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Depending on rules, regulations and method of introduction could lead to an improvement in working conditions and efficiency,

Surely it's impossible to implement?

Say I own a company with a turnover of £100m and employing 250 people.

Will I not just put the shares into Trust and take it off-shore?

CC If any employer or individual takes any earnings from “this Country off-shore” then I hope they get duly hammered tax wise in some other area...no one likes a cheat.

Don't know.

I can see some of the difficulties.

But similar arrangements for employees, management and "owners" have been working in Germany post WW2 and USA.

Also, similar ideas have applied to some very large companies in this country.

The major problem would seem to be ownership of the "workers' shares" ans who is entitled to "value" and "payouts" from that pot.

Also, perhaps "voting" power and direction of "management-

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Perhaps, this would be better on "The Talk to yourself Thread".


PS I hope Gofdfinger is well.

Still miss his contributions.

Good morning!

Good Morning.

The Papers

Good morning.

Morning all.

Good Morning.

The Papers

Morning

Good morning!

Morning all

Morning all.

This time yesterday FTSE was up about 50 and every single stock in my portfolio was down or flat.

Today I'm sitting here with FTSE down 5 and nearly everything is up or flat.

All of which tells me I don't have a balanced portfolio!

To many construction and support, mining shares?

But I often wonder why my shares are up when the market is down.

Yeah - too many construction and banking.


RBS and LLOY struggling a bit the last couple of days. My construction stuff only down a tiny bit.

At least AV. (which is the smallest shareholding in my portfolio) has managed to make a bit of progress.

Not wishing to wish my life away but roll on the Christmas rally.

At least the LLOY dividend arrived today!

And shortly I will get a RBS dividend too

"I'm like a spinning top going 'round and around
Well, I don't know what's up and I sure
Don't know what's down,"

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Not quite that bad!

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