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Johnsond

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  1. For someone whom claims it’s irrelevant you are pushing hard for people to do your research for you.
  2. Hospital flu cases up 10 times on last year amid 'tripledemic' warning, NHS England data shows APPLE.NEWS Ten times more people are in hospital with flu than this time last year, latest figures show. 🤔 Ten times apparently 😞really
  3. No shit !! you know my views on the last two years and the overwhelming majority of politicians and also individuals who supported it.
  4. It’s not only what they would have done it’s what they did do ie supported all measures and always demanded more 🤷‍♂️That chunk of acknowledgment seems to be sticking in your throat.
  5. Now there’s a true child vaccinating believers name I ain’t heard for a while. Define government incompetence during covid especially now we can see the measures implemented have had horrendous long term damaging Health, educational, financial, mental health issues etc etc without admitting those from other parties who wanted harsher longer more comprehensive restrictions etc etc would indeed have made matters even worse.
  6. Keir Starmer has totally misread the national mood on immigration – and risks embarrassing his party APPLE.NEWS There are electoral gains to be made for political leaders who are prepared to present a more... No he hasn’t.
  7. Why would I have forgotten anything 🤷‍♂️. The government didn’t vote for Brexit in case you hadn’t realised, it was we the people who did so in a democratic process. Covid measures implemented by the current government were 100% supported by all parties and as often as not those other parties demanded we go further for longer in all respects regards restrictions and support ie furlough and grants etc etc. The mugs who blindly swallowed and backed the covid bollocks led themselves into that farcical mess.
  8. A few of the covid warriors seem to be making a comeback Andy, Brexit Brexit, Brexit 🤷‍♂️It’s like the last couple of years self inflicted pain and madness and the resultant financial catastrophe seem to have been erased from certain memories.
  9. No Accountant was not to blame it was more a very well written ( not good for me but good for the agency and client) contract that caused the issues. 5 years of accounts submitted and passed off without problem, and taxes paid up to date etc, the instigator of the whole Hmrc investigation was believe it or not our beloved union the RMT £22 a month subs too 🤷‍♂️
  10. A lot of people really really don’t want to admit or even acknowledge the reaction to covid has put us well and truly in the shit. The comments such as killing granny now look absolutely bloody ridiculous Mark.
  11. Over 50s thread ?? I was never through or used an umbrella company
  12. Defra pays ‘eye watering’ £86.5m IR35 bill - Contractor & Business Weekly WWW.CONTRACTORWEEKLY.COM Defra has paid a total of £86.5m in backdated taxes to HMRC, after a lengthy investigation into historic... I’ve just come to the end of a 4 year Hmrc investigation that cost me £131k to resolve 🤮. If government departments can’t conform or pass the cest verification process what chance have normal contractors got.
  13. Wasn’t me milling today unfortunately but passed a tidy looking woodmizer in perfect milling weather knocking out what looked like a decent stack on the way up to Uig today, easy to forget how beautiful it can be up here, 14yrs since I last was up on Skye, thoroughly enjoyed the bimble up from Turiff today.
  14. 🤷‍♂️How do you manage to come to that conclusion??
  15. You stated “ you keep going on “ never mind the or not eggs please point out where I’d previously used that phrase or even mentioned the word idle ?? You not me attempted to affix the word idle to a particular group !! Now you are demanding answers to a question you’ve manufactured from nothing.
  16. Ok please point out to me where I have kept going on about or indeed used that phrase before or even mentioned an alternative taxation formula ??. Andy is a grown man, what he does is his business not mine. Those whom do not want to sacrifice time, money and energy educating or training themselves up or working away from home, offshore or overseas etc for long periods are often as not the most vociferous in regards wanting the so called rich taxed heavily. I stand by what I say in as much as a flat rate for all would incentives people far more than the current shit set up. An example of the total bollocks we have to contend with is if you are a grossly overweight bone idle bugger or a junkie and apparently can’t work the state will pay you to sit at home, on the other hand graft like hell and consequently hit the figure conjured up to fleece the majority in the middle and the state will stick its hand out for at least 50% of your wage. Regarding the 232 days I can assure you I work a lot more than that year in year our.
  17. First 12k tax free and everyone without fail 25% after that no exceptions or excuses. Simples 👍. Huge incentive to work and try and get on. OK I know will never happen, mainly due to the outrage of the idle.
  18. I’ve no time for the ridiculous “ tax the rich “ many of whom are not rich at all in reality” and give to the poor socialist crap. Give people an incentive to work and they will, penalise them for ambition and success and the outcome is so so predictable.
  19. Citizen smith Dianne Abbot politics , not interested bud.
  20. I’m a self employed contractor but taxed under sched D arrangements. I don’t do hours as such but wether others will benefit 🤷‍♂️ who knows. I do know I’m not alone in taking the foot off the pedal as such. Like I’ve stated before tax take will go down if you keep bumping up the rates, as those fools in the SNP have realised.
  21. Greed and envy 🤷‍♂️ The simplest emotion to plant. I did not receive a single penny from any source during the farce, does that mean I should pay back nothing to dig us out the hole it put us in🤔
  22. Covid expected to cost Britain £372bn, says National Audit Office | Coronavirus | The Guardian AMP-THEGUARDIAN-COM.CDN.AMPPROJECT.ORG The reason we are heading towards a period of taxation equivalent to post WW2 is plain and simple. Yet the bickering over trivial bollocks is so easy to initiate. Back to the original the question in the post !! 🤔I can’t speak for others but as I’ve stated I have cut back on time away from home ( to the point right now of taking myself out of the loop work wise for on the books paye gigs up to April) and chasing more and more work offshore or overseas, 100% solely due to the amount of taxation above a certain ( not massive ) figure. I’m not wealthy or living in a rent or mortgage free property or anywhere near retirement age but there comes a point when you do wonder is it worth it ??.
  23. To convenient J I look at it in very simple terms ie what the situation was pre and post covid measures 🤷‍♂️For me it’s utterly obvious we have endured higher oil prices per barrel than this for starters and brexit was not yesterday, yet here we are not surprisingly after printing and giving away billions in a right old mess I’ll be the first to admit politicians of all parties at min are generally an uninspiring self obsessed bunch with a few notable exceptions.
  24. We’re all now paying the terrible price for lockdown WWW.TELEGRAPH.CO.UK An historic failure of government during the pandemic set a ticking time-bomb not just under the... I couldn’t agree more with the comment made on LI Those who clamoured for it and bought into the bullshit should hang their heads in shame.

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