Creative Midfielder

Really???? According to Angela Rayner there are still over 2,000 buildings in the UK requiring unsafe cladding to be removed - if that represents 'getting there' then it can only be via a very strange and tortuous route

It seems that our old chums in the EU are also likely to take action against companies llike Ticketmaster using dynamic pricing in the way they have been doing https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/sep/03/european-commission-to-investigate-ticketmasters-dynamic-pricing This statement jumped out to me: "The spokesperson said that while the practice itself was not unlawful, the way it was used could breach EU directives – such as if the price of a product was increased after a consumer had placed the ticket in their online basket." That seems to me to be the core issue, and would be entirely fair and reasonable if it is deemed to be unlawful.

So what you're saying is that we shouldn't take anything that contenders for the Tory Party leadership say at face value which is, of course, eminently sensible advice - although I rather think that most posters on here don't really need the reminder 😀

Well it seems as though people far more knowledgeable about the law than me are coming round to the same conclusion https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/sep/02/failure-to-warn-oasis-fans-of-dynamic-pricing-may-be-consumer-law-breach-say-experts

Yes, of course dynamic pricing works in lots of industries, travel especially, and of course the price varies with demand but when you go to book your Ryanair flight to wherever for next Thursday the price you see (determined by demand) is the price you pay - unless they manage to sting you along the way for extra luxuries like sitting next to your partner! Being totally uninterested in Oasis I may have got this wrong but my understanding of what is going on is that people were attempting to book tickets that were advertised at £150 but by the time they got the pay for them them were told that the cost had increased hugely - that is what I don't think is legal. Having said that, you would really expect that common sense would kick in at some point and that people shouldn't really need legal protection against such blatent profiteering but................🙄 I hope Rachel Reeves is watching - maybe she could fill some of her financial black holes by a 100% tax on all concert tickets costing more than £100. Judging by what people appear to be prepared to pay for Oasis it would raise quite a bit, quite quickly 😀

I'm not entirely sure that it is legal - I imagine it all depends on exactly how it is implemented but I'm pretty sure that I remember a number of cases over the years where stuff has been advertised online at a price (usually very low and possibly in error) and when a flood of people have tried to buy whatever it is on offer, the supplier tried to jack the price up - I'm sure several such cases went to court and every time the seller was forced to sell at the advertised price.

Must admit I've been a bit disappointed with Starmer's early weeks in power but fair play to him - getting rid of such an obnoxious g*t is definitely a win 😀

Quite and I think old is the key word there, although senile might be a more apposite description.

If by 'pretty much everyone', you really mean the very regular posters on here then it doesn't seem odd at all to me - in fact I'd be surprised if it were otherwise. And just for clarity, if you don't think that we (well me certainly but I suspect others will agree) don't find you equally predictable, then think again.

I think that is very likely but I am also very hopeful, in fact pretty certain, that we will be berating them for failings which are far less egregious than those of the 'last mob' 😀

Spot on, I've absolutely no idea what she has that enabled her, however briefly, to reach the top job but quite clearly she doesn't have any of the (rather important) qualities that you've highlighted.

Well, they explain the reason in the first sentence of the letter so it isn't hard to understand.......................

😂 😂 My word, that is really, really thick - in fact you would need to come up with a completely new unit of stupidity to do justice to this guy.

Very good news that they are starting to convict individuals for their actions on social media but I will much more impressed if (and when) they start getting the social media platforms themselves into court. The other thing that is really concerning (IMO) is how light the sentences are - we have people guily of rioting, violent disorder, assulting police officers (and others), arson - which I believe carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Don't know if anyone has been charged with arson yet but there seems to be plenty of evidence available. But these people are picking up sentences of 1, 2, or 3 years - which is the longest I've seen so far. So I'll apologise in advance for banging the drum again on the same topic but it is completely beyond me how the horrendous stuff we've been seeing for the last week or so is being treated so leniently when a few months ago peaceful protesters were jailed for 4 & 5 years.

Plenty of doubt unless you actually know that, he may well be eligible for Rwandan citizenship via his parents but that doesn't mean he's applied for it. Loads of people are eligible for dual citizenship but don't see any reason to obtain it. If you cast your mind back to the Brexit fiasco there were a huge number of Brits with Irish parents/grandparents (for example) who had never considered getting an Irish passport until they were about to lose their FoM rights and then they did apply for that very specific reason, otherwise they wouldn't have bothered. Do you know why this guy might have been motivated to apply for dual citizenship or are you just making it up as you go along?