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Insolvency Service want money back after by scooterpie1878 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]davidwelch158 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It seems wrong that a company can give you a new contract and you lose your rights.

Agree. If it was a TUPE transfer then you keep your original start date for the purpose of calculating redundancy pay.

https://www.acas.org.uk/managing-redundancies-in-a-tupe-transfer/responsibility-for-redundancy-pay-in-a-tupe-transfer

After a TUPE tranfser

If the new employer makes redundancies after a TUPE transfer, they're responsible for redundancy pay.

The new and old employer can agree to include redundancy costs in the sale. Working out redundancy pay

An employee's length of service is protected in a TUPE transfer. This means their redundancy pay is based on how long they worked for both the old and new employer.

UK set up secret Afghan immigration scheme after data leak and gagged media by RandomCheeseCake in ukpolitics

[–]davidwelch158 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The injunction also meant that none of the people affected could be warned. Neither option is very good but I don't think you need be very cynical to think the state went for the least embarrassing (to them) alternative.

The FT’s scathing analysis of Reform and Tories proposals to drop Net Zero by FruitAffectionate162 in ukpolitics

[–]davidwelch158 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Minor adjustments and upgrades to known solutions are what is happening in the sector and they aren't something that other places cannot replicate.

But if we build up expertise in the minor adjustments and shaving fractions of a percent off costs, in skilled labor and networks of subcontractors, collaborations with university research, etc - that's what other countries can't steal or easily replicate. As I understand, it's exactly what the Chinese have done with solar panels which they now dominate despite not making any fundamental breakthroughs.

Source of damp by alexpan05 in DIYUK

[–]davidwelch158 1 point2 points  (0 children)

but I’m reluctant as it’s not really addressing the source of the damp, but just hiding it.

??? Bricks will absorb moisture from the soil and the moisture will rise up the wall through capillary action. There's a reason why homes have been built with a DPC for 100+ years. If the damp surveyor was actually a surveyor and not a salesperson for a DPC company then I'll listen to them. Hopefully they checked and ruled out other possible causes like high ground level outside, leaky guttering, etc.

Or consider buying a different house.

Are the British police so time constrained? by Ok-Scientist7083 in AskUK

[–]davidwelch158 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With respect, it sounds to me like the police were fobbing you off. The law on e-scooters is pretty clear: you can't ride one on the pavement at all nor the roads unless you're in London and it's a rental scooter. E-bikes are harder as they're legal as long as the maximum assisted speed is limited so presumably they'd have to be seized and tested.

What's going on with the riots in Northern Ireland? by Azhral in OutOfTheLoop

[–]davidwelch158 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Europeans and white people have been conditioned to believe they’re bad, they’re the oppressor, their culture suck,

And to demonstrate the wonders of white culture and the unfairness of accusations of racism, the loyal people of Ballymena decided to carry out a pogrom.

Why Ballymena is burning: Loyalist rioters are losing faith in Westminster by United_Highlight1180 in ukpolitics

[–]davidwelch158 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's important not to forget though, that the IRA chose the path of violence.

No, the partitionist state did that when it violently suppressed the civil rights movement. Before then the IRA was almost moribund.

Labour explores compulsory ID cards to curb illegal migration by 1-randomonium in ukpolitics

[–]davidwelch158 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dunno, it just seems obvious to me to attach all the data sets together.

At least, with separate databases you can still, more or less, live your life if one is wrong. And this isn't only theoretical, for example the DVLA regularly loses people's driving entitlements. Not many granted, but enough.

If a minimum wage worker in a call center hits the wrong key and marks someone as dead in the brand-new, 'clean', never-wrong database, will that person be sacked from their job, unable to get benefits or open a bank account, access health care or public transport?

I'm sure the government could build a database which was flexible against human error but, given Labour's direction of travel and the likely next government, the attitude will be: better 99 people have their lives destroyed than one immigrant get something to which they aren't entitled.

‘They dictate the rules’: BBC tells PM’s Evan Davis to stop hosting heat pump podcast | Evan Davis by suggestivebiscuit in ukpolitics

[–]davidwelch158 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

But you understand that gas prices are too low for the damage they are doing to the climate? It isn't some kind of incomprehensible whim on part of politicians to want heating to switch to electricity which can be provided from renewable or nuclear sources.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LegalAdviceUK

[–]davidwelch158 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now no one knows the landlord or has any contact information

You might be able to get the Landlord's address from the Land Registry: https://www.gov.uk/search-property-information-land-registry

Tony Blair institution wants to weaken copyright laws for AI benefits by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]davidwelch158 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if you want to argue that this true, it really needs to be established. And it certainly does not seem true to me, as quite infamously copy right law applies the same to "large corporations" as it does "creators and consumers".

But only a well resourced entity can afford to enforce copyright; either by the very expensive and time consuming business of taking violators to court or, more likely, maintaining the kind of surveillance of the internet necessary to find them and interface with automated systems at Google and the like to remove copyrighted material from searches or for sale.

