But if Apple didn't make great products we might spend our money on holidays in France not on shiny electronic gadgets.
Apple don't make great products. They just con people they do, and then make them pay more for the 'joy' of being imprisoned in a walled garden. A stylish garden, yes. A garden where you can hang out with similar unfortunates, yes. But a walled garden nonetheless.
It's genius.
I quite like the fact the new iPad Pro has a stylus (pencil), given what Jobs thought of them.
Indeed. Jony Ive is a genius. In fact, I think he's very much like Adrian Newey in F1 - details men who can also understand the entire system.
Poor Industrial Design is one reason UK industry suffered during the seventies and eighties IMO. We produce some absolute geniuses at ID, yet management seemed to ignore it. I've seen this at companies I've worked at.
But if Apple didn't make great products we might spend our money on holidays in France not on shiny electronic gadgets.
Apple don't make great products. They just con people they do, and then make them pay more for the 'joy' of being imprisoned in a walled garden. A stylish garden, yes. A garden where you can hang out with similar unfortunates, yes. But a walled garden nonetheless.
It's genius.
I quite like the fact the new iPad Pro has a stylus (pencil), given what Jobs thought of them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YY3MSaUqMg
Apple sell design and image.
With those jeans...?
LOL. But he did make black polar necks popular with a certain set ...
But if Apple didn't make great products we might spend our money on holidays in France not on shiny electronic gadgets.
Apple don't make great products. They just con people they do, and then make them pay more for the 'joy' of being imprisoned in a walled garden. A stylish garden, yes. A garden where you can hang out with similar unfortunates, yes. But a walled garden nonetheless.
It's genius.
I quite like the fact the new iPad Pro has a stylus (pencil), given what Jobs thought of them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YY3MSaUqMg
Apple sell design and image.
With those jeans...?
LOL. But he did make black polar necks popular with a certain set ...
The overwhelming consensus on here is that Remain wins yet Leave is 2s on betfair having been matched at 6s. We've done polling to death and the EU ones are inconclusive but I can't help thinking there's a lot of hearts and heads going on.
OK its wishful thinking on my part but 2s has to be overpriced on something that is becoming a toss of the coin scenario. I'm not sure even the committed Remainers on here are laying Leave at 2s
LEAVE has a very significant chance of winning. From a Paris-style terrorist incident to a migrant rape spree to a Calais invasion to a bomb in a school to some euro cataclysm, virtually all the possible black swans favour LEAVE, and they are already nudging REMAIN close in the polls.
I'd give LEAVE a 40-45% chance of winning, as of now. If Cameron wasn't leading REMAIN I'd make LEAVE favourite.
It's indyref all over again. Complacent presumption that the status quo will triumph easily.
Which it did.
But only after Cameron panicked and had to make a tearful dash to Edinburgh where he pledged his VOW, along with Brown doing his one man show etc
And it wasn't an easy triumph. It was close. A majority of Scots-born citizens voted for indy. It was only the enormous turnout which saved it for NO, as non-voters came out to save the Union.
There is no such deep rooted attachment to Europeanism, no well of historic europhilia on which the REMAINers can draw.
It will be all about turnout, and the way I see it the LEAVERS are way more angry and enthused.
Yes. Which WE on PB told him to do (thus saving the Union)
But still the status quo did win, which as a Leaver, makes me pessimistic.
@CourtNewsUK · Juror asks ex Dragon Doug Richard: 'If this was your daughter would you blame the man and think what he did was wrong?'
If I were the defence lawyer, I'd regard this development as sub-optimal.
This is one of those cases where, no matter how much he claims he was stitched up and/or lied to, he's going to find it difficult to persuade the jury of his innocence, given that he was in his mid 50s and she was 13.
I'm still fascinated that a juror has asked a question though, didn't realise that could happen.
It's interesting that the juror can ask a question of opinion from the Defendant, rather than a question of fact from the Judge.
I imagine the defendant would be furious at his well underage daughter, if he found out that she was advertising herself as an escort. I can also imagine that a young but legal aged lady advertising similar services may roleplay her being at 'school' as part of the 'experience'.
He's still going to struggle to convince the jury though. She was still only 13, even if she said she was 16.
Prostitution with an under 18 year old is child prostitution. That's why he's so adamant that he wasn't paying for services.
Interesting clarification. So sex with a 16 year old is fine if there's no money involved,but if there is payment she needs to be 18? But a pile of money ended up in her bank account from him, for completely unrelated reasons of course. I'll shut up now before I irritate the moderators!
The overwhelming consensus on here is that Remain wins yet Leave is 2s on betfair having been matched at 6s. We've done polling to death and the EU ones are inconclusive but I can't help thinking there's a lot of hearts and heads going on.
OK its wishful thinking on my part but 2s has to be overpriced on something that is becoming a toss of the coin scenario. I'm not sure even the committed Remainers on here are laying Leave at 2s
LEAVE has a very significant chance of winning. From a Paris-style terrorist incident to a migrant rape spree to a Calais invasion to a bomb in a school to some euro cataclysm, virtually all the possible black swans favour LEAVE, and they are already nudging REMAIN close in the polls.
I'd give LEAVE a 40-45% chance of winning, as of now. If Cameron wasn't leading REMAIN I'd make LEAVE favourite.
It's indyref all over again. Complacent presumption that the status quo will triumph easily.
Which it did.
But only after Cameron panicked and had to make a tearful dash to Edinburgh where he pledged his VOW, along with Brown doing his one man show etc
And it wasn't an easy triumph. It was close. A majority of Scots-born citizens voted for indy. It was only the enormous turnout which saved it for NO, as non-voters came out to save the Union.
There is no such deep rooted attachment to Europeanism, no well of historic europhilia on which the REMAINers can draw.
It will be all about turnout, and the way I see it the LEAVERS are way more angry and enthused.
There is a certain logic to this. Non voters votes should always be declared invalid.
Do you mean a turnover tax? That would unfairly penalise low margin businesses such as retailing and the issue there is that what may start out as a way to get foreign companies to pay tax will morph into a turnover tax on all companies in Britain under a future Labour government.
No, Mr. Max, I mean an income tax payable by every company, British or Foreign owned, on the money they earn from doing business in the UK. Forget corporation tax, just a straightforward income tax instead payable by all businesses who do business in the UK with no exemptions, no allowances, no loopholes and imprisonment and professional ruin for those directors whose companies are caught not paying up.
Multinational businesses don't evade tax, by and large, by using loopholes. They evade taxes by the wonder of transfer pricing.
Yes, I know. But tax the income and whatever internal arrangements a company may have is neither here nor there and may actually increase tax liability.
The point is that profits are calculated after costs.
When Google (UK) Ltd buy electricity from Southern Electric that's all well and good and simple.
Complications arise when Google (UK) Ltd buys things from Google Inc. For example, it is highly likely that Google will have a single SAP system that is administered out of the US. It is right that Google Inc should charge Google (UK) Ltd for the use of that system - because if it bought its own SAP system, and hired its own support, etc, it would cost more. However, it is how these transactions are charged (i.e. how costs are allocated internally) that allows companies to evade
You keep talking about profits, Mr. Robert. I am talking about taxing income not taxing profits.
Income is revenue minus costs.
If you plan on changing to a turnover tax, I apologise, as I've misunderstood you.
A turnover or sales tax is harder for companies to dodge via transfer pricing. I suspect that the Inland Revenue gets more out of Apple in VAT than in Corporation by orders of magnitude.
For sure, but VAT is a consumer tax, we pay it and Apple just acts as the collection agency.
Surely in the end the consumer pays for all taxes on companies, the issue is one of maintaining a level playing field across companies.
As in last year's General Election I believe the polls will be proved wrong, the 'Don't Knows' average about 17% but there's no way on Earth there's going to be an 83% turnout. A lot of people saying 'Remain' will prove soft I reckon and large numbers won't bother to turn out, people who have little or no interest in politics will be bored to tears after weeks of this in the media. The leavers will be much more motivated to actually vote and my guess is that the turnout will be about 55% around half way between the GE and 2011's AV referendum with about 58% voting 'leave'
I guess there will be yet another Great British Polling Fiasco Enquiry to follow on from last year's GE shambles!
But if Apple didn't make great products we might spend our money on holidays in France not on shiny electronic gadgets.
