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 costed them, ive said increase the basic rate of income tax across the board
enlighten us all ..... i see no numbers from you anywhere

Getting a bit silly again cynic. I said above....

"Certainly cant go into the finer points of accounting data held by OBR but I bet id get it more accurate than any MP of either major party at the moment."..........ends


ohhh and by the way I have nothing against anybody working beyond 65 if they want to, but so many ( and I know a lot) are having to extend their working life because they cant cover for a secure retirement.

Surely better to have younger people in the jobs I mentioned just to get them on the right path for finding better work in time.

It is back to the left wing practice of tax and spend. When you have taxed them to the hilt you then try the other left wing standby known as borrow and spend. How many Labour government have been through the disastrous cycle of tax and spend followed by borrow and spend?

We are now in the usual period of Conservative antidote to Labour which involves paying back all the money borrowed and wasted by Labour.

Hays were looking for fully costed ideas not political point scoring.

Ive also come up with a added on way to fund my idea.

As were talking about redistribution of work from South to North Id place a Regional SUNSHINE TAX on all tax payers south of Watford for a four year period.

I think this only fair as you get the benefits of far more sunshine hours and warmer temperatures down south and therfore added feel good factor than we do up north. This adds to your standard of living.

This would also help to equalise policy up with water as the souths water is mostly piped from the Northern counties, and yes i know some will say it cannot be practicaly done,but just look at cold weather payments, that as worked across the country when temperatures fall below a certain level.

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Move south then. lol

No head on pints of ale, no chance.

Why not tax Spain, Italy, Greece etc within the EU as they have far more sunshine. Maybe people should just accept where they live. Don't forget it costs us a lot more to live in the south.

No it doesn't.

lol

Hays...........LOL LOL LOL LOL..........check * on my last post, and further up thread. post 31231

yes it does. :-))

A good source of revenue would be to tax people who fish for ahobby. There were approx 6m people who have fished for fresh water fish in the last two years. A tax on whippets, pigeons and a tax on all that unused land such as the Yorkshire moors.

How many have you had tonight H/S?

People think it always rains in Manchester. Not true though I admit it's the only town in the country with lifeboat drill on the bus routes.

LOL, he still hasnt caught on. Too much wine.

Was just pulling your leg hays.

This is getting silly, so I will bid you all goodnight -):

Night Stan.

Off myself to watch Question Time.

See ya all tomorrow.

Highlights

An estimated 5.5m British people live permanently abroad – almost one in 10 of the UK population. The emigration of British people has happened in cycles over 200 years. The trend is now rising again: some 2,000 British citizens moved permanently away from the UK every week in 2005.

This unique project aims to explain where people have gone. On the regional and country pages you will find data on what we know about that part of the world. For more on the methodology and the key issues about emigration, click on the links at the bottom of these pages.
BRITS ABROAD: THE TOP COUNTRIES
Country name Resident Britons
Australia 1,300,000
Spain 761,000
United States 678,000
Canada 603,000
Ireland 291,000
New Zealand 215,000
South Africa 212,000
France 200,000


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According to the Office for National Statistics, the number of British citizens who have moved abroad has risen by a fifth under the Coalition, reaching 154,000 last year.
Separate figures, published by the OECD, show that almost 1.3million Britons with university-level education are living abroad, more than any other developed economy.
Nick de Bois, secretary of the 1922 committee of backbench MPs, says Britain has a "sales job to do" to convince talented professionals not to leave the country.
He said: "We live in a very mobile, global market people can look around and they can judge where they want to go. My concern is that people are putting their own interests first and looking to beyond the European Union.
"We have to convince those people, who we have invested so much in, to make Britain their first choice. We have to continue to drive lower taxes, we have to keep driving the change and reform in our public services."

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I think we should repatriate the tax dodgers, but leave the rest where they are.

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The previous discussion has been aimless.

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Start with defining what one would think is the "goal" you see appropriate for the UK and its inhabitants.

Also, considered whether you decide on that goal is for your own personal benefit or based on personal prejudices.

Perhaps, if you can define the above there might be a pathway to it.

Ok, so educated people are bailing out, whilst uneducated non English speakers are being bailed in.


Result?

Justin Welby, Archbishop Of Canterbury, Tells Faith Leaders The Religious Are Not 'Mad'


Of course they are