If I wanted to open a shares ISA, choose the shares myself, leave the money there, and reinvest the dividends - can anyone point me to a comparison site that will tell me who offers the cheapest way to do this?
I can recommend both Hargreaves Lansdown and Barclays Stockbrokers, but others may also be good. In both cases the costs are very low if you buy shares yourself (as long as you don't trade too often, but you shouldn't be doing that anyway). It gets a bit more complicated if you have a big portfolio of funds (say over £100K in unit trusts) - in that case, Hargreaves Lansdown begins to look expensive.
The fact Shapps did it was bad enough, then Osborne to try and defuse the situation says he goes to bingo in a tweet and when asked where/when refuses to answer....and then this. PRTASTIC!
Did he say he goes to bingo or just he as played bingo ?
Dave and Gideon have the compulsive urge to tell the voters how "ordinary" they are.
To be fair, Boris does not have that hang-up.
Dave maybe , but George does not have much form in this area ,does not hide his skiing holidays etc. If he has said he has played bingo it might just possibly be because he has?
Its the labour party top brass almost to a man or woman that strive to 'blend' in with their voters more than the Tories. Exception possibly Mandy and he probably realised there was more to being a top politician than pretending to be like everyone else
Very few, Mr. Jessop, very few. There are lots of wonderful buildings and some splendid churches, but all round glorious parts? Nah. St. James's perhaps, Regents Park on on a summer's afternoon, bits of the City if you have your historical hat on, central Greenwich maybe but too touristy, Mayfair used to be (the place is nice but now too many of the people are ghastly, ditto Kensington and Chelsea). London is a dump, for all Mr. T's protestations about it being vibrant.
Can't comment too much about Edinburgh as I haven't been there for 20 years and most of my visits consisted of runs ashore, mostly along Rose Street - there was a pub there that sold pickled eggs and I remember ... well this is a family website.
I disagree. Perhaps it's just me, but I love walking through London. In January we walked from Mile End to a theatre in the Strand, and it seemed like every few yards had something of interest to see.
When I was ill and could not walk much, I used to walk along the Regents Canal from Mile End to Paddington. It was a wonderful walk - a green corridor through the heart of the city - and it still is. Likewise the Thames Path on either bank of the river.
Perhaps I have low standards, or just take an inordinate interest in minutiae and trivia. ;-)
I'd always caution people to avoid the touristy areas such as Camden though - they tend to be populated by poncy cream-tea boys made good.
Mr Jessop, I fully agree with you that London is packed full of interesting places and almost every corner or street has some history attached to it, especially in the City (I have written a couple of walks and calculated that there was a point of interest on average every 20 yards). However, to me that don't make those places, "glorious" merely interesting. London is a fascinating place and I dearly love the City and its environs, but only when I have my historical hat on. Considered at face value as it is now, London is a dump, with a couple of nice bits.
Give me some examples on what you find 'glorious' - genuinely interested
Labour's obsession with a light-hearted tweet is absolutely extraordinary.
We have the biggest shake up in pensions for a generation, and they are having orgasms about deconstructing the exact significance of the word 'they' in a tweet.
What a sad spectacle, especially given the risk that these jokers might actually be in government again in just over a year.
One is reminded of the "Fire up the Quattro" farrago - Labour thought they had won the election on the back of it - shortly before polling 27.9% in England.
I don't think anyone sensible did think that, actually.
We had a poster called tim who did.
So one bloke who no longer posts thought it was. Hardly a representative sample of all Labour supporters!
The PB Hodges are still suffering from Tim withdrawl symptoms so use any excuse to shoehorn his name into posts ;-)
Hmm. Maybe. There are some new posters here who have exactly the same repetitive, eerie, relentless, obsessive-compulsive writing style, so he is perhaps less missed than he was.
If the Tories do move ahead in the polls and Osborne turns out to be a master strategist there will be a few on here who'll bitterly regret they drove Tim away.
Mr. Observer,
"If the Tories do move ahead in the polls ..."
Unlikely, but not, I suppose, impossible.
"...and Osborne turns out to be a master strategist ... "
Moving into realms of fantasy here
"... there will be a few on here who'll bitterly regret they drove Tim away"
Complete logical disconnect. Not only that, has he actually gone away? I don't think so, do you?
Jeez, Mick, how many more times are you going to post that Alexander quote? It was amusing the first couple of times. Now, it's no funnier than ARSE or squirrels.
I remember exactly that kind of pitiful whining bullshit right around the time of the pasty hilarity. Well done on proving my point.
You must have missed Gove being bawled out by the fop for daring to question the chumocracy's Eton stranglehold mere days ago. Or the fact that being out of touch is a perfectly valid criticism which their own cabinet colleagues and MPs have made and one which Cammie and Osbrowne only have themselves to blame for.
"We're all in this together."
Remember?
If you don't enjoy CCHQs comical PR disasters then take your complaints to them because I certainly don't give a crap if it upsets you to be reminded of them.
You callin' me a PB Tory? I might have to flounce.
Labour's obsession with a light-hearted tweet is absolutely extraordinary.
