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  1. 1 minute ago, islandgun said:

    Just a quick google

    Copper in cable is high purity but demand for copper generally is falling due to plastic replacing copper in plumbing applications

    World commodity price for copper this morning was 4.02 dollars US per pound.

    That works out close to your £7 grand a ton.

    But the thing about lead is how easily it can be turned into shot. People do it in their garage 

  2. 38 minutes ago, Yellow Bear said:

    But "steel", actually iron, is considerably less than lead (IIRC up to a tenth the price)

    The cost of the raw materials is miniscule in the overall cost of the end product. The only reason we are being pushed towards steel shot is because the industry that already makes steel ball bearings can produce steel shot in the quantities required by the cartridge industry.

    There is no industrial need for copper shot so unless someone wants to start a factory from scratch ( highly unlikely in the present economic climate) there is no source for the cartridge industry to get copper shot.

    Also although we will stop using lead shot I strongly suspect that most of the countries in Europe will simply ignore the ban. Like they do with most other legislation, and continue using lead shot.

  3. On 25/03/2024 at 07:08, islandgun said:

    Serious question, a few years ago copper was touted as a worthwhile substitute for lead and an alternative to steel, surely in a fibre shot cup it would be ok for clays or the pigeon hide, even in an older sxs

    I have wondered about that. It was going to be the obvious replacement but then suddenly it all went quiet and all you heard about was steel 

  4. On 16/03/2024 at 10:20, amateur said:

    It was, but, unfortunately for Labour, it would have wiped out many ghost votes for them.

    Not only Labour's ghost votes they lost a large number of real live Labour voters too who simply dropped off the electoral register to avoid paying the tax.

    Basically you were paying hundreds of pounds a year for the right to vote. For many the choice was simple. No vote was not that big a deal.

    If they did it again they would have to find a better way of locking people in. There lies the problem

    Oh and by the way my brother in law has a house in Cyprus. His council tax is £220 A YEAR ! His bins get emptied every two days, there is street lighting and the roads are not bad.

    But, and it's a big but, that's all the council does. All the work that is done by Social services over here is done by the church.

    No rent free council houses etc

  5. On 08/03/2024 at 11:37, Agriv8 said:

    Ok so just a question here my phone is also my satnav - google maps - while sat in slow moving traffic I will check if there is an alternative route am I breaking the law ? Would the plod on the bus call my details in ?

    the phone is mounted on a holder to side of screen and is hands free for the very odd time someone calls me !

    just interested Agriv8

    As a former Magistrate I believe that if you 'use' that phone by touching it, whether or not it's in a holder, it is an offence. 

    The law is a blanket ban, it offers no exemptions for where it is or what it is being used for. Hands free means literally that hands free.

    Using it as a sat nav makes no difference its still a mobile phone.

    But you always have the right to argue the point in court if you get stopped.

    But I think they are missing a trick using a lorry.  We live near a big junior school and the mums on the school runs are the world's worst for using their mobile phones while driving.

  6. 5 hours ago, JohnfromUK said:

     

    I entirely agree with the comment from @johnphilip above - where do they get the money to pay the smugglers (and the mobile phone contracts etc.)?

    A lot of it is done by debt. They don't pay the traffickers they owe them for the rest of their lives.  Like pay day loans

  7. People who commit one crime are also much more likely to be committing others. Pulling people over for phone and seat belts is a very good starting point for a bit more investigation.

    These 'fishing trips' often turn up a lot more than just the offence they were originally stopped for. It makes good sense

    But policing is about numbers these days, 39 convictions in one day looks good on the performance tables.

  8. The trouble is that no party can control the pressures that are causing things like inflation, fuel prices, food prices, immigration etc. These are global issues. Other countries in Europe are facing the same pressures and are equally unable to control them.

    Politicians across the world are now much more closely scrutinised by the media. For the most part, they are not coming out of it looking good. Virtually all of them are hopelessly incompetent 

     

  9. 3 hours ago, JohnfromUK said:

    A large problem around here;

    Groceries, meals (pubs and restaurants), fuel .......... basically anything they want ..........

