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    What Should the New Prime Minister Do First for UK Businesses?

    Maybe the average news editor is incapable of working out what 5% means. A first in media studies, but cannot add up.
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    What Should the New Prime Minister Do First for UK Businesses?

    Just a rant about how the abolishment of the VAT on electricity announcement was reported on radio and TV. I must have heard a dozen news reports on the subject who quoted the figure of £45 mentioned, and sometimes with no reference to the fact that it was for the average household. Not once...
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    Anyone know anything about TV's

    Most TV's come with Freeview built in so no need for a box. So it is just like a traditional TV that has an aerial and no other feeds.
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    What Should the New Prime Minister Do First for UK Businesses?

    Give those black T-shirts to a charity shop. Russia has a habit of invading countries who are run by people in black T-shirts.
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    Ebay have killed my business

    I sold something on Ebay for the first time in 10 years. It actually was a boating item (self-flusher from an old dinghy). I was really surprised about how many changes to the way things are sold. I was selling as a private seller, and I got the impression that all the changes were geared to...
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    Business YouTube channel?

    Which ones made you money and which ones failed. Go on tell us, we will not steal the business ideas that worked - honestly.
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    For those without an in-house lawyer, what's your biggest frustration when dealing with legal issues?

    If you are going to actually enter to commercial negotiations on behalf of clients, as well as giving legal advice, could you get PII at affordable premiums?
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    For those without an in-house lawyer, what's your biggest frustration when dealing with legal issues?

    @HannahS I think you can only see the positives for a firm who wants to hire a consultant who has only experience in working as an in-house lawyer. I can see a few negatives: -You will only have experience of a certain sector. -If the firm you worked for as an in-house lawyer can afford to...
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    Quick question for UK builders/trades: Would you trust an automated quote builder to save you admin time, and what is it actually worth?

    Sometimes drawings submitted for Planning Approval are full working drawings or what are called tender drawings, but many, if not most, planning drawings are very basic showing only basic room layout, elevations, external finishes, and site information, which do not provide enough information...
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    Passing off a Company Name? Advice required please.

    I have never heard of the term graded goods and I have bought several items which have been refurbed or sold as damaged stock etc. as just a member of the public. Is your trade mostly business to business? I am asking, as if you wanted to sell more to the public, a name that did not use the...
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    Passing off a Company Name? Advice required please.

    I agree, it is such a niche business, that the 50 miles distance between the two companies hardly matters. Come up with another name. You are in the driver's seat here. What do you expect the other firm to say to you? They do not want to help you as you want to be their competitor. They...
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    Food Scams in the UK

    Strangely, the unwrapped round bread that looks like it came straight out of a bakery lasts for weeks, whereas the square Mothers Pride type of bread in a bag lasts only lasts days.
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    Clean energy startup idea from Finland

    For the purposes of this forum, we must assume that everybody member's time is of equal value. Members post on a voluntary basis, meaning they do not get paid for it, except perhaps for the owner of the forum as far as I know. Both rich and poor people, CEO's and employees in non-communist...
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    Clean energy startup idea from Finland

    This is a forum where most of the members have many years of business experience. I, for example, have had 25 years of running my own consultancy firm in the engineering field and before that worked for decades in that sector. My comments were intended as humour. Humour is generally welcomed...
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    Clean energy startup idea from Finland

    I have been burning logs in my fireplace all winter and the amount of ash produced is tiny compared to the amount of wood burned. Several large 20L buckets of logs reduce to a couple or three inches of ash in a 250X250mm tray. That amounts to less than 1% of ash in terms of volume. BTW I am a...
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