| Are our players contractually obliged to embarrass the club on social media? 18:36 - Apr 24 with 6877 views | Jigsore |
Karl Henry at it this time, getting absolute pelters for this
just what we need ahead of a crucial game at West Ham
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| Are our players contractually obliged to embarrass the club on social media? on 11:21 - Apr 25 with 1473 views | sexton |
| Are our players contractually obliged to embarrass the club on social media? on 11:10 - Apr 25 by NW5Hoop |
You're basing that argument entirely on the notion that people are unemployed because they want to be. Can you back up that argument with facts and figures, rather that "I saw a story in the Mail …" or "There's a girl near here who had two kids just to get a council house …" Because anecdotes are not evidence, they're anecdotes. |
Quite. I was made redundant because the business I worked for was closed down and I was unemployed for 3 months. I paid tax and NI for over 30 years. My benefit? £72 a week for a maximum of 6 months. Yes I had a decent redundancy payout but not every person chucked out of work will do. |  | | |
| Are our players contractually obliged to embarrass the club on social media? on 11:24 - Apr 25 with 1470 views | Gloucs_R |
| Are our players contractually obliged to embarrass the club on social media? on 11:10 - Apr 25 by NW5Hoop |
You're basing that argument entirely on the notion that people are unemployed because they want to be. Can you back up that argument with facts and figures, rather that "I saw a story in the Mail …" or "There's a girl near here who had two kids just to get a council house …" Because anecdotes are not evidence, they're anecdotes. |
No I'm not. If I was unemployed I would be trying to keep myself busy. If someone said to me you have to give 5 hours a week helping people to claim your benefits I wouldn't mind at all.
Think of all the good that could be done if people contributed just 5 hours aa week to claim their benefits. Appreciate that there are some who can't because they are disabled, etc but that's not who I'm taking about. |  |
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| Are our players contractually obliged to embarrass the club on social media? on 11:28 - Apr 25 with 1464 views | NW5Hoop |
| Are our players contractually obliged to embarrass the club on social media? on 11:12 - Apr 25 by QPR_John |
"Guess how much that year was lost through tax evasion - not avoidance, but evasion alone? £4.1bn. "
Tax evasion is illegal. If it is known how much revenue is being lost through tax evasion then it must be known who is evading tax so why are these people/organisations not being prosecuted |
HMRC routinely cuts deals with big corporations on this, settling for a fraction of the money owed - read the back pages of Private Eye, which routinely has shocking details on these cases. The point is that the government has set up a narrative in which people massively overestimate the cost of benefit fraud — an opinion poll in 2013 found the public believed 27% of benefits were claimed fraudently. As opposed to less than 1%, which is the real figure. At the same time, it does little to collect the vastly greater sums that are owed by the rich and by big corporations. On tax avoidance, we lost £3.1bn in 2012/13, largely thanks to having one of the longest tax codes in the world. It is 17,000 pages. The Hong Kong tax code, believed to be the most efficient in the world, is 276 pages. When interviewed about this, tax accountants and very rich people have stated that they believe our tax code is this long specifically so as to provide them with ways to wriggle out of their tax liabilities.
People on benefits are not the ones screwing the coffers. A combination of the very rich and the government are. Public spending did not cause the economic crash, the actions of the international banks did. Otherwise it would have been a UK economic crash, not a global economic crash. |  | | |
| Are our players contractually obliged to embarrass the club on social media? on 11:32 - Apr 25 with 1448 views | Gloucs_R |
| Are our players contractually obliged to embarrass the club on social media? on 11:28 - Apr 25 by NW5Hoop |
HMRC routinely cuts deals with big corporations on this, settling for a fraction of the money owed - read the back pages of Private Eye, which routinely has shocking details on these cases. The point is that the government has set up a narrative in which people massively overestimate the cost of benefit fraud — an opinion poll in 2013 found the public believed 27% of benefits were claimed fraudently. As opposed to less than 1%, which is the real figure. At the same time, it does little to collect the vastly greater sums that are owed by the rich and by big corporations. On tax avoidance, we lost £3.1bn in 2012/13, largely thanks to having one of the longest tax codes in the world. It is 17,000 pages. The Hong Kong tax code, believed to be the most efficient in the world, is 276 pages. When interviewed about this, tax accountants and very rich people have stated that they believe our tax code is this long specifically so as to provide them with ways to wriggle out of their tax liabilities.
People on benefits are not the ones screwing the coffers. A combination of the very rich and the government are. Public spending did not cause the economic crash, the actions of the international banks did. Otherwise it would have been a UK economic crash, not a global economic crash. |
So the poor need to stop taking the pi55 and the rich need to stop taking the pi55.
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| Are our players contractually obliged to embarrass the club on social media? on 11:59 - Apr 25 with 1414 views | THEBUSH |
Sounds like Karl Henry wants a job with the Mail when he retires from football.
Who are these 'Too many people that want others wealth' loads of people work hard and get a miserable wage.
I don't know anyone who agrees with Benefit fraud, like Henry suggests
Why don't he talk about the Banksters and Corporate Company's who legally avoid paying tax with the help of our Government and the European Parliament  |  | | |
| Are our players contractually obliged to embarrass the club on social media? on 12:14 - Apr 25 with 1393 views | connell10 |
Karl this is big boys shite, stick to what you are bang average at playing football! |  |
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| Are our players contractually obliged to embarrass the club on social media? on 12:14 - Apr 25 with 1392 views | kensalriser |
Karl Henry should shut the fck up. He's a not very intelligent and not very talented footballer who's been extremely lucky to have a career at a time when unsustainably large amounts of cash are washing through football and landing up with players and their agents.
His comments are an insult to the ordinary working people who pay ridiculously large proportions of their disposable income to watch him and his overpaid teammates fail to do their jobs adequately almost every week. |  |
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