OneGuyFromBarlick

We have had many moans about the NHS in the past, but at the moment we are certainly feeling the benefit. District nurses and palliative care nurses visiting regularly and now a delivery of useful equipment just 4 hours after a visit from the Occupational Therapist. The inflatable mattress should h...

Protests in London yes , they probably are under . incompletely reported. Ignoring wont make what is really a noisy few - 100,000 ish max, at Notting Hill Carnival 1 000 000 attend over the weekend - bigger area and its quite a populated area at the best of times. Problem is the 10percent of elector...

The remedy is to replace him with someone who is more competent. Sorry, with loads of Labour MPs finding one that has a competance to Lead A)The Party B)The Cabinet C) The Country is thin on the ground. All the good ones went , in one way or another. None appear to be educated that well in economic...

Didnt realise Lammy got Justice as well as DPM - does that get him the Admiralty Flat ? Will Rayner be looking for a London flat on taxpayer expenses now ? Steve Reed gets housing - which might mean a more sensible pace to creating place. Indeed some of the lesser changes are a bit less shuffling de...

London seemed to have an eternity of Sun Days this Spring / Summer , it has only become more overcast the last 10 days or so - the Jet Stream is going straight accross the mid-point of England bringing the warm wet westerlies and rain in showers , heavy showers or a days drizzle. the weather really ...

Rather wonders how many kids and families survived the Victorian Era. My own research , mainly in my own family , but also some friends ones. (actually family research one soon ends up attempting to manage 10000 names of which 5000 are directly relevant) which is meantally a bit much. Agarian indeed...

I heard it on Radio and thought it was Fazed Too. (like the rest of us) Starmer won the battle of the election and promptly lost the war for the hearts of the British People. IF anyone cares to see what Rayner wrote there is SO much ammo against a lot of tax and welfare policy in it "Ms Rayner ...

Trump has Renamed Department of Defense as Department of War . well I suppose its better than Orwell's Ministry of Peace, compared to the Ministry of Truth (Social) which bends reality somewhat through whatever contact lenses Trump might be wearing. That's interesting in US politics - does/has anyon...

Reshuffle of Cabinet allows for Change programme to continue. Goodness knows what into I assume Lammy will move into Admiralty Arch (which I thought had been flogged off to be a hotel) flat and Rayner packing bags to fit into Hove (ahh the days of Tory Party Conferences at The Grand in Brighton. She...

See THIS opening gambit in the Autumn session of Parliament..... 1 hour ago Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is to announce details of a tightening of rules for migrants who have been granted asylum bringing their families to the UK. As MPs return to Westminster, Cooper will also set out reforms to the...

Who is the real opposition to Labour now ? Labour are so centre-right that the Tories cannot land any alternatives to labour policy anywhere without themselves going nigh on Socialist . Reform seems obvious but it is Migrant problem centred ,IF Starmer can solve or diffuse that then Farage is punctu...

She paid SDLT on the basis that she had no ownership in her Ashton-under-Lyne property. However, it was owned by a trust her minor child can benefit from. There are specific anti-avoidance rules in the SDLT legislation to treat the property as still owned by her. To me either the original Trust (but...

There was a statistics thread "The reason inflation surged by more than the markets were expecting last month(July) is down to a quirk in the way the Office for National Statistics (ONS) chose to compare air fares. The statisticians used a bizarre methodology that compared term-time prices in 2...

I understand the quantity was UP TO 600 000 , which could be 1 Corbyns thing is bubbling towards policy in due course. best to wait for others to die the dust first. Migrants. I see the UK is now preparing to allow Students from Gaza to the UK presumably under a student visa. Well i can see that wor...

Apparently now there is some reconcilation between Inertia and Gravitation (I think it means the strong gravitational force of large bodies and not weak of nuclear materials ( though maybe same principles apply ) (Have I got Strong and Weak the right way round ?

Singulars and Plurals. We those folk down south who forget latin /french roots and read not their King James Bible or elements of Shakespear. Thou - ( for another person - normally singular and not collective ) and You (a other people two or more - or a collective ?) Similar Thee - if talking direct...

I am sure Scupper/s was something to do with a ship ( Pirate or Drunken Sailor ? ) on board Gaol ? i've manged, with little effort, to get 'extant' and 'tergiversation' into the same post. The Cambridge Online dictionary defines tergiversation as: the act of making statements that are different from...

Can we ask our MPs . Who Owns Gaza ?

If man was meant to fly then Wings would have been God Given. Or Evolved. Meanwhile the Daily Telegraph , Via MsN Labour develops AI to predict parliamentary rebellions Labour is developing a computer model to predict future rebellions after Sir Keir Starmer was humbled by his own backbenchers over ...

I thought Clause IV had been excised. Meanwhile a year on since Sunak resigned and disolved the Govt. Really he should have hung on. The inward migration official figures are down by half as result of changes made - mainly one families of students and others not getting right to come to UK and some ...

Previous posts have merged into dialect and word meanings forum. But dahn sarf we do have a form of English as she is murdered that can be quite grating to listen to , sometimes though I have to "dumb down" my talking to make a direct, understandable, point. It is like learning different l...

When we had nationalised grid and nationalised gas ( for good or ill ) , we had economic / demand forecasting teams along with capital planning for generation and transmission generally and specific needs - new towns, new developments and so on.

"Bicester Motion" has built up a number of motor repair units mainly in the classic and historic car market with a monthly "Coffee and Chrome" meet up sponsered by one of the classic car insurance specialists . Looking at the pictures there are at least three "hangars" ...

I was searching You Tube for a audio recording of one of mum's 78s by Geraldo , Somewhere in the night, there had been one but its gone now but I know the audio exists on a CD so I can get if from there. What did come up was a film (US) of 1946. While not watching it through in full I caught one lin...

Politics not quite in a becalmed state. Starmer has been trying what to do with respect to Ukraine that may even look competant. The main talking point has been on of immigration - which has impacts on policies like education, housing , benefits among others. With the speech use of "Britain bec...