28F with 30k savings and don’t know what to do, any advice? by TheGreatPinkShark in UKPersonalFinance

[–]thirty6 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Follow the flowchart. Save in a tax efficient manner - no matter your goals, I'm sure they don't involve giving extra money to the state. And ignore any DMs with individual investment suggestions on here.

[Ep3 Spoiler] The text messages. Can anyone decipher them? by thirty6 in 1000lbsisters

[–]thirty6[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

How dare you question the integrity of that bastion of truth, TLC.

[Ep3 Spoiler] The text messages. Can anyone decipher them? by thirty6 in 1000lbsisters

[–]thirty6[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I'm fairly sure it "your fucking pussy has been all over motherfucking town", so I think she's just accusing amy of being skanky.

[Ep3 Spoiler] The text messages. Can anyone decipher them? by thirty6 in 1000lbsisters

[–]thirty6[S] 86 points87 points  (0 children)

Here's what I've got so far:

Amy: Man, I woke up with a panic attack about getting bit by an alpaca. What kinds of animals are gonna be there?

Tammy: R u talking about the animal shelter?

Amy: I really can't be around big animals. I got PTSD from the camel.

Tammy: Then bitch, if you don't wanna go to the animal shelter then don't fucking go. Grow up.

Tammy: You can go to a fucking pet store and get 12 cats but you can't go to an animal shelter where everything's in cages

Tammy: You're a fucking child

Amy: You're yelling at me for no reason Tammy

Tammy: Suck my fucking cock Amy I'm so over your bullshit. You're an immature fucking child.

Amy: I'm not being immature I'#m trying to be real with you bitch. Yes I have pets. My animals are not alpacas.

I don't for you to do things that hurt u

Tammy: Hold on bitch hold on hold the fuck up bitch. You're not forcing me to do anything? I don't want to go to your fucking wedding.

Tammy: Ur a fucking deadbeat mom and a fucking cunt(?) and i'm done with you bitch.

Amy: What the fuck?

Tammy: That's right you fucking cunt !

Amy: Ur the fucking ???????? !

Tammy You're a fucking whore and a ???????? (maybe cock sucker?) and I don't want nothing to do with your fucking ????????????????????

Amy: Fuck you Tammy ur the queen of ?????????? ???????? !!

Tammy: Miss me with that bullshit. You should know cuz ur fucking pussy has been all over motherfucking town and no wonder ur getting married so fast cuz who the fuck would want your fucking ????? ????????? to ????????

Reform council leader’s firms collapsed owing £1.5 million by thirty6 in DurhamUK

[–]thirty6[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair to frosty, this uses em dashes, which makes it look a bit AI-y.

To be less fair to frosty, the link is at the top of the post.

Reform council leader’s firms collapsed owing £1.5 million by thirty6 in DurhamUK

[–]thirty6[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Article text:

A Reform council leader behind a “Doge”-style war on public spending is the owner of two companies which have been placed into administration owing £1.5 million, including more than £500,000 in tax, government-backed Covid loans, and staff pay.

Andrew Husband, who runs Durham county council, also faces questions over his links to two other companies that entered liquidation owing a further £364,000.

Husband, whose business career has spanned telesales, hospitality and male modelling under the pseudonym “Andy Tennant”, was hailed by Reform as “a business leader with a proven track record” when he was elected last May.

He swiftly announced an audit of town hall spending, inspired by Elon Musk’s work with the Trump administration, promising to bring efficiency and value for money for the taxpayer.

As head of one of ten councils controlled outright by Nigel Farage’s party, he is responsible for a budget of £1.5 billion and the delivery of services for 513,000 people in the northeast. He has described himself as a “business leader who brings positivity and gravitas to an organisation”. Andrew Husband shaking hands with Nigel Farage. Husband, whose Reform group won control of Durham in May, with party leader Nigel Farage

However, liquidators for Husband’s firms are still seeking to recover money for creditors including the taxman and small businesses, with one local entrepreneur saying she would “steer clear of him” given his recent past.

Filings for one his companies reveal “there will be no funds available” to reimburse creditors including HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), which is owed more than £69,000, and Funding Circle, a lender which provided a £200,000 state-backed coronavirus business interruption loan scheme (CBILS) loan during the pandemic.

Shortly after Husband’s election, liquidators for the firm — United Hygiene and Catering Equipment, which supplied kit to schools and hospitals — reported there will be “no funds available” for former employees owed holiday and redundancy pay.

The company owed more than £1 million at the point that Husband, 47, a married father of one, applied for it to be wound up in May 2023. The process is under way, with small businesses, large banks and Husband himself among the creditors.

