welshbairn Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 12 hours ago, Thistle_do_nicely said: that was my first thought, yeah, it tapers off (cant mind the thresholds but iirc something like £40k+ before you're at the higher rate, which I believe is a fair bit above the median UK wage). plus you get the personal allowance on your first £12500 or so. end of the day it all depends what the tax goes on, cant grumble too much if it funds more universal goodies like free prescriptions etc. Less so multi-million pound PPE contracts to Rishi Sunak's Auntie that runs a dildo factory in Wigan.* *im stealing that from one of the hibs bois but i really really like it, so zero fucks given And you stop paying NI for earnings over a certain amount. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strichener Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 26 minutes ago, welshbairn said: And you stop paying NI for earnings over a certain amount. No you don't, you continue to pay 2% on all earnings. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 4 minutes ago, strichener said: No you don't, you continue to pay 2% on all earnings. Which is 10% less on earnings over £967 per week. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strichener Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 11 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Which is 10% less on earnings over £967 per week. Which is still more than nothing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, strichener said: Which is still more than nothing. Yes, you're perfectly right there. Ha Ha, fuckyou @Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 You do realise that INEOS at Grangemouth contributes 4% of GDP and 8% of Scotland’s manufacturing base. If you work in oil and gas, be very afraid.Must have missed these then. Both precede the agreement announcement. Must be the #UKdividend they spoke of in 2014? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawson Park Boy Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 8 hours ago, kiddy said: Must have missed these then. Both precede the agreement announcement. Must be the #UKdividend they spoke of in 2014? What’s that got to do with the massive operation at Grangemouth? INEOS is an international company. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 Ratcliffe is an utter c**t. Another in a long line of Brexiteers who don't actually reside in the country, so are not effected personally by it. He lives in Monaco, which means Radcliffe doesn't pay any UK personal tax, while as a Monegasque he retains the right to live, work and travel throughout Europe. His primary reason for supporting Brexit was to remove Ineos from EU industry regulation knowing that he has the ear of Johnson, and the tories, thanks to his shilling out millions of people, he'll be able to influence UK policy. However, when it comes to the EU rules benefiting him? Well imagine that, he's suddenly a fan of the EU once more, as he builds his car factory in Belgium. When will those who voted for Brexit realise they were taken for a ride by schiesters like Ratcliffe, or is their pride as strong as their xenophobia? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 Anyway, onto the SNP/Green agreement, the bitterness from the opposition has been absolutely glorious. They are raging, and their hypocrisy is showing. I particularly like the calls of this being "undemocratic", it's genuinely like toddlers trying to argue their way out of bedtime. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 4 minutes ago, Ric said: Ratcliffe is an utter c**t. Another in a long line of Brexiteers who don't actually reside in the country, so are not effected personally by it. He lives in Monaco, which means Radcliffe doesn't pay any UK personal tax, while as a Monegasque he retains the right to live, work and travel throughout Europe. His primary reason for supporting Brexit was to remove Ineos from EU industry regulation knowing that he has the ear of Johnson, and the tories, thanks to his shilling out millions of people, he'll be able to influence UK policy. However, when it comes to the EU rules benefiting him? Well imagine that, he's suddenly a fan of the EU once more, as he builds his car factory in Belgium. When will those who voted for Brexit realise they were taken for a ride by schiesters like Ratcliffe, or is their pride as strong as their xenophobia? Imagine being the richest man in Britain and choosing to live in a shithole like Monaco to save a bit of tax. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 Just now, welshbairn said: Imagine being the richest man in Britain and choosing to live in a shithole like Monaco to save a bit of tax. Not sure if I'd want to live in Monaco, tbh, but I'd jump at the chance of being on the Mediterranean coast. What I wouldn't do though, should I live and pay taxes elsewhere, is put lots of money into promoting a policy that would harm millions of people, for decades to come, when I myself was entirely insulated from the outcome. On top of that, if I had made statements slamming the EU for over a decade, I wouldn't suddenly flip my opinion and use all the benefits I'd been raging against... ...but then, I'm not a c**t, whereas Ratcliffe is. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 (edited) According to one caller into Radio Scotland's voxpop the SNP are being "a dictatorship" which has presided over this "undemocratic" government alliance. She also went on to say "one of the problems is that too many people voted" .. .. sadly she doesn't expand. I believe that person has been advised not to remove the safety warnings from their furniture. btw, voxpop's are a bunch of shite that are honeypots for the most crazy in society. Edited August 30, 2021 by Ric 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 On 28/08/2021 at 05:48, SANTAN said: Another cracking article by the big man. Could've done without the homophobia directed towards Patrick Harvie though... Crack indeed. When I wiped my arse with it I made sure I got his face right in the shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawson Park Boy Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 57 minutes ago, Ric said: Ratcliffe is an utter c**t. Another in a long line of Brexiteers who don't actually reside in the country, so are not effected personally by it. He lives in Monaco, which means Radcliffe doesn't pay any UK personal tax, while as a Monegasque he retains the right to live, work and travel throughout Europe. His primary reason for supporting Brexit was to remove Ineos from EU industry regulation knowing that he has the ear of Johnson, and the tories, thanks to his shilling out millions of people, he'll be able to influence UK policy. However, when it comes to the EU rules benefiting him? Well imagine that, he's suddenly a fan of the EU once more, as he builds his car factory in Belgium. When will those who voted for Brexit realise they were taken for a ride by schiesters like Ratcliffe, or is their pride as strong as their xenophobia? I take it you want Ineos to leave Scotland and the oil and gas sector to be closed down. Brilliant!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 2 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said: I take it you want Ineos to leave Scotland and the oil and gas sector to be closed down. Brilliant!! Typical Brexit answer. Ignore the point, make some unrelated spurious claim. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawson Park Boy Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 54 minutes ago, Ric said: Typical Brexit answer. Ignore the point, make some unrelated spurious claim. Not at all. All I’m saying is that before Ratcliffe and Ineos came along, Grangemouth was going nowhere. Now, it contributes greatly to Scottish GDP and to central belt employment. Where the boss chooses to live is irrelevant. Most of the wind turbine companies are foreign owned. We are going to need oil and gas for many years to come and it is not good to have an SNP/ Green government calling the shots, especially as it is easy to relocate businesses to friendlier jurisdictions. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 6 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said: .. trying to double down .. No addressing Ratcliffe's hypocrisy, only some random claim about the Scottish Oil and Gas sector being non existent. 8 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said: Where the boss chooses to live is irrelevant. Are you being intentionally obtuse? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawson Park Boy Posted August 30, 2021 Share Posted August 30, 2021 16 minutes ago, Ric said: No addressing Ratcliffe's hypocrisy, only some random claim about the Scottish Oil and Gas sector being non existent. Are you being intentionally obtuse? The topic is about the SNP/Green Alliance. Ratcliffe's position, politics, domicile is neither here nor there. Please confine yourself to discussing the effects of this agreement on the Scottish economy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted August 30, 2021 Author Share Posted August 30, 2021 4 minutes ago, Dawson Park Boy said: Please confine yourself to discussing the effects of this agreement on the Scottish economy. What a riddy! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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