Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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We need more wealthy people to live locally to improve the demographic. Then we may be able to get more shops and jobs locally.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#639-40, not true at all, Dr Bob has shot himself in the foot with his latest announcement. The DfT is losing patience with the Harbour Board.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
And the best way to achieve that is to make it worth people while to move here. We live here because we fell in love with it 13 years ago, but it would be easier for work purposes (and if I am honest, for social reasons too) to live nearer to London, or in Surrey. The trains improving will help, but there is more to selling the place than advertising how easy it is to leave it! But we love it and can see why we love it.........
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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More shops are no good, if people have no wages to spend in them. Have you not noticed many of the shops are shutting.
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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GaryC - that is why we need to improve the demographs by getting lots of well heeled people here. The fast rail link and some high quality houses in the new developments should help, lets hope so anyway as the alternative is just more decline. More jobs locally will follow if we can just increase the local spending power this way.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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barry is right on this one, the town does need a few well off families to move here.
only then will the cry for bowling alleys, ice rinks and the like be listened to.
at present the demographic does not encourage people to invest here.
And a Pret and a Yo Sushi!!!!
And a sodding Waitrose - everywhere else has one, why can't we??!! Bloody hell!
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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It's a classic chicken and egg situation. My feeling is that we should try to encourage professional and skilled manual workers into the area, and have an absolute planning ban on splitting houses into smaller units.
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Keith Sansum1
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presume that means barry the illegal and legal tax evaders??
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the only waitrose in east kent that i know of is in hythe, quite logical from their point of view.
Oh, of course, those people who will spend their money locally and attract more affluence to the area. We mustn't encourage them, must we...........
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Canterbury's Waitrose is nearer than Hythe- perhaps not in miles but certainly in minutes.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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small point on waitrose i found them quite expensive
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Yes Keith, a BMW costs more than a Hyundai but there's a difference in the product.
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I usually trek to Hythe - will try Canterbury!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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dover does need a facelift
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Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Google.
Charlie Elphicke,
Told MPs that the US Company which dominates the internet search market in the UK had made hundreds of millions of pounds of profit in Britain and paid no tax.
He told MPs that Google made £700million profit on £2.15billion revenue in 2010 - but paid no tax.
Amazon.
Ian Griffiths
States,Amazon.co.uk, Britain's biggest online retailer, generated sales of more than £3.3bn in the country last year but paid no corporation tax on any of the profits from that income
CHARITIES.
George Osborne
Charities face losing up to £1billion under George Osborne's plans to cap tax relief.
The Chancellor wants to limit tax relief to £50,000, or 25 per cent of a person's income, from next year in a bid to stop the super-rich from using donations to cut their tax bills.
What does not add up here?
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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More to think about...................
Super Rich ....thousand tax payers earn £ one million pa....pay less than 30% tax............
200 tax payers earn more than £ ten million pa ......12 of them...pay less than 10%....
Treasury figures...........
