Posts by LucreLout 3087 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jun 2014
Then where is the demand coming from if so many people are getting priced OUT of the market (demand implies people can afford to buy)?
Being priced out of Chealsea does not mean you are priced out of the market. As demostrated repeatedly, even the minimum waged can afford to buy a home..... they just can't afford to buy the home of their dreams at first time of asking.
most minimum wage jobs are zero hour contracts these days
http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7735/CBP-7735.pdf
https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/articles/contractsthatdonotguaranteeaminimumnumberofhours/september2017
So we can see that not only are you fundamentally wrong with your assertion, even assuming that all zero hours contracts pay minimum wage, but further, even if everyone on zero hours contracts is a millenial, "the number of people employed on “zero-hours contracts” in their main job, during April to June 2017 was 883,000, representing 2.8% of all people in employment." 2.8%....
Now let this sink in "People on “zero-hours contracts” are more likely to be young, part-time, women or in full-time education when compared with other people in employment." So, tell me again, when students have ever bought houses? Or part time workers? That'll be never then.
Taking a mortgage is a serious risk in these conditions as at any time you can find yourself not only jobless but also homeless while still being tens of thousands in debt to the bank.
And yet that seems a lot less risky than also losing your job and having rent to find. Rent that the landlord will keep increasing. Especially given the government will pay the interest on your mortgage up to £200,000 - https://www.gov.uk/support-for-mortgage-interest/what-youll-get
Trying to save the 10% while paying rent/bills etc could take years and savings can be quickly and unexpectedly eaten up by one disaster such as the car which is needed to get to work needing repair.
You're going to find that has always been the case and yet other generations somehow managed to weather the storm.
Buying a flat is not really a purchase.
Fundamentally untrue unfortunately.
You will never own the property, they tend to be on a 99 year lease.
Fortunately lifespans tend to be less than that, so what you have there wouldn't be a problem, even if you couldn't renew or extend the lease, which you near universally can. The next but one town over to me is mostly leasehold at 999 years.
Add to that the additional expense on top of the mortgage of ground rent and service charges for the upkeep of the building.
You'll find that whatever home you buy requires upkeep and repair work. Your rent isn't only the landlords coke & hookers money.
You've basically posted a fact free response without a single citation or accurate calculation. You've made a lot of assumptions readily provable as false with 30 seconds work on google. Its no wonder you think your life is hard if you can't do 30 seconds work to seperate fact from fiction.
Facts people, use them to form opinions, your feelings however deeply held simply don't count for shit.
So, with that £1300/month before tax -> say £1000/month received.
£1,205 actually, so you're only out by 20% so far.
Average around £100/month to commute (because the cheap places aren't next door to where you work)
No, but minimum wage jobs ARE right next to where you live. Thus your commuting cost should be £0.00
It makes literally no sense to spend £5 per day (your number) commuting when you can walk to the end of your street or the next one over and get a minimum wage job there.
Rent of £600/month.
You must be joking. Rightmove shows more than 600 properties within 40 miles of Luton for a maximum of £400. There's an extra £200 in the pot right there, combined with the extrat £200 you got wrong on the tax calculation, and the £100 commute cost you're up to £500 saving already.
It's all easy when you've got money. It's bloody tough when you're on the poverty line.
The trick is to get from the latter to the former. It helps if you start by getting your numbers, and so facts, correct. You've doubled down on the costs for even minimum wage individuals, which is why you can't see the wood for the trees.
You're entitled to disagree, but you're going to need to start presenting somme facts by way of rebuttal, not just downvotes and emotion; it's a good name for a band, but no way to win a debate.
I wonder if the decrease in alcohol consumption linked to increasing acceptability and availability of soft drugs?
No need to hang out in a pub or nightclub drinking all night in the hope of getting laid - you just whip out your mobile and swipe... right (I think). If they'd had this sort of stuff when I was 20, I'd have drank less too!
Buying a house is one of those fantasies old people talk about.
This? Again? Seriously?
40 hour work week @ min wage of £7.83 = £313.12 / week or £16,286.40 per annum.
That produces a mortgage amount of £57,002.40 (3.5 times salary) or £130,291.20 for a couple (4x joint salary).
Add to that the 10% deposit and we get a total available of £62,702.40 and £143,320.20
I've deliberately ignored things like overtime, any welfare top ups, and the fact that most people don't earn the minimum wage.
