Tories plan to give IT contractors 5 yrs tax free earnings.

[scooterscot]

I share the Monday flight with me fellow contractors the talk generally follows one pattern. One of us is securing a job in China for the next couple of years, myself escaping to mainland Europe, the other planning long term sabbatical.

The point is our little corner share the same opinion, this economy is circling the drain hole and none of us want to be here when it gets flushed.

[DodgyAgent]

Does it include tax free margins?

[AlfredJPruffock]

OK guys I can see there is an overwhelming despondency out there - theres no point in any form of resistance or alternative approach - the Darkness is going to erase us all .

Might as well turn ourselves in now.

[expat]

That is like saying - because virtually all of the UK was against the Iraq war apart from Blair - there will be no UK participation in the Iraq War.

Also what the Tories are proposing is not a nebulous 'promise' its a practical and more effective way of managing Public resources.

As for Labour being re-elected anyway - that smacks of bad faith - Jean Paul Satre made the same criticim of the French who under Nazi occupation maintained it was useless to resisit or struggle as the Nazis were invincible - Satre's novel concernign this topic was La Peste - The Plague.

Well - they weren't.

For the French alone, they were

[expat]

I made it up.

My points were:


1. The opposition can promise what they like. They are not in power.
2. Whatever they say, people here are going to vote Labour in again anyway. They can't help themselves.

you think people here are going to vote Labour in again anyway? I think people here are greedy selfish Torygraph-munching semi-fasciscts who will vote Troy anyway.

Maybe the congregation have a good mix?

[AlfredJPruffock]

I made it up.

My points were:


1. The opposition can promise what they like. They are not in power.
2. Whatever they say, people here are going to vote Labour in again anyway. They can't help themselves.

That is like saying - because virtually all of the UK was against the Iraq war apart from Blair - there will be no UK participation in the Iraq War.

Also what the Tories are proposing is not a nebulous 'promise' its a practical and more effective way of managing Public resources.

As for Labour being re-elected anyway - that smacks of bad faith - Jean Paul Satre made the same criticism of the French who under Nazi occupation maintained it was useless to resisit or struggle as the Nazis were invincible - Satre's novel concernign this topic was La Peste - The Plague.

Well - they weren't.

[EternalOptimist]

I made it up.

My points were:


1. The opposition can promise what they like. They are not in power.
2. Whatever they say, people here are going to vote Labour in again anyway. They can't help themselves.

You b@stard. I had that spent before I got down this far

[DimPrawn]

I made it up.

My points were:


1. The opposition can promise what they like. They are not in power.
2. Whatever they say, people here are going to vote Labour in again anyway. They can't help themselves.

[d000hg]

Reference? Sounds too ridiculous to be true... it's even more crazy than Labour's recent "look you'll have more money if you vote for us" policy changes/'promises'

[Purple Dalek]

But since they'd be no better than Labour, what difference would it make anyway?

It's true, the party in opposition will say the most outlandish things for votes, knowing full well no one who matters will stick it to them when they get into power.

[DimPrawn]

But since they'd be no better than Labour, what difference would it make anyway?