Christina Pagel of Indie Sage has written her thoughts on 'freedom day'. Boris Johnson gave two reasons for lifting all restrictions. Both are wrong | Christina Pagel | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Allowing mass infections now is a terrible idea, even with so many vaccinated, says Christina Pagel, director of UCL’s Clinical Operational...

Firstly I'll make the point that it isn't immunity, it's protection from severe disease. Maybe we should be managing expectations by not using the term immunity - again probably down to the media. How long it lasts? As the nerd who is tracking her own levels, I'll keep you informed. So far, Four weeks after my first jab of AZ I showed as +ve for antibodies at the low(ish) end. A couple of days before my second that figure had doubled. Four weeks after my second dose my antibody level had increased to over 100 times the previous test.

Hi I’m sorry for the delay. A month after the purchase of the vehicle we finally have our agreement with Blue Motor Finance cancelled They actually helped a lot with this . We still waiting for the deposit of £200 to be refunded by Chobham Central Garage . Here is a photo of the vehicle Thank you for the help and support! Regards ford-focus.pdf

Freedom????? for what, more hospital admissions, more infection rates, more deaths! WTF!!!!!!! I have just got my date for second jab and despite what the first one did I am going to have it, yes you can still get Covid even if you have had the jab , but rather have a jab then be really ill. There should be no talk of lifting anything right now, just because people want normality ! I doubt anything ever be normal again, in my opinion the restrictions should stay Sandy xx

The insurance requirements are unfair and therefore unenforceable terms. First, it cannot be correct that the service provider expects the customer to protect – (essentially them, the service provider) – from having to bear the cost of compensating for their own negligence or the criminality of their own employees. This is effectively requiring the customer to pay for the service provider' s breach of contract. Second, the service provider is required to use reasonable care and skill – and the insurance requirement amounts to contracting out of their duty. Third. The insurance requirement imposed by the courier industry is intended to remove your rights under the Consumer Rights Act that the service provided to you should be carried out with reasonable care and skill. The insurance requirement effectively grants you that right only if you pay an additional fee and this amounts to an attempt to restrict or exclude the courier's liability and is contrary to section 57 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015. (It is worth pointing out that the courier industry insurance requirement is different to warranties and extended warranties – because extended warranties supplement your statutory rights. The courier industry insurance requirement is a very clear attempt to deprive you of your statutory rights unless you pay an additional fee.) Four, where an item is stolen, not only is it a criminal act but also it is an act of conversion – which is a tort. It is unfair to require the customer to be responsible for the torts of the service providers own employees. Five, the service provider is a large well resourced company and is the better loss bearer. Six, the service provider would be able to obtain insurance on extremely advantageous rates compared to the premiums which are required from their customers. Seven, it is anti-competitive in the sense that requiring the customer to take out what is effectively a warranty, removes the motivation from the service provider to improve their systems or to be more diligent about who they employ. Eight, the customer has no choice in the sense that everyone in the industry is doing it so it is not possible to go to another provider and select a service without that provision. Nine, the courier industry does have a choice. They have an alternative way of dealing with this. It wouldn't be beyond the wit of the service providers to structure their tariffs differently so that an insurance element is still included but is simply presented differently as part of the basic delivery cost. This would mean that the tariffs would be rejigged – and nobody would ever be denied compensation because some kind of insurance element would be built into the system. (Let's face it, this is how insurance works anyway – it's all about loss distribution.) Ten, (and of course we will never discover…) It would be interesting to know how much of the insurance premiums is actually spent refunding customers for their lost and damaged items, and how much is simply profit for the service provider. (Given that they deliver millions of parcels every year, I'll bet you it's a nice little sideline.) Eleven, the enhanced compensation scheme is really the same as an extended warranty. However extended warranties are not allowed to replace your consumer rights. They simply enhance your rights Twelve, "enhanced compensation" should be a scheme which enhances your rights. It should not be a scheme which replaces your rights. Enhanced compensation could be valid if, for instance, it is intended to reimburse you in the event that the loss or damage to your item is not caused by a lack of reasonable skill and care by the courier. Enhanced compensation could be valid if for instance the courier offers to reimburse you the value of a new item if they lose or damage your used item.

Like I said, check on my profile on my last previous posting. I was done over by Tesco for £300+ even everyone (here or TS) said they should be equally responsible and reverse the transection, I allow them to drag it out too long and lost that money. This time, it is a even bigger amount (£595 + £90 + £30). As you said, taking money when they are not supposed to + radio silence = alarm bells. Plus taking the remainder so early impacted my cash flow (CC bill due now) and I still need to book a new place. No happy, so not going to mess about with anyone anymore. According to hotels.com FAQ: Refunds for credit and debit card payments We will process your refund and credit the card you used to pay for your booking within 24 hours. The credit may take 7 days to post to your account and 2 billing cycles to show on your statement. If you have not received a credit within 7 days, please contact your bank or credit card company.