Thus a single person can well afford a one bed flat in much of the country and a couple can afford a small family home almost anywhere. I've used Luton as a starting point and there's 78 properties available within 40 miles for the single person, and almost 2000 available for the couple. The same search for Barnsley yields 1168 results and almost 9000 respectively.
I trust that we can now lay this cannard of the young to rest, yes?
What you can't buy, what people have never been able to buy, was the equivalent of the family home you grew up in as a first house, or a zone 1 London flat. Its called the housing ladder for a reason - you start at the bottom and work your way up. The term "Starter home" has a clue in the name.
It's not something anyone in the UK wants to address, house prices are a growing problem that's going to bite it in the arse while everyone looks for something else to blame
Houses are expensive - they pretty much always have been throuoghout history. Yes, some boomers got cheap houses, but most people didn't.
I've demonstrated with numbers on this site previously why owning a home within a reasonable commute (ie shorter than my schelpathon into that London) is possible for even a minimum wage couple. Buying on your own is also possible, but it'll be a small flat, not a family home.
Out of all the Millenials I work with, only one has bought their own property in their 20s, and he did that by saving hard for a deposit while renting as cheaply as possible, and then buying where he could afford (Essex, not zone 2 in London) and living with the 50 minute commute to work. He's not done anything the rest of his cohort couldn't have chosen to do, they just preferred to rent a more expensive place nearer work to live a "London lifestyle" (whatever that may be).
I'm an old giffer now (Gen X) but I couldn't buy until I was in my early to mid 30s, because I didn't understand how money worked and ran up some impressive debts partying. Millenials are time rich, and there's really no imperative for them to jump on the housing ladder at the age most of them now are - they have plenty of time for the compromises, commitments, and trade offs a mortgage brings when they're in their 30s.
There--fixed it. I couldn't just let a few minor errors get in the way of a thoughtful statement--otherwise, folks might think you're an ignorant caveman!
*yawn* trying to turn a binary state into a variable case because you're a man who wishes he was a woman doesn't redefine the meaning. Gender is male or female and derived from your birth. It has nothing whatsoever to do with what you choose to wear, or if you prefer the name susan to shaun at weekends.
That so many wannabe right-on types get so hett up over this is symptomatic of the wider problems facing society - you've been sold a lie that you can be whatever you want to be, and you can't. You are waht you are. If you're white you can't be black, if you're male you can't be female, and so it goes.... all the way down to the level that most people will have ordinary lives in ordinary jobs and live in ordinary accomodation - the lifestyles of the rich and shameless are not going to happen for most, no matter how hard they wish it.
Reality, it's over there ---->
@Windrose
Thanks for your offended for no reason millenial rant. Most amusing.
Were I delivering a lecture on biology, or even gender, then perhaps they might have had a cause to object, but the lecture was on code architectures. They seemed to completely miss the point of why Single Responsibility was important because they were so hett up about an irrelevant data typing. Much as you're doing now. That you don't see the irony doesn't mean it isn't there.
The reason that your generation is a joke to all of the generations before you, is that you're just so fragile and reactionary to anything that varies even one degree away from your precious right-on fact free world views. In your rush to emote over perceived wrongs, you utterly fail to grasp why anyone might have a different, perhaps more informed, view to your own. Your intollerance of the very idea is why you're just oh-so-special.
You don't change gender by changing outfit. You just don't. Clever plastic surgery might make you look like the other gender, but appearances can be deceiving - a post op male does not for example inherit a females life expectancy or reproductive capacity.
Define yourself by whatever gender you choose for whatever reasons you like. Just don't expect to force me to define you by the same conditionals. I care not if you choose to feel a different gender, ethincity whatever than that of your birth, but I do care if you try to force me to recognise your view of yourself when I can see reality may vary.
I had to give a lecture ot a bunch of grads recently, and happened to use a bit flag for gender. I wasn't intentionally being a dick about it, it's just that's what we always used when I was their age. I noticed next time I turned around that I seemed to have lost them while explaining the basics of SRP. The snowflakes looked so physically uncomfortable I thought they might be sick.
"Gender isn't binary" says one. "Gender is a social construct" says another.
