Today's discussion about the news
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Got to pay for state pensions from 60 somehow Brian.
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Looking like the planned rallies will be somewhat outnumbered. The half dozen in Brighton are behind a line of police wondering how they can get to the station and disappear.
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After the prison sentences handed down today, I think it will fizzle out.
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Gammon served in prison jokes are probably overdue at this point.
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Interesting how the counter protestors don’t need to smash things up to make their point.
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Flattered the TikTok algo sent me a home office advert advertising the sentences for rioting and looting.
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You are an angry young man. Makes a lot of sense actually.
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What the hell do you watch on that? It's too damn quick for anything meaningful.
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read books if you want meaningful.
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Well no because the election isn't a vote on a single issue and neither of the 2 main parties really offer any realistic plan to reduce it significantly.
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Might be time for a re-run of the ten men in a bar tax parable. The super rich know what's coming in the UK and are taking their business elsewhere. Who'd have thought this would happen?
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
They had the sentencing remarks from Liverpool Crown Court on the BBC News channel at 11:35 today.
"those who deliberately participate in such disorder, causing injury damage and fear to communities will inevitably be punished with sentences designed to deter others from similar activity"
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It's interesting, the Tory party are usually big on punishing crime and advocating for more custodial sentences. Now these rioters are starting to get banged up, surely you would think they would be praising Keir Starmer? Wonder why they are staying quiet? Strange that Reform and Nigel Farage also don't appear to have an opinion on it 😉
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Lawyer: "The court will note his last conviction is in March 2021 for an offence in September 2020. There has been no offending since. That’s four years with no offending which may not seem a particularly long period for most people.”
Judge Flewitt says: ““He was in prison for part of it,”
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I wouldn’t really expect them to praise Starmer. Their silence is both telling and welcome tho’. 🤫
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Fuc em. I doubt it will have any meaningful impact the economy As for damaging the economy how about terminating our trading agreement with our largest partner... I mean how’s that working out?
there’s a number of reasons the Tories are unelectable , Brexit failure being one…
Musk is making himself look a bigger cUNt that usual , reposting that the UK was sending guilty rioters to the Falkland’s. Oh and he’s describing the UK police as woke stasi for using social media to track the guilty down. No vested interest there….
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Nope.
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Didn't the Tories start the wheels turning limiting non doms before they got kicked out? I thought Hunt was going to stop it after 2 or 4 years residence anyway (which seems reasonable to my uneducated eye) following the Akshata scandal.
Presumably the super rich had started planning already.
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Breaking news... you'll remember where you were when you read this:
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there you go pointing out facts 😀
my bike - faster than god's and twice as shiny0 -
Sorry, I'm not interested in whataboutery here.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
If you read the article you'll see that these people are leaving because of what Labour are planning to do. And it's not just non doms.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
The first paragraph of the story you posted:
Financial advisers have seen a surge in wealthy clients preparing to leave the UK after Labour won the general election.
The “uptick in relocations” comes after the Government confirmed plans to abolish the non-dom regime which offered generous tax breaks for expatriates, firms said.
So the non doms are only leaving if their non dom status is removed by labour but they'd stay if it was a Tory policy?
You really will believe any old shite that the Torygraph posts.
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I think it's the only way Stevo can keep his spirits up, given the fact that Starmer has a majority of, let's see, 167, and can do pretty much whatever it wants.
We've had this "all the rich will leave the UK if Labour get in" since time immemorial, and though I dare say some will, given that 'trickle down economics' is dubious at best, and that the truly rich seem to pay little tax anyway ("Only the little people pay taxes"), I suspect that the UK will survive perfectly well without people who have so little loyalty to the UK in the first place.
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the tory brexit certainly caused several i know to leave, not because of tax, but the tories' hostility to business
their culture wars and focus on performative rather than productive policies didn't help either
anyone wealthy enough to care will long ago have had their affairs structured to minimise their tax liability, claiming labour are suddenly making things difficult for them suggests they've been doing a bad job of it
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It's non news. The headline is about as accurate as saying there is an uptick in ex Scottish first ministers preparing to leave the UK because of far right rioting.
Move along from the rantings of an opinion piece writer feverishly knocked out in the middle of an opioid induced haze. There is some actual news happening I am sure.
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So the "Non Doms " who don't pay UK tax might leave because they might have to pay tax. Which means zero difference for the UK as they didn't pay taxes anyway 🤔
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Helps with the housing crisis if they do leave en-masse. 😉
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
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