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posted on 13/6/24

comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 7 hours, 52 minutes ago
comment by Things Can Only Get Better (U11781)
posted 2 hours, 31 minutes ago
BUSINESS: The European Commission set to impose extra tariffs of up to 38.1% on imported Chinese electric cars

Ouch
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They’ll still come in cheaper than most Western models.

(I also wonder if that will include the electric BMWs and Minis made in China… )
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Aren't BMW's made in Oxford and batteries in China?

posted on 13/6/24

comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 45 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 7 hours, 52 minutes ago
comment by Things Can Only Get Better (U11781)
posted 2 hours, 31 minutes ago
BUSINESS: The European Commission set to impose extra tariffs of up to 38.1% on imported Chinese electric cars

Ouch
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They’ll still come in cheaper than most Western models.

(I also wonder if that will include the electric BMWs and Minis made in China… )
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Aren't BMW's made in Oxford and batteries in China?
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China is the only place the iX3 is made (E2E) for global markets.

BMW is busy opening up more factories in China for the local market, Shenyang is already its highest-volume manufacturing location worldwide, and I’d be amazed if we don’t see them shift more of their global production there for various reasons.

Not least because the Chinese govt is helping with massive infrastructure support, including vast investment in rail transport and renewable energy.

posted on 13/6/24

comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 45 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 7 hours, 52 minutes ago
comment by Things Can Only Get Better (U11781)
posted 2 hours, 31 minutes ago
BUSINESS: The European Commission set to impose extra tariffs of up to 38.1% on imported Chinese electric cars

Ouch
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They’ll still come in cheaper than most Western models.

(I also wonder if that will include the electric BMWs and Minis made in China… )
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Aren't BMW's made in Oxford and batteries in China?
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China is the only place the iX3 is made (E2E) for global markets.

BMW is busy opening up more factories in China for the local market, Shenyang is already its highest-volume manufacturing location worldwide, and I’d be amazed if we don’t see them shift more of their global production there for various reasons.

Not least because the Chinese govt is helping with massive infrastructure support, including vast investment in rail transport and renewable energy.
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posted on 13/6/24

Rosso

Hope you can remind me, what was it you asked about VAT & Capital Gains Tax yesterday? Can't remember if it was on here or the other thread.

posted on 13/6/24

comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 2 minutes ago
Rosso

Hope you can remind me, what was it you asked about VAT & Capital Gains Tax yesterday? Can't remember if it was on here or the other thread.
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I don’t think it was me…

I posed a tongue-in-cheek rhetorical question about why we don’t hear many fiscal conservatives complaining about VAT on essential goods and services as being a “second tax on income” when they won’t shut up about inheritance tax as being a “second tax on income”.

I mentioned in the same comment that we desperately need VAT reform (as it’s spectacularly regressive and hurts the least well off the most) and elsewhere in recent days about aligning CGT with income tax (which the Greens are pledging to do ).

posted on 13/6/24

comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 2 minutes ago
Rosso

Hope you can remind me, what was it you asked about VAT & Capital Gains Tax yesterday? Can't remember if it was on here or the other thread.
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I don’t think it was me…

I posed a tongue-in-cheek rhetorical question about why we don’t hear many fiscal conservatives complaining about VAT on essential goods and services as being a “second tax on income” when they won’t shut up about inheritance tax as being a “second tax on income”.

I mentioned in the same comment that we desperately need VAT reform (as it’s spectacularly regressive and hurts the least well off the most) and elsewhere in recent days about aligning CGT with income tax (which the Greens are pledging to do).
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That's the one, I know it was rhetorical and tongue in cheek but it made me think.

Those complaining about CGT have the money, wealth, assets, property or land to think 'how can I protect this not just for my children or grandchildren but further down the line. This begets an environment of entitlement and nepotism widening the class divide that's baked in to our country.

The rest of us think more about whether our children will get on the property ladder, or what environment they'll grow up in, whether they can find work, who will look after me when I'm old and more immediate things like VAT affecting the price of things we'll be paying off most of our lives.

posted on 13/6/24

One of Starmers many faults is his lack of self awareness. If he keeps trotting out the same old lines about his father being a toolmaker (he certainly was) then the non sycophants in the audience will roll their eyes and laugh yet he just couldn't see it at all.

It was great when the fella said he is robotic and it was nice to see him properly pressed on supporting Corbyn twice to be pm. So bored with him getting away with the "I took the whip off him" line rather than answering the question.

Hopefully the big headed t0sser will now be slightly more aware of the fact that he's gonna win by simply not being the Tories but as I said earlier self awareness isn't his strong point.

posted on 13/6/24

comment by PawlBawron (U1055)
posted 2 minutes ago
One of Starmers many faults is his lack of self awareness. If he keeps trotting out the same old lines about his father being a toolmaker (he certainly was) then the non sycophants in the audience will roll their eyes and laugh yet he just couldn't see it at all.

It was great when the fella said he is robotic and it was nice to see him properly pressed on supporting Corbyn twice to be pm. So bored with him getting away with the "I took the whip off him" line rather than answering the question.

Hopefully the big headed t0sser will now be slightly more aware of the fact that he's gonna win by simply not being the Tories but as I said earlier self awareness isn't his strong point.
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None of this matters one iota now your hero has exposed himself for the monumental ball bag of a posh Tory cuuuuuuunt that he is and I love it.

Tories in the bin and they all look like idiots including their sociopathic evil voters.

posted on 13/6/24

Morning Pawl btw.

