Jules-and-Boo

Mcallum32 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Today, we bought our tree from Tree Amigos. Nice > guys that are running it. They had a great > selection of good quality trees, and the one we > bought was ?15 cheaper than what we paid for a > tree last year. What a shame they won't be coming > back next year. Guess some things are all about the money to some people.

You're voting for a party, not the current leader.

Really interesting how differently everyone thinks. If a working mum needs some help, so what? Who here struggles but also gets food delivered? It's the same thing. Stop being so judgemental.

You need the other leaseholders/ free holders on your side, so maybe start with a meeting and some suggestions of alternative arrangements

They get paid a day rate and if it's quiet they're sent home without pay. They get to keep any tips, so please don't take advantage of them

Carwashes and other services are lowly paid. Tip your attendant, ad you would your waiter or hairdresser.

Do people know why we have trees and wreaths at Christmas? Or do they just buy them? I would suggest largely the latter.

too funny.

The park is pretty muddy already in places. While I don't particularly care for them in terms of the occupation of public space for a business venture, it's a double standard when we buy our bread and veg in M&S, walking past our local grocers.

A slap and a kick for being so quick.... Not sure about the violent conatations though, sorry 😄

Christmas doesn't even get a look in at our house until Dec 13th. We have birthday to celebrate first. And get netflix, you can watch whatever you like.

you should steam clean them - and preferably in summer on a nice breezy day so they will dry

darn, I bought a coffee and apple juice in The Love Cafe (lovely place). Was planning on buying dinner later. Do those things count?

yeh...next month

Too early. Clearly just looking ta the materialistic side of the Christmas hype

oh dear. I hope you're ok? Don't feel too bad - these guys are well practised in tricking people and know exactly what to say to make you believe them. Have you reported this to the police? I hope you do - there are other reports of this in the area

you can still use the park, although I would hope it's not there again next year. I will buy my tree from the local sellers I always get them from. And I hope many people in our community remember to support our community as well

What is wrong with someone trying to make money out of Christmas - taht's exactly what it's all about If you feel very strongly about buying locally, then please also remember to support local shops instead of teh big supermarkets. Same principle. If fact, just remember - the shopper owns the market.

What school is this for? I have found that students do not want to work with a counsellor in school as they are worried about confidentiality. There is a lot of support available for free and it's important to know this is confidential and non judgemental. https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/conditions/depression/ Camhs are also great - you need a doctor's referral. If your teen is showing signs of depression/ anxiety/ mental health concerns, please see your doctor. There is a tendency for teens to cope by self harming, so please also watch out for signs - as they hide the mental and physical signs well.

if Corbyn was a wise man, he'd have stepped down to make the party more acceptable to the voters.

I don't think labour are perfect either (selling off the gold etc), but the lesser of two evils and less long term damage

ditto - Uber are a great idea, they just need to get their act together. All it takes is one person to be abused and there would be uproar. TfL absolutely have a responsibility to reduce/ remove this risk

Surely this is very much a time to pick up practices that work well elsewhere

Blah Blah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Those earning over 80k are just 10%, so not really > a vote loser that one. The other two affect far > more people and definitely are vote losers. It > comes back to this culture we have of seeing tax > as bad and expecting lower variations of it AND > better public services. Something will have to > give sooner or later, to pay for adult social care > and other looming crisis. And while Corbyn may not > be the solution, a debate absolutely needs to be > had and won around tax and spend that focuses on > better overall outcomes and not the 'what's in it > for me' mantra that dominates free market > political debate. > > Just back on the points above around > nationalisation. There is no reason to think > whatsoever that nationalisation today will > resemble anything that existed in the 70s and > before. There is a big difference between state > owned companies trading in a global free market > and state owned monopoly that shuts out any > competition. One of the myths of the left around > the EU for example has been that members states > can not renationalise a company, when actually it > is the monopolisation of a sector that is against > EU rules. So whilst I take on board the points > about workers ownership, incentivisation and > unions made above, it also has to be pointed out > that the opposite of that, wage suppression, zero > hours contracts, and tax avoidance on profits sent > offshore, also have consequences that are bad for > the economy. We need to pull back from that too. This makes total sense. People want more in their pocket and more investment in Infrastrure, police NHS services etc but don't see the correlation. The real issue it the wasting of money - how spend is prioritised, how it is monitored and controlled (Garden Bridge for example, Crossrail). Nationalisation would mean that funding can be reinvested rather than syphoned off to private investors and would mean that the priorities of the companies are no longer to make money for shareholders but to run a service.

what could possibly go wrong? compare with how things are right now