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Smiffys "younger generation" took a £1.3M dividend from a £1,886,015 profit in 2015. No wonder the c**t is part of "just a big happy family". If he had stated that he is moving to the Netherlands to protect his profits and the dividend trough he and his smug family are feeding from, I'd understand. All this "looking to secure both the future of the company and its employees." is total b0ll0x, but you lads lap it up. Watch him lay all the staff off and blame the Tories... BTW, are clown shoes part of the retail price index? Whitey will be very worried about inflation if they are.

This is the heart of the problem wrt Brexit and why it is so upsetting to Verbal. Buying from China in dollars is more expensive due to the exchange rate movement the currency traders are causing. So, to explain in more detail: Clown Shoes from Smiffy=£12.49 Clown Shoes from China=$14.39 So, pre-Brexit Vote Chinese Clown Shoes cost (at $1.55/£) £9.28 Post Brexit Vote Chinese Clown Shoes cost (at $1.22/£) £11.80 So...Verbal will have to pay an extra £2.52 for his clown shoes, if Smiffy's maintain their current margins. Luckily, if they decide to cut the margin they charge, it won't affect Smiffy's very much, because the shareholders take out most of the profits in dividends, rather than investing in the business. I'm not sure how moving to the Netherlands will help them, though. I guess Verbal could move with them and the cost of his clown shoes would be protected from currency movement (assuming the value of the euro doesn't collapse after Deutsche Bank/Italy/Greece/Portugal/Spain go bust)

You're welcome. They do a great line in clown's shoes if yours are worn out...

I wouldn't believe all you read in the newspaper, or what the company director is telling them above. Just for fun, I had a look at the latest set of accounts from "Smiffy's". Their chairman, Ray Peckett said in the annual report, dated 21st September, 2016, less than a month ago, the following: As far as their sales in 2015, the breakdown is as follows: [TABLE=width: 500] [TR] [TD]Analysis of turnover[/TD] [TD]2015[/TD] [TD]2014[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]£[/TD] [TD]£[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Sale of goods[/TD] [TD]56,002,006[/TD] [TD]56,608,271[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]By geographical market:[/TD] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]UK[/TD] [TD]33,097,314[/TD] [TD]33,207,986[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Rest of world[/TD] [TD]22,904,692[/TD] [TD]23,400,285[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Total[/TD] [TD]56,002,006[/TD] [TD]56,608,271[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] In other words, I think the director making the statement to the Independent is full of sh!t and any plans they have to move to Holland is more to do with cheap, exploited, box stuffing, EU labour than Brexit. Maybe someone would explain to me why the f*** a company, which sells 2 thirds of it's vital costume, fancy dress, joke and novelty goods in £ sterling would move their operation to the EU post Brexit.....

Listen to the OWTS songs!!!!!!

So, as my son and many mates are in Milan and I am at work, all I can do is have this on my monitor. Great live feed and it helps ease the pain of having to work. Anyone got links to any others?

Actually, I know that maize is not the same as wheat, but to a f**king cow eating it as animal feed there is f**k all difference apart from the price, which, when UK wheat, (used mainly for animal feed), is sold, competes with maize imports (maize, mainly grown using GM seed varieties as animal feed) The reason you don't see much maize grown in the EU is because the European corn root borer eats it all as we are not allowed to grow GM crops that express Bt, a natural insecticide. Now, stop dribbling and googling at the same time. You're getting the keyboard wet...

Read below for an up to date summary, not your pre-Brexit, scaremongering b0ll0x (for your information, the EU has banned GM crops for absolutely no reason): The total farm income benefit of $150.3 billion was divided almost equally between farmers in developing (51%) and developed countries (49%) Because of the EU, our farmers have benefited by the square root of f'all. Now back on ignore for you, Mr. Clueless Google user....

We make up from the loss of the CAP by paying less into the EU. You just don't get it, do you. The EU has been bribing farmers with their own money for years. When we stop paying, we will get double back for not having to subsidise inefficient French farmers. You're not very smart, are you?

Don't make out you know anything about the UK farm economy, because you know squat... Read this and learn... But, I hear you ask, Ukraine isn't even in the EU, so how can they export to the EU on a tariff-free basis and the UK, when it leaves the EU, won't? Maybe when Russia invades Scotland we'll be in the same situation....

I rather think we will be continuing to import oranges, lemons, pineapples and olives, numbnuts....just not wheat from the Ukraine and Poland.

The answer is obvious to me. Rather than importing food, we should be producing more ourselves, using technology that improves crop yields and efficiency of production. Jeez...

There are none that are as blind, as those that won't see...

Please contemplate my arguments against your delusions, Chuck by reading this. "Obvious truth..."

Stick this in your pipe and smoke it, Chuck:

Why support sugar beet farmers by price support? Just grow another crop that is more profitable. Release farmers from being handout to opportunity seekers.

Everything to do with inflation. Increased productivity in the food and energy sectors by the introduction of the new technology the EU is blocking, specifically GM and fracking, will lower prices. I'll look for a simple diagram online to help you.

Most of the food we import is from countries that can produce more efficiently than the UK, particularly in regions where, for instance, GM crops are approved or countries that produce cheaper than us, for instance in France, where the massive EU farm subsidies reward the inefficient. Food production in the EU is dictated by policies designed to protect local farmers and regulations that work against innovation. You only have to look at the benefits that GM technology has brought to Argentina, over a 15 year period. GM technology is used in nearly all soybean crops, in 86% of maize crops, and 99% of cotton crops. This process has implied cumulative gross earnings for Argentina amounting to US$ 72,645.52 million. 15 years on we still haven't adopted GM technology, despite the UK pioneering it. Why? The f***ing socialist, dogmatic and non-scientific politicians in countries like Sweden and Finland who vote based on warped beliefs not data. Now we're free, welcome to fracking and GM technology and see the cheaper food and energy happen.

So, pal, you think it is a benefit to have the regional parliament of Wallonia in a position to veto a trade deal that the other member states want. You probably think the Soviet Union was a good idea. Look how that turned out, pal...

I'm all for a "Hard Brexit" which is inevitable, given the text in bold. Who thinks we would have been better off having the EU negotiating our trade deals is mental....

So much for the EU/Canadian trade deal, reported in this mornings Times here.

Like I said, you are a total w@nker. It's racist hatred, not "Brexiter violence" and down to more people reporting instances. To quote your original Guardian article: To repeat, you are a total w@nker to suggest that those that voted out are responsible for an increase in hate crimes.

Brexiter violence??? You are a total w@nker for linking hate crimes/violence to people that voted to leave the EU. The Home Office stated in a press briefing, that "the increase was largely a result of more people reporting hate crime and better police recording. " Like I said, a total w@nker....

Don't spread hate. This march is to celebrate the birth of their prophet. Muslims in Leicester celebrate it every year and good luck to them....

Going back to the original post: Full story here.