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.

fred why do you never post about real facts in the uk are all left wing voters like you
god help the uk if sheep like you get power .no wonder the uk is almost bankrupt when you idiots who can not think for your selves get in
have never seen you post about what is happening with our children being raped
nothing about terrorists just rubbish

As we move to a Banana Republic under Captain Marvellous.

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Corruption watchdog urges UK to curb hot-money flows into property

"By Reuters | Wed, 4th March 2015 - 00:07
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LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly 200 million pounds ($307 million) of money believed to be the proceeds of foreign corruption has been spent on British properties since 2004 and that amount is probably just the tip of the iceberg, a campaign group said.

Transparency International urged Britain to toughen its money-laundering rules by requiring information on the ownership of holding companies in offshore tax havens if they are used to buy residential or commercial property.

"There is growing evidence that the UK property market has become a safe haven for corrupt capital stolen from around the world, facilitated by the laws which allow UK property to be owned by secret offshore companies," said Robert Barrington, executive director of Transparency International UK.

British police investigated the purchases of properties worth more than 180 million pounds over the past 10 years because they suspected the money was the proceeds of corruption, the anti-corruption watchdog said.

Seventy-five percent of those purchases involved offshore secrecy to hide the identity of the buyers, it said.

Transparency International said the true scale of the problem was likely be much larger, since the United Nations estimates only 1 percent of laundered money is ever detected.

Over 36,000 properties in London -- where prices have soared in recent years -- are held by companies in offshore tax havens, 38 percent of them in British Virgin Islands, it said.

Almost one in 10 properties in the central London borough of Westminster and 7.3 percent of properties in Kensington & Chelsea were owned by companies registered in an offshore secrecy jurisdiction, it said.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has sought to lead a global crackdown on money laundering and tax evasion. His government has proposed new laws to require a public register of the true ownership of UK-registered companies, but that requirement does not extend to offshore companies.

A spokesman for Britain's Department for Business said the government was committed to tackling illicit financial flows and the misuse of companies and it was trying to encourage countries outside the European Union, such as overseas tax havens, to change their rules, too.

(Writing by William Schomberg; Editing by Larry King)"

http://www.iii.co.uk/news-opinion/reuters/news/227252

fred - "Netty" is no friend of mine .... i'ld love to see US withdraw funding from Israel to bring them sharply to their senses
unfortunately that would seriously destabilise the region even further

Who is the Spiv in the middle?

fred it must be the policy of labour to close their eyes and ears to crime

Manuel,

I won't hold the "Netty" against you! 8-)

But congress is looking more like the Tea party everyday.

A little similar to the Kippers and the worn out right wing of the Conners' party.

George's middle class income, rising or is it due to tax reduction on the middle class income range?

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Flogging Euro star for a short term benefit, while the country paid for the investment and could be drawing an income from it to reduce Taxation for all.

Biscuit Tin economics.

Profits going to Canada and the pockets of others (outside the country) rather than those who took the risk but still left with having the ultimate risks.

Going the same way as the rest of the silver.

Out of interest aa I thought Cameron was in charge!



Net Migration by Region

All Citizenships British Non-British EU Non-EU
Immigration 624,000 82,000 543,000 251,000 292,000
Emigration 327,000 137,000 190,000 89,000 101,000
Net Migration 298,000 -55,000 353,000 162,000 190,000
Of the 162,000 net migration from the EU, 80,000 were estimated to come from the EU15 and 43,000 from the A8.

The data shows that in the year ending September 2014 an estimated 37,000 citizens of Romania and Bulgaria migrated to the UK while 4,000 left.

Manuel.

Interesting article about Netanyahu's "speech".

Also, the comments by posters

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/31720100

Some Democrats stayed away, while the leader of Democrats in the House, Nancy Pelosi said: "I was near tears throughout the prime minister's speech - saddened by the insult to the intelligence of the United States as part of the P5 +1 nations ... and saddened by the condescension toward our knowledge of the threat posed by Iran and our broader commitment to preventing nuclear proliferation."

The words of some administration officials are even more sulphurous. One is quoted today as saying the speech contained "literally not one new idea; not one single concrete alternative; all rhetoric, no action."

These words aren't remarkable in themselves, but are when spoken about an Israeli leader. This sort of stuff doesn't normally happen. It does now.

Netanyahu's "speech".
a great leader

Farage to propose new immigration watchdog and five-year ban on unskilled migrants


Ukip leader to set out his party’s policies on immigration days after David Cameron failed to meet targets


Rowena Mason, political correspondent

Wednesday 4 March 2015 00.01 GMT



Ukip would ban unskilled immigrants from working in Britain for five years and set up a new migration control watchdog to bring down overall numbers, Nigel Farage will say on Wednesday.

In a speech in central London, the Ukip leader will set out his core offering to the electorate on immigration, arguing that no other party can be trusted on the issue.

Farage will be hoping to keep the issue of immigration in the headlines, as David Cameron has been criticised for missing his target of getting net migration below the tens of thousands a year during this parliament.


The most recent figures released last week showed net migration was almost 300,000, allowing Ukip and Labour to pour scorn on Cameron’s pledge to reduce net migration to below 100,000 with “no ifs, no buts”.



More:http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/mar/04/nigel-farage-new-immigration-watchdog-ban-unskilled-migrants

fred - until the israeli populace speak up, like the irish did a couple of decades back, against the gross injustice being meted out to the palestinians, there will be no change in attitude

i remain appalled that british jewry and their leaders (rabbis) also hold a deafening silence

Jihadi John family's 20 years on benefits: How it's cost taxpayers up to £400k to house fanatic and his relatives in upmarket areas
Mohammed Emwazi's family granted asylum in 1996 after leaving Kuwait
They have since lived in five homes, one of which was worth £450 per week
Neither his father Jasem, 51, nor mother Ghaneya worked while in Britain
Westminster City Council is still paying rent on family’s £600,000 flat
One landlord described the family as ‘parasites’ and ‘tenants from hell’
MPs blasted family for 'abusing hospitality' and say payouts are 'disgra


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2978334/Jihadi-John-family-s-20-years-benefits-s-cost-taxpayers-400k-house-fanatic-relatives-upmarket

and yet the disabled in the uk are being forced to live on very little
a dam disgrace by gutless UK MPs vote them out vote for a man with guts and with balls vote ukip

Obama the biggest clown ever to be a leader of any country . a man with no balls
and gutless a worm as more balls

vote ukip and rid the uk of parasites

back next Thursday have a good weekend

Manuel,

Every time I look at Gaza and Israel and M.E. I think of :

"Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?"

Strange some of the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez mean for me now than they meant in the 60s.

that's the least of my concerns ..... for once, i am appalled by the humanitarian aspect, the piracy issue coming second

Max,

Is Farage and the Kippers reneging on its immigration policies in face of reality?

Here to-day, gone to-morrow comes to mind.

Sounds like herrings being smoked!