davewsocial.bsky.social
Canterbury, Kent. UK Labour, world politics, rock & soul music, history, MUFC and football. Former Facility Mgt consultant, once of Morecambe, Hull and Muswell Hill.
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Put another way: businesses are selling pizzas to people who can’t afford them.
Is that any better than betting companies taking bets from problem gamblers?
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This is why mayoralties and combined authorities in rural areas are problematic.
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Is he breathing?
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Nothing from Buzzcocks? Or the first Clash single 1977/White Riot, both shorter than 2 minutes.
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I’ve never seen a tube with that much graffiti. Makes you wonder who put it there (especially given the ubiquity of CCTV!)
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One thing your orange idiot has wrong is that other countries don’t “celebrate winning” the war. Rather we acknowledge the sacrifice made by those who fought and, if we celebrate anything at all, it’s the *end* of the conflict.
We don’t need a military parade to do it, either.
#noKings
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So predictable. They never had a clue what they wanted to do or how to do it.
Meantime, the people of Kent will suffer.
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At this rate, they’ll be costing more in by-elections than they’ll ever save from their fatuous “doge” activity.
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Worse, they never materialised.
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Rather, they should be relieved at the Govt taking the business off their hands, before they find themselves fined into oblivion.
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The obvious solution. Shareholders have filled their boots with our money, failed to invest and delivered terrible service … and now they want to be compensated?
In any sane world their business would be bankrupt.
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Imagine the right’s reaction if Biden had done this against some gun-nut cult.
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Also they don’t have a coherent economic solution to inequality.
Which may not be unique to them, of course.
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I’m assuming that anyone working “for free” has no more right to access the confidential data than I have.
If they have, then each political Group should be able to appoint their own “experts” to examine the same data.
I’m available. And actually have a little relevant expertise.
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Well done. Some additional questions you might want to put to them:
On what basis is this team working? If they are not contracted then what possible enforceable data controls can be in place? And if they are contracted, how were their services procured? Was the contract tendered?
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Same in Kent. There’s a pattern.
For the “Party” which decried the cancellation of some county elections as undemocratic, this just reveals the hypocrisy of their claims.
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More your area than mine!
But the principle of prepackaged sales of bankrupt companies ought to be outlawed.
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This shot happen all the time in business. Prepack administration and a nominal purchase of the assets - but not liabilities - of the previous company.
Always stinks.
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They have no idea what they want to happen, and no idea how to make it happen.
Chances are they saw the draft committee reports and didn’t like them or panicked at the scale of decisions needed. Have sent officers back to try to find different solutions which fit the mad Reform agenda.
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Yet again, Marina Hyde hits the target.
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Always seemed like the obvious way forward. Govt might also consider creating an opt-out for those who feel they don’t need WFA - the reverse of the problem if people have to apply for it.
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This will be true of every Council they control. Officers will be in charge, so let’s hope they are good at what they do.
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I’d suggest that most Councillors work a lot more than 3 days a week. District Cllrs in Kent get paid far less and the good ones work almost full time.
I doubt Reform cllrs are that dedicated. Or even have a clue what the workload would be if they did their job properly.
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Also the forced ringfencing of LA housing budgets plus the urgent need to upgrade legacy housing stock inhibit progress. And the mix of adjacent LA and private homes resulting from RTB makes retrofitted upgrades extremely problematic.
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I used to be opposed but have come round to the idea now - provided that we get strengthened rights not to be unreasonably challenged to produce them.
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There had to be something we were best at.
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Thanks. Should it be? I’d always thought service charges had to be justified, but I assume there are “management fees” which allow profit taking?
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“ It is deeply unfair for renters to be treated as cash cows without basic services being delivered”
Isn’t it also illegal?
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I’d love to see this in Canterbury. If we fully pedestrians the High Street and found some way to cover it (maybe canopies as they do in Spain to create shade?) what a difference it could make to the night time economy.
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Hopefully @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social will remind viewers that this relationship reset with the EU was in the GE 2024 Labour manifesto, so playing by Brexit rules, it's what UK voters want, will of the people, get over it.
labour.org.uk/change/brita...
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Blocked and reported.