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Politics / Re: Liz Truss resigns
« on: December 31, 2022, 12:43:12 PM »
Apparently one of the replies by Rishi Sunak in P.M.Q's in answer to a question by Keir Starmer was as follows:-

"The same old Labour ideas, more debt, more inflation, more strikes and more migration". so.......take a look at some figures.

It is alleged:-

                                                 2009/10 {Labour}                           2020/22 {Tories}
National debt                               £890 billion                                    £2.4 trillion
Inflation                                       3.4%                                             11.1%
Days lost through strikes              456,000 {all of 2009}                     561,000 {in just two months}
Net migration                              242,000 {all of 2009}                     504,000  {up to June 22}

 



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Chesterfield Discussion / Re: Recycling
« on: December 31, 2022, 12:10:01 PM »
Our usual bin day is Tuesdays.
Now, because of Xmas, according to the schedule the bins will be emptied the next day after a holiday but because they had 2 days holiday {Boxing day and Tuesday} a lot of people are assuming that our bins will be emptied today {Weds} so we have a good % putting their bins out today, today is one of those will they won't they day


You've heard the expression "Read the small print" well on the calendar we were given about this years bin collections it says,above December, collections will be one day later after a holiday, so after 2 days of holiday it should be two days later {makes sense to me}
then at the bottom of the calendar it says No collections between Xmas and New year, my fault I know but then again this is the council were dealing with.
Our last maroon bin collection was the 13th December and now it won't be emptied till the 10th of January, that's a whole month!! so I had to empty most of it into bags yesterday and took them to the refuse site.

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Chesterfield Discussion / Re: Recycling
« on: December 28, 2022, 10:32:43 AM »
Our usual bin day is Tuesdays.
Now, because of Xmas, according to the schedule the bins will be emptied the next day after a holiday but because they had 2 days holiday {Boxing day and Tuesday} a lot of people are assuming that our bins will be emptied today {Weds} so we have a good % putting their bins out today, today is one of those will they won't they days.

I'm just wondering what corner cutting exercise they are going to dream up in the new year, lets face it no one works harder!!!!

Happy new year by the way.........

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Old Chesterfield / Re: Fishers Taxi's
« on: December 22, 2022, 09:50:58 AM »
R.I.P.
 Geoff pheasant.......

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Rants / Re: NHS wasting money!
« on: December 18, 2022, 11:15:06 AM »
It's plainly obvious this government have been trying to introduce the American style of health care for years, in other words your treatment depends on how fat your wallet is.
On the occasions I watch programmes like Judge Judy and cases appear for injured parties claiming hospital bills, I am amazed at the costs involved, a few hours in A&E for some minor accident and the costs can be thousands of dollars and if they don't have medical insurance they literally have to sell their grannies to pay it,
The N.H.S. works perfectly well if funded, run and staffed properly, but it has been slowly starved of staff and resources so it's now imploding.
I've looked a little into private health care and wasn't surprised to find it isn't cheap. they don't give specifics but somewhere in the region of a £120 per person per month is not uncommon, plus when joining a lot won't entertain existing medical conditions so for me and the wife it's a none starter. If I ever win big on the lottery I will probably have a rethink.

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Chesterfield Discussion / Re: Recycling
« on: December 18, 2022, 10:40:20 AM »
The latest update to bin emptying......

After watching the dustbin men! {sorry refuse removal operatives} just throw batteries into the my main bin I thought sod it then and I started doing the same. Also my maroon bin contains a smaller upper bin for newspapers magazines and used paper that is usually emptied into a spare bin attached to the rear of the lorry prior to the big bin being emptied. I watched them empty my bin the other day the "operative" got the smaller paper bin and just tipped the contents into MY bin then emptied it, so much for recycling!

It really is a case of do as I say not as I do. 

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Sport / Re: Football
« on: December 16, 2022, 12:50:05 PM »
World cup final Sunday Huzzah! no doubt it will be watched by millions {minus 1}

Watching on the news after a match and your team has just lost, grown men crying like babies.. GROW UP for gods sake it's just a game.

When your granny has just died and your house has burnt to the ground and your wife has run off with the milkman THEN you've a good reason to blub  but come on it's 22 extremely overpaid Prima Donna's kicking a pigs bladder about for 90 minutes, pull yourselves together, if what it takes is football to make you cry then your not in touch with what's happening in the real world.

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General Discussion / Re: Christmas is coming...and no one's getting fat
« on: December 16, 2022, 12:24:37 PM »
The street where I live the sun never gets on it so it's still like an ice rink, went up to the shop yesterday and nearly went my full length twice

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General Discussion / Re: Smart Meter
« on: December 16, 2022, 12:22:23 PM »
Long range forecast says snow Christmas day............Bah humbug!