We have the biggest shake up in pensions for a generation, and they are having orgasms about deconstructing the exact significance of the word 'they' in a tweet.
What a sad spectacle, especially given the risk that these jokers might actually be in government again in just over a year.
One is reminded of the "Fire up the Quattro" farrago - Labour thought they had won the election on the back of it - shortly before polling 27.9% in England.
I don't think anyone sensible did think that, actually.
We had a poster called tim who did.
So one bloke who no longer posts thought it was. Hardly a representative sample of all Labour supporters!
The PB Hodges are still suffering from Tim withdrawl symptoms so use any excuse to shoehorn his name into posts ;-)
Hmm. Maybe. There are some new posters here who have exactly the same repetitive, eerie, relentless, obsessive-compulsive writing style, so he is perhaps less missed than he was.
If the Tories do move ahead in the polls and Osborne turns out to be a master strategist there will be a few on here who'll bitterly regret they drove Tim away.
Drove him away?
I think you meant to type 'forced him to change his login'
Jeez, Mick, how many more times are you going to post that Alexander quote? It was amusing the first couple of times. Now, it's no funnier than ARSE or squirrels.
I remember exactly that kind of pitiful whining bullshit right around the time of the pasty hilarity. Well done on proving my point.
You must have missed Gove being bawled out by the fop for daring to question the chumocracy's Eton stranglehold mere days ago. Or the fact that being out of touch is a perfectly valid criticism which their own cabinet colleagues and MPs have made and one which Cammie and Osbrowne only have themselves to blame for.
"We're all in this together."
Remember?
If you don't enjoy CCHQs comical PR disasters then take your complaints to them because I certainly don't give a crap if it upsets you to be reminded of them.
You callin' me a PB Tory?
Do you see me callin' you a PB tory me 'old china'? *chortle* Then why so upset?
Steve Webb just commanded the HoC on pensions and savings. Labour utterly routed.
Balls now up on the budget. Any better than Ed yesterday, we'll see.
Not so far.
10 min riff on the Tory Tax cut, followed by a whinge for not enacting Labour's loony ideas.
He may mention the budget before he ends
So to surmise, the government's HoC presentation was an awesome masterstroke and Ed Balls' response a complete disaster. I'm glad I come on here for the insight.
Noticed that bookie shares have gone down further than annuity provider shares post Budget. I think the tax rise in FOBT lays a foundation to rise it further whoever gets in next time.
Has there ever been a better time in the last 100 years to be well off in the UK?
When? These savings and pension rules are a huge boost, salaries and bonuses are on the rise, house prices are going up, interest rates are low, markets have been buoyant, income and dividend taxes have been cut, subsidised nannies are about to become available ...
Has there ever been a better time in the last 100 years to be well off in the UK?
When? These savings and pension rules are a huge boost, salaries and bonuses are on the rise, house prices are going up, interest rates are low, markets have been buoyant, income and dividend taxes have been cut, subsidised nannies are about to become available ...
yes its easier to get very wealthy now but I took your question to mean if you were wealthy already is it the best time? Depending on your morals I suppose but I think you could get away with more things 100 years ago if you had the money than you could now. Most of lifes pleasures now are fairly universally shared like TV ,internet ,even cars etc
Jeez, Mick, how many more times are you going to post that Alexander quote? It was amusing the first couple of times. Now, it's no funnier than ARSE or squirrels.
I remember exactly that kind of pitiful whining bullshit right around the time of the pasty hilarity. Well done on proving my point.
You must have missed Gove being bawled out by the fop for daring to question the chumocracy's Eton stranglehold mere days ago. Or the fact that being out of touch is a perfectly valid criticism which their own cabinet colleagues and MPs have made and one which Cammie and Osbrowne only have themselves to blame for.
"We're all in this together."
Remember?
If you don't enjoy CCHQs comical PR disasters then take your complaints to them because I certainly don't give a crap if it upsets you to be reminded of them.
You callin' me a PB Tory?
Do you see me callin' you a PB tory me 'old china'? *chortle* Then why so upset?
Upset? It's the internet mate, it ain't real. I think the only time I got upset about the internet was the time the Mrs did an IT course at work, and learned all about viewing "Internet Browsing History"!
Steve Webb just commanded the HoC on pensions and savings. Labour utterly routed.
Balls now up on the budget. Any better than Ed yesterday, we'll see.
Not so far.
10 min riff on the Tory Tax cut, followed by a whinge for not enacting Labour's loony ideas.
He may mention the budget before he ends
So to surmise, the government's HoC presentation was an awesome masterstroke and Ed Balls' response a complete disaster. I'm glad I come on here for the insight.
Steve Webb just commanded the HoC on pensions and savings. Labour utterly routed.
Balls now up on the budget. Any better than Ed yesterday, we'll see.
Not so far.
10 min riff on the Tory Tax cut, followed by a whinge for not enacting Labour's loony ideas.
He may mention the budget before he ends
So to surmise, the government's HoC presentation was an awesome masterstroke and Ed Balls' response a complete disaster. I'm glad I come on here for the insight.
