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  • sarissasarissa Posts: 2,013
    Selebian said:

    Race to the bottom :hushed:
    You have to put the forks somewhere...
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 49,441
    Leon said:

    On a related note I’m reading Conquistadors by Fernando Cervantes. A refreshingly unwoke history of the early Spanish Empire

    Apparently Christopher Columbus had a lifelong motto: “the more you travel, the more you know”

    So true

    Stop the boats! Says the native American population 500 years ago.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 51,753
    Foxy said:

    Most likely people who have been granted leave to remain.

    https://www.redcross.org.uk/stories/migration-and-displacement/refugees-and-asylum-seekers/move-on-period-more-than-50000-refugees-could-be-homeless-by-end-of-year
    Shades of the homeless looking guys who used to queue next to the Polish centre in Hammersmith for day labouring jobs.
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,688
    Taz said:

    Stopping bogus asylum seekers rocking up and gaming the system, absolutely. But we need immigration and will do for the foreseeable future. We should be managing it better but not zero immigration.
    It’s a choice, not a necessity.
  • sarissasarissa Posts: 2,013
    Leon said:

    On a brighter note OMFG why isn’t the movie THE CREATOR more celebrated? Its fantastic. Saw it on the plane from Colombia

    Brave, clever, moving, nicely plotted, magnificent cinematography, and very very apposite - all about war between AI and humans, Asia and the west

    The acting is great, the robots are brilliantly done, it’s full of ideas, it’s twice as good as Oppenheimer and fifty eight times as good as that last bit of overlong dreck from Scorsese

    Am I the only person that realises this? Fantastic movie

    Godzilla Minus One had a similar low cost well executed CGI with good human character backgrounds.
  • LeonLeon Posts: 56,975
    Foxy said:

    Stop the boats! Says the native American population 500 years ago.
    It’s hard to argue that life in Haiti is better now than it was before Columbus arrived. Tho I see they have resorted to their native cannibalism. So at least they have the consolation of tradition
  • May I request the assistance of the PB Brains Trust?

    Mrs PtP has a bijou flat in Hampstead. The remaining lease is approximately 100 years. She wishes to extend it. The landlord, Camden Council, is remarkably diffident. She has found a local lawyer who is used to dealing with them (and clearly holds them in low esteem) and thinks it will cost about £8k all told to secure a 90 year extension. I'm inclined to tell her to go ahead but am dimly aware of changes proposed to alter the law on leaseholds. I am too lazy to research the implications and thought I would ask you lot instead, especially as I'm likely to get the kind of frankness you cannot expect from professional scribes on the subject.

    Any thought, anyone?
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 49,441
    Taz said:

    Stopping bogus asylum seekers rocking up and gaming the system, absolutely. But we need immigration and will do for the foreseeable future. We should be managing it better but not zero immigration.
    As most get asylum, why do you suggest that they are bogus?
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,713

    It was a mixture of all 3.

    The temporary bridge plan will swallow all that cash, and will never be removed.
    It's not held up by NIMBYs. They don't feature. I live 100 yards from the Bridge and follow every twist and turn.

    I don't think the temporary bridge will ever be put in place. 20,000 cars used to cross the bridge daily. Since then Hammersmith Broadway has been made cycle friendly, car unfriendly and is regularly jammed. Add an extra 20,000 cars and traffic would be at a permanent standstill. A high toll might help by reducing car usage and paying interest on the debt.

    It's been a political football. Zac Goldsmith running as MP in 2019 promised to get the funds to repair it. When Zac was kicked out, Boris his friend and bridge lover, went cold on the idea. Foot dragging ever since.
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 51,753
    edited March 2024

    May I request the assistance of the PB Brains Trust?

    Mrs PtP has a bijou flat in Hampstead. The remaining lease is approximately 100 years. She wishes to extend it. The landlord, Camden Council, is remarkably diffident. She has found a local lawyer who is used to dealing with them (and clearly holds them in low esteem) and thinks it will cost about £8k all told to secure a 90 year extension. I'm inclined to tell her to go ahead but am dimly aware of changes proposed to alter the law on leaseholds. I am too lazy to research the implications and thought I would ask you lot instead, especially as I'm likely to get the kind of frankness you cannot expect from professional scribes on the subject.

    Any thought, anyone?

