Man completes quest to park in all 211 Bromley Sainsbury's parking bays over a six year period4/29/2021 A man has completed a mission of parking in all 211 bays of his local Sainsbury’s in Bromley, south east London. Gareth Wild has spent six years trying to achieve his goal to park himself in every space and has logged them all in a chart ranking the best to worst. Mr Wild took to his Twitter account to share his findings with his 5,000 followers and was surprised to see how popular the tweet became, with over 123,000 likes he has gone viral. CLICK HERE: Save ££££ on your bills with A Spokesman Said| Compare & Save Now The dad of two even split the car park into different sections saying “I also assigned different zones – the more I say it the more stupid it sounds – to each of the areas so each time I went it was easier for me to know which ones I still had to tick off, rather than a scatter gun approach.” Efficiency was key for this job. Gareth Wild said "I find enjoyment in the little banal things in life.” So it seems does the twitter community who have enjoyed Mr Wild’s thread on the subject. When asked what possessed him to take on the challenge in the first place he said "I do the weekly shop in our family and I've been going to the same Sainsbury's for the last 16 years. It was only six years ago when I said to myself, 'wow I could probably park in every single one of these spaces given enough time', and time is on your side when you're doing the weekly shop.” Well Gareth we are very much glad you did take the time for this task.
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Great news as transport secretary says the chances of a holiday abroad this summer "look good"4/28/2021 There’s at last some good news for Britons today. Transport secretary Grant Shapps has said that the chances of a foreign holiday “look good” this summer. The existing NHS app which is used to book appointments and organise prescriptions will be used as a vaccine passport as it will display evidence that someone has received their vaccine. CLICK HERE: Compare the cheapest travel insurance deals with A Spokesman Said Most European holiday destinations have announced that they will open themselves up to British holidaymakers. They will however require confirmation that the tourist has received a vaccine or in some cases provided a negative test result. The confirmation today that the NHS app will be used is a big step towards that and will allow people to comply with the rules of whichever country they visit. In relation to summer holidays Shapps told Sky News “I have to say that so far the data does continue to look good from a UK perspective, notwithstanding those concerns about where people might be travelling to and making sure we’re protected from the disease being reimported.” This is great to hear for those who would rather travel abroad than engage in the over priced staycations being offered this summer.
CLICK HERE: Compare the cheapest travel insurance deals with A Spokesman Said With the lockdown coming to an end and summer holidays on the horizon you should start looking at travel insurance options. Here at A Spokesman Said we have got you covered. Make sure you are fully covered and save as much money as possible by comparing through us. As Nicola Sturgeon campaigns for her party to win the Scottish elections on the 6th May she tells the voters of how brilliant independence will be for them. She however neglects the hard facts of how terrible financially that independence would be for the Scots. A report by the Institute for Government (IfG) has found that Britons living in Scotland each benefit from £2,500 extra in public spending than the taxes they pay. The English though receive just £91. CLICK HERE: Save up to £497 on your energy bills | GET QUOTES NOW What Sturgeon won’t admit is that in fact Scotland will be far worse off economically after independence. Taxes will rocket to pay for the welfare state that the SNP have cultivated and the quality of public services will go down without the English paying for it. If there is appetite for Scotland to leave the UK from the people then maybe we should wave them a fond farewell. We will be better off for not sending our money up there. Between 2018-19 just 0.3% of Englands GDP was deficit compared to almost 7.7% in Scotland. The SNP Finance Secretary Kate Forbes said “Scotland is a wealthy country and with our abundant resources combined with the economic powers of independence, there is no reason whatsoever we cannot emulate the success of independent countries like Denmark and Norway which are richer per head than the UK.” Are these abundant resources she talks of the increasingly failing oil market?