Apple don't make great products. They just con people they do, and then make them pay more for the 'joy' of being imprisoned in a walled garden. A stylish garden, yes. A garden where you can hang out with similar unfortunates, yes. But a walled garden nonetheless.
It's genius.
I quite like the fact the new iPad Pro has a stylus (pencil), given what Jobs thought of them.
By brand. Clever, clever positioning of the brand as the 'cool' anti-Microsoft (which the design cleverly plays into, reinforcing the differentiation).
@CourtNewsUK · Juror asks ex Dragon Doug Richard: 'If this was your daughter would you blame the man and think what he did was wrong?'
If I were the defence lawyer, I'd regard this development as sub-optimal.
This is one of those cases where, no matter how much he claims he was stitched up and/or lied to, he's going to find it difficult to persuade the jury of his innocence, given that he was in his mid 50s and she was 13.
I'm still fascinated that a juror has asked a question though, didn't realise that could happen.
It's interesting that the juror can ask a question of opinion from the Defendant, rather than a question of fact from the Judge.
I imagine the defendant would be furious at his well underage daughter, if he found out that she was advertising herself as an escort. I can also imagine that a young but legal aged lady advertising similar services may roleplay her being at 'school' as part of the 'experience'.
He's still going to struggle to convince the jury though. She was still only 13, even if she said she was 16.
Prostitution with an under 18 year old is child prostitution. That's why he's so adamant that he wasn't paying for services.
Interesting clarification. So sex with a 16 year old is fine if there's no money involved,but if there is payment she needs to be 18? But a pile of money ended up in her bank account from him, for completely unrelated reasons of course. I'll shut up now before I irritate the moderators!
It's probably a case best commented on after the verdict, yes.
But if Apple didn't make great products we might spend our money on holidays in France not on shiny electronic gadgets.
Apple don't make great products. They just con people they do, and then make them pay more for the 'joy' of being imprisoned in a walled garden. A stylish garden, yes. A garden where you can hang out with similar unfortunates, yes. But a walled garden nonetheless.
It's genius.
I quite like the fact the new iPad Pro has a stylus (pencil), given what Jobs thought of them.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YY3MSaUqMg
Apple sell design and image.
With those jeans...?
LOL. But he did make black polar necks popular with a certain set ...
The overwhelming consensus on here is that Remain wins yet Leave is 2s on betfair having been matched at 6s. We've done polling to death and the EU ones are inconclusive but I can't help thinking there's a lot of hearts and heads going on.
OK its wishful thinking on my part but 2s has to be overpriced on something that is becoming a toss of the coin scenario. I'm not sure even the committed Remainers on here are laying Leave at 2s
LEAVE has a very significant chance of winning. From a Paris-style terrorist incident to a migrant rape spree to a Calais invasion to a bomb in a school to some euro cataclysm, virtually all the possible black swans favour LEAVE, and they are already nudging REMAIN close in the polls.
I'd give LEAVE a 40-45% chance of winning, as of now. If Cameron wasn't leading REMAIN I'd make LEAVE favourite.
It's indyref all over again. Complacent presumption that the status quo will triumph easily.
Ed Miliband, Eddie Izzard and the posh chap that used to run that underwear store will announce a "vow" on the eve of the referendum promising nothing but further talks.
When a moon on a stick is not delivered to every home the "outers" will wail betrayal for the next 10 years.
- if it's Indyref all over again.
I stand by my long-held belief that REMAIN will narrowly win, but that very soon afterwards the EU will start demanding stuff of us, and ignoring our complaints, and enforcing further integration (believing that Britain has settled its membership) and that revved-up eurosceptics will be demanding a 2nd plebiscite within 5 years and possibly get one within 10, which they will likely win.
As you say, it's like Scotland.
If we vote to remain the floodgates of Brussels will open for more glorious EU to be poured all over Britain whether we like it or not and we will have zero cards left to play - by calling the referendum it has caused a double or quits scenario.
Do you mean a turnover tax? That would unfairly penalise low margin businesses such as retailing and the issue there is that what may start out as a way to get foreign companies to pay tax will morph into a turnover tax on all companies in Britain under a future Labour government.
No, Mr. Max, I mean an income tax payable by every company, British or Foreign owned, on the money they earn from doing business in the UK. Forget corporation tax, just a straightforward income tax instead payable by all businesses who do business in the UK with no exemptions, no allowances, no loopholes and imprisonment and professional ruin for those directors whose companies are caught not paying up.
Multinational businesses don't evade tax, by and large, by using loopholes. They evade taxes by the wonder of transfer pricing.
Yes, I know. But tax the income and whatever internal arrangements a company may have is neither here nor there and may actually increase tax liability.
The point is that profits are calculated after costs.
When Google (UK) Ltd buy electricity from Southern Electric that's all well and good and simple.
Complications arise when Google (UK) Ltd buys things from Google Inc. For example, it is highly likely that Google will have a single SAP system that is administered out of the US. It is right that Google Inc should charge Google (UK) Ltd for the use of that system - because if it bought its own SAP system, and hired its own support, etc, it would cost more. However, it is how these transactions are charged (i.e. how costs are allocated internally) that allows companies to evade
You keep talking about profits, Mr. Robert. I am talking about taxing income not taxing profits.
Income is revenue minus costs.
If you plan on changing to a turnover tax, I apologise, as I've misunderstood you.
A turnover or sales tax is harder for companies to dodge via transfer pricing. I suspect that the Inland Revenue gets more out of Apple in VAT than in Corporation by orders of magnitude.
We already have a turnover tax: it's called VAT.. And consumers eventually pay it.
The system described will not work. Suppose a (say) US company decides to set up a new subsidiary company in Europe. It will make a new product and incur start up losses for two years before it makes profit.
Under French law it pays no tax. Under UK tax law it pays tax on all its revenues.
How to kill of new investment.. ludicrous.. and not thought through...
The overwhelming consensus on here is that Remain wins yet Leave is 2s on betfair having been matched at 6s. We've done polling to death and the EU ones are inconclusive but I can't help thinking there's a lot of hearts and heads going on.
OK its wishful thinking on my part but 2s has to be overpriced on something that is becoming a toss of the coin scenario. I'm not sure even the committed Remainers on here are laying Leave at 2s
LEAVE has a very significant chance of winning. From a Paris-style terrorist incident to a migrant rape spree to a Calais invasion to a bomb in a school to some euro cataclysm, virtually all the possible black swans favour LEAVE, and they are already nudging REMAIN close in the polls.
I'd give LEAVE a 40-45% chance of winning, as of now. If Cameron wasn't leading REMAIN I'd make LEAVE favourite.
It's indyref all over again. Complacent presumption that the status quo will triumph easily.
Ed Miliband, Eddie Izzard and the posh chap that used to run that underwear store will announce a "vow" on the eve of the referendum promising nothing but further talks.
When a moon on a stick is not delivered to every home the "outers" will wail betrayal for the next 10 years.
- if it's Indyref all over again.
I stand by my long-held belief that REMAIN will narrowly win, but that very soon afterwards the EU will start demanding stuff of us, and ignoring our complaints, and enforcing further integration (believing that Britain has settled its membership) and that revved-up eurosceptics will be clamouring for a 2nd plebiscite within 5 years and they'll possibly get one within 10, which they will likely win.
As you say, it's like Scotland. Europhile Tories are deluded if they think this will "answer the question for a generation".
If you plan on changing to a turnover tax, I apologise, as I've misunderstood you.
Income is income. Income minus costs is profit. Or have I got that wrong?
Income is turnover, gross profit is turnover less cost of sales, operating profit is gross profit minus operating costs. My guess is that you would want to levy your tax on the gross profit, but even that can be gamed by overcharging and transfer pricing.
No, I want to levy my tax on income. Not sure why this is proving such a difficult idea to get across.
A company is a legal construct that was brought about to enable a group to function as an individual in terms of contracts etc.. Just treat companies doing business in the UK as though they were individuals resident in the UK but without any taxable deductions and, probably, at a lower rate of income tax.
That's a turnover tax. It will put a lot of legitimate low margin companies out of business.
No it won't. It might put some companies with unsustainable business models out of business. Companies that currently pay corporation tax should barely notice a difference, except a reduction in the costs involved in compliance. Companies that do not currently pay corporation tax or which will notice a big increase in their tax bill are either unsustainable or currently taking the piss.
