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I'm no expert on pensions, but this might be a good place to start for free, impartial, advice... https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en

Maton is very much pro-Wasps. He was the one they put on the radio to cheerlead the project. A slimy, disgrace of a man who hugely diminishes the office of Lord Mayor. Everything that's bad about politics is neatly captured in the incompetence and corruption of this council. And they're supposed...

Relevance? It's a politics thread. The point isn't solely to highlight your personal success, lovely as I'm sure that is for you, it's also to discuss the flaw in the policy. You'd say you've bettered yourself, but politely, as I see it you've not exactly pulled yourself out of the gutter by...

Please point me again to the place where it was called immoral? What I would say is that if you're supporting the party who are about to buy some votes by doing it again, then it's obviously up for challenge and might justifiably be considered selfish or short-sighted. In the meantime, stop...

And just to add, most countries have far more secure tenancies as well. We seem to live in a country of insecure rented housing, provided by individual buy-to-let landlords using them as a personal pension/investment plan, rented by people with diminishing job security. I don't know who this...

Hold up a moment here. I'm not for a moment saying what you did was wrong, but what you actually did was took advantage of an opportunity to buy publicly provided housing on the cheap, and then sell it later for a substantial profit. Individually that might be fair enough, but if that housing...

I think you've mistaken the English electorate for people who give a fuck about policies. They don't. Similarly, I think you've mistaken a man who looks half decent in a suit, with a tidy haircut, as someone fundamentally honest and trustworthy. He isn't. What will do for the Tories is simply...

Must. Resist. Obvious. Joke. 😁

And the remaining 37p went towards making them the richest, most successful, and best-supported club in the world, obviously. 😄

Easy mate, that's like someone saying all football fans are coke-fuelled arseholes based on the behaviour of a few of them. Some of us here support both the Coventry footy and the Coventry rugby club. Most of the fans I've met at either venue are decent enough people.

Can't beat a bit of informed guesswork, OSB, it's all we can do at the moment. So what do we know so far? Wasps haven't managed to refinance the bond. ACL haven't filed their accounts. Wasps/ACL have applied for a loan (or grant) of 13m from WMCA. I can't see these as being unrelated. How...

I think if the stadium had serious structural issues, we wouldn't get a safety certificate for all or part of it (like Blues, perhaps). But I couldn't imagine it's that serious. I also can't see any reason why CCFC would want to break their sub-lease at the moment. Similarly, even if Wasps end...

It was a bit more complex than that as I recall, but maybe we don't want to go down that rabbit hole again here. Let's just say that for a brief period, everyone involved seemed up for screwing YB over, but then they all fell out. No honour amongst thieves, is the phrase that springs to mind...

Absolutely. I don't think they're hated at the Butts, but I'm pretty sure that they're not much liked! I've been going regularly for a long time now, way before Wasps rocked up. Cov's owner was apoplectic when the deal was done in secret without their consultation, and I think he still feels...

I don't really care about the 'new' Wasps fans from Coventry. For the most part they've already found something else to do anyway, and if they really love the sport (rather than just the flags and fireworks), then Coventry RFC is freely available to them (and easier and cheaper too). Original...

You mean talking about Wasps being in difficulty? 😁

Last one of the evening, promise. Wasps have been here before of course, trying to leverage Wycombe District Council: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-14214928 Once again using the implied threat of administration/liquidation if they didn't get their way. They ended up...

Absolutely spot on. This is extremely dubious at best given his history; it is entirely improper that he didn't consult with elected officials before acting on ACL/Wasps behalf and perhaps even recuse himself from the process. We're paying this bloke approximately £200k p.a.. As someone...

That's another good call, thank you. I will pass this over too (might even hang on to a few of these ideas for when I get the boot!).

Exactly what I was thinking mate, but she's been in touch with a good few and none of them have got back to her. I genuinely thought it'd be a doddle if she wasn't too fussy...