I guess the big question at the moment is if the Tories win enormous victories at the local elections in a few weeks' time will they still refuse to hold an early election? They must be thinking about what happened with Brown in 2007. Labour could be facing a meltdown in the shire counties where a lot of the marginals are located.
Brown was facing Cameron in 2010 he would have beaten Howard in 2005
Theresa May is a pretty centrist, standard, kind of Conservative. I don't understand your loathing for her.
She has an obsession with grammar schools, what is it with people who went to grammar schools, if grammar schools are so good, how come nobody who attended one can differentiate between personal experience and statistical evidence?
But she really annoyed me the day she became PM, she sacked people who had served the Tory party with distinction and honour, for years, and for leaders long before Dave.
That smacked of all the hallmarks of a bully.
She was quite cruel, the way Downing Street works, on a security level, you have put your mobile, wallets, and keys in another part of the building.
She sacked them, and took away their heart passes, which meant they couldn't retrieve their personal possessions.
It was said David Cameron on May the 8th 2015 acted with honour and sensitivity to the Lib Dem SPADS etc.
The ironic thing is, within a few months Mrs May tried to get some of them back, to which many of them told her with great pleasure to get stuffed.
And don't even get me started on the Tory conference...
Top PISA ranked Singapore effectively selects at 13
Singapore and education - handle with extreme care:
Theresa May is a pretty centrist, standard, kind of Conservative. I don't understand your loathing for her.
She has an obsession with grammar schools, what is it with people who went to grammar schools, if grammar schools are so good, how come nobody who attended one can differentiate between personal experience and statistical evidence?
But she really annoyed me the day she became PM, she sacked people who had served the Tory party with distinction and honour, for years, and for leaders long before Dave.
That smacked of all the hallmarks of a bully.
She was quite cruel, the way Downing Street works, on a security level, you have put your mobile, wallets, and keys in another part of the building.
She sacked them, and took away their heart passes, which meant they couldn't retrieve their personal possessions.
It was said David Cameron on May the 8th 2015 acted with honour and sensitivity to the Lib Dem SPADS etc.
The ironic thing is, within a few months Mrs May tried to get some of them back, to which many of them told her with great pleasure to get stuffed.
And don't even get me started on the Tory conference...
Without knowing the facts of that case, I can't comment. I would say that people I know who are acquainted with Theresa May like her a lot.
WRT grammar schools, you do come over as a bit Anthony Crossland.
Bit silly to plough money into grammar schools when so many local authorities are unfairly underfunded wrt education, regardless of the ideology behind it.
I can see pros and cons, but it's never struck me as being an issue that's worth getting very excited about.
Snap PMQs verdict: The recording that emerged yesterday about the Surrey council leader suggesting that he had a “gentleman’s agreement” with the government about extra funding for the council suggests there is something distinctly fishy about this whole affair, and raises questions about quite how honest Theresa May was being when she dismissed the whole thing at PMQs a few weeks ago, but to actually prove at PMQs that May was in the wrong would have required great forensic skill, and Corbyn was not up to the task. Robin Cook might have managed it, or Yvette Cooper could have had a good go, but May brushed aside Corbyn aside with her first, lawyerly-worded answer, and Corbyn then never got much further. It is not easy to see how he could have done better, but perhaps he could have focused on when Surrey was told it could pilot the business rates retention system (before others?). Or pressed her as to how much this would benefit Surrey financially? After that Corbyn moved on to grammar schools, but although he had a perfectly good point to make, he could not convert this into a question that unsettled May. So, all told, she had a very easy run (which will be forgotten about as soon as the budget starts.)
Why is it that Angus Robertson with two questions puts Mrs May under more pressure than Jeremy Corbyn's six questions?
Now you know the answer to that already, you are just wanting one of us in the red corner to spell it out!
Well you did vote for him, so perhaps you could explain.
(And yes, it was a rhetorical question)
I voted for him in 2015 as the "Shit or Bust" candidate, when all else was vanilla.
As it was soon apparent that he was a "Bust", I voted against him last year. (Yes, others will say I should have known that in advance, but would be really leading in the polls if Andy Burnham was our leader?)
Why is it that Angus Robertson with two questions puts Mrs May under more pressure than Jeremy Corbyn's six questions?
