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Seconded! Oh and Morning.refitman wrote:Morning all.
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Thanks guys – but I didn't do half as many as @Refitman did so three cheers for himPaulfromYorkshire wrote:Seconded! Oh and Morning.refitman wrote:Morning all.
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Hi LadyC, I've done the Youtube videos in the bits you have already copied over.LadyCentauria wrote:Thanks guys – but I didn't do half as many as @Refitman did so three cheers for himPaulfromYorkshire wrote:Seconded! Oh and Morning.refitman wrote:Morning all.
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My sleep only lasted a couple of hours then I was bang awake! Something felt like an earthquake and shook me from sleep but was probably the building site next door doing some more pile-driving...
I have just found the How To on embedding video, which I didn't think of looking for last night when trying all sorts of permutations of code before giving up and just leaving links instead... I'll sort that later and copy over a few more posts. Should I copy over all the comments to keep things intact?
My other shock on waiting was switching BBC News on to see Osborne saying his new cut on inherited-pensions-tax is effective from today!!!??? Have they shoved that through by Regulation while Parliament is in Recess for conference-season? Or did they do it during Friday's recall without anyone else noticing? And did they really recall to get our jets in the air over Iraqand Syriaor was that an excuse so they could slide the new Regulations under that cover? And just how much did Osborne and his friends and relations work out that they'd lose from their wealthy parents' pension pots if they inherited them and found themselves liable for 55% tax? So good of them to think it fair that they pay 20% tax on the millions...
Not that I'm suspicious or anything. And I freely admit that I'm no tax-effective-inheritance-planning-solutions expert. And nor is it just Osborne, Friends, & Family who will benefit but a whole 320,000 people. Yippee! And they "can't afford" the Independent Living Fund or half of the other things that actually help people who need help!
Going all out to try and keep the Tory faithful on board aren't they (i.e. toffs who love nothing better than a bit of indiscriminate killing for kicks)?Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire 11m
Agriculture Min Lord de Mauley says a majority Con Govt would try to reintroduce fox hunting. Won't win votes at the election
Thanks Refitman!refitman wrote: Hi LadyC, I've done the Youtube videos in the bits you have already copied over.
refitman wrote:Morning all.
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From my heart, I thank you for the intelligent, correctly informative content you write.ephemerid wrote:refitman wrote:Morning all.
A big thanks to LadyCentauria for copying over a whole load of stuff from the old site.
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I tried to do some but for some reason I can't get the hang of pasting things.
I'm such a Luddite..... I've never got the hang of links, either. Useless.
Labour Press Team @labourpress 4mfrightful_oik wrote:Re the pensions thing from last night.
There will be a lot of people, like me, who have had their pensions converted from defined benefit to defined contribution schemes. You end up with a pot of money. The insurance companies then urge you to put it into a scheme of theirs whereby it sort of gets converted back into a defined benefit scheme. A few people in my company didn't like the look of this scheme so we converted our pots into a SIPP. Fortunately shares have done pretty well since then so we're better off at present than those who went with the insurance co.
So if I die, under the present rules, whoever gets my pot pays 55% tax on my pot. I have no real problems with this as I have never payed any tax on this money.
Osborne is saying the person who inherits the pot should pay tax as if it were income.
It's a tax cut for the very wealthy as, if someone leaves a pot of say £1m, the inheritor pays a maximum of 45% tax. For those with more modest pots of a few thousand pounds, they will still pay less tax. For those not receiving a pension pot, it makes no difference except that there's less money in the system to pay for the stuff that taxes pay for.
It really isn't a priority as very few people are affected in a big way. Most will be unaffected. Millionaires will be pleased.
Caveat: I haven't read up much on these plans yet and in any case Osborne tends not to give much detail, just general outlines.
Unemployed people going into debt to pay current government's financial penalty for not having a job...oh my god......or some sort of financial penalty dressed up as an "incentive" to find work.
It's a bit too close to home, this, JackPranker. They'll do it.JackPranker wrote:Bringing back flogging for workers moving jobs without permission, pillorying and the death penalty to swarthy types will reclaim the UKIP vote.
Watch this space.
