howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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3 things here.
a) utility bills show exactly what premises are covered.
b) why did he not query how high the bill was if he thought it was just for the house?
c) how can a 31 acre estate count as a second home.
Brian Dixon
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in the answer to c,a large granny flat may be the reason.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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That's one hell of a big granny.
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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of course there may be two large grannys living there.
Keith Sansum1
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he must think everyone is silly
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Bankers greed is contagious................
Ed Davey: public trust in energy companies is breaking down
Energy secretary says the big suppliers face a 'Fred the Shred' moment as the public sees in them a reflection of bankers' greed
Ed Davey says energy companies are facing a 'Fred the Shred' moment. Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian
Energy companies are facing a "Fred the Shred" moment because the public sees in them "a reflection of the greed that consumed the banks", the energy secretary, Ed Davey, will tell the industry on Tuesday.
Davey's linking of energy companies to Fred Goodwin, the disgraced banker who led the Royal Bank of Scotland to collapse and a taxpayer bailout, raises the rhetoric of the heated and prolonged row over soaring energy bills to a new level.
In a speech at the annual conference of EnergyUK, which represents the industry, he will say: "Trust between those who supply energy and those who use it is breaking down. It is so difficult for people to work out what exactly they are paying for, that they fear the big energy companies are taking them for a ride when bills go up."
Full story Guardian
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Ir gets worse............
RBS chairman reveals employee lobbying over banker bonuses
Sir Philip Hampton describes 'out of body experience' over one banker's complaint about £4m payout
RBS Group Chairman Sir Philip Hampton has spoken out about employee lobbying over bonuses Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
The chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland described on Monday how he felt like he was having an "out of body experience" when a banker protested to him that his £4m pay deal was unfair.
In a rare insight into the pressure top employees try to put on boards over their pay levels, Sir Philip Hampton said he had been contacted "quite a lot" by bankers wanting bigger pay deals via email and in face to face meetings.
Since becoming chairman of RBS after its £45bn bailout five years ago - it is now 81% owned by the taxpayer - Hampton has had to fend off repeated criticism of the bonuses paid to investment bankers and to former chief executive Stephen Hester. But the 60-year-old admitted to being surprised by the demands made by some staff.
"I can tell you I've had some completely out of body experiences in recent years where I was talking to somebody about potentially getting a £4m pay package. And outrage coming across the table from the other side because they know that somebody doing a comparable job at another bank is getting £6m. This is absolutely outrageous to them, that somebody is getting 50% more," he said.
Full story Guardian..
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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they live in another world these bankers at the top
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Joe public pay up again...........
Taxpayers also funding costs of ex-BBC finance head in defamation case against a tabloid newspaper
News that Zarin Patel is taking action over criticisms of the way the organisation paid stars emerged after The Independent revealed departing head of human resources, Lucy Adams, is using licence fee money to sue the NUJ
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BBC licence fee payers are funding a personal legal action for defamation brought by a second former executive, The Independent can disclose.
The broadcaster is covering the legal costs of its former £322,000-a-year chief finance officer, Zarin Patel, who is taking action against a tabloid newspaper over its criticisms of the way the organisation paid stars including Jeremy Paxman and Chris Moyles via personal service companies.
Ms Patel claimed she had been personally defamed by a report headlined "Dodge tax or face the sack! BBC tells its stars" and an accompanying editorial headlined "Beeb con must stop" in the Daily Star.
The news that the BBC is covering her legal fees emerged after The Independent revealed that the BBC's departing head of human resources, Lucy Adams, is using licence fee money to sue the National Union of Journalists over allegations that her department engaged in "dirty tricks". Ms Patel lodged a claim in the High Court last year, seeking £50,000 in libel damages. She said the story had suggested she "had devised or connived in the BBC's deplorable practice of ordering its star employees, under pain of dismissal, to dodge tax".
The case is ongoing.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I don't wish to pay her legal fees
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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SAME OLD TORIES
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Iv just challenged my energy companies rise
got a two page letter back
im jut doing a long reply
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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The Banks caused the whole problem.............
US investment bank JP Morgan has agreed to pay $4.5bn (£2.8bn) to investors who lost money on mortgage-related securities during the financial crisis.
The settlement is with 21 major institutional investors.
Mortgage-related investments were a major factor in the crisis, which began in 2007 with the collapse of the US housing market.
Last month JP Morgan agreed a separate, preliminary $13bn deal with the US government over mortgage securities.
As part of that deal $5.1bn would go to settle charges that the bank misled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during the housing boom. That settlement was the biggest ever by a US bank.
full story BBC.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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didnt they say it wasnt the banks fault?
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Barry W said it was Gordon Brown ?..........
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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was in charge of all the worlds money then,i don't thing so my self.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Bankers without doubt didnt/havnt shown remorse
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Nick Clegg the workers friend ?........................its another one of his pledges........
Nick Clegg challenges Tories on income tax breaks for poor
Nick Clegg has called for fresh income tax breaks for the UK's lowest-paid workers as he tries to distance the Liberal Democrats from their Conservative coalition partners before the 2015 general election. Tory officials, however, last night immediately seized on the plan to raise the point at which people pay income tax by 5 per cent, to £10,500, as being uncosted, potentially "ruining the economic plan".
Raising the personal allowance from £6,475 to £10,000 was a key Lib Dem manifesto pledge in 2010 and has taken 2.7 million people out of income tax entirely since the policy was adopted. The Deputy Prime Minister wants the 2014 Budget to raise the tax threshold to £10,500, in what he describes as a "workers' bonus".