Now you know the answer to that already, you are just wanting one of us in the red corner to spell it out!
Well you did vote for him, so perhaps you could explain.
(And yes, it was a rhetorical question)
I voted for him in 2015 as the "Shit or Bust" candidate, when all else was vanilla.
As it was soon apparent that he was a "Bust", I voted against him last year. (Yes, others will say I should have known that in advance, but would be really leading in the polls if Andy Burnham was our leader?)
Burnham would not have led Labour to a potential electoral wipe out that Corbyn might.
Burnham is underestimated, he attended the finest university in the world.
I guess the big question at the moment is if the Tories win enormous victories at the local elections in a few weeks' time will they still refuse to hold an early election? They must be thinking about what happened with Brown in 2007. Labour could be facing a meltdown in the shire counties where a lot of the marginals are located.
Labour don't have all that many seats at stake, but Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (Labour control) Lancashire and Cumbria (Labour largest party) and Staffordshire and Warwickshire (substantial Labour representation) are the ones to watch.
Any remainer who would not have preferred the counterfactual of a Miliband government to the present situation is clearly 'intensely relaxed' regarding Brexit.
That's simplistic. A Miliband government would have likely engaged in the EU with the intent of Blair but without the skill. The blowback from the media and public after making goodwill gestures and signing up to unwanted cooperation while getting little to nothing in return would have been significant. Miliband himself would likely have had an extremely poor approval rating (he did as LotO, which is a much easier job, PR-wise, than PM), and Labour would have leaked more votes to the still-Farage-led UKIP.
Meanwhile, the Tories would have had a leadership contest to replace Cameron, with a good chance of Brexit Boris winning.
Quite how it all would have played out is anyone's guess but it's difficult to see that there wouldn't have been a reckoning towards the back-end of this decade or the beginning of the next one, with Leave in a much stronger position than it was in 2016.
Which is to say that given what we know now, it's highly likely that Brexit would have happened one way or another, unless someone had made a convincing positive case for the EU - and the EU had engaged in enabling a convincing positive case to be made.
Hmm.... I'm not sure about that to be honest. I think we could have continued bumbling along okay within the EU. President Trump also would probably have made Brexit look much less attractive and strengthened the case for the UK having strong ties with Europe.
I do think also that Ed M. was much more focused and forceful on inequality and improving opportunities and results for those left behind... those are the people who voted for Brexit and pushed it over the top.
When Amanda Milling asked her question, as May, Hunt and Hammond were laughing, TM the PM pointed at the opposition benches and said "Look at *** ***'s face!"
I guess the big question at the moment is if the Tories win enormous victories at the local elections in a few weeks' time will they still refuse to hold an early election? They must be thinking about what happened with Brown in 2007. Labour could be facing a meltdown in the shire counties where a lot of the marginals are located.
Labour don't have all that many seats at stake, but Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (Labour control) Lancashire and Cumbria (Labour largest party) and Staffordshire and Warwickshire (substantial Labour representation) are the ones to watch.
Even a wipeout leaves May with needing to engineer a really good reason, given she has said repeatedly there won't be one.
"President Trump is set to appoint an openly gay official to one of the biggest jobs in his administration.
According to a White House official, Trump will appoint Richard Grenell, an openly gay diplomat, this week. He will become the president’s ambassador to NATO, making him the highest profile LGBT official in government.
Theresa May is a pretty centrist, standard, kind of Conservative. I don't understand your loathing for her.
She has an obsession with grammar schools, what is it with people who went to grammar schools, if grammar schools are so good, how come nobody who attended one can differentiate between personal experience and statistical evidence?
But she really annoyed me the day she became PM, she sacked people who had served the Tory party with distinction and honour, for years, and for leaders long before Dave.
That smacked of all the hallmarks of a bully.
She was quite cruel, the way Downing Street works, on a security level, you have put your mobile, wallets, and keys in another part of the building.
She sacked them, and took away their heart passes, which meant they couldn't retrieve their personal possessions.
It was said David Cameron on May the 8th 2015 acted with honour and sensitivity to the Lib Dem SPADS etc.
The ironic thing is, within a few months Mrs May tried to get some of them back, to which many of them told her with great pleasure to get stuffed.
And don't even get me started on the Tory conference...