Even better, Faisal Islam has pointed out that it was George Osborne who increased the tax from 35% to 55% in 2011...ohsocynical wrote:Labour Press Team @labourpress 4mfrightful_oik wrote:Re the pensions thing from last night.
There will be a lot of people, like me, who have had their pensions converted from defined benefit to defined contribution schemes. You end up with a pot of money. The insurance companies then urge you to put it into a scheme of theirs whereby it sort of gets converted back into a defined benefit scheme. A few people in my company didn't like the look of this scheme so we converted our pots into a SIPP. Fortunately shares have done pretty well since then so we're better off at present than those who went with the insurance co.
So if I die, under the present rules, whoever gets my pot pays 55% tax on my pot. I have no real problems with this as I have never payed any tax on this money.
Osborne is saying the person who inherits the pot should pay tax as if it were income.
It's a tax cut for the very wealthy as, if someone leaves a pot of say £1m, the inheritor pays a maximum of 45% tax. For those with more modest pots of a few thousand pounds, they will still pay less tax. For those not receiving a pension pot, it makes no difference except that there's less money in the system to pay for the stuff that taxes pay for.
It really isn't a priority as very few people are affected in a big way. Most will be unaffected. Millionaires will be pleased.
Caveat: I haven't read up much on these plans yet and in any case Osborne tends not to give much detail, just general outlines.
Osborne's announcement today on pensions isn't new - it was actually announced last July. See here: http://bit.ly/1yUXwUa" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; via @ThisIsMoney
Thank you, Epheephemerid wrote:refitman wrote:Morning all.
A big thanks to LadyCentauria for copying over a whole load of stuff from the old site.
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I tried to do some but for some reason I can't get the hang of pasting things.
I'm such a Luddite..... I've never got the hang of links, either. Useless.
Oh dear, that's his big announcement?Spacedone wrote:Even better, Faisal Islam has pointed out that it was George Osborne who increased the tax from 35% to 55% in 2011...ohsocynical wrote:Labour Press Team @labourpress 4mfrightful_oik wrote:Re the pensions thing from last night.
There will be a lot of people, like me, who have had their pensions converted from defined benefit to defined contribution schemes. You end up with a pot of money. The insurance companies then urge you to put it into a scheme of theirs whereby it sort of gets converted back into a defined benefit scheme. A few people in my company didn't like the look of this scheme so we converted our pots into a SIPP. Fortunately shares have done pretty well since then so we're better off at present than those who went with the insurance co.
So if I die, under the present rules, whoever gets my pot pays 55% tax on my pot. I have no real problems with this as I have never payed any tax on this money.
Osborne is saying the person who inherits the pot should pay tax as if it were income.
It's a tax cut for the very wealthy as, if someone leaves a pot of say £1m, the inheritor pays a maximum of 45% tax. For those with more modest pots of a few thousand pounds, they will still pay less tax. For those not receiving a pension pot, it makes no difference except that there's less money in the system to pay for the stuff that taxes pay for.
It really isn't a priority as very few people are affected in a big way. Most will be unaffected. Millionaires will be pleased.
Caveat: I haven't read up much on these plans yet and in any case Osborne tends not to give much detail, just general outlines.
Osborne's announcement today on pensions isn't new - it was actually announced last July. See here: http://bit.ly/1yUXwUa" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; via @ThisIsMoney
It is a logical follow up to the freeing up of pension pots. Previously you had to buy an annuity by age 75, so very few people over that age would die with money left in the pot, now there could be many. Rich people.ohsocynical wrote:Labour Press Team @labourpress 4mfrightful_oik wrote:Re the pensions thing from last night.
There will be a lot of people, like me, who have had their pensions converted from defined benefit to defined contribution schemes. You end up with a pot of money. The insurance companies then urge you to put it into a scheme of theirs whereby it sort of gets converted back into a defined benefit scheme. A few people in my company didn't like the look of this scheme so we converted our pots into a SIPP. Fortunately shares have done pretty well since then so we're better off at present than those who went with the insurance co.
So if I die, under the present rules, whoever gets my pot pays 55% tax on my pot. I have no real problems with this as I have never payed any tax on this money.
Osborne is saying the person who inherits the pot should pay tax as if it were income.
