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51 minutes ago, OswaldBastable said:
In England museum entrance is free for everyone (special exhibitions sometimes charge), the advertised ticket price is just a suggested donation. Until last week I was entering 3-4 times a week, V&A is amazing, National gallery and British Museum also worthwhile.
https://www.skyscanner.net/news/inspiration/the-10-best-free-attractions-the-uk
Privately owned museums in the UK are not free.
Neither are many government owned ones; the Tower of London for example.
When my wife's family visited us, they were amazed that I had to pay at all to visit the Tower, let alone pay the same as them. "It's your history, your culture; why do you have to pay?"
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3 minutes ago, Captain Monday said:
You don't get it do you? Any Thai person who goes to live in UK as a spouse, a worker, a student will get the same discount. A Local discount not based on nationality or racism. Same in US.
As already mentioned, it's not a Thai rate and a foreigner rate; it's a resident rate and a tourist rate. A non Thai, including Westerners, living legally in Thailand will, on production of the appropriate ID, pay the same rate as a Thai.
Several years ago I visited an amusement park with my wife and some of her family. As a non resident I paid a higher entrance fee than them.
However, my ticket then entitled me to use every attraction; theirs didn't. My step son had to pay extra for the go karts, which meant he ended up paying more than me!
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3 hours ago, vogie said:
I think you are under-rating what is being said here RR, we are talking about an innocent man being sent to prison, this should bring down the SNP never mind Sturgeon and her inner sanctum. You seem to be blowing a bit hot and cold about Sturgeon at the moment, this is a hot potato RR.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Salmond case; whatever part Sturgeon played in it: it does not stop the democratic right of the Scottish people seeking independence if they so wish.
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5 hours ago, RuamRudy said:
all those billions you paid for your useless covid phone app and your corrupt PPE contracts, we won't be paying a brass farthing towards those.
5 hours ago, JonnyF said:You won't be in a position to choose which parts you want and which parts you don't.
The UK response to the pandemic is the responsibility of each constituent nation's health department. As the failings RuamRudy has mentioned, and others, apply in England only, why should Scotland have to pay towards them?
Though doubtless, until and unless independence, the Scots, along with the Northern Irish and Welsh, will find their taxes will be doing so!
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6 hours ago, JonnyF said:It would have to break a lot of its membership rules to allow scotland to join
No.
Scotland, like all applicants, would have to meet those requirements.
As far as I can see, Scotland already meets them. Maybe you can say which ones they don't?
6 hours ago, JonnyF said:It would also cause issues with Spain and the Catalan separation issues.
Despite some commentators saying this, the Spanish government has consistently denied that it will veto an application by an independent Scotland.
Spain: We will not block independent Scotland’s EU membership
Busted: 'But Spain would veto Scottish membership of the EU!'
OK, they are from June and August 2019; but can you find anything since from the Spanish government to contradict them?
6 hours ago, JonnyF said:Why would the EU do that for another net recipient?
It would have to do neither!
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6 hours ago, JonnyF said:6 hours ago, Sujo said:Quite fortunate you were allowed to leave without asking them if you can.
Nothing fortunate about it. It was built into the terms. It wasnt luck. It was law.
Like all Acts of Parliament, the Acts of Union can be repealed.
Just as the Acts of Union 1800 were amended in the UK to keep Northern Ireland in the Union, but repealed in the Republic.
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8 hours ago, JonnyF said:If the SNP make it clear in their manifesto that a vote for them means support for Indyref2 and over 50% of voters vote for the SNP then I would say that is a mandate for a second referendum.
As the SNP are not the only Scottish party which supports independence, I would amend that to "If those parties who support Scottish independence make it clear in their manifestoes that a vote for them means support for Indyref2 and over 50% of voters vote for those parties then I would say that is a mandate for a second referendum."
BTW, only 43.6% of voters voted Tory in December 2019. Does your insistence on a 50% plus vote share in Scotland mean that you believe they have no mandate for Brexit?
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Your attempts to deny blaming this on your imagined spite and vindictiveness of the EU over Brexit in what you posted, whilst at the same time trying to justify it, whilst amusing, are also rather sad and repetitive.
1 hour ago, JonnyF said:The fact the USA is still in the approval process has nothing to do with it. They are way outperforming the EU (who isn't!) on vaccine rollout so they can take their time.
Really?
Why AstraZeneca and J&J's vaccines, in use elsewhere, are still on hold in America
QuoteThe world has seven vaccines with completed clinical trials, yet the U.S. has approved only two, Gandhi and others lament.
