Whitey Grandad

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£50bn is a hell of a lot and sounds like it's been plucked out of thin air. If it were anything like that much then the Treasury would be jumping on it. It's in progress: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/budget/11727036/Budget-2015-Private-equity-managers-to-fork-out-1.8bn-more-in-tax-as-loophole-is-tightened.html The Treasury is very inventive and exhaustive in grabbing every penny they can get but they can only go after the unlawful evasions.

Garish

If they're illegal then they would be mopped up. If they're legal then how can they be 'unpaid taxes'? Or is he just saying that he would increase taxes by £50bn?

He's going to do all that without raising taxes? There's nowhere near enough tax evaded to pay for all that and even then what they're doing is not illegal. This has confirmed it for me, he is a loony lefty.

Archbishop

Do you think the views of the right-wingers are any less valid than your's?

Moped. (NSU)

Not really comparable to our Conservatives. Denmark seems to be in a permanent state of coalition and the present prime minister is leader of the 'Venstre' party which means 'Left'. I suppose we might describe their proposals as typical of a Conservative government. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/danish-government-to-curb-immigration-and-freeze-spending-1.2265974 (Unless all this has changed in the last couple of weeks)

Retiring a shirt is a bit 'American', don't you think?

Good point, although for Norway and Sweden I would argue that there are special circumstances in that Norway has enormous fuel resources for a small population and Sweden was neutral during the war and profited greatly from it. Even so, they haven't actually buggered it up.

Venezuela is an outstanding example of economic mismanagement. The largest oil reserves in the world and they still get it wrong.

I would submit that his age is irrelevant. All that matters is his effectiveness.

How do you know all this? The club seems to be doing very well as it already.

Yes, I accept that. The situation is much improved these days.

A very sensible view. I believe that the developing bond between a mother and child are vitally important but there is also a benefit from a morning of two mixing with other children under a properly structured learning environment. The problems arise when the child is just dumped in the corner and left to itself, whether that be at home or in a crèche.

Hook of Holland to Harwich is a great route.

It sometimes seems that way.

Is it so that they can get more women (sorry, female economic work units) into tax-generating positions? I remember Harriet Harman saying that women who stayed at home to look after the kids and didn't go out to work were 'a problem'.

There you go Phil: http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/Regulations/uefaorg/Regulations/02/23/69/59/2236959_DOWNLOAD.pdf Section 38.02, 7 substitutes, 3 may be used.

Funnily enough that's how I view Gordon Brown

Dog licences were abolished in 1987. I suspect from your spelling of licence that you are referring to an American source. Apart from that, keep up the good work

That's a matter of perception. The tax breaks to which you refer are very limited and have the result of increasing the overall tax taken. Britain has 1% of the world's population and pays 7% of the world's benefits, or so I hear. Surely that should be more than enough for you?

Greed? It certainly isn't greed. It's about how to have the right balance between rewarding hard work and endeavour and providing support for those in society who need it through no fault of their own. In order to do that we need to take the optimum amount of tax for everybody, which will never mean soaking the rich.

Yoda? You, is that?