In the darkest places, look for those pinpoints of light. I’m happy to be here and no longer in the cesspit.
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Everything Trump is doing is only guided by the approach of ‘let’s break it and see what happens’. It’s corporate vandalism deliberately ignoring that systems have developed over years in a certain way for good reason. But they don’t care about anything apart from appearing to be taking ‘action’.
Doesn’t affect the basics I mentioned. Pensions are meant to fund YOU in YOUR old age, not as mechanisms to transfer wealth tax free to your children.
Where will they clean / turn the trains around? You cannot get servicing vehicles onto the platform at Stratford? Is there somewhere in the St Pancras area they could move them to temporarily to clean?
We left - we have no say in what they require from us. If you don’t like it, don’t go.
As it should be!
Well the fair way to do it is a one off IHT charge on the asset transfer, then income tax on the interest generated by the residual asset thereafter. I fundamentally disagree that anyone should get unearned assets or income tax free just by virtue of their parents endeavours.
You need to distinguish between income derived from the asset and the asset itself. The secret is in the name! A capital pot can be used to generate income, or drawn down. The IHT is needed to just stop people drawing down to avoid tax.
Public education about the ‘state pension’ is terrible. You do not pay into ‘your’ pension pot through NI. NI is just another tax. All you are getting each qualifying year is an entitlement to a proportion of a future *benefit* which the government could and does change the criteria for.
Private pension contributions or their profits are not taxed. Your private pension contributions come out of your salary before tax.
But this is about the capital pot. That should not be possible to withdraw without IHT.
Many pensions have the ability to pass on a widows / widowers allowance to a single beneficiary in the event of the policy holders death. But I don’t see why it should be treated any different to the beneficiaries other income.
If you die it is not ‘your’ pension anymore. Let’s stop fudging the line between pensions and inheritance. If you have leftover private pension that can be passed on it becomes inheritance the moment you die, and unearned income for the beneficiaries.
Isn’t the ambiguity the last few words ‘in which nuclear weapons are used’?
UK citizens would have been treated the same as Irish citizens will be if we had still been in the EU - no need for EES registration or ETIAS fees.
It is factual reporting. This has happened.
Just from the headline sounds like she self-diagnosed rather than paying any vets bills.
You know the answer - they have decided not to attack any consequence of Brexit. They still think it is a vote winner 🤣
The difference made it fun though - I couldn’t wait to see a green fire engine!
It seems human nature that current reality is never good enough, and there is always something wrong that needs to be fixed by someone else. Childhood is always seen through rose coloured specs as none of us had to work or had the responsibilities we have now. We didn’t worry about strikes aged 16!
But also about prolonging the status quo of a certain socio-racial-economic group maintaining control over a society. ‘Our Christian forebearers controlled our society for centuries, we want to maintain that control but we don’t want to be beholden to that restrictive scripture stuff’.
Both pagan traditions appropriated by Christians in Europe of course.
I’m kinda old fashioned perhaps in believing that I should believe in any assertion that comes out of my mouth. Because if you don’t you are lying. Hence why I do not participate in religious gatherings.
I heard someone label themselves as a ‘cultural Christian but don’t believe in god’ at the weekend. After my jaw lifted from the floor I realised 👆this was exactly what she meant.
Not believing in the ‘man made version’ means that you are rejecting Christian teachings and therefore are not a Christian by definition. Christians have a ‘man made scripture’ they have to follow to be defined as such.
I heard someone describing themselves as a ‘cultural Christian’ whilst ‘not believing in god’ last weekend. My mind was somewhat blown! Exhibiting conservative / restrained behaviour or a liking for ‘English activities’ (cricket, village fetes?) has no reason to be attached to a religion!
As Ted Kravtiz asked during his post race notebook, why do they lug all those full wet tyres around the world if they never have any intention of using them?
Trouble is people who believe conspiracy theories are indoctrinated to react badly when professionals try to correct them with facts. It’s the most important thing to get conspiracy theories to work - you need to get subscribers to reject all other evidence to the contrary with extreme prejudice.
