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8 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

You words short, not long. Many letters and brain hurt, eyes spin, we no understand. Make for simple talk, much knowing, more happy and not thump head say idiot! Only then all can like you, be like and very wise, more than us, but now you tell us and we know what is words, all say yes, Mr Mac, he good fella who not say to us lies. He no like Mr Top or Mr Johnny, be very big in head and say wise things and we can have the knowing of this. Joy and happy much!

15 minutes ago, The Bear said:

Says 192 on mine. 

+10ish% pre 

Anyone know someone that covers the Leicester area for upvc front door repairs please? Need mine resetting so it can close 

12 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

I work in retail and they all have phones with cards on to tap with etc so they are probably more technically advanced than some adults .

 

And presumably won’t be able to be banned from schools as parents will say their kids need them to keep in contact if something happens .

This bit really pees me off. I understand it completely. But why not get your kid a cheap £5 phone for texting and ringing and leave the smartphone at home. 

Wouldn't want my kids lugging around 100s of quid worth of phone anyways, if they are owt like their dad it'll end up smashed/lost within a week. 

9 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Would have to be a different company now that Agent Orange#47 has made all Anthropic products verboten to "foreigners", I reckon. 

I mean that's not exactly what's happened is it? 

And nothing stopping the UK government outsourcing it to them in any event. 

1 minute ago, Super_horns said:

Is this actually going to work and be effective/controlled ?

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c77yx1jpg1nt

All I know is it will undoubtedly come with a bunch of privacy invading horseshit via some garbage 3rd party like anthropic in the name of "saving the kids". 

1 hour ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

If we have nukes as a deterrent to anyone attacking us, then either,

 

A) we don't need to spend money on military.

 

Or 

 

B) we should get rid of the nukes, as they clearly don't work.

 

Simple logic.

Eh. Defense spending isn't just for us, it's for nato and we should be capable of doing our fair share. The idea that we'll just nuke whoever steps foot in somewhere like Poland for example is at a minimum, bananas. 

Just now, Trav Le Bleu said:

So ...

 

We should spend more on killing people and less on looking after them?

Spending more in preparing the country for future conflicts absolutely. Personally, I'd rather we had the capacity but never any need to actually use it. 

18 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Assuming John Healey is correct. How does government raise funds for increased defence spending?

The UK’s working-age benefits bill was lower than for defence in the mid-1980s, but since 1990 welfare spending has been higher - often significantly so.

Working-age benefit spend is projected to rise to around 4.3% of GDP by the end of the decade, compared with the government’s , external"ambition" to hit 3% on defence in the next parliament.

Start here imo. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgqeg09p3p1t

Another one bites the dust. 

1 minute ago, Foxdiamond said:

Nuts isn't it.

It really is. Genuinely can't remember when all the talk of car washes, Turkish barbers and dodgy cornershops started among people, but it sure as hell wasn't recently. Been happening for years, just a shame it takes the BBC to pull their finger out to highlight it, when most common folk knew it already. 

Still, time will tell whether it actually gets dealt with or not. From what I can see it's had £30mill thrown at it, hardly enough to make a dent up and down the country I imagine. 

19 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

The BBC News team doing a great job of pursuing the illegal vape shops etc. How on earth did local councils and other authorities allow them to set up in such numbers in the first instance?

£££££. Better to have garbage illegal shops open than no shops at all. 

20 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Of course there would be. 

 

People so often equate personal with important. 

Jeez mac you're other half must feel loved 

https://38-0.app/r/Uv0S8wHV

Best I managed so far. Oddly addicting 

36 minutes ago, davieG said:

More historical than good

Made In Leicester

James Greig 

Leicesters engineering in the 20th Century was unrivaled. We made machines for knitting for making shoes ( BUSM) and all manner of things. We made lenses and camera's ( Taylor Hobson and Reid) and lots more to numerous to mention. In the 50s Charles Street was the richest street in Europe. This shot was taken @ National Trusts Upton House where during the second world war the bankers were kept together to help the nation fund the war effort. Imperial typewriters on East Park Road helped with this cause. I am very pleased to have met workers in these industries that taught me their skills when I was young. For this I am eternally grateful to them.

