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.

A real tory character.

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the budget was to soft it should of been from next year not 2017
get the lazy out of bed

clearly you were never unlucky enough to have to try and try and try and try to get a job

my "young chap" who is not the brightest spark, admits that he f'ed up his schooling and then had his leg smashed has been trying for a job for about 3 years ....... thank goodness, through perseverance and also from the enforced courses for english, maths and IT skills, he has at long last managed to get a part-time job with argos, which with luck and further hard work will eventually evolve into full time

laziness was never any part of the equation ....... indeed, at the w/e he used to coach football to youngsters at his local club for which he received nothing at all

BUDGET REACTION
a quick whizz through FT and even most of the Guardian hails the budget as imaginative etc etc

it was however, really good to see just the one vituperative hard-left response in the Guardian, with which i am afraid i got got very bored after the first couple of paras ...... the author of this article - perhaps it was fred - plainly does not understand at all that one of the reasons labour was humiliated at the election was exactly because the public is fed up with the huge welfare bill that has been growing and growing over the years

yes, it does indeed mean that, as i posted yesterday, there is a point at which the poorest will be worse off, but there is always that level, wherever benefit limits are set

New Vehicle Excise Duty (VED) bands are to be introduced, with revenues eventually going towards a new Roads Fund, the chancellor has announced.
For cars registered after 1 April 2017, VED will be transformed into three bands - zero, standard and premium.
George Osborne said the "standard" charge of £140 would cover 95% of all cars. Revenues will be paid into the Roads Fund from 2020-21
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So am i right in thinking that in the future all small city cars that run on petrol will now pay £140 as they pay about £30 at the moment i think .

Re: Car Tax in 2015 Budget
Chart on BBC website indicates that Ist Year will be different from subsequent years and that Cars with list price over £40K face additional annual charge of £310 for 5 years. See link below:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-33447106

Hiltops - are you around? Just wondered if your email address was still the sky one?

I'm around, Floss. It's probably best to contact me via the green shed. Be sure to mark it for my attention.

OK, will do - no rush.

cynic does he want a job I have loads of contacts

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"With no money to pay shippers, imported goods are getting stuck at Athens seaport Piraeus." Source: The New York Times

With banks closed and the government virtually out of money, Greece has become isolated from the international economy — a big problem for a country that relies on imports for 65 percent of its goods. Cargo containers of food, some medicines and other daily necessities are beginning to pile up on the docks at Piraeus, the international seaport outside Athens, because capital controls make it difficult or impossible to pay the shippers.

cynic

IMHO: 'Jobs' are for people who don't know any better.

Sorry, to sound a bit arrogant. But I will try to explain....

Jobs pay wages or salaries and even bonuses sometimes too. But mostly the income from 'a job' has 'a restriction' placed on it. This restriction is to do with time. Time always puts a ceiling on the income gained from a job.

Now most people do want to become wealthy. But rarely can you become wealthy from 'a job'.

So, what's to do to actually become wealthy?

Ans: 'Selling things'. There are much less restrictions to the earnings. There shouldn't be any restrictions inflicted by 'time'.

At a very low level: Amway, Car Boot Sales, eBay, Dog Food, etc, etc.

Low level: Restaurant meals, Take Away food, Used Vehicles, etc, etc.

Medium level: Owning a chain of shops, restaurants, etc. You also might end up selling 'chains of companies', rather than just products.

High level: Owning a business such as '99p', Amstrad (as it used to be), MFI (as it used to be) . These businesses sold lots of values to lots of people.

The Very Highest Level: Microsoft, Facebook, Google, etc, etc.

MrT - many thanks for the offer, but as i wrote, he has now and at very long last found a job ....... it may be on basic (bet it is), but that's an awful lot better than having to rely on benefit hand-outs, and in all honesty, with his (lack of) education, about the best he can hope for

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/09/poorer-than-greece-the-eu-countries-that-reject-a-new-athens-bailout

Poorer than Greece: the EU countries that reject a new Athens bailout

In Latvia and Lithuania, pensioners and other poor people wonder why they are being asked to pay to bail out their far richer Greek counterparts

Half a continent away from Athens, Milda is unimpressed. Watching reports of the Greek predicament on the news, the Latvian pensioner has little sympathy for her counterparts 1,800 miles to the south.

“Can’t they get by on €120 a week?” she asks, referring to the latest cash limits on pensioners introduced in Greece. “Life’s less expensive down there. It’s warmer, they don’t have to pay for heating or winter boots, and fruit and vegetables must be cheaper.

“Anyway, if they borrowed all that money, they should pay it back, that’s the way I see it.”

Europe’s great Greek crisis is often cast as the downtrodden Hellenic heroes versus the ubermasters of austerity in Berlin. In reality, however, it is smaller nations that have faced crisis themselves, swallowed the austerity medicine and lived to tell the tale who are most hostile to another bailout for Athens.

From central European minnows such as Slovakia to Baltic eurozone republics such as Latvia and Lithuania, hard-pressed pensioners and workers earning barely €500 a month are at a loss as to why Greece should qualify for more largesse.

How easy it is to fool people.


“Anyway, if they borrowed all that money, they should pay it back, that’s the way I see it.”

TANKER - 08 Jul 2015 16:39 - 61323 of 61345 edit this post

a done deal with Greece as been done but will announce it over the weekend

just to remind you of my post

sunday night announced

cynic good luck to him and hope he gets what he needs to make it a great life

CYNIC I was born very lucky my mother told me i was going to be lucky and i have had a great life .

education is not the road to riches its luck and knowing some one
most top people are no more clever than the bin man .
most directors are their because of the old boys act that is why most directors
use the merry go round move around before they get found out .
without knowing some one the road is very hard no matter how clever you are
the system stinks the clever very rarely get the chance