Just a reminder, this is not a new idea it is in fact how businesses used to be taxed except that I suggest the exemptions and chargeable expenses are removed. If companies could cope with an income tax before 1964 there is no reason why they could not now. The biggts losers will be the accountants, oh, and any thieving buggers who try and avoid paying their company's dues.
It's obviously a very complex subject but the first thought that springs to my mind about a turnover tax is that it might clobber low margin businesses that employ a lot of people.
If its like Scotland, the polls will swing decisively to out in the last days of the campaign, prompting panic in the establishment and all sorts of desperate blandishments.
But if Apple didn't make great products we might spend our money on holidays in France not on shiny electronic gadgets.
Apple don't make great products. They just con people they do, and then make them pay more for the 'joy' of being imprisoned in a walled garden. A stylish garden, yes. A garden where you can hang out with similar unfortunates, yes. But a walled garden nonetheless.
It's genius.
I quite like the fact the new iPad Pro has a stylus (pencil), given what Jobs thought of them.
By brand. Clever, clever positioning of the brand as the 'cool' anti-Microsoft (which the design cleverly plays into, reinforcing the differentiation).
Apple's big enemy in the early eighties was IBM - they were the anti-IBM. They saw IBM off in the CE market.
Actually, IBM's the Dorian Gray of the technology sector. When I visited them I always checked there were mirrors in the bathrooms ...
The overwhelming consensus on here is that Remain wins yet Leave is 2s on betfair having been matched at 6s. We've done polling to death and the EU ones are inconclusive but I can't help thinking there's a lot of hearts and heads going on.
OK its wishful thinking on my part but 2s has to be overpriced on something that is becoming a toss of the coin scenario. I'm not sure even the committed Remainers on here are laying Leave at 2s
LEAVE has a very significant chance of winning. From a Paris-style terrorist incident to a migrant rape spree to a Calais invasion to a bomb in a school to some euro cataclysm, virtually all the possible black swans favour LEAVE, and they are already nudging REMAIN close in the polls.
I'd give LEAVE a 40-45% chance of winning, as of now. If Cameron wasn't leading REMAIN I'd make LEAVE favourite.
It's indyref all over again. Complacent presumption that the status quo will triumph easily.
Ed Miliband, Eddie Izzard and the posh chap that used to run that underwear store will announce a "vow" on the eve of the referendum promising nothing but further talks.
When a moon on a stick is not delivered to every home the "outers" will wail betrayal for the next 10 years.
- if it's Indyref all over again.
I stand by my long-held belief that REMAIN will narrowly win, but that very soon afterwards the EU will start demanding stuff of us, and ignoring our complaints, and enforcing further integration (believing that Britain has settled its membership) and that revved-up eurosceptics will be demanding a 2nd plebiscite within 5 years and possibly get one within 10, which they will likely win.
As you say, it's like Scotland.
If we vote to remain the floodgates of Brussels will open for more glorious EU to be poured all over Britain whether we like it or not and we will have zero cards left to play - by calling the referendum it has caused a double or quits scenario.
Nonsense. The next Tory leader will very likely be more sceptic than Cameron. Labour are nowhere. UKIP could surge from a narrowly lost referendum.
This vote won't settle anything. Europe will still be in turmoil even if we vote REMAIN. Schengen is gone, the euro is in question, will there even be an EU in 10 year, whatever the Brits decide?
Can they Leave and the rest of us Remain? How would that work? Isn't this rather like declaring a council area a Nuclear Free zone, i.e. quite meaningless.
Mr Madasafish, as you rightly say, VAT is paid by the end customer. The retailer sends that to HMRC LESS the VAT paid on the goods when purchased from ther manufacturer, wholesaler or importer.
If Apple imports an iPhone and sells it a £120, then £20 of that will be VAT. If an Applestore “buy” it and sell at £250, then it will remit £50 VAT to HMRC less the £20 it’s paid to the importer.
'He [Kinnock] became like all the rest with his snout in the trough'
Easy to sympathise with that view.
But the writer must be very naive not to realise that most 'revolutionaries' end up feeding from the trough, one way or another. They only have a problem with 'privilege' so long as they are not the beneficiaries of it...
The overwhelming consensus on here is that Remain wins yet Leave is 2s on betfair having been matched at 6s. We've done polling to death and the EU ones are inconclusive but I can't help thinking there's a lot of hearts and heads going on.
OK its wishful thinking on my part but 2s has to be overpriced on something that is becoming a toss of the coin scenario. I'm not sure even the committed Remainers on here are laying Leave at 2s
LEAVE has a very significant chance of winning. From a Paris-style terrorist incident to a migrant rape spree to a Calais invasion to a bomb in a school to some euro cataclysm, virtually all the possible black swans favour LEAVE, and they are already nudging REMAIN close in the polls.
I'd give LEAVE a 40-45% chance of winning, as of now. If Cameron wasn't leading REMAIN I'd make LEAVE favourite.
It's indyref all over again. Complacent presumption that the status quo will triumph easily.
Ed Miliband, Eddie Izzard and the posh chap that used to run that underwear store will announce a "vow" on the eve of the referendum promising nothing but further talks.
When a moon on a stick is not delivered to every home the "outers" will wail betrayal for the next 10 years.
- if it's Indyref all over again.
I stand by my long-held belief that REMAIN will narrowly win, but that very soon afterwards the EU will start demanding stuff of us, and ignoring our complaints, and enforcing further integration (believing that Britain has settled its membership) and that revved-up eurosceptics will be demanding a 2nd plebiscite within 5 years and possibly get one within 10, which they will likely win.
As you say, it's like Scotland.
If we vote to remain the floodgates of Brussels will open for more glorious EU to be poured all over Britain whether we like it or not and we will have zero cards left to play - by calling the referendum it has caused a double or quits scenario.
Nonsense. The next Tory leader will very likely be more sceptic than Cameron. Labour are nowhere. UKIP could surge from a narrowly lost referendum.
This vote won't settle anything. Europe will still be in turmoil even if we vote REMAIN. Schengen is gone, the euro is in question, will there even be an EU in 10 year, whatever the Brits decide?
Who knows.
SNP haven't had much luck pumping up enthusiasm for Indy ref 2.
LEAVE has a very significant chance of winning. From a Paris-style terrorist incident to a migrant rape spree to a Calais invasion to a bomb in a school to some euro cataclysm, virtually all the possible black swans favour LEAVE, and they are already nudging REMAIN close in the polls.
I'd give LEAVE a 40-45% chance of winning, as of now. If Cameron wasn't leading REMAIN I'd make LEAVE favourite.
It's indyref all over again. Complacent presumption that the status quo will triumph easily.
Ed Miliband, Eddie Izzard and the posh chap that used to run that underwear store will announce a "vow" on the eve of the referendum promising nothing but further talks.
When a moon on a stick is not delivered to every home the "outers" will wail betrayal for the next 10 years.
- if it's Indyref all over again.
I stand by my long-held belief that REMAIN will narrowly win, but that very soon afterwards the EU will start demanding stuff of us, and ignoring our complaints, and enforcing further integration (believing that Britain has settled its membership) and that revved-up eurosceptics will be demanding a 2nd plebiscite within 5 years and possibly get one within 10, which they will likely win.
As you say, it's like Scotland.
If we vote to remain the floodgates of Brussels will open for more glorious EU to be poured all over Britain whether we like it or not and we will have zero cards left to play - by calling the referendum it has caused a double or quits scenario.
Nonsense. The next Tory leader will very likely be more sceptic than Cameron. Labour are nowhere. UKIP could surge from a narrowly lost referendum.
This vote won't settle anything. Europe will still be in turmoil even if we vote REMAIN. Schengen is gone, the euro is in question, will there even be an EU in 10 year, whatever the Brits decide?
Who knows.
SNP haven't had much luck pumping up enthusiasm for Indy ref 2.
If it is politically popular to have another exit referendum, then there will be a referendum. There are numerous possible triggers: Eurogeddon II, an intensifcation of the refugee crisis, or further integration that would be politically unacceptable in the UK.
It is ridiculous to claim the UK government would choose to agree with something massively unpopular, rather than have another referendum.
@CourtNewsUK · Juror asks ex Dragon Doug Richard: 'If this was your daughter would you blame the man and think what he did was wrong?'
If I were the defence lawyer, I'd regard this development as sub-optimal.
