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    • Thanks for coming back and letting us know. Obviously we totally disagree with their decision.  Their remortgaging could only have gone wrong if they had ended up with a CCJ.  And how do you get a CCJ?  If you lose in court and then defy the court and don't pay.  Even if you lose in court, you don't get a CCJ as long as you pay within the 30 days ordered by the court.  Even had they lost in court the judge would have disallowed the interest and the £70 Unicorn Food Tax that PE made up.  There was no advantage whatsoever for giving in and paying now. But thanks to you for letting us know - a hell of a lot of users don't.
    • Hi everyone.   Before I say anything, TFL finally responded to the email I sent last week:   Thank you for your email, we acknowledge the signed documents you have returned in preparation for your hearing.   We note that this matter is causing you some stress and anxiety, however this is not a reason for TfL to discontinue proceedings. It is not unusual for passengers that have been summonsed to court to experience these symptoms, and we do have some empathy with your concerns.   However, as previously stated, TfL do not accept out of court settlements, and you will have the opportunity at your hearing, to provide your mitigation to the court prior to a decision being reached by them on how they intend to deal with this matter (usually a fine).   I am sorry that this decision is not more favourable.   Yours sincerely   James Vallis     At least he sounds more sympathetic in this email…   Only one week to go until the court hearing and I am so so nervous. I’ve prepared some questions and answers in preparation for what to say to the magistrate. It will help calm me down if I know roughly what to expect. If you could give feedback on it that would be great. If you have anything to add please do let me know.   As far as I know the court hearing will happen in these stages: Introduction and statement of facts Pleading guilty for the journeys I made with my mother’s card Penalty sentencing Appeal (if charged with a criminal record)   Am I guilty? Yes.   Why did I not pay the fare legally? Last year there was a lot going on in my life and I was struggling financially so to relieve some of this I used my mother’s Oyster card. I know it’s not an excuse and it’s still wrong.   Why do I not accept a criminal record? I really don’t want it to affect my chances of finding a job in the future. I will be the one earning money in my family so I am doing my best and studying hard to be able to get a good job. A criminal record would mean that regardless of how hard I’m working I won’t get the job I want after I graduate. This fills me with so much regret, sadness and disappointment in myself. I just want to be a good daughter for my mother because she’s already had to deal with many hardships in her life and I don’t want to make it any harder for her.
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    • We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

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      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

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An interesting take by David Allen Green, lawyer, on how politicians are trying to avoid scrutiny. A lot of this isn't new but it shows that the truth is under attack on a number of fronts.

 

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25th August 2021 There are various means by which those with political power can evade accountability for what they do and do not do. (By...

 

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This is quite a long read but I found it informative to go back to the beginnings of the anti-Europe movement and how Daniel Hannan and Dominic Cummings used it.

 

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The Long Read: Britain’s vote to leave the EU was the grand finale of a 25-year campaign by a lonely sect of true believers. Daniel Hannan wrote the...

 

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..and here's another breach that won't be acted on.

 

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Churchill had Dunkirk where he managed to pull a miracle out of the bag against the overwhelming modernised might of the (then) all conquering German Forces

 

Johnson has Kabul and an ignominious rout by some tribesmen with kalashnicovs and rpgs

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Record low: living standards and investment

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If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

“This is specifically not allowed. Mr. Mansour used to be a Cabinet Minister in Egypt, he has given the Tories a huge amount of money, and immediately gets a knighthood.

That seems straightforwardly corrupt.  Shouldn’t they both be in jail?”

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"Quite honestly, there could be a war going on outside, and you'd barely notice it. Bliss!" one person wrote of the Crete resort

 

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Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Record low: living standards and investment

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

“This is specifically not allowed. Mr. Mansour used to be a Cabinet Minister in Egypt, he has given the Tories a huge amount of money, and immediately gets a knighthood.

That seems straightforwardly corrupt.  Shouldn’t they both be in jail?”

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Trade war breaks out between chicken processing plants and transport firms. Rumours of farmers entering bidding war for prisoners

Australia says we have some prisoners you can have.

 

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The Association of Independent Meat Suppliers will reportedly meet with HM Prison Service this week - Business and Economics

 

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Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Record low: living standards and investment

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

“This is specifically not allowed. Mr. Mansour used to be a Cabinet Minister in Egypt, he has given the Tories a huge amount of money, and immediately gets a knighthood.

That seems straightforwardly corrupt.  Shouldn’t they both be in jail?”

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Nice career move for that getaway driver then.

