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What about
H-ear-ts?
You've two in one there.

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As long as Richard Burgon,Dawn Butler,Barry Gardiner,Jess Phillips and Emily Thornberry aren't in the Shadow cabinet,that'll be a decent start in my book.In an ideal world Chakrabarti would get the heave-ho as well,but that's wishful thinking. Why would you put Jess Phillips in that list / category?

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708 Deaths in 24 hours Does anybody actually believe these figures? Why, - do you think it should be more or less? The only sort of context that we have for this is that in normal times on average around 1,500 people die in the UK each day. (About 520,000 / year, and it's expected that without Coro...

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Bordeauxclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 04, 2020 11:00 am
Good news at least.

Good news at last!

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Well surprise, surprise. After all this time it's Keir Starmer. Who'd a thought it!
Why did it take 3 months for such a foregone conclusion to be reached?
Meanwhile we've effectively had no official opposition,

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As soon as cinemas and theatres reopen I expect them to be busier than for sometime, (and I don't mean during the lockdown I mean the past few years).

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I have an adblue diesel. I think road tax is £20. I know that when I bought it they told me that if it had been 2 days newer the tax would have been over £200. It's just had its first MOT, so there must have been some kind of cut -off / re-banding from April 2017. I pay by DD so it just rolls on, an...

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The Belgian league only has 1 game left though, they're just doing away with the end of season playoffs, so not that big a deal. Indeed yes, in fact it would have been quite bizarre to effectively require a "pre-season" for all clubs in order to play one match per team. Makes you wonder though whet...

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They've got to finish the season - Bournemouth, Villa and Norwich would sue the everloving crap out of the Premier League otherwise. Why would those 3 choose to sue the PL?. If the season were to be incomplete then they are the only 3 teams who are guaranteed to benefit. No one really knows what wo...

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It is indeed a huge issue. Much bigger than most people realise. Just take Leeds or West Brom as an example. Promotion for either team is commonly regarded as worth at least £100 million. If they both sued the league ( and would probably win ) that would bankrupt the league. Why do you think they w...

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Option 1 says end the season with no relegation, meaning the season stands with the league as it is, not scrapped. If the season ends now how do you progress into next season ? I think that everyone except you knows what Option 1 means. No one has ever proposed that the season would end and the lea...

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Option 1 isn't really an option at all. There are 4 teams that have played 28 games, the rest 29. The season cannot finish with that scenario. That doesn't make any sense. If the season ends now with all games null and void then it doesn't matter if a team has played 26, 27, 28, 29 or 30 games - or...

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Agreed. This season has to be finished for the integrity of the next possible season. How does not completing this season jeopardise the integrity of next? Whatever is decided and whenever it starts all teams in every division will start next season with zero points and - theoretically at least - h...

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Could we also have a poll which asks us which outcome we think will happen?
It's a totally different question and certainly I would give 2 different answers.
Neither of them would be the 2nd option though!!

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I get where you are coming from Tim but the rules are changing so rapidly you need the news to know what’s legal and what's not. Yes, but you don't need to watch the news on the TV round the clock to keep up to date. We knocked TV news programmes on the head a few days ago, and simply check the rad...

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Stayingup wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:11 pm
Its either a joke or you are badly misinformed.

Not sure what you're getting at there.
She was born and brought up in LA, and I think her mother still lives there.
Certainly she will have family members and many friends there.

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That would be true if they still had a full schedule, but there will be a lot of people cancelling their MOT's that are due from April onwards. I can only report my own experience, and suddenly finding myself needing to re-book an MOT on Wednesday. It wasn't easy. Maybe availability varies in diffe...

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GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:49 am
Test stations have mainly stayed open.

Not many are closing.

Most likely true, but they can only fit so many in per day, so if like me you were forced to reschedule then it is a problem.

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If your MOT is due in the next couple of days, I'm not sure why you've left it so late anyway, because they can be renewed up to a month before they expire and the extra time is then added on. That isn't the governments concern/issue if you're leaving it until the last minute, they're giving everyo...

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It appears to me that there are a lot of people who will get little or nothing out of today's measures. I'm not an accountant and don't really understand a great deal about this, but if you had a contract from April to the end of June for say £10,000 and it's been cancelled, why couldn't they simply...

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Damo wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:31 am
What happens when your car tax expires?

Well it says that from the 30th there'll be a 6 month of extension of MOT, so presumably as you still have a valid MOT you'll be able to renew as normal.
Still doesn't help those whose MOT deadline is on 29th though.

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Yes.
Great news.
Mine's due on the 29th (Honestly)
I'm struggling to get it sorted.

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In the annual supplement in today's Sunday Times, the best places to live, Burnley is one of 3 least woke places. We are least likely to own an electric car, and are the least charitable people in the UK, based on online charity giving sites. I always find Burnley people to be very generous in thei...

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Surprisingly neither Ice cold nor Dr Zhivago are on the list. (Maybe they're not considered to be "culturally British" ??)
Anyway I've done my bit to keep you engaged for 20 minutes. I look forward to more quizzes as the days pass by.

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yTib wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 22, 2020 7:18 pm
if it is lean then either dr zhivago or brief encounter must be 2 or 3.

brief encounter is the better film imo.

Correct BE No 2
Lawrence of Arabia No. 3

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yTib wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 22, 2020 7:13 pm
the lady killers?
trainspotting?

13 & 10

No. 2 is really obvious IMO, though perhaps not a film that will appeal to many on here
Nos 2 and 3 have the same director

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yTib wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 22, 2020 6:54 pm
i seem to remember the third man came top.

