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EnglishinWales

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  1. £2K clean-up costs? Him and some mates over a weekend with some rubber gloves, some hot water, some bicarb and vinegar, some paint, some bin bags...maybe a skip-hire...all costs £2,000?? He must have used a cleaning company. He didn't need to do that. I haven't got any sympathy.

  2. On 10/29/2019 at 20:56, prozac said:

    You are so sarcastic today, have you been in the red wine 

    I don't think it was sarcasm. It's been studied and even books written. Here's an advert, sorry, article, in the Mail for a book about it. Granted this is about peasant life under the manor system and constraints of the Church but even that sounds better than working 40 hrs a week in a call centre under a Tory government.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3916280/Feeling-overworked-Research-reveals-medieval-peasants-SEVEN-TIMES-vacation-average-American-employee.html

  3. I didn't mean peasants who were just slaves of manor lords. I meant before then when people lived in clans or tribes. Apart from the busy periods of Spring planting and lambing and Autumn Harvesting, along with hunting and fishing, their life was quite leisurely.

    Small-holdings today can't compare as they are run for profit, often on rented land. The costs involved mean they have to work it like a career. I was talking about really old times when there was no rent to pay and so no need to work flat out. People just cultivated or reared enough to feed their families.

  4. 'Jobs' were what people used to do in addition to working around their farm. Bit of thatching or blacksmithing or weaving here and there. Nobody needed to work 40+ hrs a week to survive except slaves.

    Then the land was enclosed and small farms were gobbled up by the aristocracy. They told us don't worry you can have jobs working for us in these things we've invented called factories, mines, docks and mills.

    Hence we became slaves but because they let us earn money we didn't perceive it. Even when we had to pay to live on land our ancestors lived on for free we still didn't perceive.

    Now that the slave work, sorry - jobs, are disappearing the only answer for the majority is to return to the land, as owners; not as tenants or seasonal workers.

    A land value tax will get the aristocracy off the land and return it to the people. Over 50% of England is owned by around 1% of the population so it may take awhile but ... it's either that or revolution.

  5. The establishment will soon have to choose: either pay citizens a survival income or give them the land back.

    Around 70% of the land is owned by around 0.6% of the population. To pay rent or mortgage we need money. If there's not enough jobs for everyone we need something to help. If the government don't want to pay everyone a monthly payment so they can avoid becoming homeless then they could always give them the land back.

    Tax the aristocracy off the land and give it back to the people.

  6. No, according to the Postal Services Act 2000 it is illegal to open mail that does not have your name on it. Mail addressed to someone who is obviously not you at your address still counts. Just mark it 'Addresse Goneaway' large and clear on the front and put it back in the post box.

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