This is one of those cases where, no matter how much he claims he was stitched up and/or lied to, he's going to find it difficult to persuade the jury of his innocence, given that he was in his mid 50s and she was 13.
I'm still fascinated that a juror has asked a question though, didn't realise that could happen.
It's interesting that the juror can ask a question of opinion from the Defendant, rather than a question of fact from the Judge.
...
I agree. I thought they could only ask about clarifications in law. Asking how a defendant might feel about something, especially if that something were legal ... ie sex with a 16 year old, would seem to me to be to be non-admissible. I mean at the end of the day what does it prove? Its not illegal to be a sleazeball. Strikes me if it were then most journalists and most lawyers would be in jail.
If its like Scotland, the polls will swing decisively to out in the last days of the campaign, prompting panic in the establishment and all sorts of desperate blandishments.
What blandishments could they offer in that scenario? The 'deal' that Cameron comes back with will be it. He can't really say 'Oh, I'll go back and try and get something else'
Mr Madasafish, as you rightly say, VAT is paid by the end customer. The retailer sends that to HMRC LESS the VAT paid on the goods when purchased from ther manufacturer, wholesaler or importer.
If Apple imports an iPhone and sells it a £120, then £20 of that will be VAT. If an Applestore “buy” it and sell at £250, then it will remit £50 VAT to HMRC less the £20 it’s paid to the importer.
VAT is just an item that heads through the balance sheet so far as I'm concerned. A number that just "is" and needs no reconciling for any of the quarter end accounts.
Yet weirdly it's the most effective way of targetting a company like Apple.
OTOH Alot of Google's customers will themselves be businesses themselves (Adwords) so Google's VAT won't be nearly so collectible.
Had to go out straight after PMQs but what has had me fuming all afternoon is those so-called well known journalists egging on Labour MP's to stand up and call the PM out over his "bunch" comments. I didn't see Yvette Cooper's response but I assume it was done with her usual "little girl pained expression look." That bloody woman irritates me so much.
If its like Scotland, the polls will swing decisively to out in the last days of the campaign, prompting panic in the establishment and all sorts of desperate blandishments.
What blandishments could they offer in that scenario? The 'deal' that Cameron comes back with will be it. He can't really say 'Oh, I'll go back and try and get something else'
Right from the outset of the Indyref business the govt agreed that a devolved Scotland would get more powers. So nothing much changed. Regarding the EU - There will be an agreement. It will be debated on in parliament and there will be a referendum. I don't think there is any need to try to get too clever about it. You get to vote. Some people are never satisfied.
'He [Kinnock] became like all the rest with his snout in the trough'
Easy to sympathise with that view.
But the writer must be very naive not to realise that most 'revolutionaries' end up feeding from the trough, one way or another. They only have a problem with 'privilege' so long as they are not the beneficiaries of it...
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
I agree with SeanT assumptions about the EU referendum. There are simply to many open fronts, if any of them explode in the time before the referendum it would make the result close in spite of Cameron pushing for Remain.
And by the way, out of 1 hour of CNN coverage, 44 minutes is about Trump right now (I timed it).
LEAVE has a very significant chance of winning. From a Paris-style terrorist incident to a migrant rape spree to a Calais invasion to a bomb in a school to some euro cataclysm, virtually all the possible black swans favour LEAVE, and they are already nudging REMAIN close in the polls.
I'd give LEAVE a 40-45% chance of winning, as of now. If Cameron wasn't leading REMAIN I'd make LEAVE favourite.
It's indyref all over again. Complacent presumption that the status quo will triumph easily.
Ed Miliband, Eddie Izzard and the posh chap that used to run that underwear store will announce a "vow" on the eve of the referendum promising nothing but further talks.
When a moon on a stick is not delivered to every home the "outers" will wail betrayal for the next 10 years.
- if it's Indyref all over again.
I stand by my long-held belief that REMAIN will narrowly win, but that very soon afterwards the EU will start demanding stuff of us, and ignoring our complaints, and enforcing further integration (believing that Britain has settled its membership) and that revved-up eurosceptics will be demanding a 2nd plebiscite within 5 years and possibly get one within 10, which they will likely win.
As you say, it's like Scotland.
If we vote to remain the floodgates of Brussels will open for more glorious EU to be poured all over Britain whether we like it or not and we will have zero cards left to play - by calling the referendum it has caused a double or quits scenario.
Nonsense. The next Tory leader will very likely be more sceptic than Cameron. Labour are nowhere. UKIP could surge from a narrowly lost referendum.
This vote won't settle anything. Europe will still be in turmoil even if we vote REMAIN. Schengen is gone, the euro is in question, will there even be an EU in 10 year, whatever the Brits decide?
Who knows.
SNP haven't had much luck pumping up enthusiasm for Indy ref 2.
If it is politically popular to have another exit referendum, then there will be a referendum. There are numerous possible triggers: Eurogeddon II, an intensifcation of the refugee crisis, or further integration that would be politically unacceptable in the UK.
It is ridiculous to claim the UK government would choose to agree with something massively unpopular, rather than have another referendum.
How many million refugees would an independent Scotland take? How would we stop them getting here? Would Corbyn visit their camp at Gretna Green? Is this an example of how leaving the EU would spare us from the refugee epidemic?
How utterly pathetic of the also highly privileged Rachel Cohen to force her perverted views on people in this way.
And yes, I do view her world view as a perversion of reality.
Schools should all celebrate excellence and encourage their students to strive for the best. Lewis is an internationally acclaimed actor - what has Cohen ever done for the world?
You'd think schools would jump at the chance to get an actor such as Lewis to give his time for such a cause. Aren't we supposed to be encouraging children from all backgrounds to aspire to greater things?
'Damien Lewis? Nah, too posh. Let's get Barry from street sweeping, he's a much better role model'
'He [Kinnock] became like all the rest with his snout in the trough'
Easy to sympathise with that view.
But the writer must be very naive not to realise that most 'revolutionaries' end up feeding from the trough, one way or another. They only have a problem with 'privilege' so long as they are not the beneficiaries of it...
He has it right about Kinnock, if not right about Corbyn. JC is only 'revolutionary' in that he thinks Britian is evil and shouldn't defend itself from the coming socialist revolution.
I have a theory about UKIP, sceptics and the LEAVE campaign, supported by various whispers I've heard.
THEY DON'T EXPECT TO WIN. KIPPERS DON'T EVEN WANT TO WIN
What they want, logically, is to do what the Nats did: get really quite close, but lose, then stand back and reap the benefits as the EU does various horrible things to us post-REMAIN, even as the EU implodes at the same time, thanks to migration, eurogeddon, terror, etc.
Result: UKIP get a huge electoral boost, the voters swing even further right, a new referendum is called within a few years, and this is won, but by then UKIP have established themselves as a major party of government, not a pressure group which will dissolve post-plebiscite.
Makes sense to me. Quite likely, in fact.
Now, a DVD and some wine, tomorrow I fly home from sunny Bangkok
kapkap
I think you're right that Farage would love to be a cabinet minister and/or PM.
But losing carries risks to Out. In Scotland the oil price collapse has made independence look a whole lot less likely. It is possible - albeit unlikely - that the EU gets the act together re refugees. And with a bunch of more Eurosceptic governments (albeit not to UKIP levels) in power across Europe, it is quite likely the drive to further integration is put on hold.
Who knows? Personally, I think we should lead Sweden, Denmark and other non-Euro states into the sunlit uplands of EFTA/EEA, but again... who knows?
I have a theory about UKIP, sceptics and the LEAVE campaign, supported by various whispers I've heard.
THEY DON'T EXPECT TO WIN. KIPPERS DON'T EVEN WANT TO WIN
What they want, logically, is to do what the Nats did: get really quite close, but lose, then stand back and reap the benefits as the EU does various horrible things to us post-REMAIN, even as the EU implodes at the same time, thanks to migration, eurogeddon, terror, etc.
Result: UKIP get a huge electoral boost, the voters swing even further right, a new referendum is called within a few years, and this is won, but by then UKIP have established themselves as a major party of government, not a pressure group which will dissolve post-plebiscite.
Makes sense to me. Quite likely, in fact.
Now, a DVD and some wine, tomorrow I fly home from sunny Bangkok
kapkap
Kipper pols enjoy riding the gravy train too much. What would the likes of Helmer do, if they can't claim their Euro allowances.
Can they Leave and the rest of us Remain? How would that work? Isn't this rather like declaring a council area a Nuclear Free zone, i.e. quite meaningless.
