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9 hours ago, DJ360 said:
Who knew hardboard is supposed to be 'conditioned' for 48 hours by wetting it? Apparently it expands, then shrinks after fitting to prevent lumps and bumps.
I've used hardboard undelay more than a few times, never thought of wetting it, indeed took great care not to. I've never nailed it in fancy patterns - mainly because I'd never heard of it.
But nor have ever had a problem.
There seems to be varying opinions about not only wetting and nailing but also which way up to lay it, you pays yer money and takes yer choice i supposed.
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1 hour ago, Oztalgian said:
What is a good left-wing newspaper to get an alternate viewpoint, and which one has a centrist stand?
There is no such thing as an unbiased or 'centrist' newspaper.
The Times and the Telegraph lead for the right, the Guardian is on the left. The i , newspaper of the year, makes a reasonable job of balance and is usually well written but again a little to the left. The Morning Star is communist, so far left.
The Daily Mirror and The Sun were always Labour papers but seem to have lost their way in recent years.
The only other left wing papers are far left and little more than anti-establishment rants.
The Mail will write about anything providing they can couple it to adverts so their 2.18 million dummies can stay abreast of the latest celeb carry-ons.
The Mail claim more than half their readership is from the ABC demographic and its website has more than 200 million visitors a month. They can't all be wrong - can they?
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9 hours ago, DJ360 said:
I have always believed in Trade Unions. How else are ordinary workers meant to protect their interests and avoid exploitation? Employers and Govts can band together.. but seemingly not ordinary workers. Rather odd don't you think?
Before I became a member I strongly objected to unions and their political contributions to a party I didn't support, but mostly I objected to the 'closed shop' system. I've always been somewhat recalcitrant by nature and it really went against the grain.
The likes of Red Robbo, Jack Dash and other members of the communist party were to my mind out of control and I was more than pleased when Robb's own members rebelled against him.
Scargill I would not count amongst them. He was never the brightest flower in the bunch and much of what he said I disbelieved or disagreed with; it was only later I came to see that most of his claims were actually true.
Trade unions have historically proved their worth, but in many ways became victims of their own success. It's a pity the likes of Bezos and Astley along with ever increasing government control are creating a need for unions again.
I'm in agreement with Lets here and the disparaging remarks vis a vis Mali reader is unworthy of you.
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25 minutes ago, benjamin1945 said:
Russia sold Alaska t
Russia offered to sell Alaska to the United States in 1859, believing the United States would off-set the designs of Russia's greatest rival in the Pacific, Great Britain.
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It's a baleencing act and if you keep on with these fishy tails you'll soon have me blubbering...
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1 hour ago, philmayfield said:
Lion faeces
First catch your lion, but will you not be swapping one sort for another?
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35 minutes ago, plantfit said:
I'm afraid it's gone beyond that Brew
It was something of a jest PF
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According to the RSPCA site you could "shoo them away by shouting or clapping"... simples!
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Read the report fully and it turns out that the vote for an overarching authority of governance and a single mayor did NOT gain a majority..
The vote was 43% for - 45% against, something they chose to ignore.
The hierarchy will be:
East Midlands Combined County Authority - 1
The city councils - 2
The county councils - 2
The district/borough councils - 15
The town councils - 351
The parish councils... ??
There will soon be more chiefs than indians.
It was mentioned as Stuart says on Pages 110 and 125.
My view is that with so few aware and even fewer voting it was not a shining example of the will of the people - it's just another display of the contempt our leaders have.
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1 hour ago, Rob.L said:
I wonder what happened in 2016 that led to them having to recruit lots more civil servants.
It came about after the 2015 spending review. In 2016 the EU referendum took place when the civil service had the smallest workforce since WW2.
More were needed to prepare for the breakup with the EU - then came covid.
The growth in numbers from there on just never slowed down.
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1 hour ago, DJ360 said:
If it may not be true, how can the principle have merit?