1 hour ago, JonnyF said:How has Brexit failed?
There is plenty of evidence of Brexit's failure in the media as well as posts in the relevant threads here. If you want to discuss it further, I suggest we do so in one of those threads.
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10 minutes ago, KhaoYai said:
You can lead a horse to water........................................................
....but you can't make it drink.
You can lead KhaoYai to knowledge, but you can't make him think.
Other than that; I refer you to the responses made to you previously.
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14 hours ago, GrandPapillon said:
looks like most EU countries have now banned AZ, despite the EU Medical Agency saying everything is fine
the EU procurement and distribution of Covid vaccine has been a total failure,
No country has banned the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine; though 18 temporarily suspended it's use. Some, like Thailand, have since reinstated it. (Source)
Of those 18, 13 are EU members; which is just under half, not most.
The UK has, inarguably, handled the vaccine roll out better than the EU. But remember it was the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine which we authorised first.
That the manufacturers of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines have, for whatever reasons, reneged on their deals with the EU and reduced the number of doses available to them is not the EU's fault.
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15 hours ago, KhaoYai said:
EU Obsession - in general not at all, I didn't want the UK to leave the EU. However, in the last few months I've started to see a side of the EU that I don't like and the vaccine arguments have exacerbated my feelings towards them.
In this matter, I remain convinced that at least for member states, political motivation is playing a part. That view is re-inforced when considered alongside the previous arguments over supply. When I say political motivation - I mean seizing hold of a genuine issue and milking it for all its worth, its just sour grapes over Brexit. I don't think their claims are false, they are just ungrounded and in the midst of a Pandemic, quite frankly, baffling.
I've made no false claims - you saying they are false doesn't make it so, its just your interpretaion. When I offer my reasoning you just come back with your own 'counter claims'. There are things I've written that you have clearly not fully understood and when I've pointed that out, you still don't
But you are entitled to your own opinion. I'm not going to say your claims are false - we clearly don't agree and that's fine. Whatever the outcome of this 'blood clot' debacle, I hope that governments of countries that have halted the virus get their citizens vaccinated as soon as possible, with whatever vaccine they see fit. I fear the damage is done now and its tool late for AZ in those countries - could be good news for Africa though.
Yet again you are (deliberately?) confusing the acts of individual, sovereign nations, many of whom are EU members, with that of the EU itself.
15 hours ago, KhaoYai said:I'm not going to say your claims are false
Well of course not; because, unlike you on this point, I have presented facts to support what you call my claims; all you have presented is your unsubstantiated opinion.
As I said before, that you are still saying
15 hours ago, KhaoYai said:its just sour grapes over Brexit.
is a pity, as much else of what you have posted here makes sense.
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2 hours ago, youreavinalaff said:
Not looking in the right places. Since I uploaded my CV, no medical training, to an agency site I have received many offers. All above minimum wage.
We are looking at vacancies, including care home vacancies, on the DWP job search site, agencies and individual employers.
I accept that there are vacancies for home care workers which pay more than minimum wage; but the nature of the job means one has to be mobile and we do not own a car as previously I had a company one which I had to return when I lost the job. My wife can't drive, anyway.
Glad that you have received many offers via agencies. Despite uploading our CVs to national ones and local ones, we haven't.
This week, on her work search coach's advice, my wife registered with a new agency we had not heard of before. Their response: "Please can you advise the type of work you are seeking and salary level."
When she replied that she was looking for retail, care or cleaning and would accept minimum wage, they replied "Thank you for coming back to me. Unfortunately, we do not recruit in these industries."
2 hours ago, youreavinalaff said:We are in W.Sussex. I fail to see how Surrey, slightly more affluent than W.Sussex, would be any different.
Yet it is; at least it is a stone's throw from the M25 where we live.
2 hours ago, youreavinalaff said:With the view to improving ones position from time to time, since end of 2019 I have applied for and started 3 jobs. My wife and daughter are happy with their care jobs, no medical training or experience.
Good for you.
Since returning from my sister in law's funeral last April my wife and I have both applied for far more than 3. As I've said, she was successful in one as a Christmas temp and I finally was successful in December.
2 hours ago, youreavinalaff said:Hourly rates from £8.72 to £10, depending on what day the shift is. IE, more pay at weekends.
So minimum wage plus £ 1.28 shift allowance if worked.
Extra payments for working unsocial hours or shift cannot be included in the minimum wage (source).
There is also no obligation for employers to pay any extra for unsocial hours; so many don't.
