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.

Thames Estuary

Would prefer a Boris island there myself....super project that... freeing up Heathrow for housing ....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26603830

RF - Boris Island is intended as additional to and NOT instead of LHR!

Heathrow is too much in the middle of towns and villages....I would allow the Heathrow people to participate in the Boris Island project (only fair)...enormous benefits for the country....it would even allow taller skyscrapers in London as the flight paths would no longer fly low over central London.....

stupid boy! :-)

we're all in it ...




Britain's five richest families worth more than poorest 20%

Oxfam report reveals scale of inequality in UK as charity appeals to chancellor over tax


Larry Elliott, economics editor


The Guardian, Monday 17 March 2014



The scale of Britain's growing inequality is revealed today by a report from a leading charity showing that the country's five richest families now own more wealth than the poorest 20% of the population.

Oxfam urged the chancellor George Osborne to use Wednesday's budget to make a fresh assault on tax avoidance and introduce a living wage in a report highlighting how a handful of the super-rich, headed by the Duke of Westminster, have more money and financial assets than 12.6 million Britons put together.



more: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/mar/17/oxfam-report-scale-britain-growing-financial-inequality

Britain's five richest families worth more than poorest 20% and the sultan of brunei is worth many times over the whole of the population of his country!

that really is one of the more stupid of the guardian's headline-catching comments, but rather in character

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btw, it would be at lesat as interesting, but almost equally as irrelevant, to determine how many people these "5 richest families" employ in their enterprises and how many more are thus indirectly dependent upon them

My MRS practising her Yoga on the tennis court. .....

These five richest families run huge businesses and employ loads of people. You don't get this class driven nonsense in the US moaning at Bill Gates or Buffet etc. You need to regard these people as equivalent to businesses. We do not moan about ICI, RBS, Tesco being worth more than a section of society. It is the usual politics of envy from the left,

John Mann MP ‏@JohnMannMP 6m
Top five rich man Mike Ashley. But how many local people does he employ and how many through agencies?

Manuel

Britain's five richest families worth more than poorest 20%


Wrong, it is you who are stupid,

The fact is correct it and you don't like attention being brought to the fact, or what can be inferred from the fact.

If the wealth is utilised for the betterment of society where it is produced, (ie. the UK.) all well and good.

If it is pilfered and deposited abroad at the expense of those who actually produced the wealth then it should be questioned!

He started up Sports Direct. Don't you think he employs more than a few people.

HS2
RF - you forget france is at least 4x larger than uk with the same population, so not really comparable
that said, i will admit that the current high speed link that goes through kent is not especially intrusive and though it would very "nice" if we did not need HS2, i am coming round to the idea that it is

And it's a sad 'Goodbye' to Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright, who died at the age of 66 earlier today.



Thank you for being so interesting and entertaining, Clarissa. :-)

H everyone,
Does anyone know how I can complain against my broker?

I have an account with saxobank, they made mistake in applying corporate action which resulted in my loss.. While I was in contact with their UK branch, they asked a debt collector forcing me to pay. By the time I received the letter, I have four days to pay them.

I complained again, but they say it takes three weeks to process, and no one in the UK branch can help and they do not give me contact details of people in Denmark.

What can I do?

Hays Sports Direct is a listed company as you jolly well know. John Mann MP asked 2 specific detailed questions.

We also know now why that the top 1% pay 30 % of the tax and is not enough.

I say well done to the Guardian for raising the issue. What really should be done now is see how this position as changed over the last four 4 years or was it just as bad under labour........having said that that isnt an excuse.

Nice... Mrs...Goldfinger....

Hi everyone,
Does anyone know how I can complain against my broker?

I have an account with saxobank, they made mistake in applying corporate action which resulted in my loss.. While I was in contact with their UK branch, they asked a debt collector forcing me to pay. By the time I received the letter, I have four days to pay them.

I complained again, but they say it takes three weeks to process, and no one in the UK branch can help and they do not give me contact details of people in Denmark.

Any suggestions? what can I do?

phone saxobank uk and/or denmark and demand to speak to a director, and don't take no for an answer.

if that gets you nowhere, then suggest you get your solicitor to fire off a formal letter immdiately to both uk and danish banks