It is but if a string of councils do it it could build a help narrative for Leave.
Chestnut,,did the impartial BBC also comment on the kicking Cameron gave Corbyn on the same subject
Of course not.
Not that the BBC can really claim any moral highground when it comes to taxation - the number of their employees who are paid through shell companies to avoid tax
I know its Breitbart, but they report a gun battle broke out earlier between those refugees fleeing war torn areas in the camp Corbs visited last week (40 rounds fired).
Had to go out straight after PMQs but what has had me fuming all afternoon is those so-called well known journalists egging on Labour MP's to stand up and call the PM out over his "bunch" comments. I didn't see Yvette Cooper's response but I assume it was done with her usual "little girl pained expression look." That bloody woman irritates me so much.
Mrs Balls is the female version of Herman Van Rompuy. She has the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low grade bank clerk.
''It is but if a string of councils do it it could build a help narrative for Leave. ''
And it adds to the narrative that leave is grass roots, ordinary citizens....Stay is just lawyers, unions, bankers, bureaucrats and other assorted vested interests.
I know its Breitbart, but they report a gun battle broke out earlier between those refugees fleeing war torn areas in the camp Corbs visited last week (40 rounds fired).
Still, what they must have been through, eh?
It is worrying that these migrants are arriving with weapons - and those weapons are not been confiscated.
What do the French think they are doing?
Go in there, sort them out. If they aren't willing to claim asylum - put them in proper detention until they can be removed from the EU. If they are genuine asylum seekers, offer them all the necessary support.
I know its Breitbart, but they report a gun battle broke out earlier between those refugees fleeing war torn areas in the camp Corbs visited last week (40 rounds fired).
Still, what they must have been through, eh?
Corbyn must have scared the Bejesus out of them...
I know its Breitbart, but they report a gun battle broke out earlier between those refugees fleeing war torn areas in the camp Corbs visited last week (40 rounds fired).
I have a theory about UKIP, sceptics and the LEAVE campaign, supported by various whispers I've heard.
THEY DON'T EXPECT TO WIN. KIPPERS DON'T EVEN WANT TO WIN
What they want, logically, is to do what the Nats did: get really quite close, but lose, then stand back and reap the benefits as the EU does various horrible things to us post-REMAIN, even as the EU implodes at the same time, thanks to migration, eurogeddon, terror, etc.
Result: UKIP get a huge electoral boost, the voters swing even further right, a new referendum is called within a few years, and this is won, but by then UKIP have established themselves as a major party of government, not a pressure group which will dissolve post-plebiscite.
Makes sense to me. Quite likely, in fact.
Now, a DVD and some wine, tomorrow I fly home from sunny Bangkok
kapkap
I think you're right that Farage would love to be a cabinet minister and/or PM.
But losing carries risks to Out. In Scotland the oil price collapse has made independence look a whole lot less likely. It is possible - albeit unlikely - that the EU gets the act together re refugees. And with a bunch of more Eurosceptic governments (albeit not to UKIP levels) in power across Europe, it is quite likely the drive to further integration is put on hold.
Who knows? Personally, I think we should lead Sweden, Denmark and other non-Euro states into the sunlit uplands of EFTA/EEA, but again... who knows?
Its a dumb analogy and pretty umm... trite too, trying to link the EU with muslim immigration rather than catholic immigration. We as a commonwealth country have link with countries holding hundreds of millions of muslims and hindus. We do not need the EU to be a cause for muslim immigration. I continue to find it umm... strange that anti EU propagandists continue to seek out the least desirable group of people they can find and associate them with the EU.
It will be interesting to see what happens if Greece is back on the Barbie before June. They remain insolvent and are now being told off for not spending a serious amount of money they don't have to prevent other better off countries away from the front line of the EU having to deal with the problem.
I think the way Greece were treated last summer (whatever one thought of those idiots in the Greek government and their appalling negotiating tactics) was a major boost for out. A repeat may have the same effect.
I know its Breitbart, but they report a gun battle broke out earlier between those refugees fleeing war torn areas in the camp Corbs visited last week (40 rounds fired).
Still, what they must have been through, eh?
It is worrying that these migrants are arriving with weapons - and those weapons are not been confiscated.
What do the French think they are doing?
Go in there, sort them out. If they aren't willing to claim asylum - put them in proper detention until they can be removed from the EU. If they are genuine asylum seekers, offer them all the necessary support.
It really isn't that complicated
Why would they have to arrive with guns? How hard can it be to get guns in France? To use what I would argue is a plausible analogy - we here cannot keep drugs out of prisons. French refugee/asylum camps are awash with visitors, not to mention VIP distractions. Just how hard could it be?
Had to go out straight after PMQs but what has had me fuming all afternoon is those so-called well known journalists egging on Labour MP's to stand up and call the PM out over his "bunch" comments. I didn't see Yvette Cooper's response but I assume it was done with her usual "little girl pained expression look." That bloody woman irritates me so much.
Mrs Balls is the female version of Herman Van Rompuy. She has the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low grade bank clerk.
"We don't know you, we don't want you, and the sooner you are put out to grass, the better!"
I know its Breitbart, but they report a gun battle broke out earlier between those refugees fleeing war torn areas in the camp Corbs visited last week (40 rounds fired).
Still, what they must have been through, eh?
It is worrying that these migrants are arriving with weapons - and those weapons are not been confiscated.
What do the French think they are doing?
Go in there, sort them out. If they aren't willing to claim asylum - put them in proper detention until they can be removed from the EU. If they are genuine asylum seekers, offer them all the necessary support.
It really isn't that complicated
Why would they have to arrive with guns? How hard can it be to get guns in France? To use what I would argue is a plausible analogy - we here cannot keep drugs out of prisons. French refugee/asylum camps are awash with visitors, not to mention VIP distractions. Just how hard could it be?
Either way, the French authorities need to clamp down on this camp.
Genuine asylum seekers should have nothing to fear from claiming that status. If they are not willing to do so, they are not genuine and thus have no right to remain. It really isn't that difficult.
How utterly pathetic of the also highly privileged Rachel Cohen to force her perverted views on people in this way.
And yes, I do view her world view as a perversion of reality.
Schools should all celebrate excellence and encourage their students to strive for the best. Lewis is an internationally acclaimed actor - what has Cohen ever done for the world?
You'd think schools would jump at the chance to get an actor such as Lewis to give his time for such a cause. Aren't we supposed to be encouraging children from all backgrounds to aspire to greater things?
'Damien Lewis? Nah, too posh. Let's get Barry from street sweeping, he's a much better role model'
The school invited him but Rachel Cohen, a sociology lecturer at City University and SWP member and alumni protested as he had been to Eton saying 'Acland Burghley has a long and proud tradition in comprehensive education, creatively working with and supporting diverse local students. Damian Lewis was educated at Eton, a school that, more than any other, represents the reproduction of privilege and inequality in the U.K. We have nothing against him as an actor or local resident but he is a wholly inappropriate choice for this celebration of a wonderful local comprehensive school. '
The school said Lewis was only invited after Acland Burghley alumni such as reggae singer Eddy Grant, rapper Ms Dynamite and Madness saxophonist Lee Thompson were unable to attend
Doesn't matter, Mr. Ears, is the company doing business in the UK? If so then n% of its income goes to HMG.
For example if a company registered in Luxembourg for tax purposes issues invoices worth £1,000 to its UK customers then, say, 5% of that £1,000 goes to HMG in tax. If a company registered in Nottingham issues £1,000 of invoices then they are liable for the same 5%. As they say, a level playing field.
Country-by-country reporting is one of the keys to sorting out international tax issues.
Doesn't matter, Mr. Ears, is the company doing business in the UK? If so then n% of its income goes to HMG.
For example if a company registered in Luxembourg for tax purposes issues invoices worth £1,000 to its UK customers then, say, 5% of that £1,000 goes to HMG in tax. If a company registered in Nottingham issues £1,000 of invoices then they are liable for the same 5%. As they say, a level playing field.
Country-by-country reporting is one of the keys to sorting out international tax issues.
But if Apple didn't make great products we might spend our money on holidays in France not on shiny electronic gadgets.
Apple don't make great products. They just con people they do, and then make them pay more for the 'joy' of being imprisoned in a walled garden. A stylish garden, yes. A garden where you can hang out with similar unfortunates, yes. But a walled garden nonetheless.
