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11th April 2013 #211
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Who gave that HBOS creep Crosby the knighthood (for services to the financial industry) in the first place ? Step forward Tony Blair
No pay rise for 10 years - 2003, well before the recession and half way through Labours tenure. I'm shocked that they allowed ordinary workers to be treated like this. I suppose "New Labour" were too busy buying expensive houses, sucking up to the city slickers and encouraging hordes of so called "asylum seekers" in.
Most of them have never worked for an employer - unless we include Councils, Union Jobs, Political Aides and Legal Aid Funded Barristers
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11th April 2013 #212
£3660 a night. Not bad for a grocers daughter
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...d-reading.html
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11th April 2013 #213
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Poor old Tony.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...orporated.html
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11th April 2013 #214
We've seen the ship on the bottom in the last couple of years by the same guys that done the Titanic. The way it was lying was pointing away from Argentina. Maybe you also missed the bit that HMS Conqueror, our nuclear sub, was being depth charged at the time by the Belgrano's covering destroyers?
So we were at war, our sub was under attack, the troop ships had fully armed destroyers with it, and we now have picture proof from an independent source that the ship was moving away from Argentina. The Belgrano's last order, picked up by the signals-intercept unit ordered the ship to meet up with other Argentinian warships inside the Exclusion Zone.Keith Driscoll - Administrator
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11th April 2013 #215
For any economists in the room, my friend just wrote an interesting blog on this topic.
Check it out here: http://shaundacosta.wordpress.com/20...e-hard-truths/
Thatcher, yes, her policies jolted the economy (i.e. GDP) back to life, but at what cost? - Income inequality (i.e. the rich-poor gap) and the overall proportion of the population living below the 60% median income both rose sharply! - Say what you will about the social issues, but these are the hard economic truths.
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12th April 2013 #218
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They pay a union leader over 100k and the right wing gutter press make a meal about it (yawn)
Compared to the captains of industry who bank role the Tory party and the greedy bankers in the city
union leaders are not overpaid
Not all union leaders are like Scargill and most union leaders are doing a good job for their members who actually happen to be normal working people like myself
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12th April 2013 #219
It's ours. For the same reason as The Shetlands, Isle of Man & Jeresy are, or are we not allowed to control islands? Maybe we should just leave Anguilla, Ascension Islands, Bermuda, the British Antartic Territory, etc
If your argument is based on distance then all Western countries are invaders of Antarctica. Ulaniban Island is 718 miles from Manila, which is twice as far as the Falklands from Argentina so maybe they shouldn't have that.
Or if it is based on who landed on the island first, that was the British. No record of any Argies landing before us exists, nor does any evidence they ever lived on the island, so if they did land they decided it was a wasteland and went home and forgot about it. Our sovereignty goes back to 1690. Some Argies went to live on the island in the early 1800's but soon left, before that though the French had settled and left, and then the Spanish.... so both those countries have more right to the island than Argentina.Keith Driscoll - Administrator
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12th April 2013 #221
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That would also include anyone in the UK that uses an accountant, and those that work with cash, and many other folk who just submit incorrect information. It is human nature to pay less tax, everyone does it whenever they can, so please include ALL examples not just one.
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12th April 2013 #224
This has been one of the strongest topics in ages and none of us are changing our mind no matter what is said
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12th April 2013 #225
Talking of thatcher it looks like ding dong the wicked witch is dead will be the uk no 1 in the charts it seems there are an enormous amount of people buying this track to celebrate thatcher is dead right or wrong it must send a message out that she was disliked but quite a number of people
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12th April 2013 #226
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It's their business and up to them if they dish out goodwill, evaluation rooms etc. I don't think the Telegraphs journos, printers and other employees will be too concerned that the Barclay Bros live in the Channel Islands and pay low tax.
Anyway hats off to the Telegraph journalists for exposing hypocritical leech Margaret Hodge MP.
Margaret Hodge's family company pays just 0.01pc tax on £2.1bn of business generated in the UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/b...in-the-UK.html
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12th April 2013 #227
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12th April 2013 #228
You'll find that the majority buying it weren't even born or old enough to have any idea what politics was. You would have to be at a stretch at least 40 years old, and how many 40+ use the likes of ITunes compared with less than 40? 17 and under use ITunes twice as much as all other age groups.
Plus it doesn't take many sales to get to No.1 otherwise Bieber wouldn't be knownKeith Driscoll - Administrator
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12th April 2013 #230
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Confirmation, if any were needed, that the average citizen of this country is pretty dense, sheep-like, and will always be swayed by what spin the media puts on anything.
Maggie came along when this country needed a good kick up the backside, and she provided it. Quite simple.
Who's Bieber ?
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12th April 2013 #231
what about HK. i had seen a poll where most wanted to remain under British rule, yet gave it back to China
oh no surprise its Thatchers fault :icon_lol
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...a-1543375.html
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12th April 2013 #232
But they have probably been raised to know how hard & disgraceful life for their families was under the thatcher regime
It was a good time if you were rich but a living hell if you were a poor family
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12th April 2013 #235
Never seen so many facts altered on a thread to win the argument!
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