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IT Entrepreneur. DC architect. PHP developer. Fuel PHP Framework project lead. Open Source lover. Asperger brain.
Old Dutch. New Scot. Always European.
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Is he? I think you're giving him an awful lot of credit, given the fact he has the intellect of an 11-year old. I think the question is, who is pulling the strings here?
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Semantics. For me, personal allowance is still taxed. It is just that the first tax band is 0%, and the UK has given that band a name.
Imho, everything you need to fill in on your self assesment is taxed (some at 0%), everything you don't is free of tax.
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Careful interpreting this. The fact someone has savings over that amount and thus can answer 1 or 2 doesn't mean these savings are surplus and can easily be missed.
Being on forced early retirement due to poor health, I rely on savings to get me to state pension age. £1,000 is 20 weeks of food shop
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This has nothing to do with support for a person and/or the opinions of this person.
This is about a state, who has kidnapped a member of the european parliament, from a ship, in international waters.
Who the person is, and what state done it, is not relevant.
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That may be the case, but that is not an excuse for Israels actions, nor for condoning the action.
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Easily fixed: tax the rich more.
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The problem is inequality (which could be people's own fault btw, you know a UK state pension is tiny), which is an individual issue, which in turn can not be addressed by a blanket rule.
This is a deeply rooted problem, I got a compulsary workplace pension when I started working, over 40 year ago.
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I am on a pension much below that threshold, but am not going to claim, as I don't need it.
This is the general problem with arbitrary thresholds, a part goes to people who don't need it. Which was the reason for the cut in the first place.
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That is the case with facists and populists anywhere. Trump, Farage, Weidel, etc, none of them is not even in the slightest interested in the country or the people. For them, it is a means to an end, the end here being power and wealth.
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I saw their candidate on TV promising to bring "the high street back". As usual, without any explaining how, just a populist sound bite.
Also, "the highstreet" is gone because none of them shopped there anymore, they are to blame for its demise.
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That is totally and utterly depressing...
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Doesn't it do that automatically when a known wifi network is not in range?
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The problem is this does nothing to deal with the cause (abject poverty), it just sticks a plaster over one of its effects.
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Also, GPS and navigation systems are useless if you don't want the shortest / quickest route from A to B, but prefer a scenic route. Or you are rambling. I've assembled quite a stack of OS maps over the years. "old fashioned" maps for the win!
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Na de Ierse opstand zijn tijdens de politieke onderhandelingen de Noord-ierse ieren onder de bus gegooid, en aan de "engelse" kans van de grens terecht gekomen, op in hun ogen Ierse grond. En voor de Unionisten (de Engeland supporters) zijn ze nog steeds tweederangs volk.
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De protestanten zijn afstamelingen van de Engelsen die de woningen en bedrijven van de verdreven Ieren hebben overgenomen.
Het is een koloniaal conflict, tussen onderdrukkers en onderdrukten.
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Dat geeft precies het probleem aan. Het wordt continue beschreven als een "katholiek" vs "protestants" verhaal, maar dat is het niet.
Katholieken zijn de van oorspong Ierse bevolking, verdreven, vernederd en vermoord door de Engelsen.
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For me, that falls in the category "tax more".
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So as usual they produce a sound-bite with a lie, and hope people accept it art face-value, and don't look any further. And they have achieved their goal of wide media coverage of the "alleged" statement, and that will enforce the lie in people's minds.
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There were plenty of speeches. Politiians speech all the time.
The problem here is Farage doesn't provide any proof as to what exactly he is referring to, making his statement difficult to verify.
Local Reform has confimed the statement was made up by them: news.stv.tv/politics/sar...
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No, because the speech does not exist.
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You can't be a member of a Ltd Company?
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Facists fear the educated.
Uneducated people are easily manipulated. The educational level of the average American is that of an 11-year old. And that includes Trump himself.
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To add to this:
the fact that the vast majority who arrive this way are granted asylum shows that providing legal routes would address the problem.
For comparison: every day about 2500 migrants arrive on visa's thanks to the post-Brexit system, much, much more than before Brexit.
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I don't understand this. Not every manufacured car is produced to order, and if you go to some ports, there are gigantic parking lots with imported cars waiting. Most cars spend their entire life being outside. And it is even cheaper to insure if I park it in front of my garage, instead of in it.
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Just a normal day of Scottish weather. Basking in the sun here (a bit north of you), albeit a bit blowy.
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The bottle is slightly coloured, so that might contribute to the darker colour.
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The box says "Double matured on Pedro Ximénez Cask Wood".
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My favorite:
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It is the case with most products, the price isn't based on the cost, but on what people are willing to pay for it.
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Due to this policy, there are over 1 million EV's in NL now.
This clearly tells you what the green / EV policies of the UK government are.
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Car retail prices per country have always been related to the relative wealth of that country, that isn't new.
Forever, cars in NL used to be much more expensive than in the UK, mainly due to a massive luxury tax slapped on it. But for EV's, that tax is wavered, this model is sold for £39,460.
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And not without reason. It is a lot easlier to control and manipulate uneducated people. Something they've been doing to the black population ever since slavery was abolished.
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Reminds me of Farage in front of a poster...
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Also, no ruling on trans women will prevent cis male predators from entering those spaces, if they want to.
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No, this is about the growth of the wealth of the richest people. Which Truss failed to do, but Trump is on track with...
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I don't see anything planned to change that. The rethoric is still "immigration is bad for wages" so "we need to limit immigration".
While immigration isn't the problem here, the problem is the long standing practice of UK employers abusing employees, and government policies which allows them to.
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"Immigrations keeps wages low". That is typical Labour speak, and one of the reasons Corbyn favoured Brexit.
If that is the case, who don't EU countries have this problem? They have agreed minimum wages per sector, so employers can't undercut by hiring immigrants. The problem is government policy.
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They don't seem to be very good in history.
Israel (and allies) started all this, by occupying Palestine, and removing the people. They have created these enemies with their actions. It is not the other way around.
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The differences between the Nazi regime and the Israeli regime are getting smaller by the day.
After occupying the land, they created the ghetto, then starved the people in it. And then, they flattened it with 2000 pounders.
p.s. Just like not every German was a Nazi, not every Jew is a murderer !
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Not only is nobody talking about the loss of GDP brexit has caused and continues to cause, they aren't talking about the enormous implementation and operational costs either. Like £5bn on Border checks, £30bn in settlements, £370m on the NI protocol, the costs of creating new regulatory bodies, etc.
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"Doing the English", a new Scottish pastime? 😂😂😂
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Also, whoever wrote it included themselves in the count.
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Kuenssberg has been doing Brexit PR since 2016...
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Eh, because the UK is still far from Net Zero, and the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity keeps prices high?
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I'd rather see welfare grow my more than expected. But that doesn't happen, even though expectations are already reeaally low...
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They are there for themselfs, and protecting their seat. They don't give a toss about the people who elected them.
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I got my degree in my late 20's, because my then employer said I needed it to progress. Took 5 years of evenings and Saturdays. Don't think it made an iota of difference in my career.
Now I'm an employer myself, I don't even ask for it, skills and knowledge can be aquired in numerous ways.