Re: Bloody big state Tories
The Conservative Party
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Star Wars A New Hope, Gold Five: "STAY ON TARGET"
Tories: "STAY ON TARGET"
Despite the increasing evidence of how bad Brexit is going to be for the people of the UK, the Tory party (who never wanted Brexit in the first place but caved in to a couple of loons with money) insist it must be delivered. Stop. Ask the people again, and properly this time with an understanding of what Brexit actually is.
Or carry on like Gold Five...
I've worked for several UK banks and they pretty much all are going through transformations all of the time.
In most cases they rarely finish properly and are replaced by the next fad coming along.
To quote Mr. Incredible:
No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again. Sometimes I just want it to stay saved! You know, for a little bit? I feel like the maid; I just cleaned up this mess! Can we keep it clean for... for ten minutes!
Gig economy delivery “drivers” will no longer have their own transport.
They simply accept a delivery job, pick up the nearest hire bike, pick up the delivery, maybe swapping bikes, reach destination and un-hire bike, deliver. No need to make investment in your own bike and spend time and money finding somewhere safe to lock it on each job.
Not really a practical or cheap option yet, but give it time.
"I smell a rat here"
Couldn't agree more. Someone political has threatened had a word with ARM over what might happen to anything using their designs if they continue to supply China companies with licenses.
I see no reason the Board of Directors would reach the conclusion they need to comply with the US regulations on their own, somebody must have influenced them.
The beginning of the end of American dominance?
Americans seem to think they are the only First World country, that the rest of the West is years behind, that the Second World is still stuck in 1950s communism, and that South America, Africa and the Far East still live huts. Americans are in for a sharp awakening when Huawei, Samsung and others marginalise the USA.
"Dissenting from Lord Carnwath were Lords Sumption and Wilson, who said section 67(8) was clear and that Parliament had obviously intended to ensure the IPT could not be judicially reviewed or otherwise appealed against."
And I think they are both right, it clearly was the intention of Parliament to put the IPT beyond review. That doesn't mean Parliament is right or should get away with it. Our legal structure has evolved over many hundreds of years to be as fair as possible to everyone and to remove those protections is itself criminal.
"In Blighty, HS2 is due to carry its first passengers in late 2026 and is hoping for a top speed of 360kph"
Yeah, and experience should tell us it will be at least five years late (phase 1, London to Birmingham, not running until 2031, phase to nearer 2040), won't deliver the speed claimed (some trains might hit 300kph for short stretches), and be three times over the budget (topping the £100 billion mark, given the estimate was £33bn in 2010).
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of mass transit, and I really wish we could just bulldoze fast lines between our cities like the Chinese. But we have this thing called democracy so the NIMBYs get their say. And there's a lot of NIMBYs.
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Turns out 17,435,654 people and counting...
Fake ID, VPNs, criminals, paedophiles, free or paid content - all irrelevant.
The ONLY things that matters is that Theresa May (first as the then Home Secretary, now as PM) and the Tories can tell the Daily Mail "we put the protection in place you screamed for, please vote for us in the next election" That it can be circumvented, is impractical, and that it weakens security is not important to MPs today. Wait until they're personal details are breached (and MPs have a history of kinks being made public, so this is just another avenue).
It's a pity the UK has decided to leave Europe, the clout of Europe in the rest of the World is just what the US needs to put it back in its box.
The Chinese make good kit. Do I entirely trust them? No. But then I don't trust the American kit either.
The US is about to invade "surgically eliminate unwanted activity" in Iran, and the stance the UK and Europe take could be very telling for the future. The US is very soon going to find itself isolated on the World stage. Make American Great Again? Trump has almost achieved entirely the opposite, and is on course to totally fail by re-election time.
I’ve only ever had to call the Corporation Tax office, and both times got through immediately, they were surprisingly friendly, got to the account quickly and fixed the problem on the phone. I guess it depends on the type problem and customer for the service quality.
I’m less concerned when the organisation is one I owe money to, there’s no way they can lose my money through the system.
I’d be more concerned when the technology is securing the money o already have. Barclays seem to believe it is secure, they rolled it out in 2016:
https://newsroom.barclays.com/r/3383/barclays_launches_voice_security_technology_to_all_customers
And it’s going exactly the same way in the UK with HMRCs push to “make tax digital”.
There’s been articles here on El Reg about the new digital filing for VAT. HMRC has published a list of approved software, crucially however there is no price comparison, so you need to trawl the 200 to find a free one. And many of the paid options have the word “free” spread across their pages so search engines don’t help.
Just wait for then next round when SA100 Personal Tax requires a software return...
Loving the over simplistic solutions above. If it really was "just as simple as..." as suggest above then don't you think they'd have fixed it by now?
It hasn't been fixed for two main reasons:
1. It is actually very difficult to write laws that are fair across all the business scenarios; and
2. There are sufficient rich people (and companies) exerting pressure to push the rules in certain directions to minimise their tax liabilities.
The current system is no longer fit for purpose in the world that we live. That doesn't mean it's going to be simple to change it and keep it fair. Changes will move the loopholes rather than close them.
"this was changed to avoid an amendment which would make the threshold 60%"
And in cases of constitutional change that last a long time such as Brexit a 60% threshold is sensible (i.e. impact generations, not just a 5 year General Election).
As it stands, neither side had the support of 50% of the electorate, so the country should not be leaving the EU.
There is an old joke...
Heaven:
The police are British
The cooks are French
The engineers are German
The administrators are Swiss
The lovers are Italian
Hell:
The police are German
The cooks are British
The engineers are Italian
The administrators are French
The lovers are Swiss