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Osoderi:Do you really want to get on the road driving among other people without having a firm grasp of the basic theoretical aspects of it? What road signs mean and how you should react to them, what you should do when there's a hazard up ahead etc. You say you'll be driving your husband's car but bear in mind that unlike an instructor's, there won't be a second set of pedals he can use to take control if you're endangering yourself or other road users. Prepping for the theory test takes a couple of days to a couple of weeks depending on how much time you put into it. I can't see any good reason not to settle down and do it before you get on the road. You can, legally, but I don't think it'd be prudent. |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2k713lvpno Very interesting article on the rise of Nigerian cuisine - and particularly high-end restaurants. Will make it a point to visit at least one of these soon, for the culture. |
ReesheesuKnack:Amen. And when she does, may she be a better person not just in accomplishments and positions attained, but also in values and morality. |
Just for clarity, what Badenoch said was NOT about migrants aspiring for more, because the liars have arrived. She said absolutely nothing about migrants's aspirations, their contributions, efforts etc. It was about immigration specifically and how the country needs to watch who it brings (in reference to her previous comments about how not all cultures are equal) and not just let in people who will wipe bottoms. If you don't see anything wrong in essentializing people who do such important work as providing care in a country with over 160,000 vacancies for care workers, and dismissing them as people that 'wipe bottoms', then [REDACTED]. This is the full video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO_ilxmdlFY. The immigration part starts around the 16" mark. |
Zahra29:Where did you see threats on this thread? |
Zahra29:Your usual distractionism. No attempt to engage or give a view on what Badenoch said, but instead the focus is, as usual, to shift the blame and responsibility for fixing the situation to the actual victims. To be clear I'm not saying you have an obligation to comment on anything Kemi says, but if you're so quick to police how people respond to her and dish out advice on what's appropriate because 'this is the UK', it's quite interesting when you don't have anything to say about her actual statements and their appropriateness for someone contending to be a party leader in this UK where 'your politicians work for you, not the other way around.' Reporting anything to IPSA has nothing to do with describing any politician with the appropriate adjectives. If vile, stupid, and idiot are the ones that apply (or that anyone thinks apply), then so be it. After all when a top Tory donor said a black woman 'ought to be shot' and the sight of her made him 'want to hate all black women', Kemi was quick to say it was racism but it was 'trivia'. Afterall, this is the UK, and there is free speech and Badenoch herself is a champion of 'irreverent' speech and believes that 'non-hate crime' speech shouldn't be policed by anyone. Her words - https://www.gbnews.com/politics/kemi-badenoch-vows-crack-down-free-speech-boundaries-messy-tory-legislation Plus, why didn't Kemi go to complain to the Home Office to stop granting visas to care workers instead of denigrating them as bottom wipers? If she chose to take the route of starting a name-calling match instead, then it's only fair for people to respond in kind. |
Jamesclooney:And this, brethren, is the simple truth of her value to the conservative party. Not policy ideas. Not competence and ability to lead. Not the ability to actually win an election - Simply the ability to subtly but consistently tilt the party to the right so they can pull back more of those they lost to reform. Notice how all the people lauding her for being the first black this and Nigerian role model that can't actually name any accompishment of hers while in office? I'm even certain that she's the kind of person who'd say she doesn't want to be referred to based on her race, but yet that's the only thing her supporters can say. Oh and she speaks well. As if being articulate is a proxy for competence or good values. Lol - how naive. |
Jamesclooney:Lol. Inspiration for Nigerian children who always only has negative things to say about her Nigerianness, Nigeria, and Nigerian people. I've been seeing those posts and wondering what ideas the children will actually imbibe about themselves from listening to Badenoch, but far be it from me to say anything about however anyone is raising their children sha. |
Just saw this as well. Kemi Badenoch talking about immigrants and describing them as bottom wipers. Lol. This joke writes itself, honestly. https://www.nairaland.com/8228922/kemi-badenoch-mocks-migrant-workers |
missjekyll:This same kind of rhetoric is how they started stoking anger against other groups of people. Tomorrow when people begin attacking civil servants, the But Brigade will come and begin explaining how the violence is wrong but you know, but you know the root causes..... If you think this is farfetched, think about how people started attacking election workers after Trump's lies. |
ReesheesuKnack:Every time you say something like this, you focus on insulting the person you're responding to but do not actually say what your own specific opinion of what is being discussed is. Here, the person you're accusing of having oxygen-deprived brains actually stated why they consider the ECHR too important to leave now or to leave in part. You use plenty superlatives ('spot on!'; 'perfectly great answer') but never any substantive answers e.g. what were those answers and why were they spot on?...It's crickets from you. As a completely unrelated aside - I wonder if James has ever said anything about what happens when a person ties a blue scarf on too tight? |
