mannycalavera
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- Comment on “It Could Become An Espionage Hub”! China’s ‘Super Embassy’ Plans In UK Gets Human Rights Group Worried 8 hours ago:
Because if you think that embassies all around the world, including our own, aren’t already used for espionage activities and that the host countries don’t know this, well I have a monorail to sell you.
- Comment on “It Could Become An Espionage Hub”! China’s ‘Super Embassy’ Plans In UK Gets Human Rights Group Worried 23 hours ago:
An embassy? Used for espionage? Well I never!
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 3 days ago:
But carrying a piece of paper around has been part of my life for so long. I will write to my MP about this immediately!
- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 6 days ago:
Is this the same founder of brew dog whose female staff are told never to be in a room alone with him? Or is that the other one?
- Comment on UK lawmakers pressure London Stock Exchange, urge checks over Chinese fast-fashion retailer Shein's refusal to answer questions on forced labour 1 week ago:
I agree on paper. But we’ve seen many time before “legally responsible” isn’t really a deterrent for some people in society. If there’s money to be made, made it will be!
All I’m saying is that if they suddenly approve the listing after the chancellor returns despite the lack of transparency I will not be surprised in the slightest.
- Comment on UK lawmakers pressure London Stock Exchange, urge checks over Chinese fast-fashion retailer Shein's refusal to answer questions on forced labour 1 week ago:
It will be interesting to see if the Chancellor returns back from her trip to China and whispers in the stock exhanche’s ear to allow the listing.
- Comment on Pound falls further as UK borrowing costs soar 1 week ago:
Oh we did. Just not to spend on improving the country or infrastructure ☺️.
Lots of people got lots of rich.
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 2 weeks ago:
Do you honestly think that would stop him taking the UK gov to court. It would not. He would claim it is a personal attack on his companies rights to free speech.
Then the goal for any legislation is simple: don’t make it personal to Twitter and instead reference “platforms that openly allow misinformation and hate on their servers that do business in the UK without appropriate and swift moderation”. Something like that.
The goal won’t be to fine Twitter or Musk directly. It will be to move the needle in a way that makes doing business with him or his companies not worth the hassle. Musk could win the court battle, but ultimately lose his hate machine. Absolutely fine 😉.
But let’s be honest… None of this will happen 😂.
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 2 weeks ago:
Don’t fine him directly. Fine doing business with his company interests to starve him of income. Like the modern slavery laws. It’s useless going after the slavers but if caught using people that have been trafficked then your company gets a hefty fine and make it expensive to show that you comply. Something like that but for advertising on sites that intentionally spread misinformation and do little to nothing to prevent it (i.e. Twitter).
- Comment on Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government” 2 weeks ago:
I genuinely can’t believe what is happening. What timeline are we living in?
Maybe it’s time we designated Musk as a terrorist?
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 2 weeks ago:
The UK (and other countries) should instead heavily tax companies that advertise on sites proven to spread disinformation. Couple of hefty fines for a few big advertising users and Twitter starts to lose (even more) money since it isn’t worth the risk of advertising there.
Direct action against Musk or Twitter isn’t going to work. We need to be sneaky ☺️.
- Comment on Nick Clegg to leave Meta ahead of Trump's return - BBC News 2 weeks ago:
Hopefully his flight gets delayed.
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- Comment on Light-altering spray for greenhouses could help lengthen the fruit growing season in the UK 5 weeks ago:
Cool science, but it remains to be seen whether this can be productionised to a point where it is commercially viable. Expect to be importing food for a number of years still.
- Comment on Guardian signs controversial deal to sell The Observer to Tortoise Media 1 month ago:
I take it you’re not from the UK?
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- Comment on Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns after Sky News revealed mobile phone guilty plea 1 month ago:
I won’t comment on the quality of the jobs, I honestly don’t know enough about what happens in a port (apart from what happens in a dock town stays in a dock town 😘). But it was / is a billion of investment. That’s not chump change by any means. The UK can’t be turning its nose up at investment because of morals and a sense of duty. We don’t have the headroom to do so. We’re massively in debt. That’s just the reality.
I totally get what you’re saying. But I still feel that a large part of this resignation storyline is because she rocked the boat.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
They can’t, they’re only here to troll. Ignore it.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
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LMFAO 😂😂😂
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 1 month ago:
Welcomed but let’s see how this progresses over the next two years before it becomes law.
- Comment on Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns after Sky News revealed mobile phone guilty plea 1 month ago:
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.
- Comment on Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns after Sky News revealed mobile phone guilty plea 1 month ago:
It will be this revelation plus the fact that she bad mouthed a major investor in the UK whilst in opposition. When you’re trying to encourage businesses to grow in the UK and they call out that one of your cabinet ministers is openly against you that’s not great for the government.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 1 month ago:
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.
- Set up company.
- Be director of company.
- Also be only employee of company as a separate legal entity.
- Get people to pay the company for any work the employee (i.e. you) does.
- Pay the employee (i.e. you) a maximum of just below the threshold for income tax each year.
- Anything else starys in the company.
- 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.
- 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).
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 1 month ago:
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. 🙃😄.
- Comment on Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS 1 month ago:
The YouTube cartoon must be right then 👍. Glad it helped you to eat less.
- Comment on Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS 1 month ago:
Very good points. I walk to our gym and I suppose that is a luxury. Even better if everyone had a place they could easily walk to. And also +1 on the child care point.
- Comment on Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS 1 month ago:
It depends on how you work out. Although I agree pairing with a healthy diet is a must.
- Comment on Poll reveals the amount of Brits who would take weight-loss jabs for free on NHS 1 month ago:
I wonder how much it would cost to fund a nation wide programme of heavily subsidised gym usage. Bring the price right down to say £20 a month per user. Provide an allocation of personal trainers and physiotherapists. Create a vocational qualification if they don’t exist. Expand the availability of gyms so that they are convenient.
Surely the long term health benefits (in addition to the benefits for your mental health) are going to be cheaper than jabbing yourself with drugs?
- Comment on Rail freight scheme sees 64,000 less lorry journeys in first year 2 months ago:
Fewer