We could all do with a (non-social) media source of ‘explainers’ by specialists who can digest various govt policies and contextualise what they really mean to different parts of society.
Far too much of it is completely partisan - and that applies as much to left-leaning as right.
I have seen someone fairly famous actually suggest that. Unfortunately it was Scott Adams.
Sadly in so many cases the old truth that “If you have learnt enough about something to be able to speak with real authority on it then you will inevitably have come down on one (political) side or the other during the learning process” applies.
Sometimes it’s just as simple as the people who are currently in charge being the only ones who have access to the full range of data (as in the most intense parts of the pandemic, for example).
When it comes to economic issues I’m inclined to listen to Paul Johnson, not least because he tries to explain why he says the things he does. But he did spend some time working in various parts of the Blair-Brown government, so for some people he must be too leftie.
Sensational telly involving professional contrarian.
I can tell you don’t go on pfm.
Not all people, just some people 
. I suspect most of them don’t go on pfm either.
But they do vote.
Next door neighbour’s scaffolders can have a size 14 jackboot to the trouser zip. They are not removing their scaffolding three weeks after the job is finished meaning we can’t get our car on the driveway as the scaffoling is partly on our property. Mrs H is moaning like fuck about it and my poor neighbour is mortified. I’m caught in the middle and wish everyone (and their scaffolding) would just feck off out of it.
We had 2 months of neighbours scaffolding blocking drive access. Not their fault so we didn’t complain.
They had 1 night of no drive access when our garage was being built and complained, telling us it must not happen again.
Told him he’s a bellend and we don’t talk any more.
This sounds like the only possible response in that situation. I really like our neighbours so I’m pacifying the wife at the moment.
If you know who they are then pass on a friendly warning that ‘the local kids’ are in the habit of taking a club hammer to the ends of the clamp bolts, which can make them awfully difficult to unscrew …
The sad fact is that scaffolders try to leave their stuff in place until they’ve got another job nearby that they can move it to. It saves them having to pay for yard space and reduces the number of truck journeys.
We’ve been neighbours for 28 years, first time there’s been a problem. He was an unbearable twat during the whole building process, taking pictures of our garage, complaining about dust and even washing his garage while the builders were there. Actually washing his pebble dash with a sponge and water!
Poor Jeremy, won’t someone think of the millionaires…
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When I was a caretaker, I once rang some desultory scaffolders and told them there was some free scaff that was theirs if they would take it away. So they stole their own scaffolding.
For someone who doesn’t like FIFY posts you are relying on a great deal of self control there.
I bet their boss never saw it so funny
There was no comeback, and I got what I wanted, which was a house without easy access for smackhead tealeaves.
Except all the radio played all day was his sound bite of “This is the end, my cows are worth more than 1 million alone”
Who the fuck Fedexes a jar of marmalade? 