You're welcome.
Balls better than Miliband yesterday .... ok not a great endorsement but small steps, small steps.
full class war from Ed Balls "when the Chancellor told the PM he was going to cut taxes for Bingo he assumed it was a school chum"
Again highlighting a tory tax cut for a pleasure in life -not very clever despite the laughs it gets in the right- on echo chamber (borrowed that from a post below )
Has there ever been a better time in the last 100 years to be well off in the UK?
You have a point, but here's the thing...
Has there ever been a better time in the last 100 years to be 'poor?'
It was probably better five to 10 years ago.
I am actually not making a political point here, I am genuinely interested. From a financial perspective, it truly is a wonderful time to be a top rate taxpayer and it's hard to think of a time when it could possibly have been better.
Very few, Mr. Jessop, very few. There are lots of wonderful buildings and some splendid churches, but all round glorious parts? Nah. St. James's perhaps, Regents Park on on a summer's afternoon, bits of the City if you have your historical hat on, central Greenwich maybe but too touristy, Mayfair used to be (the place is nice but now too many of the people are ghastly, ditto Kensington and Chelsea). London is a dump, for all Mr. T's protestations about it being vibrant.
Can't comment too much about Edinburgh as I haven't been there for 20 years and most of my visits consisted of runs ashore, mostly along Rose Street - there was a pub there that sold pickled eggs and I remember ... well this is a family website.
I disagree. Perhaps it's just me, but I love walking through London. In January we walked from Mile End to a theatre in the Strand, and it seemed like every few yards had something of interest to see.
When I was ill and could not walk much, I used to walk along the Regents Canal from Mile End to Paddington. It was a wonderful walk - a green corridor through the heart of the city - and it still is. Likewise the Thames Path on either bank of the river.
Perhaps I have low standards, or just take an inordinate interest in minutiae and trivia. ;-)
I'd always caution people to avoid the touristy areas such as Camden though - they tend to be populated by poncy cream-tea boys made good.
Mr Jessop, I fully agree with you that London is packed full of interesting places and almost every corner or street has some history attached to it, especially in the City (I have written a couple of walks and calculated that there was a point of interest on average every 20 yards). However, to me that don't make those places, "glorious" merely interesting. London is a fascinating place and I dearly love the City and its environs, but only when I have my historical hat on. Considered at face value as it is now, London is a dump, with a couple of nice bits.
Give me some examples on what you find 'glorious' - genuinely interested
Mr. Go_Away, In my original post on this subject I did do just that.
Very few, Mr. Jessop, very few. There are lots of wonderful buildings and some splendid churches, but all round glorious parts? Nah. St. James's perhaps, Regents Park on on a summer's afternoon, bits of the City if you have your historical hat on, central Greenwich maybe but too touristy, Mayfair used to be (the place is nice but now too many of the people are ghastly, ditto Kensington and Chelsea). London is a dump, for all Mr. T's protestations about it being vibrant.
Can't comment too much about Edinburgh as I haven't been there for 20 years and most of my visits consisted of runs ashore, mostly along Rose Street - there was a pub there that sold pickled eggs and I remember ... well this is a family website.
I disagree. Perhaps it's just me, but I love walking through London. In January we walked from Mile End to a theatre in the Strand, and it seemed like every few yards had something of interest to see.
When I was ill and could not walk much, I used to walk along the Regents Canal from Mile End to Paddington. It was a wonderful walk - a green corridor through the heart of the city - and it still is. Likewise the Thames Path on either bank of the river.
Perhaps I have low standards, or just take an inordinate interest in minutiae and trivia. ;-)
I'd always caution people to avoid the touristy areas such as Camden though - they tend to be populated by poncy cream-tea boys made good.
Mr Jessop, I fully agree with you that London is packed full of interesting places and almost every corner or street has some history attached to it, especially in the City (I have written a couple of walks and calculated that there was a point of interest on average every 20 yards). However, to me that don't make those places, "glorious" merely interesting. London is a fascinating place and I dearly love the City and its environs, but only when I have my historical hat on. Considered at face value as it is now, London is a dump, with a couple of nice bits.
Give me some examples on what you find 'glorious' - genuinely interested
Mr. Go_Away, In my original post on this subject I did do just that.
So if Labour wants to spend the rest of the week telling the country “You won’t believe what those Tory toffs have done now! They’ve only gone and cut the tax on your beer and your bingo! How out of touch can you get!”, fine. But Shapps won’t be complaining.
I can't see how Labour can win in 2015, they haven't had poll leads of 15-20 points during this parliament which other Labour leaders have had and if they don't top the poll in the Euro elections then surely Miliband is a dead man walking !!!
So if Labour wants to spend the rest of the week telling the country “You won’t believe what those Tory toffs have done now! They’ve only gone and cut the tax on your beer and your bingo! How out of touch can you get!”, fine. But Shapps won’t be complaining.
So if Labour wants to spend the rest of the week telling the country “You won’t believe what those Tory toffs have done now! They’ve only gone and cut the tax on your beer and your bingo! How out of touch can you get!”, fine. But Shapps won’t be complaining.
