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[brexitplus] 28/1/2019 16:06

Getting, I was wrong. He has sunk even lower. It’s the booze.

There speaks the voice of the caring Socialist.😂😂😂

[minerve] 28/1/2019 16:03

How about it brexit? A little bit of stage 4 in your brain? ROFLMAO!

[minerve] 28/1/2019 16:02

Another old fart that could do with a little bit of cancer to bring him to his senses.

[brexitplus] 28/1/2019 16:00

Getting, I think Porky has reached the bottom.

[gettingrichslow] 28/1/2019 15:44

Sooooo bitter and twisted Minny! Shall we all have a race to the bottom and elect Jezza and his comrades McDonnell and Abbot so we can all be equally poor together?

[minerve] 28/1/2019 15:40

One day until Hard-Brexit is dead!

May has had her chance. Parliament is going to start taking control. The Tories have been shown to be incompetent and only concerned about themselves - I've known this for decades anyway. Others are just starting to wake-up to this fact!

[minerve] 28/1/2019 15:36

Another nonsense piece of information.

It means absolutely zip unless you compare it against earnings. The ONLY thing you can say is people get way more share out of the system than they should. We are light years' away from a meritocracy.

The UK, doesn't work for the many, it works for the few. It isn't what you know, it's who you know! Well, it shouldn't be like that!

Of course, if you have no kids, the future doesn't matter, does it.

[brexitplus] 28/1/2019 15:27

Anyone posting here claim to be on the list?!!!

Sir James Dyson, Mike Ashley and the Beckham family have been named among those who paid the most tax in the UK last year.

Easyjet founder and owner Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (£20.7 million), the Warburton family who own the eponymous baking firm (£14.5 million), and the Arora family behind B&M Stores (£25.6 million) are also on the inaugural Sunday Times Tax List.

The paper’s rundown of the top 50 taxpayers in 2017/18 is topped by Stephen Rubin, who is the majority owner of JD Sports and was liable for £181.6 million last year.

Here are the notable inclusions:

Denise, John and Peter Coates, owners of bet365, are second with a £156 million tax bill,

Sir James Dyson, who recently announced plans to move his company’s headquarters to Asia, is third on the list with £127.8 million.

Mike Ashley, founder of Sports Direct, paid £30.4 million in taxes last year

Chairman of the Ineos group and the man who topped the Sunday Times Rich List Sir Jim Ratcliffe was liable for £110.5 million.

[gettingrichslow] 28/1/2019 14:20

Steeplejack, yes I saw that article. In the same paper was an article about how the EU economy is starting to go into reverse and being overtaken by the UK. And another article that points out how remarkably robust the UK's latest economic stats are (jobs, purchasing index, investment) given the supposed catastrophe looming! Or should that be 'eminating'!!?

[steeplejack] 28/1/2019 14:02

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/corbyn-fears-drove-james-dysons-move-to-singapore-b586rgpnt?shareToken=23798e2aba1dc273af83a53df614822c

[minerve] 28/1/2019 14:01

BTG was actually building-up very good shareholder value in its keyhole surgery and IV business. The sale was to radiologists which takes years to build and creates barriers to entry for competition. Good margins to look forward to. Very promising. Unfortunately, especially in this age, shareholders don't understand business and demand instant results.

BTG is a very good business, as it happens, and it has very good prospects too. So much so that actually the bid was well over the market value. Boston Scientific see this, sadly your regularly punter doesn't.

[minerve] 28/1/2019 13:53

"There’s Labour and Labour."

Of course, but that was never the argument.

We can get along without charlatans like Dyson.

[steeplejack] 28/1/2019 13:25

Completely agree.BTG was a darling in the 1990s but went astray in the 21st century.Louise Makin and her cronies paid themselves handsomely but in the latter years the company lost direction.It kept moving the goal posts.They denied it but Varithena was a total disaster and with competition emerging for their rattlesnake vaccine,they had little alternative to agree to a takeover.There's Labour and Labour.The Corbyn party isn't the Brown/Blair business friendly Labour Party of old.It is full blooded socialism.One of the reasons Dyson has headed for Singapore,is not because of a fear of Brexit,it's more to do with the very real threat of Corbyn getting into power.

[bukko] 28/1/2019 13:17

And Tony Blair founded Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, but it foundered because no one could find it.

[brexitplus] 28/1/2019 13:17

PS. I had thought about changing the Mexican fisherman to one from Grimsby or Scotland, and the Harvard MBA to an Oxbridge PPE educated consultant, but didn’t think it worthwhile as it could never happen here at present since EU quotas have decimated our fishing industry.

[minerve] 28/1/2019 12:45

stmartin

Nobody is saying BTG was a good or bad company! It was 'founded' by a Labour government. That is all you need to know. It wasn't 'founded' by Thatcher and her cronies. Inmos was also created by Labour government vision. It wasn't created by Thatcher vision and/or crony vision.

Read into that what you wish, but it flies in the face of idiots who think Labour cannot generate wealth creation.

That's my point.

By-the-way, I am not after English lessons. If I want those I will go to an English learning website. If that is all you can do in an attempt to discredit me because I say things you don't like than I find it rather feeble. Are you a feeble man down in France?

By-the-way, if you don't believe what I say about the influence of Inmos in South West electronics why don't you call Simon Knowles at Graphcore and ask him? You could also call Sir Hossein Yassaie - the previous CEO of Imagination technologies. Ask him the same question. You don't have to take a 3rd rate poly student's word for it! LOL

[stmartin] 28/1/2019 12:17

"Graphcore and many other UK electronics companies and entrepreneurialism eminated from a Labour government funded project in the form of a company called Inmos in the late 1970s."

Other than they have to do with chip technology and were founded in the same country 40 years apart, what link is there between the two ?


"eminated " You obviously mean "emanate ", but that is, in any case , not the correct word: "emerged " or "grew out of " would be more suitable.



BTG was an absolute dog for decades, and even after its privatisation in the early 90's, it was dead in the water for years. I can't remember how many stories I read about their revolutionary drug for use in varicose veins ( ? )in the 90's. Having just looked at the share price it certainly has changed dramatically in the last 10 years, but that's nothing to do with the people who started it in the 50's.