    For reasons I don't really understand , it seems that prosecution is largely ineffective (i.e. can't get convictions), so seldom done.  Being able to elect to have jury trial (rather than magistrate) and having alibis provided by other similar folk is possibly one reason.  An alibi, however doubtful seems to give the jury 'reasonable doubt.  Lying on oath and the worry of 'threats' is another.

    The whole subject was raised at a local public meeting with the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC).  I was unable to attend, but someone I know who did said that the PCC was only interested in telling people how well he thought they ("his force") were doing, and 'couldn't talk about specific issues'.  I assume worried about being accused of picking on minorities.

    Same applies on local authority planning matters, where rules are totally ignored and nothing done.

    Threats can be a reason for that.

    There is no point in trying to prosecute the bulk of shop lifters. They are mostly from the "floating poor' with no permanent address, shared accommodation, cash in hand landlords, sofa surfers etc.

    They don't turn up in court, don't pay their fines and the courts don't have the time or resources to track them down.

    If they are asylum seekers they are virtually immune from prosecution anyway because they will already have been allocated an immigration solicitor and the CPS won't want to waste money pursuing a case this small against a solicitor they know will raise all sorts of expensive delaying tactics.

  10. Professional pest controllers trap foxes on their clients ground and drive them a few miles up the road and release them.

    Reason being

    A) they have no legal way of killing them.

    B) they have no legal way (cost effective way);of disposing of the dead fox.

    Easiest way is just drive and dump

     

  11. 20 hours ago, JohnfromUK said:

    I'm no expert, but I believe the total raised from the Poll Tax (assuming all was paid) was to have been about the same as the previous 'rates' system raised?  It was however to be paid by all adult residents, not just by the 'householder'.

    The poll tax addressed the rising tactic by Labour of registering non existent 'ghost' voters onto the electoral register and then using their registration to generate postal votes.

    It was rife, it still happens today. The voting fraud  in Tower Hamlets in 2014 identified thousands of fake names on the electoral register.

    Labour couldn't afford to lose so many votes so the protests and riots resulted

  12. On 01/03/2024 at 10:01, countryman said:

    A new political party is coming, it’s not going to be English, some may argue we have that all ready

    It's already happened at Local Government level in many parts of the country 

  13. 51 minutes ago, Newbie to this said:

    Try M&S, the do an affordable range of suits that are not this slim fit (so tight you can see it all) range.

     

    Beat me to it

    M&S have dramatically reduced their range of sizes in all their men's wear. They have cut out completely all the larger sizes keeping only to the middle of the size range which presumably sells the quickest.

    At one time, not that long ago, they did all the sizes up to very large but I suppose it makes sense from their point of view.

     

  14. On 26/02/2024 at 17:06, old'un said:

    Yep, bit like Shamima Begum whose legal costs come out of tax payers pockets, its running into the millions and now her legal team want to take it to the Supreme Court after losing her case.

    ^^^^^ This

    the last thing her lawyers want to happen is for her appeal to succeed. That would be the end of the money trail

  15. 11 hours ago, Piebob said:

    It's nothing to do with the words soot face(d), those are simply the words chosen in the article to describe chimney sweeps with faces covered in soot.  It's to do with the term "Hottentot" apparently (I've never heard of it) which is deemed to be offensive.

    The Hottentots was the name given by white settlers to one of the tribes in South Africa who lived along side the Zulus and the Matabele but they referred to themselves as The Kegali. So the word has become considered racist. For many years it was used as the official name for the tribe

    however we call the Inuit people Eskimos so is that racist?

  16. 4 hours ago, JohnfromUK said:

    /\. This.  Nasty piece of work.  I get the impression he has one loyalty ........ to himself.

    Why do we need a mayor? It should be a ceremonial role rather than a dictatorship 

  17. 19 hours ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

    Hello, looks to me like Khan aaand his followers keep using the You do not like Muslims red card🤔

    As a londoner born and bred I don't get a sense that he is following a Muslim agenda but he is definitely pursuing an unacceptable Environmental policy and pushing it very hard. Also he is allowing the unions far too much slack and criticising the police at every opportunity despite being in charge of them.

    In truth he is in hock to the looney left for his support 

     

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