It’s probably because they don’t pay enough.

People with the qualifications/experience don’t want to work in central London for £35k.

Which means you only get people who really want to join GCHQ etc. for different reasons.

Slammed em m8.

Seems reasonable to me.
If your area of the country is desirable for tourists, why not make a small levy to help maintenance?

We try.
So far, we’ve not defederated from hexbear.
When we have a thread that’s 50% comments from another instance, upvoted solely by that instance, it’s shit.

I remember first learning about the russian news pieces about how they’re going to wipe the UK off the map.
Honestly, they’re a bit weird. They’ve been doing them for years, and I’m assuming they’re usually just aimed at a domestic audience.

Like this one from a couple of years ago, where Channel One threatened a nuclear tsunami against the UK.

Maybe it’s because we’re far away enough to paint a picture that we’re all hunting for bullets under the couch, rather than working out where the last hobnob went.

Too many places treat CCAS as plan A, but it does make sense doing it in the background as a plan B.

It does worry me though, that everyone is just going to go “eh, we’ll just capture it in 20 years”.

Originally, council housing was supposed to be available for everyone.
A socially funded, reasonably priced, decent accommodation for anyone.
With the added bonus for the council that they have properties vulnerable people could be housed in at cost.

And there are still legacy tenants from those days happily living in their council places.

R2B was brought in, with the stated idea of giving long-term renters the opportunity to buy at a discount.
A leg up onto owning and running their own house.
Unfortunately with the way it was implemented, it ended up gutting the supply of council houses, until we reach today.
Where only the most vulnerable have a sniff of a chance of being allocated a council house.

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Awesome work, thankyou for taking the time to do this.

I too love a metal USB stick for the keychain, and my old DTSE9 could do with a refresh!

And giving exemptions for ones with less than a certain number of employees.

The amount of people who would be off with long covid if not for work from home is understated, in my opinion.

IIRC, the reason it wasn’t previously taxed, is that it would have opened up writing off gambling losses against tax.
Don’t quote me, obv.
So maybe it would need a lot of other tax law changing at the same time, to not end up encouraging people accidentally the other way.

I can imagine that would have gone down well with Boris’ biggest fan base.

Followed swiftly by everyone else burying their faces in their palms, on both sides of the channel.

And probably everyone on the ground contracting covid during the raid for bonus “yes minister” points.

Jewish people were targeted in the Holocaust. The Nazis didn’t care about anything else.

I mean, they did target other people.

It’s only Virgin Media to my knowledge who does this.
Most of the other providers are happy for you to use anything that works properly for VDSL or FTTP.

Most FTTP providers fit an ONT that puts the connection back into an RJ45 ethernet connector.
Then you connect to the provider using PPPOE. Anything past the ONT, you can do whatever you like.

Don’t worry, we’re quite good at censorship here too 😇

(Actually the policy is that genuinely awful content gets removed, other things get left so that the community can respond/vote up/vote down)

Because there won’t be any more after you state-own it all, right?

Right?

ML summary:

Jas Athwal, the Labour Party MP for Ilford South, is a landlord with properties that tenants say have poor living conditions.
In the selection process for the Ilford South seat, Athwal won a higher percentage of votes from the party’s online “Anonyvoter” system compared to in-person votes, despite his opponent Sam Tarry winning more of the in-person votes.
There are concerns about a lack of transparency and potential for fraud in the Anonyvoter system, which has also been used in other Labour candidate selection processes with similar results favoring more centrist candidates.
Former Labour MPs Sam Tarry and Beth Winter have raised legal concerns about the use of Anonyvoter, and several Labour-affiliated unions have expressed doubts about the system.

That’s the gist to be honest.
RTB gives people the right after a certain amount of time, but lack of funding meant that councils weren’t able to replace the stock.
The discount is up to 70% too. So while each person who can exercise RTB gets an impressive leg up into the housing market, it’s contributed to even longer waiting lists for council housing.

It also creates a bit of an ethical dilemma if you are in council housing.
As if you start doing better financially, and are able to afford regular accommodation, you have an incentive to hold until you can RTB instead. (Though there are apparently now re-assessments at tenancy renewal time)

Really, the answer is way, way, way more council housing. But the money just isn’t available.

You can block or disrupt communications with LEO.
But you’d need the blessing of the country’s government to pump out that much interference continuously.