Jamesclooney:Funny thing though is that she has the best odds of winning. If I were a betting man I'd be betting on her to be the next leader but never actually become the prime minister. The conservative establishment know it would be great to have her be the mouthpiece of al the Farage-esque things they'd like to say to appeal to the Reform/Right-wing conservative crowd but can't, whereas she can do so freely (for obvious reasons) and is clearly willing to do so nonstop. It doesn't really matter anyway because they don't have a shot of actually winning the next election and likely the one after that. By the time there's a reasonable chance of them winning an election, she'll have been replaced as party leader by someone much more palatable to the base. |
ReesheesuKnack:I'm marveled as to how the harshest criticim you can bring yourself to say against such an absurd statement is that 'the optics don't look good' - as if it's how people view it that is the issue not that the statement itself is problematic. Lol. You must really admire the woman. Anyway, the simple explanation is that being politically incorrect is the new political correctness among the Tory base whom she's appealing to here - she and her ilk have consistently made it trendy to lay the blame for all the countries issues on the the weak, poor and vulnerable. It's a continuation of the narrative that anyone who gets anything from the state is a 'scrounger'. Started with those receiving benefits, then immigrants (with all the tall tales about how they get brand new iphones and cars upon arrival) and now it's women. The statistics are clear on the impact of childbirth on women's careers, and how strong maternity protections help (although they still don't reverse everything. The idea that that maternity pay is what is holding back growth in the country (as opposed to the misrule she and her pals inflicted on the country for over a decade) is baseless. The whole attacking Nigeria even when it's irrelevant schtick is more of the same. The more she can show that she's 'not like the rest of them', the greater her chances among the Tory base. Isn't it interesting that she kept mute during the greatest cultural crisis in the country since she got into government but all of a sudden now has a lot to say about it? Everything she's doing is driven by self-interest and not ideology. That's clear to everyone who has their eyes open. |
ReesheesuKnack:https://archive.is/opSd0 |
mex551:That's absurd! Go on comparethemarket and run quotes for yourself. Edit: I don't know your ages and/or pre-existing medical conditions, if any, so maybe it's not absurd, but you should definitely still go to a comparison site and get various quotes before proceeding. Don't allow them pressure you with stuff like 'it's the best deal', 'it's already discounted' and all the other sales nonsense. |
mex551:No. Using a broker is pointless in this situation. Their only value, especially for people who don't have ILR, is in getting deals in the first place because only a limited number of places offer those deals. Since you have an AIP, adding a broker at this stage would just add an additional layer of red tape. Personally, our brokers have been helpful but the only reason we went with them is that we're not both up to 2 years in the country so wanted the advice of experts to pre-screen lenders who could accept that. Since you already have an AIP after a conversation with a mortgage advisor, it means they've confirmed you meet all the criteria and the only thing you'll need to do is supply the documents for their checks. All a broker will be doing is getting the request from the bank and passing to you, and then passing the docs you supply onto the bank. Note - I'm far from being an expert in this so I may be missing something. Hopefully Madam Ticha et al will provide some more authoritative guidance. |
PrettyPacy:Yes moneybox is very good. |
Goke7:Seriously though, it's a nice quip but it's not logical. The question is not about that person. It's about someone else in a specific dilemma. It doesn't make sense to imply that the person is being hypocritical without knowing how much they earn, what their circumstances are, what their spouse is doing (and earning), if they have children etc. Even when I answered I said "I would stay back" implying that if I was in that person's shoes that's what I would do. Doesn't mean that 5m would make me move back today but I surely have my own figure. I still maintain that band 5 salary with kids of that age and a spouse who'll likely not be able to get work in his field for years is a much less appealing proposition than some are making it seem, but of course it's a matter of personal preferences. People are still living and living very well in Nigeria in spite of all the challenges, and 5m will enable any family to live very well and overcome many of those challenges easily. Private Healthcare insurance, living in a very secure area, childcare, other household help, etc. that will very likely be inaccessible here in the UK on that salary. I just checked and apparently the take home of a band 5 staff in the NHS is actually 1900 ish and not 2300 as I previously estimated. Accommodation for the family will very likely take half that. For those saying london extra pay, the cost of living in or near London will also take the same proportion if not more. And as for overtime - every hour overtime work is another hour that childcare needs to be paid for (or that the husband will need to cover and not be working). Maybe the UK still makes more sense for some, but it's certainly not as clear cut as some seem to think. |
Krys1:You should be able to get a 10% mortgage easily assuming other things are not problematic e.g. affordbility, credit history, length of time left on your visa etc. |