"I'm pretty sure you're going to find it isn't anything to do with society." says I, "It's a natural biological imperative. Anyway, go to any maximum security prison - you'll find a lot of men wishing some of them were women, and you'll find some men pretending to be women, but that don't make it so."
In the end I made gender an int because hurting their feelings with facts wasn't really what I wanted to accomplish.
For the record, I care not whether a man wants to dress and live as a woman (up to and including having their knackers lopped off), and I care not if a woman wants to dress and live as a man - It's your life and you should absolutely live it your way; it isn't anyone elses business. But, your chromasomes are something you're born with and they define your gender (XX or XY), not your lifestyle.
Seriously, though, Mumsnet is a great place to while away an hour or two. It's like a continuous stream of Jeremy Kyle - stupid people making bad choices with car-crash entertaining results.
Mumsnet is without doubt one of the more batshitcrazy corners of the internet, and while it may be entertaining to laugh your ass off at them, collectively, they're probably responsible for more divorces than anywhere else on the web.
A nest of vipers yelling LTB (Leave The Bastard, I think) at each other, in some competetive game to see who can get the most new posters to leave their relationship and join them wallowing in misery. Unfortunately, nobody seems to give a crap about the inevitable impact it has on the kids. And no, I'm not divorced, and my Mrs took one look at Mumsnet and asked "Are they mad?"
Mumsnet: Just say no.
Aaron Swartz? He's the gutless wonder who who killed himself because he might have gone to prison.
Hardly Pankhurst or Ghandi.
I agree, he wasn't anything like either of those folks. Pankhurst orchestrated a bombing campaign - while I agree with her aims I cannot abide by her methods, however successfull they may have been. Ghandi wasn't above calling for enlistment to war, whatever his politics later developed into. Their great achievments will stand the test of time, but their actions prove that nobody is perfect.
Swartz was someones son, and he was hounded into an early grave for what? A few more dollars for the journal publishers that had minimal input on the work published, whose fees bear little resemblence to the cost of that publishing. Swartz was attempting, quite illegally and I fully understand why some of those whose papers he published would rightly be upset, to make available academic research papers such that all might learn from them and thus progress could be democratized and sped up.
As I said before, I don't agree with how he attempted to achieve his goal, but I do agree with his goal. And I certainly don't think being driven to his grave was a fair and reasonable punishment for his transgressions. I'm not suggesting his breaking the law should have gone unpunished, only that the punishment fit the crime - he made no personal gain from his endeavour, and he acted without malice - death, seems inappropriate punishment to me.
I've not downvoted you, but would encourage you to see room for a view that breach of copyright is not an offence worthy of taking a life, whomever enacts the finale.
Right now the best way to protect us all from AI is to calm the hypecycle. The amount of overblown nonsense masquerading as thought leadership regarding AI is appalling.
What about measures of fairness?
What about definitions of fairness?
Unless we can agree what fair is then measuring against some arbitrary definition of it is meaningless.
Calling someone stupid or dumb that doesn't share your opinion is not going to make them agree with you
I usually just interpret it as being the poster admitting they're too slow to think through their own position or that they have done so, found it wanting, and have resorted to playground tactics to deflect from the paucity of their position.
Its very convenient for people to think of Brexit or Trump as being somehow stupid, or racist, because it saves them having to consider how the situation really came about, which has a lot more to do with people being overlooked, ignored, insulted, or shouted down.
All of which is not helping their case - Trump remains in power, Brexit remains on course, and their own ideology is burning all around them. The world is walking away from the core beliefs of Clinton supporters & Remainers, and it is because they're too preachy to listen. But no, don't worry, those other people are stupid, dumb, and slow. FFS.
...no nuclear state wants to be annihilated first by a robot and thus must be first to launch
Instead of worrying about AI, try reading the line as this:
...no nuclear state wants to be annihilated first by a mentalist and thus must be first to launch.
And yet the world has survived Bush, Bush, Trump, Blair, Kim and plenty of other utter lunatics with their finger on the trigger. Thus, AI is not a launch first problem.
Some believed that AI would eventually evolve to “superintelligences” with powers that could not be fully understood and controlled by humans.
So, a bit like other humans then?
I literally cannot understand how dross like TOWIE has an audience, why people are fascinated by the Kardashians etc. But they are. I certainly have no control, or the wannabe celebrity guff would be toast already.
