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[malvolio]

I well remember the long arguments PCG had with Osborn to get it from 40ppm to 45ppm, so it is well overdue.

Still at least15pm below the actual costs of course...

[malvolio]

No, two seriously major wins for contractors. It's only HMRC that think they are chasing tax dodgers....

[malvolio]

For comparison, the Arctic Systems case which followed a similar path,was reportedly arond £700k. That was 20 years ago....

[malvolio]

There's a lot more than oil coming through Hormuz, fertilisers being a major one. And America uses a lot of fertiliser......

[malvolio]

British heavy industry in the 70s died because it couldn't compete with other countries' standards. Compare a Morris Marina to the equivalent Toyota for example, or a ship built for around a2/3rds the cost of a Clyde side yard. Not everything you read about Thatcher is even vaguely accurate; she was...

[malvolio]

It's all true, sweetpea.

We didn't have minimum wage legislation

We bought on a local government mortgage scheme just before it closed giving a 95% mortgage. Tte other 5% we had to find ourselves. Nothing o do with right-to-buy.

You clearly have no idea of the...

[malvolio]

Bought a £12,500 ex-council house on a sub-£3k a year salary working a three shift rotation, so "3x salary" doesn't work...

Didn't do university. Did day release/evening class at college but had to stop that when I went on the shift rotation.

We had zero social...

[malvolio]

Having worked and saved and paid taxes for 50 years (and still paying taxes now I'm retired), why should I sacrifice my comfortable, paid-for, spacious house to live in a shoe box for someone else? And get rid of a life's worth of possessions to do so?

OK, that's harsh, but it is reality....

[malvolio]

If it's properly hot, properly seasoned and properly oiled, steel or cast iron pans are non-stick anyway... But IME heating a dry non-stick to a high heat without any oil in it does do real damage. Heating the oil to a high temperature is rather less so....

[malvolio]

You're still not getting the point.

Nobody is against genuine immigration of people who have something to offer the UK. There are effective and available routes in for such people, even after Shabana's proposed reforms they will still exist.

Nobody is against offering sanctuary...