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The bailiff: A 12th Century solution re-branded as Enforcement Agents for the 21st Century to seize and sell debtors goods as before Oh so Dickensian!

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and all those no insurance speeders - community work driving hgv's

 

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The Tory Legacy

Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Record low: living standards and investment

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

“This is specifically not allowed. Mr. Mansour used to be a Cabinet Minister in Egypt, he has given the Tories a huge amount of money, and immediately gets a knighthood.

That seems straightforwardly corrupt.  Shouldn’t they both be in jail?”

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Patel holds slave  auction

 

How much am I bid for these fine ... indentured sla.. err workers

 

Farmers representative: £6 each a day

Chicken processing plant rep: too rich for my blood

Transport rep: £7 each a day and I'll water them and give each a sausage roll if I can get any

Farmers rep: Thats as much as EU workers cost are you crazy - I'm out

 

Patel: Sold to the transport business - how many do you want?

Payment as Cheques payable to cash or cash transfers to caymen islands please. Bitcoin considered.

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Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Record low: living standards and investment

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

“This is specifically not allowed. Mr. Mansour used to be a Cabinet Minister in Egypt, he has given the Tories a huge amount of money, and immediately gets a knighthood.

That seems straightforwardly corrupt.  Shouldn’t they both be in jail?”

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NHS hospitals are told to describe extra buildings on existing sites, like the cancer unit Javid opened the other day, or renovations to existing buildings 'new hospitals'.

 

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The Home Office's helpline for vulnerable people in Afghanistan, or their relatives, redirected people to a washing machine repair company. The Home Office has refused to apologise.

 

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The British armed forces, just like the NHS, will always deliver professionally and with incredible skill and courage. But they rely on governments to set coherent and competent strategies, including “exit strategies”.

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Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Record low: living standards and investment

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

“This is specifically not allowed. Mr. Mansour used to be a Cabinet Minister in Egypt, he has given the Tories a huge amount of money, and immediately gets a knighthood.

That seems straightforwardly corrupt.  Shouldn’t they both be in jail?”

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So lets see

* Biden took Trumps mess, flushed the few half worthwhile bits down the toilet – then added a good dollop of his own poo to the remaining crap – then legs it claiming goals achieved good job done.

 

 

* Rabb, Despite claiming he was putting plans in place since April to address this issue raised last year, was still caught by surprise 4 months after he was putting plans in place - nobody could have done better he burbles.

Still the depth and breadth and sheer amount of work Rabb must have put into the extensive plans detailed as ‘don’t bother me I’m on holiday’ must be inspiring to all our troops past present and future wherever they may be, and bring utter fear - of being unable to stifle breaking out in laughter at any diplomatic event Britain attends - to the whole worlds diplomats and leaders.

 

 

* Johnson says ‘world power global Britain’ simply cant hold an airport against some tribesmen without the USA to hold his hand - being as hes trashed the UK’s reputation with absolutely everyone else quite rightly won’t trust him as far as they can spit uphill against the wind let alone agree to put their nationals and nations honour on the line at his word undoubtedly just to get Johnson 'the incompetent and unmitigated liar' a headline before he stabs them in the back.

Biden apparently took 7 minutes in the ‘G7’ meeting to tell him ‘shut up and up yours you worthless little-trump’ (or some such). Not sure if Johnson got more than 'urm, bub, urm well urm and a quick tussle and flounce of his own hair out.

 

* Biden swears revenge on the group that bombed the airport apparently to prove that Bidens claim of success in ending Afghanistan as a base for terrorism was horse poop and pile even more shame and dishonour on the heads of the west while Biden sends his troops charging away from the enemy he has enabled and empowered. Biden expects more of the same.

 

* While the Taliban who can stop Afghans from getting to the airport through their road blocks, and can just walk into foreign embassy’s to get details of Afghans who worked with foreigners, apparently ‘cant’ seem to stop one of their ‘ISIS sworn enemies’ getting through with a suicide vest - but all is not lost as the Taliban allegedly can give the yanks intelligence to target a drone strike on some of the Talibans enemies ….

 

That about cover it so far?

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Record low: living standards and investment

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

“This is specifically not allowed. Mr. Mansour used to be a Cabinet Minister in Egypt, he has given the Tories a huge amount of money, and immediately gets a knighthood.

That seems straightforwardly corrupt.  Shouldn’t they both be in jail?”

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Afghanistan will now be a total nightmare for years.  The Teleban are not one United group, but are made up from different factions. And then you have ISIS plus other groups.

