Reply to: After Osbourne's attack on IT contractors

[TheLordDave]

I'm seriously looking at going to Australia in the next couple of years. The 7.5% is just the start, every budget it will be bumped up as it makes good headlines 'evil business owners pay more tax, yay' or 'fat cats to be reemed again'

[ZARDOZ]

Over 50% thinking of giving up Ltd and 1 in 5 in the poll thinking about winding up, but you have to wonder how long MVL has left now Gosbo has decided we are fair game it can't be long before that option is shut. It seems to me contracting is set to become a second class citizen game (much like in the US). Not long before your average contractor is Indian, on a low rate, has ambitions to be a permie. Old school contractors will end up overseas or retired/semi retired. This really is a horrible administration of cronyism and old school ties, worse than New Labour IMHO. They are going to end up with less tax that's for sure.

[AtW]

They're really Soviet sleeper agents, planted in the 1970s to destroy us all.

HTH

Wasn't Osborne, Dave born in 70s???

Ah, I see you said planted...

[expat]

Of course it wouldn't but there aren't many that realise that politicians promise the earth and dish out dust after they get to the trough.

In "Ticket to Tranai" it only takes one

[NibblyPig]

What a rollercoaster of a thread

Maybe with the 7.5% increase I can be allowed to buy a cup of coffee from the slightly subsidised onsite costa instead of drinking nescrappy gold blend

[tractor]

They're really Soviet sleeper agents, planted in the 1970s to destroy us all.

HTH

So The Game was a true story? Nothing would surprise me.

[SueEllen]

Perhaps elections should run every year instead of 5. That would give incentive to the ruling party to stop fooking over people in the 1st year of hoping they will forget it in 5 years.

Then there would be even more short term thinking...

[AtW]

Perhaps elections should run every year instead of 5. That would give incentive to the ruling party to stop fooking over people in the 1st year of hoping they will forget it in 5 years.

[tractor]

Recalling MP would never happen because it would make it much more difficult for the parties to fook over voters right after the election is over.

Personally I am leanings towards how this was dealt with in great book called "A ticket to Tranai" by Robert Sheckley.

Read it if you had not read it yet...

Of course it wouldn't but there aren't many that realise that politicians promise the earth and dish out dust after they get to the trough.

I am quite sure that most of us here are of the few that did though. If we weren't, we are now.

[AtW]

Then I will tell him it's lucky his party didn't have the balls to implement the Recall Your MP Scheme!

Recalling MP would never happen because it would make it much more difficult for the parties to fook over voters right after the election is over.

Personally I am leanings towards how this was dealt with in great book called "A ticket to Tranai" by Robert Sheckley.

Read it if you had not read it yet...

[tractor]

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I don't actually have anything to add, but just wanted to show my new .sig again

I shall spend some time next week looking for some more choice examples so that when I next (soon) receive my monthly newsletter from Ashok Sharma, I can send him one of my own along the lines of You said....You did.

Then I will tell him it's lucky his party didn't have the balls to implement the Recall Your MP Scheme!

That'll learn him!

[AtW]

From socialists yes. From posh knobs no. What went wrong?

Posh knobs are the new socialists.

HTH

[lilelvis2000]

Suppose I'm 'lucky' in that I work from home using all my own equipment and licences, and only have to occasionally travel 5 hours for meetings with one of my clients.

It seems that on one hand the govt. are going "raah raah, entrepreneurship is up" and on the other "gis us all your dough". But then they've always done that. Be successful - but don't you dare get rich.

Thanks David and George for giving students the best reason to move abroad (in addition to other reasons).

[lilelvis2000]

You are amongst the richest people in society and people do not like it. Better get used to being attacked

From socialists yes. From posh knobs no. What went wrong?

[OwlHoot]

I don't actually have anything to add, but just wanted to show my new .sig again