Loz

Neither have come out looking particularly good, have they? He had an outside chance of saving his name with a dodgy excuse right up until the daughter thing came out. I'm trying to decide if she has spectacularly over-reacted and severely injured her career or is a fantastic publicity seeker who has taken an opportunity to expand her career in new directions. Time will tell on that one, but even the Guardian couldn't really summon up the will to back her, which says a lot. Best one-liner went to the wag who dubbed her 'Gal Qaeda'.

Bookies are shortening their odds on a Tory mayoral victory. Labour have rejected a well-known candidate in favour of a relative unknown. He's got a lot of work to do.

It's strange how HSBC is such a crap bank, yet First Direct (a subsidiary of HSBC) are really, really good.

You are right, miga. It is utterly irrelevant. We do not need it in order to dismiss Parkdrive's stupid and inappropriate rant. We can do that entirely on the basis that it was a stupid and inappropriate rant.

Only asking because Parkdrive avoided the question. It would go a way to explaining the rather bizarre attack on LD.

Yeah, but are you Turkish?

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think that's a bit unfair Parkdrive. All that > LadyDeliah and others have tried to do is give > insight into the many impacts of ISILs advance. LD was replying to a direct request I made for further information. Parkdrive attacking her for taking the time to find and provide that information is pretty unfair, to say the least. Debate what she has provided, fine. But attacking her for posting it is rather out of order.

robbin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Are you sure you don't mean "....aholic"? ; ) No, but if you want to get repeatedly drunk with Tarot, be my guest.

Tarot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jay lush and Loz the two weed trolls of the forum, > are you ever working? > You are blancophobic . No, but close. I'm wancaphobic.

LadyDeliah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is that enough, or do you need more Loz? Most of that seems to be about the Turkey/PKK conflict, which I knew. I was more interested in your comment about Turkey providing safe passage for ISIS. Sorry - I should have been clearer!

Jeremy is correct - you will need at least a 25%-30% deposit and be able to show the rental is at least 125% of the mortgage payments.

This is the second thread you've started on the subject. From what you've written, they ain't paying for your sky dish to be moved. Count to ten, breathe deeply and let it lie.

Talk to a good broker. There's no real reason a FTB can't get a BTL, but they would be able to guide you. If you want, PM me and I can send to the details of the guy I used.

I doubt suing them would work anyway. They haven't damaged anything and, as far as I know, you have no legal right to a line of sight to the sky satellite. Of course, a nice neighbour would have offered to reimburse you, but...

ratty Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Amazing country where it is almost impossible not to live on rum? Ha! I remember ordering a run and coke in Cube - the barman carefully measured out the coca-cola and then left me to top it up with the bottle of rum left on the counter.

We went about 10 years ago - fascinating place. At the very least, you should go to Havana and Trinidad (the town, not the island!). Best if you speak some Spanish too, English is not widely spoken. Sometimes it is cheaper/easier to buy a package tour to Varadero (the touristy beach bit) and use it as a base. Traveling around is pretty easy with the Viazul bus company. The tourist side of the island works in Convertible Pesos (basically US Dollars), so get those. If you escape the tourist side (hard to do) you may want to buy a handful of standard Cuban Pesos, but a few of those will go a long way. Outside of Varadero, try and stay in Casas Particulares - basically, rooms in people's houses. It can be variable in quality but usually interesting, comfortable and cheap and your money will be going straight to people, rather than hotel chains. They generally do food as well for a little extra - so if you want to try Cuban home cooking, then this is a good way. There are amazing networks of CPs - your host will usually ask your next destination and they will have a contact in that town. If you find a good network, stick with it. If you don't have a booking or want to ditch your network, there will be people at the bus station with pictures of their CPs - you can check the place out before committing. If you have booked a CP in the next town, do beware that the people at the bus station holding your name on a bit of paper may not be that contact. People buy the bus manifestos and select names from it. Try and use a nickname or other name when you book your Casas Particulares. All in all, do go before the Americans are allowed back. It really is an amazing place, but it is going to change a lot in the next five years.

These are stupidly funny... jokes 'by' Jeremy Corbyn

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I agree Loz. I think the shift in public consciousness is important as well. As well as > accepting our share of refugees, we need to make sure they are not subjected to poor treatment by > the public (or otherwise) when they so arrive here. Slightly more contentiously, the other part of Cooper's plan I liked was that the refugees should be taken directly from refugee centers based in or near Syria itself. Part of the issue must be to stop people taking the perilous voyage, not encourage them.

LadyDeliah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Turkey has been providing safe passage to ISIL across it's border with Syria for months, so ISIL > can assist Turkey in massacring the Kurds on Turkey's behalf. I've not heard that before, LD - do you have a source for that??

Tarot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As shocking as it may be there has been more children killed by being thrown overboard near > Greece, some children may have even been snatched by some of these very fit men just to give them > provenance. Really? You care to quote a (reputable) news source for this? Or are you just making crap up?

I think Yvette Cooper's plan is probably about the best. That, plus Cameron's dithering, also seems to have had a useful side effect of starting a grassroots movement to enable the refugees to be spread through the country, rather than just heading straight for London. Her numbers (10000 per month) are about right, though I'd expect that would need to be for about 2 years. This German website http://www.refugees-welcome.net/ is a very interesting idea as well.

ratty Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Error Loz, they were found fit for work. I think this is the point here. You seem to be > deliberately missing it. Can't think why. Because I really, really dislike poor uses of statistics? You seem to be implying something, ratty, but don't have the cojones to type it? A little bit of journalism could have put together a properly researched story. And yet it wasn't. I'm not saying that there isn't a problem here, just that saying "x number people have died" without proper context and a proper statistical approach is utterly meaningless. Newspapers (of all political colours) write this stuff because gullible people unquestioningly lap it up. It's usually a DM and Sun specialty, but the Guardian does it far too often as well, despite it employing some pretty good journos.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Snobby tossers! We've been called a snob by Louisa? By Louisa??!!! http://randomlyedible.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/glitch-in-the-matrix.jpg

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oh and oh yeah, they love a pizza in SW France, fekkin cheese/bread based snacks everywhere You should try the Arepas in Colombia. (Yes, that was a shameless way to insert my recent destination. :) )

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And on the 4000 miga. Those ARE real figures recorded by the DWP. They know those figures > because peoples claims stop when they die. Every single one of those people had appealed and were > awaiting a decision or tribunal. Nothing to do with sensational journalism. It's everything to do with sensational journalism, else they would have provided better figures. How many of them died from their disease/injury? How many died from other causes? How many would be expected to die in that time, given no other influence? The Guardian/Indy just didn't bother to find out. Hundreds of people this year have died within two weeks of reading the Guardian. Do you think this is strange? Perhaps the ink they use is toxic in some way? Perhaps their opinion writers are toxic? Or perhaps that is, statistically, an expected figure. If only there were a scientific way to establish this...