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    On 08/10/2023 at 02:00, Rock The Boat said:

    What happens if I don't have sufficient social credit score to be able to call for an Uber? Then I won't be able to travel at all. If having my own personal vehicle that gives me the freedom to travel where and when I want and with whom I want then I don't mind being labelled a backwater.

    If you can afford to run a car, you can afford a taxi. 

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    7 hours ago, Rock The Boat said:

    Don't be silly. If this country were to ban offshore tax havens the money would just move to other jurisdictions where tax sheltering is not banned. Not one penny would return to the UK.

    And we managed to reverse the decline and decay of the 1970s (yes we have been here before) by big tax cuts in the 1980s (among other measures)

    Which is why you make the tax system such that if you live in the UK then you are taxed in the UK.

    Getting rid of non dom status is the first step too that. 

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    7 hours ago, Rock The Boat said:

    What happens if I don't have sufficient social credit score to be able to call for an Uber? Then I won't be able to travel at all. If having my own personal vehicle that gives me the freedom to travel where and when I want and with whom I want then I don't mind being labelled a backwater.

    Private cars will be taxed off local roads. Self driving cars will make owning one pointless. 

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    Nor has he said what jobs all these elderly people will be doing. 
     

    The best thing this country could do is make offshore tax havens illegal, taxing all the assets in the Crown dependency ones at 40% and using the cash raised to make Britain a better place for the majority who live here and not for the richest minority. 
     

    Im not holding my breath though when the idiots in charge are sill advocating tax cuts when the Country is declining and decaying at a rapid rate and badly in need on infrastructure investment. 

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    1 hour ago, NFN FC said:

    I would argue that they are on average healthier.

    No but he could work in the construction industry off the tools.

    So people should not spend on luxuries to pay for everyone to retire at 65?

    You are very imaginative. 
     

    If people are going to have to work longer we are going to have to provide a lot more jobs that elderly people can do. 
     

    Or we could just have a government backed state pension whereby the government does not use that tax and national insurance paid today to Pay the pension of retirees now. But instead invests it for those paying into the scheme.
    That there is the problem. 

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    12 hours ago, Rock The Boat said:

    HS2 was a very stupid idea from the beginning. We are a small island and our major cities are fairly close together. Shaving ten minutes off a journey is not a deal breaker. You have to travel around the country to realise how poor so much of the east-west transport links are. Finish dual-carriageing the A11 along the Newmarket road for goodness sake.

    In 20 years time people won’t own a car anymore. Want to travel locally just ring a driverless Uber and it will do the job. 
    Travel longer distance will be by train. 
    We are decades behind the rest of Europe with travel policy. Business Will increasingly look at the UK and see it as a backwater not worth investing in unless we change our political thinking. We cannot continue to think we can just live in the past. 

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    12 hours ago, NFN FC said:

    Can't do job, get job you can do.

    Wait til you reach 60+. 
    You will then understand the nonsense of keep increasing the retirement age. 
    If it was right to retire at 65 ten years ago then it’s right to retire at 65 now. 
    Look at some 75 year olds and tell me what jobs you think they will be able to do?? Then come back to me. 
    Politically we are the laughing stock of the world, scrambling around trying to make sure the richest don’t have to pay any tax. 

  10. Posted · Edited by duke63

    Britain will become a European poverty backwater soon. 
    We do not invest in the future. 
    And even when a decision to do so is made there are so many vested interests, cronyism and fingers in pies that costs run out of control and it gets cancelled. We are a joke. 
     


    I see Shapps wants all us plebs to work until we are 75 too. 
     

    You would have to be mental to vote Tory. 

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    Why do so many think the club are just trying to hide stuff all the time?

    The process we are going through is a legal process defined by the law of the land and with strict regulations we must adhere to for it to be allowed to happen. The rules are there to protect minority shareholders.

    NCFC is a plc so the rules surrounding any takeover are much more complex than a non plc.

     

    If anyone wants to trawl through the rules to ensure Webber isn't try to pull a fast one, here they are. Fill your boots!!

     

    https://www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk/the-code

     

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    Uk rail  network is already more than a decade behind much of Europe.

    The incompetence of a supposed advanced Country cannot build a single railway line in time and at cost beggars belief.

    We are fast becoming the paupers of Europe.

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    12 hours ago, Conrad said:

    And you think a super league will make such a difference (assuming that they leave the Premier League as well)? What we will be left with will still be a league of have and have nots. The majority of those that are left behind will have a sugar daddy worth billions. It will still be uncompetitive in the way that we all wish for.

    The money will kikely be on a much lower level anyway but it would also mean that new rules could be introduced to stop external wealth being used to ruining the game. Much stricter rules on owner loans to clubs.

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    5 minutes ago, yellowrider120 said:

    No it's not! It was as recent as 2016 that 'little old Leicester' won the title. Who would have thought that 'little old Brighton' would now be playing in Europe and genuinely challenging for the Top Six??

    'Little old Leicester' with their £3 billion Malaysian owner, or 'Little Old Brighton'  whose owner is estimated to be worth £1.3 billion or 'Little old Fulham' whose owner is estimated to be worth $5.8 billion.

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    12 hours ago, S_81 said:

    In total agreement with that. Decent scoring record in a poor Posh side when in the Champs that season. Was available. And not for much. But Wagner would have wanted a more mobile type no9. And yet Hwang doesn’t really look that type. 

    Transfer fees are just a small part of any incoming player. No doubt he would have wanted at least £20k per week on a 3 year contract. That's already another £3 million.

    I'm astonished how little so many understand about finances.

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  24. Posted

    1 hour ago, littleyellowbirdie said:

    Yes, but as someone else pointed out, Barnes has been excellent injury-wise; weeks in with us and he now has a long-term injury.

    Our injury problems clearly aren't just bad luck; they look to be part of a pattern.

    Too much football being played. Its inevitable that with more football matches ( and now more than 95 minutes in most games) that there will be more injuries.

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    1 minute ago, littleyellowbirdie said:

    No doubt some did, and if the argument was that nobody believed leave's economic arguments then that would be enough to disprove it, but that's not the assertion. The assertion is that it helped tip the balance for a leave win in the face of the much more compelling and comprehensive economic arguments from remain. No amount of anecdotes good enough to make that case.

    Sorry, but this keeps getting asserted again and again like it's fact, but if it's fact then the data should be there to back it up. Where is it?

    Regardless of the last Brexit vote, give it ten years when many Brexit voters have passed on and younger generations visit Europe and see they are so far ahead of us in so many aspects and their standard of living is much better, then younger generations will demand another vote to rejoin. 
     

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