    Is there any need to extend now?
  • TazTaz Posts: 15,479

    It’s a choice, not a necessity.
    A choice the vast majority of us support where skilled or filling a needed gap such as in rNHS

    Are we not told rNHS would collapse if it was not for immgrants after all ?
  • LeonLeon Posts: 56,975
    Flight from Amsterdam delayed due to “bad weather at Heathrow”

    Check the app. Persistent rain, “10C and feels like 7C”

    A raw winter day. On the cusp of April

  • stodgestodge Posts: 14,028
    Looking ahead to the round of elections on May 2nd, I make it 2,695 seats up for grabs including Mayors, PCCs and Councillors in England and Wales (not counting any by-elections on that day).

    According to Wiki, the Conservatives won 985 last time, Labour 966, the LDs 410 and Greens 107.

    I've mentioned a few councils worth keeping an eye on - Dudley, Solihull. Walsall and Dorset while currently all bar five PCCs are Conservatives. In 2023, Conservatives lost 30% of their seats so that would imply 300 losses while Rallings & Thrasher are suggesting 500 losses.
  • Is there any need to extend now?
    No. It's just that she has the funds and feels it would enhance the value of the flat. It is probably worth about £500k (tiny flat but near the Heath).
  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 51,753
    Barnesian said:

    It's not held up by NIMBYs. They don't feature. I live 100 yards from the Bridge and follow every twist and turn.

    I don't think the temporary bridge will ever be put in place. 20,000 cars used to cross the bridge daily. Since then Hammersmith Broadway has been made cycle friendly, car unfriendly and is regularly jammed. Add an extra 20,000 cars and traffic would be at a permanent standstill. A high toll might help by reducing car usage and paying interest on the debt.

    It's been a political football. Zac Goldsmith running as MP in 2019 promised to get the funds to repair it. When Zac was kicked out, Boris his friend and bridge lover, went cold on the idea. Foot dragging ever since.
    The NIMBYs, IIRC killed all the plans to put in a temporary bridge parallel to the old.

    The the temporary bridge plan seems to be

    1) Remove the failing old bridge
    2) Put in the new "temporary bridge"
    3) Hand the restoration of the bridge over to the guys who did Bluebird.
    4) 30 years later it won't be quite finished, but utterly concoursed.
    5) Forget about actually putting it back.
  • numbertwelvenumbertwelve Posts: 6,964

    May I request the assistance of the PB Brains Trust?

    Mrs PtP has a bijou flat in Hampstead. The remaining lease is approximately 100 years. She wishes to extend it. The landlord, Camden Council, is remarkably diffident. She has found a local lawyer who is used to dealing with them (and clearly holds them in low esteem) and thinks it will cost about £8k all told to secure a 90 year extension. I'm inclined to tell her to go ahead but am dimly aware of changes proposed to alter the law on leaseholds. I am too lazy to research the implications and thought I would ask you lot instead, especially as I'm likely to get the kind of frankness you cannot expect from professional scribes on the subject.

    Any thought, anyone?

    £8k seems high, even if factoring in slowness/delay at the Council end. I think I’d want an agreement on fixed costs from the lawyers before anything is done, whatever the merits.
  • DecrepiterJohnLDecrepiterJohnL Posts: 28,691
    Taz said:

    But But But Labour said it would not affect investment !!!!

    Ithaca Energy cuts UK investment as windfall tax hits bottom line

    https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/ithaca-energy-cuts-uk-investment-as-windfall-tax-hits-bottom-line/ar-BB1kCrS6?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=315d6a998e354f44910f218cae02ff7d&ei=34

    Jeremy Hunt, Jeremy Corbyn, easily confused (deliberate ambiguity there).
  • BarnesianBarnesian Posts: 8,713

    The NIMBYs, IIRC killed all the plans to put in a temporary bridge parallel to the old.

    The the temporary bridge plan seems to be

    1) Remove the failing old bridge
    2) Put in the new "temporary bridge"
    3) Hand the restoration of the bridge over to the guys who did Bluebird.
    4) 30 years later it won't be quite finished, but utterly concoursed.
    5) Forget about actually putting it back.
    No

    Details here
    https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/hammersmith-bridge
  • williamglennwilliamglenn Posts: 52,688
    Foxy said:

    As most get asylum, why do you suggest that they are bogus?
    It’s really the system that is bogus rather than the individuals. People are being given asylum who then freely travel back home without any fear of ending up like Alexey Navalny.
  • bondegezoubondegezou Posts: 11,834
    edited March 2024

    It’s really the system that is bogus rather than the individuals. People are being given asylum who then freely travel back home without any fear of ending up like Alexey Navalny.
    Do you have evidence for this claim? How many people? 1%, 10%, 50%?
  • NEW THREAD

  • MalmesburyMalmesbury Posts: 51,753
    Barnesian said:

    No

    Details here
    https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/hammersmith-bridge
    Thats what they say. Removing the exiting bridge could easily swallow millions. The proposed temporary bridge *will* go over budget. At which point the old bridge would be a pile of bits in a warehouse.....
  • CookieCookie Posts: 14,190
    Eabhal said:

    Could you provide an example of NIMBYism stopping investment in sewage and water infrastructure?