Maybe we shouldn’t rely on economic models that depend on continual growth to generate wealth? Technology should be taking the place of humans doing menial jobs.
In the UK now anything labelled ‘Adult Content’ on BSky is restricted to people who have verified their age as 18+ with the third party company nominated by BSky. Material labelled non-sexual nudity isn’t restricted.
Not quite - it is over the border in Essex just outside the M25 and there is a bit of greenery between it and the conurbation. But it does have a tube station.
There are places in the wider Epping Forest (Debden, Waltham Abbey) and adjoining Harlow which you could consider deprived. But Epping itself is a property hotspot, even the ex council housing, due to being on the tube.
Surely you will only scan your residents permit for entry?
All large concerts have clauses when you buy your ticket saying you are giving your consent to be filmed. They obviously didn’t read the Ts & Cs! Chris Martin shouldn’t be beating himself up about this!
travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/ltr/fa...
From the FAQs at the official EU ETIA website: Applicants who are under 18 or over 70 years of age are exempt from this payment. Also exempt are family members of EU citizens and family members of non-EU nationals who have the right to move freely throughout the European Union.
They have to apply but over 70s are exempt from the application fee.
It will last 3 years (or to the expiry date of your passport, whichever is earlier). And I think the EU are exempting elderly people.
Plus the EES, which will cause issues at the border when people need to first register, is now confirmed for the Autumn: www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
Oh yes we did. To £16. So no surprises the EU acted to equalise it.
Well didn’t we just raise the fee for Europeans visiting the UK under our own scheme? In which case, Touché!
They were the backup - Met Police, not Essex Police.
Again - try to distinguish between Epping the town and Epping Forest the council / constituency.
But you will note that a lot of people come into the town from adjoining areas like Waltham Abbey, Debden and Harlow.
I said Epping, not Epping Forest 😅 The wards covering the town itself are Lib Dem.
PS. We may have a tube station but the red buses stop several miles away in Debden.
Epping itself votes Lib Dem now and the house prices mean that even the council housing is pricing working class families out. The most wealthy street in the east of England is in the town.
That’s just the BBCs editorial policy around here - anything north/east of the Greater London border comes under Essex even though we all receive the London TV news.
Warning people that their capital is at risk and may go down as well as up is just fact when it comes to investments. Anyone investing over the past few years will be painfully aware of this. My cash ISAs have outstripped my S&S ISA.
Except this has now been denied - it is not happening.
Well the idea has now been canned after all that!
Well Cash ISAs are not going to be cut at all now. So much for all that press speculation!
In some parts of the country Radio 4 was also on medium wave but those transmitters were already switched off a year ago.
No long wave on that though!
Carrying a long wave radio for hiking is indeed niche - none have been made for years and even then are relatively big to carry. DAB personal radios are however a thing e.g. Roberts Sports DAB 5.
Very distinctive flock when they fly. Literally as reading the above just looked out the window and have seen several dozen land in a tree.
Yes - as long as you are not deliberately setting out to shock or offend somebody (eg. Walking into a church, where you can be fairly certain you would be offending someone). Best to keep it to places where you can give people you don’t know space.
As the Young Persons ticket is for 16 - 29 year olds I think the text underneath should have referred to ‘under 16s’.
The fallback in this case was clearly the TV replay. Why are the umpires not given access to this facility?
American politics is lost. There is no middle ground - you have to be in one extreme camp or the other. Why doesn’t someone start an initiative to get people to just start talking to each other?
The trouble with social media is that we are not in control of its rules - they are set by a corporate committee largely constituted of Americans, whose decisions are focused mainly on American society.
Define high risk? Anyone who has ever expressed a left of centre sentiment? Anyone who has uttered a rude word? Anyone who has worn a provocative outfit? That rules out 90% of rock and pop acts then 😂
Correct summary. And people want to base their entire family operation on the existence of a tax break?
Absolutely- she went all-in. Anyone who bases their whole life around one employer needs to understand the risks, especially if that employers business model is tenuous and depends on government policies which could change at the drop of a hat.
