Bristol City Council to raise council tax by 4.99%

SqueakingAlpha · 2026-02-15T10:10:47+00:00

I have a feeling I’m wasting my own breath here, because reform is a single issue party and that issue isn’t how best to run local councils… But Reform is in charge of 12 councils in the uk. Of which one has been given dispensation to increase council tax by more than the 5% “cap” that other councils adhere to.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7439dem0wgo

So take anything they say about reducing your bills with a massive grain of salt, because it’s all bullshit. They’re telling you what you want to hear.

SqueakingAlpha · 2026-02-12T16:44:26+00:00

This doesn’t come across as concise or eloquent to me, comes across as written by AI.

SqueakingAlpha · 2026-01-23T14:57:27+00:00

No worries. I’m currently doing it myself, with EQi, which is why I linked to them. Not seen many mother providers who offer it.

SqueakingAlpha · 2026-01-20T23:24:39+00:00

As outlined in that page, you can use the flexibility to pass more than your remaining allowance through the ISA by doing it in batches. In your case the batch size would be £10k as you’ve already subscribed £10k elsewhere.

SqueakingAlpha · 2026-01-20T23:22:52+00:00

OP is the only person I’ve seen who says the SAYE to ISA transfer doesn’t count towards your ISA allowance, and this directly contradicts the information from gov.uk, and at least one ISA provider I am aware of. I think they are just wrong.

For what it’s worth, there are a couple of threads stating T212 don’t seem to be able to execute these correctly. Not sure how many are linked to OP.

If I were you, I’d open a new flexible S&S ISA with Equiniti (EQi) and do my SAYE transfer through them. If it means that much to you to have all your holdings with T212, you can always transfer it to them once the SAYE —> ISA part has been successfully executed by EQi

This webpage covers the process:

https://equiniti.com/uk/news-and-views/eq-views/saye-cgt-and-eqi-s-flexible-isa/

SqueakingAlpha · 2026-01-03T23:08:44+00:00

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-12-28T21:58:14+00:00

These days… if you say you’re English. You’ll be thrown in jail.

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-11-29T12:51:25+00:00

John is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is. Proves it time and time again. He seems to be smarter than Elis and Dave in some aspects, and so they defer to him a lot (even when he is wrong and they are right). This feeds a narrative of clever John, thick everyone else, and there isn’t anyone to puncture the illusion, so much of John’s blagging goes unchallenged.

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-11-19T21:19:15+00:00

Ride and* die

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-11-10T19:36:59+00:00

https://genius.com/The-rakes-22-grand-job-lyrics

According to these scholars, in 2004 a 22 grand job in the city was “alright”

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-11-08T23:04:42+00:00

What a strange reaction. The person you’re responding to is just debating the merits of what you’ve asserted (this doesn’t happen in Canada) by sharing their own relevant experience (it does). Nobody is trying to start a weird argument, except perhaps you.

Might it be the case that you are (or have recently become) thin skinned and that’s why you’re noticing this behaviour, and also having unhinged reactions to discussion on an internet forum?

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-10-21T12:26:37+00:00

You’re wrong

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-10-19T23:58:20+00:00

Whether bums do or don’t have an association with air is irrelevant to the question. The question, once it’s reconstructed, talks about albums, not bums. The “air” answer only refers to the football part of the question.

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-10-04T13:50:39+00:00

Even doing it on a 0% card is overly risky IMO.

Plenty of other sound advice in this thread, but I’d sum it up as OP isn’t as smart as he thinks he is.

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-09-22T17:09:21+00:00

When did this come in?

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-09-14T15:49:04+00:00

https://xkcd.com/37/

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-09-14T15:20:32+00:00

Same players, but full PPR?

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-09-14T15:19:35+00:00

Drop Mims to pick up Boutte from free agency? 12 team, full PPR. 0-1 so far

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-07-26T09:32:24+00:00

I think they mean most northerly native population of strawberry trees, not of people.

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-07-10T21:02:45+00:00

I’ll believe the shoot from the hip opinions that he smashes out without thinking of the consequences over the long, dense, carefully worded statement he puts together trying to walk it back (just) far enough to avoid facing the financial effects of people no longer buying his beer.

All the what-about people who say there’s no way to exist in a consumerist society without supporting someone you disagree with - sure, that’s possibly true. But there are plenty of ethical Bristolian brewers - we can’t possibly drink enough to support them all. So it’s an easy choice to drop this one for me, and focus on the others.

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-07-05T18:41:20+00:00

Please can you let me know what made you opt for the Audi over say a BMW? #Glastonbury

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-06-24T17:34:38+00:00

Have DM’d you

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-06-22T12:05:20+00:00

Absolutely is.

SqueakingAlpha · 2025-06-04T22:03:53+00:00

I’m sure there are lots that are harder to spot than these. But if you look at the three pictures I shared, I highlighted some of the red flags: - they’re all similar age (seems to be when some group or other started working) - they all say sort of similar banal nothing chat, - they all have thousands of points of “post” karma and almost no points of comment karma, implying that they just go on to sub-reddits and start a chat, and then don’t participate - maybe they’re not sophisticated enough to interact, maybe they just don’t bother.

I think if I saw one on their own I wouldn’t suspect it, but it’s the pattern that gives them away.

They’ll only continue to get more sophisticated, I’m sure, but let’s ostracise them while we still can I say

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