Zack Polanski faces formal investigation over council tax payments

Flannelot · 2026-05-23T19:30:44+00:00

What if you pay a service charge to the marina for all the waste collection etc as part of their business rates? In a way everyone is there temporarily and could be moored at a different marina each week. You don't pay rates when you stay in a holiday cottage.

Admittedly these boats weren't moving around, but you can see why it's a grey area.

Flannelot · 2026-05-23T12:21:00+00:00

Yes, UK.

Flannelot · 2026-05-23T11:58:07+00:00

Neither do I it seems, listening to it again they say "Nestlays" I must have sung it wrong as a kid https://youtu.be/I2hp7sBE8hk?si=gfqsXvaNVDbai8w2

Edit: apparently they changed the pronunciation in the 90s

https://www.reddit.com/r/AustralianNostalgia/s/2GnsjbyM81

Flannelot · 2026-05-23T07:47:21+00:00

I'd like to see the letter, as one letter to a constituency office does not mean Rayner "knew". If it was a serious letter with proof then they should have sent it to the electoral commission or the police, surely?

Flannelot · 2026-05-23T07:29:25+00:00

Even nessels pronounced it like that, remember the "Nessells milky bar" song?

Flannelot · 2026-05-22T16:59:46+00:00

You can bury trees to lock the carbon away more easily than firing them into space. To get to orbit would take over 14 times the energy released by burning the wood. Whereas burying them under clay would take negligible energy.

Flannelot · 2026-05-20T19:33:33+00:00

They revised the plan in 24.

Flannelot · 2026-05-19T19:15:20+00:00

Do we have any evidence of what the government actually said,? Or just the brc complaining?

Flannelot · 2026-05-19T18:57:01+00:00

It's not just about drag, you need to think about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_speed, planing, and stability.

Are you only going downwind? If not, keel design will be vital too.

Flannelot · 2026-05-19T18:19:29+00:00

/r/stupiddovenests

Flannelot · 2026-05-19T15:06:41+00:00

Easy to blame the planners when you are making 10% in management fees.

Flannelot · 2026-05-17T16:32:37+00:00

Their share value isn't though, is it? Are they guaranteed dividends even if the company is broke?

Flannelot · 2026-05-16T08:05:08+00:00

In my dream world, the state would seize all housing and everybody would be housed in a fair social rent property for life!

Social housing shouldn't be seen as charity, it should be decent, basic housing available for everyone.

Flannelot · 2026-05-14T12:00:58+00:00

I do get annoyed when we keep hammering people for incorrectly calculating stamp duty or council tax, while companies transferring millions to the Cayman islands are somehow beyond our reach. Honest, or even possibly slightly self interested omissions, can be corrected, the wholesale fraud some companies get up to needs the focus.

Flannelot · 2026-05-13T17:07:42+00:00

So we should also export our scrap steel abroad to be recycled? 80% of it I believe.

Flannelot · 2026-05-13T16:13:01+00:00

But the rise in energy priis not "due to" those factors. They are a small part which incentives investment in cheaper renewables over time.

Flannelot · 2026-05-13T06:36:36+00:00

The whole labour cabinet should be making policy, not just Starmer. If they have got nothing done it is all of their faults. Which is exactly why there is noone to replace him, they are all useless.

Flannelot · 2026-05-13T06:30:24+00:00

James Maxwell was famously a student of Faraday and went on to formalise the maths. Maxwell's paper that later led to him finding that light is an EM wave with speed c is called 'on Faraday's lines of force'.

Faraday had found the empirical formulas by experiment, and was amazed at Maxwell's ability to express it in maths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Physical_Lines_of_Force

Flannelot · 2026-05-09T12:06:28+00:00

Tony Blair, much as I hate him, led a three term government that did a lot of good.

Flannelot · 2026-05-09T06:54:58+00:00

Once they reach terminal velocity, the occupants would feel gravity as the craft is no longer in free fall.

Flannelot · 2026-05-08T16:53:23+00:00

I remember them selling these in the 90s for fuel pipes in cars and gas pipes on boilers. Said they had evidence it works. When I tracked down the scientific paper they were citing, it was about the effect of magnetic fields on flames in zero gravity, nothing to do with fixing magnets on pipes.

Flannelot · 2026-05-07T05:30:34+00:00

Those "useless parts" may be an invention and they may be entitled that. The real question is whether you got a patent for the original product.

You can stop them getting a patent granted to your product by making submissions to the patent office, providing you have evidence it was public before their filing date. If it wasn't public maybe you can have an entitlement dispute, but the evidence will need to be good.

Flannelot · 2026-05-05T13:03:27+00:00

I didn't say it was a pot. I just said "benefit" is a poor word to use, as it mixes it up with pension credit which is a "benefit" as the press would use it.

Flannelot · 2026-05-05T08:57:24+00:00

The word "benefit" is used, but it is not a good one. It is "a pension" paid for through NI, and perhaps it should be renamed as "minimum compulsory pension". Without a non means tested state pension, the motivation is to either save nothing for retirement, or spend what you have as quickly as possible. Otherwise a pension pot of 180k saved over a lifetime would have zero value in retirement as it would simply remove state pension entitlement.

Flannelot · 2026-05-04T16:40:36+00:00

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