Top PISA ranked Singapore effectively selects at 13
Singapore and education - handle with extreme care:
I think these comparisons are probably a bit meaningless because they're implicitly based on the idea that if you put children from one country into another country's education system they would suddenly get pretty much the same results. But in fact I think it's more likely that if — for example — you put children from Finland through Singapore's education system, or vice versa, the results would be disastrous because the basic cultural assumptions of each country are often so different.
I guess the big question at the moment is if the Tories win enormous victories at the local elections in a few weeks' time will they still refuse to hold an early election? They must be thinking about what happened with Brown in 2007. Labour could be facing a meltdown in the shire counties where a lot of the marginals are located.
Timing would still be problematic post May 4th. The earliest election date possible would then be June 15th - but only if Corbyn agrees to it. If he declines to do so , we would be looking at June 29th or July 6th. Many would suggest that takes us too far into the Summer holiday period.
I guess the big question at the moment is if the Tories win enormous victories at the local elections in a few weeks' time will they still refuse to hold an early election? They must be thinking about what happened with Brown in 2007. Labour could be facing a meltdown in the shire counties where a lot of the marginals are located.
Labour don't have all that many seats at stake, but Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (Labour control) Lancashire and Cumbria (Labour largest party) and Staffordshire and Warwickshire (substantial Labour representation) are the ones to watch.
I guess the big question at the moment is if the Tories win enormous victories at the local elections in a few weeks' time will they still refuse to hold an early election? They must be thinking about what happened with Brown in 2007. Labour could be facing a meltdown in the shire counties where a lot of the marginals are located.
Labour don't have all that many seats at stake, but Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (Labour control) Lancashire and Cumbria (Labour largest party) and Staffordshire and Warwickshire (substantial Labour representation) are the ones to watch.
Yes, I need to find out how many of Labour's crucial targets are in the shire counties.
I guess the big question at the moment is if the Tories win enormous victories at the local elections in a few weeks' time will they still refuse to hold an early election? They must be thinking about what happened with Brown in 2007. Labour could be facing a meltdown in the shire counties where a lot of the marginals are located.
Labour don't have all that many seats at stake, but Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (Labour control) Lancashire and Cumbria (Labour largest party) and Staffordshire and Warwickshire (substantial Labour representation) are the ones to watch.
Even a wipeout leaves May with needing to engineer a really good reason, given she has said repeatedly there won't be one.
I really do not think TM will call an election before 2020 unless something very unexpected happens
Why is it that Angus Robertson with two questions puts Mrs May under more pressure than Jeremy Corbyn's six questions?
Now you know the answer to that already, you are just wanting one of us in the red corner to spell it out!
Well you did vote for him, so perhaps you could explain.
(And yes, it was a rhetorical question)
I voted for him in 2015 as the "Shit or Bust" candidate, when all else was vanilla.
As it was soon apparent that he was a "Bust", I voted against him last year. (Yes, others will say I should have known that in advance, but would be really leading in the polls if Andy Burnham was our leader?)
Burnham would not have led Labour to a potential electoral wipe out that Corbyn might.
Burnham is underestimated, he attended the finest university in the world.
Burnham would have led us to defeat in 2020, of that I am sure. With Corbyn, it was clear that things would change, and a chance that that would work to our advantage - it still might if he is replaced by a "PM in waiting" prior to 2020 with the right blend of radical/populist/funded policies to excite the electorate. Or we might just get hammered.
Theresa May is a pretty centrist, standard, kind of Conservative. I don't understand your loathing for her.
She has an obsession with grammar schools, what is it with people who went to grammar schools, if grammar schools are so good, how come nobody who attended one can differentiate between personal experience and statistical evidence?
But she really annoyed me the day she became PM, she sacked people who had served the Tory party with distinction and honour, for years, and for leaders long before Dave.
That smacked of all the hallmarks of a bully.
She was quite cruel, the way Downing Street works, on a security level, you have put your mobile, wallets, and keys in another part of the building.
She sacked them, and took away their heart passes, which meant they couldn't retrieve their personal possessions.
It was said David Cameron on May the 8th 2015 acted with honour and sensitivity to the Lib Dem SPADS etc.
The ironic thing is, within a few months Mrs May tried to get some of them back, to which many of them told her with great pleasure to get stuffed.
And don't even get me started on the Tory conference...
