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Post by peterboat on Feb 1, 2018 11:27:07 GMT
My daughter is a Councillor she gets a taxable wage dont know about expenses to work as that is what it is
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Post by peterboat on Feb 1, 2018 11:34:30 GMT
That's a good point. The arms on benches, I don't think there really targeting homeless people but day time drinkers who get smashed on cheap strong larger. Although it could be the same group of people. And Patty, we have discussed that too. Today were of to look at the paper mill By the lock just after Thatcher train station but while were there we will try to get in Hilton Newbury centre hotel. Instead of leaving it empty it could house an aweful lot of people. We have so many buildings left empty I cannot see why they cannot be utilised to home the homeless...they could perhaps help to renovate in return for a roof over their heads and learn skills in the process... Thats an easy one Patty because once they wernt homeless they would be able to claim benefits, also the council has to sell vacant property to make ends meet, cant do that if its full of people. I am rather hoping that when we leave the EU a lot of people leave as well! this will free up loads of council house to house our homeless in, with luck with addresses they will be able to get jobs a win win situation
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 11:35:48 GMT
I think homelessness is the scandal of the age in the UK. Colonel Gadaffi was widely condemned as evil but at least in Libya everybody had a home, and if a new one was needed then a new one was built and the whole community pitched in to help build it whereas here the whole community put signs up in their front gardens saying "Save our green fields". Er, what do you think was there before your house was built Missus? oh this is boiling my piss big time at the minute, facebook group for my home town of Nuneaton, every fucka moaning as they are building shit loads of new homes, on old farming land, right next to an estate that was built thirty years ago, on old farming land and of course all the middle of the road, keeping up with the joneses, 2.5 kids, think they are better than everyone else fuckwits are moaning and saying save our greenbelt... Twunts! It's a tough balance though. The UK could probably house several times it's population if housing density across every part of the UK went to the levels of Hong Kong or Dubai. The Uk has a lot of 'wild' land and I don't want it all to become 'disneyfied' like a lot of the Lake District.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 11:53:57 GMT
We have so many buildings left empty I cannot see why they cannot be utilised to home the homeless...they could perhaps help to renovate in return for a roof over their heads and learn skills in the process... Thats an easy one Patty because once they wernt homeless they would be able to claim benefits, also the council has to sell vacant property to make ends meet, cant do that if its full of people. I am rather hoping that when we leave the EU a lot of people leave as well! this will free up loads of council house to house our homeless in, with luck with addresses they will be able to get jobs a win win situation Peter, life currently doesn't work like that for the homeless (or the under threat). I know someone (a relative) has had a lot of problems in the past dealing with life and finally helped into accommodation. Landlord (who seems to be a decent bloke) wanted to upgrade the house to make it better, couldn't do it whilst tenants living there so had to give tenants notice to leave but with an unofficial promise that they could come back once work was complete. System says to relative, if you move out you will be intentially homeless and have housing benefit stopped!. Solution was an eviction notice was served, housing benefit stopped following the notice, relative finally rehoused in a different Borough miles from his 'support network'.
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Post by Telemachus on Feb 1, 2018 12:14:33 GMT
They probably do. If they got expenses for travelling to their normal place of work, that would be taxable as income. However if you were required to visit a different location from your normal workplace as part of your working day, you would be pretty pissed off if you had to pay to get there, and stay overnight in a hotel at your own expense, and buy expensive hotel food. Come on Nick, you know they claim for getting to the civic centre which is their normal place for meetings. No I don’t know that. But are they actually in paid employment? I don’t think so. (Having just checked!) If you are not getting paid for your time, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be paid for travelling to somewhere where you give your time for voluntary work. Not the same thing at all as travelling to you place of paid work.
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Post by patty on Feb 1, 2018 13:47:37 GMT
What about all those 'team bonding' weekends at country hotels? Our 'team bonding' held at the hospital where I worked..not a weekend but an afternoon in the freezing cold... Its sort of etched into my memory..I had volunteered to be part of the fire fighting team(thought interacting with firemen kinda cool plus it meant I got to be in charge and could theoretically order management around )...Anyway we were divided into 2 teams and given problem solving step by step clues......I read them all, realised whereabouts of final destination and by passed all the time wasting faffing about.....job done...back in the warm watching headless chickens run round...for my endeavours they allocated me role of 'fire team leader'..I will admit I enjoyed myself..
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 1, 2018 17:31:15 GMT
Well, at least we know where to go if we're ever in Bristol and need to score some meth.
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Post by peterboat on Feb 1, 2018 18:07:26 GMT
oh this is boiling my piss big time at the minute, facebook group for my home town of Nuneaton, every fucka moaning as they are building shit loads of new homes, on old farming land, right next to an estate that was built thirty years ago, on old farming land and of course all the middle of the road, keeping up with the joneses, 2.5 kids, think they are better than everyone else fuckwits are moaning and saying save our greenbelt... Twunts! It's a tough balance though. The UK could probably house several times it's population if housing density across every part of the UK went to the levels of Hong Kong or Dubai. The Uk has a lot of 'wild' land and I don't want it all to become 'disneyfied' like a lot of the Lake District. It couldnt not enough water or infrastucture to support what we have never mind anymore plus at some point the land we have might be the only land we have to feed ourselves! The island was full to bursting a long time ago
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 20:06:39 GMT
It's a tough balance though. The UK could probably house several times it's population if housing density across every part of the UK went to the levels of Hong Kong or Dubai. The Uk has a lot of 'wild' land and I don't want it all to become 'disneyfied' like a lot of the Lake District. It couldnt not enough water or infrastucture to support what we have never mind anymore plus at some point the land we have might be the only land we have to feed ourselves! The island was full to bursting a long time ago When my Father in Law was Governor General (or what ever his title was) of the Trucial States Dubai was little more than a kreek (sp?) and a desert. Things change. Experts can do anything!
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Post by thebfg on Feb 1, 2018 20:28:19 GMT
Come on Nick, you know they claim for getting to the civic centre which is their normal place for meetings. No I don’t know that. But are they actually in paid employment? I don’t think so. (Having just checked!) If you are not getting paid for your time, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be paid for travelling to somewhere where you give your time for voluntary work. Not the same thing at all as travelling to you place of paid work. It's all dodgy deals yes they are not paid, per se. They receive a payment of nearly 10k. A basic allowance. Probaly just a tax fiddle.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2018 9:13:40 GMT
Get your spanners out!!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2018 9:14:55 GMT
Well, at least we know where to go if we're ever in Bristol and need to score some meth. A contender for the thunderboat dating thread?
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Post by kris on Feb 2, 2018 9:21:42 GMT
Well, at least we know where to go if we're ever in Bristol and need to score some meth. A contender for the thunderboat dating thread? come on Shes homeless not stupid.
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Post by thebfg on Feb 2, 2018 15:00:42 GMT
A contender for the thunderboat dating thread? come on Shes homeless not stupid. Well stabby will have no issue dating that but as you say being homeless doe not make her that desperate.😂
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