2 hours ago, youreavinalaff said:I agree that your age could be a barrier. That said, by the age of 65 I would have thought it would be easily possible to live off what you have earned and invested. I, for one, have no intention of working much past 60. Something I have been planning for since I was young.
We have plans for the future and have made financial provision for them.
But that does not detract from my point that whilst you and your family have all obtained jobs during the pandemic: many, like us, through no fault of their own and despite their best efforts have not.
Some of your comments, such as
On 2/12/2021 at 12:15 PM, youreavinalaff said:The jobs are out there. One just has to choose to be a bit less picky
remind me of Norman Tebbit and his 'get on your bike' statement; are you by chance related?
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5 hours ago, Tofer said:
It's no big deal anymore anyway, since the EU prefer to play vindictive politics with thousands of EU citizens lives, by suspending it's use contrary to their own EU medical regulators and the WHO's scientific advice.
The EU has not suspended the use of any vaccine.
See the various posts on this in the relevant threads.
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5 hours ago, Tofer said:That was a precursor to a subsequent trade agreement, applied in good faith. So far this would also be deemed null and void, since there's been little good faith and it's not even been signed and ratified by the EU to date.
The WA was certainly signed in good faith by the EU; but Johnson? Well, as we all know he has shown himself more than willing to break it!
The EU has not yet officially ratified the trade and cooperation agreement as the Commission does not have the power to do so without the approval of the member states and European Parliament.
From UK agrees more time for EU to ratify post-Brexit pact
QuoteEU member states have requested more time to prepare legally valid translations of the treaty so it is usable in all 24 official languages of the bloc, and the European Parliament wants to examine it before voting.
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QuoteIt is currently in force under provisional authorisation in the EU.
So, although Johnson has shown he will if and when it suits him, how could anyone legally or morally deem the WA to be null and void?
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5 hours ago, Surelynot said:5 hours ago, Tofer said:Does that opinion apply then to all the trade deals Liz Truss has signed with about 70 countries?
Signed....not negotiated
Indeed, most of them are simply roll overs of previous deals negotiated by the EU which we had when we were members or, like the Japanese one, the crumbs from the EU's table.
Even so, those countries would be fools not to be keeping a wary eye on us, following Johnson's stated willingness to tear up international agreements and treaties whenever it suits him.
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3 hours ago, nauseus said:
The body was too costly! ????
Yet, despite not having read it, you felt qualified to comment on it's contents!
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4 minutes ago, JonnyF said:
So far 13 EU countries have stopped using it due to zero evidence of a link to blood clots.
It could just be a coincidence that so many EU countries have stopped. Maybe coincidence that it was Macron who made the inaccurate claims about it's ineffectiveness. That's the thing, when you continuously act with spite and vindictiveness towards something it's possible that you are incorrectly labelled as spiteful and vindictive in the future.
Doctors appear as baffled as I am.
As I say in my previous post, as it says in the OP; those countries who have suspended the use of this vaccine have done so on the advice of their own medical authorities and against that of the EU.
Not for the first time, you have shown that you blame the abject failure of Brexit on what you perceive as the EU's spite and vindictiveness. That you'll you'll latch onto anything which you think proves that point; whilst at the same time ignoring the facts prove you wrong.
You have ignored the fact of the EMA's advice not to suspend the use of the vaccine.
You have ignored the fact that this started in a country which is not an EU member.
You have ignored the fact that non EU members have suspended the vaccine's use.
Most telling of all, you have ignored the fact that the FDA in the USA has not yet approved the use of this vaccine and are conducting further trials before they do so.
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On 3/16/2021 at 4:41 AM, robertson468 said:
I have to agree with you. I think the EU is punishing Astra Zenica for providing so many doses to the UK, which of course has provided far less cases of illness due to Covid. Combine that with the fact that the UK has left the EU and is mounting up free trade agreements around the World., Nasty, nasty EU acting like a spoiled child!
If what you say has any merit at all, which it doesn't, how do you explain the fact that the EU, via it's EMA, has, as the OP says, ".....said there was no indication the events were caused by the vaccination and that the number of reported blood clots was no higher than seen in the general population."
It is not the EU which has made this decision, it is the governments of individual, sovereign nations, many of whom are EU members, on the advice of their own medical authorities.
More countries pause Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine against EU regulator’s advice
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On 3/16/2021 at 12:48 AM, JonnyF said:
There's a bad whiff about all this. A concerted effort to discredit AZ. First Macron saying it was quasi-ineffective in over 65's with zero evidence,
There was no evidence at that time either way because such data for the over 65 age group was very sparse.