Top PISA ranked Singapore effectively selects at 13
Singapore and education - handle with extreme care:
Theresa May is a pretty centrist, standard, kind of Conservative. I don't understand your loathing for her.
She has an obsession with grammar schools, what is it with people who went to grammar schools, if grammar schools are so good, how come nobody who attended one can differentiate between personal experience and statistical evidence?
But she really annoyed me the day she became PM, she sacked people who had served the Tory party with distinction and honour, for years, and for leaders long before Dave.
That smacked of all the hallmarks of a bully.
She was quite cruel, the way Downing Street works, on a security level, you have put your mobile, wallets, and keys in another part of the building.
She sacked them, and took away their heart passes, which meant they couldn't retrieve their personal possessions.
It was said David Cameron on May the 8th 2015 acted with honour and sensitivity to the Lib Dem SPADS etc.
The ironic thing is, within a few months Mrs May tried to get some of them back, to which many of them told her with great pleasure to get stuffed.
And don't even get me started on the Tory conference...
Top PISA ranked Singapore effectively selects at 13
Singapore and education - handle with extreme care:
Theresa May is a pretty centrist, standard, kind of Conservative. I don't understand your loathing for her.
She has an obsession with grammar schools, what is it with people who went to grammar schools, if grammar schools are so good, how come nobody who attended one can differentiate between personal experience and statistical evidence?
But she really annoyed me the day she became PM, she sacked people who had served the Tory party with distinction and honour, for years, and for leaders long before Dave.
That smacked of all the hallmarks of a bully.
She was quite cruel, the way Downing Street works, on a security level, you have put your mobile, wallets, and keys in another part of the building.
She sacked them, and took away their heart passes, which meant they couldn't retrieve their personal possessions.
It was said David Cameron on May the 8th 2015 acted with honour and sensitivity to the Lib Dem SPADS etc.
The ironic thing is, within a few months Mrs May tried to get some of them back, to which many of them told her with great pleasure to get stuffed.
And don't even get me started on the Tory conference...
Without knowing the facts of that case, I can't comment. I would say that people I know who are acquainted with Theresa May like her a lot.
WRT grammar schools, you do come over as a bit Anthony Crossland.
Bit silly to plough money into grammar schools when so many local authorities are unfairly underfunded wrt education, regardless of the ideology behind it.
I can see pros and cons, but it's never struck me as being an issue that's worth getting very excited about.
If the money is available to be invested it's better to adequately fund the counties who don't get a fair deal before anything else surely?
Why is it that Angus Robertson with two questions puts Mrs May under more pressure than Jeremy Corbyn's six questions?
Now you know the answer to that already, you are just wanting one of us in the red corner to spell it out!
Well you did vote for him, so perhaps you could explain.
(And yes, it was a rhetorical question)
I voted for him in 2015 as the "Shit or Bust" candidate, when all else was vanilla.
As it was soon apparent that he was a "Bust", I voted against him last year. (Yes, others will say I should have known that in advance, but would be really leading in the polls if Andy Burnham was our leader?)
Burnham would not have led Labour to a potential electoral wipe out that Corbyn might.
Burnham is underestimated, he attended the finest university in the world.
Burnham would have led us to defeat in 2020, of that I am sure. With Corbyn, it was clear that things would change, and a chance that that would work to our advantage - it still might if he is replaced by a "PM in waiting" prior to 2020 with the right blend of radical/populist/funded policies to excite the electorate. Or we might just get hammered.
Given that Labour is polling 28% under Corbyn , it must be likely that Burnham would have at least matched the 31.2% achieved by Milliband in 2015. Starmer, Jarvis or Benn would be likely to raise Labour's vote share to circa 35% in 2020.
Why is it that Angus Robertson with two questions puts Mrs May under more pressure than Jeremy Corbyn's six questions?
Now you know the answer to that already, you are just wanting one of us in the red corner to spell it out!
Well you did vote for him, so perhaps you could explain.
(And yes, it was a rhetorical question)
I voted for him in 2015 as the "Shit or Bust" candidate, when all else was vanilla.
As it was soon apparent that he was a "Bust", I voted against him last year. (Yes, others will say I should have known that in advance, but would be really leading in the polls if Andy Burnham was our leader?)
Burnham would not have led Labour to a potential electoral wipe out that Corbyn might.
