snowychap Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 In other news, I see Cecil's kicked the bucket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted January 25, 2016 Author Moderator Share Posted January 25, 2016 To be fair to Osborne, the reason, or part of it, there's been a bit of a rush for these companies to "volunteer" agreements with HMRC to pay a modicum of tax, is because after the start if the next financial year, they will be liable to a much more hefty new charge for tax avoidance - any money they are deemed to have shuffled around to artificially avoid tax, will be taxed at something like 30%. So if they volunteer to settle it before that comes into effect, they will save themselves a tidy sum. Facebook will be next. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Interesting piece on Cecil Parkinson. Quote Parkinson, Sara insists, had tried to persuade her to abort her baby, but she refused. Shortly after her birth, Flora developed serious health problems and Parkinson applied for and won a court injunction that was almost unprecedented in British law. It forbade anyone, including Sara, from speaking of Flora publicly or doing almost anything that could lead to her identity being revealed. It prevented even Flora talking of her life. So far-reaching were its powers that Flora's schools have had to go to extreme lengths to conceal her identity - thus she has never been photographed alongside her classmates or been allowed to take part in any school activity. Telegraph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 That's seriously ****-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Possibly slightly off-track for this thread, but there doesn't seem to be one more suitable and it isn't worth starting a new one - Everyone with any sort of inflated sense of self-importance has of course spent the last couple of weeks in Davos, which is where the One World Government meet to dictate the politics of the next year dedicated businessmen and politicians ponder how to make the world a better place. Plenty of guff and business-bollix is spoken during Davos, and this guy (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/36-best-quotes-of-davos-2016) has collected some of the ripest nonsense - real 24-carat groaners - for your delectation. My favourite wisdom-quotes: Thanks, Davos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 (edited) This lot are ON FIRE at the moment. Bedroom tax court battles lost (going to appeal again, wonder how much that will cost tax payer) - they fundamentally disagree with protecting victims of domestic abuse and disabled. Nice. Cameron calls refugees at Calais 'a bunch of migrants' in PMQ debate - mask slipped Dave? And the best one, over half a decade after they took power, it's labours fault Google haven't paid any Tax. How many more years of this have we got left again? Edited January 27, 2016 by wazzap24 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 10 minutes ago, wazzap24 said: How many more years of this have we got left again? seeing as Labour appointed Corbyn I'd say at least 9 years 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 7 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: seeing as Labour appointed Corbyn I'd say at least 9 years Ha, yes there is that small issue of a decent replacement! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 21 minutes ago, wazzap24 said: This lot are ON FIRE at the moment. Bedroom tax court battles lost (going to appeal again, wonder how much that will cost tax payer) - they fundamentally disagree with protecting victims of domestic abuse and disabled. Nice. Cameron calls refugees at Calais 'a bunch of migrants' in PMQ debate - mask slipped Dave? And the best one, over half a decade after they took power, it's labours fault Google haven't paid any Tax. How many more years of this have we got left again? If you think it'll be any different under a Labour government, who ever is in charge, you will be very disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post darrenm Posted January 27, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2016 29 minutes ago, wazzap24 said: How many more years of this have we got left again? Depends how many idiots with Stockholm syndrome vote for them next time. It's funny really. I work in the private sector, in a reasonably affluent area, with a decent wage, reasonably healthy, don't often have to see the doctor much, don't really need benefits. Yet I could never bring myself to vote Tory. I just can't bring myself to hate people less fortunate than myself. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post wazzap24 Posted January 27, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2016 1 hour ago, foreveryoung said: If you think it'll be any different under a Labour government, who ever is in charge, you will be very disappointed. Oh I know whoever gets in will have their fair share of words removed in the cabinet. I'd just like them to be less obvious words removed to those less fortunate. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 1 hour ago, darrenm said: Depends how many idiots with Stockholm syndrome vote for them next time. It's funny really. I work in the private sector, in a reasonably affluent area, with a decent wage, reasonably healthy, don't often have to see the doctor much, don't really need benefits. Yet I could never bring myself to vote Tory. I just can't bring myself to hate people less fortunate than myself. and yet you seem to have had no problem hating people more fortunate than yourself .... I kid , I kid , you just deserved it for the sterotype remark ... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockingbird_franklin Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Seems the only people able to put up any resistance against the vindictive nasty policies of the government is the house of lords, they have just voted against the £30 cut in WRAG group esa, seems they disagree with IDS' idea that people are deciding that £30 a week is a huge incentive for them to be born disabled or to develop serious health conditions that leave them unable to work through disability and ill health. comes on the back of the HOL deciding yesterday, that if the government want to increase child poverty through benefit cuts etc, then they should bloody well have to admit what they have done, that it's not really cricket to attempt to hide the effects of your policies by redefining poverty perversely in an attempt to doctor the figures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 On 1/27/2016 at 20:11, mockingbird_franklin said: Seems the only people able to put up any resistance against the vindictive nasty policies of the government is the house of lords. The judiciary are getting involved too. Quote Bedroom Tax deemed 'discriminatory' and 'unlawful' by Court of Appeal judges Independent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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foreveryoung Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 6 hours ago, Xann said: The judiciary are getting involved too. Independent I read about 2 of the bedroom tax cases appealed. One was a family with a disabled child needed a spare room for the carer, ok fair play. The other I read about was a women being physically abused by her partner and she needed the spare room as it had been converted into a panic room. I mean women really live like this??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 4 hours ago, foreveryoung said: I read about 2 of the bedroom tax cases appealed. One was a family with a disabled child needed a spare room for the carer, ok fair play. The other I read about was a women being physically abused by her partner and she needed the spare room as it had been converted into a panic room. I mean women really live like this??? Back when i was in my early 20's I used to install and repair Apple computers ... One of the sites I had to reguarly attend in London was a shelter for women victims of domestic abuse ... It was a real eye opener these women were so brow beaten they were almost afraid of their own shadows , some of the residents were literally scared of men to the point that a woman would have to enter the room before me to check some of the more sensitive women could leave ... Broken bones and physical wounds to go along with the mental scarring ... It may sound crazy and even extreme to most of us but it was so shocking and sad that I can still recall it vividly 25 years later 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 7 hours ago, foreveryoung said: I mean women really live like this??? Unfortunately for them some have to, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockingbird_franklin Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 I think we need some support for Dukin Doughnut smith and his idiotic ideas. Well this makes as much sense as anything dunikn' comes out with Lazy spare bedrooms despised by hard-working master bedrooms 28-01-16 HARD-WORKING master bedrooms have spoken out against idle spare bedrooms that do nothing but claim benefits. Following spare bedrooms’ legal victory against the bedroom tax, bedrooms that put in at least eight hours every night have demanded that something be done about their work-shy neighbours. Bedroom Tom Booker said: “It makes me furious to see them lounging around in their polyester bedclothes, all ‘Oh yeah, I’m a bedroom too, I just can’t find anyone to sleep in me,’ curtains still closed at noon. “Every night I’ve got people sweating and shedding skin cells all over me, not to mention the sex, but I don’t complain because it’s my job. “I know some have it even worse – the kids’ bedrooms, or the teenagers’ bedrooms with the black paint, recreational drugs, and self-abuse – but I don’t see why housing an exercise bike and a set of golf clubs gives them the right to call themselves bedrooms. “Being converted to a home office is too good for them, in my opinion.” Spare bedroom Nikki Hollis, appearing on The Jeremy Kyle Show, said: “I would be a full-time bedroom if I could. “It’s not my fault I’m small and a bit of an awkward L-shape.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockingbird_franklin Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 googles tax negotiations? photo uploading 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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