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All this from just one person making a complaint, one in god knows how many who have visited the pub in whatever number of years they were on show. To be perfectly frank it beggars belief. Cant the pub landlord Sue the complainant for loss of earnings/livelihood? He wasn’t committing a crime, but then again maybe he could sue the police for the heavy handed way in which they dealt with the complaint🤔

No one believes them https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-war-latest-putin-assassination-attempt-as-kremlin-residence-attacked-by-drones-moscow-claims-12541713 but no doubt it is is mask for some atrocity that Russia is planning

But then again @C8RKH, no different to “Yes Minister” which definitely called it right

Andy I think Mad Max’s comment, translates from Dutch in to English, to “😥😥 it’s not fair, they’re not playing to my rules”

We are waiting for the day the local plod raid our kitchen where we have an old tin Golden Shred Marmalade plaque on the wall complete with print of Golly, dog, cat & bird - oh and a jar of marmalade

What a ridiculous country we live in when union leaders feel the need to use words like these 🙄. Playground stuff for teachers union who are being “bullied” Education secretary needs to 'stop the bullying tactics', says teaching union boss Talking about Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, Dr Bousted said she needs to "stop the bullying tactics" and start "reading the room".

2 weeks ago we needed to buy a new washing machine. Saleswoman in John Lewis trying to tell the wife how great these WiFi washing machines are so wife asks “so I can do everything from my phone can I, I assume that includes sorting the washing and loading the machine” Saleswoman “wouldn’t that be nice but the technology doesn’t go that far yet” Wife “so I have to sort the washing as normal, put it in the washing machine then, instead of turning I go and sit down, grab my phone and then turn it on! What a fantastic time saving invention” Saleswoman looking like she’s lost the sales script 🙄

What are you doing Andy, you’ve got me all started on the public sector on a day when I’m supposed to be keeping my blood pressure down🤨 Fancy job titles & gilt edged benefits so be it but the the number one problem is that the vast majority of them can’t do their job, they don’t have either the intellectual capability to do so or the drive to commit beyond driving out of the car park after 4.30pm. Hence why they need these contractors to be able to do their jobs for them. It also helps them keep super slick by having someone to blame afterwards when things go tits up. Apologies to TLF members working in the public sector, having a Lotus I’m sure you are all exceptions to the rule.

Ouch, I hope it’s not serious & you recover quickly @pete

Is this guy for real🙄 Can he not see the ever increasing spiral. Of course there’s no correlation between increasing interest rates and increasing prices is there - what a muppet. The worst thing any govt in this country ever did was abdicate responsibility to the BoE the power to change interest rates Bank governor warns firms raising prices ‘hurts people’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65056733

Ha the Daily Star, todays version of the Dandy or Beano! I’m sure these getter press idiots have a laugh themselves at the people who fall for their stories🤔

Having to spend 2 days in hospital after my body decided to reject the new TKI drugs I was prescribed to try to knock back and control the progression which was found in my cancer, on the 2nd day of taking them. Nothing unusual, it happened with the first medication I was prescribed 6 years ago. Now back home after being stabilised with orders from my Onc to start the fight again tomorrow🙄

Thanks Bibs, I did consider a few times acquiring another Evora (such a great car), but kept deciding against doing so since I knew it was only a matter of time before what has now happened would happen and I would have to face the same again. All we need in this country is for the idiots who oversee our driving standards to recognise that progress in drug developments does happen and they don’t have to use reports from years ago to make and justify their ridiculous decisions. Many other countries in Europe along with the USA are more receptive to progress than the retired medics who control our driving standards. @C8RKH The more you try to understand the DVLA the more you realise that their decisions are made by geriatric retirees who don’t not only keep themselves up to date with developments since they retired but also don’t understand what they are talking about. I have met with the DVLA medical panel and I was alarmed at their overall lack of knowledge about certain health issues and how how modern medications now help. If we both get to the VX National I suggest you do your best to avoid me because I can bore you for hours talking about what I’ve learned about the DVLA over the past 2 years🙄😉.

Unhappy doesn’t come near, totally fcuking devastated would be closer. Had an appointment with my oncologist this morning expecting the results of the MRI scan I had 2 weeks ago and yes he had the results. To cut a long story short, it appears that the cancer drug I’ve been taking for the past 4.5 years has now ceased to be effective since some small sign of cancer progression is now evident in the brain metastases which developed after my rare (non-smokers) lung cancer diagnosis nearly 7 years ago. There is another drug I can move on to, although not as well tolerated as the current one. However, that apart, it also means that I have to surrender my driving licence again just 3.5 years after getting it back from the initial 1 year driving restriction following the initial diagnosis of the brain metastases. Fcuking DVLA and their outdated rules. I, amongst others, have been pushing them for change over the past 2 years. They admit that their data used for making this decision is from reports published in 2018. They accept that 3 new very effective drugs have been licensed since those reports were published, effective in respect of no reported incidents of seizures (their only concern) amongst people taking them, but remain reluctant to to take anything on board and insist on relying on 2018 data. Taking them to a judicial review of their decision making approach is an option and is what is needed, but they know that is highly unlikely due to the costs involved. They believe that as a Govt Dept they are untouchable. I will be moving to the next drug as part of trying to extend my life expectancy. It is just exceptionally tough dealing with not being able to drive, more so when you live in a rural location😟 Sorry, rant over, just need to get it off my chest 😠. Thanks for listening (well reading)