Correct.
The others mentioned so far (that are actually British) are on the list but not in the top 3.
Great Expectations No 5
Kind hearts No 6

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If you liked that try the original of The 39 Steps - it is in the public domain so should be easy to find Whilst there's not much to do. let's have quiz: In 1999, the British Film Institute surveyed 1,000 people from the world of British film and television to produce the BFI 100 list of the greate...

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Just to throw something else in for the benefit of those who don't know, (which appears to be a quite few on here). If you're self-employed and have had a contract abroad, then most likely they will have taken tax out of your pay at source. (Tax on the GROSS amount by the way, and at a higher rate t...

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It's simply amazing isn't it how this "incident" just happened to take place in front of TR's very eyes.
What a coincidence eh?
Well done Tommy.

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FactualFrank wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 21, 2020 2:14 pm
Is teaching online via tools such as Skype, possible?

Yes, but try persuading people to pay for it in the present climate. Quite a number of our friends are setting up things like this at present and advertising the service, but getting very little response.

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Many here talking about the self employed the same as they talk about the "immigrant". They all do this, they all do that... etc Most of it negative, not grounded with and statistics, all anecdotal and most of it ********. Have we got the Daily Mail to thank for this too? Some very disappointing po...

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Let's remember too that a lot of self-employed women made sound financial plans based on an expectancy of getting a state pension at 60. So if you are coming up 62, like my wife, you may well have decided (with some reluctance) to continue working in order to maintain your lifestyle or simply pay th...

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I'm not proposing not having debate. I am proposing stopping the name calling and points scoring attempts, nothing more. And it happens all the time, as you well know. I think you seem to have a very dim view of teenagers to think that they will start looting and rioting. I have an extremely high o...

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Let's do our little bit by stopping the arguing and sniping on here - as stated earlier this may be for many the only socialising they do for a while, let it be a place of mutual support and even comfort - surely at this time that isn't too much to ask is it? Absolutely no need to stop sensible deb...

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You slept through the last 10 years ? We have nowhere near the capacity to deal with the crimes happening today - and that is in terms of the police, justice system and prisons. We empty the prisons a bit on the back of this there is still nowhere near enough police or capacity in the judicial syst...

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As in most arguments, there's need for balance here. It would probably make some sense to release some categories of prisoner on parole / license IMO. e.g. those in prison for fraud and other financial irregularities, failure to pay debts, etc. etc., and probably those who are due to be released in ...

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Social isolation can’t work if you still have teaching staff coming into daily contact with hundreds of children and their parents. Why would they need to come in face to face contact with parents?, and at present we're not having total social isolation with a significant number of people still goi...

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Give me a normal day in my classroom, any day of the week. This is so desperately sad, albeit necessary. Why are you so convinced that it's necessary? I can see arguments both for and against. On balance I'm against especially considering the devastating effects on our most vulnerable children. We ...

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My daughter is due to sit GCSEs this Spring and is dyslexic so needs all the support available. Just to clarify - all exams are cancelled. There's no perfect solution but the idea/ proposal that predicted grades based on mocks should be used is a terrible one. Many students especially boys really "...

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Thank goodness I have a V decent Teacher / Lecturer Pension. All my self- employed work is cancelled until at least September and the wife the same, and she has no pension. (One of those who assumed she would get State Pension at 60). We'll get by but because of our regular outgoings we'll have to u...

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kritichris wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:30 pm
He was ineffective at Valencia and has become so in his current role,it's time he moved on and perhaps should progress to Salford FC or similar.

He didn't really have any significant role at Valencia so it's difficult to assess what if any impact he had there.

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Lancashire is Lancashire, that’s where the fylde sits. No problem with you saying that, but just to add (according to the BBC stats): There are 6 in "Lancashire", 2 on the Fylde and 0 In Blackburn and Darwen, (so 8 in total) but of course that takes the total population up to over 1.5 million if yo...

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Just discovered this official statistic. Must say it's way lower than I had imagined. I'm going to check the site every day now to see how it grows "There are 6 (confirmed) cases in Lancashire, out of a local population of 1,210,053" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274 Just type in your postcode ...

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Here's the thing .. My son was due to run the London Marathon, and has attracted any number of charitable sponsors, but he can't make the rescheduled date . He's doing a 20 mile race in Lancaster on Sunday, one of the " Lancaster Race series " . He's thinking of finishing that, and then doing the o...

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Can see it all just getting suspended for a month or two even...........no doubt some clubs will try to use it as an excuse just to abandon it (avoid relegation!) but now not the time to play those cards. Cancel the euros but finish our season may/June. But that goes against all predictions and exp...

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We obviously haven't got complete science but what we have doesn't support this theory, unfortunately (WHO reporting from China last week). Not being argumentative, but i'm not sure what you mean. Could you please link a source? The way I see it is: They claim that children could be carrying it but...

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On another note: Let's say a guy feels he has the symptoms of Covid 19 and so stays off work and "self isolates" for 7? (or more) days before getting over it and feeling better. He follows the guidance and doesn't go to see a doctor, so he never gets tested for Covid 19 and therefore nobody really ...

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Negligence would have to be proved in order there to be liability....of course you're right...it is a nonsense to suggest the club would be liable... Additionally, should anyone think of taking a club to court it would be virtually impossible to prove that the coronavirus was contracted within the ...

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Predicted death rate is an average 1% (higher in old people, lower in the young). So 536,000 uk deaths. But it's all speculation really and there are other factors to be taken into account. e.g. if the vast majority of deaths are the already vulnerable and elderly, how many of that figure would you...

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