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22 hours ago, possum1931 said:

Excellent post, but is there not a law which states that no matter how much a person owes, they are only allowed to take so much, you must be left with enough to live on. Say if a person who only has a state pension to live on, owes money to anyone, DWP, Tax, or anywhere, the DWP can only take very little, if anything, every month.

Perfectly valid argument and for people living in the UK I would suspect the DP would follow the pension credit criteria.

For people living abroad a different ball game all together when it comes to "enough" to live on and the DWP would have no guidelines. The DWP would not have reduced the pension without good cause and would probably take the view that the action is open to challenge on the basis that guilty people do not take themselves to court.

3 hours ago, possum1931 said:

Deducted from state pension?? Are you sure this "one" is telling you the truth and referring only to his state pension?

Deduction is not a good term to use. When the DWP refer to deduction they are generally referring to payments made to third parties such as the inland revenue or a court order. Reducing state pension payments is not really a deduction but more of a recalculation.

Every year I claim the additional pension for the time I spend in the UK, sometimes it is paid as a separate payment and sometimes included with the regular pension payment. The DWP can alter how much you get as and when they want.

It is highly unlikley that anyone that has had their pension reduced for suspected fraud is going to say very much about it. Normally it is only DWP failures that get talked about. 

17 hours ago, possum1931 said:

Maybe I'm mistaken again, but I did read on their website (though not recently) that they cannot take any money from your state pension, notice I said "state" pension.

I think that you are right in they cannot make deductions but they can restate your pension entitlement. Done regularly for people leaving the UK and returning, and various other circumstances.

17 hours ago, possum1931 said:

"WP email addresses".?? Maybe I have missed something, but I have never seen any email address on their website, they always only give you phone numbers.

Yes that is a bit of a problem as I do not use the phone for anything important and their response time to written communication is in the order of 12 weeks.

However once contact has been made they appear to be more than happy to use email and it is those that are being redirected.

1 hour ago, nontabury said:

 What many people fail to understand is that allthough Briexit was important. Even more important has been Democracy.And as we have seen over this last two years,that has been steadily eroded. And the wound of this treachery will never go away from the inner thinking of the British people. 

It is only those with a distorted concept of democracy that would think that. UK democracy is based on elected representatives and nothing has changed.

14 minutes ago, aright said:

Good point. By definition you can't democratically overturn a democratic decision as much as Remainers would prefer their definition of democracy (their choice) over the  dictionary definition (the peoples choice).

You really are a master of context manipulation.

A democratic event is an event where all can participate as opposed to being restricted, nothing to do with results.

Had there been a majority margin involved the referendum would have still been democratic, irrespective of what you think.

1 hour ago, sawadee1947 said:

The life span for washers is 5 years by factory. 

So every year more is a plus. 

As others said already : buy a new one 

Life span is about as variable as a piece of string.

In 2009 I shipped my household effects from the UK, a 7 year old Indesit 7kg front loader being one of the items. Worked 4/5 days a week since it arrived but last year it started dancing, drum bearings on the way out.

We bought a new Electrolux 8kg front loader and a few weeks ago at just over a year old it stopped working, been waiting over a fortnight for a replacement control box.

14 hours ago, keithsimmonds said:

You are right the Country is broken....and the next GE when ever that is will have the lowest votes polled ever.....as no one will be bothered to vote. Why would you???

Highlights the mentality that refuses to recognise the difference between electing people to office and an opinion poll.

Opinion polls operate to a margin of error, something that parliament failed to consider in the Referendum Bill. Who in their right mind asks for an opinion on a major issue with a potential outcome of an even split, what sort of answer is that. Had parliament taken steps to avoid a contentious result this would have been over one way or another a long time ago.

The problem is that people have been indoctrinated since schools days that 50% is a pass and hold the misconception that figure represents democracy, the dictionary however uses the phrase "most of the people"

What figure does the legal system use for "most of the jurors"  -  Certainly not 50%.

This argument over the 50% mark would indicate that some are of the opinion that everyone that gets over 50% in there exams should be treated equally, no difference between getting 51% or 90%,the result is the same. The same train of thought that has created the brexit fiasco.

Should the whole population be made to pay for parliaments mistake or should some attempt be made to put things right?

5 hours ago, dick dasterdly said:

There's a HUGE difference between an online petition which is easy to manipulate (using bots, people from other countries voting etc. etc.) and a referendum where each vote has to be cast individually, and mostly in person!

Of course there is this "HUGE" difference between a petition and a referendum but manipulation is manipulation irrespective of how it is implemented. The Electoral Commission proved how easy it was to manipulate the referendum and the fact the referendum was advisory prevented a legal challenge on the result.

TM and parliament are reluctant to revoke Art 50 as they would have to admit they were wrong not to act sooner.

17 hours ago, Krataiboy said:

Sometimes, unfortunately, messages get distorted by the medium and its political agenda. Even you must know that, surely?

I do not subscribe to anything from the dark side.

18 hours ago, nontabury said:

On T.V news in the U.K. this morning. Tens of thousands,at least of these signatures originated in the E.U. Plus many more from other parts of the world. How this happens I do not know, as I wrongly thought you had to give a post code. Could it be that these remainers simple picked out any post code in the U.K.

 

Could it be that there are tens of thousands on holiday?

Of course not, the leavers would prefer to believe it was all manipulated, yet stick their head in the sand over the referendum result.

