Greenwood2
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Post by Greenwood2 on May 3, 2023 9:39:42 GMT
The UK is to ban all cold calls selling financial products as part of a national crackdown on scams.
Which will not stop the scammers, and since they target vulnerable people who probably won't know about the ban or fully understand it, the scamming will continue. Still a step in the right direction. We live in a no cold calling area, which seems to deter no one from cold calling.
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Post by agent69 on May 3, 2023 14:30:16 GMT
Give me a golly any day .I find cabbage patch dolls demeaning and offensive. And they're back on display
And now they're gone again, this time for good
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Post by bracknellboy on May 3, 2023 18:23:23 GMT
And they're back on display
And now they're gone again, this time for good
How terrible. They must be crying into their beer. Oh wait, no they can't do that can they. They have no beer suppliers.....
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Post by martin44 on May 3, 2023 21:45:25 GMT
..... What you or other lefties may call unpleasant or domineering or short fused, many of us who have spent years in bussiness call hard working , focussed and committed ...... however i do agree on your last line. ... . Bullying has absolutely nothing to do with expectation of being hard working/focussed/committed. If one is not able to distinguish between them that is either because: 1) one is actually looking at the issue through the eyes of inherently being a bully or 2) you haven't worked in sufficient varied environments to come across people in power that are destructive - to individuals, to performance, and ultimately to the organisation - because of their bullying / sociopathic nature or 3) never worked in a business that is actually high performant I love the supposed superiority implied here: you have spent years in business working hard, being focussed and committed. The rest of us haven't - despite the fact that by definition by way being on here we are highly likely to be HNWIs. Not sure how you think we got to that state. That's funny. Certainly one of us does not ... top bold... bottom bold? no idea what you are on about..
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Post by moonraker on May 4, 2023 9:55:36 GMT
Today's Daily Telegraph (still a broadsheet) has two out of five columns devoted to a notice about a hearing in the US Bankruptcy Court (Houston Division) in the case of Cineworld Group PLC. Cineworld is/was a British cinema operator headquartered in London and the world's second-largest cinema chain, with 9,518 screens across 790 sites in 10 countries. Nearly all the text is in bold full capitals, and there are some very long paragraphs in legal gobblydegook. Presumably legally necessary, but I wonder at the cost of printing this in appropriate papersin all ten countries.
Elsewhere in the paper was an advert filling much of the page listing changes in rates for about seventy-five accounts offered by the "West Brom", a building society that has never enticed me.
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Post by mogish on May 5, 2023 7:08:26 GMT
Scottish police officers and frontline staff to shave of beards under a new clean shaven policy.
I thought with sturgeon out of the game the madness may have gone, but no it's still here.
Watch this space for call of discrimination, affecting wellbeing, racism etc.
Should be interesting who complies and if disciplinary action us taken firnot complying.
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Post by bracknellboy on May 5, 2023 8:09:02 GMT
Scottish police officers and frontline staff to shave of beards under a new clean shaven policy. I thought with sturgeon out of the game the madness may have gone, but no it's still here. Watch this space for call of discrimination, affecting wellbeing, racism etc. Should be interesting who complies and if disciplinary action us taken firnot complying. But not necessarily madness. They are not doing this for the sake of looks. They are doing it as it is seen as a necessity for the effective use of FFP3 face masks, which in order to meet the standard they are tested to require the user to be clean shaven. It of course is going to cause issues and legal action, and may yet be changed, but the intent is one of personal safety. And as a matter of law, I believe that any requirement which is there in order to enable an employee to safely carry out their job is not grounds for a discrimination claim. Those already employed prior to introduction of the requirement may on the other hand have significant grounds, even if that is solely for compensation.
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Post by bernythedolt on May 5, 2023 9:48:52 GMT
Scottish police officers and frontline staff to shave of beards under a new clean shaven policy. I thought with sturgeon out of the game the madness may have gone, but no it's still here. Watch this space for call of discrimination, affecting wellbeing, racism etc. Should be interesting who complies and if disciplinary action us taken firnot complying. But not necessarily madness. They are not doing this for the sake of looks. They are doing it as it is seen as a necessity for the effective use of FFP3 face masks, which in order to meet the standard they are tested to require the user to be clean shaven. It of course is going to cause issues and legal action, and may yet be changed, but the intent is one of personal safety. And as a matter of law, I believe that any requirement which is there in order to enable an employee to safely carry out their job is not grounds for a discrimination claim. Those already employed prior to introduction of the requirement may on the other hand have significant grounds, even if that is solely for compensation. "the intent is one of personal safety" The same is true of motorcycle helmets, yet Sikhs are exempt and can wear a turban instead. Any officer not wishing to shave should self-identify as a Sikh. Who would be brave enough to challenge them? Nobody will require a Sikh officer to offend his religion by shaving.
