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Reply | New Sky Deal thread
at 14:00 31 May 2024
Last time QPR played live on ITV?
MK Dons FA cup replay around 2012 is it? Does ITV 4 even count? What a crap match that was anyway. God help us. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 13:22 31 May 2024
Errrrrrrm, trying to avoid tit for tat but.....
The EU wants to outlaw cherry-picking of tax jurisdictions. Brexit Britain doesn't feel strong enough to do so on its own (doubt a Labour govt would have the strength either). - Bit late now, should've done it before ROI nicked all the Corporation tax. (Fair play to them) I see it as being outside the tent pissing in, we have an opportunity to do something to our advantage here
We can't have frictionless trade with the EU - So? We're just as able to create friction as they are.
We can't do without immigration because we have an ageing, unhealthy and under-educated population - Stop being selfish and have some kids then? I'm 31 and have 2, I'm doing my bit. Why won't people like you? Unhealthy....Undereducated......We've got universal free at the point of use healthcare and we're still unhealthy......while 37.5% of Brits complete Higher education ffs! That's far more than in the MENAT region that we're sourcing our migrants from.
We can't do a trade deal with America because they don't want one - Only temporarily, when Trump comes back we'll see
We can't sell more to countries further away than Europe because leaving the EU doesn't bring us any closer to countries on the other side of the world - We've already done trade deals with some further away countries so that's another lie. I'm not saying you're deliberately lying here - But I think you are being lied to by the media
We can't turn Britain into a "Singapore-on-Thames" with flat tax rates, no safety net for the poor, no NHS free at the point of delivery - for the very simple reason that the British people don't want it. - Speak for yourself. I do. What actual evidence have you got to back up this claim? Did you hear it on Sky news or something?
Anyway, lets save Clive the aggro of a back n forth [Post edited 31 May 13:44]
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 13:11 31 May 2024
If it's really this straightforward, why don't you guys just buy some shares in all of these massive dividend-paying companies?
Why are shares in Thames Water today worth almost 50% less than they were 10 years ago, if it's making so much profit?
I'm not arguing with you, I'm genuinely asking |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 13:06 31 May 2024
Like saying we should stop doing autopsies on murder victims, the fact they are dead should be enough to prove there has been a murder. Bizarre.
We can all call each other names. I asked for more detail and nothing more than "It's happening" has been forthcoming. Even in the South (Where I regard the water quality as being: Fcking shit) our water quality is remarkably better than most other places on earth.
Also not deflecting anything onto "Trans issues" - I'm critiquing the left. [Post edited 31 May 13:25]
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 12:46 31 May 2024
"The mechanics of how that happened aren't too important. That it happened and continues to happen all over the country absolutely is."
Doesn't this just sum up the current problem with the left? Detail is not important to you guys. Headlines & soundbites are. People are tired of it. We want details, not liars putting out Trumpesque "Trans women are women" soundbites that we all instinctively know are utter bullshit. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 12:06 31 May 2024
Huh? None of the staff want or can afford to be full time, but they are using overseas agency workers on a full time basis to cover vacancy?
The full time agency workers should be made permanent to fill the vacancy. Simple. They evidently already have the right to work in the UK, so what's the problem? Whoever is managing the service has an incentive to make that happen because it's their service they are managing. If you are suggesting fraud is taking place, who are you suggesting is the beneficiary of that? The service manager or A.N.Other Tory party donor? |
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Reply | Bikes in London
at 11:28 31 May 2024
As I understand it
Zebra crossings in Italy don't give pedestrians the right of way, they're more like designated road crossing places where you have a better chance of crossing than say, stepping out from between 2 parked cars
UK operate more like a STOP sign in the US, where you're technically supposed to stop and check if there is a person waiting or not, but obv if we can see nobody is about we tend not to. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 11:07 31 May 2024
I'd rather be an apologist for bad weather than a Hamas apologist or a gender cult apologist, which we have our fair share of on here.
I've asked for more info - I'm fully aware that my echo chamber (We all have one) is telling me that the idea our toilets flush directly into the Thames is absurd. I've opened the manhole cover outside my house before and not much sign of the Thames down there.
We're saying there's been no investment in water infrastructure but we've literally in the last year or 2 completed the largest sewer in Europe. We all sit here pretending not to know why our infrastructure is overloaded, but knowing full well we're not having kids and importing 700k people a year. Anybody who points out the obvious truth is a pariah. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 10:59 31 May 2024
Bit more complicated than that
Any agency member of staff worth their salt will be offered a full-time permanent position fairly quickly, more security for them and cheaper for the employer. Some people prefer the flexibility of agency only. Some have to carefully manage their hours so as not to interfere with working tax credits.
You also need some element of agency/temporary staffing to cover absence, which since covid has stayed at remarkably high levels
They were actually doing quite well with reducing agency spend in the years prior to covid but as with many other sectors covid was used as an excuse and everything has gone back to shit
There is nothing actually stopping you from starting your own agency, I know people who have done it, it's harder than it looks [Post edited 31 May 11:14]
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Reply | Bikes in London
at 15:12 30 May 2024
I have a similar issue with a zebra crossing near me, you'll stand there and at least 3 or 4 cars will pass before anybody will stop. This is while I'm taking my 2-year-old to the childminder. I assume it must be due to foreign drivers not understanding what a Zebra crossing means in the UK, because if it's not that, then what the fck? |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 14:54 30 May 2024
Isn't this partly why Brexit was/is so important?
The fact they're still doing it after Brexit is why people like me argue Brexit still hasn't actually happened. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 14:18 30 May 2024
We do. The reason they move profits elsewhere and pay their taxes elsewhere is precisely because we tax their profits at a rate the multi-nationals deem uncompetitive. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 14:14 30 May 2024
How are you measuring the taxable wealth of "billionaire shareholders" though? Seems like you want to tax their net worth rather than their actual income, which obviously is a short-sighted strategy that comes with diminishing returns. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 13:55 30 May 2024
How many people do Amazon or Google employ in the UK? How much tax do those people pay? A little bit unfair to exclude that from your calculations IMO |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 13:53 30 May 2024
What's that got to do with the general election though? HMRC collects taxes, not MPs. |
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