Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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I think what you mean is you don't agree with my replies Howard. I have no party allegiance therefore I don't need to check before I reply
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 2881........``. I have no party allegiance``............pull the other one Pinocchio.......
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Here's another triballist.
You should open your mind Reg, 99% of politicians are self serving slime, once you accept that you're not so disappointed. Poor old Keith has woken today, read the Mirror saying that under labour we'll all have to work longer for our state pension.
This is the party that supposedly represents the working man.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,894
I just wish we could get away from the childish tit for tat comments that invade so many threads from supposed adults.
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Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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Well said Jan, now you know why I keep my nose out and don't post often.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
nice try david with 2881, i have asked you more than once what the effect was of a cruise ship being in on market day.
no reply.
hardly political/tribalist/complicated.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
I don't think it's about agreeing or not agreeing,
there is no doubt as iv said on here my beliefs are closer to labour than other parties, and im no fan of this govt.
but not every poster is asked to justify there every post.
if this was to be the case even fewer people would post
its a discussion forum at the end of the day
of course im open on my support for whoever, others choose not to be that's choice
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
Just another of those that put greed before customer service
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Monopoly utilities such as water companies ought to be owned by their customers and workers. Not private equity, not government.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Totally agree.......utilities are the closest thing to cartels......the unacceptable face of capitalism ....the people running them
are overpaid and receive obscene bonuses.....customers get a raw deal..........
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Pass me the Diazepam......
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:nice try david with 2881, i have asked you more than once what the effect was of a cruise ship being in on market day.
no reply.
hardly political/tribalist/complicated.
Blimey, talk about off topic.
Obviously when a ship is in the town and market is busier, hard to gauge the actual effect it has on trade but clearly does no harm. Why you think I would avoid that is totally beyond me.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Beginging of the end ?
Senior Tory Tim Yeo to step aside amid investigation into lobbying allegations
Move follows secret filming by undercover reporters posing as energy firm representatives
The senior Tory MP, Tim Yeo, will stand down today as the chairman of an influential Commons
committee amid allegations he used his position to help business clients.
Mr Yeo, a former minister, said he would tell colleagues on the Energy and Climate Change committee
that he was stepping aside temporarily while the claims are investigated.
His announcement came hours after Labour said it was "difficult to see how he can continue" until the
inquiry is completed.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy The Times..........
Fakes, fraud and forgery in Lloyds PPI selling scandal
Customers were caught up in one of Britain's most notorious financial scandals after salesmen
working for the country's biggest high street bank forged information on their loan agreements,
it has been claimed.
An investigation by The Times into Lloyds Banking Group has found that contractors employed at
its largest PPI complaint handling unit were taught how to play the system to the detriment of clients.
An undercover reporter went through the recruitment and training process to work as a PPI complaint
handler at Royal Mint Court in London.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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I used to work at Royal Mint Court (1995-96) but I never done any of that dodgy stuff, honest guvnor.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Where did you not work ?
If Mrs Prest can do it why can`t the` HMRC ?
Courtesy Independent.......
Victory for Nigerian oil tycoon Michael Prest's wife as 'cheats' charter' overturned in landmark
Supreme Court divorce case
Millionaires will not be able to use their businesses to shield their wealth from their spouses
A Supreme Court ruling on a divorce cash fight between an oil tycoon and his estranged wife could
have significant implications for couples whose marriages fail, lawyers said today.
Yasmin Prest had claimed she was entitled to more than Michael Prest was offering.
She said she should get properties which were assets of companies Mr Prest controlled.
And the Supreme Court - the highest court in the UK - ruled in her favour at a hearing in London today.
Supreme Court justices said a number of disputed properties were "held" by Mr Prest's companies but
were assets to which he was legally "entitled".
They said in divorce litigation a court could transfer property to a spouse if the other spouse was "entitled" to it.
And they ruled that properties at the centre of the Prest dispute should be transferred to Mrs Prest.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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As someone keeps telling us it`s within the law........but it ain`t right............
Courtesy the Independent..............
Watchdog accuses internet giant Google of failing to pay its fair share of tax
Internet giant criticised by MPs for 'brazen' attempt to reduce its liabilities in UK
Camerons avoids taxing questions for Google boss despite new whistleblower
Parliament's powerful spending watchdog today formally castigates the internet giant Google for a
"brazen" and "unconvincing" attempt to avoid paying its fair share of UK tax.
In a damming report, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) called on HM Revenue & Customs
to "fully investigate" the company, after concluding it had used "highly contrived" tax arrangements
with the sole purpose of avoiding corporation tax on its multibillion-pound UK revenues.
Google, however, was unrepentant, accusing the committee of failing to understand how tax laws
operate, and insisting again that it operated within existing rules.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,894
.... "Google, however, was unrepentant, accusing the committee of failing to understand how tax laws
operate, and insisting again that it operated within existing rules."....
Sadly they are right, it is about time the PAC called on the law makers rather than HMRC to close the loop holes that allow this legal avoidance to happen.
Surely it would not be that hard to draw up a law that says if your business earns X amount of money here you pay tax on that amount in this country and never mind where the company is registered.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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It would be easy Jan, but it would not work because of the labyrinth of double taxation treaties between countries.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
