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Yep, my kids are grown up but Christmas with them is still special. Having a grandchild adds to the magic. The best thing is as simple as all being together, eating and laughing together, and having a great time. Splendid time of the year.

A decent cheddar is hard to beat.

That's them. Shitty little ultra processed things.

Are you more of a laughing cow man Whelk?

Able

Blue brie I have never tried, but sounds immense. Will see what I can find tomorrow.

What are the policies that labour have implemented that have increased the costs to landlords? It's a simple question. The honest answer is none. Have the bollox to concede that.

I've acknowledged that it's more difficult to crank up rent in the future. Duck's claim, however, is that labour have implemented policies which have increased the costs to landlords. That's a different issue.

I repeat - what are the labour implemented policies, directly relevant to increasing costs to landlords? The only increases are taxes. If your energy ratings were shit you'd have to address those, but otherwise, apart from future net profit being squeezed by tax, you've not faced any increases. You also have to crank rent now before the Act limits that. Be honest, you just want more cash in your pocket. Don't trot out this pony.

We bought some of their smoked, it was very good. We also discovered the Wensleydale/fruit cake combination. Bloody amazing.

Baked camembert is amazing. I roast garlic with it and toast the bread lightly. Amazing combo. We went to Wensleydale when we did a Yorkshire road trip earlier this year. The cheese tasting was good, and we came away with some cracking cheeses.

Cheese is the elixir of life. If I must pick a favourite it's barkham blue, but throw a decent (but not crunchy) mature cheddar my way and I'm a happy man. Best accompaniment is quince jelly. The second best jelly after ky.

Indeed. There hasn't been any labour implemented direct costs increases to landlords. Suggesting otherwise is bollox. He can only be referring to the increased rental income tax rate, so wants more rent to offset the extra, and/or he's cranking up the rent before he's limited to how much he can fleece the tenants after the Act is implemented. Nothing to do with greed though. It's all on Rach.

That's more like it!

I said viable.

Bizarre response - I haven't agreed with much that Starmer has done. All I've done is highlighted that he hasn't increased costs to landlords. He's taking away s21 and limiting the ability to crank up rents, but that's not increasing costs to landlords. Please point to the costs to landlords that labour have introduced. Sure, landlords will put rents up, but there are no increases from labour to landlords which have led to that.

Yep, but no government since has addressed the problem to be fair. Private landlords are the only option for most people unfortunately.

Yep, constant focus on the problem is pointless and solves nowt. I'm still waiting for someone to tell what the viable solution is.

The rent reform change will limit future rent increases but that isn't a cost increase.

I doubt they would have given a monkeys. The same applies in white colour boxing, which is scarily dangerous. AJ/Paul size/ability differences are common, but it's all about the money. The way AJ was fighting, I think he was aware of the risk, and despite the pre fight words, he didn't want to seriously hurt the bloke. The KO punch could have been to the temple, but he went for the jaw instead.

Another Venezuelan oil tanker seized. https://news.sky.com/story/us-seize-another-tanker-off-coast-of-venezuela-13486172 All sorts wrong with this. It seems that Venezuela's choice is accept it's tankers will be seizes so stop exporting, or respond in some way and see themselves attacked. The pretext that the oil cash is used (presumably by the oil exporters) to fund drug exports (narco terrorism FFS) is as stupid as anything Trump has said.

Yep. 9 attempts to wrestle AJ down. Pathetic. Credit to the bloke for stepping in the ring though, and for bagging Jutta Leerdam.

It's a transparent persona. I'm ignoring the bloke. There are posters I don't always agree with on politics - Turkish, Iansums, and others - but they're honest and reasonable. I know this isn't the real world, but have a bit of authenticity.

It's the focus on negativity, and made up information, that grates. Sure, labour aren't doing great after being dealt a shit hand, but there are successes. You yourself focused on some negatives yesterday, and with factual inaccuracy. I balanced with some factual positives. I've never voted labour and probably never will, but the whole anti Starmer/labour environment we're in (in not talking this forum) is pathetic. People out there talk as if Starmer has somehow changed policy to invite illegal immigrants in, and open up the country, without any understanding of the facts or reality. You then get the likes of Duck suggesting that the huge reduction in net migration is a negative when we all know he'd be whining if it hadn't reduced. That's completely disingenuous of him and doesn't make for sensible discussion.

Indeed. It was a disingenuous post.