mannycalavera
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- Comment on Light-altering spray for greenhouses could help lengthen the fruit growing season in the UK 6 days 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Fewer
- Comment on Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist is jailed for terrorism offences 5 weeks ago:
Now this is an overreach of the terrorism law that I can get behind!
- Comment on Am I a real working person? 1 month ago:
I never saw the article as anything more than a sarcastic opinion piece. They’re not calling on the chancellor to reverse the budget. They’re not pointing to business opposition. They’re not saying anything but haven’t an armchair moan in, what looks like to me, a light-hearted opinion piece.
But fair enough if others see it differently. I certainly didn’t.
- Comment on Am I a real working person? 1 month ago:
I feel… and hear me out… you’re taking this opinion piece too seriously. Read it like you’d read a Spectator article (and I very much appreciate you might read the Spectator). These are meant to be tongue in cheek. They’re not meant to be taken seriously or over analysed.
Could you imagine being this out out about the guardian opinion pieces?
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- Comment on Former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick 1 month ago:
I’d hope he sends the Tories further down in parliament such that the strong opposition is the Lib Dems. The Tories can language in Green or SNP territory.
- Comment on Former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick 1 month ago:
Maybe within the Tory party, for sure. I can believe that. But does he not want the Conservatives to be electable in a general election scenario.
I’m not trying to be funny, but isn’t this exactly what Labour did with the Corbyn years? Appealed to what looked like a large majority of their membership that turned out to be spectacularly unpopular at a general election level.
I cannot believe the Tories want to repeat this lesson. I mean, if they want to be out of office for a decade then that’s cool with me.
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 1 month ago:
Ancient flag shagging Tories… Hard Left Labour unions… With these powers combined they become:
CAPTAIN BREXIT! He’s their hero. Gonna bring the UK down to zero. Did a skid. Killed a kid. And crashed his balls on a dustbin lid.
- Comment on Former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick 1 month ago:
To a certain extent I understand courting the fringes of your party every now and then. But for the life of me I don’t understand making that cohort the main goal of your increasingly nuttier and nuttier rhetoric.
What is this electoral calculus?
- Comment on Time has come for reparations conversation, say Commonwealth leaders 1 month ago:
Have the conversations.
- Comment on CMA launches court action against Emma to protect UK consumers. 1 month ago:
Emma? Emma! Who the fuck is Emma?!
- Comment on Change NHS: Help build a health service fit for the future 1 month ago:
That’s nice 👍
- Comment on Change NHS: Help build a health service fit for the future 1 month ago:
They really don’t. I’m not sure how much you follow the discourse around this but politicians and political commentators regularly cite German or French models. They also overwhelmingly cite the US model as not one they want.
Can we stop pretending that there are only two health care systems in the world. It’s a bizarre and daft argument.
- Comment on Change NHS: Help build a health service fit for the future 1 month ago:
Why does everyone only ever bring up the shambles that is US healthcare? It’s like there’s only two ways of doing it. NHS or US.
Fucking basic.