If the tech press can't move beyond the Skynet style hysteria, and the superintelligence hype, then who's going to? We'll find AI regulated to death before we ever get anything done with it - like a talkie toaster, or even just a toaster that doesn't burn toast.
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/01/26/us-business-elite-prepares-for-crisis_n_14420284.html
An interesting article - thanks for the link.
Their definition of millionaire is, I would argue, too vague. Wealth held in pensions, for instance, may not be accessible depending on the age of the person, and so is effectively beyond their reach. Most people use accessible assets other than primary place of residence as the threshold for this reason.
If you have 500k in pensions, and 500k outside of that, are you really able to simply flit country to country carefree, buying worst case scenario homes, vehicles etc?
The UK is too small and too over populated for anyone to realistically plan their way out of an apocolypse - short of a sealable bunker close to home that nobody else knows about (especially the neighbours). You'd have to hide for a few months while the masses wipe each other out and or starve before you could fall back on a tent, some kindling, and a sharp camping knife.
Ok, I recommend you remove the Facebook links from you web site. You rail against them in the articles, which is fair game given their behaviour, and then support them to continue doing what they do by providing direct login links from your own site?
Pretty slim probably as, if true, this access clusterf@@k means they have no guarantee the funds will end up where directed...
They'd probably short cut that and transfer the money to an online account with another provider or bitcoin account. Relying on your screwup to be so bad that it saves you from fraud because literally nobody can do anything seems counterproductive and unlikely to engender goodwill amongst customers.
... how will they detect all the fraud they're exposing themselves too? We've already seen in the media stories of people able to access £XX,XXX in other peoples accounts. What are the odds some dishonest scrote hasn't moved some of that "free money" to their own accounts? What are the odds other scrotes won't view their legitimate out going transactions and respond "Wasn't me guv".
And that's to say nothing of those simply writing down names, account numbers, balances, standing orders, and direct debit info for whatever accounts they see, knowing they can phone up later and hack into the account then.
Buggering up your outsourced IT is par for the course - you choose to do that when you choose to offshore - but displaying other peoples private information wen you do so is inexcusable.
Having to claim freedom of speech for such things means you have run out of rational arguments, as to why you think such things are acceptable in a civilized society.
Clearly they're not acceptable.
The bit I struggle with is how circulating photos of your ex's norks left looking like a plasterers radio, can in anyway be classified as "speech". Surely the intent of free speech was that discussion of literally anything could not then be rendered verbotten because of the whims of the current executive.
Tammy from Texas really shouldn't have to worry about what Billy Joe did with the naughty pictures she let him take before moving on to a better relationship. If he spaffs them all over the internet, then he should be birched or prosecuted - depends if the state get him before her brothers.
The lasting harm publication of such private pictures do to the women (and their children) involved surely must outweight considerations towards a bitter and vengeful ex-partner?
1 in 3 British men have a conviction? Do you have sauce to go with that?
I do, but I'm afraid you'll have to take it with a pinch of salt, because its a guardian link. The number relates to men under the age of 30, so the actual number may be higher, but I can't prove it with what I have to hand. I accept that conviction rates for women are generally lower than men, however, "men under the age of 30" is really only about a 12-20 year timespan because of the age of criminal responsibility protecting them from convictions. Men would have to comit crime about 4 times faster than for women for my assertion to prove suspect.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2002/apr/14/workandcareers.observercashsection
We hope for our criminal justice system to deliver rehabilitation, deterrence, punishment and protection for the innocent, which is a collection of largely incompatible aims, and we are surprised when it does none of them well.
The problem is caused because of an obsession with arbitrarily short tariffs.
The proper sequence of events is deterrence, crime, punishment, and then rehabilitation. Skipping over the punishment part in a headlong rush to get people back on the street with minimal inconvenience to their lives is corrupting the punishment part of the process and that is leading to it being no deterrent.
People don't spit gum on the street in Singapore both because of social norms, and also because serving a very long time in jail for it IS a deterrent. In the UK, provided it is a first offence and you plead guilty at the first hearing, you can freely commit GBH resulting in the hospitalisation of your victim with multiple broken bones, and you will walk out of court with a suspended sentance. That is not a deterrent, it is not really a punishment, and it is certainly not going to rehabilitate you.
How do you explain the 2 year delay on your CV?
