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Reply | Farmers
at 18:29 21 Nov 2024
He certainly proved himself to be a knob when interviewed by Victoria Derbyshire yesterday.
He asked her 'how many people in the UK pay IHT'. She said 4% (in other words 96% don't). He responded by saying after this 96% of farmers will be paying IHT.
Utterly stupid. |
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Reply | Transferring ownership of your house to your son
at 17:43 19 Nov 2024
I'm back on the case with this.
union_jack suggested Bill Parry in Walters Road as a good solicitor. Have any of you used Peter Lynn in the past ? Any good ? Any other solicitor suggestions ? |
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Reply | Tyler Morse looks set to take on a more prominent role
at 11:12 17 Nov 2024
Whatever happens regarding the manager and investment in the playing squad i'm just glad of a bit of positivity.
As regards Luke Williams so much depends on the plans the new owners (EFL confirmation assumed) have for the club. If they decide to just stabilise for the time being ie a reasonable amount of player investment in Jan and the summer then they would probably keep him.
But if they are thinking about a larger player investment they may think that someone who is still a novice at the Swans level is not the person they'd trust to spend that money. And if that's the case then they may just get someone in now ready for the summer.
But i'll say it again, whatever happens it will surely be a huge improvement on the current owners. |
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Thread | Channel 4 Dispatches - Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall
at 17:41 14 Nov 2024
I'm amazed no one else posted a thread on this so i'll do it.
This is the article on the BBC news website dated 2nd November.
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The Royal Family has received millions of pounds of income in rent from the NHS, schools and the armed forces, a new documentary has revealed.
In the investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches and the Sunday Times, external, it is reported that the private estates of King Charles and Prince William hold contracts with public bodies and charities.
Dame Margaret Hodge told the BBC on Sunday the findings have raised "serious question marks" and has called for a "full and transparent review" of both duchies.
A spokesperson for the Duchy of Lancaster, the private estate of King Charles, said it "complies with all relevant UK legislation and regulatory standards applicable to its range of business activities".
Over the past year, deals made by the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall have raised around £50 million, it has been claimed.
The Duchy of Lancaster, established in 1399, and Prince William's Duchy of Cornwall, established in 1337, both hold large amounts of land and commercial property in England and Wales.
Their contracts with public bodies are said to include a £37.5 million agreement between the Duchy of Cornwall and the Ministry of Justice to lease Dartmoor Prison, and a £11.4 million deal between Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust and the Duchy of Lancaster to rent a London warehouse over 15 years to store ambulances.
The estates also reportedly charge the Ministry of Defence for access to moor boats and refuel warships, some state schools to use their properties, and a local borough council to operate a toll bridge.
The estates are not subject to corporation tax and the royals do not pay capital gains tax on the assets they sell. They voluntarily pay income tax on the surplus.
The programme, Dispatches’ The King, The Prince and Their Secret Millions, reports that details of the rental agreements have not been given to Parliament.
The report points out that the duchies say they are not funded by taxpayers, but they do receive income from public services.
The documentary raises concerns about the environmental impact of some of the estates' contracts, including those with mining companies.
The two private estates are separate to the Crown Estate.
Profits from the Crown Estate - a property business owned by the monarch but run independently - go to the Treasury. The level of profit made by the Crown Estate is used as a benchmark to calculate the funding given by the government to the Royal Family in the form of the Sovereign Grant.
The taxpayer-funded Sovereign Grant will rise to £132 million in the next financial year, after profits from the Crown Estate increased to £1.1 billion.
Dame Hodge, a former chair of the Public Accounts Committee said: "We all love the monarchy, we all want it to work. But we want them to lead by example in the way they conduct their finances.
"They don’t pay capital gains tax and they don't pay corporation tax, yet they claim to act commercially," she said.
"But they can’t have it both ways. If they want to be private and commercial they have to pay the fair rate of tax as everyone else does, otherwise they get a competitive advantage".
A Duchy of Cornwall spokesperson said it is "a private estate with a commercial imperative which we achieve alongside our commitment to restoring the natural environment and generating positive social impact for our communities".
On the issue of mining, the spokesperson said that the duchy was “acting responsibly and in a sustainable way” in line with the government’s industrial strategy, which encourages investment in domestic sources of minerals.
A spokesperson for the Duchy of Lancaster said it operates "as a commercial company, managing a broad range of land and property assets across England and Wales".
They said that the duchy "delegates certain functions, particularly those regarding asset management, to the Duchy Council" and while the King "takes a close interest" in the work of the duchy, day-to-day management of the portfolio is the responsibility of the council and executive team.
It added it had made "a number of key environmental improvements in recent years".
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Didn't anyone else see the programme ? |
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Reply | James mcclean .and the team
at 14:58 11 Nov 2024
As it happens there was an ex soldier of 21 years service on the radio earlier talking about this.
He said he doesn't expect people to wear poppies and if they decide they don't want to they have every right to do that.
The whole point of our soldiers fighting for the freedoms we enjoy today is that we then have that freedom of choice. Telling others that they should do what we think is right and not what they think is right goes completely against that.
