Unthreaded
P.S. you can sell wood pigeon the laws make no sense.
Ross Lea
There is a open licence to control ring-necked parakeets but as they are mostly in urban areas at the moment no effective action is being taken. There is also an open licence on Canda Geese but your are not allowed to sell them. This rule makes no sense if you are trying to reduce the numbers. Your are not supposed to release grey squirrels back into the wild but animal rescue people still get away with it.
Ross Lea
9:30am R4 Those immigrants coming over here, not integrating and taking over
They are talking about ring necked parakeets, noisy irritating scaring small birds away from the bird tables.
"And Climate Change will make this worse"
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House of Troughers
stewgreen
Apr 24, 2018 at 12:22 AM | Pcar
Wot yotties use. Also popular with Landrover owners wanting to prevent corrosion between metal chassis, bolts etc and aluminium bodywork.
DESCRIPTION
Duralac is a chromate containing jointing compound designed to inhibit electrolytic decomposition between dissimilar metals – often called galvanic corrosion. It is a single pack, air setting product. Used correctly, Duralac prevents anodic decomposition.
£10-£15 for a toothpaste tube of the stuff.
golf charlie
@golf charlie, Apr 24, 2018 at 12:36 AM
Thank you.
Pcar
Apr 23, 2018 at 10:52 PM | stewgreen
There is nothing to stop "stewgreen oil" from buying an old supertanker, registering it in Liberia, filling it with fuel oil, chuntering off the Straits of Gibraltar acting as a mobile filling station with payments made into a Panamanian Bank Account.
golf charlie
@Mike Jackson, Apr 22, 2018 at 10:10 PM
& @UBT, GC et al
Our tentative conclusions were that for all its archaism and the fact that “we wouldn’t do it like that if we were starting from scratch” the Lords has generally worked well for a long time whether or not its members are the descendants of the bastard offspring of kings and that what has really brought it close to disrepute has been the way in which the life peers have been appointed. What we came up with was:A core of hereditaries prepared to work (which most of them in fact do) similar to the present arrangement but with tighter rules;
Life peers limited to certain “traditional” appointees — ex-PMs, ex-Speakers (don’t say it!), ex-military chiefs, etc;
The rest to be “peers of parliament” appointed by the parties (we wouldn’t want to deprive them of all their powers of patronage, would we?) to sit only for the duration of the parliament and in proportion to the votes cast at the general election.
In discussions I have promoted similar idea to your “peers of parliament”. It's like USA where POTUS can appoint anyone to be a political head of an office of State - POTUS gone, next makes his choice and previous "troughers" gone. Here it must be an MP, or a HoL appointee who troughs for rest of life.
As for pre Blair Hereditaries sacked, there best attribute was they were beholden to no one. Nominally classed by party and cross-benchers, but would support their own, not party, view on what was best for UK. Worked well for hundreds of years.
Thus no "support this and I will make your mate £300pd* Lord Payback". Hence why I say remove crony life-peers and restore Hereditaries
For non-hered balance, random, like jury service (but pass English, numeracy & loyalty to Queen test) , 3 year secondment - lifetime earnings due to career gap is a problem.
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* Unemployed "benefit scroungers" receive <£100 per week. Basic state pension is £125 per week.
Pcar
Apr 23, 2018 at 7:35 PM | Pcar
Flying a Flag or Ensign should not be relevant. One vessel may not board another without an invitation, unless the crew and/or ship are in distress. But there is no International Marine Police Force to take charge in International Waters, should one vessel decide to board another.
The short answer is no, but how is this policed? At sea, possession is almost ten tenths of the Law.
If "Legal Niceties" are observed, then you have:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiralty_law
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_salvage
Most disputes involving shipping will involve the Insurers of the ship, the cargo and lastly the crew. Modern pirates effectively hold all three to ransom, demanding suitcases of cash, gold, diamonds etc.
The International Community can be stirred into action
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_the_Strait_of_Hormuz
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_in_the_Strait_of_Malacca
Once the International Community captures a pirate, especially in International Waters, who takes responsibility for their trial or imprisonment? Traditionally, pirates tended to receive instant justice at sea, it was deemed efficient justice.
golf charlie
@golf charlie
Yes agreed, but there needs to be some method for removing those "elevated" as a reward for incompetence/deceit/lying.
Easy: copy Blair Creature - change law and remove right to vote in HoL & be in Gov't
Pcar
Story about ring-necked parakeets this morning was difficult to understand. Birds respondent's restricted to urban centres because of their warmth, but the birds are slowly spreading in the South East appearing in new urban centres. If they are restricted they can hardly spread, but this was not explained. When it comes to the effect of climate change it was implied that this would allow the birds to extend into rural areas. Just how was never explained. I would have thought increasing temperatures would have made city centres even more attractive.