 

 

Gent & Co made sonar equipment in the war as well.

 

 

In the 50s Charles Street was the richest street in Europe and one of the cleanest - How far we have fallen.

 

Hey now. We still make cool stuffs! 

Hard to not wonder what the publics and this forums reaction would be to this if the roles were reversed tbh. Hard to believe it wouldn't have had anything to do with race then.

Southampton owner Dragan Solak says he will not sack Tonda Eckert, despite the "mistake" the head coach made when authorising a spying campaign against rival Championship clubs.

"I think he deserves a second chance and I would give it to him," the Serb businessman told BBC Sport in an exclusive interview.

"My full support would be behind him actually, because I think he's a super-talented manager."

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Wow. Even the people with the tiniest bit of sympathy for them getting booted from the playoffs will struggle to maintain that now. 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/major-new-swedish-fighter-jet-deal-to-strengthen-ukraine-and-boost-british-jobs

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y8wjvd1ypo

Don't mind investing in defense, IF we build it ourselves. Or at least some of it, like with the fighter jets. 

We have good engineers in this country. Let's get em working, and even more importantly, teaching. I know the profession was essentially decimated by sending production overseas, but it's nice to see a bit of home grown stuffs making a comeback. If the jobs are here, people will learn how to do it. 

2 hours ago, Sly said:

So reform are proposing scrapping tax on people doing overtime (as long as it’s 40+ hours per week).

 

Will that just lead to business employing less people and relying on people doing 60+ hours per week? 
 

Therefore ….. getting less tax. 
 

Another daft proposal aiming to grab votes? 

Possibly. I'd suggest most businesses would prefer 2 people on 40 hours than 3 on 60 hours though. Better productivity that way.

Do think the policy could help sectors where skilled people are lacking though.

7 hours ago, oxford blue said:

It seems a great idea but employers generally pay at least 1.5 usual rate: would future overtime with no Tax be limited by employers. to standard pay rate? (A corollary maybe that when shops were allowed to open Sundays, pay from many employers was at an enhanced rate. Contracts were soon rewritten to include Sundays as part of the week.

Don't see why it would be, I get paid 1.5x over 37hrs and 2x on sundays, I'd imagine my employer would be quite pleased if I had an extra incentive to work more hours that didn't cost them a penny, especially since the talent pool in engineering is fairly limited.

Good fight stopped early. Shame.

22 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

People shouldn't have to work long hours. They should get paid well for what they do do (no sniggering at the back.)

 

This would create more jobs. For every two people working 60 hrs a week finding they're getting the same for 40, you're creating an extra job, which then removes that person from the benefit system.

 

Work to live, don't live to work.

Or, in the real world where "should" doesn't quite cut it, I'd love to work more hours without getting taxed on it so my kids can grow up with their mum at home instead of us both having to work. 

Income tax on overtime above a 40-hour week should be scrapped for workers earning less than £75,000, Reform UK has said.

The party estimates what it is calling a "hard work bonus" would save a full time nurse working six hours of overtime each week more than £1,300 a year.

Reform said the policy would cost £5bn a year and could be paid for through its plans to make cuts to welfare payments.

But Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems all questioned whether Reform would find the money for the plans.

Reform leader Nigel Farage said the overtime proposals would "finally make work pay, drive up productivity and restore the appeal of a strong work culture once again".

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Like this policy. 

3 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

I wonder who the customers will be (other than the MoD) should one of these wonderful little toys become useful?

Companies from across England, Wales and Scotland set to receive contracts worth up to £4 million for quantum sensing and autonomous systems to secure communications, space manufacturing and synthetic training.  

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It sounds mostly not so boom boom tbh. Should still find plenty of buyers for the things they're working on though. Not quite sure how they are gonna tackle space manufacturing with £4mill, but they can have at it.