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But in the end made it impossible for many more and hugely increased rents for the houses taken over by the rental market. That and a lot more action on the council house building front. In the end a small number of new home owners benefitted but those could not afford it were hugely...

That's it. Not "locking" as such but if you have the right key could be useful for holding it still, but not essential. This sort of thing if you can track one down the right size and diameter - has to be a nice fit. https://www.axminstertools.com/chuck-removal-spanner-340220

Stick to the issue instead of dodging it? What do you think was wrong with my quote from the Guardian? n.b. It shared an opinion widely held by the experts in the field.

It's because we see him as a grotesque monster and a threat to democracy, and as USA president a threat to the world. But he lies to them and gives them nothing. I'm more worried about what they won't do. Starmer has a long record of timidity and changing course. No - it's more just the truth...

Stick to the issues - having an opinion about the quality of a person's opinions tends to means you have just lost the plot. Amounts to "attacking the messenger instead of the message" when you haven't got any counter arguments or are in denial about the facts.

A lot of it ended up as rental properties but badly run without the back up of the resources of the local authorities. Those that didn't buy stayed put and formed "sink" estates of the less well off and otherwise troubled. The money raised by the sell off was not put back into housing - whch was...

What if you are suddenly not yourself and imagine wrongly that you have a sawstop? :unsure: The basic dilemma is that here is money to be made out of Sawstop but very little from push sticks, crown guards, safe practice advice. That's why it is promoted.* It's fairly extreme gadgetisation...

The "Senior" is a similar basic design but scaled up in all directions. https://www.lathes.co.uk/arundel/page3.html

A steel rod long enough. If desperate two six inch nails with the head and point cut off. Gentle tapping in case badly stuck

Very nice classy old lathe, I had one for years, now got the big brother J4 "Senior". The face plates are opposite threaded and the only way to get them off is to work one against the other. When you put them back make sure they each have a fibrous washer to make it easier next time. Ideally...

I'm happy with "ranthoneous"! 🤣

Of course it is and always will be. But misses the point entirely as the big issue is how to provide homes for them, however many there are and whoever they happen to be. Reducing immigration is a grossly simplistic answer and even if implemented would create new issues or simply shift the...

None of the above - I'm just trying to get my head around stuff! It's useful checking the facts e.g. on your claims made for the Laffer Curve and so on. Not my fault it turned out to be nonsense! Too many people lazily believe just what they want to believe. Excusable of course - it takes time...

Concrete prefabs were still around when I was a kid. I had friends whose families lived in them. They weren't bad at all but coal was cheap. Could be interesting to look again at horizontal cheap housing, like large "mobile" home parks, as compared to vertical towers which are fundamentally...

"Employers are going to benefit from migration because they are going to pay lower wages than before," Simple - make that illegal with much more control of wages and conditions of work! Maybe make immigrants join unions before they can work? Actually your article (10 years old) is rambling...

We had a plan but it failed. It was the neo liberal free-market ideology adopted by Thatcher and followed consistently for 45 years, with a final immovable turd in the nest in the form of brexit The alternative is state intervention and high taxation but the argument has not yet been won...

Exactly. It's odd how so many ordinary electrical gadgets, even toasters, come with elaborately detailed warnings of the hazards, often in five languages, but woodwork machinery without. Maybe that should change. HSE info is also a bit slack and long overdue for revision.

They are according to the surveys but it's variable according to the questions asked. https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/uk-public-opinion-toward-immigration-overall-attitudes-and-level-of-concern/ What is certain is that there is very little support for the rioters and...

Because it is unproven and never been shown to work according to the hypothesis. Top tax rates were in the high 90s after the war. Only came down to 60% under Thatcher but no Laffer curve effect was noticed. It isn't self evident. A 100% flat rate obviously impossible but what you have missed...

Censure is OK, we are all free to disagree. Only for the smooth running of the thread, when it tends to repetition and abuse. Seems to work pretty well. What like the climate change protestors? I agree, but then it is a major issue which won't go away and governments are particularly slack on...