JK Rowlings hedge

[Mick Dempsey]

Yeah, she wrote those books while on benefits. She then collects massive royalties for film rights etc.

 

How can she "earn every bit of it" when she is now only effectively going to her bank every month with a royalty cheque for a couple of million? Is that hard work demanding millions?

 

If she pays her income tax, which I'm sure she does, what's the issue?

Don't forget the majority of the money she earns comes from abroad, this comes here and she pays presumably 50% income tax on it. Straight into the UK exchequer. Paying the wages of Marines, bin men etc......

[carlos]

how many 10,s of millions of children and adults have enjoyed reading and watching her books/films across the world???? cant really think of a more straight forward decent way to earn a living really?!!!

carl

[Mesterh]

If she pays her income tax, which I'm sure she does, what's the issue?

Don't forget the majority of the money she earns comes from abroad, this comes here and she pays presumably 50% income tax on it. Straight into the UK exchequer. Paying the wages of Marines, bin men etc......

 

how many 10,s of millions of children and adults have enjoyed reading and watching her books/films across the world???? cant really think of a more straight forward decent way to earn a living really?!!!

carl

 

 

Exactly what I was thinking reading this thread.

 

She probably does more for the less well off than most of the arbtalk members put together

 

In the words of the famous Mike Smash " I do a lodda good work for charidy,I just dont like to talk about it mate"

 

They should have just closed the road off completely for a week to give the spiteful miserable sods something to really whinge about.

[Joe Newton]

Joe, my family emigrated from Eastern Europe in the early 20th century to excape the early stages of Socialism and all its horrible consequences. They had a choice they took a chance and left for a better life under capaltism.

 

They made a better life for my 6 Uncles and 1 Aunt that they would have never known or lived in Eastern Europe. My 1st and 2nd cousins did not have the chance and lived under two dictatorships for 60 years. I have a really keen appreciation of what my family lived through and under during this period of time under a socialist governments. I am all for capatilism because it is based on being self sufficient and a really strong desire to make a better life for ones self and family and society. Perhaps your definition of socialism is different than mine, however I suspect you could not surrive and endure and ultimately achieved what my family has, especially in the last 25 short years:thumbup1:

 

FYI, I have visited my family twice in my life time once when the last dictatorship was voted out of office and the last time last year. Personally I could not be more proud of what they have been able to accomplish and achieve as a people and a country.

 

easy-lift guy

 

 

Okay Ted, it was just a cynical comment meant in jest.

 

Im not going to get into a debate on a subject which I have little interest or knowledge about.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Oh dear!

 

You'll be rooting for Jeremy Corbyn then.

 

To the Keyboard Warriors who within only 2 pages of this thread turned it into the same old same old left vs right issue, listen to these words:

 

Eleanor Roosevelt said, “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

 

Unbelievable. Zzzzzzz.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

So someone has a million or two in the bank, does not spend any, has no flash cars etc. Nobody knows, so nobody is jealous. This person does the local economy no good at all

 

Another, like JK has a million or two and spends it. Everyone can see this and some are insanely jealous. But this person creates employment and distributes cash earned from all over the world into her local economy. She gets my vote.

 

Is she not giving back to society by paying the demolition company who took down the house, the garden landscapers, the treehouse builders, the tree surgeons and the tm company, the list goes on

 

Why don't we look at other hard jobs? Bin man, Royal Marine, social worker, fireman, sewage worker. Is it typical for any of those professionals to make a billion over a Lifetime?

 

It's her money she can do what she wants with it! Nobody tells you what you have to do with your earnings do they? So why should she. Get a life man

 

[Hodge]

If she had of got the Cowboys in with triple sets of ladders balancing on the back of a transit, no safety procedures etc people would have had a go at her, so she does it right and they have a go, if she didn't manage the hedge they would of had a go. Some folk just don't like to see others do well. Some folk have nothing better to do than moan about things, that's just life. Live your own and enjoy it the best you can.

[carlos]

If she had of got the Cowboys in with triple sets of ladders balancing on the back of a transit, no safety procedures etc people would have had a go at her, so she does it right and they have a go, if she didn't manage the hedge they would of had a go. Some folk just don't like to see others do well. Some folk have nothing better to do than moan about things, that's just life. Live your own and enjoy it the best you can.

 

[Goaty]

Just read all this thread what a load of politics. It started with trimming a hedge then ended up been a social/political handbag fight.

 

I'm not into Harry potter at all. But I'm glad that someone keeps what is often a neglect hedge species under control.

Leylandii can make a brilliant hedge if correctly managed, however I do question if that hedge is a bit to high? Surely next to the highway it only needs to be double decker height? Unless I'm not scaling it right.

[Wood wasp]

What's the white car in the picture doing? It doesn't look like associated with job but is inside the cones driving on wrong side of road