Two Tier Kier setting out the pain that is coming.......................

[sportsbob]

13 minutes ago, JohnfromUK said:

I understand the Exchequer may be wrong above;

It seems according to one of her former superiors (during her time at HBOS) that she was "a relatively junior 'complaints support manager' who worked 'three levels below me'. He then made a more troublesome claim: that the Chancellor had 'nearly got sacked due to an expenses scandal' before landing herself in a sticky spot with the HR department for taking lots of time off for 'doctors/dentists visits'.  'Turns out she was doing Labour council business,' he wrote. 'When shown the facts, she resigned.' "

The 10 years she claims she worked for the Bank of England was also not correct.  She actually joined the Bank on its graduate trainee scheme, rather than as an 'economist' and spent about five (rather than ten) full years working there, while also taking 12 months out to study for an MA in economics from the LSE, and spending a year on 'secondment' at the British Embassy in Washington. 

I believe you are correct regarding the 'complaints support manager, I have seen a screenshot of the relevant email myself.

[hawkfanz]

On 19/11/2024 at 19:41, oowee said:

I think most of us on here care deeply for the environment within which we live. Unfortunately as humans we struggle to control our consumption given the chance. How many of us can say I wont take that holiday, buy that car, get a bigger house etc if the money is available. We are programmed to want more and more it's in the dna. Ultimately we have to live within one world and must limit consumption accordingly. How we do that I have no idea. None of us vote for less. 

The most obvious way, I guess is we do nothing. We wait for the famine, the war or whatever it may be to moderate our excess. 

me

 

ME ..ive lived in same house for 40 years no holiday since 2006,my car ive had for 12 years,

[amateur]

55 minutes ago, hawkfanz said:

me

 

ME ..ive lived in same house for 40 years no holiday since 2006,my car ive had for 12 years,

Ditto, except 35 years for the house, enjoy modest European holidays and I would have been quite happy driving around in my perfectly sound 14 year old diesel car, had not that tit Khan decided that it was a polluter, Labour having promoted diesels before, so now I'm in an electric.

[JohnfromUK]

1 hour ago, hawkfanz said:

me

 

ME ..ive lived in same house for 40 years no holiday since 2006,my car ive had for 12 years,

37 years in the house, recently changed car - but had previous one for 15 years and hope this one will do the same.  Had my Defender 29 years.  Not 'holidayed' outside UK for 36 years.  Not flown (other than as required for business before I retired) for 35 years.   Installed one of the very first condensing boilers in the UK 38 years ago and ran for 31 years.

One of the best environmental measures you can take is to make things last.