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.

stan - you can't visit the sins of the father on his children ..... who are the 4 above?

CT - yes of course it's all noise, and for sure no country whether russia or uk or usa or china or france will cease selling arms to saudi (or anyone else) because of this latest

Who are they oh surely you know Alf.

if i knew i wouldn't ask

btw, in your not very humble opinion, is anyone who avoids tax a lowlife?

Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of EasyJet. Sir James Dyson, top-right, British inventor. Bruce Gyngell, bottom-left, Australian TV executive. Bernard Madoff, convicted fraudster.

certainly madoff has no relevance to tax avoidance - or effective evasion by your criteria

anyway, your answer is what to the supplementary question ....... "in your not very humble opinion, is anyone who avoids tax a lowlife?"

“if i knew i wouldn't ask...you can’t be serious 😁

“btw, in your not very humble opinion, is anyone who avoids tax a lowlife?” What do you mean “in your not very humble opinion” humble is my middle name 😎 also you confuse “offshore tax avoidance” with on shore “tax planning”.

what's the difference?
the purpose of both is to legally minimise tax liability

sometimes the scheme(s) run too close to the wind and hmrc - when it can be bothered - takes action - eg vs ingenious film company

The Right Honourable Gentleman for Runnymede and Weybridge.

Where will be the hidden surprise to claw back the sweeties?

The beautiful Welsh railway line you can now walk..says the DT. Now that winter is coming and the leaves are falling there will be many lines we will have the opportunity to walk but that's not why they were built.

Shame it wasn't Phil the window cleaner from Poplar spending his savings to avoid dragging his family through court. Nothing like money to get the green-eyed monster salivating. Is he guilty? Is he innocent? I don't know, nor do the mob ready to lynch because they don't like him.

https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2018/10/30/former-bailiff-hits-back-at-mps-finance-register-claim/

Comments from a man that has serious accusations made against him and some of his family members:

http://voiceforchildren.blogspot.com/

https://voiceforchildren.blogspot.com/2014/06/advocate-philip-sinel-submission-to.html

http://voiceforchildren.blogspot.com/2013/02/uk-government-are-asked-to-intervene.html

India has unveiled its Statue of Unity, the tallest in the world at 182m and almost twice the height of the Statue of Liberty. It is dedicated to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, I bet you didn't know him, and was erected in Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Modi. It will be a tourist attraction, he says. I can't verify that a plinth has been cast for an even bigger statue to overlook Patel at some future date. The statue cost a staggering $314M to build, yet the UK is still sending overseas aid to India which, by the way, is starting its own overseas aid program. Maybe it will send some to us.

It is crazy the way governments send aid to countries that have space programmes - huge armies, build daft monuments rather tha roads and homes besides provide free education and food for the poor, let alone medical help.

Have an accident in some parts of India and nobody will help you for fear of having to pay medical bills if they call for help.

Don't agree with bonfires and fireworks before or after November the fifth....can you imagine the French having bastille day celebrations before or after ?….of course not but we in the UK tolerate this nonsense...! dogs don't like the bangs but can put up with it for one night …...there should be a law that dictates that the 5th of November is the 5th of November rain or shine....!....when I was a kid : it didn't matter whether it was cold...raining or whatever...that was the day not before or later.....don't want to be a killjoy but please slap fines on these lawbreakers !....

Round here the kids are firing rockets out of their cars at police and firemen and then speeding off.

I'm for banning fireworks for private use entirely - with exceptions for the larger display sets for celebratory purposes (IYKWIM).

Besides cats and dogs getting shaken, it is much worse for all the Horses - they really panic and I know of one that one owner who had stabled theirs for the night, came back and found it in a state of panic, only for it to have a heart attack and dying while trying to calm it.

My wife had to spend a lot of time comforting ours in stables on Saturday - hopefully not again tonight.

The New Tory Future!

Dutch man is suing to change his birth date by 20 years after his doctors said that he had the body of a man more than 20 years younger. He argues that if a transgender can change their sex, why not him his age? Quite right. I'm happy with mine but I think I will get "er inside" to knock 20 years off. I don't really care if the neighbours start muttering about trophy wife.
Should try it Fred, maybe 30 in your case, then you can have another crack at Hilary. Just don't try to get your doctor to back you up.

It costs £150.50 for 'a colour' and £50.50 for 'a black and white' TV Licence.

Regular colour broadcasts began on BBC2 in July 1967 with the Wimbledon tennis tournament - three weeks ahead of West Germany.

The number of black and white licences issued each year has been in steady decline since.

In 2000, there were 212,000 black and white TV licences in force but by 2003 that number had shrunk to 93,000. By 2015, the number had dipped below 10,000.

More than 7,000 people across the UK are still watching television in black and white, more than 50 years after the advent of colour programming.

London has the largest number of black and white sets at 1,768, followed by West Midlands with 431 monochrome licences and Greater Manchester with 390.

In total, 7,161 UK households have still not switched over to colour transmissions.

So is that nice?

No. Each to their own but I think it's pathetic.

Not if you are colour blind.