erico2k2:Will the nurse start at Band 8? Won't she be at band 5 or thereabouts taking home maybe 2,200 per month which is even less than the 5 million naira? Personally I would say take that job, save aggressively and be in a position to travel in a couple of years if they still want to. Nurses will always be in demand so it's not like if she doesn't travel now she won't be able to do it later. Getting a job as a civil engineer without prior UK experience is unlikely to be straightforward (granted I don't know much about that field) so it means they may have to get by on a single income for a while (especially as someone will need to care for the young children). It's a no brainer, in my view. |
jedisco:I always do this, especially on Telegraph, Spectator, Daily Mail etc. One of the effects of the riots on me was thoroughly disabusing me of the ideas of how most people here are, that I had formed based on my interactions that have mostly been with urbane, highly-educated/qualified people. The riots themselves and all the roundabout justifications in the aftermath made me realize that the far-right are actually far and wide, although they're most active when they can be anonymous or in mobs. Reading those comments now keeps me grounded and in full conciousness of the fact that a large proportion of the population actually holds those kinds of views, even when evidence is freely available to disprove their assumptions. They will happily read the headlines and first paragraphs and go off spreading fake news to strenghten their racist and anti-immigrant arguments even when the reality is just a few paragraphs down - which, BTW, is exactly what the publication wrote the article that way to achieve. |
missjekyll:Thank you. It's even more ridiculous an argument when the opponent is a man who paid a porn actress for sex while his wife was pregnant with their child. |
Jenny022:Wouldn't be a cause for concern for me. The last coal mine approved in the UK was in 2022 after 30 years since the last one, and till now the approval is still dragging in court, and the new government is not defending the approval by the last one. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp68949n013o.amp The odds are very low of any new mine being opened in the UK but even if one is to be opened near to you, it will, by law, be distant enough not to impact health, and it will even drive property prices in nearby areas up as the new workers and businesses to serve them move in. |
Fraih:They usually advertise part-time roles in WTE (Whole time equivalent) terms. So if you see that the role is 0.5 WTE it means you’ll be working half the full time hours of that role and earning 0.5 of the salary (e.g 37.5/2 = 18.75 and 24,500/2 = 12,250). If they don’t state the WTE, you’ll get the fraction yourself by dividing the full time hours in that role by the number of hours. So in your case if the full time hours in that role is 37.5, you’ll calculate 20/37.5 = 0.533. You can then multiply that by 24,500, which will get you £13,066. |
ReesheesuKnack:If you are not sure that the person you quoted watched the video, then are you not doing the same thing you criticized by “regurgitating your inherent bad feelings” about them baselessly? Or is it that when anyone doesn’t reach the same conclusion as you they must be acting in bad faith? On the subject of Badenoch, she’s clearly a good talker and she has accomplished a lot for herself, so she’s inspirational in that way for people who want to be good public speakers and politicians, but as a public servant, she’s mediocre at best, objectively. She doesn’t have any landmark accomplishments, policies etc either at the constituency or national level despite holding major cabinet positions. All that aside, the fact that she stayed silent (I still genuinely find this incredible) through some of the most dangerous times for the people she loves to claim that she’s one of (“first generation immigrants”) and is only now slithering out to parrot platitudes tells all one needs to know about her character. |
edmasta01:Thanks! Yes it's not for first time house purchase - it's for later life. You can also invest your LISA in specific funds/bonds, etc (using Moneybox - not sure about other platforms or whether you buy specific stocks, although I have no interest in picking stocks anyway). My issue is that it appears that the ability to get 40% tax relief plus being able to access it at 55 (57 from 2028) instead of 60 for the LISA makes it a much better option than the LISA's 25% bonus but I'm trying to balance that against the tax downside (it has withdrawal tax unlike the LISA). |
willyede:Thanks. I'm not talking about children though (I'm guessing you're referring to the Junior SIPP). I'm referring to the standard one. |
justwise:Please do @elengine, so I can ask this question that’s confusing me. I’ve exhausted all my math skills (admittedly not very much) trying to work out whether an SIPP is better than a LISA for investment savings. |
Ilekokonit:This is hilarious and interesting. What prompted you go go request your records though? Had 'Daddy GO' already been moving shadily before then? |
elengine:You can. There's no restriction on investing in stocks. If you do it via a Lifetime ISA the government will even give you a bonus of 1k on top of your 4k every year so it's clearly very legal. |
profemebee:Read the very simple question I asked again. I don't think you have. So far, you're making arguments against things I didn't say. I'm done with the whole debate anyway. Pretty sure all the perspectives are clear enough now. Believe what you will. ✌🏿️ |
dupyshoo:I'm not contending anything. I asked one very simple question about something you claimed with certainty and you haven't been able to substantiate it. I won't be drawn into this attempt to muddy the waters with random irrelevant points. I'm certain the pattern I outlined is clear to anyone who takes a look now. Up to you to self-reflect...or not. ✌🏿️ |
...Hope you know they can't access the funds until age 55 or so...Abeg money is best for them when they are young...Thats the best start to life that can be given