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.

i think IMF will have to write off a slab of debt
greece's indebtedness is so preposterously large overall, that it cannot ever be paid off

cynic correct but the big problem is the germans they want to bleed the Greece to the grave .why do Greece not sue GERMANY for the cost of the war .
the EU IS A STINLKING ROTTEN CORRUPT SET UP .
RUN BY CROOKS FOR CROOKS .
GET US OUT

if by germans, you actually mean ECB, then the rules surrounding those loans are very different from those from IMF

IMF, with I assume the agreeance of other members, can choose to write off debt, as indeed it has done in the past

ECB is governed by some pretty strong legislation whereby all sorts of nasty things automaitically happen to the debtor should he default

cynic their is only one voice in the eu and its GEMANY .
AND ITS ONLY GOOD FOR THEM .

if you say so

Posted across the road .. goalposts being moved



Greece’s creditors handed the government revised terms for an agreement as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras expressed incredulity that his own list of proposals to secure bailout funds had fallen short.

The overhauled set of measures was passed to the Greek government on Wednesday morning, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the negotiations are private.



Full article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-24/greece-handed-new-terms-as-tsipras-heads-toward-decision-time

The Jay Report found children as young as 11 were sexually exploited by gangs of men, mainly of Pakistani origin, and revealed systemic failures in local council scrutiny, governance, and leadership.

It led to the resignation of South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Shaun Wright and Council leaders Roger Stone and Paul Lakin, as well as the authority's entire cabinet.

filthy scum hang the scum

stinking migrants destroying lorry drivers lives in Calais breaking in to their lorries
destroying the goods . its time to start shooting them on site .
they all carry knifes and threating drivers .
and if any one wants the scum here then they are scum them selves
its time for action.
and Cameron must pass a law that anyone helping these migrants in the uk must be deported stop all benefits all services all charity hand outs make it illegal to help .

deport any immigrant in the uk helping these illegals .
and close their businesses down if they employ any illegal workers and deport them

come on dave pass the law

sky news thousands of children have been raped abused by Asian men all over the country . they should all be sent back home for their punishment they are low life scum

what about lord janner and his mates?
or you can take your pick from any number of schoolmasters and the like

Send them an all!

What about blustering Dodgy Dave and his dodgy crew mates, who were going to sort out IMMIGRATION and seem instead turning the UK into a holiday resort?

Who are they going to blame this time?

What disaster this grubby incompetent crew are.

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On the other topic I think Leon Brittan, Maggie Thatcher and a few of their mating friends have more than a few questions to answer, even if they are post mortem enquiries.

Funny clubs they seem to belonged to.

isn't janner a labour peer?

fred - you really are so UTTERLY BORING AND PREDICTABLE

I wish some of your mates weren't so predictable.

The €U is rotten to the core!



Amazon's UK business paid just £11.9m in tax last year


Online retailer’s Luxembourg unit took £5.3bn sales from British internet shoppers, a rise of 14%, but Amazon.co.uk Limited recorded profit of just £34.4m




Amazon’s former head of tax, Bob Comfort, last year gave an interview recalling how in 2003 the then prime minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker, had behaved as “business partner” to the online retailer. Juncker is now the president of the European Union’s executive arm, the European commission.




Full story here: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/24/amazons-uk-business-paid-119m-tax-last-year

And that is a problem because?

No tax money for the politicians to piss up the wall...which in turn means we have to pay it (in addition)


Also, it's a bit rich to have high ranking pols in the pocket of the companies.

So the 7,000 Amazon UK employees don't count for anything? Do those employees not pay PAYE? And the 210,000 sq ft Amazon central London HQ doesn't provide income for other businesses and their employees who might happen to pay direct taxation on earnings, and indirect taxation on expenditure?

Or is it a case that the leftish Grauniad readership are affronted, so that's what it is?

Also Amazon are selling British goods that generate tax from the suppliers. In the case of Amazon's books, there is only a small profit per book, which enables low prices. As a result the consumers in the UK get a good deal regarding price. ALL multinational companies operate the way that Amazon, Google, Starbucks etc do. Even our companies such as ICI bring their profits back to the UK and pay minimal tax abroad. Ford did it by manufacturing engines in one country, bodies in another. They then use differential pricing to ensure the finished car makes a profit in their chosen country. That has been going on since any of us were born. If you think about it, there is little point in building up part of your company in another country just to leave a substantial slice of your profits there.