Burnham is underestimated, he attended the finest university in the world.
They get the best international academic results though
So what? They teach their children how to answer exam questions.
Exactly my response. People who drill are good at drills. They are not anywhere near as good at applying the knowledge or skills drilled to everyday challenges as those who are taught in a more realistic, multiple skills simultaneously, problem-solving curriculum, even if the latter score lower on the tests.
This is not just theory, it is practical advise applied by top coaches in sports and in other arenas.
Gah. Quarterly reporting delayed only for those biz below VAT threshold.
Was hoping he was going to say microbusinesses.
Quarterly reporting delayed for what ? VAT or corp tax comps ?
VAT is a simple four-figure form and signing a cheque, or it used to be before bloody online VAT. Income tax is a nightmare and one increasingly needs to pay an accountant as well as carry tax investigation insurance, because believe me you don't want to be alone faced with these people if they decide to get heavy.
Customs and Excise apparently had a more straightforward way of working from the Inland Revenue. It still seems to do so. The merger, designed by one Mr. G. Brown, created a monster. See hmrcisshite.blogspot.co.uk
Looks like Phil Hammond is about to hit the self employed.
To be honest this makes sense with regard to NICs.
I was a bit worried but in the end 1% is not that bad. I feared worse.
Isn't it a 2% increase by 2019?
Yes but we no longer have to pay the NICs 2 so net it will be somewhat less. It is still a long way away from equality of contributions, particularly when ENICs are taken into account.
Theresa May is a pretty centrist, standard, kind of Conservative. I don't understand your loathing for her.
She has an obsession with grammar schools, what is it with people who went to grammar schools, if grammar schools are so good, how come nobody who attended one can differentiate between personal experience and statistical evidence?
But she really annoyed me the day she became PM, she sacked people who had served the Tory party with distinction and honour, for years, and for leaders long before Dave.
That smacked of all the hallmarks of a bully.
She was quite cruel, the way Downing Street works, on a security level, you have put your mobile, wallets, and keys in another part of the building.
She sacked them, and took away their heart passes, which meant they couldn't retrieve their personal possessions.
It was said David Cameron on May the 8th 2015 acted with honour and sensitivity to the Lib Dem SPADS etc.
The ironic thing is, within a few months Mrs May tried to get some of them back, to which many of them told her with great pleasure to get stuffed.
And don't even get me started on the Tory conference...
Top PISA ranked Singapore effectively selects at 13
Singapore and education - handle with extreme care:
Looks like Phil Hammond is about to hit the self employed.
To be honest this makes sense with regard to NICs.
I was a bit worried but in the end 1% is not that bad. I feared worse.
Isn't it a 2% increase by 2019?
Yes but we no longer have to pay the NICs 2 so net it will be somewhat less. It is still a long way away from equality of contributions, particularly when ENICs are taken into account.
Theresa May is a pretty centrist, standard, kind of Conservative. I don't understand your loathing for her.
She has an obsession with grammar schools, what is it with people who went to grammar schools, if grammar schools are so good, how come nobody who attended one can differentiate between personal experience and statistical evidence?
But she really annoyed me the day she became PM, she sacked people who had served the Tory party with distinction and honour, for years, and for leaders long before Dave.
That smacked of all the hallmarks of a bully.
She was quite cruel, the way Downing Street works, on a security level, you have put your mobile, wallets, and keys in another part of the building.
She sacked them, and took away their heart passes, which meant they couldn't retrieve their personal possessions.
It was said David Cameron on May the 8th 2015 acted with honour and sensitivity to the Lib Dem SPADS etc.
The ironic thing is, within a few months Mrs May tried to get some of them back, to which many of them told her with great pleasure to get stuffed.
And don't even get me started on the Tory conference...
Top PISA ranked Singapore effectively selects at 13
Singapore and education - handle with extreme care:
He therefore announces that he will reduce the tax-free dividend allowance for directors/shareholders from £5,000 to £2,000 with effect from April 2018
All of us who own small business and don't earn via PAYE getting some shafting today.
He therefore announces that he will reduce the tax-free dividend allowance for directors/shareholders from £5,000 to £2,000 with effect from April 2018
All of us who own small business and don't earn via PAYE getting some shafting today.
Only £225 cost in the dividends threshold change, tho, Mr FU.