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Politics / Re: Liz Truss resigns
« on: December 16, 2022, 12:20:27 PM »
I watched Question time on the box last night and Jacob Rees Mogg {Minister for flintlock pistols and Witch burning} was on the panel.

Someone mentioned that basically we were better off when we were in the E.U. and RM replied along the lines of the E.U is corrupt and mentioned suitcases full of Euros being handed round in the E.U. parliament and would we like to go back to being governed by such a corrupt set of officials......eh! has he forgotten Westminster's brown envelopes and P.P.E. contracts?

The answer is no, if anybody is going to be corrupt and rip off the British public only be a British government are in the position to do it, and what a splendid job they are doing.

Having said all that........
 Touching on nurses pay, the basic pay is {I am given to understand and will gladly stand corrected if wrong} for a new nurse is round about the £27,000 p/y mark increasing to about £38,000 p/y after 5 years, I'm excluding London, because everybody gets a different pay scale who work in London. Speaking from my own personal experience when working I could only dream of earning £27 grand a year. Admittedly I wasn't in the medical profession but I worked full time, and damned hard, and my wife worked part time and our combined wages at years end {before tax} would have trouble reaching the £20,000 mark so I can't help but think, especially if these married nurses have partners that work too, when I hear of nursing staff having to use food banks because they can't afford food etc I do suck air through my teeth a little.
Don't get me wrong I'm on their side 110% but if my pension was anywhere near £27,000 per year I'd be living in a villa in the Canaries.

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Rants / Re: NHS wasting money!
« on: December 12, 2022, 12:19:29 PM »
Rarely do I allow anger and frustration to dictate what I post on here, but the {one time} simple task of booking a doctors appointment has now become unrecognisable..... nay virtually impossible.

The wife and myself, now were getting on, admittedly need the doctors services more frequently than we did, that does not mean we're ringing them every ten minutes. Over the decades we have only ever contacted them when absolutely necessary and even now in our dotage we think twice before we ring, now with good reason.
We have both been ill over the past 4 weeks and have had occasion to "ring" the surgery about 4 times. Waiting times to be connected by phone to the surgery I think the fastest time of those four calls was half an hour, this morning the wife was hanging on for just under an hour and when she finally got connected the girl on the other end couldn't have been less helpful if she tried, so much so the wife told her to just forget it and hung up the phone.

We all KNOW the difficulties the N.H.S. face, but for all the difficulties it doesn't help the public who rely on the N.H.S. Saying sorry all the time to patients on the line who are in pain and distress does not cut it.
 It's down to the Conservatives spending a decade under funding the N.H.S. to the point it's unrecognisable. Saying they are investing in more doctors and nurses is no good for the here and now, someone training today to be a doctor won't be "up and running" for at least 7 years, likewise nurses, it's not like shelf stacking that can be taught basically within days.   

I actually saw something this morning on t.v. about a hospital who brought in an agency doctor and he was paid FIVE AND A HALF GRAND for one shift!   

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General Discussion / Re: Christmas is coming...and no one's getting fat
« on: December 11, 2022, 11:54:42 AM »
First snowfall this morning we had almost an inch of snow, just been to daughters in north Wingfield and they've only had a dusting.

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Chesterfield Discussion / Re: Chesterfield.. booming town or doss hole!
« on: December 03, 2022, 03:25:52 PM »
Forgot about this........ I went to town a couple of weeks ago and when I got off the bus I found my watch had stopped. The last time I had a battery fitted in a watch was about 2 years ago and paid a fiver so I dropped it off in the market hall and they said ready in half an hour.
I went to pick it up and was charged just under a TENNER!!

I usually buy strips of batteries from the pound shop and use those but I'd had the last lot that long I binned them, so it's back to the pound shop for me.

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General Discussion / Re: Christmas is coming...and no one's getting fat
« on: December 01, 2022, 01:15:48 PM »
It looks like what turkeys are available at Xmas will be very expensive as bird flu, or whatever it's called, means birds are being culled.


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General Discussion / Re: Smart Meter
« on: December 01, 2022, 01:12:42 PM »
To be honest I'm not letting it worry me, I'm sat here with the heating on and thinking I'll worry about it when I have to.

Obviously I'm in a better position than most, although I don't abuse the electric and gas in our house I'm certainly not going to sit in the dark in the cold.

I've said it before don't struggle, keep yourself warm, I can't imagine the utility companies disconnecting millions of their customers and leaving them without heat and light. It's not like re possessing a washer because you've not kept up with the payments once used it's gone.   

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