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@Conor O'Gorman have you received any responses in relation to this from either NWP or Cllr Bithell??

As I said earlier - the narrative is being pushed about introducing hate speech laws in Wales. When these are brought in, the protesters will have their collar's felt by the stazi as they will define it as hate speech because it is racist, A Judge has just refused to define what racist is (Laurence Fox) which I find very disturbing - because if it isn't defined it can be whatever they want it to be whenever they want it to - hence why I think the Judge didn't do it

You spelt that wrong

Well, did you see the Lotus Eaters when they had The Voice of Wales on the other day. The video that some young school girls made welcoming migrants and telling them of the rights - all done under their own volition!!! Yeah - Right!! And then Drakeford blatantly lying about it with his stooge "staging" the question (enabling him) They have all allowed Bond Villain from Davos take them up their happy places or something.... There is also a move to introduce a Hate Speech Law based on the amount of propaganda that appears on my Social Media......It is funny - because people are asking how can we report The Welsh Government for their hate crimes!!

Count yourself lucky - it looks like my Mother's will be going to fund Ghana - we are starting to think that she has married her Ghanian Toyboy as she has been over there for about 90 days now...... But yep - Wills are available online - I got my Dad's, left everything to my mum or if he outlived her - to me....My Mother was hedging her bets though as she knew with my Dad being 13 years older the odds where in her favor. Even if everything isn't going to Ghana then it will apparently be Christies in Manchester or SSAFA as she worked for them as a case worker - until she fell out with them.

True They are sensitizing people - lowering the bar - like they are doing with the temperatures in summer where anything above 18 degrees is in red (danger) - so they can go "Panic, Panic we have to save the world by emptying your pockets" Up here it was very windy - but had worse after a curry!!

Flying Falcon Feb (I think) 1987 - ‘twas -27 3 days to do a move that should have taken hours Millions in new Ptarmigan lorries written off because the entrance to the site had a steep slope and they just went and smashed into the backs of the ones in front and they were all towing trailers An RCT driver lost 8 toes - I was lucky and only got frost nip on my ears - I call them my bacon bones as they are white when they get cold wearing socks as mittens over your gloves!! Thank God the Schloss at one place let us use a cellar to sleep in!!!

I remember one morning (in later 2000's) - getting up early and it was -12 when I got in my car - had to drive to Birchwood (and get there early due to limited station parking) - get the Trans-Penine train - the one I was on had auto doors that opened at every station - so by the time I got to Leeds I was like a block of ice - I turned up at the interview and it only lasted 10 minutes as it wasn't the job that had been communicated to me by the agency - and then the travel back!!! Even earlier (late 80's), a mate and I travelled back from Germany on leave between Christmas and New Year - we arrived at Dover to find no trains running - so was able to sling a coach driver a few bob to get get to London - Euston was freezing and no train for 8 hours!! I was still shivering when we got to Liverpool and laid in the batch for a few hours regularly topping it up with hot water

I don't - just have to go to the bedroom as the missus has to have a window open - alongside her frosty persona she has had transplanted into her by her mother - saves on the fuel to get to Scotland Every cloud.....

Makes you wonder if Mrs Gates knew something as well

Did you not notice Alix on Sunday buddy

+1 - you could do “buy me a coffee”

I distracted him at Sporting Targets

No matter how cheap they are - they are never a good deal

Well, TC kept his promise and we met up last Sunday for the F1 Challenge at Sporting Targets i couldn’t hit toffee for half of it but I did wake up with my back telling me it didn’t like the hotel bed which it grumbled about all day!! ☹️ me and 2 buddies travelled down from North Wales/Wirral (one on the morning due to work) and met up with TC and his mate,Graham and we had a good laugh with a lot of cursing!! we came third out of the shooters (17 squads went through of various sizes) - the weather was cold but dry - and not a bitter cold thank <insert your deity here> 😀 Roll on 2025 for the next one - glutton for punishment!!