Another Budget point was that tax avoidance schemes cannot just be declared on a tax return and then the Revenue challenge it years down the line but that the tax saved from a scheme will now have to be paid over at the normal due date and then refunded if the court rules in favour of the scheme .
Massive step overlooked by bleeding bingo etc -- Good news and should see a lot less use of these schemes
full class war from Ed Balls "when the Chancellor told the PM he was going to cut taxes for Bingo he assumed it was a school chum"
Again highlighting a tory tax cut for a pleasure in life -not very clever despite the laughs it gets in the right- on echo chamber (borrowed that from a post below )
Out of 10..what is the most patronosing?.. saying people enjoy a pint and Bingo or saying the very same people cannot be trusted to spend their own money.
Has there ever been a better time in the last 100 years to be well off in the UK?
When? These savings and pension rules are a huge boost, salaries and bonuses are on the rise, house prices are going up, interest rates are low, markets have been buoyant, income and dividend taxes have been cut, subsidised nannies are about to become available ...
Subsidised nannies are available now, and have been for years. If they're properly registered you can use child care vouchers. And, might I ask, why is that so objectionable?
full class war from Ed Balls "when the Chancellor told the PM he was going to cut taxes for Bingo he assumed it was a school chum"
Again highlighting a tory tax cut for a pleasure in life -not very clever despite the laughs it gets in the right- on echo chamber (borrowed that from a post below )
full class war from Ed Balls "when the Chancellor told the PM he was going to cut taxes for Bingo he assumed it was a school chum"
Again highlighting a tory tax cut for a pleasure in life -not very clever despite the laughs it gets in the right- on echo chamber (borrowed that from a post below )
So you think it was a good move? Noted.
Not by Ed Balls I don't
No I'm asking you whether you thought the bingo poster was a good move.
Am I? Most the places you mention might be really exceptional to a person who has never left London and are nice to anyone. But "Glorious"? Really?
Yes really. Go and sit near Hampstead Mixed Pond in summer and you will see the glory of human life.
In the middle of this debate here , London is not a dump (as somebody said) and it is 'glorious' in many areas I feel but I do think Londoners over estimate their green spaces especially .Hampstead Heath is nice for example but no better than many a country park all over Britain. Maybe living as they do ,Londoners are grateful for any green space
full class war from Ed Balls "when the Chancellor told the PM he was going to cut taxes for Bingo he assumed it was a school chum"
Again highlighting a tory tax cut for a pleasure in life -not very clever despite the laughs it gets in the right- on echo chamber (borrowed that from a post below )
So you think it was a good move? Noted.
Not by Ed Balls I don't
No I'm asking you whether you thought the bingo poster was a good move.
Well normally it would not matter much either way in that it is a insignificant move . If Labour choose to sneer at it and advertise a tory tax cut on a little pleasure in life (like alcohol and gambling) then yes its a good if unintended move by whoever wrote it.
The tories may make the mistake of listening to the media elite and start to say sorry for it etc but that would be a mistake imo - They should defend it
Am I? Most the places you mention might be really exceptional to a person who has never left London and are nice to anyone. But "Glorious"? Really?
Yes really. Go and sit near Hampstead Mixed Pond in summer and you will see the glory of human life.
I can get that around here. Sherwood Forest at dawn, Bradgate Park at dusk on a Summer evening. Hell, I can hop over my fence and I could be the only person alive in a matter of minutes, just me and a Muntjac, eyeballing each other. There is no way you're telling me a grubby little park in an overcrowded city is better than that.
Am I? Most the places you mention might be really exceptional to a person who has never left London and are nice to anyone. But "Glorious"? Really?
Yes really. Go and sit near Hampstead Mixed Pond in summer and you will see the glory of human life.
I can get that around here. Sherwood Forest at dawn, Bradgate Park at dusk on a Summer evening. Hell, I can hop over my fence and I could be the only person alive in a matter of minutes, just me and a Muntjac, eyeballing each other. There is no way you're telling me a grubby little park in an overcrowded city is better than that.
I like Bradgate Park.
But have you ever been to Epping Forest? Entirely isolated in parts, ancient, full of history, and peaceful. And vastly, vastly larger than Bradgate Park.
full class war from Ed Balls "when the Chancellor told the PM he was going to cut taxes for Bingo he assumed it was a school chum"
Again highlighting a tory tax cut for a pleasure in life -not very clever despite the laughs it gets in the right- on echo chamber (borrowed that from a post below )
So you think it was a good move? Noted.
Not by Ed Balls I don't
No I'm asking you whether you thought the bingo poster was a good move.
Well normally it would not matter much either way in that it is a insignificant move . If Labour choose to sneer at it and advertise a tory tax cut on a little pleasure in life (like alcohol and gambling) then yes its a good if unintended move by whoever wrote it.
The tories may make the mistake of listening to the media elite and start to say sorry for it etc but that would be a mistake imo - They should defend it
Am I? Most the places you mention might be really exceptional to a person who has never left London and are nice to anyone. But "Glorious"? Really?