CLICK HERE: Save ££££ on your bills with A Spokesman Said| Compare & Save Now The chief economist at the IfG Gemma Tetlow said “Any advocates for breaking away from the UK must address the reality of the nations' current fiscal imbalances and the difficult policy choices these would necessitate after secession.The larger the deficit that they have, the harder the case for breaking away from the union becomes.” Where is Nicola Sturgeons answer to how she will keep up the spending spree? I think Boris would happily let her and Scotland leave the union whilst we try and recoup some of the money lost during Covid. At A Spokesman Said we regularly receive reviews and complaints about various companies. One that has come up on the radar recently is Pockit, they are a financial technology company who offer pre-paid spending cards and current accounts. Pockit is designed for low income customers who are unbanked. They claim to serve those who are neglected by high street banks and help them build up their credit. CLICK HERE: You could save £££ on your household bills | Search A Spokesman Said for the best deals We have received a number of alarming complaints regarding Pockit and their customer service. A complaint we regularly get is that Pockit are freezing accounts and not giving any explanation to customers as to why they have done this. For example one A Spokesman Said user Viktor Kazakov complained that “Pockit froze my account for money laundering and fraud prevention review. I provided all documents and explanations that I was asked for. Pockit stopped asking me questions and answering my emails. They refused to give a deadline for completion of their review. I am now convinced that this business was set up to defraud customers under the pretext of fighting fraud. If anyone has any experience with getting their money back from these scammers please share. I am now preparing a complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service.” Pockit have not yet responded to this complaint or resolved it. They have an average of 1/5 stars on the A Spokesman Said review section putting them as one of the post complained about companies on our platform. Pocket have raised over £27 million in funding since their inception in 2014 but what seems a good idea in practice to give those with low credit an option for banking has turned into a customer service nightmare.
CLICK HERE: Save up to £497 on your energy bills | GET QUOTES NOW We at A Spokesman Said hope that Pockit will respond to the complaints made on our website and will rectify these issues with customers. If you have a complaint about Pockit or any other company please do come to A Spokesman Said and we will try to fight your corner. Click here to write and submit your own review. The latest Prince Andrew scandal as he goes into business with a banker accused of sexual harassment4/27/2021 It’s hard to keep up with Prince Andrew’s blunders. The latest scandal to surround the Duke of York is that he has gone into business with a former Coutts banker who left his post after allegations of sexual harassment. It really makes you wonder about the mind behind the duke. He had managed to keep himself quiet over the period of the last year leaving any royal gossip to his nephew who has exploited his royal status for fame and an LA life. Andrew however had recently come back into the fold due to his fathers funeral and reports that he wanted to dress in a full admirals uniform for the service, this was quickly quashed by The Queen. CLICK HERE: SAVE YOURSELF MONEY AND COMPARE BROADBAND DEALS NOW Andrew has set up this company with banker Harry Keogh who was said to be so toxic at Coutts that some female colleagues would refuse to work with him. He was also accused of touching a woman groin before leaving his post there. The company is called Lincelles and will manage his family money. A source close to Andrew said in regards to the allegations against Keogh that they “don’t appear to have been subject to any investigation by law enforcement or independent third parties and nor have they been tested by due process in a court of law”. Does this seem like the sort of man Prince Andrew should be going into business with? We already know the questions around his alleged links to the now dead convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew is managing to embarrass the royal family beyond all measure, particularly awful in a time of the mourning of Prince Phillip who was a great example of the good side of the royal family. Andrew is an example of the bad side, a man who’s arrogance knows no bounds and who just moves from disaster to disaster. The British people do not want to hear from him in public life again.
CLICK HERE: Save ££££ on your car insurance | GET A QUOTE NOW Post Office chief executive walked away with £4.9million whilst 39 employees were wrongly convicted4/26/2021 The former Post Office chief executive Paula Vennells who was responsible for the suffering of 39 wrongly convicted Post Office workers has now resigned from her other posts at Dunelm and Morrisons in the wake of the scandal. She released a statement saying “I am truly sorry for the suffering caused to the 39 subpostmasters as a result of their convictions which were overturned last week.” Well Paula, this is quite frankly not good enough. There was clear evidence that the computer system provided by Fujitsu was filled with bugs from the outset in 1999. She decided to ignore these bugs and instead push the blame on to loyal and hardworking staff who then faced criminal convictions. CLICK HERE: Save ££££ on your bills with A Spokesman Said| Compare & Save Now Paula Vennells walked away with £4.9 million in pay and bonuses whilst she decided to pursue 550 postmasters through the civil courts to get back money she claimed was stolen. She even hired and fired a team of forensic accountants who pointed the finger at the faulty Horizon software. There was a failure to accept the real issue behind the seemingly missing funds by the Post Office, instead choosing to go on a bizarre witch hunt against staff and ruin their lives. CLICK HERE: You could save £££ on your household bills | Search A Spokesman Said for the best deals