Yep - take software meant for a desktop PC and try to stretch it into a nationalized distributed system!!! Same for the SPINE element as well (SeeBeyond if I recall) I was involved in ECND - MOD Watchtower - which was a success - I designed and developed the databases and integrations. It was mentioned in Parliament on how to deliver a successful government IT project - on time and on/under budget - that was a good bunch of contractors that delivered it under the brolly of BT

Another software debacle - NHS NPfIT - Something I spent quite a bit of time on as a contractor....It was great as it was only 35 miles from home.... Not so great for the public though.. And before anyone has a go - I was net zero in cost as I was funded from money they would have lost - however, that they spent that money in the first place is another issue Weirdly, a lot of people that ended up on that was from the Post Office - CSC took over a lot of their IT functions - and a lot of them ended up - by default working on NPfIT for the North West and West Midlands cluster - Fujitsu done the Southern Cluster until 2008 until they lost that contract and CSC took it over, and CSC had previously taken over the North East and East Midlands cluster in 2007...

He will have a manager who will be taking a cut of that as well I suppose - and he will be able to claim back expenses for his travelling/accommodation/coaching I would imagine

I would love to meet them as well - so fingers crossed (but hope that it isn’t Birmingham 😂)

@Scully just let them keep shortening the chains then - that seems to be your view - as long as it doesn’t affect you - but you will turn that round to me being on about traders that are avoiding paying tax! I do see this as the starting steps towards a future where it may end up at the examples I gave however my immediate concern is the affect it will have on ordinary people who are selling their old stuff (that may not be that old) through various channels and the government extending their reach even farther into our lives and our wallets/bank accounts - shortening everyone’s chain a little bit more But I feel we are just playing tennis - you have your rose tinted glasses - and I have my tin foil! PS I was not fixating on you - just responding to your responses as you do on a forum and a thread that I started - indeed it feels like you have insinuated a few things about me that I have not taken any offence to. Also it is you that keeps on coming back🤷

@ScullyYou keep fixating on this operating as a business - that is not the issue. It is people who may have a mass clear out - or someone who has given up a hobby and is selling their stuff - that could be in the order of thousands - Sells it on eBay to then gets the letter - and then has to prove that they are not trading......They are creating a little bit of revenue from stuff that you can bet they have paid a hell of a lot more for... You said it yourself - trying to deal with HMRC is very exhausting - and in 2025 i bet there will be multiple points that will be replaced with ChatBots and AI and will be even harder to deal with and speak with a person... I think we had best leave it here as we are getting nowhere @JohnfromUK I haven't heard anything through standard media channels (Radio/TV) and it is already in place....

Unfortunately, you are taking me wrong @Scully - I won't be losing any sleep over it - and the fact is that not many people will - and most will have absolutely no idea on it coming into place Until the letter drops though the door...

@Scully you still miss the point - I have no issue with anyone that is a trader being taxed as a trader - fair dues. But you are not seeing the point - if HMRC determine you to be a trader - for example if they did in Serrac's Sisters case above - how do you prove you are not a trader??? Say you have no receipts to show so therefore you are not a trader - that just won't cut the mustard I am afraid to say. You have obviously had much better experiences with HMRC than I, and others have had. Indeed - while typing my response @udderlyoffroad has responded with his experience - and watch Mr Bates as I have said above (and there is a thread on this currently running) - another government agency behaving the same way. Your Nothing to Hide scenario may still end up costing you thousands to deal with if you end up on the wrong side of a judgement - and that will more than likely have been carried out by an AI model

I use Costco tin foil - much better quality and quantity But you seem to be only concerned with what you need to prove you are a trader - in which case - tax is fair game - but you keep missing the point about being able to prove you are not a trader!!

IR35 is why I ditched Contracting - but I am considering going back to it now.... I work in and design systems that do this kind of stuff - processing, chewing up data, spitting out emails/letters/reports etc... and I am fully aware of how this would be implemented - I would say that the one thing missing to make it "easy" is digital id - to sell on these platforms, you register your Digital ID - this gives them a key to crunch the data together from the various sources... As someone has said to me - HMRC don't have the people to deal with it - but they don't need it - the ownness is on you, and you will more than likely have to deal with an AI powered portal to deal with your denial - Bill doesn't have the receipt for the bike he bought (perhaps for eco reasons he sold his car cash and used it to buy the bike ) and it (the receipt) has gone adrift over the 3 years he has owned it - tough - the AI says no.... You are now registered as a sole trader - and anything you sell is now subject to tax.... Sue bought a vase at a car boot - turns out it is worth £6000 - bang - or it was left as part of her aunts estate - bang..... Challenge Accepted 🤣