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.

Max,

The biggest problem is they're full of jock kids.

My dog won't vote Labour, says David Blunkett
Former Home Secretary warns Ed Miliband will not win a majority due to SNP 'tsunami'


By Matthew Holehouse, Political Correspondent5:17PM BST 30 Apr 2015
David Blunkett, the former Home Secretary, has said that his dog would be unlikely to vote for Labour, as he warned that Ed Miliband will be unable to form a majority government.
A nationalist “tsunami sweeping Scotland” will mean a minority government led by Mr Miliband will have to “reach out across political divide”.
Much of Labour’s policy platform would have to be “delayed” until after a second election, Mr Blunkett said.
He said the Scottish National Party could deal the Labour Party its worst crisis since the 1983 “massacre”. Voters have now “switched off” to Labour in Scotland, and are now “not even prepared to take leaflets or to engage in discussion.”
“I've never seen anything quite like what we have at the moment,” he told BBC Radio 4. “We all went through the horror of the 1983 election when Labour was massacred in the polls, but people were still arguing about policy and values.
“Now we have a situation where labour could win literally scores of seats in England and Wales and see themselves unable to offer a majority Labour government because of what’s happened in just one part of the United Kingdom.
“I think that it's going to have to be what you might describe as more than grown-up politics. An incoming Labour government led by Ed Miliband will have to reach out across political divides.”
“It will mean that the cutting edge programmes that we want to see will have to be delayed until eventually we can win a an overall majority across the United Kingdom.”
A Labour source insisted: “We are fighting for a majority.”


Mr Blunkett, who is blind, hinted he is “frustrated” with the Labour campaign.
In a mischievous exchange, he said he used to write a column for The Sun under the persona of Sadie, his old guide dog, who would “say things I wouldn’t dare have said myself”.
He went on: “My present dog is called Cosby. He is the sixth dog I’ve had. He is five years old. He is interested in politics, but he thinks it is slightly boring and he sleeps through my speeches. I’m not sure whether he is entirely on board with voting labour. That’s Cosby speaking. It’s just astonishing, I’m not a ventriloquist.”
Having served in the Cabinet, “you get used to the idea that people will listen and will respond to your ideas about how they should run the campaign," he said.
“I’m not involved in that anymore and so I’m shouting at the radio and the television just like all other interested political activists. I’m no longer a General; I’m back on the doorstep, I’m back on the stump doing what I like doing, but it can be deeply frustrating.”

Stan

Who did you go with? Out of interest, have they got a web site on it?

Miliband getting hammered on the debate right now.

Was he? I thought he did quite well, 3rd but not baaad.

Even the Guardian poll has Cameron easily the winner.

Northampton Police report finding a man’s body in the River Nene, near Becketts Park. The dead man’s name will not be released until his family has been notified.

The victim apparently drowned due to excessive beer consumption.
He was wearing black fishnet stockings, a red garter belt, a pink G-string, a strap-on dildo, purple lipstick, and a ‘Milliband for PM’ on his T-shirt. He also had a cucumber stuffed up his rectum.

In spite of what we sometimes think, the Police do care!!! The police removed the Ed Milliband T-shirt to spare his family any unnecessary embarrassment.

Stupid ugly cartoon's , makes you wounder what the posters state of mind is

Yes.....I think cartoons like Giles....and such are much better taste......some of these are just plain rude/dirty....

Here's one for you rf, sums it up nicely!

LOL.

You will have to buy the "ghost" a gun boat!

a bit of a long article, though i've edited it a little, but interesting and worth the read .....

Australia to crack down on corporate tax shifting in budget
Australia plans to announce tougher rules on cross-border taxation in the upcoming budget to tighten loopholes that have allowed multinational companies to avoid paying taxes, Treasurer Joe Hockey told Reuters on Friday.

Australia has joined Britain in a crackdown on companies such as global tech giants , Apple and Microsoft over tax evasion, particularly the shifting of profits from high-tax countries to more relaxed regimes. ...

"We are proceeding with measures, working with the United Kingdom, that will strengthen integrity," Hockey said in an interview. "You'll see we'll release draft legislation around the budget which will indicate a strengthening of the integrity measures."

"It doesn't raise a lot of revenue, but it's an integrity measure," he said. "And it's vitally important, with the world's economy changing, that our tax system globally will have to change." Under Australia's leadership last year, the Group of 20 leading economies (G20) endorsed a set of common standards of sharing bank account information across borders with automatic exchange of information among its members. ...

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The United States backed that move, but has become concerned about Britain, Australia and other nations lining up against U.S. digital companies as they seek extra funds to trim budget deficits.

Hockey cautioned that a change of government in Britain could set back the international crackdown on corporate tax avoidance. Britain, which has a Conservative Party-led coalition government, goes to the polls for a general election on May 8.

"The UK under (Treasurer) George Osborne and (Prime Minister) David Cameron is leading the world in chasing down companies that are not paying their fair share of tax," he said. "Any change of government in the United Kingdom would obviously put that at risk." The Australian units of Google, Apple and Microsoft revealed earlier this year they were "under review" by the Australian Tax Office (ATO), which had declined to renew agreements with the companies on transfer pricing.

