SteveXFR

There were a lot of European drivers here who chose to move on for better pay and a more friendly atmosphere elsewhere.

A sack truck is essential for the 410. An estate car with flush tailgate helps as well. I had to borrow a Freelander recently and lifting that extra 4 inches higher was too much for me to lift by myself

Fart - Black Box

This is in danger of becoming political. Best of luck to both sides and may the best side win.

According to quite a few people none of this countries problems are due to brexit. None at all, not one, not even a minor inconvenience. Maybe brexit could have been a success but due to being implemented by clowns, it's a car crash.

It used to be delivered by European drivers employed by the chemical manufacturers but now they don't want to deliver and British haulage companies don't want to collect because getting through Dover is now incredibly slow.

No, it's not tax payer money. The regulator controls how they spend their own money. They aren't discharging raw sewage, it's less clean than it could or should be. The chemicals they cannot source are flocculants, they bind microscopic solids together so they can be filtered out. Without the chemicals the process cannot work so it kind of is an excuse. There is currently a lot of work going in to finding another chemical to do the job which doesn't kill biological processes. The only time untreated sewage is discharged is during extreme storm events when the plant cannot keep up with incoming flows and storm storage tanks (millions of litres) are full. Those events are rare but becoming more common.

Investment by water companies is quite high. There's a huge industry built up around building and maintaining process plants as well as infrastructure construction. I've been working in process plant construction for the last decade and a bit. One of the big things at the moment is waste to power, creating electricity from sewage. The industry regulators set the budgets for new assets for each water company and if they don't spend the full budget within the 5 years then its cut for the next 5 year cycle. What they always do is give the entire budget of billions to investment bankers who then buy and sell shares with it for a year. They then tell us that we have 4 years to do 5 years work, or this time we only have 3 years because of covid for some reason. One of the major reasons for discharge of less treated sewage at the moment is that brexit has interrupted the supplies of ferric sulphate which is critical for sludge removal processes.

Moist - Janet Jackson

It can't rain all the time - Jane Siberry

Yeah that competition in the water industry works great. If I decide I'm not happy with Wessex Water, I simply move to a different area to switch suppliers. I work in the water industry and think it should be re nationalised

I got a set for Christmas and fitted them to my p bass with Geezer Butler pickups. Love the sound and feel of them. Definitely much more than just a basic string coated black

Reform of the NHS is definitely needed but a US style system is definitely not the right sort of reform. Its a system which leaves people in severe debt after they get illnesses not covered by their policy. They also have incredibly expensive prescriptions, we worked out my wife's insulin and test strips would cost us around $1800 per month!

Because several of our current government MPs including the PM own a considerable value of shares in US health insurance companies.

I'm convinced the government are trying to make the NHS so bad that they can force privatisation and a US style system because obviously if you're going to copy any system you go for the one rated as 34th best

Feuer Frei - Rammstein

Where eagles dare - Misfits

Replica - Fear Factory

Counterfeit - Limp Bizkit Really dreadful song

Danger high voltage - Electric Six Whatever happened to them?

Atheist Anthem - Leftover Crack

Royal Mail is a business, their entire reason for existence is to make profit. If Domino's pizza offer them 1p per leaflet and they make a profit on that then they'll take the contract. Maybe if it was a state run entity and not for profit then they wouldn't take the contract. I remember when I was a kid doing my paper round delivering the local paper, they told me they made most of their money from the 50 kilos of leaflets that broke my back every week.

Loser - Beck

I've got 3 P basses and quite happy with them so I'll have an Ibanez EHB1505.

I touch myself - The Divinyls