In relation to Mrs Vennells it gives us a worry about our own NHS as she was deemed a ‘fit and proper person’ by NHS improvement when appointed as chairman of Imperial College NHS Trust. This is a person who promoted going after her own innocent staff for criminal convictions when ignoring real evidence, not exactly fit or proper in my opinion. She was also ordained as a priest and has been forced to step down from this role, she claims to be sorry now but where was her moral compass when the IT evidence was staring her in the face and she ignored it. I hope the wronged former Post Office employees continue to push back. It is a great shame to see a British institution in the Post Office have its reputation dragged through the mud but they must step up and do what is right for the innocent lives they have ruined. E.On leave customers in financial trouble on Christmas Day after unexpectedly taking payments4/23/2021 This is a truly disgusting story. Energy giant E.On has been reprimanded by Ofgem for charging customers earlier than agreed during the Christmas period. They took money from consumers on 24th December rather than in January when the direct debits had previously been arranged for. We all know how hard this year has been for everyone, with jobs being lost and nationwide lockdowns. Energy use has been on the up and filling the coffers of the big energy companies. CLICK HERE: Compare and save on your energy bills | GET QUOTES NOW 1.6 million E.On customers had money taken from them for an energy bill earlier than expected. This caused them great difficulty over the Christmas period with many saying how they ended up being overdrawn in their bank accounts. A horrible position to be in at Christmas. With the tough year people have had they would consider Christmas a ray of light and a time to enjoy with family, well E.On had other ideas. They left customers in a terrible position and have rightly been punished. E.On will pay £55,000 to customers who were charged early and will also contribute £627,312 to Ofgem’s energy redress fund which as well as helping E.On customers will support any consumers who are in vulnerable situations.
CLICK HERE: Save up to £497 on your energy bills | GET QUOTES NOW The regulator said “Ofgem considers that E.On failed to conduct the appropriate checks to ensure that this would not lead to any unintended consequences for customers.” My advice to E.On customers would be to seek a new energy provider. Do not let this callous company who would happily put families through a tough Christmas have any more of your money. There are many options on the energy market to save money, I urge you to do so here on A Spokesman Said. As if things weren’t bad enough with Covid and lockdowns now we are feeling the affects of prices rising across the board for consumers. People are flocking to the pubs with the lockdown restrictions easing and are finding that the prices have gone up around 10% in some pubs for a pint of draught lager. One brewery Star Pubs and Bars who are owned by Heineken UK have suggested that customers will not notice the price increases because most of them are paying by card. This particular case is an insult to the intelligence of customers from a brewery that lost over £176 million in 2020 but points to a wider problem that we are all beginning to face. CLICK HERE: You could save £££ on your household bills | Search A Spokesman Said for the best deals As reported previously by A Spokesman Said there have been price hikes in many other areas such as a car wash previously costing £20 going up to £25. Many people responded on social media to this saying some of their experiences of post lockdown price jumps. These included the price of barbers going up, nail salons charging more and even some customers noticed how supermarkets are offering fewer buy one get one free deals than they did in the past. We all understand that businesses have struggled during Covid and there is a real appetite to support them from customers who are eager to get back out shopping as lockdown ends. People themselves have also struggled and will not accept these increases in the long term, it is understandable for businesses to try and recoup some lockdown losses in the short term but this cannot continue in the future for consumers. Make sure to always shop around as you spend your money after lockdown.
CLICK HERE: Save ££££ on your bills with A Spokesman Said| Compare & Save Now Finally there is some good news for consumers, thanks to A Spokesman Said and other comparison websites the price of car insurance has seen its biggest drop for six years. According to confused.com the average cost of car insurance has fallen by £87 in the last twelve months. So at last there is some benefit from Covid, with most of us stuck at home under the lockdown house arrest it has meant there are far fewer traffic collisions. The data has shown that motorists will now spend £538 on average per year. CLICK HERE: Save ££££ on your car insurance | GET A QUOTE NOW There were 2.1 million car insurance claims last year which is down 19% on the previous year. The insurance providers are paying out a lot less so should pass some of this saving onto the customer. However, the Association of British Insurance said there were other costs that insurers had faced when supporting customers. The data however is alarming for those customers who decide to renew with the same insurer rather than going to a price comparison site. Car insurance renewals have gone up by an average of £45 per year. The data is from a wide reaching study by confused.com in conjunction with insurance broker Willis Towers Watson and has tracked 6 million insurance quotes during the first quarter of 2021. Customers cannot allow these companies to take more money, do yourself a favour and shop around for car insurance on A Spokesman Said.
