The beer garden

[conduirez]

Got to ask Kai, is this you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caIJQfOgBy8

[conduirez]

I am well happy to see Derek, firlandsfarm, Archery, Kai, greenmark, Jimibt and the gang are still posting. Wish you well guys and if I missed someone, please forgive me, I really enjoy this chat group.

[beermonsterman]

Forgiven ..

[Kai]

Got to ask Kai, is this you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caIJQfOgBy8

No, I'm not a Ralph Fieness lookalike, maybe more of a Tom Hardy one. Sorry to disappoint

[conduirez]

Got to ask Kai, is this you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caIJQfOgBy8

No, I'm not a Ralph Fieness lookalike, maybe more of a Tom Hardy one. Sorry to disappoint

Don't worry Kai, if there was a film star you would say I looked like, it would not be Tom Hardy, it would be Oliver Hardy

[greenmark]

Got to ask Kai, is this you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caIJQfOgBy8

No, I'm not a Ralph Fieness lookalike, maybe more of a Tom Hardy one. Sorry to disappoint

Don't worry Kai, if there was a film star you would say I looked like, it would not be Tom Hardy, it would be Oliver Hardy

Nearly choked on that. I think I maybe Stan Laurel.

[conduirez]

No, I'm not a Ralph Fieness lookalike, maybe more of a Tom Hardy one. Sorry to disappoint

Don't worry Kai, if there was a film star you would say I looked like, it would not be Tom Hardy, it would be Oliver Hardy

Nearly choked on that. I think I maybe Stan Laurel.

[greenmark]

I think this is a cormorant rather than a duck and a very baffled tiger.

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1342031700104310

[conduirez]

I think this is a cormorant rather than a duck and a very baffled tiger.

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1342031700104310

That tiger is doing what I do, when I am trying to see where my donkey is, in the Grand National, only to find out the jockey came off three fences before.

[greenmark]

I think this is a cormorant rather than a duck and a very baffled tiger.

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=1342031700104310

That tiger is doing what I do, when I am trying to see where my donkey is, in the Grand National, only to find out the jockey came off three fences before.

I always thought cats were smart. It seems not.
But I do love cormorants. They work so hard. They sit low in the water due to lack of body fat (unlike a duck). They don't need buoyancy, they need to fly underwater. They are also not as waterproof as a duck, hence their habit of standing with their wings out like the batman signal after a hunting spree.
That tiger had zero chance of a meal.

[Archery1969]

I have to admit, Keirs definition of a working person beggars belief.

He has 100% shown his thinking and priorities.

Labour want:

- You work for the public sector
- Don’t leave any inheritance
- We taxing private sector to pay for public sector pay rises
- You shouldn’t have any assets
- Small, Medium and Large sized businesses need to pay more
- As an employer in the private sector you can’t sack people easily from day 1

Good luck with all the above. After next weeks budget and the pending employment law overhaul, I suspect that many small and medium sized businesses will just make hundreds of thousands unemployed before all the changes come in April 2025.

To me, looks like the welfare bill is going to double over the next six months.

[firlandsfarm]

I have to admit, Keirs definition of a working person beggars belief.

He has 100% shown his thinking and priorities.

Labour want:

- You work for the public sector
- Don’t leave any inheritance
- We taxing private sector to pay for public sector pay rises
- You shouldn’t have any assets
- Small, Medium and Large sized businesses need to pay more
- As an employer in the private sector you can’t sack people easily from day 1

Good luck with all the above. After next weeks budget and the pending employment law overhaul, I suspect that many small and medium sized businesses will just make hundreds of thousands unemployed before all the changes come in April 2025.

To me, looks like the welfare bill is going to double over the next six months.

Agreed. Labour are good at saying what needs to be fixed but any idiot can do that ... their problem is that their solutions assume that nobody will change. People running small businesses will say it's not worth it anymore resulting in job losses or more of their funds will go underground. People will have less to spend, slowing if not preventing any recovery. And all this from a Government who's fiscal policy revolves around a term they have consistently failed to define, namely "working people".

The only comparison coming out from recent discussion is that if you squander your wages and live from month to month the Government will ring fence and protect you but if you are a similar person in a similar job and earning a similar amount but lived frugally, built a financially responsible nest egg as a cushion against difficult time the Government will say "thanks for saving that money, we will take control of it now and share it out among The Squanderers"

[Derek27]

Labour MP, Mike Amesbury appears to have done a John Prescott.

[Archery1969]

Labour MP, Mike Amesbury appears to have done a John Prescott.

Surprised he has the energy at his age to be clubbing until 2.30am.

[greenmark]

Always puzzled me when people claim the welfare state is an easy option. My brushes with it were totally humiliating. I actually walked away 3 months in to my last stint. Most of those guys don't want to be there, are told to do bad stuff and they reek of discontent.
However, one guy......ONE, showed me some humility and I went home relieved rather than feeling like a contemptible lowlife.