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You're still not getting the point - Sunak let in nearly 1 million immigrants. I am not against immigration entirely, but that was too many. One of the largest groups was IT workers, which is partly why the contract market is so dead. Offshore agencies are rotating people in for 2, now 3, years and...

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I think I have given a few Gen Zs a shock by tracking them down and phoning them up to check they got my CV. The ones that actually answer their phones that is....

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Very interesting. Friend of mine came back from overseas this year (dunno why!!), and he told me he applied for something like 300 jobs, got to about 4 final rounds, and managed to land 1. We were talking about CVs and the amount of work to tailor your CV for a role, and he was of the opinion that his...

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Yeah. Greens are doing well in the polls but their policies make them out to be the biggest opium addicts of all (OPM addict = Other Peoples Money addict). We all know that we need green policies, its just that the party that used to campaign for that are now hard socialist, and seem to talk more about...

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Well ok, I agree that security is one reason to something a little harder.

But to give an example, I was the architect on a government service, following this service manual but the Scottish version of it (pretty much the same). This service required 3 digital signings in its original form,...

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Just to be clear, most immigrants to the UK do not get here via "people smugglers". They get a Visa. Illegal immigration is but a tiny fraction of the total number. Just sayin, because a lot of people do not seem to know that and conflate "immigrant" with "arrived on a small...

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If they keep the triple lock, by the time I retire it will be £200K/year. But a loaf of bread will cost £50.

No. Don't be daft.

But whatever it is, it will be a nice top up. If we ever qualify that is, with the age threshold being bumped up over and again....

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I agree. The level of fraud committed on Covid loans was unreal. I never got one myself (for my company, I mean), but I don't know why I didn't I think the money was even interest free ? But the fruadulent loans add up in the billions that will never be recovered and is a real liability on the tax payer....

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My perspective is that doing things with a computer is meant to make them easier, not harder.

Its got to the point now, where things that used to be simple, like buying a train ticket, seem to involve visiting 3 websites, and plowing through 6 screens on each, and filling in your details...

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Tulip

Is that Dutch?

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And they put the confirmation statement filing cost up to £50 from £34, presumably to pay for this crap system.

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Did it all through the app with my passport.

Part of the reason this was more hassle than IDing throught the post office is that I don't keep my passport in my office and my office is right next to post office. So getting the PDF letter and taking that to the post office involved about...

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My main aversion to these things is that they are generally a hassle, lots of steps and pictures and to and fro from websites. Maybe this one is not so bad.

But my other objection is the way we getting ID cards through the backdoor with this - its the same system, but being forced on us,...

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Hmm. Well I think basically my ID verification at the Post Office must have not worked, they just failed to make that clear.

Stupid app and passport must be the only way to do it.

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I do seem to be Ided in the sense that I can get to my Companies House account through the One Login, just no 11 digit code ?? I really do not understand.

Does anyone know how to get some actual help with this ? You know from a human being. Maybe even an AIchatbot might know !

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What can we do... write to our MPs ? I think mine only cares about gender identity issues.

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Oh... 500 Internal Server Error

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I verified my ID through the post office with my driving licence. I honestly don't know if it worked or not, the response email and link it took me to initially said some kind of error, that later cleared up, but really left me none the wiser.

Could my 11 digit code be missing becauase...

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You’ll need to enter the Companies House personal code and confirm the identity verification statement for each director.

Where to find the Companies House personal code▼

This is an 11 character code that is given to a person once they have verified their identity.
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Old Gov Gateway was a doddle compared to this. I don't remember it being hard at all, applied for an ID, letter came in the post, set up account and password and 2FA. Been using it for over a decade, no particular issues.

I think this new system was farmed out to some offshore developers...