Why are the Tories alienating the Grey voters?

Interest rates are a joke to over 55s. My bank just told me its reducing its rates to a wonderful 0.01%!! Really? That actually means 10p a year for every £1000 I have saved. Seriously if Pensioners cannot get anything on their savings yes they'll spend it but not on stuff to help the economy just on living, food, heating etc. Then when its gone they'll expect handouts to live hence its self defeating of the Government. They'll not forgive them.
Nice to hear that they've set up a wonderful 2.2% Bond with NS&I, but you can only put £3k in it that's a wonderful income of £66 per year. What will i get for that, maybe 6 bottles of cheap wine. Ridiculous.

I'd be better buying premium bonds. If my £1000 gets just one £25 prize a year I'm in front.

Don't HMG get it they should be using pensioners savings to invest in the economy and generating growth. If they offered a decent rate say 5% then pensioners would invest in Government bonds.

Struggling with Meraki MDM and Apple Configurator?

What they don't explain in the manuals took me a while to figure out so I hope this helps.

Setting up Meraki to use DEP and MDM

1 Setup DEP in Meraki

Linking Systems Manager to Apple DEP

In order to use the Apple DEP with Systems Manager, a Systems Manager deployment must be linked to an organization within DEP. These steps assume an Apple ID for the organization has already been created, as outlined in the Device Enrollment Program Guide.

In Dashboard, navigate to Organization > Configure > MDM, then scroll down to the Apple Device Enrollment Program section.

Download the Meraki_Apple_DEP_cert.pem file provided.

Apple bit

In another browser window, go to https://deploy.apple.com/ and sign in with the Apple ID tied to the desired organization.

Navigate to Device Enrollment Program > Manage Servers.

Click Add MDM Server.

Enter a Name for the MDM server in DEP, then click Next.

Click Choose File... and upload the public key downloaded in step 2, then click Next.

Download the server token provided, then click Done.

This is a “smime.p7m” file.

Meraki

Back in Dashboard, click on the Choose File button in step 3.

Select/upload the server token downloaded in step 8.

Choose the default Systems Manager network where devices tied to this MDM server in DEP will be enrolled.

Click Save Changes.

Setup Apple Configurator 2 for your Meraki MDM Server, (Manual enrolment)

Get the URL for the Meraki MDM Server

In yor Meraki Dashboard go to Systems Manager > MDM > Add Devices > iOS > Apple Configurator > Enrollment URL (AC2+)

What you actually need is the bit on the screen that says

Apple Configurator

Another option for installing the management profile on a large number of devices is the Apple Configurator. Below is a link to the management profile for your network. Download and import the profile into the Apple Configurator to enroll devices.

Management profile  meraki_sm_mdm.mobileconfig

With Apple Configurator 1.5+ you have the option to provide an MDM URL which the device must use to enroll during device setup.

https://n147.meraki.com/?id=645703596574250997&org=422228

Copy and paste this into a TXT file (I did any way so I could put it on my MAC)

Then in the Apple Configurator 2 You can setup your MDM Server.

Follow the instructions at the “Apple Configurator 2 - Manual Enrollment” Section.

https://documentation.meraki.com/SM/Device_Enrollment/Enrolling_and_Supervising_iOS_Devices_using_Apple_Configurator_2.0_or_Later

On the MAC you need to go to, Apple Configurator 2 > Preferences > Servers Tab . Click “+” to Add a server, Next > Enter Your Name (call it what you want “Meraki MDM Server” is what I used), then in Hostname or URL: copy and paste in the Enrollment URL from the TXT document on your Stick. As per above.

Now you can set up in Apple Configurator 2 your devices. First you have to create the Profiles and Blueprints that you are going to use, but this is another story.

BBC licence fee should be optional?

The BBC licence fee is essentially an entertainment"Poll tax". Even Gary Lineker thinks that we shouldn't have to pay it.
If they privatised it then people could pay if they want to watch stuff like Eastenders. There should still be some public service broadcasting like the Proms and the news, but this can be paid by taxation.
Tory MP Andrew Bridger is against it too.

Should there be positive discrimination?

Why can't a white man play a black man in a film play? I think it's ridiculous to discriminate against white actors playing anything. It's not real after all! At the end of the day it's all objective. I don't watch soaps on TV, I don't like them but I wouldn't stop others. What I find objectionable others may like, so what.
Why are the "thought police" now destroying free speech in the name of political correctness. Soon we'll all be Winstons watched by Big Brother. I don't like this idea.
Gazza may have been offensive but was it not a private function? Anyone can say something offensive to someone else, it's not so much what word expression you use but the intention.
Let's all calm down and be broad minded before its too late and we are living in a totalitarian state. I feel discriminated against as a white,British,middle-class,person.

Pensioners could save this Government

For all these years of austerity HMG has been trying to get everyone to spend spend spend to get us out of the mess. But folk have no money and don't want to get in debt even if interest rates are low. They have a pensions crisis but no one wants to save because they he be no money and rates are abysmal. Yet all this is upside down. Now HMG wants to borrow money to start building. Great, good idea, but why not help poor pensioners out and get your money cheaply, how you ask. Set up special pensioner bonds offering reasonable interest rates to over 55s. They will buy in as now we get virtually nothing on our savings (less tax!).  Then with this money they can build the houses and railways etc.

Too fat

Wish someone would tell me how these folk, too fat to go out do their shopping etc.yes I know they can shop online but they still have to move about, open the door, cook, etc. Unless some stupid person is pandering to them. If they can't eat, they'll soon slim.

Who are you?

Who are you, as a species we identify each other by our faces.  When you can't see someone's face you are instinctively suspicious.
Now I fully support anyone's right to wear what they want within reason. So for example covering your face is not allowed in rioting, and motorcyclist's are asked to remove their helmets on entering banks. So what about police we can't  identify? Suppose its fair enough when they are in riot gear but the rest, shouldn't we have the right to recognize them? So no veils etc. Sorry. This is Britain.

So some people don't get it, they ARE, using the dress as a religious statement and in the context of French rules that is the issue. Not WHAT you wear.