Hi, just to keep you updated. I have sent an SAR to HMRC and awaiting a response. I have reported this and got a Crime reference number. I am going to contact HMRC to appeal the decision. They are expecting me to pay 12000 when I only received 4000. Am I doing the right thing?

There may be less deaths, probably true, but hospital bed requirements is another issue entirely - especially with a pandemic allowed to let rip in a population inoculated with what is frankly a less than top rate vaccine - as a lot of the world is (or isnt vaccinated at all) That just sounds like a variant factory to me and certainly not a 'get the Covid sickness bed usage over and done with before the winter increased need even without covid and What on earth makes you think they wont just continue to lie/misdirect/blame others, and claim successes where there are none or they are somebody elses while shunting public money to private pals? Where is the investment in the NHS and coping processes that the lockdown gave them (literally) breathing space for? F**king nowhere but their pals tax haven pockets as far as I can see.

Very useful article which we have been referred to above. I made an amendment to the proposed particulars of claim to include a reference to the proceeds of crime act. Incidentally, you need to understand that once you have filed this particulars of claim, don't expect it to go easy. The bank will rise up and muster all its resources against you and it is likely to become an extremely difficult experience. You need to be prepared for this so that it doesn't hit you by way of a surprise I have just made some further edits

Some interesting points raised in the following article.... https://www.brettwilson.co.uk/blog/frozen-bank-account-and-no-explanation-suspicious-activity-reports-and-the-high-street-bank-customer/

That sounds very enterprising of you. It will be interesting to hear how your monitoring goes.

Absolutely which is why I can be pretty sure I never had the virus - my first test post first jab would not have returned such a low result if I had. There is no LFT for antibodies HB, only to give a preliminary result for current infection. To check antibody levels I have to stick myself and fill a vial with blood to send off to a lab.

As a side note the Order states that along with your amended particulars you must also provide the legal basis on which you the claimant contend you are entitled to be paid the sums claimed. ? Its almost as if you are on trial with your particulars and the court has already accepted he defendant's defence and gone along with suggestion that your claim should be struck out. Now the court are entitled to make an order of its own initiative without the defendant having to make an application with fee...but this just smacks of this is going to be an up hill fight. You submitted your initial particulars...the defendant submitted a substantial defence...the claim proceeded to Directions Questionnaire for allocation. The claim was then transferred to Edmonton and then transferred to Clerkenwell and Shoreditch County Court and now the court suddenly decides that your Particulars are insufficient ? Strange.

I have all sorts of questions round that. Do we need to have measurable levels of antibodies to mount a response if we've primed the system with two doses? Tailoring booster vaccines to deal with dangerous variants is a very different thing from just shoving more of the same into everyone. I believe Pfizer claims it is producing a booster against current variants but couldn't that be redundant as soon as it's available?

Thank you HTnerd.

My notice was issued from late December 2020 Been trying to get this sort of evidence for some time now , with NO help from Sports Direct , Matalan ,Council planning and even the Sentinel journalist covering these scams . Amazing how they can erect and get this system working (OCT 2020) , and not erect signage for another 6 months . Thank you NC87 .

in otherwords, the current employment, never did and does not, put them in a position whereby improved income will result by changing jobs. it's the cards they have had for xxx years and will continue to only play with. the fact is that to date, objectively, all they have done for xxx period is just held their head above the water, it is time to take control of the limited income and create a better life overall, rather than servicing debts at a level that is unnecessarily being restrictive.

Thanks for all this nc87. Your work will help loads of others in a similar situation.

Hi there. I do. I’ll dig them out (they’re all above 4.88MB so I’ll have to shrink but. Entrance Sign installed between 16/05/2021 and 28/05/2021. I have BOTH dash cam and photos / videos on these dates. 16th shows NO sign. 28th shows the sign. The pay and display machines were taken out between 30/05/2021 and 09/06/2021. again both dash cam and photos of these dates

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knee Jerk-Johnson and crew keep saying 'if not now - when' Well the answer is 'when you've put proper management and mitigation processes in place' you've had long enough I think they want the restrictions removed because their self-serving in the early months has meant that no-one will deal with them for vaccines/materials, so let people die is the only option they have now Particularly as in addition to that, rather than ramp up staffing and processes to meet this 'new normal' they have run the NHS into the ground and shunted all the funds to their pals Interesting that they can manage things like converting their pals pizza box and coffee cup and sweet selling businesses into multi-million pound full medical grade (lol) quality suppliers in 3 days flat, but cant actually use real British biotec firms to make LFT's and seem to need/want to go through multi-million pound markup middlemen to get stuff from china that you could buy for less off alibaba, or (not) order unusable crap from Turkey for vast sums.