CLICK HERE: Save ££££ on your car insurance | GET A QUOTE NOW The Head of Money at Which? said "The reduction in premiums is clearly a reflection in quite a radical change in driver behaviour, and people being on the road less as a result of the pandemic, but in order for consumers to get the best deal on their car insurance, they should spend time on price comparison sites.” We agree. Get onto A Spokesman Said and save yourself bundles on car insurance. CLICK HERE: Save ££££ on your car insurance | GET A QUOTE NOW I’m struggling to see what British Gas engineers are moaning about. They have been on favourable terms for the last 35 years. British Gas engineers earn £40k per year which is over £9k more than the average UK wage, to justify these wages the engineers need to improve their productivity. Centrica, the owners of British Gas lost £362 million last year. How can staff justify these lofty wages when British Gas are losing so much money? CLICK HERE: Save up to £497 on your energy bills | GET QUOTES NOW Centrica have asked staff to accept these reasonable changes of which 98% have consented to do so. Centrica has also said to us at A Spokesman Said “We have not cut base pay or changed our generous final salary pensions. Our gas service engineers remain some of the best paid in the sector, earning £40,000 a year minimum. While change is difficult, reversing our decline which has seen us lose over three million customers, cut over 15,000 jobs and seen profits halved over the last 10 years is necessary. The changes will also unlock our ability to grow jobs and hire 1000 green apprentices over the next two years.’’ There are many engineers who work 40 hours a week, which I must add is a standard working week so it beggars belief why British Gas engineers think they should be any different and stay at their 37 hours per week. British Gas will also be paying the additional 3 hours work for 2 years after which they will continue to pay this as long a staff reach a “reasonable and achievable minimum productivity target.” This equates to £2,540 per year, a very fair deal it seems to me.
CLICK HERE: You could save £££ on your household bills | Search A Spokesman Said for the best deals What this seems to come down to is that British Gas staff want a company losing a lot of money to keep backing their staffs inflated wages. When a company is losing out they have to cut back and unfortunately losing staff is a consequence. There is clearly an issue with engineer productivity so I welcome any attempt from British Gas to try and increase it. You won’t hear many easier ways to make £6,000 than how part-time gym employee Charlotte Newby came into her windfall. She claimed for a sexual harassment payout after hearing her male colleague David Saunders boast about his sex life saying this left her feeling ‘uncomfortable’. The court ruled in her favour saying that he sexually harassed her and ordered the gym in Ipswich called Functional Training Company to pay out £6,000. CLICK HERE: Save ££££ on your bills with A Spokesman Said| Compare & Save Now Mr Saunders was a commercial director at the gym so in a position of authority over Charlotte Newby who was hired on a part time basis to work 20 hours per week on front of house duties. This makes his remarks even more astonishing as it is alleged he said in a conversation with Miss Newby and two other male colleagues that 'I used to get loads of women when I was younger before I met Katy and you wouldn't believe what I used to do with them, but our sex is good.’ He went on to say 'Don't you think Oliver that a woman should always swallow? Me and Katy go for it every night of the week. I wouldn't take any less.’ In the modern workplace environment this makes David Saunders words complete madness although he says he has no recollection of the conversation. Charlotte Newby was fired from the gym before taking her harassment claim to the tribunal. She claimed that her dismissal was unfair but the tribunal ruled in the companies favour that she was only let go due to performance related issues. Mr Saunders was rightly fired for his part in the harassment case.
CLICK HERE: Save ££££ on your bills with A Spokesman Said| Compare & Save Now Gyms themselves have lots of issues with sexual harassment as women often complain of the misogynistic environment. In a 2017 article in Women’s Health magazine about sexual harassment in gyms a 33 year old woman said of her work outs in a North London gym ‘I noticed that one of the trainers would sexualise the movements that he was asking us to do and provide corrections in a similar manner,’ She went onto say ‘He’d correct deadlifts with directions to “bend over like you were taking it from behind”.’ This is just one example of many that gyms can be hotbeds of sexual harassment. Maybe we shouldn’t be so shocked at the behaviour of David Saunders in 2018 when instructors are doing the very same things. As of April 1 your energy bills went up by around 10%. The reason? The regulator Ofgem lifted the price cap which was imposed when Covid struck last March. If you shop around, and I suggest you come to A Spokesman Said, you can save back some of the money the big energy firms are trying to take from you.
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