The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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If anybody outside the UK is wondering what our new Prime Minister and Chancellor are doing to our economy, we don't understand either.
Seriously it is utter madness, we almost lost most of our pension funds this afternoon. Truss is nowhere to be found and the whole Conservative party is on the point of disintegration. She's bern in the job less than a month, and took two weeks of that off because the Queen died.

We don't do politics here, but this is Trump territory when everyone can agree it's gob smackingly inept.
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
If anybody outside the UK is wondering what our new Prime Minister and Chancellor are doing to our economy, we don't understand either.
Seriously it is utter madness, we almost lost most of our pension funds this afternoon. Truss is nowhere to be found and the whole Conservative party is on the point of disintegration. She's bern in the job less than a month, and took two weeks of that off because the Queen died.

We don't do politics here, but this is Trump territory when everyone can agree it's gob smackingly inept.
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karadekoolaid said:
Neither do I, and I agree. Either these blokes have been smoking magic mushrooms, or they´ve gone off the rails.
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Its a fascinating situation. Bonkers Boris now seems rather benign by comparison.
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
Seriously it is utter madness, we almost lost most of our pension funds this afternoon.
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Sadly I have always assumed that there will be no state pension for my generation. Having only just gotten up this morning and yet to read my family 'chat' I haven't caught up on the news but between state pension and retirement age changes, I've always assumed I'll not get to retire and I'll certainly not get to retire with a state pension. Sounds like my assumptions are correct! :(
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
If anybody outside the UK is wondering what our new Prime Minister and Chancellor are doing to our economy, we don't understand either.
Seriously it is utter madness, we almost lost most of our pension funds this afternoon. Truss is nowhere to be found and the whole Conservative party is on the point of disintegration. She's bern in the job less than a month, and took two weeks of that off because the Queen died.

We don't do politics here, but this is Trump territory when everyone can agree it's gob smackingly inept.
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But think about all the money you will get from those tax cuts. :rolleyes:

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In that instance in 2013, we had 100 mm deep water in the lounge and bedrooms, and 200 mm in the bathrooms and kitchen (which have lower floor levels).
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In 2013 we moved the fridge-freezer into the lounge. That was the old one though. Our new one won't fit through the doorway unless we take the door off. A couple of big lads (for Thais) came over and we manoeuvered it onto a couple of trolleys - just in case.

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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Sadly I have always assumed that there will be no state pension for my generation. Having only just gotten up this morning and yet to read my family 'chat' I haven't caught up on the news but between state pension and retirement age changes, I've always assumed I'll not get to retire and I'll certainly not get to retire with a state pension. Sounds like my assumptions are correct! :(
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Even if you do get State Pension you will not receive the increases in Australia as I do not in Thailand. And I get next to nothing increases on my company pension as that has been taken over (thank God) by the Government Pension Protection Fund.

From 1969 until 1999 I worked for Alfred McAlpine. In early 2000 McAlpine was sold to Carillion.

"Carillion – Bob Wylie

The collapse in January 2018 of the construction giant Carillion, outsourcer of huge Government building contracts, is one of the great financial scandals of modern times. When it folded it had only £29 million in the bank and debts and other liabilities adding up to a staggering £7 billion. When the total losses were counted it was established that the banks were owed £1.3 billion in loans and that there was a hole in the pension fund of £2.6 billion. That left British taxpayers picking up the tab to salvage the pensions owed to Carillion workers.

On one level, this is a familiar story of directors who systematically looted a company with the aim of their own enrichment. But in a wider context the Carillion catastrophe exposes everything that is wrong about the state we are in now – the free-for-all of company laws which govern directors’ dealings, the toothless regulators, the crime and very little punishment of the Big Four auditors, and a government which is a prisoner of a broken model born of a political ideology which it cannot forsake. Through the story of Carillion, Bob Wylie exposes the lawlessness of contemporary capitalism that is facilitated by hapless politicians, and gives a warning for the future that must be heeded. Bandit Capitalism charts, in jaw-dropping detail, the rise and rise of the British Oligarchy."
 
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Member in Sangka - We won't hear from him for a few days. He just got evacuated from his house in a back hoe bucket. His whole mu ban (village) is under a metre of water. Happened so fast his car went under and there was 400 mm of water in the house as he was getting in the bucket. Had to leave his lap top behind.

Sangka is about 50 km east of us.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Sadly I have always assumed that there will be no state pension for my generation. Having only just gotten up this morning and yet to read my family 'chat' I haven't caught up on the news but between state pension and retirement age changes, I've always assumed I'll not get to retire and I'll certainly not get to retire with a state pension. Sounds like my assumptions are correct! :(
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I think the state pension is secure, even though the starting age goes up. The Tories rely on old people voting for them, thats why pensioners money is protected.
 
The Velvet Curtain said:
The Tories rely on old people voting for them, thats why pensioners money is protected.
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Except for pensioners that live in countries where pension increases are not permitted. But that's OK because at present we cannot legally vote anyway. What happened to the Tory promise that overseas Brits would be allowed to vote in the future?
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Yeah, why kill the thing that could be going to save your life? Lol.

And whilst I say that in jest, the stay safe message isn't being said in jest.

Stay safe
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It's maybe the Buddhist teachings but my wife would go out of her way to prevent any "animal" (other than mosquitos and ants) from being killed and I've become of similar mind* (not Buddhist though).

*except flies that encroach on my beer!

Although she eats fish, chicken, pork and seafood. Go figure.
 
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