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Well thanks to Brexit, looks like the powers that be will finally get the inflation they have been craving for the past 6 years.

Unfortunately its the poorest and those on fixed incomes that will be hardest hit as usual.

4 hours ago, sexbelowsound said:

A kid at work told me he saw one outside of our school today.

Fruit cakes. 

Apparently people saw loads in Birmingham recently between the 2nd and 5th of this month, most sighting were around the location of the ICC

9 minutes ago, PaulC said:

He probably does find it funny to be fair.  A lot of people couldn't care less what others think of the way they look. 

a lot of people also understand it's meaningless banter and can take it a such, the way to take any piss taking is with a pinch of salt

15 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

I think its more those appreciating the effort of the sensible folks who auto question and point out the flaws with nearly anything the Tories do  

 

fixed it for you.

4 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

bahh! was going to say the same thing.

Stupid levels of regulation mean that sort of thing is not allowed. It can't 100% legislate for dimwits and criminals.

As per the 'what laws should be repealed?' question earlier, I'd be intrigued to know what swathes of regulation people want binned once we are free of the tyranny.

There could be hundreds I guess. But does anyone have a 'top ten'? Or 2 or 3? Something that will make people think a year later 'omg we are sooo much better off now business doesn't have to comply with...'

Not a trap, would be interesting to see how 'big' a thing people want de regulated. 

 

from the mouths of the conservatives in control of what will happen the ones that seem most important for them to burn are;

any ones that protect workers rights, to things like fair contracts, holidays, sick pay, grievence procedures and general unfair treatment.

Things that protect the vunerable in society, things like human rights etc.

2 hours ago, darrenm said:

Don't understand who are in the VT cheap seats?

anyone who has an opinion Awol disagrees with, or can't understand their discussion points perhaps?

so is it "potato heads claret and blue Army" then?

46 minutes ago, lapal_fan said:

I still don't know what they are trying to do, other than fill every speech with "powerful adjectives", which mean nothing frankly.

What a mess.

Don't worry, they still don't know what they are doing.

I'm not sure what our negotiating position with the EU has to do with my post, I didn't mention it once and it wasn't in my thoughts in the slightest, why should it be, it's just a sideshow really, a necessary process but still a side show.

if you think y post was about our negotiations with the EU, then you need to read it again.

54 minutes ago, tonyh29 said:

Cameron has got himself a new job doing unpaid charity work 

do those posters suggesting banks  and money grabs want some cream with their humble pie ?

 

(ok you can keep this post in the memory bank when he goes all Blair and chases the money 6 months later when no one is looking )

 

 

working at the local food bank? handing out caviar and champagne to the feckless wasters of society is he? well they got to have something to eat whilst they sit in front of there big screen tv's generations of scrounging has enabled them to buy.

This is not an argument against leaving the EU. Would like to point that out from the start before people jump over me as being pro EU.

The people aren't going to get what they voted for anyhow, particularly because the 2 main reasons people voted for Brexit, ones which i fully support, being regaining sovereignty and controlling immigration are not the real reasons behind Brexit, its purely about deregulation, which in itself isn't always a bad idea, just most of the time because it is deregulation for the benefit of big corporations and the tiny minority that benefit when they do well, and its isn't 99% of the population. The regulations that effect the majority will stay in place, Fox is pro TTIP, which is basically about giving sovereignty to big business, its about removing democracy and the will of the people and making the people even more impotent to change anything through voting than they already are, It's about rigging the game even further than it already is in favour of a select few. It's the deregulation of the banks.That worked out so well for the majority of us didn't it?

I've been anti EU most of my adult life, Understandable really as i've gradually realised that fundamentally I'm an anarchist, in so much as i find most elitist hierarchical power structures deplorable. naturally I find the new religion of Statism as unpalatable as most of the old ones, I'm firm in belief that we should have never joined the EU, So saying we shouldn't leave would be hypocritical. Remember though getting divorced is not the same thing and never getting married in the first place. We are leaving at possibly the worst possible time because we have probably the worst type of politicians in control of the process. a mix of the unbelievably incompetent, the morally bankrupt and brazen hypocrites . Politicians with unjustified delusions of competence.  Politicians that don't believe in experts or facts or reason, just blind flawed ideology. Politicians that will sell us out in a heartbeat for a few pieces of silver. They don't give a shit about any of the things they claim to, the things as elected representatives they should, about your Job security, about your standard of living, about controlling immigration, your health, about the environment we the majority of us have live in, about national sovereignty, in which in reality is that of the voice of the people of a nation. About the nation, which in reality are the people that make up a nation. They care about giving away or selling off on the cheap national assets to friends and family,  They will happily lie to you and sacrifice all that you have to secure their and their friends undeserved guaranteed positions of priviledge, wealth and ultimately power..

The public have been mugged off, like all great cons the victims have themselves to blame for various individual reasons.