It's genius.
I quite like the fact the new iPad Pro has a stylus (pencil), given what Jobs thought of them.
Releasing the ad sarcastically trashing large screened phone shortly before releasing one themselves is the real beauty for me.
How utterly pathetic of the also highly privileged Rachel Cohen to force her perverted views on people in this way.
And yes, I do view her world view as a perversion of reality.
Schools should all celebrate excellence and encourage their students to strive for the best. Lewis is an internationally acclaimed actor - what has Cohen ever done for the world?
You'd think schools would jump at the chance to get an actor such as Lewis to give his time for such a cause. Aren't we supposed to be encouraging children from all backgrounds to aspire to greater things?
'Damien Lewis? Nah, too posh. Let's get Barry from street sweeping, he's a much better role model'
The school invited him but Rachel Cohen, a sociology lecturer at City University and SWP member and alumni protested as he had been to Eton saying 'Acland Burghley has a long and proud tradition in comprehensive education, creatively working with and supporting diverse local students. Damian Lewis was educated at Eton, a school that, more than any other, represents the reproduction of privilege and inequality in the U.K. We have nothing against him as an actor or local resident but he is a wholly inappropriate choice for this celebration of a wonderful local comprehensive school. '
The school said Lewis was only invited after Acland Burghley alumni such as reggae singer Eddy Grant, rapper Ms Dynamite and Madness saxophonist Lee Thompson were unable to attend
"Her PhD focused on the working lives and employment relations of hairdressers."
Mr Madasafish, as you rightly say, VAT is paid by the end customer. The retailer sends that to HMRC LESS the VAT paid on the goods when purchased from ther manufacturer, wholesaler or importer.
If Apple imports an iPhone and sells it a £120, then £20 of that will be VAT. If an Applestore “buy” it and sell at £250, then it will remit £50 VAT to HMRC less the £20 it’s paid to the importer.
And if there is a tax based on tunrover, it will apply to all goods sold in teh UK.
So vendors will increase prices by that % - and hence effectively pay no tax.
The consumer on the other hand pays the tax.
It is not thought through and will not tax companies but consumers.
''It is but if a string of councils do it it could build a help narrative for Leave. ''
And it adds to the narrative that leave is grass roots, ordinary citizens....Stay is just lawyers, unions, bankers, bureaucrats and other assorted vested interests.
So lawyers and bankers and bureaucrats don't vote? How strange ...
"Lisa Doyle, the Refugee Council's head of advocacy said: 'When we are facing the greatest refugee crisis of our time, it is disappointing the Prime Minister is using flippant remarks to score political points."
'We have all seen the pictures of the desperate conditions people are living in across Europe, including just miles from the UK's border"
It's the last comment that utterly, completely and entirely beggars belief. Desperate conditions miles from the UK border?? I mean this is not some bloody war zone it's FRANCE forfuxsake. FRANCE,!! That holiday destination with Paris, fine wines and Eurodisney.
No one has forced them to go there , no one forces them to stay there sorry that argument just won't wash. All they need to do is claim asylum in this wonderful socialist republic or any country in between why don't they. What it fundamental is these people have nothing, zero , zilch fuckall to do with us and Labour are just utterly loony in painting these people as our responsibility. Why are Labour not complaining to the French socialist PM for allowing such conditions? Why are Labour supporters not doing the same saying France should take these children into their care??? No they would rather blame our government and PM and ......how dare he say "bunch" they say. Labour have completely lost the plot.
These are economic migrants illegally circumventing the visa system. The invasion the other day showed photos of precisely who they were. Sorry they are not our responsibility they are Merkels and every EU country that allowed then in and them to pass northwards to the shores of the Channel. No amount of bleating from the left at us rather than France will ever change that.
How utterly pathetic of the also highly privileged Rachel Cohen to force her perverted views on people in this way.
And yes, I do view her world view as a perversion of reality.
Schools should all celebrate excellence and encourage their students to strive for the best. Lewis is an internationally acclaimed actor - what has Cohen ever done for the world?
You'd think schools would jump at the chance to get an actor such as Lewis to give his time for such a cause. Aren't we supposed to be encouraging children from all backgrounds to aspire to greater things?
'Damien Lewis? Nah, too posh. Let's get Barry from street sweeping, he's a much better role model'
The school invited him but Rachel Cohen, a sociology lecturer at City University and SWP member and alumni protested as he had been to Eton saying 'Acland Burghley has a long and proud tradition in comprehensive education, creatively working with and supporting diverse local students. Damian Lewis was educated at Eton, a school that, more than any other, represents the reproduction of privilege and inequality in the U.K. We have nothing against him as an actor or local resident but he is a wholly inappropriate choice for this celebration of a wonderful local comprehensive school. '
The school said Lewis was only invited after Acland Burghley alumni such as reggae singer Eddy Grant, rapper Ms Dynamite and Madness saxophonist Lee Thompson were unable to attend
"Her PhD focused on the working lives and employment relations of hairdressers."
And I bet she got public money to fund that utterly pointless PhD
We need to take a long hard look at our University sector. Too many people being paid to research ludicrous topics and then taking up academic positions teaching pointless courses and attempting to force their distorted world view on the next generation of students.
How utterly pathetic of the also highly privileged Rachel Cohen to force her perverted views on people in this way.
And yes, I do view her world view as a perversion of reality.
Schools should all celebrate excellence and encourage their students to strive for the best. Lewis is an internationally acclaimed actor - what has Cohen ever done for the world?
You'd think schools would jump at the chance to get an actor such as Lewis to give his time for such a cause. Aren't we supposed to be encouraging children from all backgrounds to aspire to greater things?
'Damien Lewis? Nah, too posh. Let's get Barry from street sweeping, he's a much better role model'
The school invited him but Rachel Cohen, a sociology lecturer at City University and SWP member and alumni protested as he had been to Eton saying 'Acland Burghley has a long and proud tradition in comprehensive education, creatively working with and supporting diverse local students. Damian Lewis was educated at Eton, a school that, more than any other, represents the reproduction of privilege and inequality in the U.K. We have nothing against him as an actor or local resident but he is a wholly inappropriate choice for this celebration of a wonderful local comprehensive school. '
The school said Lewis was only invited after Acland Burghley alumni such as reggae singer Eddy Grant, rapper Ms Dynamite and Madness saxophonist Lee Thompson were unable to attend
"Her PhD focused on the working lives and employment relations of hairdressers."
And I bet she got public money to fund that utterly pointless PhD
We need to take a long hard look at our University sector. Too many people being paid to research ludicrous topics and then taking up academic positions teaching pointless courses and attempting to force their distorted world view on the next generation of students.
Whilst there has always been terrible degrees about, the current tuition fee model exacerbates the problem.
''It is but if a string of councils do it it could build a help narrative for Leave. ''
And it adds to the narrative that leave is grass roots, ordinary citizens....Stay is just lawyers, unions, bankers, bureaucrats and other assorted vested interests.
So lawyers and bankers and bureaucrats don't vote? How strange ...
How utterly pathetic of the also highly privileged Rachel Cohen to force her perverted views on people in this way.
And yes, I do view her world view as a perversion of reality.
Schools should all celebrate excellence and encourage their students to strive for the best. Lewis is an internationally acclaimed actor - what has Cohen ever done for the world?
You'd think schools would jump at the chance to get an actor such as Lewis to give his time for such a cause. Aren't we supposed to be encouraging children from all backgrounds to aspire to greater things?
'Damien Lewis? Nah, too posh. Let's get Barry from street sweeping, he's a much better role model'
The school invited him but Rachel Cohen, a sociology lecturer at City University and SWP member and alumni protested as he had been to Eton saying 'Acland Burghley has a long and proud tradition in comprehensive education, creatively working with and supporting diverse local students. Damian Lewis was educated at Eton, a school that, more than any other, represents the reproduction of privilege and inequality in the U.K. We have nothing against him as an actor or local resident but he is a wholly inappropriate choice for this celebration of a wonderful local comprehensive school. '
The school said Lewis was only invited after Acland Burghley alumni such as reggae singer Eddy Grant, rapper Ms Dynamite and Madness saxophonist Lee Thompson were unable to attend
"Her PhD focused on the working lives and employment relations of hairdressers."