Yes really. Go and sit near Hampstead Mixed Pond in summer and you will see the glory of human life.
Mr Fett, I can go and sit by the Hammer Pond at Slaugham and see the glory of life.
London is unique, it always has been and, probably always will be. It is in many ways the living history of our society (through that window stepped Charles I on to the scaffold sort of stuff). However, glorious London ain't. It is in the main a dump.
Am I? Most the places you mention might be really exceptional to a person who has never left London and are nice to anyone. But "Glorious"? Really?
Yes really. Go and sit near Hampstead Mixed Pond in summer and you will see the glory of human life.
I can get that around here. Sherwood Forest at dawn, Bradgate Park at dusk on a Summer evening. Hell, I can hop over my fence and I could be the only person alive in a matter of minutes, just me and a Muntjac, eyeballing each other. There is no way you're telling me a grubby little park in an overcrowded city is better than that.
I like Bradgate Park.
But have you ever been to Epping Forest? Entirely isolated in parts, ancient, full of history, and peaceful. And vastly, vastly larger than Bradgate Park.
Open your mind.
To what? Londoners are just like Manchester United fans. It's the hubris.
Am I? Most the places you mention might be really exceptional to a person who has never left London and are nice to anyone. But "Glorious"? Really?
Yes really. Go and sit near Hampstead Mixed Pond in summer and you will see the glory of human life.
I can get that around here. Sherwood Forest at dawn, Bradgate Park at dusk on a Summer evening. Hell, I can hop over my fence and I could be the only person alive in a matter of minutes, just me and a Muntjac, eyeballing each other. There is no way you're telling me a grubby little park in an overcrowded city is better than that.
I like Bradgate Park.
But have you ever been to Epping Forest? Entirely isolated in parts, ancient, full of history, and peaceful. And vastly, vastly larger than Bradgate Park.
Open your mind.
Again Epping Forest is ok as a forest but its no better than the New Forest or even Sherwood forest (and it doesn't have a Robin hood!!) You cannot beat London for its culture, history, its unplanned streets and buidlings and its diversity. You can beat it for its open spaces and parks imho
Am I? Most the places you mention might be really exceptional to a person who has never left London and are nice to anyone. But "Glorious"? Really?
Yes really. Go and sit near Hampstead Mixed Pond in summer and you will see the glory of human life.
In the middle of this debate here , London is not a dump (as somebody said) and it is 'glorious' in many areas I feel but I do think Londoners over estimate their green spaces especially .Hampstead Heath is nice for example but no better than many a country park all over Britain. Maybe living as they do ,Londoners are grateful for any green space
As I have already said, try Epping Forest – more than 6,000 acres of ancient woodland. A truly beautiful expanse.
Am I? Most the places you mention might be really exceptional to a person who has never left London and are nice to anyone. But "Glorious"? Really?
Yes really. Go and sit near Hampstead Mixed Pond in summer and you will see the glory of human life.
In the middle of this debate here , London is not a dump (as somebody said) and it is 'glorious' in many areas I feel but I do think Londoners over estimate their green spaces especially .Hampstead Heath is nice for example but no better than many a country park all over Britain. Maybe living as they do ,Londoners are grateful for any green space
As I have already said, try Epping Forest – more than 6,000 acres of ancient woodland. A truly beautiful expanse.
Richmond Park is also nice - they even have deer there!
Ed Balls: "They took a penny off a pint of beer - you've got to drink one hundred pints of beer to save a pound."
Sounds like Balls is promoting binge drinking...! ; )
To be fair, its a decent point, and let's face it, how many pubs are even going to bother altering their prices for a penny?
It will affect the prices of beer in supermarkets, for sure. While it's a penny off beer, it's also NOT a rise with inflation (see 13 years of Labour for that and more). That probably makes it a saving of 3p a pint.
Weird to hear a Labour politician claiming a tax cut was too small.
Ed Balls: "They took a penny off a pint of beer - you've got to drink one hundred pints of beer to save a pound."
Sounds like Balls is promoting binge drinking...! ; )
To be fair, its a decent point, and let's face it, how many pubs are even going to bother altering their prices for a penny?
It will affect the prices of beer in supermarkets, for sure. While it's a penny off beer, it's also NOT a rise with inflation (see 13 years of Labour for that and more). That probably makes it a saving of 3p a pint.
Weird to hear a Labour politician claiming a tax cut was too small.
Osborne wasn't bothered about supermarkets, though. He said it'd help pubs. It won't, really, though will it, even at 3p a pint?
London also has over 600 railway stations (of assorted flavours - Underground, main line, DLR, Tramlink) in as many square miles.
I agree with you on London stations - St Pancras and Kings Cross are magnificient , my personal favourite is Marylebone station though but not sure why .
Why do Londoners need to think EVERYTHING about their city is better than anywhere else even in areas (like green spaces and parks) where it plainly isn't ? Nobody I know moves to London for its parks
I often hear the quote from people that there is nothing better than London when the sun is shining . But EVERYWHERE looks better when the sun shines FGS
The Beeb did one of those pisspoor public voxpops earlier ....
