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  1. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    My point is obviously not that investment funds don't work, I invest in them all the time. My point is that when it loses money, it's the taxpayer that gets hit. Rather unfairly, it's the hardest working who get hit disproportionately.
  2. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    What would the real world effect of that be? Little to nothing if anything at all. It's probably more likely to be damaging than beneficial.
  3. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    All you're describing is an investment fund. Funds sometimes lose - in that case it will be the taxpayer footing the bill.
  4. scaramanga

    Cheatski are still scum

    Smaller jump than us taking Ange.
  5. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    There isn't much they can do. There's nothing left to spend because Sunak staffed it all up the wall during COVID. They can't increase taxes because we're already being taxed more heavily than the economy can cope with. Best they can hope for is some kind of seismic tech change like Blair...
  6. scaramanga

    *** The Official Boxing/UFC/MMA thread ***

    I'd imagine that he's been on the smaller end of purses to this point. Any time he fights now he'll be earning a lot more.
  7. scaramanga

    *** The Official Boxing/UFC/MMA thread ***

    Yeah strange one that. Unless they've changed the rules, I'm sure the ref is obliged to stop it if a fighter is unable to defend themselves.
  8. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    I doubt this one will. They'll have a lot fewer students (taxpayer saving of £0) but they'll be around a lot longer than any of us.
  9. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Yep. 5 years of fees in one hit is gonna hurt like fudge but I'm not paying those fudgers any more than I have to.
  10. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    So who pays when it loses money? The taxpayer, right?
  11. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Yeah, I'm off to prepay a bunch of school fees in the morning.
  12. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    It lost over 4Bn Toy moneys in 2022. Looks like it's probably the latter of my two suggestions.
  13. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Apparently so.
  14. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Kids enrolled in a Cali school from Sep
  15. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    I'm guessing that either that decision hasn't had to happen yet or that it has and it's simply cost the taxpayer a fortune. As the vast majority of the weight of taxation falls on a vast minority of the country, I suspect most wouldn't understand that as a problem.
  16. scaramanga

    Cheatski are still scum

    I can't see the owners giving him the transfer control he wants.
  17. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    That's the problem though - it can never be at arm's length. There will come a point of failure where the government needs to either bail that failure out or cut losses. Often the correct decision is to cut losses but the public won't allow that.
  18. scaramanga

    So, what happened today?

    If enough things go wrong with my gas boiler I die. If enough things go wrong with Waterloo bridge I die, etc. Fear of turbulence is not particularly rational, although I don't think a particularly good job is done in explaining to the general public what turbulence is. Still, a 73 year old...
  19. scaramanga

    So, what happened today?

    A 73 year old man had a heart attack during an event that many people inexplicably find scary. I wouldn't worry too much.
  20. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    There's still a problem with the DPD model and that's the fact that governments have to win elections. So let's say DPD staff become like train staff and believe they deserve 3-4 times the salary that their education and rarity of skills deserves. In the private sector, they can be told to...
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