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Thanks all, not scrapped yet.

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As in, since I suspect they are wrought iron, or blacksmith iron as I would have called it, is the metal likely to be of interest to any blacksmith types? Before I weigh them in at the scrappy. I am not looking to "make money" rather find the iron a better home than the smelter. The house was...

I do hope they have been correctly sharpened . . .

Regardless of the causes behind the economic forces driving the illegal cross channel migration. It has to be curtailed, or the UK as we know it will cease to exist. I just read a BBC report which graphed the years from 2018 2018 virtually zero. 2019 much the same. 2020 about 9 thou. 2021 about...

Did I see a recent figure that it is estimated that 10% of the adult male Albanian population have now "migrated" to the UK. I fear not many of these 10% come here to engage in **lawful honest occupations, unless as a cover for nefarious illegal activities. **And even if they are lawful, I...

D.W. et. al. (especially Jacob) Your Aunt and Uncle sound not disssimilar to the wife and I. Synopsis, what you earn is not as important as what you do NOT spend. Simples. Which does not mean it is easy. But it is simple. Seriously.

I am not in the least religious, but the Bible does contain some pithy distilled wisdom, "the poor will always be with us" Which, despite our generous welfare/benefits society of the past 60 years, has unfortunately proved to be all too true. No matter how much money you provide. There are those...

But even very small local govt or Councils(and I believe NI used to have 26 different Councils) were wildly inefficient/spent money very foolishly( and mostly to buy votes), and it only got worse as they got bigger.

Perhaps most of us would less begrudge paying taxes, if they were somewhat/a whole lot more carefully allocated and spent!

Jacob, No chips, rather a small farm upbringing where there were no excuses or free lunches, like working in the bottom of a sheaugh, installing drain pipes, while the Rds Service van sat the other side of a hedge, with the blokes sitting in,"because it was too wet to work" and seeing this...

Well iffen we are going to pay nurses better, how about addressing the issues with underperforming nursing and medical staff, plus those lying off on the sick, this at all levels, they are as bad as the Police in covering up neglect and malpractise. This from first hand observations by myself...

P.S. As an entirely non religious person, but "reared" Presbyterian, I bytimes mull some of the wisdom in the King James bible. Like, "the poor will always be with us" How very, very presceint! Marcus

Boils down to "ya caint fix stupid". Nor sack them, not dare to mention the results of their unfixed stupidity. Btw. Some politicians are also stupid, or certainly appear to be as they continually make the "right" soundbite excuses for their equally cognitively challenged constitutants.

Thank you DW.

But they do pay twice, first through their taxes for to educate their children, which they do not uptake of, then they pay privately to educate their children, I am not up to speed with the details of the supposed "tax breaks" the private sector schools recieve, but, with good reason, deeply...

But who pays the taxes? That "they" get a break from, surely such institutions are to be cherished and possibly emulated? I would again wonder why the state sector finds it necessary to replace virtually new school buildings, while the denigrated private sector schools soldier on in ancient...

Jacob, You continue to pedal the politics of envy and hatred of the better off. Re education in particular. Regardless, my pertinent observations started at University, where I watched with bemusement as some spent their terms grant money in a couple of weeks and then went begging, most giving...

Private education actually subsidises the public sector, since the parents of the private school educated child pay twice. And no system is better "subsidised" than the abysmal state sector, who urinate money away constantly building new schools to replace 20-30 year old "failed" schools.

I have read through a substantial number of these posts, so will now expresss some views formed during my 63 years of life. I did not grow up poor, but wore hand me down clothes, slept between sheets sewn from Mortons flour bags, no central heating, ice on the inside of the windows, zero forign...