It's a tax cut for the very wealthy as, if someone leaves a pot of say £1m, the inheritor pays a maximum of 45% tax. For those with more modest pots of a few thousand pounds, they will still pay less tax. For those not receiving a pension pot, it makes no difference except that there's less money in the system to pay for the stuff that taxes pay for.
It really isn't a priority as very few people are affected in a big way. Most will be unaffected. Millionaires will be pleased.
Caveat: I haven't read up much on these plans yet and in any case Osborne tends not to give much detail, just general outlines.
Osborne's announcement today on pensions isn't new - it was actually announced last July. See here: http://bit.ly/1yUXwUa" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; via @ThisIsMoney
He was in the Army for seven years so why, in all that time, did none of the squaddies consider fragging the bastard and saving us all this pain?ohsocynical wrote:http://welfarenewsservice.com/well-rip- ... -fit-work/
Another victim of George Smith's twisted 'reforms'.
" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Tomorrow's £150 million tax cut is not a temporary measure. It either requires the Treasury to raise another tax, to permanently spending, or to find the measure through increased spending?
That's pretty outrageous - trying to smear a school despite Ofsted saying that nothing's been found."The school named in the Sunday Times piece has just been inspected by Ofsted using new spot inspection powers but we understand that no concerns were identified. The Sunday Times journalist was informed of this – despite the education editor’s protestations that DfE ‘sources’ had confirmed issues similar to Trojan had been found. We offered to put the editor in touch with the Ofsted press office who confirmed our summary of the inspection’s outcome.
Various tv presenters/reporters are wetting themselves in anticipation that there'll be something bigger... Perhaps something hinted at in the article from ThisIsMoney, linked to above by @ohsocynical, above?RogerOThornhill wrote:Oh dear, that's his big announcement?Spacedone wrote:Even better, Faisal Islam has pointed out that it was George Osborne who increased the tax from 35% to 55% in 2011...ohsocynical wrote: Labour Press Team @labourpress 4m
Osborne's announcement today on pensions isn't new - it was actually announced last July. See here: http://bit.ly/1yUXwUa" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; via @ThisIsMoney
Sickening, isn't it!? No. More than sickening. Despicable, disgusting, and frightening.ohsocynical wrote:http://welfarenewsservice.com/well-rip- ... -fit-work/
Another victim of George Smith's twisted 'reforms'.
Having just encouraged business to spell out the cost of Scottish independence, they're now calling on those same businesses to keep quiet about what leaving the EU means?Ben Riley-Smith @benrileysmith 7 mins
John Redwood calls on businesses to stay silent on impact of leaving EU. "Keep out"; "stay out"; don't "meddle in politics".
I did get a reply from Andrew which can be summarised as "Meh"; however he did suggest that they know there are full timers from several parties posting on the Politics threads, and pretty much agreed that included RingPiece.ephemerid wrote:You are all very kind.
When I said on AS's blog last week that I wouldn't be posting much, I had some lovely comments from people. It's nice to be appreciated, but the fact is that I learn more from reading contributions there than I impart.
Today, I am mostly incensed that the whole thing is in the Beta format which is absolute utter pants. If only half the people who claim they won't post there any more actually leave, it'll be even more horrific.
It's also interesting that this week there are no Labour politicians to have a pop at, so the usual trolls are conspicuous by their absence....although I daresay they'll be along later when the latest benefits theft is announced.
TGS - you will be missed, actually. By many - and most of all by one Rot-In-Hell or whoever, as he will have to find another victim to bully.
I have had no response to the emails I sent on the subject.....
Hypocritical bastards, how often do they hark on about ''creating the right business environments'' yet business on the question of Europe must keep quiet, that's going to go down well.Spacedone wrote:Having just encouraged business to spell out the cost of Scottish independence, they're now calling on those same businesses to keep quiet about what leaving the EU means?Ben Riley-Smith @benrileysmith 7 mins
John Redwood calls on businesses to stay silent on impact of leaving EU. "Keep out"; "stay out"; don't "meddle in politics".
Are they so blinded by hate towards Europe that they think it's nothing more than a political decision?
Urgh. I've just visited the site and seen the awfulness of Beta on my desktop.ephemerid wrote:You are all very kind.