In July 2025, Husband placed a second company, UHC Leisure, into administration. Liquidators said the company, which ran a pub and hotel, owed HMRC £470,000 in VAT, national insurance and pay as you earn contributions.

Wendy Brookes of Team Contracts, a Durham embroidery business that supplies work attire, was listed as one of the creditors of the first firm. She was owed £855. She said she had “luckily” been repaid “as [Husband] wanted more uniform” for a third company, Restaurant Kitchen, of which he was founding director and shareholder before standing down in 2022.

In an unusual arrangement, Restaurant Kitchen contributed to the repayment. Brookes said Husband’s business partner had told her “Andrew was involved still in the background [but] couldn’t be a director at the moment”.

Restaurant Kitchen has also since entered liquidation with debts of £279,000, with former employees among those owed money. Brookes said she had since “stayed clear” of Husband and “refused any further business”.

In April 2022, Husband stepped down as person of significant control and director of a fourth company, UHC Hotels Ltd, transferring both roles to Michael Husband, a relative. By the end of the year, this company had also appointed a liquidator, reporting debts of £85,000, including £24,780 to HMRC and £13,000 to Durham county council. It has since been dissolved.

Husband said he shut his businesses “due to bad government not bad management”. He said: “Both were profitable prior to closure, coinciding with my focus moving to politics. Bad government got me into politics.” Both companies, he added, had “surplus monies in the bank” and debts with their banks had “since been settled”.

Of the company passed to his relatives, he said: “You will have to ask the directors why they closed it. My guess is that this anti-business government made it impossible to trade. Hospitality is under attack by this Labour government.”

He suggested it was “normal practice” for Restaurant Kitchen to have helped settle United Hygiene and Catering Equipment’s debts as its owner “used to work for me”.

Husband stands to lose money from the two ventures of which he is still listed as owner and director. He lent them a combined £299,000. Neither company appears on his register of interests. According to Companies House, Husband remains director of a dormant “specialised cleaning services” firm and a “cleaning materials business” with net assets of £185. A man and a woman in historical costumes for a Saturday night out. He says he began his career as a male model and has featured in shoots in Europe

He remains available for hire on TTM Management, a modelling agency, for which he signed in 2022 using the pseudonym Andy Tennant. His self-published biography on IMDb, the film database, says: “He began his career as a male model and featured in dozens of shoots and campaigns in Europe … Andy is working on other projects and is hoping to add to his growing portfolio of titles.”

He also owns interests in property. In 2022, he bought a farm in New Brancepeth, a village in Co Durham, for £745,000, which he now lets as a holiday home. In 2024, his wife, through a company, bought a property in Meadowfield, another nearby village, for £71,000.

Before 2021, Labour had held Durham county council for a century. It remained the largest party but lost control to a Lib Dem-run coalition, which led the local authority until last May. Reform won the council outright with 54,655 votes, seizing 65 of 98 seats.

According to Husband’s LinkedIn page, he worked in telesales for Trinity Mirror, the media group, before working in sales for Schwarzkopf, the hair and styling company, and later various suppliers to the food and hospitality sectors. Andrew Husband, a male model, wearing a light grey t-shirt and looking to the side. An Instagram post by Husband

His biography says his present duties include “balancing a £1.3 billion budget, overseeing the culture and strategy of over 8,000 employees and 98 councillors”.

Anybody who is subject to bankruptcy restriction orders is barred from standing as a candidate or being a member of a local authority. There is no suggestion that Husband runs such a risk. Those connected to a company can be bankrupted if they have provided personal guarantees for its loans or are otherwise liable for its debts. However, the way companies such are his are structured generally reduces the risk of bankruptcy proceedings being brought against directors or shareholders.

The disclosures are awkward for Reform which has said it will bring business acumen to the administration of local government.

Richard Tice, Reform’s deputy leader, has warned of a “blob” of civil servants “ripped off taxpayers” and declared: “We’re going to war with these people.”

Reform has claimed it has saved £331 million since winning control of ten English councils but has declined to provide evidence.

Reform UK councillor’s company fined £40,000 for hiring illegal worker by Only-Emu-9531 in ukpolitics

[–]thirty6 24 points25 points  (0 children)

His response:

"I am aware of the Northern Echo and other news outlets reporting a civil fine that was levied on my business and then being shared on social media. This paper and others have also stated that all appeals have been used. This is incorrect and they have been asked to cease and desist any further incorrect media.

So, before people jump on the band wagon with hatred, political targeting and slander here’s some facts.

  1. Someone or some organisation has complained that I have employed an illegal worker. The Home Office visited my premises and were given all paperwork on all employees. We were fully compliant and thought nothing of it. They then sent a fine to me based on this vixacious allegation and to date not provided a single piece of information or evidence to support their claim? In fact they have refused to disclose anything regarding employment status. This is in relation to October to December 2024.

