@PokeMarr As a Brit (I know it's been fractious), I'm fully jealous of the abundance of species you lot get at your feeders. Happy with my lot, but overwhelmed at this list🤣
@SaulFaust@MichaelRosenYes I have seen Michael, first hand, describing his experiences as a Jewish man to people at a meet and greet at my theatre speaking about the differences and similarities between Yiddish and Polish languages. I'm sorry but you have him wrong if you don't think he's proudly Jewish.
Was a privilege to work with @MichaelRosenYes today. His show "Nice" had it's second ever showing at my theatre today, and it was fantastic. Anyone who has any opportunity to see him live should take it with both hands- a wonderful man with a wonderful show.
This is the sensible response to the nonsense. Boaters shouldn't be exempt from mooring tax, but councils shouldn't be asked to chase them. This is a good solution in theory
It’s not about evading tax because they think it is unfair, it is the fact that multiple councils and public bodies have gone along with what has been happening in practice because it’s more convenient for everyone involved.
On your reading of the legislation, anyone who lives residentially on a boat needs to be paying council tax, even if they move that boat every few weeks. But you haven’t explained how that will possibly be administered or enforced.
Instead of different councils chasing constantly moving boats and having to provide them with services that will often cost the council more than they raise, why don’t we raise an equivalent fee on boaters which a central boat authority can administer based on the licence data that they hold. The fee could pay for boater-based services like rubbish collection and contribute to the public good by paying for the maintenance of the canal network & towpath which all of the public get to use for free but which councils don’t pay for.
Perhaps we could call this equivalent a ‘boat licence fee’ & have the Canal & River Trust administer it?
This discussion of who is the best person for Hislop to break down in public life is pretty disgraceful. Satire is one thing, this is just "who is the best worst thing for this country for me". Our media is disgusting.
It's difficult to put into words just how unrecognisable this nonsense from Labour is when comparing to the hope they gave us under Corbyn, and even Miliband. It must be embarrassing for so many of the people that have stayed in the party that don't share these morals.
The independent advisor to the government on antisemitism here, playing the switcheroo to blame the green party for antisemitic attacks on the green party leader. Just have to love the democratic, anti racist nature of this country