Truthfully, or how rehabilitated are you?
The last time I saw numbers for this, 1 in 3 British men had a conviction for a crime of some sort. Really the only reason convictions for youthful stupidity are a problem as an adult is because we're not transparent about this - concealing convictions under the Rehab Act is distorting most peoples view of how prevalent historic offending is within their own group of colleagues.
I also have no doubts that if these become adopted by a lot of people that law enforcement will get a back door for the front door.
As an alternative to them using The Key (a large heavy battering ram) to smash the door to pieces, I can't see the problem. They're unlikely ever to be allowed warrantless entry, so the only real difference is when they leave, your door still works.
....the ones I meet from other countries are not nearly so excessively emotional as the ones we have in the UK. I mean sure, they all have the same stupid clothes and suspect taste in music, and they're all utterly obsessed with right-on causes, but those in Sweden, America, and Singapore with which I am forced to interact all seem considerably more robust and emotionally balanced than our own stock.
Mocking them is easy, but really they're the product of the "nobody loses, everybody wins, anybody can be famous" philosophy of schooling and media. Its a big part of why the real world comes as such a smack in the face to most of them. They might not help themselves, but its really not all their own fault.
No post about Millenials could be complete without this:
https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/09/why-generation-y-yuppies-are-unhappy.html
Or a mention from another thread of googling "millenial doorbell".
What do we expect as we all sit here, young and old, choosing emojis instead of writing "hey that's shit".
Don't get me started on Emoji's!!!
Shopping last weekend, and in return for an extra shot in my latte (that's not a euphamism), I had to drag our 4 year old around some tat bazar the Mrs wished to browse.
Mini-mrs runs off to find toys to look at, and returns hugging a giant emoji turd. She's grinning ear to ear as she dances about asking if I'll buy it for her. The staff are doubled up laughing as clearly she has no idea what it is she's hugging, it just has big eyes and a large smile.
"Go ask your mam if you can have it."
Why would someone wait for the promise of a Tesla, when for the same money they could buy a Toyota or a Jaguar and still get an electric car?
I'm guessing, and yes, it is a guess because nobody has a clue what will really happen, that they think the residual value of the Tesla after 5 years will outstrip that of the Toyota?
IMHO, the Model 3 is the wrong car for Europe in that it is a sedan/saloon and it is too expensive.
I think the model 3 could be perfect for Europe. It could replace both my family car and my play thing, in terms of 0-60 time and practicality (doors, space etc). Most of the time I use the abnormally high power output of the play thing to get the drop on traffic exiting roundabouts / lights etc, creating space for the morons to do their thing without banging into me; I rarely use the full output for very long.
Now, before everyone hits me over the head with the "electric cars won't work at scale due to the grid" stick, I agree, however, for me (assuming you lot don't switch over) a model 3 could work really rather well.
The snag is, the price is higher than I pay for my cars, so I'd have to wait until it drops about half its value, so likely to be 10 years after they crack the mass production issue.
Are you high? Engines degrade over time with wear and tear on the drive train, on the valves, maintaining compression etc. Do you really think that when you stick a 10-20yr old car* on a dyno it will generate the same bhp?
It depends on how well its looked after. When I had my play thing tuned on a rolling road [1], it'd lost half a pony from book value in 15 years (0.5 bhp drop). In the interests of full disclosure, its given a full service annually and an oil change every 6k or after winter whatever comes first.
EFI and ignition coupled with proper exhaust gas analysis mean coking doesn't happen any more, and wear & tear can be minimised with a proper warm up and cool down procedure and frequent oil & filter changes. Modern oils are a massive help too.
Don't mistake this post for concern that a Tesla loses 10% of range over 160k miles - that sort of range drop doesn't bother me. As I've posted before, my bladder can only manage about 200 miles between stops, so anything with a greater range is mostly workable for me these days.
[1] its normal to do a before and after run if you're having a lot of work done so you can validate the improvement and ensure any problem isn't caused by the changes.
And the range drops 33% when it hits zero degrees (freezing) and about 50% by the time it reaches -10. I hate to think what it is at -30.
If the UK ever got down to -30 I'd be staying home. Southerners simply can't drive in the snow [1], and a progression down to -30 will likely result in snow frequently in the UK. There's no point going out to try and drive if the road will be impassable because of abandoned vehicles.