I’m assuming you have no food in the house, the washing machine is one and your Mrs has a nice warm glow about her?

posted on 13/6/24

comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by rosso says the time has come to unlock the unlimited Pote-ntial of the Fernçalvenoo triumvirate (U17054)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 2 minutes ago
Rosso

Hope you can remind me, what was it you asked about VAT & Capital Gains Tax yesterday? Can't remember if it was on here or the other thread.
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I don’t think it was me…

I posed a tongue-in-cheek rhetorical question about why we don’t hear many fiscal conservatives complaining about VAT on essential goods and services as being a “second tax on income” when they won’t shut up about inheritance tax as being a “second tax on income”.

I mentioned in the same comment that we desperately need VAT reform (as it’s spectacularly regressive and hurts the least well off the most) and elsewhere in recent days about aligning CGT with income tax (which the Greens are pledging to do).
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That's the one, I know it was rhetorical and tongue in cheek but it made me think.

Those complaining about CGT have the money, wealth, assets, property or land to think 'how can I protect this not just for my children or grandchildren but further down the line. This begets an environment of entitlement and nepotism widening the class divide that's baked in to our country.

The rest of us think more about whether our children will get on the property ladder, or what environment they'll grow up in, whether they can find work, who will look after me when I'm old and more immediate things like VAT affecting the price of things we'll be paying off most of our lives.
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“This begets an environment of entitlement and nepotism widening the class divide that's baked in to our country.”

It’s also terrible for the economy in terms of wealth inequality, the circulation of capital and propensity to invest in unproductive assets.

comment by Hector (U3606)

posted on 13/6/24

Pawl loves the conservative psychodrama.

Laps up the glitter and entertainment they provide over the substance of bare minimum competence. Loves it when little Pawl stands to attention over Strictly, Love Island, the Boris and Liz show. Boo hiss down with boring Starmer.

posted on 13/6/24

Pawl

At least Starmer had the self awareness to stay for the full D Day services and not flit off for a self serving interview pleading poverty for not having Sky

posted on 13/6/24

comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 1 minute ago
Pawl loves the conservative psychodrama.

Laps up the glitter and entertainment they provide over the substance of bare minimum competence. Loves it when little Pawl stands to attention over Strictly, Love Island, the Boris and Liz show. Boo hiss down with boring Starmer.
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he's Barry

posted on 13/6/24

Just on from that Fields, one of the (many) inherent and unresolvable contradictions in the low taxation propounding, wealth hoarding capitalists’ model is that extreme wealth inequality (which we’ve arguably already arrived at) is just about the worst possible problem a free market economy can have.

The system will ultimately collapse in on itself if you have more than half of your population struggling to pay their bills with their wages with nothing left over to spend *or* invest.

The only way to prop up such a model is by encouraging consumers to wrack up more and more personal debt. And history offers us plenty of clues as to how that tends to end up.

posted on 13/6/24

Rosso

"The system will ultimately collapse in on itself if you have more than half of your population struggling to pay their bills with their wages with nothing left over to spend *or* invest."

This is true. I read recently that the amount of money to be classed as the 'top 1%' starts at £140,000. Another way to look at it is 99% of the population earn £140k or less. That's our ceiling.

We're already at the stage where a generation of working/middle class earners will teach retirement age without property as an asset to rely on. The burden on public and private pensions won't be able to pick uo the slack and care is a mess now let alone decades down the line.

People like Sunak can't conceive of a life of kicking the can down the road, thinking day to day or at best week to week. Let alone what the f will I do come retirement age.

posted on 13/6/24

Hospital waiting lists up again

https://x.com/edconwaysky/status/1801179760535486863?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

posted on 13/6/24

Rishi at the G7 meeting

I wonder if any of his aides have had a bet on him le before the end?

posted on 13/6/24

Quarterly tribunal statistics are out - huge jump in asylum appeals as a result of the backlog clearance. 22,298 appeals lodged between October 2023 and March 2024, compared to 6,244 in the six months before that.

Backlog of appeals now at 27,133, up from 7,510 a year before.

https://x.com/jonfeatonby/status/1801178930981822883?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

All going good for little Rishi

posted on 13/6/24

More record backlogs in our courts..

Latest figures from @HMCTSgovuk for April:

Crown Courts: 68,125
That’s up 3,735 this year & up 7,365 in past 12 months

Magistrates’ Courts: 387,042
Up 48,176 in 12 months

Immigration & Asylum cases:
54,059
Up 23,187 in past 12 months

https://x.com/dannyshawnews/status/1801181179393069430?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

posted on 13/6/24

Just seen a pic on Facebook with the caption '9 year old Rishi Sunak watching Sky TV through our living room window'

posted on 13/6/24

First polling in France: RN on 31%, left alliance 28%, Renaissance (Macron’s party) 18%.

https://x.com/meadwaj/status/1801086495266058257?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

Well done calling that election Macron mate

posted on 13/6/24

comment by FieldsofAnfieldRd (U18971)
posted 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
Pawl

At least Starmer had the self awareness to stay for the full D Day services and not flit off for a self serving interview pleading poverty for not having Sky
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No defending Rishi on that one from me.

That was the final nail in the Tory coffin.

posted on 13/6/24

Does anyone know how the Plaid leader’s name is pronounced

comment by Admin1 (U1)

posted on 13/6/24

comment by Things Can Only Get Better (U11781)
posted 24 minutes ago
First polling in France: RN on 31%, left alliance 28%, Renaissance (Macron’s party) 18%.

https://x.com/meadwaj/status/1801086495266058257?s=46&t=bPTrpdgNggCdz9igvhmVyw

Well done calling that election Macron mate
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Biggest threat to the EU since Brexit IMO. France recently downgraded as far as credit rating too. Throw in the AI disruption of white collar jobs and we are in for a messy decade.

posted on 13/6/24

comment by Things Can Only Get Better (U11781)
posted 27 seconds ago
Does anyone know how the Plaid leader’s name is pronounced
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No worries

Rhun ap Iorwerth

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