@C8RKHAndy, maybe my comment was an over simplification but I was referring more to the established energy suppliers who are also energy manufacturers. The likes of EDF always state that they lose money on domestic supplies etc, particularly in the U.K., but unless they can sell the energy manufactured to 3rd parties parties at the same transfer prices that they sell to their own international subsidiaries they are just fudging their figures to suit the story that they want to tell and as part of international tax planning. I’ve been involved in doing the same in a different industry. I agree that the latest entry companies that have failed in this sector is due to other factors since they have basically acted as commodity traders. I also agree that the U.K. energy market is broken due to govt strategy, not just the latest govt but every govt over the past e decades, and over the years the energy regulator.

I am not convinced about the so called losses. Since many of the retailers are also energy producers, EDF for instance, I am sure that inter group company transfer pricing takes place to hide the real profits

I’m not Scottish, don’t live there or have any association with Scotland other than vacations and that I used to travel twice monthly to Leith and Grangemouth for 8 years when I last worked in the U.K. So why am I posting, it’s not just made my day it has made my month. I will no longer have to see red (literally) every time she’s on TV and listed to her dulcet ranting tones. Failures always walk before they are pushed, just took too long for her to realise it.

January for us: Electricity 633kwh £127 Gas. 2497kwh. £ 89 Total. £216 Less subsidy (£ 67) Actual charge for month £149 Thank fcuk I’m still on July 2021 tariff, fixed for 2 years. Really not looking forward to next winter when reality kicks in, the first change to be made to our daily life will be turning off the electric underfloor heating in the conservatory which equates to at least 50% of the total electricity used.

Apparently he told his country folk yesterday evening that Ukrainian soldiers are shooting other Ukrainian soldiers in the back as they try to desert to the Russian side Will he take the same way out as Adolf?

Russia have been using plenty of missiles of late, rumoured that N Korea & Iran are supplying him

So the tanks are going to Ukraine from Germany, the U.S. and from any other country that want to make the big announcement that they are sending them. Why on earth do these countries want to make all of these big announcements and then send them sometime later. It gives Putin chance to retaliate, just like he did last night by hitting cities across Ukraine with loads of missiles, and gives him the opportunity to look out for them arriving to try to destroy a few before they can join the action. Whatever happened to the element of surprise? Just send them and keep quiet.

Says she didn’t mean it in that way, but whenever a Tory or Labour politician use that excuse she’s the first to want them executed

I can fully empathise with you Micheal after having felt the pain when I had to sell my Evora 4 years ago due to a medical issue which, at the time, meant that I had to surrender my driving licence and was told that I couldn’t drive for 2 years. Shortly after selling it the 2 year driving suspension was reduced to 1 year (I would have kept it if they had told me 1 year at the time of diagnosis). That Evora was a 1 of 6 limited edition and one that I treasured. I did consider buying another one once I was cleared to drive again but I knew the medical issue could return at anytime in the future so I decided not to do so, I just couldn’t go through the pain and heartache again if it did and my driving restriction reared it’s head again shortly afterwards. Yes it’s only a car and if I had bought another one I could have had 3 years enjoyment from it to date, but then again I might have only had it for 6 months, so I decided to look at it in the same way as yourself. I can say that for a period of almost 4 years I was fortunate to have owned and enjoyed, both on the road and on track, the best car that IMO money could buy after becoming too old to continue enjoying the VX220 that I owned for the 14 years previous to the the Evora.

Anybody see the shadow levelling up minister make a complete fool of herself on b’fast TV this morning? She was a glowing example of why Labour will have real problems when they win the next GE. She was unable to argue any point in a constructive manner and instead just jumped on to the bandwagon of “let’s criticise the Tories at any cost” TBF Charlie did pin her down when she tried to to use the same answer to a different question that she had already used twice for different questions. All she could do was follow a previously rehearsed script. She bleated on about the usual, the North of England is woefully neglected by the Tories but the stand out bit of her responses for me was that she criticised the government for expecting regional councils to have to apply and justify why they need the projects they are bidding for. “Regional and Local councils just don’t have to time that this takes” she kept insisting. I’m afraid that this is when either the interviewers weren’t bright enough to really pick her up on what she was bleated NX on about or they started to follow the BBC agenda. Why didn’t they point out that local businesses are required to do just the same when they are applying for Council grants. They have to justify to the council why the grant and project are needed. Labour really do need to get a front bench with capable and intelligent individuals if they are going to succeed. Apologies for the long rant, I just can’t abide interviewers who don’t (or can’t) put politicians on the spot by making them give straight forward intelligent answers

@jepjust wondered about your views of Viessmann boilers?