To have merit, or to merit something. To be worthy; of consideration, investigation, attention... Much like saying "there's some truth in it"
1 hour ago, DJ360 said:Stereotypes are never correct, nor do they bear even superficial examination.
I'm sure you don't need me to explain that stereotypes are over simplified generalised descriptions; but can serve to convey an opinion in short form.
1 hour ago, DJ360 said:I think it is.. because it is wrapped up in 'culture wars', NeoCon economic 'thinking' and all of the res
That's just left wing rhetoric...
And three non-specific replies reads much like obfuscation and akin to Starmer's refusal to face facts...
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1 hour ago, DJ360 said:'d also query what is meant by 'Civil Servants', since many former Civil Service functions have been privatised and many others are chronically understaffed and underfunded.
If so many functions have been moved to the private sector as you suggest, why do we have more civil servants now than at any time in history? and what on earth are they doing?
I'm struggling with your assessment. Spending cuts and fewer services, rising numbers (4% last year), of people to carrying them out - how does that work?
The reduction is to be phased over three years, a point the media omit to mention, it's far more dramatic to imply mass sacking.
Whilst I have some sympathy for your own personal experience and recognise it is meaningful to you, it is very much limited, localised, and cannot be used as a metric for assessing the whole civil service.
From our friendly left wing nedia. the Guardian:
"Instead of waiting like martyrs for the axe to fall, civil servants could do something about the appalling culture of wastage...
Sadly, I have often come across people who do a great deal to uphold the cliche that the civil service is bloated and inefficient."
"As someone who regularly defends the public sector and who doesn't want to see Thatcher-like cuts, I have nonetheless become disillusioned by the institutionalised squandering of money in my department, and by the way opportunities to implement Tory-imposed "austerity measures" have been ignored."
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9 minutes ago, benjamin1945 said:
ll i need now is a record player.......any thought?.......
£49 buys a USB player and facilitates recording on to discs or pen drive you can play in the car.
No doubt Col will be along soon and sell you one for the price of a small bungalow you can only play under armed guard.
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12 hours ago, DJ360 said:
I see the Rwanda Bill has passed. We'll see what it actually DOES.,
Whether we agree with it or not at least someone is finally doing something positive and not just bleating about some ill-defined, hodgepodge plan no one, not even the proposers understand.
12 hours ago, DJ360 said:the Tories absolutely cannot defend their appalling record, so they are desperately casting around for other people to blame.. Classic right wing tactics..)
Actually that's classic political debate. Every political party regardless will always claim to have an answer to a problem, just as they will always have a reason why it didn't work, and a place, or someone to lay the blame upon. It's not a particularly right-wing gambit.
12 hours ago, DJ360 said:So.. it must be a fact that there are 70000 Civil Servants sitting about on their collective 'butts' doing nothing worthwhile.
It's always been a popular axiom that something easy is "like a job on the council". An urban legend and may not be true but the principle has merit.
Oz is right in many ways, the civil service has always been perceived as suffering from quango's, empire builders and those looking for an easy ride on the gravy train. The officious attitudes of jobsworths in the past still linger giving rise to the present-day stereotype.
Some facts. Under Blair there was a rapidly rising civil service peaking at almost 500,000, (2009).
The spending review of 2010 saw a fall of 100,000 over 5 years, far more than the present proposed cut.
It has risen since 2016 to 510,000 and still increasing at a rate of 20,000 a year.
More than time for some trimming methinks.
12 hours ago, DJ360 said:Think about it.. If we actually had that situation.. WTF have the Tories been doing for 14 years to allow that to develop? Especially since Public Services have been falling apart..coincidentally.. for the same period of time..
Probably the same as Blair/Brown did during their 13 years in office allowing for a huge rise in the civil service.
Cutting costs and budgets is not unprecedented; the Labour government cut the NHS budget even before it was fully established!