They just want to ignore the fact that if the referendum had been legally binding the result would have been in the courts long before now.

On 3/21/2019 at 1:13 PM, Krataiboy said:

Awful lefty rag, only fit to be remaindered.

Doesn't matter one iota what you think about the messenger, the message remains the same.

Obviously you are a bit sensitive to how you receive bad news, more palatable from your preferred source. 

2 hours ago, Jip99 said:

 

Hopefully you have the visa now ?

Yes thanks. All fairly straightforward, other than the queuing. It is a 2 stage process now and appointment time does not mean a lot. There were no holdups on the journey so got there nearly an hour early and was allowed straight up. I was allowed in which was a bit of a surprise but it turned out that was just for the document checking. The first desk just glances at the documents and then sends you to a bank of desks to have them checked again. I think we were stood in that queue for nearly 40 minutes but the check wasn't too long. She was quite happy with what was being submitted and there was no mention of just the first page of the application or anything regarding the old passports. The only query was the position of my wife's name change documents, I had put them with the marriage certificate under 'Relationship' but the girl said they should be with the old passports under 'Additional Documents'.

Following the check she had to go back to the first desk and get a queue number for submission, I wasn't allowed to go through, must have been close to her appointment time by then. I went downstairs and had a couple of pints of Tiger by the time she came out. Passport took about 2 weeks to come back, and she had been told that the documents must remain in the same order until the passport had been received.

17 hours ago, Krataiboy said:

Well, I never - somebody actually reads the Independent and actually quotes what they say!

Well I never - somebody that thinks the Independent speaks on behalf of the EU.

14 hours ago, ParadiseLost said:

This could be AdBlock, or uBlock (I use both), after disabling them the page displayed normally for me, and freed up the connection.

Don't know what you are trying to say. Normal conditions produced a "3bb advertise" page. With the VPN on I got the website I was looking for.

On 3/20/2019 at 9:06 AM, Peterw42 said:

OP, as others have said the 19th is the biggest day, however if you are out early on the 19th you would still be ok. I was out and about last year at 9-10am last year and still relatively quiet even up until lunchtime, it builds slowly to a peak late afternoon.

Agreed, there may be some at the side of the road relatively early but the congestion is not really evident until around late morning. Traffic congestion is more to do with vehicles coming into the city rather than going out.

PS Stick to the No 7, not sure when last day for Bang Saen but there is always heavy congestion there from both directions.

It is quite obvious that they need us more than we need them.

The EU has said Britain cannot delay Brexit without a clear plan for what happens next, indicating only an election, a new referendum or major compromise on Theresa May’s red lines will suffice.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-delay-eu-no-deal-michel-barnier-leave-theresa-may-john-bercow-a8830716.html

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

I read it. 

That being the case you will have no problem showing me where I mentioned my mother in law.

The first died in 1980 and the second in 1997, the third was Thai and died before becoming my mother in law, none of them had much to say on brexit.

In case you have forgotten what you said, "Well if you believe you mother-in-law that does say a lot."

Obviously you do not see the difference between reading and understanding.

4 hours ago, rick44 said:

Perhaps the title of this post was a bit dramatic, but at least they are taking control of your browsers, which is bad enough, and very amateurish, as someone pointed out.

 

I couldn't access one of the websites I run, and wasted a couple of hours in a state of near panic... Turned out that adding an "s" to the http in my bookmark fixed it, but I find this totally unforgivable. Perhaps one should sue them for mental anguish.

Keep things in perspective.

I had the same problem as the OP, came suddenly one morning and I got round it by using a VPN. I did some research and it would appear to be a common default position with ISPs if there is a DNS problem. The geeks suggested changing the router to public DNS settings, something I was reluctant to do.

Although the url indicated '3bb advertise' the screen was blank. There is a distinct difference between putting up a blank page as opposed to "taking control of the browser".

The problem disappeared after 3 days, chances are 3BB were doing some work on the servers which may have affected the DNS settings.

2 hours ago, nauseus said:

Well if you believe you mother-in-law that does say a lot.

You really ought to read posts before comment, not that it would make a lot of difference.

19 hours ago, Henryford said:

You are free to go and live in the EUSSR any time you want. Good riddance.

When there is no constructive answer, shoot the messenger.

10 hours ago, nontabury said:

 By not accepting the decision of a Democratic vote by their fellow citizens. Instead preferring to undermine the Democratic people’s Vote.

 

If the referendum had been a legally binding democratic event, there would have been a legal intervention by now. Parliament are between a rock and a hard place, like the people, they cast their vote without full possession of the facts.

However, because the Brexit referendum was only an advisory vote there are no legal channels to challenge the result. Only parliament can investigate the result, declare it void or demand a re-run.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/17/vote-leave-broke-electoral-law-and-british-democracy-is-shaken

Latest judgement

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has fined Brexit Campaign group Vote Leave £40,000 ($53,000) for sending out nearly 200,000 unsolicited text messages.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47623413

13 hours ago, billd766 said:

TM as a Remainer has brought it all on herself and on the country and I for one hav not the slightest shred of sympathy for her.

There can be no dispute with that Bill, tried to circumvent parliament with the Royal Prerogative and then gets upset when Bercow waves the rule book, what on earth did she expect.

8 hours ago, vinny41 said:

prorogue Parliament is an option - ie pack up and start again in another session

Exactly, pack up the whole brexit fiasco and start again.