook my hand".

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"I think it's come to the point where we have to sort this out," says Vince, a former parish councillor and Conservative supporter.

"You can't keep talking about something without acting on it. You have to go one way or the other and we've gone too far with it to go back. It would show a weakness now to go back.

"Rwanda's not a bad place, we're not sending them to a prison, they're being looked after. It's not a bad thing, it's just distant."

Isomermaid posted:

The way these people can pose for a photo with a gentle friendly smile after going on record saying the most infuriatingly fashy poo poo will never stop enraging me.

Mega Comrade posted:

a pipe smoking dog posted:

Amazing stuff as the government publishes their "Rwanda is safe bill" immediately prompting Rwanda to say they will pull out as it breaches international law.

Also the immigration minister resigned.