No One Does What They Say They Will Anymore!

 Why is it that you get connected, arrange something and then people disappear (even though you can see they read your messages)?  

Scrap Metal - guy advertises in all the local groups.  I tell him what I've got and he says "I'll be over this afternoon"  No show, next day I remind him, he sees the message, no show, next day when can I expect to see you, he sees the message, not a word! So I go to the next guy who's verified - not a word back but can see he has seen it too.  Another one, formal contact form on website - nothing once again!  It's enough to drive you nuts!

Brickwork - guy gives me a price, I accept and say go ahead timing to suit yourself - hasn't got back to me.  Been here and put in a price and everything too.

Another one in the local group looking for work, send him the details - nothing.  

Do people actually want the work and/or why would you just not get back and say I can't do it now or I'm too busy or something, any bloody thing really?

It's discourteous I believe to do this and I'd always get back even if I couldn't actually do anything so that people would know.

In other news - I see politicians are voting to end civilization by cutting us off from all use of fossil fuels (as they call them).  Turkeys voting for Christmas. So stupid are these people who do not appear to realise quite how deeply in the mire we are through policies already in place that they want to double down and completely destroy what's left of our industries.  I don't get how these people cannot see that their policies have led us to the highest energy costs in the world (maybe apart from California) and that no one can invest in a country who's energy costs are that high, who's labour costs and productivity costs are skewed and who's taxes are ridiculously high too.  As we hit the skids in this country our people have completely lost sight of the industrial revolutions in the BRICS countries and the lead they have now in just about everything except aerospace and they are catching up very fast.

I was amused to see that our idiot PM thinks AI is going to get us out of our problems.  HELLOOOOOO PM, guess what AI needs?  Lots of reliable and cheap energy.  Google, Apple, Microsoft and the big boys know where to put these data centres and it isn't here.  I like that the Government are going to build these which implies that they will be late, expensive and when they are finally built won't actually be up to date enough.  As always.  

It's laughable (if it wasn't so serious) that these f**kwits really think that by saying something it is going to happen.  Where on earth do they think that growth comes from (apart from between their toes LOL) they haven't got a clue that if you want investment, growth, increased GDP, investment into the country that there needs to incentives and not the opposite.  No one can run a business in this current climate.  My start up will now not employ anyone as it isn't worth doing.  If I need someone I will outsource to Eastern Europe or elsewhere.  The new employment laws, minimum wages, national insurance and other business costs are too much for my business to make it in the UK.  It's cloud based so doesn't really need to be based anywhere.

Existing businesses must be pushing the button now on their strategies to limit their exposure to these draconian rules and regulations.  If they are to survive and deliver profits and dividends to their shareholders they will need to enact various measures which would curtail recruitment and possibly shed some jobs.  Cut back on expenditure (i.e. retract investment), work on ways of mitigating tax and other charges imposed and generally contract their businesses but in order to maintain margin etc., put up the prices to the consumers.  It all boils down to that - the people that pay will be the voters and they n turn will buy less, I know that I am hunkering down and limiting outgoings to essentials as we will be facing difficulties this coming year and the thieving bastards have already taken my winter fuel payment and will clout me with taxes this year on my pension through fiscal drag.  It's the law of unintended consequences and the crippling of the economy not freeing it up like they should have done.

It's nice that our PM went of the Ukraine to sign a 100 year accord.  Also nice to see a lone drone in the sky just in time for the cameras to capture it and for it to allegedly be shot down. As if the communists would take out one of their own?  Yea, right.

So - that's today's rant almost done with.  One day I might get back on track about Bladder Cancer.  The best thing to say though about Bladder Cancer is that I am very pleased to be here still.  It will be 20 years next year.  A third of my life roughly was taken up with that in the background - I never thought it would have been so but it is.  Catch it early and there's a good chance you can be treated and survive.