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RIP Nigel Lawson
RIP Nigel Lawson
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If you are referring to the size of the workforce then you are right. If you are referring to productivity then you are not.
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I'm pretty sure I read a quote from an industry booklet that went along the lines of output had increased despite a two thirds drop in the workforce. Early 90s
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The point is taxes have to be set at a level that makes you competitive in the global market. That fundamentally should always be the first consideration around any tax rise or fall, because that ultimately determines how much tax revenue you take.
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usual insightful intellectual analysis from peabrain pansydora and juvenalia from the usual erbets. and i couldnt stand the bugger
but without him no modestly-monikered nigella. id euthanise a million of the lower orders for that |
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I'd disagree on that in isolation. What the taxes are used for is far more important. Infrastructure, training, public transport etc.
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prob is the state is spectacularly inept at spending it. or rather, very good at burning it. hs2(id vote for lord buckethead if hed scrap it. its not too late. high-speed interweb everywhere would cost 5% of it) being the latest calamity to follow from crossrail, the nhs i.t. disaster and a million others i cant be arsed mentioning. and local govt. is even worse
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The only good tory is a dead tory
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"modestly-monikered nigella" - actually her name was not chosen by Nigel, it was suggested by her grandmother, a keen gardener. Nigella is the latin species name for the Love-In-A-Mist garden plant. 'Tis blue mind!
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She should have been called cokehead
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"Yes. And there's Brown ruining everything. It was Brown's reduction of the off-course tax to zero % which enabled low-margin FOBTs to suddenly become viable."
And Betfair. |
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Betfair was the worst consequence of all. Gave the bookmakers the best tissue they've ever had, and turned them from people with an opinion into penny-chasing middlemen.
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Depends how you play. If you look for ricks that's true. I also like the best tissue.
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Betfair turned bookmakers into the worst sort of entrepreneur: the ones who sell something at one price (evens) only if they know they can buy it back at a better one (2.2). The unacceptable face of capitalism.
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They used to bet with each other on-course ( tic-tac ) didn't they ? And have the big firms shorten up prices in the ring. Yeah great days
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The difference back then was that if they laid something at evens and had it back at 6/5, that 6/5 was available tax-free to the punters too.
Now you have the choice of taking evens tax-free with the books or 2.2 with commission deducted on here. Tax-free betting at under the odds with the books, or bigger odds on here with your winnings taxed (aka the commission). |
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..."had it back at 6/5, that 6/5 was available tax-free to the punters too." Often only if you could run quicker than tic-tic and maybe across the other side of the track too. Never mind all the other opportunities eg. up to 5/1 IR Zoology.
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And the situation where there are a few on-course bookies going 6/5 rather than the general evens don't you think the odds on here will be more than 2.2 ?
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Handed me my degree in the ceremony and gave the world the ultimate Milf in Nigella.
So wasn't all bad. RIP |
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Took down the wicked witch so all good in my book
And i live nearby to a "steel town" that was mekking a decent profit when she and her cohort from the miners battle who knew sweet f a about common decency decided to shut it down no matter what cost to the town and surrounding areas . Fair play to anutha of her puppets the guy that said get on ya bike - i had nee choice so had to go down South (tebbut) but it was the making of me further down the line    |
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blackbarn -- " "modestly-monikered nigella" - actually her name was not chosen by Nigel, it was suggested by her grandmother, a keen gardener. Nigella is the latin species name for the Love-In-A-Mist garden plant. 'Tis blue mind!"
Hmm. Lord Lawson's full name: Nigel Thomas Lawson. His children include the coincidentally-monikered Nigella, Thomasina and Thomas Nigel Lawson. |
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If increasing productivity and automation does not reduce the workforce then there is something seriously. I was a farmer by "profession" and improved productivity has reduced the number of farmers and farm employees by 90% in 50 years. Nobody in politics knows or cares about that. Same situation for small businesses of many sorts. As they are self employed or private limited companies they have no political voice like those who are employed in large organisations. Changes of Government have had a minimal effect on agriculture for 50 years or more.
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If increasing productivity and automation does not reduce the workforce then there is something seriously wrong. I was a farmer by "profession" and improved productivity has reduced the number of farmers and farm employees by 90% in 50 years. Nobody in politics knows or cares about that. Same situation for small businesses of many sorts. As they are self employed or private limited companies they have no political voice like those who are employed in large organisations. Changes of Government have had a minimal effect on agriculture for 50 years or more.
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A forum first! I managed to edit my message between the first and second attempts to post it!
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they now have good reason to reduce the population...especially those that run cars and take holidays
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