Starmer's proposal, whilst not increasing the civil service wage bill, will increase the public sector wage bill by 240,000. The increase in pension payments also coming from the public purse. Labour suggests renationalising the railways, as if that's a top priority.
Evidently, it's deemed more critical than the failing utilities, more pressing than polluting our rivers with untreated sewage, and outrageous price hikes. More urgent than the dilemma of choosing between eating or heating... More important than taking our energy supplies away from foreign control... And it reduces money available for any public spending.
Seriously?
Labour needs to get their priorities in the right order.
Part 3 is just puffery...
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I was also named after an uncle, my mam's elder brother.
Serving in the Sherwood Foresters he was sent to the far East, taken prisoner, survived the Burma railway only to die when torpedoed by an America Submarine, USS Sealion. He was on the Rakuya Maru, one of the infamous hell ships whilst being transported to Japan.
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3 hours ago, philmayfield said:
The politics thread puts me off. Maybe others as well?
Off what? You rarely participate so why on earth would you read it?
The only reason someone dislikes something they read is when they don't agree with it, if they do they will not object.
Perhaps Col's sometimes perceptive and erudite observations are a little too close for comfort to dyed in the wool Tory supporters? Maybe defending one of the most disgraceful parliaments in living memory with not go down well with others.
It's been said before that we all have memories but they are finite and once recalled can only become repetitive, and quickly kill this forum. As for those purists who think this should be Nottingham themed only...... scroll back, delete everything not Nottingham related and see what 's left.
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Somewhere up there ^^^ I criticised NCC for making decisions based on very few people's opinions.
Today in a debate in the mother of all parliaments discussing topics supposedly of national importance, only 10 Tory and 6 Labour MPs could be arsed to turn up.
I'd stop their pay.
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23 minutes ago, Jill Sparrow said:
if anyone wants to eat their fellow man, that's fine by me.
And if it's you that's on the menu?
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When something doesn't fit Col it means you're using the wrong size hammer
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I have my own ideas of events but it's probably libellous to publish without proof.
It seems his particular peccadillo led him to a dating site and some 'bad people'.
What happened in the flat, what they did and why he was locked in is something to ponder - except I'm really not that interested.
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59 minutes ago, plantfit said:
Had a lovely day out in York today,
No visit to the Railway Museum PF?
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From Nottinghtransport,com:
"It’s great to see such positive feedback from the community! The bridge is part of the Transforming Cities initiative and aims to enhance pedestrian and cyclist connectivity across the River Trent".
They pat themselves on the back and boast 83% approved the idea. But...
There were 1198 responses. 83% of that is only 991, this means they based their decision on the opinion of less than 0.3% of Nottingham's residents.
More than 400, almost half of those that approved the idea, thought the location was in the wrong place. Looking at the waterside area (99% industrial), access and the West Bridgeford field it ends up in I can see why.
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1 hour ago, DJ360 said:
However, it seems his party has known of 'allegations' for months and only now taken action.
That's my point Col. Someone has been digging in the mire, politics and politicians are getting desperate, nasty and personal.
The Tories can't convince us their policies are working, thus we have the attack on Rayner in the hope it damages Labour by association.
Despite the weasel words Labour really have not presented a single itemised or realistic costed argument. I've said it so any times, they are totally bereft of any clear and communicable ideas. Now Menzies has given them a bone to chew.
And so both parties are now resorting to scrabbling in the dirt of the opposition's personal dirty laundry.
It's all a smoke screen to hide to appalling state of UK politics
It's disgusting and I despair...
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So now it's Starmers turn to demand a police investigation - tit for tat anyone?
I've no idea what Menzies has been up to, but although it all seems rather unsavoury, was it criminal?
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I always thought it looked a bit Heath Robinson and somewhat flaky in its construction so well done for keeping it going.
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How's your day?
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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Looks to be in excellent nick with its paint job and nice new boots... do you bother ballasting the tyres?