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There’s an excellent piece by John Rentoul on the issue here. The heading says it all:- “Non-doms: If Osborne was on the ball he would not be left defending a tax perk for the rich. The stupidity of his response is matched only by its laziness.
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The white bits are fat in black pudding, though there may be barley in some versions. It's a bit like a very dry sausage (fat aside) in terms of texture. Not quite certain how to describe the taste- slightly dry meaty but not very strong.
The Rentoul piece was I think pre-written, and inadequately tweaked to reflect events. Fail.
I expected it to be like kidney or liver in terms of taste. Love liver, hate kidney [the smell makes me want to barf]
It's also the intellectual paucity of their argument. If Labour want to argue for a larger state then that is their prerogative, as the LibDems did in (I think) 2005 with the policy of a penny on income tax to go to Education. That's a thought-through policy, just yelling "Bankers, Non-Doms, Bankers, Zero Hours" again and again certainly isn't!
What was white pudding?
Lazy journalist can't be bothered to rewrite article.
I'm sure Labour will be happy to talk about non-doms from now until May 7th, even if it is all a bit vacuous.
Really? When you think of it, this is a de facto shift of the burden of taxation from the wealthy to the ordinary man in the street.
We ban non doms.
They leave.
We have to make up the tax shortfall.
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Reminds me of an FT headline after a massive earthquake in Assam killed 10000:
Massive Earthquake in Assam; Tea shares drop
Like very lean well hung beef. Cheap too...
re sausage, when my exercise was mainly going on long walks---say 30 miles with a pack---I would lunch on a ring of pepperoni, made locally in the wonderful Bedford Italian community, with much bread and some water, or beer if it was available. The white bits in that sausage were most definitely pieces of fat.
A very good substitute would have been black pudding from a rather special local Bedford butcher, still going strong.
They pay loads in tax, if we had more, I'd be able to cut your taxes and keep services intact or make them better.
Why would someone pay £90000 ? Because alternatively, they would have to pay more.
The Guardian have dropped the story from their headlines, the BBC lead on the defence of the policy and the Telegraph kick the boot in about their "Independent" advisor being a party member and responsible for Gary Barlow's well documented recent troubles with the taxman.
Oh, and the policy was "20 years in the making", Gordon didn't do it because he did the maths and realised how much it would cost the country to go for the internationally mobile.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11523489/The-20-year-history-of-Labours-struggle-over-non-doms.html
Nicola "Austerity is holding back growth"
Ruth "We have the fastest growth in the developed World"
@afneil: Sturgeon calls extra £180bn spending "modest" which would mean "slightly" slower deficit reduction. These claims deserve serious scrutiny.
The North Western variety can be very good, the best is usually horseshoe shaped in a proper gut casing and is boiled or steamed. The fatter sort is best sliced and fried (not grilled). Black pudding and onion sandwich is an excellent hangover cure.
Playing to the home crowd....
As a one-off, this might be acceptable but there's a wholly undesirable anti-rich, anti-success, anti-business element to Labour's campaigning that needs challenging and defeating before it does the country serious harm. Or, alternatively, Labour needs to demonstrate that it would do serious harm. Either way, it's not the Tories' job to implement Labour policies, only more effectively.
Scotland should be independent !
I lived on lamb chops for a couple of yrs as a small kid - I was very faddy, once I'd got a taste for something, that was it! Funnily enough, I had lamb chops for tea today - haven't had them in ten years, I burned my fingers on them but golly how yummy!
Can't understand why people tell those that are uncomfortable eating animals killed for our pleasure that they shouldn't eat meat substitute? Why not?! Who cares?!
We really aren't hurting anyone
Or reformed chicken pretending to be breast meat. I'm quite happy for anyone to eat whatever they like. I prefer to eat the real thing.
Was the promise of the referendum that it was 'once in a generation', or 'once in a lifetime', I forget?
Scolding the Conservatives for their approach, Mr Darling said that most non-doms were not the fantastically wealthy creatures of popular myth. In fact, he suggested, barely 15,000 of them had earnings high enough to pay an annual £25,000 charge.
Far from being yacht-owning plutocrats, Mr Darling added, many non-doms were simply middle-class professionals who just happened to have ties to foreign countries. Too harsh a change in their tax treatment would deprive Britain of their talents, their industry, and their taxes, he concluded.
It appears to be senior members of the Labour Party - including Ed Balls himself - who were the Non Doms most devoted defenders.
I never considered that. I don't like corn fed chicken myself, it reminds me of foie gras which is fine in very small portions but too rich for my taste.
IF labour wants to talk about booting out wealthy people so that ordinary folk have to pay higher taxes for the same services, bring it on.
'shifting the burden downwards...'
Well, its a slogan of sorts.
(Calm down, Charles, it was a joke!)