Of course, we’re the only country that would consider something like this in what the government perceives to be in the interests of the country. France, for example, or Italy, would never think of breaking such laws. That’s why the EU accounts are always signed off in full and on time, as the law demands. 
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I think people have also forgotten the context of what the NI agreement was all about. The EU decided to put the GFA on the table like it was a chip in a poker game, something that really fucking annoyed me. I lived there for three years and still have a lot of friends there. Stoking up all this old shit just to get their way really didn’t seem responsible.
Long term, there is a fucking simple solution. A reunited Ireland. It’s going to take a few more years before the “NEVER!” crowd on the Unionist side are all replaced by the kids who went to raves with Catholics in the 1990s, but long term it will happen…
…as long as they’re aren’t cunts trying to blow it up for their own political ends.
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A bit of a non-story given when the petrol station is located tbh. Does raise the question about profiteering and also the government’s inability to manage energy costs - & the economy in general tbf
And as one of the responses said, click your heels three times and you’ll be transported to Rawanda… 
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Quite. You don’t go to Chelsea or Sloane St for the bargain prices and cutthroat discounting.
Here is Rishi Snake having his arse handed to him on a plate by Siobhain McDonagh, just love her quoting Thatcher at him.Some of the figures are just amazing, 620 million to second home owners, another 73 million to third home owners. An absolute fucking disgrace.
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Love it.
Wish this sort of thing could be played 24hr a day on the media channels of those fuckwits who can’t see where the country is heading (or is already there)
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These cunts don’t need the money but they will take it anyway, it can be used to pay the annual membership to the golf club.
Golf club membership is so middle class
We shoot
I will give it to charity. I have a ridiculously hideous energy bill living in a old house with limited insulation but I don’t need it (its less than one month bill) because I earn enough… others need it more and should get more…
The system is daft - I remember my old man having a discussion with the powers that be regarding the annual heating allowance - he had two homes at the time and got the allowance twice
The problem was at that creating a system that can identify who needs it and who doesn’t would cost more than they would save
I suppose the problem is you have the benefits system and paye system that could be used but are entirely separate. PAYE is administered on hundreds of different software packages and that still doesn’t help the self employed
I’m sure it could be fixed given time, but this is one of those occasions where something needs doing immediately
I don’t know what the right answer is to address the immediacy needed without benefitting the second home owners
Maybe add a line in the tax return asking about second homes and clawing it back that way?
Perhaps this should go on the coronavirus thread, but just as relevant here. Utterly bizarre
“It said the government had hired two commercial waste partners to get rid of the unused items - amounting to 15,000 pallets a month - through a combination of recycling and burning to generate power.”
I guess their mates will benefit again when they have to buy it all over again
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Ah, so you’re a Tory.
Clearly stating the case for another £49 billion IT project spend to “your” mates.
Doesn’t this stuff have expiry dates on it?
I seem to remember have to throw out a load of bandages from the company first aid box because it had gone out of date - elf and safety made us do it
I took the lot home and now I have a lifetimes supply - how does a triangular bandage go out of date?
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And any of their mates that own incinerator firms.
Exactly
Probably true.
The government’s intentions seem half-baked (sorry, couldn’t resist it )