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The overtaxed middle starting to get seriously narked...
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I could have this wrong but if business and organisations set up their headquarters in the South East then all taxes are counted from there.
The general business could be around the UK or even worldwide all a bit like the Starbucks game.Lets see the figures for income generation without these headquarters...maybe its still a fair contribution but there'd be a difference in billions I would think.0 -
Apart from a few hotspots most parts of the country appear to have 95% plus employment, in some areas closer to 98%. So are therefore endeavouring to paddle the canoe and pay their share of taxes.
Many parts of London fair no better.
Of course if you concentrate lots of people working at 95% plus into a tiny corner of the country it is going to appear disproportionately wealthy.
No different to A&E wait times where 3% of patients miss a 4 hour target wait time but 97% fall with in it. It is always theones that fall short that complain, heaven forbid they may have had to wait, for a sprain, while somebody more critical was sorted out.
Edit:- Link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10604117"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Living in the S East, what I notice is the folk tend to be little dynamos, forever putting energy into new ways of making money. For example when I meet clients such as black cabbies or firemen, invariably they have thier fingers in other pies, everything from pond installation to christmas tree growers, it's just a mindset thang. They never mention entitlments or how someone somewhere needs to fix thier life. They are just too busy planning thier next venture. However through the letting agency in my office, I do see the other side of life.
Another characteristic for example in the villages where I live is that almost every woman is seriously into keeping fit / marathons / triathlons etc. Just a can-do get up and go mindset. Obesity is pretty rare. Why is this?
Believe it or not this happens all around the country. Iam sure we can find lard4rses in most corners of the this fair land.
It may surprise you that their are Yorkshire girls, Scouse girls and Manc girls just the same as Essex girls. (No offence meant to the fairer sex just using another stereotype.)"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
I stopped reading after two words
Kelvin
MacKenzie
It was nice seeing him doorstepped by C4 the other week. C word.0 -
They're all scared. They figure their husbands have got enough money to pull somebody younger.Another characteristic for example in the villages where I live is that almost every woman is seriously into keeping fit / marathons / triathlons etc. Just a can-do get up and go mindset. Obesity is pretty rare. Why is this?
If your husband's on the dole and you're cleaning a pub so that he can have some beer money, you figure he's not going anywhere."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
Kelvin MacKenzie made me leave soot-filled North for gold-plated South Many years ago, I packed my meagre possessions into a handkerchief and tied that handkerchief onto the end of a stick, which I slung over my shoulder. I bade farewell to my parents, who were surely to die soon from all the coal in their lungs, not acquired through coal mining but through breathing the foul, dank, soot-thick air of the North of England, and I hitched a ride on the first horse towards Preston.
http://www.dailyshame.co.uk/2012/12/satire/kelvin-mckenzie-made-me-leave-soot-filled-north-for-gold-plated-south/'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0
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As one of the telegraph comments points out.
Half of richest households are in southern band of England
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9718626/Half-of-richest-households-are-in-southern-band-of-England.html
Where are the other half?:think:"If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »As one of the telegraph comments points out.
Half of richest households are in southern band of England
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9718626/Half-of-richest-households-are-in-southern-band-of-England.html
Where are the other half?:think:
Is that a trick question? ...in the rest of Britain?This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
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