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Election 2024

Discussion in 'The Premier League' started by brb, Jan 18, 2024.

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How are Labour doing after their first 12 months

  1. Give Keir a dinghy

    36.8%
  2. The Afghans are coming

    21.1%
  3. Duggie wants his winter fuel payment back

    26.3%
  4. BobbyD to take over

    42.1%
  5. Tax, tax, tax and more ****ing tax coming

    15.8%
  6. We want Farage...

    10.5%
  7. Stop the triple lock

    21.1%
  8. Leave my pension alone

    26.3%
  9. brb is **** at polls

    42.1%
  10. Sucky is an Afghan

    63.2%
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  1. FosseFilberto

    FosseFilberto Pizzeria Superiore and some ...
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    For sure ... and you also don't seem to understand the meaning of 'relatively' ...
     
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  2. PINKIE

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    I guess it must be the case that if a UK agency is bringing in foreign workers, they would need to be paid under UK employment law and paid at least minimum wage. I've no idea how it works if it's a foreign agency sending overseas workers to work in the UK. I would imagine you'd need visas and some kind of tax set up where you pay tax in the country where it's earned.

    That said, big corps like Google were making huge profits in the UK, but were based in Ireland to take advantage of their tax breaks. I guess it's different rules if you've got the financial clout like the big tech companies....
     
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  3. brb

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    Yeah the ones I'm on about were foreign agencies. There was no advertisement of the jobs in the UK.
     
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    Part of what you are alluding to (last paragraph) is currently being addressed by 'Pillar 2' of an OECD exercise (BEPS) ... think of it as FFP for business ... very very broadly it's aimed at ensuring a minimum 15% tax on 'terratorial' profits of the biggest corporations ...
     
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  5. Solid Air 2

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    most of this was while we were in the EU
     
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  6. PINKIE

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    Wasn't it the EU that put measures into place to address this with the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) legislature that Fosse was mentioning ?
     
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  7. FosseFilberto

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    The OECD mate - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - broadly the EU and other major democratic economies - us, USA, Japan, South Korea, Israel, Switzerland etc ...
     
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  8. Solid Air 2

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    my point was about free movement which led to the rise of only east europeans being able to apply for jobs as agencies just recruited from mainly Poland .Beps is to do with large companies shifting revenue / profit to the most advantageous tax regime - see Ireland for ddetails
     
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  9. Archers Road

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    Poles have mostly gone home now mate. Which is a shame, because immigration is not going to stop, and the Poles were okay, a decent bunch, very dry sense of humour.

    When I worked for Ocado in Shepherds Bush, about half of my colleagues were Polish. Hard workers but nobody’s mugs. I learned to swear in Polish, every other word was kouvash (****)..

    They were mostly a bit racist though.
     
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    I thought you were referring to the latter part of my post, but yep free movement was really beneficial for Eastern Europeans coming to the UK to work. I don't know if there are any figures for it, but I bet productivity in manual labour and service industry jobs increased when they were here, because they brought an unrivalled work ethic with them.

    Since we left the EU, we now can't fill the jobs we need for carers, transport, warehouses, service industry etc and I think the UK labour market is something like 300,000 short of what it needs in these areas.
     
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    Radical

     
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    Dude probs just wanted a cruifix for his alter at home

    If anything, he's showing his support for Christianity
     
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    I had a look a BGatesIsaPyscho account on Twitter

    He's clearly not paranoid as **** then
     
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  14. Star of David Bardsley

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    The clue may have been in the name.
     
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    Is the Parka jacket symbolic of something. Fairly sure this clip was doing the rounds about five years ago.
     
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  16. PINKIE

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    It was as I expected

    Moon landings are fake
    Time magazine is a front for Satan
    Zionists are sending immigrants to countries to establish a New World Order and create chaos
     
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    The last bit is true tbf. We had our AGM at a schwarma place in Golders Green last week and agreed on it.
     
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    The cold heart of the Marxist Left ?

    To be fair, this is exactly what the Christians did when they arrived in Britain. Tore down pagan worship and sacred sites, burned heretics alive and supplanted all of their festivals with their own over the top.

    If twitter had been around in the 3rd century I'm sure @mypaganland would have had something to say about it.
     
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    I fear for the blokes handing out free Qu’rans outside Shepherds Bush train station after we go 1-0 up and lose 2-1 tonight.
     
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  20. PINKIE

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    Can you pick me one up please
     
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