[1] - Sorry folks, but its true. In fairness, the south gets about 5 minutes snow a year, so most locals just don't have any real experience of it.
I realise not everyone will agree, but Prime has lots of shows I love - Bosch, Mr Robot, Grand Tour etc. Prime Reading saves me a bit of cash in terms of magazine purchases too.
The free postage used to be a big draw because I'd save enough, even for allowing a bit of price inflation, to make it worth while. Not so much now with all the restrictions on the service.
What I should probably start doing is putting any cash saved into Amazon shares.....
Can you can be remotely sure you're not in there, you can't! You'd have to be a super human hermit to have escaped all that.
You can be crystal clear that you haven't. If just one person has your number in their phone book and has a facebook account, your privacy is toast.
Roll on GDPR day - Remember folks, if everyone in Europe hits them with a GDPR request on the same day, they lose most of their revenue for the year. Rinse and repeat twice a year and they go pop. Their ONLY alternative will be to delete the data they hold about people that don't have an account and so haven't consented to the cyber stalking.
Be reminded though, that intelligence is not necessarily an evolutionary advantage.
I'm not sure I agree with that.
Even WWE size doeses of steroids can't make a man as strong as a bear.
Training to run like Usain Bolt can't make a man as fast as a puma.
We can't fly like an eagle, or swim like a fish. And radiation does to us greater damage than to a cockroach.
What we have going for us, all that we have going for us, is opposable thumbs, and intelligence. In return, we are the dominant species on our planet.
A cursory glance at the species we've made extinct would suggest that the award of opposable thumbs would not have saved them from us. Intelligence, at least to Wayne Rooney level matters.
Why do these politicians think that they have the investigative credentials of a seasoned detective.
Why? Dunning Kruger, I suspect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect
Why else would a postman or lawyer think he should be running the country rather than delivering mail or chasing ambulances?
That is how long I had the suspension lasted in good condition las time. Four coils in three years, plus three bearings. Unacceptable.
And yet the very people whose job it is to keep the roads passable moan and whine like stuck pigs about people buying offroaders, seemingly wihtout irony.
(I don't have one myself, but given the scale of damage the poster is talking about, I can see why they might get one next time)
@Jason Bloomberg
While I agree with the sentiment of your post and am not worried about personally being zapped by a malware inifected medical device, I do disagree with several parts of your post.
I find it hard to accept that deliberate targeting like this is at all likely to be a thing
Why? There's potential to become famous which seems to motivate too many people these days; there's potential to make a lot of ransom money, which seems to motivate too many people these days; and its not like we don't already have some rather lovely chaps who are only too keen to screw up the lives of others for seemingly no personal gain (revenge porn, intimate photo hacking of strangers etc etc).
There's too much "if it could happen, it will happen" scaremongering these days.
Yes, for most walks of life I'd agree, however in hacking terms, much of what can happen does in fact begin to happen. I'd imagine this owuld make a great way for a rogue state to assasinate their emenies leaders - just wait for them to go for an MRI and nuke them (temporarily suspending disbelief because other posters have shown why this would be unlikely to be fatal).
Watch out for the bogeyman. He could be under the stairs, hiding in the dark, hacked into your router, draining your bodily fluids as you sleep.
As long as he's not hacked into my laptop web cam while I'm draining them then it could be worse....
I'd agree that we don;t need to panic and we don;t need a knee jerk reaction to this article, but surely it must be evident that we do need to see increasing standards of computer literacy and efficacy within the NHS as an organisation?
Never had a FB account nor any other social media site apart from LinkedIn but deleted that after a year.
And yet, somehow, I would expect Farcebook to know so very much more about you than you'd ever be comfortable with. Let he who is without idiot friends or relatives cast the first downvote.
I've never had a FB account, but I'd be they know more information about me than all but my closest friends. Roll on GDPR day, so we can begin the fight back. Once the ICO refuses to use their powers to lever penalties, the push to change the law and allow the courts to impose said penalty can begin.
If you're in the UK, have you considered investing a tenner and making a subject access request to the company?
Please be patient and wait for GDPR day before doing this. Right now the ICO will do nothing, literally, other than ping them an email slapping their wrist. On GDPR day we can bury these clowns if only everyone in the EU could get their act together and file the same request on the same day.
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