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Post by jonno on May 5, 2023 9:57:18 GMT
Scottish police officers and frontline staff to shave of beards under a new clean shaven policy. I thought with sturgeon out of the game the madness may have gone, but no it's still here. Watch this space for call of discrimination, affecting wellbeing, racism etc. Should be interesting who complies and if disciplinary action us taken firnot complying. I reckon this will upset a fair few Scottish lassies as well who have hitherto gone with the "natural look". Ok I'm outta here 
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Post by bracknellboy on May 5, 2023 11:48:38 GMT
But not necessarily madness. They are not doing this for the sake of looks. They are doing it as it is seen as a necessity for the effective use of FFP3 face masks, which in order to meet the standard they are tested to require the user to be clean shaven. It of course is going to cause issues and legal action, and may yet be changed, but the intent is one of personal safety. And as a matter of law, I believe that any requirement which is there in order to enable an employee to safely carry out their job is not grounds for a discrimination claim. Those already employed prior to introduction of the requirement may on the other hand have significant grounds, even if that is solely for compensation. "the intent is one of personal safety" The same is true of motorcycle helmets, yet Sikhs are exempt and can wear a turban instead. Any officer not wishing to shave should self-identify as a Sikh. Who would be brave enough to challenge them? Nobody will require a Sikh officer to offend his religion by shaving. Quite. And hence it is highly likely that there will be exemptions on e.g. on religious grounds. No-one has said there won't be, as far as I know.
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Post by bracknellboy on May 5, 2023 17:07:04 GMT
Bracknell Forest Council: one of the most blue of blue councils, has been lost by the Tories. I think the election before last it was something like 42 seats, 41 Conservative, 1 labour. Before this election I think it was something like 38:4. The wards have been rejigged and its down to 41 seats. The conservatives have gone down to 10, yes TEN councillors. LDs have 7 (thats +7), the Greens have 2 (that's +2) and Labour 22 (that's +18).
Now, I'm not necessarily suggesting that long term I'm rooting for labour councils. But a huge boot up the proverbial by the public, a demonstration of how sick and tired the public are with the internal b*****s of the conservatives, and a shock to Tory complacency is no bad thing.
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Post by martin44 on May 5, 2023 19:06:07 GMT
Bracknell Forest Council: one of the most blue of blue councils, has been lost by the Tories. I think the election before last it was something like 42 seats, 41 Conservative, 1 labour. Before this election I think it was something like 38:4. The wards have been rejigged and its down to 41 seats. The conservatives have gone down to 10, yes TEN councillors. LDs have 7 (thats +7), the Greens have 2 (that's +2) and Labour 22 (that's +18). Now, I'm not necessarily suggesting that long term I'm rooting for labour councils. But a huge boot up the proverbial by the public, a demonstration of how sick and tired the public are with the internal b*****s of the conservatives, and a shock to Tory complacency is no bad thing. Even i cannot disagree with that. id love to but... darn .. 
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Post by michaelc on May 5, 2023 19:42:52 GMT
Bracknell Forest Council: one of the most blue of blue councils, has been lost by the Tories. I think the election before last it was something like 42 seats, 41 Conservative, 1 labour. Before this election I think it was something like 38:4. The wards have been rejigged and its down to 41 seats. The conservatives have gone down to 10, yes TEN councillors. LDs have 7 (thats +7), the Greens have 2 (that's +2) and Labour 22 (that's +18). Now, I'm not necessarily suggesting that long term I'm rooting for labour councils. But a huge boot up the proverbial by the public, a demonstration of how sick and tired the public are with the internal b*****s of the conservatives, and a shock to Tory complacency is no bad thing. I would not describe it as that. It wasn't Tory in the late 90s and this latest result shows how fickle it is. Its a relatively poor town with a lot of people just about managing. Will anything change? I have my doubts. Councillors are supposed to "run" the council in some sense and constitutionally there is a way for them to assert their leadership. But in reality, it would seem its much simple to take their expenses and perks and broadly leave the council to run itself. I wonder if the new blood will do anything different?
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Post by ozboy on May 5, 2023 21:14:07 GMT
Idiots blindly vote for "The Party" (whatever colour it may be), usually disregarding the incumbent's actual performance and track record in Council office. Councils provide Services, nothing more, nothing less, and to caste your Local Council vote based purely on "The Party" and/or national issues is idiocy personified. A Party of any hue could be doing an exemplary job running their Local Council, but if the National sentiment is against them at the time, they get the boot. Failure to be able to differentiate between the basics of what matters when you're running a Local Council, and what matters when you're running The Whole Country, is IMHO an Intelligence Test. There should be NO Party Politics at Council level, Political Parties should be banned and it should so obviously be independents only. Wasn't Maggie looking into abolishing Councils before her demise?  |
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Post by keitha on May 5, 2023 22:44:39 GMT
Idiots blindly vote for "The Party" (whatever colour it may be), usually disregarding the incumbent's actual performance and track record in Council office. Councils provide Services, nothing more, nothing less, and to caste your Local Council vote based purely on "The Party" and/or national issues is idiocy personified. A Party of any hue could be doing an exemplary job running their Local Council, but if the National sentiment is against them at the time, they get the boot. Failure to be able to differentiate between the basics of what matters when you're running a Local Council, and what matters when you're running The Whole Country, is IMHO an Intelligence Test. There should be NO Party Politics at Council level, Political Parties should be banned and it should so obviously be independents only. totally agree, having candidates that identify with a party particularly at Parish / town level is IMHO nonsense. you can also get the nonsense of Labour Govt, Conservative County, Labour town/Parish with the bottom 2 blaming each other and the central Government for their own failings. I believe at Parish level you should live in the Parish, for County in the County. Particularly at Parish level they need to be dealing with local issues not toeing the party line, but unfortunately in my experience some are only interested in climbing the greasy pole . I also believe all politicians should not be able to change parties without a by election. We had the nonsense last year of a guy standing as independent ( Independents controlled the council) on the Friday it became clear that Labour would win the council, and on the Monday this one councillor said that he felt more inline with Labour, so would sit as labour despite being elected as independent and beating the labour candidate
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