And I bet she got public money to fund that utterly pointless PhD
We need to take a long hard look at our University sector. Too many people being paid to research ludicrous topics and then taking up academic positions teaching pointless courses and attempting to force their distorted world view on the next generation of students.
Whilst there has always been terrible degrees about, the current tuition fee model exacerbates the problem.
It is research funding where we can make a huge difference quickly in terms of turning things around. Cut off the money to any research that doesn't actually demonstrate a benefit to society and see what happens.
Yes, that will primarily hit humanities subjects - but I don't care. If people want to study such things, find your own funding. We don't have the spare cash to spend on researching the working lives of hairdressers.
How utterly pathetic of the also highly privileged Rachel Cohen to force her perverted views on people in this way.
And yes, I do view her world view as a perversion of reality.
Schools should all celebrate excellence and encourage their students to strive for the best. Lewis is an internationally acclaimed actor - what has Cohen ever done for the world?
You'd think schools would jump at the chance to get an actor such as Lewis to give his time for such a cause. Aren't we supposed to be encouraging children from all backgrounds to aspire to greater things?
'Damien Lewis? Nah, too posh. Let's get Barry from street sweeping, he's a much better role model'
The school invited him but Rachel Cohen, a sociology lecturer at City University and SWP member and alumni protested as he had been to Eton saying 'Acland Burghley has a long and proud tradition in comprehensive education, creatively working with and supporting diverse local students. Damian Lewis was educated at Eton, a school that, more than any other, represents the reproduction of privilege and inequality in the U.K. We have nothing against him as an actor or local resident but he is a wholly inappropriate choice for this celebration of a wonderful local comprehensive school. '
The school said Lewis was only invited after Acland Burghley alumni such as reggae singer Eddy Grant, rapper Ms Dynamite and Madness saxophonist Lee Thompson were unable to attend
"Her PhD focused on the working lives and employment relations of hairdressers."
I am sure hairdressers find her research invaluable when doing the Saturday morning blowdry!
It will be interesting to see what happens if Greece is back on the Barbie before June. They remain insolvent and are now being told off for not spending a serious amount of money they don't have to prevent other better off countries away from the front line of the EU having to deal with the problem.
I think the way Greece were treated last summer (whatever one thought of those idiots in the Greek government and their appalling negotiating tactics) was a major boost for out. A repeat may have the same effect.
Greece has no meaningful principle payments due, and interest costs as a percentage of GDP are not high (they're below the average for the UK for the last 25 years, to put in context). Greece is much more likely to blow up in 2017 or 2018, when a lot of debt needs to be refinanced.
I think this article sums up nicely why everyone is so surprised by the Trump, Bernie and Corbyn phenomena - elites are bound to be deaf and blind to a message from that the public are tired of the political elites thinking of them as stupid and selfish.
I think it also holds strong warnings for the Remain campaign in the EU referendum:
* Admittedly it's not quite as simple as that, since presumably Murdoch is losing business to the likes of Google, but still.
You know its bad when lefties side with Murdoch.
Oh remind me - is the Guardian group losing business to Google as well? Duh - who do I trust Guardian Media or News international. Gee mom, my brain hurts.
I think this article sums up nicely why everyone is so surprised by the Trump, Bernie and Corbyn phenomena - elites are bound to be deaf and blind to a message from that the public are tired of the political elites thinking of them as stupid and selfish.
I think it also holds strong warnings for the Remain campaign in the EU referendum:
It's a story, as even some Americans notice, that shows the underside of a European multiculturalism that insists that all cultures are morally equal, except ours, which is worse. The result is that authorities don't demand that Muslims respect the rights of women and gays, as in Rotherham, England, where they allowed immigrants to degrade 1,400 women and children for a decade, lest they be called racist.
Doesn't matter, Mr. Ears, is the company doing business in the UK? If so then n% of its income goes to HMG.
For example if a company registered in Luxembourg for tax purposes issues invoices worth £1,000 to its UK customers then, say, 5% of that £1,000 goes to HMG in tax. If a company registered in Nottingham issues £1,000 of invoices then they are liable for the same 5%. As they say, a level playing field.
Sainsbury's goes out of business under this model.
A turnover tax at 5% either gets added to the bottom line and we end up with higher prices in retail or companies which are unable to raise prices because of cheaply priced imports go bust.
No, any kind of turnover or "income" based tax for corporations is a poor idea. I'm honestly surprised that you would advocate such a thing.
Income tax for an individual works because my cost of doing business is very low. I have a job, the cost of doing business is getting to and from work everyday and paying for my lunch (which is subsidised), it works out to around 2% of my gross income. The cost of doing business for Sainsbury's is much higher, they have to pay rent, electricity, wages, suppliers, rates and a bunch of other stuff before we can reasonably say they have made money. If we immediately take 5% of their revenue we would put them out of business, their operating profit margin last year was 2.77%, or £720m on £26bn revenue. Your 5% tax would mean they pay £1.3bn in tax since none of their costs are allowable, which is higher than their operating profit. A system which targets turnover would put too many legitimate operations out of business, companies and individuals operate under different circumstances.
I have a theory about UKIP, sceptics and the LEAVE campaign, supported by various whispers I've heard.
THEY DON'T EXPECT TO WIN. KIPPERS DON'T EVEN WANT TO WIN
What they want, logically, is to do what the Nats did: get really quite close, but lose, then stand back and reap the benefits as the EU does various horrible things to us post-REMAIN, even as the EU implodes at the same time, thanks to migration, eurogeddon, terror, etc.
Result: UKIP get a huge electoral boost, the voters swing even further right, a new referendum is called within a few years, and this is won, but by then UKIP have established themselves as a major party of government, not a pressure group which will dissolve post-plebiscite.
Makes sense to me. Quite likely, in fact.
Now, a DVD and some wine, tomorrow I fly home from sunny Bangkok
kapkap
I think you're right that Farage would love to be a cabinet minister and/or PM.
But losing carries risks to Out. In Scotland the oil price collapse has made independence look a whole lot less likely. It is possible - albeit unlikely - that the EU gets the act together re refugees. And with a bunch of more Eurosceptic governments (albeit not to UKIP levels) in power across Europe, it is quite likely the drive to further integration is put on hold.
Who knows? Personally, I think we should lead Sweden, Denmark and other non-Euro states into the sunlit uplands of EFTA/EEA, but again... who knows?
Its a dumb analogy and pretty umm... trite too, trying to link the EU with muslim immigration rather than catholic immigration. We as a commonwealth country have link with countries holding hundreds of millions of muslims and hindus. We do not need the EU to be a cause for muslim immigration. I continue to find it umm... strange that anti EU propagandists continue to seek out the least desirable group of people they can find and associate them with the EU.
PS - I think your comments re EEA are plausible.
The flaw in that EEA/EFTA plan is that the non-Euro EU countries do not seem keen on leaving the EU in order to keep us company.
Its a bit like the Kipper League of Empire Loyalists who want to rebuild the Commonwealth, without actually considering whether that is what the Old Commonwralth wants.
I was at a conference for much of the day. A well-respected economist (who was very articulate about why he thought interest rates were going to rise far sooner than most people think) evidently could not conceive why anyone would vote Leave.
Jeremy Corbyn has written to David Cameron about his language at PMQs.
I mean..really?!
Does Corbyn really think that keeping this in the news will somehow be beneficial to him - or is he mistaking Islington and Twitter for public opinion again?
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Poor Industrial Design is one reason UK industry suffered during the seventies and eighties IMO. We produce some absolute geniuses at ID, yet management seemed to ignore it. I've seen this at companies I've worked at.
Jobs understood that ID is king.
But still the status quo did win, which as a Leaver, makes me pessimistic.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/eureferendum/12124182/First-council-in-England-set-to-vote-to-leave-the-EU.html
And consumers eventually pay it.
The system described will not work. Suppose a (say) US company decides to set up a new subsidiary company in Europe. It will make a new product and incur start up losses for two years before it makes profit.
Under French law it pays no tax.
Under UK tax law it pays tax on all its revenues.
How to kill of new investment.. ludicrous.. and not thought through...
If its like Scotland, the polls will swing decisively to out in the last days of the campaign, prompting panic in the establishment and all sorts of desperate blandishments.
Actually, IBM's the Dorian Gray of the technology sector. When I visited them I always checked there were mirrors in the bathrooms ...
Isn't this rather like declaring a council area a Nuclear Free zone, i.e. quite meaningless.
