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Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by Wandering Yid, Feb 9, 2016.

  1. deedub93

    deedub93 Well-Known Member

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    In the DRC the employment law states that an employer must provide heath cover for all employees and their immediate families (wives and children). As many have four wives and 20 children this is quite an undertaking. Don't tell Hammond, such a regulation could solve the NHS crisis at a single stroke.
     
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    I'm sure Express readers have responded to the news of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's engagement in a perfectly calm, reasonable, non-bigoted way...
     
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    And decimate the number of "employees" in business
    (who would near-immediately become "workers" ) .

    Welfare state taxation on business is an interesting one,
    specifically the rationale for having it. Therefore :

    1. Is it true nowadays that the money goes straight into a
    specific "welfare state" pot, or is it just put in the total tax
    melting pot and divvied out as appropriate ??

    2. If the answer to 1 is yes, does the amount in the pot
    cover the current cost of the welfare state ??

    3. If the answer to 2 is no, when is the most recent year
    (if ever) that the pot did cover the costs ??
     
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  4. PleaseNotPoll

    PleaseNotPoll Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    They'll be waiting for him to going into exile, like the last of his ilk to marry a divorced American.
    There's even a nice Nazi Party in America for him to collude with and everything.
    He's a bit too qualified for Trump, of course, but I'm sure that they could come to some sort of agreement.
    The NRA would absolutely love him, too. Shoots guns, rich, white... er, that's about it.
     
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    Are British goods actually going abroad? I thought we've stopped producing stuff and only interested in imports from the likes of China,Vietnam etc,etc.
     
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  8. humanbeingincroydon

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    A few are: Glenfiddich, Famous Grouse, Bombay Sapphire.

    The fact two of those wouldn't be classified as British exports if the Scots voted for independence is something the likes of Johnson and Gove wouldn't like you to think about.
     
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    <laugh>
     
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  11. deedub93

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    The Prime Minister is only happy because she thinks he's taking one for the team. She will get a shock when she figures out it's Markle not Merkel.
     
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  12. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42141367

    Trump continues on his less than clandestine mission to protect his vested business interest...... this time placing his nominee in the Chair to dismantle the (Democratic Party supported) organisation, set up to monitor and rein-in the excesses of Wall Street...... first stage - bribing with donuts! Well, to be fair, it would buy me! <laugh>
     
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  13. deedub93

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    He'd have to do better than that to buy me, I hate the sight/smell/taste of Donuts. Many, many years ago, when I was 20 (probably need a few more manys there), a couple of mates and myself managed to get a truck filled with beer and apple donuts into the Circuit Paul Ricard under the cover of darkness, when the Bol D'or was raced there. We sold all of the beer on the first evening and made a tidy profit, then headed for the Ricard tent. Unfortunately, in those days, the Ricard was free and unlimited to all foreigners as a kind of promo thing and we all got totally sh!t-faced. To this day I don't know if we were robbed or just lost the money, but the next morning we woke with stinking hang-overs, stinking of vomit and were skint. We spent the rest of the weekend living off stale donuts. We tried to sell them but nobody would buy them off vomit riddled vendors. If I recall correctly I ate 35 of the horrible bloody things. Not touched one since. Sorry Donald, you will have to do better, it would take a bottle of red, a baguette and a lump of Roquefort with some black cherry jam to buy me.
     
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  14. You tart!! <laugh>
     
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    PleaseNotPoll Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    In today's Twitter tantrum Donald Trump has retweeted anti-Muslim propaganda from everyone's favourite far-right crooks, Britain First.
    Not content with drawing the ire of everyone from Piers ****ing Morgan to Corbyn, he then went on to suggest that a journalist had murdered an intern.
    David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the KKK, was quick to defend him.

    Anyone vaguely surprised by any of that? No? Didn't think so. Carry on.
     
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    You know?.....with all that gun mayhem going on in the US....will the NRA finally do something if someone shoots Trump?
     
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    It's about time The White House secretly changed Trump's Twitter password. Or dropped his internet connection.
     
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  18. Or just deleted him altogether.......
     
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  19. humanbeingincroydon

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    So either Trump's a ****ing moron...

    ...okay, there isn't a second option for this conversation.

    One thing you can say is he's certainly united the country...









     
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    I'm just hoping he doesn't go out with a bang. If the world were a family, Trump would be the three year old in the corner playing with a live hand grenade.
     
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