I appreciate that Miliband is a senior member of the labour party, and thus pretty much an idiot by definition, but of all the jobs in the government, why on earth would he want to be chancellor? Bei… (View Post)

Perhaps people like the cheery Nigerian chappy I became acquainted with at church. He, his wife and teenage son and daughter turned up as part of the Boriswave, all to a non-jobs in socal care, havin… (View Post)

Lots and lots of problems with this. Firstly, capital gains tend to arrive in lumps. Let's say that I buy a business for £100k, work on it for ten years, then sell it for £200k. Every year I pay… (View Post)

I think that one is pretty much a single perfect circle. (View Post)

Our of interest, what's driving this? It's probably not direct profiteering, the market is too competitive. I suspect that it's more about the handling/packaging/transaction cost. The … (View Post)