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.

11 million pensioners, tide turning. :-))

When is high tide?

When labour get swept out to sea. About 4 million people are paying the top rate of tax, more have been caught in the net. Going to be a possible big vote grabber.

How many peeps are on freebies?

A lot of these so called 4 million? paying the top rate of tax arent actually paying the top rate of tax but are in fact paying about 20%. Tax avoidance at its worst and the HMRC have hardly scraped the top on implementation of IR35.

Ill explain how its done tomorrow too busy tonight on the reception again at Fawlty Towers and Sat night to sun is very busy. A few intoxicated types.

Think Ill join them listening to how useless this English cricket team is.

Bottoms up.

Was looking for present recovery rate on IR35 and found item below.

Heres what Im refering to above, a little outdated but about 1 million plus paying just 20% instead of 45%. So called celebs and football starts plus a lot of others, just turn yourself into a limited Company and make yourself (and partner) director.

Notice the Tory U Turn.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-2095909/How-pay-21-tax-100-000-income-child-benefit--IR35-rules-explained.html

duplicate.

Lord Ashcroft’s mega poll has UKIP on 16pc – the highest his surveys have ever recorded
January 4th, 2014

Hear Cons are 9% behind.

Labour majority 58+

9%,8%, 7% you sound worried Fred. Someone tell your leader to buy a new suit and get rid of the winkle pickers. Saw him walking down the street on the Andrew Marr slot this morning, trousers round his ankles.

DC,

Are you referring to Wavey Davey on the Andrew Marr program.

The only good thing about WD was his suit.

UKIP 16%.

Phew. Cameron may need his pension sooner than later.

8-)

Tony Blair's fortune boosted £13m by 'bumper year'

Newly published accounts show former PM Tony Blair's business interests around the world are booming, according to a City accountant





By Robert Mendick, and Edward Malnick

10:40PM GMT 04 Jan 2014



Tony Blair has more than £13 million deposited in the bank following his most commercially successful year since quitting Downing Street.


The latest accounts for a network of companies used to run his growing business empire show Mr Blair’s business interests around the world are booming. Profits at one company alone, which he owns, totalled almost £2 million while shareholder funds on two businesses total £7 million.


The accounts, for the 12 months to April 2013 and which were lodged at Companies House last week, give the best indication yet of Mr Blair’s earning power. His wealth, including a London townhouse, a country estate and several other properties, is estimated at £70 million.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/10551183/Tony-Blairs-fortune-boosted-13m-by-bumper-year.html

At least he can afford one. lol. UKIP will fizzle out nearer the election.

What a haunted looking face, I wonder what is cutting him up. Let him enjoy the money, looks like all he has.

Interesting to see Cameron, who believes in unity of the UK and is supposed to defend it is running and ducking from a debate with Alex Salmon?

What is he hiding from.

I hope Blair donates all the profits from his ill-gotten gains of the Iraq war to restoration of Law, Order and Justice in Iraq.

They are more likely in a swiss bank account. :-))

Nigel, where have all the immigrants gone?


http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/02/immigration-invasion-bulgarians-romanians-uk

The immigration invasion that never was


No extra flights, empty seats – the lack of stampeding Bulgarians and Romanians shows the rightwing hysteria for what it was/

electionista ‏@electionista
UK - @LordAshcroft poll:

CON 30%
LAB 39%
LDEM 8%
UKIP 16%

"More than a third of 2010 Conservative voters say they would not vote for the party in an election tomorrow. These Defectors tend to have a low to middling view of Cameron, and doubt the Tories stand for fairness or are on the side of ordinary people. Less than one in five have gone to Labour or the Lib Dems; about half say they support UKIP (compared to just over a quarter in my poll of specifically Tory-held marginal seats last year) and a third say they do not know how they will vote or will not vote at all."