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.

Skinny, thank you for cheering my day up - I love the Muppets! Just looking at that picture makes me laugh.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jakewallissimons/100189216/a-rude-swaggering-barrow-boy-meet-the-beebs-new-acting-dg-worse-than-the-old-one/

CROOKS AT WORK ON THE UK

US companies paying hardly any corporation tax on the UK

LONDON—Google, Amazon and Starbucks were accused of being immoral and manipulative in their U.K. tax affairs during a parliamentary hearing into the low amount of tax some multinational companies pay in Britain.

The hearing comes against a backdrop of heightened public resentment at the seemingly low taxes paid by some large companies during a time of austerity, and amid increased scrutiny of U.K. tax laws that allow multinational companies to pay hardly any corporation tax in Britain. ..............
wall street journal

if the law allows, then minimising one's tax liability can scarcely be called crooked ...... while now clearly being taken to the limit by all sorts of companies, until the law is changed, then they are, in many ways, absolutely correct in so doing

more and more countries now impose a withholding tax - i think colombia is 30%! - and i dare say something similar could be imposed in this scenario ..... however, it is never quite as simple as first appears, not least because of the inevitable side-effects - e.g. when dealing with colombia and other south american companies, we raise our prices to counter

I think its a bit much when companies are being castigated for avoiding tax by the same people (MP's) who used every possible legal loophole in their expenses system to fidde their expenses.
At least these companies are only using legal loopholes, whereas many MP's went as far as committing the crimes of fraud and false accounting to fill their grubby pockets.
The government is now quite rightly looking at closing the tax loopholes used by these low or none paying tax companies, but I doubt that they will consider closing the tax loopholes they themselves use.

Hypocritical barstewards.
A question of Pot calling Kettle!

I'm glad you didn't say 'black'! :-)

gm--not to mention the 450 BBC execs' being paid 'off payroll'
2517

re - black

Another issue, once too often talk about.

Who is the guilty party if there is any?

Lately on the football arena the so called " half cast " are the ones with perjudices,
An apparent conflict on a puzzle mind ( most likley they do not know were they belong in society )

inflation up 0.5% it never went down it was manipulated by theback room boys
for the gov .
they have broken the golden rules of honesty .
they have robbed the pensioners again
the party that i was once a great follower of is finished .
the con party is just that liars and thiefs .
cameron and osborne are disgusting creatures .

greekman. the uk is a cesspit of corruption .
and the tory party is a corupt party run by crooks and liars
and have NO INTENTION OF MAKING THE LIKES
OF THE TORY Funders pay tax
vot these lying thiefing people out .

and I am a right wing tory

the tory party will be wiped out in 29 months YES WIPED OUT

cynic

re - if the law allows

we know in which side you are, because you have been doing it yourself on all sides of live.

Shame on you, you never learn and mainly when there is money involve ( it in the blood )

its call ....... griddy

Is about time you reflect on the past as is moraly incorrect

Who gave you a home
who done this and that ( motives )
who was wrong ( both sides )

The independent states of America: Tens of thousands across 20 states demand to secede from U.S. after Obama won election
Some 23,000 people in Texas want to separate from the rest of the US
Petitions need 25,000 signatures to be considered as policy
Right to petition government protected by First Amendment


india will have the biggest world population in 2 years
they have children and can not feed them
get ready for the red cross to want money to feed them so they can breed even faster .

.

Hmmmm

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Cameron is expert in such actions.

Video game concept art sold for charity

James Buchanan Duke: Father of the modern cigarette

It looks harmless enough - white, 8cm (3in) long and about the width of a child's finger - but the cigarette is vilified like no other product. Who invented it and how much responsibility does he bear for the countless deaths it has caused?

re - Inflation well up after last month well down

Suspicion is the word

why?

Last month was the time to fix Govement paying rates for next year
Last year they ( goverment ) managed to do more of the same though in a different way

Are the Goverment also Crooks?

Most likely some pensioners and the ones being affected think so and I would not blame them,
as there is plenty of comments of some getting trouble in getting ends meet

more SHAME