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They are excellent. If i was only clay shooting I would get some more. If you are out in the field and out often then if you are anything like me they are a liability. Very easy to loose.

Thank goodness for that. He is far more lucid than the opposition even in his parlous state but I could not see him surviving another term. I wish him well.

You have no proposals to deal with the shortage of staff. What will that do to tackle the shortage of people in the profession? You don't have to have a degree to work in the sector now. We can't rely on charity and good will in the civil service anymore than we can in the private sector. If they are out there why are they not coming forward? Really 🤣 So you base your judgement on a survey of ...one? My boss Clive Dutton died before retirement as he worked so hard he had no time to deal with his illness. After that Bob Kerslake (now dead) an unbelievable work load and a brain the size of a planet. There are slackers in all sectors and all industries but senior civil servants in my experience work above and beyond it becomes a way of life not a job. I know some in my office that stayed in the hotel next to the office as they had no time to travel home.

? so what would you do?

From the tippling philosopher, interviews at the Republican party Conference. A brilliant interview with Farage by Emily Maitland starts at 8.45. Follows on with some Maga MTG makes you realise our politics is not as bad as you think.

They do. So whats your point?

The GTA’s mission is to promote and protect the UK gun trade and it carries out this remit at all levels, from representation at Government to day-to-day queries with Firearms Licensing Officers and local authorities.

Thanks. He picked it up on a coastal walk 😒 about a week ago. Unfortunately its the second time last time was pushing through for pheasant a couple of years back. I suspect its a spaniel thing.

I just bought a case of 12g clear pigeon at £99 (i feel ripped off at that price). 🤑 The last lot of 20g subs I bought were £386 a thou. They are all pretty expensive now. Very nice session with the 20g @yickdaz

I used my phone to get it.

🤣 when did you last apply for a job?

Excellent work out. Nice to be able to get close. I had a few myself over standing crop on Friday. It was a 400m walk in to the flat patch and carve a hide in the railway embankment. Picked 10 and dropped nearer 50. I have had to leave my dog as he again has had to have grass seeds extracted from his ears.

Good work. I have made a hide in the middle of a crop with just the smallest flat patches. Using the tractor lines to get in. Drop the birds for the foxes.

Will they not need a phone for job applications? Internet for job searches? How about banking to collect a giro (or whatever it is).

Maybe your survey of errrr 1 is not so representative. Do you think?

The Tories have tried to buy votes throwing money at pensions. They have tried to buy votes throwing money at tax reduction. They have totaly mismanaged the economy with the Truss budget that we are still paying for with higher govt interest rates. We have never had such a large tax burden as now. We have never had a situation where every service was close to or had collapsed. Something has to change. I don't know if Starmer will achieve that but carrying on doing the tory thing was clearly not going to work. There is nothing in Starmers plan that has money being thrown anywhere. Many of us would like to see him being more ambitious with the cash. It would take a lot of work to differentiate left of centre with right of centre govt.

How do you make the job more attractive? That would be funding then. No one wants the job because of the stress, the hours, the training, and the lack of reward. ? Ask @Lloyd90 No food, no heating no shelter. Have you seen that project trying to provide beds for kids? That's poverty.

If i remember right the summer of riots (maybe 2011 i cant remember) it started somewhere and then spread to other areas. Followed by lots of enquiry stuff and then some payments were awarded as appeasement for youth facilities and flower beds. For me two things drive this, youth dissatisfaction and youth aspiration for more. When we were kids we had nowt and would not know what a riot was, let alone have one. We had no aspiration for any other life because we were not aware of anything different. Everyone was in the same boat. Now there is a very visible divide between those that have and those that don't.

This ^^^^^ although I wonder if the children going into care is simply an excuse or trigger. We had a summer of riots some years ago and none of them seemed to have any logic or reasoning behind them. If you have a group of disaffected bored youth a riot makes an exciting and different way to spend your evening. ?

The language used by Farage does nothing but inflame racial conflict. If you are in a position of influence it is incumbent on you to think before opening mouth. It's very easy to be against anything what we want is ideas for a solution to issues. The bloke is simply negative. What does he propose?

I was last in leeds in 2005. I worked for years in Birmingham. I put together the Ahmadiyya Muslim Assoc Mosque in Bordersley, East End Foods for Tony Deep in Aston and Wing Yip Supermarket in Nechells. If you know Birmingham you will know that the most dangerous places were certainly not Asian but Irish in Digbeth.

Missed this bit 😁. Yep been there. Sent home from the Uni in 1982 and later an old kayaking mate of mine ran Adventure x from there. Its was a good night out.

Are you part of a group doing this? I see there are a number of charities. Penrith and district and Westmorland.

🤣 it would be true. Negative grouping by race is a slur. It the general assumption and therefore negative association by race or origin that is the issue. Why is one Muslim a scrote and another a model citizen? You would not say Muslims are scrotes or suggest that rioters are typically Muslim or from the sub continent. I guess because it was a riot in part of Leeds (fact). It was not an Asian riot or a Muslim riot. There may well have been Asians involved or Muslims involved but they were not rioting because that's what Asians and Muslims do. Anyways enough for me.