Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 1039....just the odds for Cameron getting a second term...I am willing to hold the `book`....but the odds will definitely shorten.
Open season on top executives pay in ``Shareholders Spring`` as Aviva boss has his collar felt and sent packing with``
millions in golden handshake``and William Hill boss Ralph Topping is under the same pressure but the shareholders failed to
send him packing with a vote of 49.9%.
Sarah Wilson chief executive of `Manifest` Shareholders advisory board said ``It`s a photo finish we should ask for a
Stewards inquiry.
Unilever and WPP advertising agency are the next ones on the `rack`...the shareholders vote will be interesting.
Talking of WPP reminds me of `tax avoidance`.Ken Livingstone used `Silvita`to enable him to pay
20% tax.
Reportedly WPP are UK`s biggest ad agency who set up holding companies in low-tax regimes such as Ireland.Gordon
Brown closed the loop hole.After which WPP set up holding companies in `rinky-dink` grand Duchy with another tax
avoidance scheme called ``Double Luxenberg`.....which Alister Darling closed down......and Osbourne has closed
down ????......because we now have a scheme called ``Double sandwich``to avoid tax.....but more about that later.
Ken Livingstone`s tax avoidance was legal but the people who arrange tax avoidance and the people who use their services
are regarded by Osborne as`repugnant`....what is he going to do about it?
If someone does not pay the tax that they should, and illegally subverts the system then it is clear that they should be dealt with. If someone goes as far as to hover over the UK in a glider (or whatever) to avoid tax, that is clearly an intent to mischief. And ditto. But simply trying to shop around in order to pay tax but do so in a way that also protects your income seems a normal kind of self-interested thing to do. I shop around for insurance and groceries to get a good deal. What is the real difference? If I pay less for my groceries and alcohol or my fuel, I pay less tax. Should I go out and seek the highest prices so that I pay the highest tax?
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Well said Bern.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i believe that vince cable is working on a plan to actually give shareholders more control over the elite greedy chaps.
Keith Sansum1
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im starting to like that vince cable
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Hello. Quick reminder of what I said about shareholders. Or am I , because I have been tarred with the Tory brush, always going to be wrong until I am right?
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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bern;
you have said a lot of things
not many people would go against shareholders having more power
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Next on the list for the Shareholders rack is British Gas Boss Sam Laidlaw with other executives pay packets.
Laidlaw received £ Four million in 2011 when there was no increase in company earnings.
Pendragon Car dealership had its pay packaged scrapped at Shareholders AGM which follows Trnity Mirror,Mecom media firm
and gaming firm Sportech executives pay packets being rejected by shareholders.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i read yesterday that another 15% price hike is coming from brutish gas for a commodity that we all need.
wonder what happened to that executive who urged us all to put another jumper on if we feel cold?
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Perhaps 'greedy pigs' are given their swill too freely. Just maybe we, Joe Public, would rather fatten them up than make any sort of effort on our own behalf?
I have received this e-mail from someone who must use her car, but would rather not pay any amount that springs to the mind of the big suppliers. If this is not worth the bother then maybe the 'elite greedy pigs' have got your number.
PETROL WAR STARTS MAY 1st 2012
THIS IS NOT THE 'DON'T BUY' PETROL FOR ONE DAY, BUT IT WILL SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN GET PETROL BACK DOWN TO £1.00 PER LITRE.
This was sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Haliburton. If you are tired of the petrol prices going up AND they will continue to rise
this summer, take time to read this please.
Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea. This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy petrol on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May! It's worth your consideration.
Join the resistance.
We are probably going to hit close to £1.50 a litre by this summer and it might go higher! Want petrol prices to come down?
We need to take some intelligent, united action. The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy petrol ...
By now you're probably thinking petrol priced at about £0.99 per litre is cheap. Me too! It is currently £1.38 at SHELL and ESSO for regular unleaded, climbing every week.
Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of PETROL is TOO CHEAP at £0.87 to £0.99, we need to take aggressive action to teach
them that BUYERS control the marketplace..not sellers.
With the price of petrol going up more each day, we consumers need to take action.
The only way we are going to see the price of petrol come down is if we hit someone in the pocket by not purchasing their petrol!
We can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.
How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying petrol.
But we CAN have an impact on petrol prices if we all act together to force a price war.
Here's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY petrol from the two biggest companies, ESSO & SHELL
If they are not selling any petrol, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.
But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of SHELL and ESSO petrol buyers. It's really simple to do. Now, don't wimp out at this point - keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people.
I am sending this note to 15 people. If each of us send it to at least ten more (15 x 10 = 150) ... and those 150 send it to at least ten more (150 x 10 = 1,500)... and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over 1.5
MILLION consumers .
If those 1.5 million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 15 million people will have been contacted!
If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... 150 MILLION PEOPLE!!!
Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all!
How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 150 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!
Acting together we can make a difference.
If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.
Don't buy from ESSO or SHELL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE £0.99 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.
THIS CAN REALLY WORK.
REMEMBER - STARTING MAY 1st NO PETROL FROM ESSO or SHELL!
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i can see the flaw in all of this tom, we don't have 150 million people in the country despite the sterling efforts of consecutive governments over many decades.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Interesting.When we buy our petrol from Tesco or Morrisons is from Shell or Esso or who?
Jan Higgins
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Being cynical does the originator of Tom's post work for a petrol company that supplies the supermarkets, because if the idea caught on their sales would certainly increase.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Ho-hum.
It may well be tough at the top, but it ain't no cake-walk way down here in non-driver-land either.
Many years ago it was the humble farm-labourer that did the broad-casting and the Earth itself was the 'audience'. Even then the seeds of potential would fall where they might;among voracious weed-seed, on fertile ground or rocky place. To grow or no, to struggle and wither away.
And so it is, even today. Today the broad-casters are few and their audience wide-spread and varied, as of old. 1) Yet how many companies actually refine oil into petroleum? 2) Does each company have it's own distribution network, distinct from the others? 3) Does Tesco have oil-platforms in the North Sea or across Russia or Texas?
1) Few.
2) No.
3) No.
But, just as long as their audience argues amongst itself, all any broadcaster has to do is feed the innate dissent?
And, yes. The e-mail I posted might be part of that same diet.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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1) Seven Sisters......Anthony Samson.....word of mouth works..
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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and that bloke from status quo, think it was someone called rossi.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Howard, your plaque bedims at this up-dredging.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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theres so much happening and time will tell if it gets sorted
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Bailed out but not burnt out;; Bankers relax in luxury spa.
It`s a tough job working for a bailed out Bank that owes the taxpayer £ 20 Billion.
A dozen top LIoyds executives went on a Luxury Spa break at ``Champrey`s``
It`s tough at the top!!........but it`s b....y tough down below.
``We... ... ... t......r``
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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but reg
we are all in it together
just some of us are suffering
while others continue in life of luxery
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