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 have signed the Official Secrets Act on several occasions. In fact someone who posts on here was standing beside me on one of those occasions as he was signing it. I think he has signed it a few more times than me though.

Hays,

That was party HQ requirements.

No. It was about 40 years ago when we were a lot younger.

Recently took up chess myself Fred, joined a website called Chess.Com very good. Doesn't cost anything to join, pairs you up with players at the level you are at which in my case is crap. Choose the 3 day duration option, press play now and you could be playing anyone (at your level) in the world. Or friends and family at your leisure. Plenty of other options on the site also, plus learning aids. My username is Kit3273845 if you fancy a challenge.

There are some sites like that for GO.

There are some for STOP to

A leading Saudi cleric warned women who drive cars could cause damage to their ovaries and pelvises and that they are at risk of having children born with "clinical problems."

Sheikh Saleh Al-Loheidan's widely derided remarks have gone viral as activists claim a website urging women to defy their country's driving ban has been blocked in Saudi Arabia.

"If a woman drives a car," Al-Loheidan told Saudi news website sabq.org in an interview, "it could have a negative physiological impact ... Medical studies show that it would automatically affect a woman's ovaries and that it pushes the pelvis upward."

Explained Al-Loheidan, "We find that for women who continuously drive cars, their children are born with varying degrees of clinical problems."

The controversial comments, published Friday, were widely interpreted throughout Saudi Arabia as an attempt to discourage women in the country from joining a popular online movement urging them to stage a demonstration by driving cars on October 26.

My Chess grade was about BCF 130 , the club champion was graded 190

anyone any thoughts as to the justification for teachers striking?

anyone any thoughts as to why teachers should or should not be awarded pay rises according to results or as deemed warranted by their headmaster/mistress or the board of governors - as is the case in private industry?

"If your turnover of VAT taxable goods and services supplied within the UK for the previous 12 months is more than the current registration threshold of £79,000, or you expect it to go over that figure in the next 30 days alone, you must register for VAT."

eg, a Decorator.....

Earning circa £40k per annum, and charging circa £10k for his paint and wallpaper on top of this, gives you a verbal quotation of £800 for painting a couple or rooms and the hall stairs and landing at your home....

He makes a start and has done a few days at it....

He's nearly finished the job, it all looks good and he tells you he'd like the £800 paying when he finishes tomorrow...

Seeing as this guy has been working in your home for the last week, you trust him. But you will be out tomorrow, so you decide to pay him now and, seeing as you have just sold the wife's used car earlier that morning to pay for the decorating, you pay him in cash too.

So he has no need to give you a bill tomorrow. Albeit that he might like to leave you a receipted one. However, he knows you've paid and you know you've paid.

This is a technical example and in it, I merely want to make the point that he forgets to do this when tomorrow comes. If you don't like that story, let's say he forgets it, but does send it in the post, but the receipted invoice just gets lost.

Now all he needs to do, is to enter the money received from you in his books.
He doesn't need to collect any VAT from you because he is not registered for VAT.
He doesn't need to send any VAT to HMRC because he hasn't collected any.
You haven't done anything wrong. You paid him.
He hasn't done anything wrong, provided he puts the takings in his books.
He can also easily put the takings in his books without writing out an invoice. He might prefer to do so but he is only duty bound to record the takings. (eg, consider a market trader on the market square)

Anyhow, no invoice has been raised and the you, the customer, have not done anything wrong.
It is not the customer's job to do the books for the decorator.

Haystack does not need to go to jail. :-)

Well Execline first of all you are assuming the tradesman accounts for the money by putting it in his books.

Hays was talking about cash in hand, cash going into his back pocket not accounted for in the day book/journal. Nudge nudge wink wink, a nods as good as a wink to a blind man. No invoices reqd obviously.

Secondly Hays never mentioned anything about any numerical figure.

Thirdly Hays as promoted tax evasion all afternoon today as a means of its illegal to carry out but i dont give a flying -uc-.

And last but not least when we have criminals like Hays getting away with illegal practices someone else as to end up paying and guess what thats people like yourself and me.

Haystack does go to jail and does not pass go as they say in monopoly.

ps, youve also missed the point that the guy doing the work for him(or him himself as the tradesman) is also evading income tax and thus Hays it could be said is in collusion with him.

Seen a lot of builders and their clients when LAs were awarding grants get done for this. Shame as grants are more or less unavailable now for property modernisation.

Exec,

It would be much more fun seeing Hays in jail.



8-)

Dont like the look of this.............

Shutdown is nothing: Debt ceiling debacle could be real ugly
Published: Tuesday, 1 Oct 2013 | 3:15 PM ETBy: John W. Schoen | CNBC.com Economics Reporter.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101078103

Boris made a marvellous speech to-day, and didn't the party love him.

Just heard that there is going to be a quick bye election to get Boris is ready to stand to get back into the HP.

Once there, a group of dissidents who want him to replace Cameron before the General Election.

Rumour is that some disenchanted tories hope that this will attract the tory deserters to UKIP back to the con party.

;-)

Theirs been quite a bit of that on twitter today Fred.

I suppose Labour would then need the Lib Dems like I suggested monday and in the longer term we have a 2 party Nation.

Labour/LibDem's working together , that should be fun

It would be even more fun if they got in....Carey Street type fun.

Actually, it may be sensible.

? 20 years ago? there were many , who thought when the SDNP broke off from the Labour party that they may have develop a moderate socialist party in alliance with the Libs of that time.

I think that was the stimulus for the moderates within the Labour party leading to the castration of many of their more far left factions

In one way it seems some of the Libs have moved to right leaving a large rump behind, while the majority of Labour has moved towards the centre.

It would seem a reasonable move.

But I don't think they could buy having Clegg, or the Red Squirrel in a cabinet.

But wouldn't be surprised if Danny Alexander defects to the party of Cons.

Feel a little sorry for Clegg, but he sold out on University fees and that is unlikely to be forgotten.

SDP not SDNP

Hays,

Thank you!

You are correct!

You can go to bed now.

I am doing penance for losing to a 78 year old earlier on at chess, after being 2 pawns ahead at the end game.