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 am quite happy for the UK to export the Thatcher family, but hope they pay all due taxes on any estate willed to them.

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The figure does include police/security. The cost of the funeral and ceremonial was £500k. The figure came from number 10, but the final figure will come from the public accounts dept and is expected to be very close to the estimate.

Fred
If you are worried about outdated economics and ideology by then look to Labour as they want Keynesian economics which predate the coalitian's economic plans by decades (1936 in fact).

"The Thatcher family are paying for the usual costs of a funeral. The balance is being paid for by the state as per the arrangements decided by the Blair/Brown government. The current coalition partners were not involved in the decisions."

H/S, You seem infatuated with the last government on a number of things, However the "Con" party have been the government for about 3 years now, so you lot have had more then enough time to change the law's if you don't like them. You have chosen not to do so on this issue, the obvious conclusion is that you agree with the previous lot on this subject.

Actually, I don't know that the theories are outdated or that there's anything particularly wrong with Keynesian economics.

The concept allows the private sector to use the free market economy to get on with things during the boom years, and for governments to provide the necessary economic stimulus and infrastructure investment during the hard years by way of monetary and fiscal policy. In order to afford and provide that stimulus, governments need to ensure that they accrue sufficient funds during the good years.

Unfortunately, the one-eyed Scottish Monster was a bit too easy with his monetary policy and debt-fuelled infrastructure spending during the good years. As a result, he didn't put the money aside that he should have done which would have allowed the present government to implement some of Milton John Maynard Keynes' theories.

That's the only reason we've got austerity now. Cameron, however, wants to get re-elected in 2015. He's not stupid, even if he has made too many U-turns, and he knows that he'll have to take his foot off the brakes a little if he's to stand any chance of getting back in. Fortunately, austerity has been working and the UK is a leaner, healthier machine which is actually doing reasonably well at the moment, contrary to what all the muppets with their lagging indicators think or believe.

Once we're out of the EU and China has gone t!ts up and taken Australia down the plughole with it, the world will be able to move forwards again.

McCluskey
typical non-answer from fred

given that "Mr Miliband, who was elected as leader thanks to union votes and receives millions in funding from Unite, later sanctioned a public slapdown of the union boss" and so EM and others had clearly considered that speech in full, it is abundantly clear that one of the very public and significant paymasters of the labour party has much stronger and more radical leanings and agenda than the labour party would like to own up to

no doubt at the next poart conference, the pair of them will be seen havinbg a cuddle and saying it was all a misunderstanding (hahaha!)

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Hilary
Many thanks for " Fortunately, austerity has been working and the UK is a leaner, healthier machine which is actually doing reasonably well at the moment, contrary to what all the muppets with their lagging indicators think or believe."

it's good to hear these supportive views from someone who clearly has an awful lot more economic understanding and grasp of reality than the vocal several here

the thatchers will pay no TAXES they are tax cheats and a horrible bunch of
evil humans

And a fat chance of the Tories getting us out of Europe Hils ... you voting UKIP ? :-)

she will now be with her hero the devil

who woke up village idiot?

10m for a bloody funeral and now you tell me her immediate family aren't even domiciled in this country !

In the words of Catherine Tate ... " what a fecking liberty" !

whoops-a-daisy .... UKIP perhaps not so snow white after all - or perhaps they are exactly that!

The UK Independence Party suspended a candidate after she was accused of posting anti-Semitic comments on a conspiracy website, the party confirmed.
A UKIP spokesman said East Sussex candidate Anna-Marie Crampton would be the subject of an investigation.
Crampton claims her account was hacked and that she did not post a message saying that World War II was "engineered by the Zionist".
"We are investigating. If she was hacked, we will apologise for suspending her," said a party spokesman.

You mean racist like Thatcher ?

Probably join the Tories now.

is tax avoidance legal?
of course it is, and i'm afraid the moral aspect does not form any sort of valid argument to the contrary

so then all you loudmouths, perhaps you can tell the rest of us exactly how you would shut all those loopholes, or at least the majority of them ..... i'll even accept that you may have no idea at all how to stop multi-nationals using the rules, or the (un)foreseeable effects on the uk economy should you somehow manage to do so

Most accounting firms are too scared of upsetting their big clients and that's how they get away with it.

Worked for a subsidary of a multi national company and one year our accounts would never have got signed off if we were a stand alone company (nothing to do with fiddling we changed IT systems and the data transfer went tits up).

Dil - what a total load of crap! ..... accounting firms are not hmrc, so it is not they who set the rules .... however, it is certainly the duty of the accounting firms to advise their clients on how to minimise their tax liabilities, and arguably the companies' obligation to their shareholders to maximise profits

Dil - 26 Apr 2013 08:16 - 24273 of 24279

And a fat chance of the Tories getting us out of Europe Hils ... you voting UKIP ? :-)

I wasn't talking politics, Dilbert. I was referring to Chelsea and fat Spanish waiters.