Brit. #RejoinEU . ex Dispute Resolution & Financial Services sector. Former Army territorial jnr officer. Loathe English Nationalism / English national-populism. #FBPE #Brexit 🇪🇺🇺🇦 Rule of #Law 🕷 (not Law of Rulers). Appeaseniks blocked.
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Last Notes npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett What other right wing European politicians can JD be persuaded to fly in to lobby for on the eve of important weathervane elections? npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett We shall see. Is it not the essence of democracy that an electorate can change its mind ? The EU is a trade community, whereunder member states agree to pool a measure of sovreignty over trade-related matters. Not a secret order of religious devotees mutually and irrecovably bound by dark oath-taking. I accept we have much work of persuasion ahead of us. But no political resolution is ever static. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn897e8280do npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Donald Trump is never happier than when smarming up to autocrats . In Lukashenko of Belarus he recognises a fellow mafioso with whom he can do corrupt business at the expense of Belarussian citizens & the environment of that nation. "Birds of a feather flock together". Psychopaths recognise each other at long distance & seek each other out. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Yes. 'Bomber' was exceptional. My late Father also a Sqd Ldr on heavies, starting with Lanc, finishing on Canberra. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett You are right Mr Rt Hon Nick Thomas Symonds MP Labour Torfaen Minister for EU Relations, "alignment" is not a dirty word. It is (rather) an empty word, meaningless to pro-Brexit, pro-Rejoin & EU functionaries alike. It is a turgid Organ McWeenyism that tries, & fails, to be all things to all people, successfully antagonising all of them, now overdue for discarding (like its originator). npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett So farewell then Hereditary Lords. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett tripling (?) npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Zack 'CND' Polanski & his friends now firmly in this account's 'no longer interested' file. To be advocating unilateral nuclear disarmament at the onset of Russia's reignition of the Cold War is simply barking. Sorry, nice people, well-intentioned, but there it is. I did military service towards to end of the last Cold War, I don't do barking. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett #Starmer cosplaying 'Global Britain' unlikely to impress the Chinese government which has diminished interest now that UK cannot act as a conduit to the EU Single Market & Customs Union. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Takes a psychopath to initiate a dangerous situation & then claim to the entire globe he is not the cause of it. I'm no longer in any doubt - the man IS a manipulative psychopath. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett If the European Union truly was "weak", as Fat Donald makes out, he wouldn't be expending energy dissing it. Unity is strength. #Trump & his oligarch paymasters hate the EU because they can't control it. They want to smash it as they smash & deride all competing structures of international cooperation such as NAFTA, the Paris Climate accords, the International Courts & COP. Smashing things up is all they know. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Under the pressure of a threat of an absurd 100% tariff on British-manufactured medicines sold into the US (which would have harmed US patients & their insurers) our leaders (notably Health Secretary Wes #Streeting & Prime Minister #Starmer) have bargained away the purchasing power of the #NHS as a scale buyer of medicines for British citizens from private US pharmaceutical corporations. When the figures emerge, this will be seen to be a terrible deal. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett A commensurate response to #Trump 's attempted browbeating of the UK National Broadcaster would be for the #BBC to commission an in-depth investigative piece on Trump 's association with Jeffrey Epstein to include the latest emerging evidence. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett https://bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/the-integrity-gap-how-we-built-the-authoritarian-future-we-fear/ npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Hey Wes; npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Fellow Brits: this is the way it goes. Don't get suckered-in. Don't believe Farage. Demand adequate funding for our NHS and that Fat Donald & his big pharma big-data oligarch bros are kept OUT. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Petition to dismiss the silly sod who whispered in Keir's ear last week "stake everything on digital id, it'll be a winner". npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett We know what "Not in my Lifetime" 's policy is on #RejoinEU . npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Private medicine is not structured to be able to cope effectively with the demands of emergency medicine. You'll die on the sodding gurney waiting for an insurer to authorise your treatment. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Hah! Farmers loyal to Trump reap what they sowed. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett An impression gained as an employee of one of the regulated. When they say jump (which is not infrequently) believe me, my employer jumps. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett By and large, my impression it is a proactive regulator, with consumers best interests in mind. Unlike some i could mention (OFWAT, ICO, the 'Prudential Conduct Authority - yeah - i know). 