When I said on AS's blog last week that I wouldn't be posting much, I had some lovely comments from people. It's nice to be appreciated, but the fact is that I learn more from reading contributions there than I impart.
Today, I am mostly incensed that the whole thing is in the Beta format which is absolute utter pants. If only half the people who claim they won't post there any more actually leave, it'll be even more horrific.
ephemerid wrote:You are all very kind.
When I said on AS's blog last week that I wouldn't be posting much, I had some lovely comments from people. It's nice to be appreciated, but the fact is that I learn more from reading contributions there than I impart.
Today, I am mostly incensed that the whole thing is in the Beta format which is absolute utter pants. If only half the people who claim they won't post there any more actually leave, it'll be even more horrific.
It's also interesting that this week there are no Labour politicians to have a pop at, so the usual trolls are conspicuous by their absence....although I daresay they'll be along later when the latest benefits theft is announced.
TGS - you will be missed, actually. By many - and most of all by one Rot-In-Hell or whoever, as he will have to find another victim to bully.
I have had no response to the emails I sent on the subject.....
I think they've removed that option now. Not showing up on my desktop PC.LadyCentauria wrote:If you get the Beta format, scroll right to the bottom of the page and click on Current Version, which is their name for the Classic Version.ephemerid wrote:You are all very kind.
When I said on AS's blog last week that I wouldn't be posting much, I had some lovely comments from people. It's nice to be appreciated, but the fact is that I learn more from reading contributions there than I impart.
Today, I am mostly incensed that the whole thing is in the Beta format which is absolute utter pants. If only half the people who claim they won't post there any more actually leave, it'll be even more horrific.
It's also interesting that this week there are no Labour politicians to have a pop at, so the usual trolls are conspicuous by their absence....although I daresay they'll be along later when the latest benefits theft is announced.
TGS - you will be missed, actually. By many - and most of all by one Rot-In-Hell or whoever, as he will have to find another victim to bully.
I have had no response to the emails I sent on the subject.....
Well here's a live feed. It's all in Chinese but maybe something worth keeping tabs on.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:One of the things that keeps catching my eye in the background as the UKIP & Tory nasties dominate the news (thankfully mainly for the better I hope!) is the pro-democracy demos in Hong Kong.
I'd appreciate an informed post from anyone who's been following it or a good link. Thanks
Re the new format -AnatolyKasparov wrote:They have invited us to say what we think about the "new" format - I suggest that everybody here takes the opportunity.
My replies, in full:
What do you like about the new format? "Nothing"
What do you dislike about the new format? "Everything"
Here's the link to the survey per YorkshireCatPorFavor wrote: Re the new format -
I've just had a look. Fleetingly. Is the "What do you think?" question on Andrew Sparrow's blog or do I need to go elsewhere to find it, please? I don't bother much with the comments these days, but now even the bit above the line has been rendered unusable.
Good morning, everyone.
You are absolutely correct. It is still true for some pages which haven't been fully moved over... but once they have...Spacedone wrote:I think they've removed that option now. Not showing up on my desktop PC.LadyCentauria wrote: . . .
If you get the Beta format, scroll right to the bottom of the page and click on Current Version, which is their name for the Classic Version.
Thanks I found the Youtube channel rather inspirational. I wish them well. How will it end?Spacedone wrote:Well here's a live feed. It's all in Chinese but maybe something worth keeping tabs on.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:One of the things that keeps catching my eye in the background as the UKIP & Tory nasties dominate the news (thankfully mainly for the better I hope!) is the pro-democracy demos in Hong Kong.
I'd appreciate an informed post from anyone who's been following it or a good link. Thanks
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The same way Tiannemen did sadly.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Thanks I found the Youtube channel rather inspirational. I wish them well. How will it end?Spacedone wrote:Well here's a live feed. It's all in Chinese but maybe something worth keeping tabs on.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:One of the things that keeps catching my eye in the background as the UKIP & Tory nasties dominate the news (thankfully mainly for the better I hope!) is the pro-democracy demos in Hong Kong.
I'd appreciate an informed post from anyone who's been following it or a good link. Thanks
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And here's a drone camera shot of the crowd.
http://mashable.com/2014/09/28/hong-kon ... one-video/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;