Every time I hear one of those my faith in humanity (not to mention the education system) dies a little more.
I swear that there was one on the radio a few days ago where some of the people questioned were unaware that Scotland was part of the UK. "I thought they already were independent." "Are they part of Britain?"
Ed Balls: "They took a penny off a pint of beer - you've got to drink one hundred pints of beer to save a pound."
Sounds like Balls is promoting binge drinking...! ; )
To be fair, its a decent point, and let's face it, how many pubs are even going to bother altering their prices for a penny?
It will affect the prices of beer in supermarkets, for sure. While it's a penny off beer, it's also NOT a rise with inflation (see 13 years of Labour for that and more). That probably makes it a saving of 3p a pint.
Weird to hear a Labour politician claiming a tax cut was too small.
The reason the 1p is taken off is because in the RPI/CPI weightings this 1p has a disproportionate weighting. You might think all spending has the same weighting per £. But it doesn't.
As a ratio of tax lost to "inflation gain" [ remember many payments / allowances are index-linked ], it is very efficient.
Ed Balls: "They took a penny off a pint of beer - you've got to drink one hundred pints of beer to save a pound."
Sounds like Balls is promoting binge drinking...! ; )
To be fair, its a decent point, and let's face it, how many pubs are even going to bother altering their prices for a penny?
*quick google fu*
Taking the first of the results for beer drunk in England that = £160m either a) in the hands of the brewers = more profitable = create more jobs = scope for payrises; or b) in the hands of the punters = more (albeit not much more per capita) disposable income.
London/London parks? Yes def. Amazing. But only if you live in London. If you are outside London then meh.
St Vince of the Cable in a calm, measured and indeed dull fashion holds sway in the HoC. Not flashy or joke laiden he plainly sets out historic economic difficulties, government policy and the way forward. The comparison with Balls is stark.
Am I? Most the places you mention might be really exceptional to a person who has never left London and are nice to anyone. But "Glorious"? Really?
Yes really. Go and sit near Hampstead Mixed Pond in summer and you will see the glory of human life.
I can get that around here. Sherwood Forest at dawn, Bradgate Park at dusk on a Summer evening. Hell, I can hop over my fence and I could be the only person alive in a matter of minutes, just me and a Muntjac, eyeballing each other. There is no way you're telling me a grubby little park in an overcrowded city is better than that.
I like Bradgate Park.
But have you ever been to Epping Forest? Entirely isolated in parts, ancient, full of history, and peaceful. And vastly, vastly larger than Bradgate Park.
Open your mind.
To what? Londoners are just like Manchester United fans. It's the hubris.
Ed Balls: "They took a penny off a pint of beer - you've got to drink one hundred pints of beer to save a pound."
Sounds like Balls is promoting binge drinking...! ; )
To be fair, its a decent point, and let's face it, how many pubs are even going to bother altering their prices for a penny?
A decent point, really? Ed Balls is reduced to pettiness when no other argument is forth coming imho.
In 2009 Labour increased Bingo Tax from 15% to 22% and increased duty on Beer by a penny – yesterday Bingo tax and beer duty were reduced – I may be wrong, but I think I can guess which appeals most to those that indulge in such pleasures.
Am I? Most the places you mention might be really exceptional to a person who has never left London and are nice to anyone. But "Glorious"? Really?
Yes really. Go and sit near Hampstead Mixed Pond in summer and you will see the glory of human life.
Mr Fett, I can go and sit by the Hammer Pond at Slaugham and see the glory of life.
London is unique, it always has been and, probably always will be. It is in many ways the living history of our society (through that window stepped Charles I on to the scaffold sort of stuff). However, glorious London ain't. It is in the main a dump.
London is the thriving, cosmopolitan capital of the world !!
Am I? Most the places you mention might be really exceptional to a person who has never left London and are nice to anyone. But "Glorious"? Really?
Yes really. Go and sit near Hampstead Mixed Pond in summer and you will see the glory of human life.
In the middle of this debate here , London is not a dump (as somebody said) and it is 'glorious' in many areas I feel but I do think Londoners over estimate their green spaces especially .Hampstead Heath is nice for example but no better than many a country park all over Britain. Maybe living as they do ,Londoners are grateful for any green space
As I have already said, try Epping Forest – more than 6,000 acres of ancient woodland. A truly beautiful expanse.
Richmond Park is also nice - they even have deer there!
I sometimes wonder if those that declare London a dump are out of towners who base their view on the fraction of one per cent of the capital that they have experienced – typically within a half-mile radius of Piccadilly Circus.
Ed Balls: "They took a penny off a pint of beer - you've got to drink one hundred pints of beer to save a pound."
Sounds like Balls is promoting binge drinking...! ; )
To be fair, its a decent point, and let's face it, how many pubs are even going to bother altering their prices for a penny?
*quick google fu*
Taking the first of the results for beer drunk in England that = £160m either a) in the hands of the brewers = more profitable = create more jobs = scope for payrises; or b) in the hands of the punters = more (albeit not much more per capita) disposable income.
