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[minerve] 21/1/2019 13:00

So if someone laughs at you because you are on such a salary it is evidence that that person earns more? And you can take that as 'a given' at a social event where alcohol is a plenty?

OK getting. If you say so. LOL

I knew getting wasn't the brightest button in the box but ......

[steeplejack] 21/1/2019 12:43

It's a money factory and the only gauge of happiness is money and how much you earn. I don't miss working in the City.It's spiritually bankrupt. I retired early (many years ago) and have never regretted it.

[brexitplus] 21/1/2019 12:15

Oh Zimmer, very poor posts! Keep trying.

[gettingrichslow] 21/1/2019 11:58

Steeplejack, one of my best friends is a partner at Mishcon de Reya. He earns around £225k before bonus (which can often be more than his salary). He has been laughed at for having such a low salary by bankers on many occasions, including recently at an event at Twickenham. They cannot understand why anyone would work what can be very long hours for only a few hundred grand a year.

[minerve] 21/1/2019 11:34

I think brexit has to be one of the most ignorant posters I know. I think that is why he posts about meals and drinks. His knowledge is really poor. I feel sorry for him, in a way.

[minerve] 21/1/2019 11:32

And what does Brexit plus in his infinite wisdom know about hedge funds?

Answer: Not very much. But he pretends to.

Hedge funds are not a fact of life and are not needed.

[steeplejack] 21/1/2019 11:16

That's something you're just going to have to work out for yourself.

[brexitplus] 21/1/2019 11:13

Thank you for your vote of confidence!

But superior intellect to what or who?

[steeplejack] 21/1/2019 11:10

555p should be ok

[brexitplus] 21/1/2019 11:02

Sj

I see you want to change the subject!!

Re DE, No chance of 530p but added at 555p.

Watching carefully.

[steeplejack] 21/1/2019 10:58

Anyway,Brexitplus ,you should be concentrating on GROW this morning.If you can get some stock at the placing price it'd be good.

[steeplejack] 21/1/2019 10:53

In my distant past,I was a member of the London Stock Exchange and am well aware of City salaries past and present.A trader's salary can be pretty volatile given a high bonus percentage and as far as pension is concerned,they're on their own.On paper,an MEPs salary might look a lot lower but add back excellent occupational pension,travel expenses and relative stability of earnings and you've got a nice cushy little number......and of course,Nigel testifies to the fact,that even if you make a bloody nuisance of yourself,you don't get sacked!

[steeplejack] 21/1/2019 10:45

Not one and the same but both clearly of superior intellect.

[brexitplus] 21/1/2019 10:44

“Countries and people would get on much better if politicians didn’t interfere.”

Discuss.

[brexitplus] 21/1/2019 10:21

Getting, do you think MW is steeplejack trying to be clever by arguing both sides? Writing style very similar and both posting predominantly on Melrose board.

[gettingrichslow] 21/1/2019 10:19

Tough one this...could Nige have earned more as a MEP or by continuing as a metals trader? Steeplejack obviously doesn't know much about what traders earn. One of my friends used to do it and earned considerably more than a MEP by the time he left at the age of...wait for it...22!
A MEP earns around £150k a year after including expenses - good salary but far from huge compared to a city salary.

[brexitplus] 21/1/2019 10:14

Hedge funds are a fact of life, just like politicians, or should I say excuses for politicians. Live with it.

There you go again putting people down. Argument lost.

[minerve] 21/1/2019 10:07

Why do you think hedge funds want us out of the EU?

Start using your heads and stop using ignorance, prejudice and emotion. I know as people get older they start reverting to being children again but this shouldn't be too difficult to figure out. Or, perhaps it is. Perhaps the man from the 3rd tier of polytechnics can figure this one out where you can't! LOL

[brexitplus] 21/1/2019 10:07

2012. So? Clutching at straws methinks.

[steeplejack] 21/1/2019 10:07

And getting handsomely paid while doing it.Working from the “inside”,digging his tunnel in all weathers (for a quarter of a century) to mount the daring escape from Stalag 18.

Good pay,long holidays,excellent pension,poor Nigel really suffered in pursuit of his quest.I’d put him right up there with Nelson Mandela.Luckily,he didn’t have to make the ultimate sacrifice like Scott of the Antarctic.

(Blimey,now we’ve got Kipling to serenade Nigel to his safe deposit box!)

[minerve] 21/1/2019 10:05

According to The Guardian, a leaked internal report to UKIP's executive committee dated to September 2012 shows that the party's leader argued that "the key to money for us will be the hedge fund industry"

[brexitplus] 21/1/2019 10:03

I’m not prone to posting song lyrics or poetry but think this apt.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’;ll be a BREXITEER my son!

[meanwhile] 21/1/2019 09:41

If Farage had abandoned his principles, then read the 'Stooge's handbook of toryism', parroted the right words and found a seat to stand as a Conservative, he would be in Westminster, along with the many others who did just those things to get there.

I'm always sorry to hear people who've been brainwashed, like yourself, particularly because the brainwashing has generally removed any ability to think
of the unpopular or opposing side.

[brexitplus] 21/1/2019 09:35

Getting, you might also say that to spend 25 years on one project, eventually being successful, isn’t veneer.