I've stayed relatively quiet on the whole subject of Brexit because it's one where i feel very conflicting emotions, i 'm anti EU membership but with the people controlling our direction as we leave we all should be very worried were they are taking us.

Saw the title of this thread and thought it was another one about the government of the day

21 hours ago, rodders0223 said:

Very true. Remember that likeable kid who first broke on the scene? That is long gone. Colossal prick. Go cheating prick Rosberg.

Fixed for ya

1 hour ago, blandy said:

 

May appointed f-wits into key positions. Result f-wittage occurs.

so May just continuing along same lines as Cameron them. To be fair, the Tory party has its fair share of mega f-wits to choose from 

The Veils - Total Depravity

Our manager is the joke, set us up poory again, poor decisisons and use of subs

been looking to get to a few gigs, not been to enough lately, Vintage caravan are in brum at the rainbow complex on 7th nov, £11 sounds a bargain, saw them at the Oobleck supporting the the blues pills and they are well worth seeing.

havnt narrowed it down to 10 yet, but first five would have to be in no paticular order

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

Eels - Electro Shock Blues

Eels -  Daisies of the Galaxy

John Lee Hooker - The Healer

Prefab Sprout - Steve Mcqueen

nothing surprises me with the current bunch of nasty words removed supposedly serving us, worse than the last bunch of words removed by a mile or any of the bunch of words removed we've endured since 1979 or possibly ever

9 hours ago, villa4europe said:

yep, if you do respond at all you can respond offering to pay for loss of earnings, which based on being 20 minutes over in a free to park car park is approximately £0...they cannot in any way shape or form justify the £100 cost to themselves

legal argument has been muddied by by Parking eye V's beavis. but yes basically they can claim for breach of contract, or trespass, both of which are limited to actual loss suffered., any amount which is excessive is deemed an penalty and is unenforceable, fortunately most people running parking companies are buffoons with very poor grasp of the law and many evolved from the ransom industry that was clamping and havn't evolved much beyond expecting payment upon demand.

12 hours ago, Rob182 said:

Super people on VillaTalk! I need your help.

 

Today, I got home to a parking fine of £100. I'm pissed off, to say the least.

 

Apparently, you're not able to park at the Merry Hill Ultimate Outdoors car park for more than 2 hours. This is new to me, as I have been parking at Merry Hill, including the car park at the Ultimate Outdoors part for free for years.

 

Can I appeal this, on some grounds?

 

The letter is from Parking Eye Limited, who privately own the land. I stayed there for 2 hours 20 minutes. 20 minutes over the allowed time.

 

The letter says that the signage is clearly displayed at the entrance and throughout the car park. I'm planning to go back tomorrow and see how clear the signage is. Personally, I hadn't noticed any signs, but maybe I just didn't look?

 

The letter also has photos of my car entering and leaving the car park, as well as the usual stuff about the fine being reduced to £60 if I pay in 14 days of  being issued, which is 19/08. Annoyingly,  it says it was issued on 05/08, but it's only landed in my postbox today, 6 days later.

 

Are there some sort of grounds I can base on, that these must be fairly new restrictions, and the signs should boldly inform you of 'new parking restrictions' ? Or am I reaching here?

It's not a parking ticket it's a speculative invoice

I doubt very much parking eye own the land but are merely acting as agents and might not even have the rights to issue charges or take open proceedings.

however parking eye is the worst offender when it comes to using the small claims court to try to get people to pay up

do not appeal, challenge the ticket. They claim you parked for X amount of time, I doubt very much they have any proof, just a anpr photo of your vehicle being driven into and exiting the car park. you will fail in your challenge, parking companies like parking eye only make money from people paying there. ANPR is unreliable especially if set up badly and can result in 2 short visits, maybe without even parking, just to drop off and later pick up passengers as one long visit.

Any contractual charge is quite clearly a deterrent aims to discourage and as such is unenforceable, well until parking eye v beavis muddied the waters where parking eye lied to and mislead the supreme court to get a favourable judgement, however that judgement only applies to car parks were parking companies pay to farm them

Don't take parking eyes work re signage, I know of parking eye managed car parks were entrance signs are not present, and when they are there are strict guidelines as to there placement and makeup, ie colours used fonts etc.

I'm currently at work but check out the http://www.parking-prankster.com/ and http://forums.pepipoo.com/ for excellent advice and help learning how to deal with there parasites

oh and don't admit to being the driver, decline their request, defending these as the keeper is a better strategy.

England probably have enough already, Pakistan would need to set a record for a successful run chase in a test at Edgbaston, However i expect England to bat for 30 - 45 mins tomorrow and to try to score 30 plus runs. Pakistan have quite a long tail so if we get 5 or 6 before tea it will be an interesting last session. 

Good fightback this afternoon from England, from a pretty ominous position to first get Pakistan out for 400, then wipe of the deficit without loss was a good bit of work. They need to bat tomorrow out, which if they do would put them on around 400 plus. game is finely ballanced hopefully were in for a couple of good days play.

admittedly stolen.

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