Vince Green

Surely not???????

No in fact, its a bit arguable whether or not its "un necessary cruelty" to kill them once they are in the trap since by then they no longer present a threat to livestock. There are a few organisations, the RSPCA no doubt being one, that would like to have a go at prosecuting somebody for that one. Ever hungry as they are for publicity. Its becoming dodgy ground.

The other thing is they fit it "free" but may well be charging you a rental fee built into your standing charges

Rebecca Who? Another been nowhere done nothing career leftie

The NHS safety courses are way OTT, my stepdaughter was told to go home and throw out all the extension leads and plug adapters because they are so unbelievably dangerous and are the cause of umpteen fire deaths every year. It took us a while to convince her that if they really were dangerous shops wouldn't be allowed to sell them and besides fuses are there to prevent overloading

If they had taken Britain when they had the chance the Americans wouldn't have entered the war IMO. There was a lot of support for Germany in the US, still is today,

Plus the Germans took no prisoners and massacred all the civilians in the villages they captured as they moved forward so the Russians became a suicide army. Nothing to lose, just make sure you take as many as you can with you before you die.

The problem has always been the cost of setting these schemes up and running them is greater than the income that is generated by them. Also, finding suitable projects is fraught with issues, most prisoners are not incarcerated for that long so won't build up real skills We are not allowed to subject them to breaking rocks anymore.

Not round here you don't but I have heard of it before, its just people making up rules for the sake of it.

I don't?

No its all inter connected, twenty odd years ago when I was a magistrate we were told not to send people to prison, so we gave community sentences, then we got told there was an overload and people were being sent to swimming baths for two hours a week to serve out their 'community sentences' . Even then they didn't swim but just sat in the changing rooms smoking and playing cards and the leisure centre wanted them out. Finding things for prisoners to do is expensive and time consuming. Much easier to do FA because the officials who run the programmes regard the prisoners as a lost cause (with justification) so why bother? You cant push water up hill

The problem of finding things for people given community service sentence to do is a very real one in some areas.

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Now you are talking sense

Yes, thank you, I think I will

I got £100, didn't expect it. But I don't live with anyone else who qualifies so why didn't I get £200? Looking at that table I should have done

Having been in business for many years and during that time leased a number of vehicles from a number of different companies for a number of different business ventures I have to say few of them have ended with the feel good factor intact. People tend to lease vehicle because they don't want to (or are not able to) capitalise up front. This means (I would say inevitably) you sign a contract that leaves you with your trousers down at the end of the term. leasing companies (to me) are the low life of the car business.

When you insured it you and the company entered into a contract and the value was agreed and shown on the policy. That is the amount you should get back, its the agreed contract value. Any waffle about the "the book value is only ………." is waffle but they try it on and they are very good at it. they say things like "that's what you would have got if you had sold it" yes but I had no intention of selling it, and anyway, that's not what I would have got on a PX so your argument is meaningless When my mother's car was written off recently, after a lot of stalling they paid the full agreed value.

I don't dislike it, it just doesn't motivate me to want to adorn my house with tacky lights and wear a reindeer jumper that lights up. Neither am I in need of anything like socks or shower gel. Two good things about it, it does generally bring people together and keep in touch but I don't really like all the hype. The Winter solstice was always a time for reflection, huddling close to the fires on cold winter nights. I feel much as they must have done years ago but then they didn't have to watch The Grinch or Elf every year or read about what some TOWIE star is doing for Christmas.

+1! An I found a really good bio degradable wad its called fibre

Christmas? what's that? I gave up Christmas years ago

Oh my God, just when you thought it couldn't get more ridiculous

which would mean that half the tourists they get every year at the moment simply wouldn't bother. Me being one of them.

There is more to it than that, as a shadow cabinet minister she is entitled to the use of a chauffeur driven ministerial car more or less on demand when ever she wants it as well. I have no doubt she took good advantage of that too at every opportunity. Not just for official engagements either. From memory Corbyn's expenses for the same period was around £175,000

the Corbyn factor had a huge effect, people just didn't like him.