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.

gf
It didn't raise extra money under Labour after you add the cost of running it plus investigations.

ANOTHER STUPID LABOUR POLICY

cynic
What you are doing is quite legal. When I had a company, one year my partner and me took our whole year's salary as a dividend., which was quite a saving. Sole traders can still do the same. IR35 is really aimed at contractors (specifically IT) who work through contract agencies. As I said you can avoid all the IR35 rules fairly easily.

Vince Cable was on the news just now rubbishing Miliband's bank plans.

Hollander's speech the other day was sonehat of a U turn on his socialist policies that are not working.

He said that he would reduce tax on businesses, that the cost of labour had yo be reduced. He also said that the standards of living had to fall.

These are all market led supply side policies in the style of the Conservative party. It is beginning to look like he has realised that his socialist policies have failed.

Haze.

In spite of all your blustering:

UK - YouGov/Sun poll:

CON 32%
LAB 39%
LDEM 10%
UKIP 12%

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Miliband Promises 'Reckoning' With Big Banks
however, it has been correctly pointed out that HSBC could easily re-locate back to HK and Barclays to NY
the same interviewee, reckoned it was all just a load of window-dressing - and no, it was neither a tory mp nor a banker!

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increasing the minimum wage
somewhat belatedly, GO is joining the bandwagon for increasing the minimum wage, allegedly by ~10%
how detrimental would that be for small businesses, especially those in the high street who may (probably are) already struggling to stay afloat?
what happens to those on zero-hour contracts?
will more companies insist that their "employees" become self-employed to avoid (evade?) this issue?

The minimum wage is a fake. People on less don'_t complain. In Labour's last year there was just one prosecution. Immigrants work for less than minimum in farming areas, especially the illegal ones. An employer can say to an employee that he can afford it and they will have to leave. The only real way to higher wages is fuller employment and successful businesses.

people on less than the minimum wage cannot complain, or certainly feel too intimidated to do so

mind you, there are plenty on good salaries who feel coerced in one way or another to work far longer and harder or feel bullied or harassed and equally feel unable to take the action warranted

it never ceases to amaze me how badly so many (large) companies treat their staff, even those in key positions
how is it that so much management can STILL be so blind as to fail to see the value in all senses of keeping a happy workforce?

Care workers, nurses, cleaners, kitchen staff at my local privately owned nursing home work for a mere pittance, while the owner drives up to the front door in a brand new Mercedes saloon complete with personalised number plate. Unsurprisingly, staff morale is terrible.

Typical Tory Britain that doodlebug.

The personalised number plate just rubs it in.

Hays type of person that, crude rough assed and ignorant.

U TURN TORIES.....

Good point made here by Cynic a TRUE Old Fashioned Tory you can trust how is it that so much management can STILL be so blind as to fail to see the value in all senses of keeping a happy workforce?.

Should be more tories with Cynics qualities but alas we have a Tory machine that as turned out Hays clones, rough, ignorant and spineless.

Poll taken after Ed Millibands speech.

UK - Ipsos MORI poll:

CON 30%
LAB 39%
LDEM 13%
UKIP 11%

AND Milli catching up fast Camoron falling back from highs.....

electionista ‏@electionista 2h
UK - Ipsos poll - satisfaction with leaders:

@David_Cameron 39%
@Nigel_Farage 35%
@Ed_Miliband 31%
@Nick_Clegg 29%

My staff were very happy and well looked after. Every one of them had a company car, private medical, flexitime, high salaries, bonuses, expensive training and a say in how the company was run.

gf
More of an idiot than usual. How many people could have seen Miliband's speech this lunchtime and be available to be polled. Maybe they just asked all the obvious activists who attended the speech.

i suppose i am a tory if you really must attach a label to me, but at the end of the day, i'm just a bod who has done adequately well for himself and who sometimes thinks :-)

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however, that really is tosh about a personalised number plate
even one of my "friendly courier drivers" has a personalised plate, as is mine - purely a bit of nonsense vanity

similarly, i happen to drive a flash tart's car, but it certainly doesn't upset my staff, and if it makes one or two of my clients a bit cross (aka envious), well that is their loss - actually, most know me pretty well, so they just take me for what i am and as they find me

What car is it? My staff loved my car.

a car for tarts and wags i am told, but very comfortable, quick and surprisingly nimble for a big beastie .... wonderful when you drive up to hotels etc; you get a decent parking slot quite often :-)

I had a red Porsche 944 Turbo.

Like I said..........common as muck.

Someone lent me a lamborghini for a few days. I went to see a client in it to take him to lunch and I thought he was going to faint.

Material effects to 'show off' with pull no punches with me.

Its about brains and knowledge in my book.