I’m talking more about how the command and control in NATO is set up. Can you just remove the USA from those structures?
Allowing new homes because it is government policy is not the same as giving developers carte blanche to get away with everything they want. EFDC should be on residents side to ensure that all the practical issues and concerns that have been raised are at least mitigated. We see no evidence of that.
The US is integral to NATO. I don’t think it could continue to operate if the US was suddenly extracted.
Well yes, that would be the obvious assumption.
I guess they need to remove the threat of a US veto.
I absolutely know about nuclear deterrent and I also know that we have a gap where Putin may think he can get away with using tactical nukes because we won’t date to use an ICBM in response. And if you think that is far fetched you haven’t understood how the Russian war machines thinks.
Maybe spend a little time understanding the rationale before just assuming the government is spending money without purpose.
Right - so Russia has tactical nukes, and our only response is an ICBM. That sounds like a good escalation option… not.
Let’s just ignore the realities of the world then and pretend that Russia does not have tactical nukes, or that we can continue to trust the US to protect us if they do get used. Benefits are no use to anyone if you get nuked.
Maybe you could magic up a money tree?
What Labour MPs are doing is making her budget impossible to balance. If your whole work output was made impossible to deliver by your work colleagues you would probably despair too.
Meaning she wasn’t just crying because of what Starmer may or may not have said. There is something else which is affecting her and in most other jobs people would take the day off if they were that sleep deprived.
Those suitcases under her eyes indicate lack of sleep. They didn’t suddenly appear during PMQs.
Religions are a creation of human minds without external scientific evidence. The only ‘truth’ they will ever generate comes out of the human condition. That some humans think that is the only ‘truth’ that matters says everything about us.
Hey - if using 18 year olds is good enough for Elon Musks DOGE, why not here?
Exactly - the requirement of giving public service is evidently lacking in these Reform types.
I dunno. Throw a few distraction bones (like rolling back ‘woke’ recycling bins) and they will be cheering them - because unfortunately bins is all that a lot of people have to do with their local council.
Even people who vote in local elections have no idea what goes on in their local council because the media they watch doesn’t report it to them.
The press won’t report it nationally so nobody will be the wiser.
You might want to revise your plans....
These will be shorter range missiles. There is a US Air Base there.
Also Abu Dhabi flights.
Planes heading to Dubai are being turned around according to Flightradar24.
@eefnews.bsky.social Affitty Water saying that there is a water shortage in Epping & Theydon - yet they still want to build more houses here. Where has all the promises investment in infrastructure gone? www.affinitywater.co.uk/alerts?id=11...
And you know half of them have their own secret kinks and are only playing the 1950s morality card because they think it sells papers to Boomers.
Whilst there has been a gradual drop in proportion of the public who think like that, there is still a vociferous 30% or so that remain as such. And that is sufficient to maintain politicians of the right. But generational change is coming and they know it.
Let’s be radical and wait for the result. This media speculation detracts from the proper process.
Why all the effort trying to predict the results and manufacture a drama? Just let our MPs debate and then make their minds up, as they should.
I understand that the rules don’t take the foreign spouses salary into account. Could the spouse pay their British partner a ‘salary’ to take their income over the required level?
Did they not read it, and just reached a misconstrued conclusion based on the title?
If you have lost power immediately after leaving the ground lifting the gear isn’t going to be top of the list of concerns surely?
This appears to have been corrected now … except they have now decided to bin off the 123 Product in August and moving customers down to a standard current account.
£13.50 for a branded pack in Boots. Couldn’t believe it! Haven’t needed tablets for 20 years but today my nose has gone mad.
Note that the BBC, which rarely opens its website comments nowadays, was quick to do so to give the Brexity types the opportunity to moan on this subject.
That was the plan, but the reality may be further delayed towards the end of the year.
It sounds like the service will be withdrawn region by region starting next month, but it is likely the most affected regions will be left until last later in the year.
Normally developers like a nice grassy verge in front of their developments. Instead this estate was left with an uncontrolled bramble patch. Someone must know who owns the land?