Eeek. Help needed. Locked out of my own flat by a stiff or jammed Chubb lock that won’t shift
Any handy tips? Or will I hVe to spend ££££ on a locksmith? Tried two keys neither worked
I’ve seen films that start off with this scenario.
That happened to me once. The locksmith looked at the door, inserted a metal blade to lever the outside trim out of the way to get access to the tongue and slipped the lock open in 2 minutes. I paid over the £50 he charged and have used a mortice lock ever since.
I get the feeling that 'establishment left liberals' understand very little. They freely boast about their views and assume that everyone around them agrees with them, and then when something happens that indicates otherwise, they get angry and try and blame it on a conspiracy involving someone like Rupert Murdoch, Vladimir Putin or Elon Musk. This circuit is much on display in these comments, it never ends and keeps on resetting itself.
They understand nothing.
They want it to all be about racists and fascists because that makes it so much easier for them, so they conflate it all accordingly.
Does anyone (PB's libertarians, perhaps?) still agree with the 2010-15(-19?)(-24?) tory policy of defunding the police and criminal justice system?
What were they (we, all?) thinking?
Seems completely mad, in retrospect.
IIRC, something about crime rates continually falling (because of unleaded petrol?!!), meaning we didn't need expensive police with fat pensions and old, draughty court buildings. Resentment at the legal aid budget, I think? Dislike of lawyers, too?
DEFUND IT ALL! was the policy.
Crackers.
I actually don't remember that at all - at least not from avowed Libertarians on here. As I have said before, the term is Libertarian, not Anarchist.
And as someone else has already pointed out, Libertarians believe in small state not no state.
Oh sure, Libertarians all believe in a small state until it's their property that needs protecting.
Just like its "Tommy this an' Tommy that" from the left about the Police, until some heads need cracking.
The reason the UK's elite class is so hostile to Elon Musk and other dissenters is because they can sense they are losing control of the narrative and the conversation.
We are simply no longer in a world where the national conversation and what is considered "true" can be controlled by the same groups of people --who come from the same backgrounds, have the same values, the same political loyalties, and want the same outcomes.
That era, when the elite class dominate what used to be the most important and influential institutions, is over. It is done. And, as @KonstantinKisin has rightly noted, it is never coming back. We are in a new era.
As I wrote in a book last year, many people in the West are rapidly giving up on "a national conversation" that no longer reflects their values, their voice, and which considers some groups in society, usually minority groups, to be more virtuous than others.
The elite class could have responded to this trend by opening themselves up; they chose to the opposite while also attacking anybody who questioned their consensus along the way."
My firm (metropolitan, elite, diverse etc.) put out an email to all employees that was essentially partisan and reflected exactly this. Condemning any protest against immigration as a violation of its values etc.
I just sat there shaking my head.
Like many others I will keep taking the money, and keeping my mouth shut, whilst voting and supporting elsewhere.
By day, he's a mild mannered employee at a great multi national organisation
At night, he patrols the mean streets of his city, protecting the population from those determined to bring the city and the people to their knees
He is Captain Libertarian
He fights the forces of evil - The Woke, the Metropolitan Liberal Gang, the Elite and his greatest enemy, his nemesis, Mr Progressive."
Sorry, it's Wednesday afternoon....
Possibly the nicest post someone has written about me.
I get the feeling that 'establishment left liberals' understand very little. They freely boast about their views and assume that everyone around them agrees with them, and then when something happens that indicates otherwise, they get angry and try and blame it on a conspiracy involving someone like Rupert Murdoch, Vladimir Putin or Elon Musk. This circuit is much on display in these comments, it never ends and keeps on resetting itself.
They understand nothing.
They want it to all be about racists and fascists because that makes it so much easier for them, so they conflate it all accordingly.
When a grown man is kicking a defenceless woman in the head and others are burning libraries down (both incidents in an area of Liverpool I know well), what exactly is there to understand ?
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They want it to all be about racists and fascists because that makes it so much easier for them, so they conflate it all accordingly.
Just like its "Tommy this an' Tommy that" from the left about the Police, until some heads need cracking.
I've just adjusted my tie in a shy way.