So if he can support JM's choice, while not agreeing with it, why can't all of us. |
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Reply | Christie signs
at 22:27 1 Nov 2024
We can only hope that the stories about other people looking into part/full ownership of the Club comes about. Because with this lot the only way is down. |
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Reply | Labour MPs
at 22:21 27 Oct 2024
Yes, I would. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Millwall : Match day thread
at 18:19 27 Oct 2024
I don't normally look at the highlights when we lose but I did today to try and work out what happened. The first 75 mins was for the most part dreadful. Slow, boring, paint dry stuff. The last fifteen they came to life. I don't know if it was Ollie coming on (whether Franco should have been the one going off is another question) but things immediately became more positive.
They went at it and there were a lot of chances. The highlights showed the scrambles at both posts, Key's chance straight at the keeper and the double save/block by the keeper. It didn't show the two free headers in the six yard box - Darling and ??? (can't remember). Darlings went over the top and the other header went wide of the right hand post. That one was completely free and didn't even hit the target.
Back to the first 75 mins. Incredibly frustrating and Grimes was guilty a lot of the time for slowing things down but I also lost count of the number of times I said to my mate no one is moving. Grimes had Darling and Cabango either side of him meaning there were seven players in front of him and not one of them was moving to create space for a pass (not all the time obviously).
Is that a coaching problem ? Do you need to be told that you need to make space ? The answers no.
Then back to the last fifteen minutes. All those chances not scored from. Some of it was good goalkeeping but if so many chances are created is it the coaches fault that none of them were taken ? |
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Reply | Labour MPs
at 17:58 27 Oct 2024
Why don't we wait and find out the details before jumping to conclusions. |
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Reply | Don’t mention Gyökeres
at 22:23 24 Oct 2024
You're right, he wasn't. The fact that he did eventually develop into a very good player is just something that happens. |
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Thread | Slavery reparation
at 18:38 24 Oct 2024
It's all the rage at the moment so I have a thought.
The idea would be that the UK government would fund this in whatever way it was agreed whether that be simply loads of money or development investment in those countries or whatever.
It's fair to say that very few people in the UK benefited from the slave trade when it existed. A small number of families made absolute fortunes while the vast bulk of the population got nothing out of it.
But then the government agreed to provide compensation to those slave owners to make up for their 'loss of earnings' from the vile trade when it was abolished.
So they borrowed £20 million to provide that compo and we have been paying back that debt for the last 200 years (until 2015). That £20 million, allowing for inflation, would now equate to £16/17 billion.
So rather than saying we should all pay reparation why not make those families pay it all back. Let's say £50 billion. Sounds a nice number to me.
And if it was argued that in some small way we all benefited from the trade then it could be said that we've already paid our dues because the £16/17 billion came out of ordinary peoples taxes. |
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Reply | US election interference
at 18:25 24 Oct 2024
Even Farage, who would jump at the chance to dump on the Labour Government, admits that if Labour did not fund the trip by these people then there's nothing to see. Perhaps he's just being extra careful in not pointing fingers after his freebie trip on a private jet to see his buddy Donald.
It appears that these 100 or so people just love political campaigning and have funded their trip themselves.
If that is shown to be the case then ignore it. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 18:38 22 Oct 2024
Can anyone explain this to me please ?
So many people ask why should our children pay inheritance tax on the house that we leave them when we die as we've paid taxes already on the money used to buy that home.
These are rough numbers just to make the point. We bought our house in 1985 with a mortgage of about £30,000 and we paid that off over 25 years as do most people. The actual amount we paid was around three times the mortgage amount due to interest so we actually paid about £90,000.
So we paid £90,000 that we had earned and we paid tax on that earned money. The house is worth roughly £300,000. If it was sold there would be £210,000 'profit' that we hadn't paid tax on.
So why shouldn't we pay tax on that money ? I wouldn't want my son to have to pay that tax but I certainly didn't pay it. |
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Thread | MUSK
at 09:43 21 Oct 2024
What do you all think of this ?
'20 October 2024
Updated 6 hours ago
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has said he will give away $1m (£766,000) a day to a registered voter in key swing states until the US presidential election on 5 November.
The winner will be chosen at random from those who sign a pro-US Constitution petition by Mr Musk’s campaign group AmericaPAC, which he set up to support Republican nominee Donald Trump's bid to return to the White House.
The first lottery-style cheque was given away to a surprised attendee at a town hall event in Pennsylvania on Saturday night. Another cheque was handed out on Sunday.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who supports Kamala Harris, called Mr Musk's strategy "deeply concerning." |
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Reply | Plaid Cymru on Israel
at 18:12 20 Oct 2024
Jeremy Bowen has been a news correspondent in many war zone situations for decades and is someone I believe to be truthful in what he says.
When there were reports a couple of weeks ago about numbers killed in a different attack he said that in his experience figures produced by Hamas were generally (his word) accurate. |
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Reply | Transferring ownership of your house to your son
at 18:04 20 Oct 2024
Many thanks for all the replies everyone.
I have been reading them all. I'm making other inquiries as well and will keep an eye on the thread for any more advice. |
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