🙂 npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett The FCA hoped to take & hold control over the comp scheme & warned punters off the claims management companies & solicitors firms advertising widely for clients in the media. In that, the FCA reportedly failed, as tens of thousands have signed up with lawyers implying significant additional spend for tortfeasors (loan finance lenders) in Claimant legal costs. And why not? Why shouldn't victims of the scam lenders seek & obtain independent legal advice? The FCA has been unrealistic. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett 'Back then' dentists got paid by the filling which was a completely naive way to organise public health, because it incentivised the unscrupulous (present in every profession) to administer unecessary 'treatment'. Forty years on from a trusting visit to a charlatan in Tooting i am living with the consequences of his deceit & greed, and curse him every day. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett KGB double-think. Putin willed his invasion. He can unwill it in an instant. He's kidding his populace they are "winning". When they finally comprehend the truth, Putin will have nowhere to run. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Shame on Modi. He leads the World's biggest democracy, but can't resist a bargain, with his US$dollars & rupees for Russian oil paying for Putin's bombs & missiles raining down nightly on the citizens of a fellow democracy - the Republic of Ukraine. #Modi confirms his true colours - no principles & a friend to fellow aggressive authoritarians. He was in my county, Norfolk, lately. I feel sullied by his visitation. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Brexit is English Nationalist wastecrime. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett If it is trees the campaigners want to see on the high fells (bringing diversity of habitat) why not the Attenborough "Ocean" approach whereby a certain portion is made protected (no fishing says Sir David - & by analogy, no grazing for the fell tops?). The diversity benefits should extend beyond the reserves? As an occasional tourist, i don't see what might be "wrong" with the management of the lower slopes ("in-byes"?). The ancient byres show it's been that way since viking times. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Sounds a risky strategm - trying to get World Heritage Site protection binned, just to limit commercial grazing? Chucking the baby out with the bathwater. Except the bathwater is the WHProtection (which surely we'd all want to keep?). It's the baby lambs they want to chuck (or limit). Sheep represent livlihoods. From my own annual trip, the high fells don't appear to be overrun by sheep but i suppose the campaigners wish to see them more forested? Red deer would have to go too? npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett By definition "deterrent" sentencing is disproportionate and excessive. It doesn't work, & is a travesty of the justice Judges are entrusted to administer on behalf of Society. I feel shame, on behalf on my profession. I'm confident the Judge does not. Let him look his grandchildren in the eye at Christmastime. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett RebrandUK & #Tory talking heads blaming 'the French' for the boat crossings instead of their idiot #Brexit, is absurd. After indulging themselves being as offensive as they could possibly be to our European neighbours & allies (most notoriously #Farage 's Brexit Party MEP fascist back-turning stunt before the entire assemblage of the democratic representatives of the continent!), their very first act of Brexit idiocy in 2020 was kicking over the Dublin Treaty entitling the UK to send them back. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett From yesterday's US/UK trade deal, it would appear Sir Keir is in need of testing facilities able to check samples of 13,000 tons of US beef per year to for growth hormone. In a hurry. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Had the Red Square parade been a sample battalion of body bags and convoy of turretless T72s , it would have been an honest representation of the present state of the Russian military. The pomp & ceremony fools no-one but the foreign 'dignitaries' craven enough to have shown up. Shame on them. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett 'Tesla is in worse shape than you think'. Report from CNN . npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Asylum seekers are also banned from working pending processing of their application. Instead they get £49.18 per week subsistence allowance "to help you with food, toiletries, clothes & travel', but also liable to be deducted for 'asylum housing'. As to 'travel' the rule is 'You cannot choose where you live' & authorities are prone to summoning applicants to a new hostel on the other side of the country. It is deliberate, performative, vengeful humiliation & puts us to collective shame. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett So #Gove , too cowardly to stand at the general election on his record, (co-chair Vote Leave, VIP PPE contracts for cronies etc) is to be reinserted into our Legislature like a used supposiTory as the parting gift of failed #EnglishNationalist loser #Sunak ? npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett FOTUS "Liberation day" bears all the hallmarks of the Brexiter 's "Independence Day". npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Sure he did - because Ukraine is hurting Russia 's oil & gas infrastructure, which earns Putin dollars & fuels his APCs. Surely it cannot be that team #Trump can have allowed itself to be taken in by this nonsense? If they have fallen for it, they confirm themselves as the amateurs the onlooking World assesses them to be. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Organ McWeeneyism in the Labour party has carpeted Regulators. That puerile "See Me Monday morning" power play. #Labour has a bee in its bonnet that "regulators are bad". npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett We've been brainwashed by generations of Estate Agent speak. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Solidarity for Zelensky. The most remarkable leader in Europe since WW2. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett High on the list would be Tory #Norfolk County Council, not just from underfunding but from a sordid symbiosis with developers, corporate housebuilders & road contractors that has lead them to fetishise roadbuilding. Norfolk is £50m in deficit, with councillors flailing & in secret talks with the Government. Most of the deficit is due to one single scheme the "Western Link Road". Their conduct in trying to force their scheme through has been appalling. Bankruptcy would expose them. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Trump hates the EU because he can't control it. Because it represents a market bigger than his. Because it places the interests of citizens above those of corporations & oligarchs. He would destroy it if he could. Just as idiot British brexiters hoped would happen in consequence of #Brexit . npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Maybe if Rebrand UK were forced to establish itself as a properly-constituted political party with credible democratic accountability of leadership to membership (instead of being the private corporate property of its leader) its leader could take that as his opportunity for yet another rebrand, from Kippers to Brexit Party to...Alternative fur England. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Wondering whether in the light of the seizure of control of data in US organisations by data-bandit #Musk, it is still part of the Wes gameplan to "share" UK citizens' medical histories with US "health" corporations with blithe disregard for basic courtesy & the legal necessity of procuring our express individual informed consent beforehand? npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett When the self-defense tweet is a rambling screed, you know the author is rattled. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett 'Them' means 'him'. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett To Eastern autocrats' delight, #Trump appears gearing up to find pretext to exit NATO, (just as he has now kicked over Paris Climate Accords twice). Courage Europe. The sky won't fall in. The treaty organisation will contine in being. US will find itself Top Nation of the square root of bugger all. He'll be gone soon enough & sanity may yet prevail. In the meantime, my late father used to fly nuclear bombers & there's probably still a few old bombs lying around at the back of a hanger somewhere. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett The Financial Ombudsmans Service is of assistance to the Financial Services Sector because it provides an inexpensive forum for prompt dispute resolution. In my experience the service is not "against" the sector. That would be a construct put upon it most likely by people, like politicians, who have no hands-on current relevant experience in the sector, of dispute resolution, or of interaction with FOS. Most probably Tories, for whom every free to user public service is anathema. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett I am friends with a local government lawyer (since retired). Whenever, socially, i enquired how pfi was panning out, he pulled a face. It was widely understood to be a crap way to do public procurement, in terms of value for money for the taxpayer, even as it was being enthusiastically pushed by the politicians. The bottom line is politicians have no knowledge of the building of [hospitals], & no interest in acquiring it, or in recruiting the necessary expertise to commission it. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett So Sir Keir Starmer Kings Counsel & erstwhile principled human rights lawyer is to go down in British history as the Prime Minister who stamped out the long-established & proud doctrine of British political asylum that saved Albert Einstein & countless others from persecution & extermination, because he thought he'd been backed into that political corner by Nigel Farage UK Ltd incorporated? npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett As well as government ministers' privileges of issuing bent contracts to cronies, number 10 spokesorgan Organ McWeeney has thought up a second #Brexit benefit. Those 74 democratically elected MEPs we had from multiple political parties - they get replaced by one single person - our Prime Minister, who gets to go over & say whatever he likes to the EU behind closed doors. So much more democratic & accountable, esp in future should our single representative be the nicotine-stained frog. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett If Nazi domination of occupied Europe had ended in 1945 by regime change, (rather than by the suicide of its architect, ruination of german cities & occupation by foreign powers), by 1950 the Nazi press would still have been running opinion pieces on how national socialism had "been a success" and/or "could be been better implemented". npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett 5 yrs ago, the #EnglishNationalists crashed the UK OUT OF THE EU WITHOUT A DEAL ON FINANCIAL SERVICES. Our primary invisible earnings sector. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett You need a mandate Starmer. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Reformtown news. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Maybe the US will give the UK Home Office a good price for its fleet of laid-up "Go Home" vans just now? npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett It could be argued that the British Electorate were 'more aware of reputational risks' than Starmer appears to have been, when they ejected #Sunak & his party, unimpressed, to say the least, by his f-in-law being one of the richest men in India. What a pity to witness Labour falling into the same hole. Persons secretly orbiting in the sphere of oligarchs are not of suitable character to lead us out from beneath the heel of oligarchy. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett 'Anonymised nhs data' my foot. Do any of Wes Streeting 's staff have the remotest idea how time-consuming & costly it is to 'anonymise' personal data such that a person cannot be identified from it (for that is the test to be met)? UK Labour are marching up a primrose path decked out by private medicine providers, at the end of which is a perfect storm of data-breach claims. Don't go there #Labour . It emphatically, is NOT worth it. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett "The public are never wrong". Stella Creasy MP Lab Walthamstow, Chair Labour Movement for Europe. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Many Citizens think the FS industry doesn't concern them - but their pensions are massively invested in it, as the Truss experience reminded us. Those who dismiss it as being merchant bankers' bonuses (beloved of..er..merchant banker Sunak), over-lent banks, dodgy motor loans, private-equity asset strippers, insider-traders, money-launderers, russian oligarchs, tax-havens & legions of hanger-on tax advisors have a point. But the bad stuff can be regulated. Unless it isn't. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett The #FTSE has recovered from Covid, but that's the extent of it. UK #equities are dead dead dead. The daily activity is just professional-traders' "churn" as they try to take money off each other to justify their jobs. Who even wants UK gilts - a country that flushed its prosperity down the toilet & might default? Labour dreams of 'growth' are fantasy. Politicians do not create 'growth'. They may set conditions, but this lot have stopped up their ears, & switched off their brains. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett I work in the financial services industry - we may not be the country's favourite citizens, but we pay the bills. Witnessing this collective abandonment of the UK's pole position alongside New York & Tokyo on rolling 8-hour watch for 24 hour trading, is agonising. It was so predictable, but the 'pundits' stuffed their ears with wax and intoned 'will of the people'. It is still reversable imo, but every passing year kills it deader than a python parrot. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett What can be causing this investment outflow? npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett The £30.2bn divorce settlement with the EU includes Farage 's MEP pension. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Those of us who care who legislates over us, & still reeling from the brazen #EnglishNationalist abuse of Prime Ministerial power of appointment to our second chamber (think Goldsmith, Cruddas, Lebedev, Cameron, Owen, Kempsall & similar backscratchers, donors & mysterious creeps), want to see Labour renounce the power altogether, at minimum handing it over to a crossparty selection board. Ejecting Hereditory Peers is not good enough #Starmer . Get on with it. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Information sufficient to identify an NHS patient would include name, address, former adddresses, dob (as a corroborating detail), NHS number, NI number, contact details, and, i would contend, much of their medical history, which would be unique. Disclosing such information without express consent is more than breach of GDPR, it goes to the root of practitioner/patient confidentiality. Breach that code in principle, & an entire can of worms is opened. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Streeting & his commercial partners are going to get their hides sued off in the biggest data-breach GDPR class action yet seen. Patient data is confidential Streeting. What is it you fail to understand? npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Yep. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett My farmer friend, a former sole tenant of 500 acres in Cambridgeshire, employed an accountant as a matter of course. It is a business, & claimed subsidies. Kitchen table-top accounts in exercise books were not good enough for HMRC. I suspect most engage an accountant annually to audit accounts. They thereby have ready access to advice around IHT, which is not rocket science. My friend & his wife recently came to visit & were both right on top of this issue. Clarkson is an amateur. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett The strategic appraisal from Japan. Devastating for #Putin npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett "..blocked off in recent years by oil drums, concrete barriers and even barbed wire in places." npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett #Farage rarely misses an opportunity to set a sordid conspiracy-theory hare running to further his divisive narrative, disclaiming the consequences by saying he was only 'asking legitimate questions.' Before long, this motormouth, who said he'd 'pick up rifle' if #Brexit was thwarted, will overstep & get prosecuted for incitement. Then let's see what he has to say about sentencing policy. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett "Peaceful protestors shouldn't be locked up, period" said Friends of the Earth lawyer Katie de Kauwe. