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Xenophon replied

21 October 2005, 15:36
Steve'o is on the pull. Watch and learn gentlemen.
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steve'O replied

21 October 2005, 15:24
Originally posted by SandyDown

Off topic went to Harrods last Saturday, saw Dodi's and Diana' memorial ... also I had a cream tea in Cafe Harrods and they serve loooooovely cream tea .. hmmmmmm

I would like to share a cream pie!
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SandyDown replied

21 October 2005, 15:14
Originally posted by steve'O

Dodi?

Off topic went to Harrods last Saturday, saw Dodi's and Diana' memorial ... also I had a cream tea in Cafe Harrods and they serve loooooovely cream tea .. hmmmmmm
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steve'O replied

21 October 2005, 15:09
Originally posted by SandyDown

didn't work for Alfayed !!

Dodi?
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SandyDown replied

21 October 2005, 15:01
Originally posted by Joe Black

Seems an easy way to build up a collection of passports...

didn't work for Alfayed !!
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Joe Black replied

21 October 2005, 14:58
Originally posted by Rebecca Loos

NZ still has it. If you have more than NZ$200,000 to invest, then you get one point per $100,000 when you apply for a business investor residency visa

Just had a quick browse (ain't the internet wonderful) and it seems that NZ, Australia and Canada still do such schemes. For circa $1m local currency, give or take the odd hundred thou', you can get a 4-5 residents permit and after that apply for citizenship/perm residency.

Seems an easy way to build up a collection of passports...
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SandyDown replied

21 October 2005, 14:42
Alfayed

what about Mohamed Alfayed ???

They keep rejecting his UK passport application
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Xenophon replied

21 October 2005, 14:33
Originally posted by threaded

Britain gets Abramovich: a football club and its expensive "talent" gets propped up. Such is the dearth of football clubs in the UK I can well see the desperate need for such inward investment.

Denmark gets threaded: and builds an enviable e-government system, whilst the UK languishes, due to loss of talent, with a tax credit system that appears on the face of it to have pushed those most vulnerable into the clutchs of loan sharks.

Yeah, UK immigaration, it's a pile of tulipe isn't it...

Nice choice of people to compare.

Abramovich - a reclusive Russian billionaire who was virtually unknown outside of his homeland before he bought Chelsea FC in 2003 and...

threaded - completely unknown outside of a contractor bulletin board.
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Rebecca Loos replied

21 October 2005, 14:27
NZ still has it. If you have more than NZ$200,000 to invest, then you get one point per $100,000 when you apply for a business investor residency visa
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Joe Black replied

21 October 2005, 12:23
Originally posted by Rebecca Loos

yeah but one Abramovich taking his cash to the UK allows the UK to take in 1,000,000 poor immigrants I would have thought.
It's not just skint poles and lithuanians coming from the east!!

Becks, didn't Australia used to have some sort of system, besides the points one, where if you went there with $1m you were practically let in straight away and could get citizenship?

Maybe thats what the UK needs, reduce the taxes and let lots and lots of millionaires in, yourself included...just don't ask where the money came from.
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threaded replied

21 October 2005, 09:32
Britain gets Abramovich: a football club and its expensive "talent" gets propped up. Such is the dearth of football clubs in the UK I can well see the desperate need for such inward investment.

Denmark gets threaded: and builds an enviable e-government system, whilst the UK languishes, due to loss of talent, with a tax credit system that appears on the face of it to have pushed those most vulnerable into the clutchs of loan sharks.

Yeah, UK immigaration, it's a pile of tulipe isn't it...
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BoredBloke replied

21 October 2005, 08:22
Great one mega rich russian who spends cash in this country (and others) but at the same time we loose 200,000 self sufficient brits, only to me replaced by 500,000+ people who often do not have a pot to pi55 in.

Also I would imagine that Abramovich while very rich will have very expensive accountants who would reduce the levels of tax he pays.
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Rebecca Loos replied

21 October 2005, 08:12
yeah but one Abramovich taking his cash to the UK allows the UK to take in 1,000,000 poor immigrants I would have thought.
It's not just skint poles and lithuanians coming from the east!!
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BoredBloke replied

21 October 2005, 07:44
The other thing is, the brits leaving will be doing so by selling up and taking their cash overseas and were probably not dependant on the state for anything. Those arriving from certain countries will be doing so potless.
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Rebecca Loos replied

21 October 2005, 07:31
I didn't realise there were 2 commonwealths! Old and new? What's the difference between the 2?
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