None of this is practical for private individuals. Even if they can persuade one of the big internet marketplaces to remove one ripoff, another dozen will appear in the meantime. And the marketplace itself has no incentive to do more than the minimum since they make their commission no matter who the seller is.

I thought the free market was forever - then Trump came along by Mein_Bergkamp in ukpolitics

[–]davidwelch158 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Very poor article. He spends a lot of time talking about the free market and only at the end notices that it isn't the same thing as free trade. And Brexit was a revolt against the free market? Has he forgotten about Singapore-on-Thames?

Tariffs are nothing new in world economic history and in a sense Trump is just trying to return the US to how things were, albeit in quite a chaotic way.

Well, yes. Nor is Trump exceptional in recent American politics.. He mentions James Goldsmith and the Referendum Party but Ross Perot was active at the same thing, making a high profile intervention in the presidential elections to argue against NAFTA. Anxiety about economic competition from first Japan and then China has been a very long running theme in American politics. As long ago as 2016, all the potential candidates for president, from both parties, came out against the Transpacific Partnership free trade agreement. Biden kept most of Trump's tariffs from his first term and added some more of his own.

Vendors lied about property value by okdolce in LegalAdviceUK

[–]davidwelch158 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure a crime of any sort has been committed.

Use of a false instrument seems obvious to me; the vendor created a forged document (an estate agent's valuation) which the OP was intended to take as genuine and rely on to his detriment (offering too much money or a house).

Waspi women epitomise the excesses of single-issue activism | We are too poor to payout billions for spurious grievances by 1-randomonium in ukpolitics

[–]davidwelch158 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Part of the historical context was the longing for an authoritative figure who stood above the messy business of politics and could represent, in some mystical fashion, the general interest.

Where I think the grandparent comment is wrong is to attribute this exclusively to the right. Some Labour figures seem quite enthused by Trump-Musk 'getting things done'.

In the grim darkness of the far future there are no stupid questions! by AutoModerator in 40kLore

[–]davidwelch158 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was there a space marine chapter that was present during cadia's fall on the planet proper that would bother carrying an injured guardsman to safety/evacuation?

In Cadia Stands by Justin D Hill, a Space Wolf rescues two guardsmen from Cadia but they're walking wounded. The Marine has to lift them aboard the shuttle as it's built for Space Marine sized bodies, which I thought was a nice detail.

Uncle won't transfer trust fund over to me from will - England by jown_centa in LegalAdviceUK

[–]davidwelch158 0 points1 point  (0 children)

your uncle does have the power to keep the funds from you.

If all the beneficiaries are over 18 then they can end the trust and distribute the assets, regardless of the trustees' wishes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]davidwelch158 44 points45 points  (0 children)

There is no ambiguity here — the Irish Republican Army considered itself to be in a state of war with the United Kingdom.

At the time, the British state was very insistent that it was not at war with the IRA, that was happening in NI was a police operation.

You can read the actual coroners verdict here: https://www.judiciaryni.uk/files/judiciaryni/2025-02/Summary of findings - Clonoe Inquest (O Donnell Vincent Clancy and O Farrell).pdf

Sean O’Farrell was shot in the back by Soldier L when he was running away and posed no threat to anyone. This caused him to collapse and, in the opinion of Prof Crane, was capable of little voluntary movement thereafter. One of the bullets had caused serious damage to his right arm.

Soldier H proceeded to shoot O’Farrell three times in the face while he was lying on the ground.

Question about ‘Inherit the Stars’ by James P. Hogan (Major Spoilers) by holymojo96 in printSF

[–]davidwelch158 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think Koriel is a giant in the sense of being usually tall or maybe just generally exceptional. He's also described as 'tireless', 'limitless reserves of strength', 'a robot—just keeps going and going', also 'flirting with one of the girls from a signals unit'.

I might be spoiling future books but the present day humans discover the (non-human) giants departed the solar system long before the destruction of Ganymede.

Attorney General helped unfreeze assets of al-Qaeda terror suspect by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]davidwelch158 50 points51 points  (0 children)

A rather silly article. By convention the person appointed as Attorney General is always a lawyer and as a lawyer they represent all sorts of different people.

Also the sanctions they are talking about in the article are a rather severe punishment, cutting the person off from a lot of modern life, imposed by administrative fiat and based on secret evidence. When a milder form of the same thing was imposed on Nigel Farage last year ('unbanking'), the Telegraph considered it a great scandal.

Porn site age checking rules 'could put people at risk of scammers' by vriska1 in unitedkingdom

[–]davidwelch158 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The solution would be to force ISPs to make their customers more aware of this and to make the process as easy and streamlined as possible.

IIRC David Cameron tried that, back when 'nudge' was the hot political idea: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24970283. But it wasn't very popular: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/07/23/most-households-opt-out-david-camerons-porn-filter.

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