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett If their rationale was "take back control" , what do our Brexiter friends make of sale of Royal Mail to Mr Kretinsky, said to be a Czech billionaire ? npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett "Regulators plan to reintroduce a cap on credit [and debit] card fees of UK-EU transactions after it found that Visa & Mastercard had raised charges more than fivefold since #Brexit ". npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Whoever decided the "Oxford word of the year" should be "brain rot" plainly read PPE at Oxford, not Maths. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett A shame they were not also designed & manufactured here. Britain should be leading this post-industrial revolution Mr #Starmer , not trailing along in its wake building housing estates & bypasses. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett https://pca.st/episode/1739d281-d21b-459f-9d56-ec92f2edd689 npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett The intellectual laziness (or worse - fraud) yells itself from McSweeney's script: npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Starmer's big "plan for change" speech today dripped contempt for environmentalism. In his rush to emulate Johnson 's populist play for laughs about "newt-counters" enviro-dunce Starmer singled out bats. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett "...Now we have the upper hand" . In this sinister way, #Starmer addressed every British Citizen who ever exercised their right to register an objection to a planning application, dismissing us in a rhetorical sweep as "nimbys". npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett You are a senior politician advocating your country applies to join the #EU - your country's 'policemen' beat you senseless, destroy your offices and carry you off to interior ministry detention. Nice. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Georgian opposition politician beaten unconscious by police, party says, as government crackdown intensifies npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Some smart person in Powys cinched it, some time ago. "Brexit was the equivalent of having your library burned down by people who can't read." npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Instead of moaning on the telephone to the EU Commission chief, perhaps #Fico would be good enough to set out his 'reasoning' for his opposition to support for Ukraine for public scrutiny throughout Europe. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Farewell then Motor Vessel Ruby. Nelson's county & port bids you better fortune. Wish we could say it's been a pleasure. You are busy earning dollars for #Putin to turn into missiles. Your incompetent captain ran you aground. You dumped 300 tns of contaminated ammonium nitrate mixed with fuel oil off our swimming beaches, crab fishery & seal colonies & then departed to continue your voyage of disaster to the far-off shores of Africa. Hope you took Rupert Lowe MP with you. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Have you not yet spooted the clause in the bill entitled 'Incovenient Academics'? npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Law professors of England must now explain the core decision(s) (ratio decidendi) of this case to students. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett Fairbanks v CGL [2024] UKET 2409700/2023. Employment Tribunal dismissed the Claimant's case for Unfair Dismissal. She contended she had been dismissed because of her former councillorship for UKIP & cited four stated beliefs in evidence: "I believe the UK should be outside the EU / I oppose illegal migration / I am against the halal slaughter of animals / I would be happy to leave the ECHR". Held: these amounted to no more than opinion or viewpoint, & not underlying philosophical belief. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett The farm tax fightback deploys the 'we grow your food' submission, which is fair. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett I've read the judgment and it is very rigorously explained & persuasive. I don't rate the appellants' chances. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett bn ? Or mn? npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett My wife relates how typographical errors in the spelling by immigration & home office staff of temporary identity documents become new identities: thus one gentlemen has had bestowed on him as a first name, the name of his first temporary hotel. He has thus become Mr Brook Chang [surname amended for confidentiality]. Another, now a senior local court official, goes under the name 'Nuah' because the semi-literate & indifferent clerk couldn't be bothered to check back the correct spelling of Noah. npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett A regulation permits British ports to handle Russian ammonium nitrate, notwithstanding Ukraine War sanctions, but is revokable on a case by case basis if unsafe. This vessel & cargo is patently unsafe - why else did it put to sea to dump contaminated cargo? Addition of an oxidant to this stuff turns it into explosive. Even local Tories are now up in arms, and Lowe looks like the fool he is. Decision to dump at sea, with unspecified "contaminant" is disgusting from an environmental view. 2/2 npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett https://splash247.com/ruby-back-in-the-headlines-as-it-offloads-some-of-its-controversial-cargo-into-the-north-sea/ npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24728648.plans-travellers-site-west-dereham-norfolk/ npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett https://app.theneweuropean.co.uk/2024/11/13/magas-useful-idiots/content.html npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak Simon Flett This character Moore can do one.
