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.

Sometimes the Bull wins!

Clegg has gone further with this new proposal, which smacks of the worst kind of puerile class warfare and institutionalised bullying. As the scheme demonstrates, there has never been a political party more badly misnamed than the Liberal Democrats.

This wide-ranging “wealth tax” is neither liberal nor democratic, given that it involves such dramatic invasions of privacy and growth in the state’s bullying bureaucracy

Clegg’s party have again shown themselves to be a bunch of left-wing ideologues, far keener on the appropriation of wealth than its generation.

Enthusiasts for this sort of aggressive taxation like to pretend that only the very richest will be hit. But the lesson from history is that, once a new tax is established, ever larger numbers are sucked within its destructive embrace.
That is certainly true of the upper rate of income tax.

Only 30 years ago, just 3 per cent of taxpayers fell into this category. Soon, more than five million people, including ordinary middle- class people, will be paying income tax at 40 per cent. The same is true of so many other taxes, such as inheritance duties, which were once aimed at the only the wealthiest but now catch huge swathes of the population in their net.

What makes it even more dangerous is the level of intrusion it will require. At present, HM Revenue and Customs have no powers to enter people’s homes routinely.

But all that would change in Clegg’s scheme, where tax inspectors will be in charge of “policing the system” and “may have to visit homes to test whether asset values of jewellery, paintings, etc. are correct.” An Englishman’s home is meant to be his castle, but not in Clegg’s brave new world of the all-powerful state.


http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/leo-mckinstry/378320/The-State-must-not-be-allowed-to-intrude-this-far

What are you hiding?

I must be a sad person, cynic as I do actually read labels on food packaging! Usually I look for the amount of salt content, if there are any preservatives ( E stuff ) and if there are any additives. When I'm buying wine I look to see what % of alcohol is in the content. The trouble is, quite often I forget to take my glasses with me to the supermarket. :-)

Be careful of the wine if you are allergic to egg white or fish bladders!

They are also talking about taxing assets such as jewellery. The Libs always were the silly party.

i doubt that any of the egg white (albumen) is actually incorporated in to the wine itself ..... i'm not an oenologist, but i know the egg white is only used for fining - i.e. filtering out the lees ..... it also helps remove excess tannins ......

best answer is to drink wine that costs at least £8.00 a bottle .... you'll the have a chance of paying a bit more for the wine rather than bottle, label, cork, shipping, duty, transport and profit

Do you get paid for your advice?

of course

If nothing else, you must be lucky.

Richard Briers, The Good Life star, dies aged 79

and handsome and charming too - as well as being a passably good cook!

Yes, there does seem a sense of narcissism about your postings.

i never look in a mirror - lest i crumble to a pile of dust like dorian gray (actually that's not quite the story, but it's a reasonable variation)

Dreams,

You shouldn't have to pose like that to get your photo taken.

You don't know what is might lead on to.

I thought you would comment. lol

Dreams,

You are entitled to do what you own head whatever satisfies yourself.

But please keep it away from me.


8-)

Its ARSE not ASS!









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