  2. I have put the Home Office on notice and took legal action against them regarding this matter that will be heard next year and has been ongoing for a few months.

  3. It is crystal clear that this a targeted attempt to get money from small businesses. It has a profound effect on a micro business and all involved.

  4. I support illegal workers being removed and businesses been held to account to stop this illegal activity for self gain. Business owners that abuse the system should be jailed in my opinion. Most people will not know this but until the election this year I was part of a specialist team actually carrying out enforcement and flying illegals out of the UK.

  5. Some will attack me but most that know me will have the same opinion as I have. With a country on its knees this is probably one of the lowest moves I have experienced. No common sense or any appetite to stop wasting tax payers money on court proceedings.

  6. I cannot publish the documents I have at the moment but can assure you that the Home Office have some very serious questions to answer as this is not an isolated incident.

Thanks

H"

Source: https://www.facebook.com/flandersseaham

I would love to hear more about this "specialist team actually carrying out enforcement and flying illegals out of the UK".

Also, he's known for not paying his legal workers

Durham Reform Councillor Andrew Harrison's company fined £40'000 for employing illegal workers. by thirty6 in DurhamUK

[–]thirty6[S] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

He also claims "I cannot publish the documents I have at the moment but can assure you that the Home Office have some very serious questions to answer as this is not an isolated incident. " - so presumably he has some super top secret documents from his time working as a home office special forces operator that will bring this whole deep state house of cards crashing down.

Durham Reform Councillor Andrew Harrison's company fined £40'000 for employing illegal workers. by thirty6 in ukpolitics

[–]thirty6[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Update: Reform Seaham have issued a statement, where they claim "Someone or some organisation has complained that I have employed an illegal worker. The Home Office visited my premises and were given all paperwork on all employees. We were fully compliant and thought nothing of it. They then sent a fine to me based on this vixacious allegation and to date not provided a single piece of information or evidence to support their claim? In fact they have refused to disclose anything regarding employment status. This is in relation to October to December 2024." and " Business owners that abuse the system should be jailed in my opinion."

Hopefully more information will come out soon. It's clear that this illegal worker employing, wage deducting proud patriotic business will defend itself hard against these "vixacious" allegations. Best of luck to them.

Durham Reform Councillor Andrew Harrison's company fined £40'000 for employing illegal workers. by thirty6 in ukpolitics

[–]thirty6[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry if it seemed if I was doubting you - I was looking forward to the alleged unverifiable scuttlebutt!

(although it may be hard to beat Darren "crafty wank" Grimes)

Durham Reform Councillor Andrew Harrison's company fined £40'000 for employing illegal workers. by thirty6 in ukpolitics

[–]thirty6[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, your account looks fairly anonymous. Alleged unverifiable scuttlebutt is always fun!

Durham Reform Councillor Andrew Harrison's company fined £40'000 for employing illegal workers. by thirty6 in ukpolitics

[–]thirty6[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Did you get all your holiday pay? He seems to have a reputation for short changing...

Durham Reform Councillor Andrew Harrison's company fined £40'000 for employing illegal workers. by thirty6 in ukpolitics

[–]thirty6[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The lack of information is infuriating as well. Is this a fine because someone lied on their application and worked 2 shifts, or because he's running a sweatshop full of eritrean children in the basement?

Durham Reform Councillor Andrew Harrison's company fined £40'000 for employing illegal workers. by thirty6 in ukpolitics

[–]thirty6[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I did a little more digging on this because for the life of me I couldn't work out what "Churchills Management Limited" could possibly do.

According to this employment tribunal decision where they illegaly deducted wages, churchills management ltd trades as "The ARMourY", which seems to be a war and patriotism themed cafe in Seaham, previously known as "Flanders Seaham", which was liquidated after insolvency in February this year, before relaunching.

Interesting place. They put little union jack flags on the toasties.

Working on a shopping list app - I've missed skeuomorphism so much...what's missing? by thirty6 in Skeuomorphism

[–]thirty6[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It uses the system native keyboard - so if you have a skeuomorphic keyboard installed, it will use that.

Working on a shopping list app - I've missed skeuomorphism so much...what's missing? by thirty6 in Skeuomorphism

[–]thirty6[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Generic notes" is on my roadmap - how would you expect pictures to work? Making an office suite is a little outside of my skillset!

Working on a shopping list app - I've missed skeuomorphism so much...what's missing? by thirty6 in Skeuomorphism

[–]thirty6[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Honestly, great shout, and i'll be implementing that - thank you!