Re: As an ex
Then tell him not to moan - didn't ask for extras.
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How close a friend? A best mate or someone he just knew slightly? We're not told. If you start doing that sort of thing for a friend you'll be surprised how many friends you've suddenly acquired, and how many relatives, not necessarily bereaved, they have. Fifty quid sounds like mates rates.
"Its not like this gov hasnt given plenty of opportunities for an opposition party of any size to bash them hard."
I think they've had a series of lucky breaks in the way of things getting steadily worse. Covid came along at just the right time to confound the effects of Brexit. Partygate almost had them sunk and then Dick threw BoJo a lifeline as from one clinger on in post* to another, by effectively delaying the Grey report. In his SOP BoJo rewarded that by throwing her under a bus. And then the Ukraine conflict came along.
* A post she shouldn't even have been in since managing the killing of Charles de Menezesz.
This is the right time to update our pricing. Although there are still questions and uncertainty, we see clear signs of economic recovery around the world. Moreover, over the past few years our competitors have increased prices, in some cases aggressively. We simply have a better story and proven track record of reinvestment in the product and consistently delivering new value to our customers.
Because we can.
Of course it is. It's another idea beneficial to the populace that the EU is in favour of but the con-artists who now constitute HMG are against. As far as I can make out their main motivation seems to be that they found the EU's pro-individual, attitudes, especially the idea of a supra-national court protecting human rights, irksome. What does that tell you about their intentions?
If you couldn't work that out, note that they intend to repeal the Human Rights Act. Yes, they're going to replace it with a "Bill of Rights". That probably means they get the rights, we get the bill.
And those who did vote were almost equally split between leave and remain. Although the Brexiteers seem to insist that "we" voted for it - including those of who voted against. We said it was a stupid idea then and even if we're in the same boat now we're certainly not prepared to go along with the idea that we're willing passengers.
It's a smaller market than the EU. For a UK manufacturer it's a much smaller home market than they had pre-Brexit.
Being the Beeb they couldn't possibly quote names but I think a series of reports referred to the same business. Pre-Brexit he three directors were gung-ho for it. After it happened it turned out that they could no longer sell their product, cheese, to individual consumers in the EU as they used to do. At least they could but the paper-work involved in food products made it impractical when applied to individual orders for consumers. The remainder of the EU had been a significant part of their home market, if not the bulk of it. In the last report I read they were having to spend money they'd intended for a new factory at home on a distribution centre in the EU so they could ship in bulk. Along with a plaintive cry from one of them that this wasn't what they thought they'd voted for.
"I think you will find that in the U.K. there is a law that gives consumers a right of repair or replacement and in some instances their money back for up to 6 years."
Just before the car's warranty period expired the little plastic button on the handbrake leaver broke up. Clearly internal stresses - the fragments didn't quite fit back together. Oddly enough the dealer carrying out the last in-warranty service shortly after overlooked this despite being told.
Yes, I can but the part to repair it. The part to repair is isn't the plastic button. It's the entire handbrake assembly at £86 IIRC.
If only its home market were bigger, say the whole of the EU, and was protected from foreign imports that didn't comply.
Alternatively, the UK could duplicate the legislation locally. It would then receive the same protection from non-compliant imports and sell compliant products to the rest of the EU encumbered only by all the other complications of the EU now being an export market instead of an extended home market. Of course to do that means effectively accepting legislation that we had no input into.
Remind me again how freedom from EU legislation was going to enable us to take back control and make us more competitive.
"hotting up of the datacenter market"
Does this mean that datacentre investors aren't content to just collect dividends? Do they want to sell on and on, loading the operation with more debt each time until the operation collapses under its own weight those who financed the last sale have effectively put money they'll never get back into the pockets of all the previous owners?
"It names as defendants not only IBM but current and former executives including Rometty, former CFO Martin J. Schroeter (now CEO of IBM spin-off Kyndryl), current CFO James J. Kavanaugh, and current CEO Arvind Krishna."
IBM as an entity, like any other business, is owned by its investors. Why do investors persist in suing themselves? It they win all they succeed in doing is routing money from themselves to themselves less the amounts paid to two lots of lawyers - net, they pay two lots of lawyers If they lose they don't shit money from themselves to themselves but they still pay two lots of lawyers. It's lose-lose. Is there some remote possibility that this behaviour is incited by lawyers?
OTOH, suing the executives and maybe the board makes sense if the effect was to enrich specific individuals by pursuing policies detrimental to the shareholders.