London/London parks? Yes def. Amazing. But only if you live in London. If you are outside London then meh.
In that respect, that's fair enough, but that moronic poster was telling us the Tories were making it cheaper for us to go for a pint, not making money for multinational drinks companies. You can't have it both ways.
Fantastic news for the coalition and the North East of England. A train building factory. Making trains. Real ones.
Excellent news, though it does rather show how far industry has declined in the UK (which is not to criticise the Japanese of course) - it was the British who brought railways to Japan in the first place!
Ed Balls: "They took a penny off a pint of beer - you've got to drink one hundred pints of beer to save a pound."
Sounds like Balls is promoting binge drinking...! ; )
To be fair, its a decent point, and let's face it, how many pubs are even going to bother altering their prices for a penny?
*quick google fu*
Taking the first of the results for beer drunk in England that = £160m either a) in the hands of the brewers = more profitable = create more jobs = scope for payrises; or b) in the hands of the punters = more (albeit not much more per capita) disposable income.
London/London parks? Yes def. Amazing. But only if you live in London. If you are outside London then meh.
A friend of mine visited from Huddersfield last summer. We visited Brockwell Park, which was buzzing of a sunny Saturday afternoon with sound systems and barbecues and little impromptu parties. She said: "It's really odd for us to see because in Yorkshire no-one even sits in the park."
Ed Balls: "They took a penny off a pint of beer - you've got to drink one hundred pints of beer to save a pound."
Sounds like Balls is promoting binge drinking...! ; )
To be fair, its a decent point, and let's face it, how many pubs are even going to bother altering their prices for a penny?
It will affect the prices of beer in supermarkets, for sure. While it's a penny off beer, it's also NOT a rise with inflation (see 13 years of Labour for that and more). That probably makes it a saving of 3p a pint.
Weird to hear a Labour politician claiming a tax cut was too small.
Osborne wasn't bothered about supermarkets, though. He said it'd help pubs. It won't, really, though will it, even at 3p a pint?
Eh? You started with "it doesn't help people because pubs wont bother changing the price", then moved to "even 3p a pint wont help pubs". One or other has to benefit, and 3p a pint would be another 1% on a pubs margin, which is not to be sniffed at.
On another topic, I was amused by one of your fire-fighting colleagues in Hampshire. Rescuing a couple trapped upstairs after a post van had crashed into the lower part of their house, the first thing he said was "were you expecting a parcel?".
The Beeb did one of those pisspoor public voxpops earlier ....
Every time I hear one of those my faith in humanity (not to mention the education system) dies a little more.
I swear that there was one on the radio a few days ago where some of the people questioned were unaware that Scotland was part of the UK. "I thought they already were independent." "Are they part of Britain?"
Ed Balls missed the best cheap gag with his "100 Pints to Save the Pound" line - which would be to say "admittedly, that is a saving of a pound a week for the Foreign Secretary..."
I sometimes wonder if those that declare London a dump are out of towners who base their view on the fraction of one per cent of the capital that they have experienced – typically within a half-mile radius of Piccadilly Circus.
Most of the areas around London's mainline stations are pretty depressing for those arriving by train too.
Ed Balls: "They took a penny off a pint of beer - you've got to drink one hundred pints of beer to save a pound."
Sounds like Balls is promoting binge drinking...! ; )
To be fair, its a decent point, and let's face it, how many pubs are even going to bother altering their prices for a penny?
It will affect the prices of beer in supermarkets, for sure. While it's a penny off beer, it's also NOT a rise with inflation (see 13 years of Labour for that and more). That probably makes it a saving of 3p a pint.
Weird to hear a Labour politician claiming a tax cut was too small.
The reason the 1p is taken off is because in the RPI/CPI weightings this 1p has a disproportionate weighting. You might think all spending has the same weighting per £. But it doesn't.
As a ratio of tax lost to "inflation gain" [ remember many payments / allowances are index-linked ], it is very efficient.
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Dave maybe , but George does not have much form in this area ,does not hide his skiing holidays etc. If he has said he has played bingo it might just possibly be because he has?
Its the labour party top brass almost to a man or woman that strive to 'blend' in with their voters more than the Tories. Exception possibly Mandy and he probably realised there was more to being a top politician than pretending to be like everyone else
Give me some examples on what you find 'glorious' - genuinely interested
Michael Deacon ✔ @MichaelPDeacon
Ed Balls: "Apparently when the Chancellor told the PM he wanted to cut tax on bingo, the PM thought he meant an old school chum
10 min riff on the Tory Tax cut, followed by a whinge for not enacting Labour's loony ideas.
He may mention the budget before he ends
Mr. Observer,
"If the Tories do move ahead in the polls ..."
Unlikely, but not, I suppose, impossible.
"...and Osborne turns out to be a master strategist ... "
Moving into realms of fantasy here
"... there will be a few on here who'll bitterly regret they drove Tim away"
Complete logical disconnect. Not only that, has he actually gone away? I don't think so, do you?