 

US, UK and others must know that a war between all of these different terrorist groups is going to start within the next few months. And they have all of the military equipment that was donated by US to the Afghan army to use when they start fighting each other.

 

You can understand why there are large numbers of people heading for the borders to leave the country.

 

 

 

 

 

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The problem might come here as well, if you take Dr North's opinion into account, many conflicting tensions in the region.

 

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Palestinian restaurants prepares 600 meals for Afghan refugees arriving at Manchester airport.

 

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No 10 has sent ministers out today. Johnson and Raab went to a call centre trying to help people stuck in Afghanistan and showed absolutely no empathy on the clip I saw. People are up in arms about it.

 

Meanwhile, some unfortunate refugees arrived at Heathrow and were met by Rosa Klebb, oops, I mean the Home Secretary.

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Rishi Sunak's wife sees two companies go under owing money to HMRC and the government's Future Fund.

 

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The mega-rich wife of Chancellor Rishi Sunak, Akshata Murty, owned stakes in two firms hit by the pandemic including one which borrowed £1.3million...

 

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On 28/08/2021 at 19:22, honeybee13 said:

Meanwhile, some unfortunate refugees arrived at Heathrow and were met by Rosa Klebb, oops, I mean the Home Secretary.

 

Lotte would be offended by your reference

Her hips were never that big, nor was her looks or character ever that bad, her spirit that treacherous or evil, or her blades ever that backstabbing

 

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Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Record low: living standards and investment

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

“This is specifically not allowed. Mr. Mansour used to be a Cabinet Minister in Egypt, he has given the Tories a huge amount of money, and immediately gets a knighthood.

That seems straightforwardly corrupt.  Shouldn’t they both be in jail?”

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Imagine Tim Martin and Boris down the local Wetherspoons looking to sink a few pints to celebrate Brexit.  Only problem is that partly due to Brexit,  they are running out of beer !   Is the Brexit dividend, the heatlh benefit from people drinking less alcohol ? 

 

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Carling and Coors off the menu as lorry driver crisis continues

 

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our local Morrisons seems to be really struggling too - far more than Tesco or aldi

 

Mind you, it could be that the drivers are refusing to go there given security and some staff not wearing masks despite the blurb over the speakers asking customers to.

 

Maskless is spreading around here, and who can blame them - I should imagine many are thinking: if they aren't protecting me, why should I protect them

The Tory Legacy

Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Record low: living standards and investment

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

“This is specifically not allowed. Mr. Mansour used to be a Cabinet Minister in Egypt, he has given the Tories a huge amount of money, and immediately gets a knighthood.

That seems straightforwardly corrupt.  Shouldn’t they both be in jail?”

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This is interesting from Ian Dunt on Raab's appearance in front of the select committee yesterday.

 

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Beneath the waffle lay revealing truths about the government's priorities

 

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Rabb retreated into truisms? more like Rabb retreated into waffle

 

"You know the drill by now: minister is accused of performing poorly in a crisis; minister gets hauled before a select committee to explain their decision-making; minister gives unsatisfactory answers; minister keeps their job "

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The UK government has denied making secret plans to move its Trident nuclear submarines abroad in the event of Scottish independence. Several senior officials were cited by the Financial Times on Wednesday as saying they had been briefed on plans which could see Britain’s nuclear deterrents housed in France or the United States if Nicola Sturgeon’s governing Scottish National Party achieves its goal of Scotland seceding from the UK. 

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Great .. err Englands nuclear deterrent housed in France .. or the USA

Cant see the yanks wanting or allowing a UK nuclear deterrent on America soil - unless its 'American soil' in England - perhaps an American free port in England?

 

So that leaves the France and the EU to host the 'sovereign' UK's nuclear subs does it?'

sovereign' - is that what the UK will be worth by the end of Johnsons tenure?

The Tory Legacy

Record high Taxes, Immigration, Excrement in waterways, energy company/crony profits

Record low: living standards and investment

Crumbling Hospitals, Schools, council services, businesses and roads

 

If only the Govt had thrown a protective ring around care homes with the same gusto they do around their crooked MPs

“This is specifically not allowed. Mr. Mansour used to be a Cabinet Minister in Egypt, he has given the Tories a huge amount of money, and immediately gets a knighthood.

That seems straightforwardly corrupt.  Shouldn’t they both be in jail?”

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Food and drink exports to Europe fell by £2bn in the first half of this year.

 

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First-half sales fall £2bn, says industry body, as barriers are compounded by staff shortages

 

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