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The people making the decisions at UK government should have assessed the company's situation and credit-worthiness. They could also have stipulated staged payments, personal guarantees, escrow payments or anything they liked. But instead they just lobbed all our money at some outfit that had...

If they didn't think they had a case then why drag him to court? Sounds like they were hoping that they could scare him into pleading guilty while there was no case. He's been in prison for 2 weeks, they didn't even give him bail. I can't see any justification at all for this, other than...

Do you know what communism is? It's where the government owns industry. E.g. a state-run broadcaster. Nothing to do with left-right bias Everyone is "beholden" to whoever pays their bills or decides their fate - in the BBC's case, the government. In these days it's absolutely simple for...

I wouldn't step through the door, even to get the lawnmower, it looks like a death trap. It's obviously built on topsoil. Someone bought a few pallets of blocks and walloped it together in a weekend. Several parts of the walls have visibly sunk downwards, which just wouldn't happen if built...

It's all old days stuff, the empire's gone. Soft power is nonsense. We don't need a state propaganda department, that's the stuff of commie regimes. They need to make everyone producing this garbage redundant and get themselves efficient in preparation for the privatisation/closure that will...

The Limited of Limited Company indicates that it has Limited Liability, i.e. that if it goes bust then any debt stops there and is written off. It's essentially the same as a person - if a person dies then you can't pursue a debt against anyone who worked for them. If you're going to lend to a...

I've got a couple of stinky stink pipes to get out of a roof that's going to be tiled with plain clay tiles. It's a fairly active vent from a home sewage treatment plant with an air pump, so it's a lot more active than the average sewer vent - it's constantly blowing out the air that gets...

Honestly, I'd describe that language as a racist pee-take, it's just bad English. Is this supposed to be a language? Why are the BBC providing news to a foreign country anyway? If you read it out it sounds like you're walking around a dodgy UK housing estate. The = Di They = Dey Gather = Gada

The vertical pipe suggests it is. I know someone with a boxed in notch behind the telly in his extension. It's not really a problem, other than having visitors tell you it's a stink pipe.

Fixed rates can be a winner or a loser. The killer and hidden profit for them is often the ridiculous admin fees that you need to pay every time you renew. We got an offset with a lifetime base rate tracker in 2005 at bank base rate +0.19%. We definitely didn't pay a premium for the offset...

There are lots of companies that manufacture placards, here's one of many examples... https://www.universalbanners.co.uk/placard-signs But genuine grass roots protestors don't usually use them, they're just not organised enough and nobody's going to pay for them.

They're usually organised and transported by various unions, which are effectively part of the Labour party so part of the government now. There have been allegations that some have said that they're paid to attend. Probably dressed up as "expenses", but money is money. There's lots of...

You sound like Starmer telling the opposition not to talk about Henry Novak's murder as it would upset his dad. Just manipulative silencing of debate. The socialist crackpots that are currently in charge are destroying the country, and some of that damage will be irreversible. People are...

Do you know how much the house was? It may have been 90% or another percentage, you'd pay a higher interest rate if you borrow 90.0001% of its value. Paying off more in the early years makes a gigantic difference, throw as much as possible at it. Or ideally just get an offset mortgage - that...

Brilliant work, very impressive that you managed to do that without breaking the plasterboard and I guess without much dust either. It looks like it was sort-of cantilevered from the chimney, but without rebar and with a blazing fire cracking it up then it doesn't look like it was held up by...

Totally agree. Wood cladding is a fashion, but it's nothing new. People have built with wood for centuries, the only reason you don't see more timber old buildings is because the wooden ones almost all turned to compost and were knocked down. The stone and brick buildings that are everywhere...

Find a replacement. Ideally an original from somewhere less visible. If not then you should be able to identify it and apply for a sample (usually free or very cheap). Look at LBC for starters, it looks like it may be one of theirs but not certain. But LBC don't provide samples now, they...

Only in your fantasies. Most people don't care either way, as stated even in that Guardian article if you read more than the headline. It's business as usual for the UK's leading party...

Err yes then. Unless all of NATO's going in, in which case we're duty-bound to contribute. What's every other medium country doing about it? Japan? Brazil? Pakistan? Absolutely nothing, as it's got nothing to do with them. Their governments are looking after their people. We're not a...

I think 'king Silly is genuine. He's not out to wind people up, at least not deliberately, he actually believes the stuff he writes. The world's a wondrous place, everyone is unique! I suspect with some long-term effects of recreational drugs, but that's probably a common factor for most...