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.

your hero corbyn will just spend spend spend and borrow borrow borrow and tax tax tax and will signally fail to produce the utopia that he has promised all those bright and not so bright uni students and similar

unfortunately, as has been proved in the past, if you destroy the incentive for people to create personal wealth, they do other things ....... in my case, i'll just retire

😂 You retire? Before you can retire you have to actually had to be doing some work which in your case will be ne'er impossible to prove 🤣😂😃...retire indeed what a dreamer💺

fortunately i know the reality of what i can and cannot afford to do
sadly, it'll mean 3 jobs disappearing from my little office and indeed, we moved h/o to rotterdam a couple of years ago which also cost several jobs here

in the meantime, i'll keep stashing away as much as possible in my pension fund and other tax efficient schemes, none of which are other than vanilla

Manuel.

Many probably think you were or should have been retired already.

My father had on one of the walls of his offices:

"Who ever thinks himself indispensable should put his finger in a bucket of water and notice the hole he leaves when he takes it out."


He said that he read it to himself every day and also reminded others of the same.

I know I often remind myself of that quote.

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What percentage of FTSE companies have long and short term "borrowings"? (DEBT)

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Borrowing is in not a problem in itself, it is what you do with the money can be. It is what you build for it or what returns compensate for the cost.

Education, health care infrastructure, technology etc and R and D are often expensive but fortunately, after a time, more often than not, return the investments in many ways. (Social cohesion and well-being being amongst them.)

You can't have a long term healthy economy without a healthy cohesive society,

Manuel,

There is a whisper that tax is going to be raised on SIPPs and long-term pension schemes.

breaking news from labour party via press , we will only look at uni fees but it appears we could never bring in free uni ,

so get out their you labour liars telling them before election we will scrap uni fees now
they have changed it to . we would like to end uni fees but can not

from mc liar

all my tax saved when saving for a pension taken back since I retired they call it contracted out contributions they have take on avge over the last 5 years £97 aweek
off my old age pension.

i don't think i'm indispensable, but fortunately my co-director considers that i am still more than useful and pays me to remain as a consultant

i have little doubt that in due course one chancellor or another or either hue will decide it's time to take a chunk out of that juicy pension pot ...... certainly will not be the first nor the last time as it's such an easy target

my gradulated pension is £34 they can not touch that yet

mc Donald corbyn lied to students in the election on uni fees yes they lied

that was used to get votes but all lies ,

they now say they ment would like to make uni fees free but can not

come on stan make a comment on your pals lies

i'm afraid corbyn supporters will find that many of his promises cannot be delivered ...... indeed, i very much suspect re-nationalisation of various industries will also have to be shelved (damn good job too!)

you will all notice stan will not post about the labour lies to students

mc liar has cut down the corbyn money tree its now rotten away

People in glass houses...

Freda do us all a favour eh...... stick your head in a bucket of water just don't bother taking it out. Plastic socialist/marxist, how are your shares doing? Typical left wing hypocrite posting shxxe on a daily basis.

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Manuel,

Seems that you are describing the present maybe government.

You have to admit it is a bit like a comedy act.

And even at that, it is a poor one.

All you need is RM the anorexic Billy Bunter as tory party leader and his Greyfriar crew mates into Downing Street and they will be selling No 10 as a Vaudeville act, with Boris as a buffoon.

stan what a non moral person you are gutless , post a comment on the lies of corbyn on uni fees

come on stan tell all these students why your party lied to them on uni fees

be a man instead of a wimpy liar . not be a coward

tell the students why your party lied to all of them

have you the guts I think not

fred - it's certainly true to say that all political parties lie in their promises to a greater or lesser extent ......

unfortunately, corbyn came out with far more than the usual, few of which will actually be realised
as most of us who have been around for a while already know, there is no such thing as a free lunch, and what is given with one hand is snatched back with the other, especially in tough economic times such as the present