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It could just be wave after wave after wave…day after day. Add in cruise missiles and your air defences could eventually run dry I say this on the backdrop the Russians have overwhelmed NATO’s ability to produce the kit fast enough for Ukraine, namely air defence and artillery so productions already been stretched as is

Element of being held hostage, I don’t doubt Isreal would use their nukes if Iran manages to overwhelm Isreal which could happen without American backing

Wouldn’t the objective be though to exhaust their counter measures. These drones are relatively cheap

Agreed and it's where the UK middle/lower classes go wrong where they strive (pay fortunes) to get their kids into private education. It's still an uphill battle if you then don't have the wealth to 'buy' your kids a top job in a firm somewhere afterwards.

Yep, I do find it ridiculous how even those named on a prior will don't even have a a legal right to notification it's been changed. It's an absolute farce. I do believe with Scottish law you are legally in better water to give 'something' to all your kids, even if it's a token amount rather than completely freezing them out. I'm not an expert but I do wonder if it was with this in mind. I do trust my sister, she's in a better financial position than I am however it's just another reason how you shouldn't operate on the basis you're going to inherent a penny from anyone. The rug can be pulled from beneath you far more easily than you think.

I don't see the difficulty to be honest. All direct family members with a stake (and those being named as frozen out) are invited to attend and a neutral party i.e. solicitor) has to be present. If those people don't attend then it can still proceed but it's got to be far more robust than what I've heard about. It's got to be better than the ludicrous situation where where the process suddenly becomes robust post death when the person in question isn't even around anymore. It's absurd.

If you have a sibling in not too great a financial position in their 40's-50's you need to watch them like a hawk around your parents. I'm going to be sexist here but from what I've seen it tends to be daughters (single/divorced) where the benefit gravy train is running its course (kids nearly adults) and they're renting or the mortgage is still huge.

I wouldn't say difficult, but something at least more secure that's trustworthy. I've seen one extreme where someone supposedly changed their will on the same day they were in hospital having an operation. Too many times elderly parents are being held hostage by one controlling son/daughter.

Very good ideas on the transparency of changing wills. It would however deprive the legal sector from cashing in on highly lucrative and contentious cases so it'll never happen.

Me and my partner don't need either of our parents money now and we're both 40, the mortgage is gone. In general the millennials I know who will 'need'' their parents money are the ones who lived over extravagant lifestyles to their income or never really bothered with a career. I know one lad who simply lived his life (and still does) on the guarantee who will just inherit his parents house. Perhaps but in my circles it's certainly become a double edged sword. The rich historically gave their kids a superior education but it wasn't a bed of roses. They were very cold/hard with their kids, packing them off to boarding schools or the army etc. From what I'm seeing the middle class are making their kids or grandkids lives too comfortable and they're going to struggle in adulthood. I'm seeing it now with mid twenties sons with just no intention of stepping up to run the family business or secure a career post education. Sitting in education until your early twenties doesn't prepare them for a working life, it doesn't by default give you the drive to get up at 6:30 in the morning go to work for 40 years.

If interest rates stick, you might get sick.

Nope, it's the inverse. lol Remainers once crowed about the importance of freedom of movement and how economically beneficial it was yet they're now suddenly turning on a dime and are today suggesting it should have been curbed all along and we should accept economic decline. Afterall, who will serve you your coffee in pret without an East European being able to hop on a flight to fill those jobs?

In my youth I crossed paths once with a pair of wacko doctors with an utterly sh1te theory, see below link. I had heat exhaustion, had a few nights in Middlesbrough hospital and these morons decided to interview me behind my parent's back on the basis if I was being molested. No grounds for this line of questioning but they were obsessed about secret devil worship cults which was the vogue thing to do back in the 80's. Thankfully I was old enough to see through their loaded questions. They ended up being booted out but they are still practising to this day, unbelievable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_child_abuse_scandal This trans thing has just been rinse repeat the next morally questionable vogue thing doing the rounds, plugging kids with hormones blockers on a complete whack job theory and people slapped themselves on their backs of what a great idea it was. They've permanently damaged people for life on this.

Or as it turns out he's been vindicated for speaking out. Said it before and I'll say it again...You're a prize imbecil. The findings of a major review that concluded that medical treatment in children’s gender care has been based on weak evidence has shone a spotlight on the need to “exercise extreme caution” in this area, the Prime Minister has said. The Cass Review’s final report, published on Wednesday, said children have been let down by a lack of research and evidence on the use of puberty blockers and hormones, in a debate that it said has become exceptionally toxic.

I'll believe it when I see it. I think you are seeing people reacting to the declining living standards, i.e nose diving productively. You you expecting people to and people actually doing it are two separate matters. i.e. don't expect people to get overly animated about highly contentious matters like the end of the world whilst people will be more worried about the end of the month. Especially when the same elite merrily justify wars but tell you to worry about the environment. What's the carbon footprint of those bombs we send to Ukraine yet it's civilian air travel that keeps them up at night.

I'm talking about the decline in economic opportunity that'll naturally come with less air travel. How will they offset that or do you honestly believe people will just sit in blightly in their grey two bed terraced and be content with this whilst people in other countries won't have to abide by any of it.

In what way did that method work considering the explosion in vaping? Taxing cigs or flights will just drive other methods/solutions. You're also not getting my other point. If they ban or make air travel excessive expensive people would rather leave the country for good and plant themselves in the vast array of other jurisdictions who simply won't replicate this. It's not just a pollution excuse, there's clearly a push to limit peoples freedom of movement irrespective of the mode of traffic. Your grandchildren may enjoy cleaner air but it'll be in an economic wasteland.

Yes it would be 'nice' but that doesn't negate my initial point. People alive today won't care and won't go along with it.

Smoking nicotine hasn't gone anywhere. People WILL find a way to carry on travelling irrespective. You'd see channel crossings become a regular two way run in this scenario.

and offset it with what? There's women in my office who like their trips to Dubai, they'd rather die than give it up because it comes with opportunities they simply won't get being chained to Britain. I also sit with that camp because frankly in the cosmos of time no ones going to remember or mount a statue of me for sticking to my carbon limits. Especially when the rich will carry on blowing through theirs. When the sun eventually goes supernova human pollution won't matter a jot. I'm personally not going to beat myself up on this subject either.

But it's selling it. I'm positive the UK political class also realise they need to reduce the welfare bill too yet no one wants or can do it. It's political suicide The average western woman is NOT going to give up travel.

And therefore electoral suicide.

Most people don't care and never will.

Well that and they’d have to abide by UK employment laws/rights. I get your point but you’re comparing apples to oranges. There’s no such employment rights over in India, they can and do treat them as slaves of which there’s an abundance of. As per Fromages point it’s a conflict of interest alone given the wealth in the family, where it’s located and what external forces truly drive Sunak. Does the man really care about British employment rights as per the thread title given his wealthy step dad will be in his ear? I somewhat doubt it.

What with live in servants? I'm talking about servants who fetch you water from the kitchen, a permanent driver on hand who will ensure the car is sufficiently cooled via the air con ten minutes before you leave your mansion. The average upper caste Indian has never had to put petrol in a car before. The only reason the one I used to work with learned was because she had to move to England and adjust to a culture where no such slave class existed. When Sunak no doubt visits his family in India that'll be his lifestyle and the privileges that it comes with. Sorry Stewy, it's nothing like living in Stockton in a 4 bed detached cheap on the basis it's in an economic waste land.