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Hmmm…. Linda you really don’t get how people think here.  So I’m going to try and explain.

Self sacrifice is common trait in the UK.  From taking on terrorist with anything close to hand or jumping off a bridge to save someone….risking your own life to save others is common.  If you want I can post a few links to stories on this.

So when we…[Read more]

It seems so.

Watch:

Narrow minded people say “no” the most.

No to food they never tried.

No to new clothes or styles.

No meeting new people.

No to new ideas.

Overall narrow minded people are backwards thinking, low risk takers who fear change.

The new variant is ripping thru community’s in the north of England who refused the vaccine. The only thing “time” hi…[Read more]

Dr Charlie Ward

A key British YouTube influencer is Charlie Ward, who lives in Spain and began uploading QAnon-themed videos during lockdown. While older clips about his personal life received barely any attention, his channel now boasts more than 170,000 subscribers and he has hosted discussions with FFTCUK leaders.

Before Charlie became an on…[Read more]

Dont worry H…this new strain is really contagious and they will catch it at anti lockdown protest.

Maybe a few weeks in bed struggling for breath will teach them a lesson.  They’d need  to be at deaths door before a hospital will take them.  And if they were offer a vacation and turn it down…no sick pay due to being “self-inflicted il…[Read more]

Well with this new India variant…. I’m not sure.   The governments clearly worried and brought forward the second vaccinates by 4 weeks.

We don’t use voting machines in the UK.

In the UK, we use pencils not pens to mark our ballots. ( Just encase those nasty old pens are full of invisible ink).

Ballot box’s are sealed with all candidates representatives  present and watched.  Its normal for all of the same people to travel with the ballot box’s to and from the polling stations t…[Read more]

Linda the reason for the UK vacation program wasn’t to stop covid,  lets face it… you cant.

The aim was to keep people out of hospital’s and allow those with more serious conditions like cancer to carry on with treatment.  Keeping beds free in intensive care units and cardio wards.  (People are still having car crashes and heart attacks. )  In…[Read more]

You’ll see a lot more of this somer….  people are worried. Few believe we can get to Christmas without a new lockdown.

I think the main issue for America voters is the time taken for the process.

There two good ensamples of this from the UK, the eu referendum & general election.

The eu referendum process start a year before the vote. The issue divided friends and family’s. A year of both sides fighting it out in the media adding fuel to the fire.

A general…[Read more]

I’ve made a mistake there…….. stamp duty is paid by the purchaser of the property.

Capital gains tax (CGT) is payable when you sell an asset that has increased in value since you bought it. … For residential property it may be 18% or 28% of the gain (not the total sale price). Usually, when you sell your main home (or only home) yo…[Read more]

If you are going to university there are loans to pay for fees and living costs in England & Wales. There means tested too. In Scotland there are no fees and places are free.

In 2020, students graduating from English universities will have incurred an average of 40.28 thousand British pounds of student loan debt, compared with 24.96 thousand…[Read more]

Then you cant moan !!!!

I had to look up “community college”.  In the UK there called further education colleges.   Free if your under 24 and have been for years.

I’m not too sure on the “immigrant children” thingy….. but I do know its been going on for years too.

And unlike us poor workshy do…[Read more]

American Airlines

As with other U.S airlines (Alaska Airlines, Allegiant Air, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways, United Airlines, SkyWest Airlines and Southwest Airlines), American Airlines has accessed funding as part of the U.S the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES…[Read more]

Oh wait this one is better :)

Starbucks‘ net revenue reached 19.16 billion U.S. dollars in 2020, reflecting a 27.7 percent drop from the previous year.27 Apr 2021

Not bad for a business that closed 800 shops in the pandemic 

https://www.nbc11news.com/2020/11/05/starbucks-to-close-100-more-stores-due-to-covid-19/

Well I hate to sound like kiwi….. but it was mostly Trumps fault.

Back in March last year… the UK government roll out a stimulus program.

See:

https://home.kpmg/xx/en/home/insights/2020/04/united-kingdom-government-and-institution-measures-in-response-to-covid.html

On March 27, President Donald Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief,…[Read more]

Only a yank would say that !!!

Things have always been normal in the UK.  We go to work, come home and nod off in a chair just like our fathers did and there fathers before them.

The schools mite have been close for a while, no football for a bit too, but we’ve seen worse and came thru it.

Who can forget when kfc ran out of chicken for…[Read more]