If Apple imports an iPhone and sells it a £120, then £20 of that will be VAT. If an Applestore “buy” it and sell at £250, then it will remit £50 VAT to HMRC less the £20 it’s paid to the importer.
Easy to sympathise with that view.
But the writer must be very naive not to realise that most 'revolutionaries' end up feeding from the trough, one way or another. They only have a problem with 'privilege' so long as they are not the beneficiaries of it...
Not sure I believe it, but thought I should share it...
It is ridiculous to claim the UK government would choose to agree with something massively unpopular, rather than have another referendum.
The 'deal' that Cameron comes back with will be it.
He can't really say 'Oh, I'll go back and try and get something else'
Yet weirdly it's the most effective way of targetting a company like Apple.
OTOH Alot of Google's customers will themselves be businesses themselves (Adwords) so Google's VAT won't be nearly so collectible.
I didn't see Yvette Cooper's response but I assume it was done with her usual "little girl pained expression look." That bloody woman irritates me so much.
Regarding the EU - There will be an agreement. It will be debated on in parliament and there will be a referendum.
I don't think there is any need to try to get too clever about it. You get to vote. Some people are never satisfied.
There are simply to many open fronts, if any of them explode in the time before the referendum it would make the result close in spite of Cameron pushing for Remain.
And by the way, out of 1 hour of CNN coverage, 44 minutes is about Trump right now (I timed it).
How would we stop them getting here?
Would Corbyn visit their camp at Gretna Green?
Is this an example of how leaving the EU would spare us from the refugee epidemic?
'Damien Lewis? Nah, too posh. Let's get Barry from street sweeping, he's a much better role model'
But losing carries risks to Out. In Scotland the oil price collapse has made independence look a whole lot less likely. It is possible - albeit unlikely - that the EU gets the act together re refugees. And with a bunch of more Eurosceptic governments (albeit not to UKIP levels) in power across Europe, it is quite likely the drive to further integration is put on hold.
Who knows? Personally, I think we should lead Sweden, Denmark and other non-Euro states into the sunlit uplands of EFTA/EEA, but again... who knows?
Not that the BBC can really claim any moral highground when it comes to taxation - the number of their employees who are paid through shell companies to avoid tax
Still, what they must have been through, eh?
And it adds to the narrative that leave is grass roots, ordinary citizens....Stay is just lawyers, unions, bankers, bureaucrats and other assorted vested interests.
What do the French think they are doing?
Go in there, sort them out. If they aren't willing to claim asylum - put them in proper detention until they can be removed from the EU. If they are genuine asylum seekers, offer them all the necessary support.
It really isn't that complicated
I continue to find it umm... strange that anti EU propagandists continue to seek out the least desirable group of people they can find and associate them with the EU.
PS - I think your comments re EEA are plausible.
148 days I make it ..... Thursday 23 June 2016 ..... my birthday!
I think the way Greece were treated last summer (whatever one thought of those idiots in the Greek government and their appalling negotiating tactics) was a major boost for out. A repeat may have the same effect.
French refugee/asylum camps are awash with visitors, not to mention VIP distractions. Just how hard could it be?
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Genuine asylum seekers should have nothing to fear from claiming that status. If they are not willing to do so, they are not genuine and thus have no right to remain. It really isn't that difficult.
The school said Lewis was only invited after Acland Burghley alumni such as reggae singer Eddy Grant, rapper Ms Dynamite and Madness saxophonist Lee Thompson were unable to attend
And if there is a tax based on tunrover, it will apply to all goods sold in teh UK.
So vendors will increase prices by that % - and hence effectively pay no tax.
The consumer on the other hand pays the tax.
It is not thought through and will not tax companies but consumers.
And that's just 5 minutes thinking..
"Lisa Doyle, the Refugee Council's head of advocacy said: 'When we are facing the greatest refugee crisis of our time, it is disappointing the Prime Minister is using flippant remarks to score political points."
'We have all seen the pictures of the desperate conditions people are living in across Europe, including just miles from the UK's border"
It's the last comment that utterly, completely and entirely beggars belief. Desperate conditions miles from the UK border?? I mean this is not some bloody war zone it's FRANCE forfuxsake. FRANCE,!! That holiday destination with Paris, fine wines and Eurodisney.
No one has forced them to go there , no one forces them to stay there sorry that argument just won't wash. All they need to do is claim asylum in this wonderful socialist republic or any country in between why don't they. What it fundamental is these people have nothing, zero , zilch fuckall to do with us and Labour are just utterly loony in painting these people as our responsibility. Why are Labour not complaining to the French socialist PM for allowing such conditions? Why are Labour supporters not doing the same saying France should take these children into their care??? No they would rather blame our government and PM and ......how dare he say "bunch" they say. Labour have completely lost the plot.
These are economic migrants illegally circumventing the visa system. The invasion the other day showed photos of precisely who they were. Sorry they are not our responsibility they are Merkels and every EU country that allowed then in and them to pass northwards to the shores of the Channel. No amount of bleating from the left at us rather than France will ever change that.
We need to take a long hard look at our University sector. Too many people being paid to research ludicrous topics and then taking up academic positions teaching pointless courses and attempting to force their distorted world view on the next generation of students.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/selzer/
Yes, that will primarily hit humanities subjects - but I don't care. If people want to study such things, find your own funding. We don't have the spare cash to spend on researching the working lives of hairdressers.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/27/rupert-murdoch-lambasts-downing-street-posh-boys-google-tax-deal
* Admittedly it's not quite as simple as that, since presumably Murdoch is losing business to the likes of Google, but still.
I think it also holds strong warnings for the Remain campaign in the EU referendum:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/01/26/americans_tired_of_elites_considering_them_stupid_and_vicious_129441.html
This is David Lammy.
He says his mum relied on Tax Credits to raise him. He was 31 when they were introduced. https://t.co/WLMcqajGbc
Oh remind me - is the Guardian group losing business to Google as well?
Duh - who do I trust Guardian Media or News international. Gee mom, my brain hurts.
Iowa, Monmouth
Trump 30 +11
Cruz 23 -1
Rubio 16 -1
Carson 10 -3
Bush 4 -2
Paul 3 -1
Kasich 3 0
Huchabee 3 +1
Christie 2 0
Fiorina 2 -1
http://www.monmouth.edu/assets/0/32212254770/32212254991/32212254992/32212254994/32212254995/30064771087/249a3e52-aa2b-43c7-a1f5-96e07f94480a.pdf
Important to note, Trump had never led in a Iowa Monmouth poll before.
It's a story, as even some Americans notice, that shows the underside of a European multiculturalism that insists that all cultures are morally equal, except ours, which is worse. The result is that authorities don't demand that Muslims respect the rights of women and gays, as in Rotherham, England, where they allowed immigrants to degrade 1,400 women and children for a decade, lest they be called racist.
A turnover tax at 5% either gets added to the bottom line and we end up with higher prices in retail or companies which are unable to raise prices because of cheaply priced imports go bust.
No, any kind of turnover or "income" based tax for corporations is a poor idea. I'm honestly surprised that you would advocate such a thing.
Income tax for an individual works because my cost of doing business is very low. I have a job, the cost of doing business is getting to and from work everyday and paying for my lunch (which is subsidised), it works out to around 2% of my gross income. The cost of doing business for Sainsbury's is much higher, they have to pay rent, electricity, wages, suppliers, rates and a bunch of other stuff before we can reasonably say they have made money. If we immediately take 5% of their revenue we would put them out of business, their operating profit margin last year was 2.77%, or £720m on £26bn revenue. Your 5% tax would mean they pay £1.3bn in tax since none of their costs are allowable, which is higher than their operating profit. A system which targets turnover would put too many legitimate operations out of business, companies and individuals operate under different circumstances.
I mean..really?!
Trump 35%
Bush 18%
Kasich 14%
Rubio 9%
Cruz 8%
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Emerson-Poll-Jeb-Bush-New-Hampshire/2016/01/27/id/711251/
Its a bit like the Kipper League of Empire Loyalists who want to rebuild the Commonwealth, without actually considering whether that is what the Old Commonwralth wants.
I don't think he has actually developed yet..
The wider public, if they pay any attention to these things, will be happy that Cameron called a spade a spade on this occasion.
There is a bunch of migrants in Calais. I could think of worse things to call many of them - but I won't. Bunch is fine. A neutral word at worst.