Ridiculous isn’t it? After changing the pressure sensor 3 times on my Manitou and seeing each one fail after a few months leaking oil out of the torque converter I finally just screwed a plug in the hole and shorted the wires together. Never looked back. When it stops it stops, but it hasn’t stopped since.Sensors, how something so small can stop a 600k machine from working at all. . Oh and chuck 200l of hyd oil all over the exhaust and engine
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and a waste of everyones time and resources.
......you put yourself up to VOLUNTARILY serve the community and just by making a small error on a piece of paper you could have a criminal record!!!! The world has gone mad .Electoral Commission red tape.
Every 4 years in our Parish the Councillors have to apply to be a Parish Councillor once again.
This involves an eleven page form, a proposer, a seconder and a signature witness amongst many other personal details.
The completed form must be handed in, in person at the local Town Hall, waiting for checks to be done by pedants.
In my case (as has been the case for 4 out of 6 times that I have done this in the past) there was a shortage of candidates therefore no election.
An acceptance letter then arrives, two sheets, printed one side only.
Then a further letter, two more sheets printed one side, telling me that I must complete a return for electioneering expenses, pointing out that failure to fill in this form (even if there hasn't been an election) will be followed by disqualification from the office of Parish Councillor and proceedings in the Magistrates and then the High Court.
What a load of absolute avocadoes - as the Aztecs call testicles.
Same here, people can't be bothered with all the paperwork rubbish at the beginning and then are ost to the communities that need them to hold things together.
Had someone move into the village last yr . Straight away was co-elected onto PC .....already complaining about tractors etc working at night !!
You have to have lived somewhere for over 12 months to be on the PC. In my opinion that should be 5 years.
Apparently their previous dwelling was within 3 miles of the parish and so that qualified them to be co-opted on . They moved from Sussex so I understand into rented accommodation till they could find somewhere to buy !
not on a livestock farmThat’s the default setting isn’t it
Daughter got her Transport Manager CPC last year but not going down the ‘O’ licence route until it becomes a necessity either because we start to run an HGV or the 3500 kg van limit is reduced.and soon need a o liesense as well
That sounds familiar. All ours have been co-opted on. The chairman emphasises to the parish that it avoids the unnecessary cost to the parish of an election. They all clap.
Elections are expensive for a parish, ours would be about 3000 if all seats were contested - a warded Council.
...just for the record I did 14 yrs on County and 12 on Parish .
They’re called bananas - Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anywhere.The two villages in the parish are now mainly composed of retirees, many of whom are on the PC. They’re basically against anything and are so argumentative amongst themselves that all but two of them have just resigned en-mass, citing irreconcilable differences
Yep. My wife wanted to get a little play park built on the old (closed) school field (there’s money sloshing round for this sort of thing from a local wind farm). NOOOOO!! Might be noisy for our poor retired ears!!!
