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 very unsubtle criticism of Germany avoiding the problem of IS.

France's Hollande: would be "very good signal" if Germany went further in fight against IS

The Fatherland is busy...importing IS, what more can they do?

Tim Yeo, South Suffolk MP from 1983 to 2015, claimed his reputation had been "trashed" by three articles in 2013.

The newspaper alleged he breached parliamentary codes of conduct by telling reporters he could "promote business concerns in return for cash", the High Court heard.

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an additional 3% stamp duty surcharge on buy to let and second homes
sounds a bit of a killer to potential landlords, and doesn't sound very fair
anyone else got an angle on this?.
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I didn't see that today cynic , i think it's good for buy to let landlords ,cool this ridiculous market down . young people can get their first 2 up 2 down instead of paying stupid rents and never being able to buy .

How are they going to know what is, or what is not a BTL?

Buy to let and second homes

Band. Old. New
Up to £125,000 0% 3%
£125 - £250,000 2% 5%
£250 - £925,000 5% 8%
£925 - £1.5m. 10% 13%
over £1.5m. 12% 15%

It suggested Mr Yeo, 70, would approach ministers for a daily fee of £7,000.

Representing Mr Yeo at a week-long trial, Desmond Browne QC said his client was quite unjustifiably tarred with the same brush as another MP who had been exposed a week before.

But in Wednesday's High Court ruling, Judge Mr Justice Warby said he found some of Mr Yeo's evidence "utterly implausible" and, overall, he did not present "convincingly".

double

and what happens about the stamp duty if it is a company that is buying properties to let?
i can think of variations on that, but the basic question remains

Tim Yeo "was" an MP for more than 30 years.

Martin Ivens, editor of The Sunday Times, said the decision was "a victory for investigative journalism".
He added: "It vindicates the role of the press in exposing the clandestine advocacy by MPs for undisclosed interests."

Double it then the I say.

Tricky one cynic , depends who they are if it's a housing association then that's different .
What company were you thinking of ?

Max you seem to posting some strange stuff, for instance a blue box with ? mark in it.

id you read the statement the rise of 3.35 will be gone your local council are going to put up your council tax by around £9.45 a month from april just for care then on top of that the general rise so you will end up down .

so todays pensioners will not get one penny

Use your imagination Stan !

none in particular jimmy, but i can imagine it would affect the likes of GF who seems to have a bit of an empire including many for students

btw, i have no intent of adding to my own small portfolio :-)

I did that 1st James but it ran riot.. hence the question.

Broke again eh Bamber?