Election Year or Fear!

[ramAnag]

Our rA knows his birds! I knew there was a talent hidden away there somewhere ��. How are you on the marsupials of Staffordshire?

Saw a couple of wallabies when rock climbing at the Roaches once, back in the early seventies. Don’t know if they’re still around and don’t tell Farage. He’ll want to have ‘em deported.

[ramAnag]

I stand corrected. Always called geese round my way

Hmmm, but then there seem to be a few examples of ‘compelling evidence’ for things that don’t actually exist ‘round your way’.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Saw a couple of wallabies when rock climbing at the Roaches once, back in the early seventies. Don’t know if they’re still around and don’t tell Farage. He’ll want to have ‘em deported.

the lifespan of a wallaby is 10-15 years so its unlikely that ones you saw in the early 70's would still be around at over 50!

[ramAnag]

the lifespan of a wallaby is 10-15 years so its unlikely that ones you saw in the early 70's would still be around at over 50!

Indeed, very, but I meant the ‘community’. I believe there were quite a few post war that established themselves beyond the seventies. Surprising really. Gets very cold and bleak up there in winter.

[SithHappens]

Wouldn't even be 10-15 years now what with all the ravenous immigrants eating wildlife left right and centre

[Geoff Parkstone]

Ah most of those illegal immigrants havent got that far north yet, they are still feasting on the seagulls in the south coast, but when they are all gone.....

[SithHappens]

Indeed, very, but I meant the ?community?. I believe there were quite a few post war that established themselves beyond the seventies. Surprising really. Gets very cold and bleak up there in winter.

It was before the war, some rich guys private collection escaped. They do say a harsh winter killed a lot off but there are still isolated sightings.

[SithHappens]

Nigels buddy in trouble

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6xwy015ngo

[MadAmster]

But thers no point pnationalising it without a solid commitment to invest those billions in infrastructure projects, otherwise you are simply moving the deck chairs around the Titanic. That's where the cost is - in remedying decades of under investment, not in simply removing the carcass of a sick company

... and it's Thames who have not invested in repairs and maintenance, built up huge debts yet still think it's OK to pay out billions in shareholder dividends and get emergency loans from the taxpayer. And there was I thinking dividends were shareholder's cut of the profits... it seems that you can lose billions, have billions of pounds worth of R&M backlogs but still look after your shareholders. The R&M has to be done. Thames is broke. The taxpayer and Thames' customers will have to pay for it. Might as well nationalise it and avoid having to pay for dividends on the back of losses. The taxpayer has covered the losses. Water is a necessity. Get the R&M done, screw the shareholders who, IMO, have been undeservedly getting dividend for years, nationalise Thames and, if it ever turns a profit, it goes into the Treasury rather than shareholder bank accounts.

I'm not anti shareholder. I do, however, believe that dividends on the back of perennial losses is abhorrent. I also believe that utilities such as gas, electric, water and maybe more things, should be provided to the public at cost. There shouldn't be a profit made out of necessities.

[ramAnag]

I'm not anti shareholder. I do, however, believe that dividends on the back of perennial losses is abhorrent. I also believe that utilities such as gas, electric, water and maybe more things, should be provided to the public at cost. There shouldn't be a profit made out of necessities.

Absolute sense. Post of the week.