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I do have 2 other screenshots of another item delivered by Wigan DO 5 weeks apart for the same item, same signed photo not signed by me, but to give them credit they did well to deliver it eventually seeing that it looked like it had been left under a bush somewhere and my address had faded and the print had run in the rain

The postman suggested that I should leave Wigan out of part of the address

And don't get me going on about the bin men, or the Councils "DEAL"

Or Windows 11 and continually failing updates

In view of recent events it is time that someone was sent to separate the mouth of Omid Scobie from the rest of his body. What an obnoxious person he is.

"What an obnoxious person he is"

Where there is money to be made there is an Omid Scobie.

https://wigan-peers.forumotion.com/t9106-scobie-rears-his-head-again

Was in Preston the other day and found that petrol was 2 rupees higher than elsewhere................

Talking of money

Bl**dy footballers !!!!!!!
Paid zillions of pounds a year for kicking a leather ball on a field.
The average salary for Premiership players 2023 to 2024 is £3,262,656 pa
The highest paid Premiership player is Kevin De Bruyne, with a Gross Annual Salary of £20,800,000 pa.
Admin, you should try to get on the payroll at Man City !!!!!! LOL

When you think what other folk are paid ;-
The average adult annual UK pre-tax salary is around £34,900 pa
The average registered nurse salary in the United Kingdom is £34,916 pa
The average UK salary for Middle Management is £50,233 pa
Salaried general practitioners (GPs) in England earn £68,975 to £104,085 depending on the length of service and experience.
The prime Minister, running this country gets an annual salary of £167,391, not that he bl**dy deserves it LOL !!!!!.

Actually, Ray, I did apply for a strikers position a few weeks ago,,,

then when they had all got up off the floor and the laughter died away........

I think the only striker's role you could do is organising the players to go on strike for more money !!!! LOL

US Presidential election race.
I can’t believe that in the whole of America there are only two candidates in the running.
Trump, a player with a dodgy track record and disreputable past.
Biden, the current incumbent President, who is 81 years old with a suspect memory, and if he’s elected, will be 85 years old at the end of his next term.
These two people from a US population of 330 million plus, unbelievable.

Scary, or what.

One of these two people will be in charge of the worlds largest economy...and weapons...!!!..

What a truly appalling state of affairs, that has made me so mad !!!!!
I hope that info is circulated on social media.
It’s time the pensioners and silver voters of this country rose up and be a voice to be heard.
I am unlikely to vote Tory in the upcoming elections for many reasons, but they have done nothing for us older retired folk.
Thanks for that info Admin.

It was circulated on social media in 2018, he retired in January of that year. Fact check says

The former-permanent secretary to the Department for Work and Pensions, who oversaw part of the process of increasing the state pension age to 68, did retire at 61 with this pension pot. But civil servants don’t make policy decisions, meaning he didn’t decide to raise the age himself.

https://fullfact.org/online/permanent-secretary-pension-age/#:~:text=A%20Facebook%20post%20making%20a%20number,over%20a%20million%20times%20on%20Facebook.&text=A%20Facebook%20post%20making,million%20times%20on%20Facebook.&text=post%20making%20a%20number,over%20a%20million%20times

Thanks for that Lolly, it still makes me mad.
Even if he didn’t personally decide on the age increase, he was ‘in the loop’.
When you think that he is retiring on probably two and a half times the average adult annual salary.

That's a private pension is it not, which usually be used from the age of 55, hope he can manage on the £1.8 million until he receives his state pension

Good post Admin

Ex-Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson defected to Reform UK after refusing to apologise for claims Islamists had "control" of London Mayor Sadiq Khan.

He is a controversial figure, but he says it as it is and sometimes he says things others don’t like in this “don’t upset anybody. politically correct” world.

I particularly liked that “I want my country back” comment of his.

I'm keeping an eye on this man. I have a lot of respect for him and suspect that many others do also. Watch the 'Reform' party at the polls.....

Just a point...a good point...!!!

BBC reports that 24% of 5 to 7 year olds now have their own have smartphone.
First of all apart from the say £35 per month rental costs or £250 to buy a cheaper phone what about all the dreadful things out there on the internet.
How do you stop them coming into contact with all the adult content and social media problems out there?
They are going to grow up devoid of human contact and interaction and with no social awareness.

I remember someone telling me years ago that if you went to the doc and said you had a "bad back" you were given a doctors note. It was the belief that no one could prove you had a "bad back" and you got a week off work.

He wants to end the ‘Sick note culture’, I’m all for that in principle, there are far too many people scrounging on the dole, but like everything else there is another side, there are genuine people out there who have long term debilitating conditions, so how do you discriminate?, probably by medical intervention.
That will be a lengthy and costly process if you are referred from the Job Centre, but surely it will be repaid in the reduction of dole payments.