Those who have a mix of PAYE/dividends will still be better off
I thought the whole point about having lower taxes on self-employed reflected the risks they were taking and no employer benefits.
If the gov aim to even the two types up, then this creates a huge disincentive for people to become self-employed.
In reality the problem is we now have two classes of self-employed, one of which the tax system never anticipated, the "gigger".
Both technically don't have steady wages nor employee benefits, but one is much more like a normal job than the other and it seems with various legal challenges the gigger will soon get employment benefits etc.
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Snap PMQs verdict: The recording that emerged yesterday about the Surrey council leader suggesting that he had a “gentleman’s agreement” with the government about extra funding for the council suggests there is something distinctly fishy about this whole affair, and raises questions about quite how honest Theresa May was being when she dismissed the whole thing at PMQs a few weeks ago, but to actually prove at PMQs that May was in the wrong would have required great forensic skill, and Corbyn was not up to the task. Robin Cook might have managed it, or Yvette Cooper could have had a good go, but May brushed aside Corbyn aside with her first, lawyerly-worded answer, and Corbyn then never got much further. It is not easy to see how he could have done better, but perhaps he could have focused on when Surrey was told it could pilot the business rates retention system (before others?). Or pressed her as to how much this would benefit Surrey financially? After that Corbyn moved on to grammar schools, but although he had a perfectly good point to make, he could not convert this into a question that unsettled May. So, all told, she had a very easy run (which will be forgotten about as soon as the budget starts.)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2017/mar/08/budget-2017-philip-hammond-chancellor-spending-tax-brexit-schools-nhs-growth-borrowing-live?CMP=share_btn_tw
As it was soon apparent that he was a "Bust", I voted against him last year. (Yes, others will say I should have known that in advance, but would be really leading in the polls if Andy Burnham was our leader?)
Burnham is underestimated, he attended the finest university in the world.
I do think also that Ed M. was much more focused and forceful on inequality and improving opportunities and results for those left behind... those are the people who voted for Brexit and pushed it over the top.
It's an interesting counterfactual anyway.
Can anyone lip read? Who she was referring to?
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/03/08/president-trump-just-appointed-an-out-gay-man-to-one-of-the-biggest-jobs-in-his-administration/
"President Trump is set to appoint an openly gay official to one of the biggest jobs in his administration.
According to a White House official, Trump will appoint Richard Grenell, an openly gay diplomat, this week.
He will become the president’s ambassador to NATO, making him the highest profile LGBT official in government.
Anyone get on?
Was my woman a winner ?
'They don't call it the last Labour government for nothing'
What an improvement! Great jokes at the budget instead of a grating voice!
Was hoping he was going to say microbusinesses.
This is not just theory, it is practical advise applied by top coaches in sports and in other arenas.
And yes, May is an insecure bully – or so her behaviour would suggest.
Customs and Excise apparently had a more straightforward way of working from the Inland Revenue. It still seems to do so. The merger, designed by one Mr. G. Brown, created a monster. See hmrcisshite.blogspot.co.uk
What's this about? VAT is already on cellphones services etc.
So, more NI for me to pay. Bugger.
Edited extra bit: just keeping up to date here, not watching it. One percent's still 1% more than I'd like, but cheers for the actual figure, Mr. L.
Still cheaper than paying yourself through PAYE though, so fair enough.
I feared worse on dividend allowance/tax too.
7.5% on £3k means those receiving £5k dividends or more pay £225. Seems fair enough to me.
Edit: And not till 18-19 either
All of us who own small business and don't earn via PAYE getting some shafting today.
Good man.
No Omnishambles here....
I already reserve judgement.
I thought the whole point about having lower taxes on self-employed reflected the risks they were taking and no employer benefits.
If the gov aim to even the two types up, then this creates a huge disincentive for people to become self-employed.
Those who have a mix of PAYE/dividends will still be better off
Corbyn is so far down a black hole that even Stephen Hawking has disowned him
And now reducing the tax advantages for taking a risk and setting up a business.
Are there any pro-business pro-success parties left in this country?
Both technically don't have steady wages nor employee benefits, but one is much more like a normal job than the other and it seems with various legal challenges the gigger will soon get employment benefits etc.
Forget Spreadsheet Phil, this is Stand Up Phil