Loz

That particular cat has been let loose for a while: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/easyjet-tricks

You didn't really expect a rational argument from the Guardian, did you?

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's not Brexit related but you make a good point malumbu. If we remain in the EU butchers will > probably go out of business due to endless rules and regs which will prevent them from cutting a > piece of sirloin a certain way! Is this a parody of typical Brexit fact-free rant?

Abe_froeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If the council are too gutless to turn this down just because they're obliged to approve another > development that may or may not impact some people involved with the council, then the electorate > should dismiss those councillors they feel are responsible at the first opportunity. The bravery (or otherwise) of the council is irrelevant. If they set a precedent and then go against it they will find themselves being overruled, either by the Secretary of State or the courts.

LadyNorwood Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This was in the Telegraph last week - > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/12/the-gap-between-official-migrant-figures-and-the-truth-is-as-wid/ Bit of a deceitful article, that one. Would you really count someone who was here for less than a year as an immigrant? I went to Austria to work for two winters, went through the whole rigmarole of the Austrian equivalent of registering for NI, etc, and after my time came back to the UK. I'd hardly class myself of ever 'migrating to Austria'.

If you are renting directly from the landlord, ask him/her nicely if you can affix a couple of picture hooks. If you are renting from an agency, forget it. The computer will say no.

*Net* migration, AD. The number of people coming minus the number of people going. Interestingly, more than half of immigrants are non-EU. The raw figures from the Beeb... The root cause of net migration rising was a lower number of Brits leaving the country, rather than a jump in the number of people coming. The total number of immigrants actually fell a little.

Good lord - an election fight out between Boris and Corbyn? The political equivalent of a nil-all draw.

... unless you have a monthly pass, then you feel a bit like you missed out.

DovertheRoad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I like fixed rates without fees in the current > environment...and got a 2 year at 1.39% recently. A two-year fix without fees at 1.39%?? Who was that with? The best I could find was 1.99%.

I'd get a spreadsheet and do a bit of number crunching, Azalea. I'd calculate the total cost over two years for: - 2 years fixed at 1.69% + fees - 2 years tracker @ your tracker rate + fees - 1 years tracker @ your tracker rate + 1 year tracker at the rate +0.25% + fees and then do the same with a couple of fee-free mortgages. With the +0.25%, you have a better idea of the risk as well. Fees can make a real difference. That should tell you what the difference and possible risk over the two years really is.

wonderwoman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Oh, that bad. Hope not too much was taken. > I think someone posted a few months ago being burgled and filming or > photographing the perp. If I remember correctly, that was from ring.com.

taper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The designations are different and the proposed builds are different. The attempt to link them is > bogus. The thin end of the wedge aa argument asinine. Modest sized and low impact in Football > grounds have already been built on MOL in London Reallly? Which ones? MOL policy closely follows the Green Belt policy, which say that some development is allowed, such as "provision of appropriate facilities for outdoor sport, outdoor recreation and for cemeteries, as long as it preserves the openness of the Green Belt and does not conflict with the purposes of including land within it". I really don't think you can call a closed off private stadium "preserving the openness of the Green Belt". An open-access football playing area like Hackney Marshes would be a different matter.

thombe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > i have since bought a "Tile" and stuck it on the > bike. Just in case. Its not a GPS tracker, but > seems a clever and cheap idea. Only one way to > find out I suppose. > > http://www.thetileapp.com It's Bluetooth. You'd have to be within about 30m of the bike for it to work.

taper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > James has a point, though - what use are these > > designations if they can be ignored at the > first > > hurdle? > > No, he doesn't. The issues are entirely > different. There is no proposal to build housing > on Greendale. But there is a proposal to build. Which is what MOL designation is supposed to prevent. The fact that you support one but not the other is, legally, irrelevant.

It's the half a million retired white van men in the south of Spain we might get back that concerns me...

James has a point, though - what use are these designations if they can be ignored at the first hurdle?

TheArtfulDogger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loz > > If Europe slams the door after Britexit they will also stop exporting to Britain and as we take more > of their goods then they take from us they will end up with a bloody nose too. The point is that a good part of our exports are services, which are generally not part of trade deals. And reducing export of services can be done by stopping movement of people. And we will lose free movement of people - after all, that's actually one of the things Brexiters want most.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ..Scare mongering . If we leave.. This will happen.. That will happen.. Households will be > ?4,000 + worse off every year. Travel to Europe will be more difficult. Health care will not be > available.. Trade with the rest of Europe will cease. The problem, Foxy, is that no one know what will happen if we leave. The Brexiters have been very quiet as to what will actually happen if they win. Lots of vague promises, but no real plan. At the moment, the only thing the Brixit team will say is that we will 'save' ?350m every week - and even that figure is utterly wrong. It's actually ?163m a week or ?8.5bn a year. Which, given total government spending was ?772bn in 2015, mean we are about 1% better off - and that will be gobbled up almost immediately in bureaucracy. And for all that, the best we can do, tradewise, is try and get back the the sort of agreements we have right now. Who is going to negotiate those trade deals and how many of them need to be negotiated? Who will work with Europe to keep all the trade and social and travel benefits of Europe available? Europe are going to want to make Brexit as hard as possible to prevent other countries from trying it. We will almost certainly be made an example of. If Europe slams the door on services (and that is quite possible) then we will be hit hard. And it's almost certain all these trade deals will take at best a couple of years and at worst a decade. What will happen to our export market (and therefore our GDP) in the meantime? No one in the Brexit team can answer that question. Or any question on post-Brexit Britain, for that matter. And THAT is the scary thing. They just don't know. No one does.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ...and we get to save ?350M every week that we > currently pay to Brussels to dictate to us what we > can and cannot do. Yeah - we could be just like Norway or Switzerland. Oh - hang on. They still have to pay and still have to follow the EU rules, but get no say whatsoever. How is that better again?

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Haven't seen Cameron deny that ?350M goes to > Brussels... Thought he might of picked up on that > one.. > > Also ?110m a year of EU agricultural subsidies go > to fund Spanish bullfighting. > That's the sort of the thing we are paying > for... Never take Boris's figures unchecked, Foxy. He has no valid claim for that figure. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36270209

Huggers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > no internet for a few hours. virgin. anyone else? Is that two problems? :))

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Two questions > > The EU is about defense and security importantly > (apparently)...whose the EU minister for defence? I don't think there is one. Isn't defence one of the things not devolved to the EU, which is why there is no euro-army? > Who is East Dulwich's MEP? I don't know who my MP is. And I really have no clue as to the names of my three ward councillors. So it's no real surprise when I say that I don't know the name of my MEP, either. > I'm am in, just, as a pure economic pragmatist (which is why I am no > longer left wing) and for those selfish reasons alone > > But it all needs massive reform and re-engagement > and I don't think that'll happen. Long term I'm > very pessimistic. I agree that the EU needs huge reform. But so does the House of Lords. And arguably the House of Commons as well.

A little reminder about the cost of CPZs. http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/may/23/cost-residental-parking-permits-rises-50-per-cent-five-years

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As I pointed out elsewhere Loz- the EU does have a > finger in the EBU pie > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Broadcasting_Union Oh, for goodness sake - this is the type of badly researched and misunderstood crap that permeates this entire referendum. The sentence "Most EU states are part of this organisation and therefore EBU has been subject to supranational legislation and regulation." means is that, as most EBU members are EU members, the EBU has to comply with EU legislation and regulation, the same as any body or organisation with a major foothold in the EU. It does not mean the two organisations are connected in any way. Are you really voting for Brexit based on this sort of tenuous crap?