Even the UK's MHRA said that the number of older people contracting the virus in the AstraZeneca trial was "too few to draw conclusions on efficacy". (Source)
Subsequent data has shown that it is effective for the over 65s, and the French government authorised it's use for the over 65s on the 2nd March.
On 3/16/2021 at 12:48 AM, JonnyF said:and now this from Germany, Italy and France (coincidentally the 3 largest and most influential EU member states) contrary to WHO advice.
Did you not read the OP? Had you done so you would know that it is also against the EU's advice via their EMA!
You forget that this all started following a report from Norway's Medicines Agency; and Norway is not an EU member.
You also forget that not all EU members have suspended the use of the vaccine whilst some non EU members have.
Whilst the USA have still not even authorised it's use in the first place. Do you also believe the USA has some political axe to grind with us and is taking it our via not approving this vaccine?
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10 minutes ago, KhaoYai said:
Pure points scoring - doesn't work on me.
Point scoring? No.
Presenting verifiable facts to counter your false assumptions? Yes.
As you can no longer dispute those facts, no matter how hard you have tried, you have had to resort to the above comment.
All rather sad, really, as apart from your EU obsession you've made some excellent points!
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10 minutes ago, RayC said:If the electorates of NI and/or Scotland and/or Wales vote to leave the UK, then the result should be implemented. Clear enough.
Then we are agreed on that.
11 minutes ago, RayC said:My original comment was about the relative priority of holding a referendum on (Scottish) independence, so don't misrepresent what I state.
If the Scottish people consider it to be a priority and indicate this with their votes in May, then in a democracy it should be a priority for their government; both at Holyrood and Westminster.
All non pandemic Government business in both places has not stopped.
16 minutes ago, RayC said:I take it you're ok with a minority of the UK electorate dictating the UK government's priorities.
Well, only 43.6% of those who voted in 2019, which on a turnout of 67.3% is only 29.3% of the UK electorate, voted for this current government whose main priority, even since the pandemic began, is Brexit at all costs!
Are you OK with that?
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The UK visa application centres were closed for a while due to lockdown restrictions.
The main one in Bangkok reopened on the 1st June 2020. It has been possible to apply for any type of UK visa since then.
See
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16 minutes ago, RayC said:
And your point in addressing your speculation to me is ..?
It was in response to your saying
8 hours ago, RayC said:Imo seven years seems too short a period in the absence of any other significant event e.g. Brexit.
Read that original response again
5 hours ago, 7by7 said:I would agree, but the 7 years is a minimum period, not maximum.
Brexit was, of course, a significant event and means the UK Scotland voted to remain a part of in 2014 no longer exists.
Had Scottish voters been told that would happen, I wonder if the result would have been the same.
and maybe this time you'll see that I was actually agreeing with you!
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On 2/12/2021 at 1:07 PM, youreavinalaff said:
I did say myself, wife and daughter. So that 60k is divisible by 3.
We are all care workers. Working in good conditions, hours anywhere between 8am and 8pm and salary well above minimum wage. 36 hours a week permanent contracts.
Like I said, there are jobs out there.
Unless medically qualified, all the advertised care home jobs where we are, Surrey, pay minimum wage.
More than 40% of Britons in poor health or struggling financially amid pandemic, says UK regulator
in World News
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The basic rate you quoted, £8.72, is the minimum wage for those aged 23 or over; at least it is until the 1st April when it increases to £8.91. If your 18 year old daughter is getting that rate; good for her.
As said, I do now have a job. Before I became unwell I cycled to work. As the last bus from work leaves 30 minutes before I finish, using the bus would be stupid.
For her Christmas job my wife went by train. Obviously she is prepared to use other means of transport as well. She recently applied for a job in a care home which is approx. a mile and a half away with no suitable bus. So she would have cycled. But, as in so many other applications, they never even responded, let alone interviewed her.
By 'home care' I meant caring for someone in their own home, not in a care home. For that employers want you to have your own transport, or at least have a full driving licence; as I said, my wife doesn't drive.
Like I said; we have applied for many jobs over the last 11 months, but the obstacle we have been unable to get past is not even being invited for an interview!
My wife is registered with all the supermarkets within reach; be it by foot, bicycle or public transport. She has applied for jobs with all of them. Only Morrisons have ever interviewed her; twice. Each time they turned her down.
Having just done a quick search myself; lots of adverts for delivery drivers; but she doesn't drive!
Despite all this, you are still saying that her predicament is in someway her fault; which is rather insulting of you.