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  1. K

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

    The real question is that given various ministers and the PM's spokesman have confirmed that they respect the court's decision and would arrest those in question if they set foot on UK territory (which includes, BTW, the British embassy in Israel itself and more awkwardly, British military...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    I mean I'm not actually that bothered, just trying to be straight with the poster about what I actually do. Don't want to be all Rachel Reeves...
  3. K

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

    I have 3 kids in primary school. There's absolutely nothing wrong with our education. Just had a hernia operation also. Within 5 weeks of referral from my GP. Things are not as bad as people make out.
  4. K

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

    He wouldn't get as far as the baggage carousel and wouldnt need interpol, immigration and customs officers have powers of arrest and in fact are individually legally obliged to act on international arrest warrants which would trigger an alert when they scanned his passport. Not that he'd set...
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    OMT ** Tottenham Hotspur v Emirates Marketing Project ** Saturday 23 November 2024

    That's what I thought too. Was thinking "Emirates Marketing Project are going to come out of this run and pummel someone" and I thought we seem to be on the edge of that cliff-edge of loss of confidence in the manager where there are signs of the manager getting frustrated, the players not really following...
  6. K

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

    I work for a bank. I wouldn't describe myself as a banker as I don't actually involve myself in the "banking", I.e. the taking and management of customer deposits.
  7. K

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

    You see stuff like this makes me cringe, I do this stuff as my job (I'm a risk manager for a large bank). Tesco's operating profit was actually £2.69 billion. Their operating expenses were £16.59 billion. So I'm glad they've made a profit of over £2 billion, because that means they can absorb...
  8. K

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

    Yes, income tax taken via payroll is the only reliable means of raising revenue. Because every other form of taxation taxes an activity for which there are alternatives (I.e. raising taxation can mean the activity you are taxing reduces and you simply end up getting a higher % of less money)...
  9. K

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

    By "rebalance" what you mean is that Labour have clobbered everyone with taxes to give more money to public sector union members? Because whatever extra money is being generated will be going straight into funding those pay deals, and actually they'll have to borrow more just to fund them...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    The point he is making is that they're squeezing businesses like teabags. 95% of employers in the UK are SME businesses that are operating on or within the margins of economic peaks and troughs. They've already had covid to contend with and if they were exporting/importing from the EU they've...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    I don't, but know of him. He's a tax lawyer isn't he? The one who outed Zahawi about his Gibraltar scheme? I think that sums it up though, that Labour members that know how the economy works/are in business are pulling their hair out. Disagree. Sunak and Hunt were doing an excellent job on...
  12. K

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

    Normally, a government has a honeymoon period. With this lot they've decided not to fudge about and get right on with the blatant corruption, mass protest and generally p***ing everyone off while collapsing the economy (market analysts now predicting UK inflation to hit 3% next year) "Siri...
  13. K

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

    It was rather limiting yes, now to the question?
  14. K

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

    But as per scara's point, there's so much noise around poverty and what constitutes it, and the definitions and methodology changes so often, it's become almost impossible to track. That's down to government and the civil service. You see you admit yourself that things are incomparably better...
  15. K

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

    Just seen BBC piece on Northern Rail's service. Good to see the nationalisation of Northern Rail in 2020 has helped improve standards after the disaster of privatisation.
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    OMT ** Tottenham Hotspur v Emirates Marketing Project ** Saturday 23 November 2024

    I haven't been bothered by any of our defeats this season. Pre-season and the early few games confirmed to me we'd not progressed from the end of last season and I've been resigned ever since to enjoying the bad**** lunacy/rollercoaster of Angeball before the players/board get tired of it.
  17. K

    OMT ** Tottenham Hotspur v Emirates Marketing Project ** Saturday 23 November 2024

    We are getting totaled in this game.
  18. K

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

    I'll have to look into it. Not going to lie, I just selected one of the already presented spec packages set out by the scheme, which meant there weren't many optional extras to even add on afterwards. Think I then paid extra for the colour I liked and that was about it as it already had all the...
  19. K

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

    Yeah but that goes to your point about avoidance being presumed against in law *unless there is some benefit to society* and payroll is pretty much the only area of taxation where avoidance is pretty much always net negative impact. Other forms of taxation, including non-payroll forms of income...
  20. K

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

    There is legal presumption against tax avoidance schemes, it's called IR35.
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