National News Boris Johnson - Ousted Former PM

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In many ways we are all rich. We are in the top 1% of the top 1% of all people who have ever lived. It's all good.
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You're right. And then you also have to add into the mix all the big tech companies that, on a relative scale, pay very little tax, and the companies who move their profits off shore to protect themselves from tax. It's a lot more than what we pay as individuals.
 
Globalisation has completely scuppered the corporate tax system.
Unfortunately we, the consumer, are the provider of the money and tacit supporters of the global mega companies avoiding paying their fair share because we benefit by getting cheap products delivered to the door.
Same with banks, same with any large business.

The better choice is to withdraw from the non-essential purchasing addiction.
Shop local, shop seasonal and only buy quality goods that last.
You can then be rich in a different way.
 
Made me chuckle...

Speaking of which, like me, you probably feel relaxed to learn that Chris Grayling, who notably awarded a ferry contract to a firm with no ferries, is now to be paid £100,000 a year for seven hours work a week advising a ports company. When I read this story I imagined his aides pulling a hammer-wielding Grayling off the pulped corpse of Satire, going: “Jesus, Chris! Leave it – it’s already dead! We need to get out of here!”
 
QR said:
Made me chuckle...

Speaking of which, like me, you probably feel relaxed to learn that Chris Grayling, who notably awarded a ferry contract to a firm with no ferries, is now to be paid £100,000 a year for seven hours work a week advising a ports company. When I read this story I imagined his aides pulling a hammer-wielding Grayling off the pulped corpse of Satire, going: “Jesus, Chris! Leave it – it’s already dead! We need to get out of here!”
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Post running already... do keep up. :)

National News - Got any boats Chris?

Probably the first question he should be asking in the new post..................... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54185180 Evidence, if needed, that a degree of ineptitude and inability is the key to a glittering careeer.
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Meanwhile - a Tory MP has put forward the National Health Service (Co-funding and Co-Payment) Bill - which has passed it's first stage with no debate.

It basically says that *your* treatment on the NHS will have to be co-funded by *you* either through a straight cash payment or insurance (and no, your NI contributions don't count). This is a Private Members bill and has *little* (but not 'no') chance of being passed - but pretty disgraceful that this is even being put forward really. It is a step along the road to a USA-like system that will provide the rich with better health care than the poor.
 
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QR said:
How is that an analogy? Please explain.
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Do I really need to ?

You have 27 countries with only a handful effectively holding up the rest financially with the size of their contributions.

You remove the support of say Germany and what are you left with ?
 
MC Yellow said:
Do I really need to ?

You have 27 countries with only a handful effectively holding up the rest financially with the size of their contributions.

You remove the support of say Germany and what are you left with ?
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That's not a ponzi scheme. Germany knows what it's getting for its contributions. If Germany was expecting a massive return that depended on new rich contries joining every year you may have been on to something.

I wish I didn't have to explain this. ??
 
QR said:
That's not a ponzi scheme. Germany knows what it's getting for its contributions. If Germany was expecting a massive return that depended on new rich contries joining every year you may have been on to something.

I wish I didn't have to explain this. ??
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where have I said it’s a Ponzi scheme? I said it was an inverted pyramid... that is not a Ponzi scheme is it.

Anyway, I’m watching the match now.
 
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QR said:
That's not a ponzi scheme. Germany knows what it's getting for its contributions. If Germany was expecting a massive return that depended on new rich contries joining every year you may have been on to something.

I wish I didn't have to explain this. ??
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Germany have benefitted massively from the southern European countries' weaker economies keeping the Euro lower making their companies far more competitive.
 
Marked Ox said:
Germany have benefitted massively from the southern European countries' weaker economies keeping the Euro lower making their companies far more competitive.
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Germany also benefits by having Eastern Europeans working in their hospitals, German pensioners can easily buy property in Mallorca to retire in and German factories have moved East to cut costs.

Conversely, Southern European students can get educated for free in Germany, Poles can make lucrative income and all of the surrounding markets benefit from a strong German economy with 90M Germans purchasing goods/services from across the EU. Plus of course, they put more € into the EU coffers..

It's not a zero-sum game...
 
Navegante said:
Germany also benefits by having Eastern Europeans working in their hospitals, German pensioners can easily buy property in Mallorca to retire in and German factories have moved East to cut costs.

Conversely, Southern European students can get educated for free in Germany, Poles can make lucrative income and all of the surrounding markets benefit from a strong German economy with 90M Germans purchasing goods/services from across the EU. Plus of course, they put more € into the EU coffers..

It's not a zero-sum game...
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If I implied it was one way traffic that is not what I meant. It was just an example of how Germany gained from their involvement.
 
Marked Ox said:
www.express.co.uk

Galileo blow: £5bn UK rival set to be SCRAPPED by Government

HOPES of a British satellite navigation project to rival the EU's Galileo system at a cost of up to £5billion are on the verge of crashing down to Earth with the UK Space Agency poised to terminate the project.
www.express.co.uk www.express.co.uk

More success for the Govt.
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now thats a shock...:eek:
the company they bought into that has a failed satellite network that is entirely the wrong sort of satellite network to run a GPS-like system, now they have found that out, but are left with the bill to clean up the non-useful satellites - wow, no-one predicted that....shambles.
the only surprise here is that so far there is no cash trail to a Tory donor.
 
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