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.

Wankawiwi? sounds like an Ann Summers free gift :0)

Knock out a bad Review and you could get sued for Libel and also Financial Damages:

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/woman-faced-legal-action-bad-review-tripadvisor-worried/

The Work and Pensions Secretary explained how social care would be funded by the Conservatives.
Damian Green said using the estate to pay for it and then inheriting £100,000 was "reasonable".

Didn't see what he said about it. So if you needed social care for say two months before you died, they would sell your house worth say £300,000 and give you £100,000., or could you pay the social care bill for the two months and keep the house ?

Execline

“The material you have posted about our client on Tripadvisor.com is defamatory and therefore unlawful,” Not if it's true ?

alders

I do agree with you. A comment cannot really be defamatory if it's true.

But a letter from a lawyer only costs a "£100 x 'a few'" and can often work miracles or get good results.

In this case, the threatened lady asked TripAdvisor if her comment could be taken down.

If this was done, the lawyer's client restaurateur got the desired result - and also deterred others from making similar unfavourable comments.

IMHO, the best way to deal with bad restaurant service, is to 'use your boots to do the talking and walk away, never to return'.

if this lady's comments were indeed malicious rather than based on factual experience, then she was assuredly in the wrong

if her comments were fair and justified, then she should have told the restaurant hotel to sue and be damned

We will never know.

Moving on.......

Have a look at this and imagine the subject little girl was your little girl

Hat tip to mro across the road.



Pay attention. The tories have just committed electoral suicide:



Stealth tax

In fact, even the Bow Group, itself a Conservative think tank, has called the proposals the “biggest stealth tax in history”:



"It is a tax on death and on inheritance. It will mean that in the end, the government will have taken the lions share of a lifetime earnings in taxes. If enacted, it is likely to represent the biggest stealth tax in history and when people understand that they will be leaving most of their estate to the government, rather than their families, the Conservative Party will experience a dramatic loss of support."



Full article here: https://www.thecanary.co/2017/05/21/damian-greens-car-crash-interview-marr-reveals-true-cost-tory-manifesto-pensioners/

Theresa has started to work out the true probable cost of Brexit and scrambling for ways to pay for it.

She and her motley crew are beginning to be seen as"lying" to the voters hoping to hang on to power.

What has brexit to do with death taxes Fred?

labour would certainly be very happy to raise more by way of IHT ....

fred - have not labour suggested as much or similar? .... labour is of course very happy to strip you of your wealth while you're still alive

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on a non-partisan note, apart from the misconception that nhs should look after us for free and regardless from cradle to grave, is there actually good reason why one should not be obliged to take care of oneself if one has the means?

Social care funding in the UK is currently means-tested. Anyone with assets over £23,250 has to pay for it excluding the value of their house if they are cared for in their own home. But the value of the house may be considered if they move into a care home unless a close relative is still living in the property.

Significantly, the 2015 Conservative manifesto under David Cameron proposed that by 2020 there would be a cap of £72,000 on any social care fees. This meant that for the first time since the Second World War, there would have been a limit on how much people had to pay for their care.

But now Tories are saying in their 2017 Conservative manifesto, that anyone with assets over £100,000, including any property, will have to pay for their care after they die.

This means that people who previously were cared for at home, who got help without the cost of their property being taken into account, will now have to pay huge fees.

Andrew Marr pointed out the following discrepancy:

1. The value of a person's house, if they are being cared for at home is now being classed as an asset.

Using an example of a family in Twickenham to make the point:

An average house there costs £545,000… The chap’s got early on-site dementia. He’s being cared for in his home. He’s got a little bit of money in the bank but not much. Under the 2017 Conservative manifesto proposals they could lose virtually everything.
Their children and their grandchildren who were hoping to inherit some of that wealth won’t be able to.

This is a vast secret inheritance tax!

Stealth tax

In fact, even the Bow Group in its Press Release on Elderly Care, itself a Conservative think tank, has called the proposals the “biggest stealth tax in history”:

It is a tax on death and on inheritance. It will mean that in the end, the government will have taken the lions share of a lifetime earnings in taxes. If enacted, it is likely to represent the biggest stealth tax in history and when people understand that they will be leaving most of their estate to the government, rather than their families, the Conservative Party will experience a dramatic loss of support.

Why has she done it?

The older voter [ with a house and saving's ] , votes Tory. This will lose vote's, why didn't they wait until after the election. It goes against everything Thatcher stood for.

She is frightened about paying the bills which will come in after Brexit.

Couldn't do it after Election as it wouldn't be in manifesto and would be voted down in Lords.

MaxK

"Why has she done it?"


Ask yourself what age group in the main voted for Brexit....Who will this death
policy effect the most?.

Most of us are aware that the establishment do NOT want to LEAVE the EU, the
fact that the tory's have this death tax in their manifesto gives sceptics like me
the idea that May wants to diminish their lead they have in an effort to get an hung
parliament, thus she would have an excuse and put the blame on the coalition party
to water down brexit to being meaningless..

I will not vote Tory... taxing our loved ones for our death... disgusting.

This may be the problem with having this big lead at the start , they feel they can get away with policies that are unpopular , since the start they've made poor choices , now Labour are coming out with policies that sound good to certain groups . There's been a big rush to register and that suggests people want to make a point , if they carry on like this the Cons are in trouble .