Mark Pritchard @MPritchardMP
Labour Party now say they will vote for the benefits cap. Massive u-turn, huge in-fighting amongst Labour MPs, lots of apologies due to govt
Keep the proof coming chaps. This is great stuff.
Harry Cole @MrHarryCole
Just when you thought Miliband was rubbish, up comes Balls. You can tell he doesn't really believe what he is saying.
We recently banned a poster who could not adhere to that rule, please don't follow the same route
Iain @Iain_33
full class war from Ed Balls "when the Chancellor told the PM he was going to cut taxes for Bingo he assumed it was a school chum"
You have a point, but here's the thing...
Has there ever been a better time in the last 100 years to be 'poor?'
yes its easier to get very wealthy now but I took your question to mean if you were wealthy already is it the best time? Depending on your morals I suppose but I think you could get away with more things 100 years ago if you had the money than you could now. Most of lifes pleasures now are fairly universally shared like TV ,internet ,even cars etc
'Its the labour party top brass almost to a man or woman that strive to 'blend' in with their voters'
Always funny to watch.
J Dan Hodges
@DPJHodges
Straight to the heart of the obsequious Cameroonian spinners 'thinking'.
Balls better than Miliband yesterday .... ok not a great endorsement but small steps, small steps.
I am actually not making a political point here, I am genuinely interested. From a financial perspective, it truly is a wonderful time to be a top rate taxpayer and it's hard to think of a time when it could possibly have been better.
Talk about Guilty till proven innocent !
Last few days spent frantically attaching export docs to invoices - worse than a bloody audit :P
Mark Pritchard @MPritchardMP
Message to Ed Miliband: please, please, please don't sack Ed Balls.............!
Fantastic news for the coalition and the North East of England. A train building factory. Making trains. Real ones.
Dan Hodges says Grant Shapps tweet about bingo loving working classes is a disaster for Ed Miliband.
What's your ScottP? You don't actually say – you never do.
Dan Hodges says Grant Shapps tweet about bingo loving working classes is a disaster for Ed Miliband.
What's your view ScottP? You don't actually say – you never do.
"LAUGHABLY AND COMPLETELY WRONG."
Am I? Most the places you mention might be really exceptional to a person who has never left London and are nice to anyone. But "Glorious"? Really?
Massive step overlooked by bleeding bingo etc -- Good news and should see a lot less use of these schemes
Not by Ed Balls I don't
If you think @grantshapps’s poster was bad, you should see the one they rejected. pic.twitter.com/0Ur0bEb07T
LOL
John Grady @SlyLondon 4m
I much preferred Grant Shapps when he was just plain old Michael Green the online conman
Well normally it would not matter much either way in that it is a insignificant move . If Labour choose to sneer at it and advertise a tory tax cut on a little pleasure in life (like alcohol and gambling) then yes its a good if unintended move by whoever wrote it.
The tories may make the mistake of listening to the media elite and start to say sorry for it etc but that would be a mistake imo - They should defend it
Ed Balls: "They took a penny off a pint of beer - you've got to drink one hundred pints of beer to save a pound."
Sounds like Balls is promoting binge drinking...! ; )
But have you ever been to Epping Forest? Entirely isolated in parts, ancient, full of history, and peaceful. And vastly, vastly larger than Bradgate Park.
Open your mind.
London is unique, it always has been and, probably always will be. It is in many ways the living history of our society (through that window stepped Charles I on to the scaffold sort of stuff). However, glorious London ain't. It is in the main a dump.
You cannot beat London for its culture, history, its unplanned streets and buidlings and its diversity. You can beat it for its open spaces and parks imho
It reminded me of that sketch where someone goes to Everything for a Pound and keeps asking the shopkeeper where the price tags have gone.
Back in labour's back yard, the desperate measures to prevent others noticing the ongoing services meltdown continues....
Weird to hear a Labour politician claiming a tax cut was too small.
Why do Londoners need to think EVERYTHING about their city is better than anywhere else even in areas (like green spaces and parks) where it plainly isn't ? Nobody I know moves to London for its parks
I often hear the quote from people that there is nothing better than London when the sun is shining . But EVERYWHERE looks better when the sun shines FGS
Unbelievable.
As a ratio of tax lost to "inflation gain" [ remember many payments / allowances are index-linked ], it is very efficient.
Taking the first of the results for beer drunk in England that = £160m either a) in the hands of the brewers = more profitable = create more jobs = scope for payrises; or b) in the hands of the punters = more (albeit not much more per capita) disposable income.
London/London parks? Yes def. Amazing. But only if you live in London. If you are outside London then meh.
In 2009 Labour increased Bingo Tax from 15% to 22% and increased duty on Beer by a penny – yesterday Bingo tax and beer duty were reduced – I may be wrong, but I think I can guess which appeals most to those that indulge in such pleasures.
On another topic, I was amused by one of your fire-fighting colleagues in Hampshire. Rescuing a couple trapped upstairs after a post van had crashed into the lower part of their house, the first thing he said was "were you expecting a parcel?".
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2585075/A-not-special-delivery-Royal-Mail-lorry-destroys-home-early-morning-crash.html
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