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Is any of this right? No. Should suspected illegal activity be investigated and stopped where found, with prosecution etc thereafter? Yes. However, none of this is new, albeit the methods and people involved maybe differed. To that end, I agree with post #5...

This is also true.

See post #29 :)

Wait, I have the answer! Lib Dems tell us they have ways to save billions. Tories tell us they have ways to save billions. Reform tell us they have ways to save tens of billions. In the country's interest, let's get Labour out today and the above three in. Sorted. After all, based on what...

The thing is, I read threads like this and I genuinely think what is the answer? Not just in terms of who the current Labour PM is, but in terms of who the governing party is. I said in another thread it's a cyclical sh1t show to varying degrees. Yes some parties do better than others when in...

When I see bits like this ... and giving councils the 'right to buy' a rental property when it is sold at a discounted price. ... it gets my hackles up. I wonder how stuff like that would work legally. Property valued at £150k but the council can do a compulsory purchase for what, £120k...

I'd still rather live in the UK than Dubai ;)

Anyone else seeing this in their areas? Over the past few years, I'm seeing on a relatively frequent basis young idiots, often with faces covered, darting about on motorbikes (scrambler type things) that I suspect aren't insured, taxed etc ;) Was driving home a week or so back, at night, and...

I think he's pro giving tenants the right to buy their rental property, whether the landlord wants to sell or not, and to be offered at below market value. So he can do one as far as I'm concerned. And, given he wants to be our PM, he should consider getting his teeth missing smile fixed!

You beat me to it. I was mid typing to ask if folk think this is all a ploy to then appear 'better' by announcing stuff that isn't quite as brutal. Or will it be just as bad as some are predicting?

Although this goes beyond the Trump edit, I wonder how those involved in facilitating that edit are feeling after all this fallout. i.e. the person who first suggested it and whoever was responsible for okaying it.

We, the masses, lectured at by the 'great' and the 'good', most of whom live in the lap of luxury, many of whom will have more than one home, more than one vehicle, travel abroad multiple times a year, don't have to worry about day to day costs etc. Do as we say, not as we do.

Keir's on his way now with another envelope ...

Trump wants this sorted by Friday, or else! https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-puts-bbc-notice-retract-apologize-false-defamatory-documentary-face-1-billion-suit Story also breaking on BBC.

As someone's just alluded to on a tv prog this morning, usually when a broadcaster does tv articles with parts of a speech edited together, they include a brief blank screen or whatever between the edits to indicate sections might have been omitted. They didn't do this with the Trump speech...

Yeah, across all their output there's a lot to like. Are they perfect? Nope. However many of those screaming for its demise have agendas of their own.

For all its faults, I still think the BBC is something we should want to retain. Note I'm saying 'want to retain' as I understand not everyone is proud of it, so I'm not saying 'something we should be proud of.' However, for me personally, much of its output is indeed something we should be...

Bought 5l containers of paint for doing up my BTL. Can't really say 'tins' these days ;) It's costing me more than the 10l size (a fair bit more) however I think carrying the 10l last year put my back out (uneven and heavy weight) so I'm sticking with the 5l as generally easier to deal with!

Something I've noticed as I've got older is seeing changes in my mum, aunts and uncles who in turn have obviously got older and are now elderly, some of them sadly no longer here. One thing I've noticed, perhaps relatively common in older people (?), is seeing them worry and sometimes verge on...

Our local council do a trusted trader thing. I think it gives a bit more reassurance as companies are vetted by trading standards and the scheme is backed by the council and police. Folk can then leave reviews. Not full proof (what is?) but gives a semblance of assurance if you don't already...