That accounting practice, under which a company sets internal prices for goods to its subsidiaries, has been blamed for helping large companies minimise their tax bills by lowering the cost of those goods to subsidiaries in high-tax regimes.

cynic

Thanks for that. Very interesting.

Just one thing though. I'm not doubting your honest or integrity but I think in posting what you have, and how you havedone it, you are settng a precedent on here which I utterly disagree with.

I will explain.

You don't reveal the source of the article.
You edit it up.
You expect us to trust you in the doing of it.

So the precedent is what?

Anyone can now post up an edited article, because you have set the pecedent for it, changing it to how they think fit, without revealing a source, because you have set the precedent for it, and also expect us to believe it is still pucker.

Here's an example. I will reveal the source at the end.

"Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, is to visit Moscow to mark the Soviet Union's victory in World War II and Russia will not refuse to meet Pyongyang's demands for special treatment for the young dictator.
A spokesman for the Kremlin announced on Thursday that Mr Kim had "not decided to stay in Pyongyang" and will ignore "internal issues".
The North Korean leader's visit with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, apparently came as a surprise to Moscow, which only hours earlier had indicated that preparations for Mr Kim's first overseas visit since he inherited the country in December 2011 had been dropped."

Here's the source:

Source

If you check the original, you'll see I've edited it up to make it read exactly the opposite of what was reported.

How does anyone get to know that you are not doing the same, if you don't reveal your source?

Come on cynic , we know its HP

Exceline

What's the source of your post , have you edited it ?

el / aldo ...... nothing secret at all, so my apologies ..... it's from the BLT news on IG, and the report itself is via Reuters

the bits that i excised really were very minor indeed and were not relevant to this issue
i always try to edit to make things much more readable ..... feel free to mistrust my motives, and assuredly no offense taken :-)

below is the unexpurgated edition for your boredom :-) .....

INTERVIEW – Australia to crack down on corporate tax shifting in budget – Treasurer
01 May 2015 - 04:27


By Matt Siegel and Paul Ingrassia

CANBERRA, May 1 (Reuters) – Australia plans to announce tougher rules on cross-border taxation in the upcoming budget to tighten loopholes that have allowed multinational companies to avoid paying taxes, Treasurer Joe Hockey told Reuters on Friday.

Australia has joined Britain in a crackdown on companies such as global tech giants , Apple and Microsoft over tax evasion, particularly the shifting of profits from high-tax countries to more relaxed regimes. ...

"We are proceeding with measures, working with the United Kingdom, that will strengthen integrity," Hockey said in an interview. "You'll see we'll release draft legislation around the budget which will indicate a strengthening of the integrity measures." Hockey did not detail the content of the new legislation, but he has said previously he wanted to find a way for digital companies to pay the goods and services tax (GST).

"It doesn't raise a lot of revenue, but it's an integrity measure," he said. "And it's vitally important, with the world's economy changing, that our tax system globally will have to change." Under Australia's leadership last year, the Group of 20 leading economies (G20) endorsed a set of common standards of sharing bank account information across borders with automatic exchange of information among its members. ...

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The United States backed that move, but has become concerned about Britain, Australia and other nations lining up against U.S. digital companies as they seek extra funds to trim budget deficits.

"I understand the concerns of the United States government, but they've come a long way from the point where they were completely opposed to the proper tax of those entities to the point where they're reaching into other countries to collect the tax," Hockey said.

Uk Election
Hockey cautioned that a change of government in Britain could set back the international crackdown on corporate tax avoidance. Britain, which has a Conservative Party-led coalition government, goes to the polls for a general election on May 8.

"The UK under (Treasurer) George Osborne and (Prime Minister) David Cameron is leading the world in chasing down companies that are not paying their fair share of tax," he said. "Any change of government in the United Kingdom would obviously put that at risk." The Australian units of Google, Apple and Microsoft revealed earlier this year they were "under review" by the Australian Tax Office (ATO), which had declined to renew agreements with the companies on transfer pricing.

That accounting practice, under which a company sets internal prices for goods to its subsidiaries, has been blamed for helping large companies minimise their tax bills by lowering the cost of those goods to subsidiaries in high-tax regimes.

All three Australian subsidiaries denied any tax evasion. ...

The ATO is also conducting audits of 15 marketing hubs in Singapore and Switzerland that it expects will raise an extra $1 billion. The world's two largest miners – BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto – told an Australian Senate hearing last month that their Singapore units were being audited.

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Hockey is due to announce Australia's conservative Liberal Party-led government's budget on May 12.

(Writing by Swati Pandey; Editing by Jane Wardell and Ian Geoghegan) ((swati.pandey@thomsonreuters.com; +61 2 9321 8166; Reuters Messaging: swati.pandey.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net; twitter.com/swatisays)

Keywords: AUSTRALIA ECONOMY/TREASURER TAX (INTERVIEW, PIX, T