    The country is begging for the rivers and seas to be cleaned up. It's about the most YIMBY topic imaginable.
    Didn't Layla Moran campaign againsta new reservoir in her constituency, because she's as in thrall to the Nimby vote as anyone else?
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 72,720
    Justices were skeptical of abortion pills arguments. Anti-abortion groups have backup plans.

    https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/27/conservative-abortion-pill-restriction-efforts-00149199
    ..“We need to be doing more,” Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), who leads the House’s Pro-Life Caucus, told POLITICO. “Dobbs, in my opinion, began the national debate on abortion. It didn’t end it.”..
  • SandyRentoolSandyRentool Posts: 22,334

    It’s really the system that is bogus rather than the individuals. People are being given asylum who then freely travel back home without any fear of ending up like Alexey Navalny.
    They can spread Jesus' message when they go back too, after their recent conversions to Christianity.
  • wooliedyedwooliedyed Posts: 10,061
    stodge said:

    Looking ahead to the round of elections on May 2nd, I make it 2,695 seats up for grabs including Mayors, PCCs and Councillors in England and Wales (not counting any by-elections on that day).

    According to Wiki, the Conservatives won 985 last time, Labour 966, the LDs 410 and Greens 107.

    I've mentioned a few councils worth keeping an eye on - Dudley, Solihull. Walsall and Dorset while currently all bar five PCCs are Conservatives. In 2023, Conservatives lost 30% of their seats so that would imply 300 losses while Rallings & Thrasher are suggesting 500 losses.

    2021 NEV was 40 Tory 30 Lab, I suspect a direct inversion very possible with Tory perhaps even lower, anything under 50% losses and I think he'll be a bit relieved, especially if Hall outperforms polling and Street somehow hangs on. On the converse, over 500 losses, towards low 20s for Hall and Steeet gone and the knives are out.
    Workers Party are scouting for council candidates, their performance might give an indication of any issue Labour might face over Gaza etc
  • anothernickanothernick Posts: 3,591

    No. It's just that she has the funds and feels it would enhance the value of the flat. It is probably worth about £500k (tiny flat but near the Heath).
    Would it enhance the value by more than the cost of the lease extension? 100 years is still adequately long, mortgage companies only start getting cold feet when you get below 90. Bearing in mind that leasehold reform is in the air and any reform will be likely to benefit leaseholders I think I'd sit it out at least until Labour has made clear what it might do in the next parliament.
  • Alphabet_SoupAlphabet_Soup Posts: 3,357

    They can spread Jesus' message when they go back too, after their recent conversions to Christianity.
    And when they get nicked for apostasy they can use the old 'there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth' defence.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 55,343

    When I descend into this cesspool on Twitter, I don't see 'political people' spreading this: it's no-name accounts that are spreading this sh*t. I've no idea if there are even real people behind some of the accounts.
    Oh, the no-name accounts are almost certainly untrustworthy. They’re either bots, mass-signup accounts, or brand new users who haven’t yet figured out how to create an actual username.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 22,604

    May I request the assistance of the PB Brains Trust?

    Mrs PtP has a bijou flat in Hampstead. The remaining lease is approximately 100 years. She wishes to extend it. The landlord, Camden Council, is remarkably diffident. She has found a local lawyer who is used to dealing with them (and clearly holds them in low esteem) and thinks it will cost about £8k all told to secure a 90 year extension. I'm inclined to tell her to go ahead but am dimly aware of changes proposed to alter the law on leaseholds. I am too lazy to research the implications and thought I would ask you lot instead, especially as I'm likely to get the kind of frankness you cannot expect from professional scribes on the subject.

    Any thought, anyone?

    I extended the lease on my leasehold flat by about a century and reduced the ground rent to a peppercorn. You have the statutory right to do this. A lawyer handles the paperwork and it took me about two years as the freehold company were awkward. It cost me about £9k. I think it was worth it. Future legislation changes *may* affect this but that's true of everything.
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