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  • My friend, what you’re saying simply doesn’t make sense.

    People who supported Brexshit don’t need convincing.

    OK

    They need to be educated or re-educated.

    As in a forceful Clockwork Orange style re-education? Or… you know… education via convincing them of a different opinion? What exactly do you think re-education involves?

    Until it happens their views should be ignored.

    That’s not how voting works in this country (UK). The very process of voting means you’re asking for people’s opinions and views on things and requesting that they choose an option that represents that in a ballot. Are you suggesting that in order to reverse what has already happened we hold another vote and simply not count the ones you disagree with?

    I honestly don’t know what your plan is apart from calling people names.





  • No, I’m sorry, you don’t simply dismiss views that you don’t hold as being Nazi racist. That’s cheap and does nothing to persuade Labour Brexit voters from rethinking their opposition to the EU. A lot of them feel (felt) that their livelihoods were being constantly threatened by a race to the bottom for cheap labour imported by freedom of movement. The unions were pretty vocal about wanting more state intervention and subsidies that, they felt, were not permitted under EU law.

    Now what you need to do is tackle these questions head on and convince these Labour Brexit voters that this isn’t the case. How does a modern Labour party show that these voters haven’t been left behind by EU integration. Calling them Nazis just alienates them and, guess what, causes a crushing defeat to Boris Fucking Johnson.







  • I don’t disagree.

    But from the company in questions perspective why wouldn’t you turn around and say, “ok then this $1billion can go to Ireland or the Netherlands, see ya”. The UK government isn’t in a position to be shooing away business investment of that scale. That’s what almost happened before the UK government had to make grovelling apologies to said company. Hiring foreign workers over UK workers sucks, but you can’t ignore the huge investment that would benefit hundreds more.

    These are the kinds of macro chess games governments have to play. And this former minister hasn’t made it easy for them to play it.



  • That’s not how it works. It’s not about setting up a company to make yourself under the threshold. They’re only under the threshold because of how they’ve structured their finances.

    1. Set up company.
    2. Be director of company.
    3. Also be only employee of company as a separate legal entity.
    4. Get people to pay the company for any work the employee (i.e. you) does.
    5. Pay the employee (i.e. you) a maximum of just below the threshold for income tax each year.
    6. Anything else starys in the company.
    7. The company pays the director in the form of dividends (i.e. you) at a reduced tax rate any extra money it may have collected.
    8. You’ve saved income tax entirely and you’ve reduced your tax liability on anything else.

    Here’s Kate’s registered companies which are free to look up online by anyone. Whilst Kate the employee scrapes by under the tax threshold and has to graft on Onlyfans, Kate the director is in charge of a company that at the year end 2023 owed £164,586 (2022- £172,382) to the director (i.e. Kate).


  • According to a census conducted by the Musicians’ Union, nearly half of working musicians in the UK earn less than £14,000 a year from their craft

    Interestingly just under the income tax threshold. So you could quite easily set yourself up as a Ltd with you as the director and sole employee, claim the full income tax threshold as the employee and live off the dividends as a director whilst saving tax there too.

    I wonder if these musicians have considered a more tax efficient route for their craft? What a crazy idea. Of course musicians are famous for assiduously paying all the taxes they can.

    Someone with more time than me might be interested in looking up the holding companies for Kate Nash or Lilly Allen and checking out their finances. 🙃😄.



  • Let me remind you how you responded to this:

    Why should we all have to work just to survive

    where do you think your food comes from? Who build the room you sleep in?

    with that being said, our labour is severely abused by the owner class as we barely get enough out of it to pay the bills.

    You told the poster “to go fuck themselves for being easy to control”. How do you go from being in a discussion about the level of work society has to ask of it’s citizens to telling the person you’re responding to to go fuck themselves to now saying that because they don’t agree with you they’re a fascist? 🤣 I mean you have to laugh as the poster acknowledged that the level is skewed to the owning classes and you still attack them.

    Take a step back and reassess your comments. 👍