Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

I'm in favour of the police vote and think it should rolled out to all professions. I'm contracted to perform xyz, but hey, times are tough and we don't really have enough people so my employers should get together and vote for which tasks are most important for me to complete so that I may statistically perform better.... Sounds good to me and not even a mention of a pay cut....!

Muppets ?...... Skinny your presence is required.

Name and shame :-)

skin the muppets of the MPs is better wake up man and get it right

skin have added 53000 vod today

Yes Skinny pull yourself together -):

re = BBC

MP's asking for the SCALP of Christ Patten

Most likely is a Labour Conspiricy

What have I done - posted the wrong picture or not bought more VOD shares?

Skinny, Post 18995, He's not happy -):

Stan - that was rhetoric! :-)

Yeah, I know.. bit slower today, must be that Monday feeling.

Skinny, thank you for cheering my day up - I love the Muppets! Just looking at that picture makes me laugh.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jakewallissimons/100189216/a-rude-swaggering-barrow-boy-meet-the-beebs-new-acting-dg-worse-than-the-old-one/

CROOKS AT WORK ON THE UK

US companies paying hardly any corporation tax on the UK

LONDON—Google, Amazon and Starbucks were accused of being immoral and manipulative in their U.K. tax affairs during a parliamentary hearing into the low amount of tax some multinational companies pay in Britain.

The hearing comes against a backdrop of heightened public resentment at the seemingly low taxes paid by some large companies during a time of austerity, and amid increased scrutiny of U.K. tax laws that allow multinational companies to pay hardly any corporation tax in Britain. ..............
wall street journal

if the law allows, then minimising one's tax liability can scarcely be called crooked ...... while now clearly being taken to the limit by all sorts of companies, until the law is changed, then they are, in many ways, absolutely correct in so doing

more and more countries now impose a withholding tax - i think colombia is 30%! - and i dare say something similar could be imposed in this scenario ..... however, it is never quite as simple as first appears, not least because of the inevitable side-effects - e.g. when dealing with colombia and other south american companies, we raise our prices to counter

I think its a bit much when companies are being castigated for avoiding tax by the same people (MP's) who used every possible legal loophole in their expenses system to fidde their expenses.
At least these companies are only using legal loopholes, whereas many MP's went as far as committing the crimes of fraud and false accounting to fill their grubby pockets.
The government is now quite rightly looking at closing the tax loopholes used by these low or none paying tax companies, but I doubt that they will consider closing the tax loopholes they themselves use.

Hypocritical barstewards.
A question of Pot calling Kettle!

I'm glad you didn't say 'black'! :-)

gm--not to mention the 450 BBC execs' being paid 'off payroll'
2517

re - black

Another issue, once too often talk about.

Who is the guilty party if there is any?

Lately on the football arena the so called " half cast " are the ones with perjudices,
An apparent conflict on a puzzle mind ( most likley they do not know were they belong in society )

inflation up 0.5% it never went down it was manipulated by theback room boys
for the gov .
they have broken the golden rules of honesty .
they have robbed the pensioners again
the party that i was once a great follower of is finished .
the con party is just that liars and thiefs .
cameron and osborne are disgusting creatures .