Inanimate Carbon Rod Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 Crazy idea, reduce vat to 15% and encourage people to spend sensibly, thus stimulating the economy? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lambies Doos Posted January 24, 2019 Author Share Posted January 24, 2019 I see strichener has resurfaced, why anyone debates with this delusional boring autocratic wannabe is beyond me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 21 minutes ago, MixuFixit said: Our economy is built on people spending un-sensibly Is that like bigly? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 Anyone thinking that the Tories want out of the EU in order to help folk 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tibbermoresaint Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 30 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: Crazy idea, reduce vat to 15% and encourage people to spend sensibly, thus stimulating the economy? Do you think this would cause retail prices to go down? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo Jagsfan Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 1 hour ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said: Crazy idea, reduce vat to 15% and encourage people to spend sensibly, thus stimulating the economy? Gordon Brown dropped the 20% rate back down to 17.5% a few years ago to 'stimulate the economy'. The prices in the shops generally didn't go down. When the rate went up to 20% again, the prices went up. All that happened was that the Treasury got less VAT revenues for the period when the rate was dropped! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UsedToGoToCentralPark Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 TBF the Tories helped the SNP out by cutting their VAT on Police Scotland.The Scottish government of the day knew fine well they would be liable for VAT. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 People’s Vote lot packing it in. Shame. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 Airbus not happy today,some clown just said "if they leave we should take over the plant and build our own wings"[emoji23] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I'm Brian Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 12 minutes ago, doulikefish said: Airbus not happy today,some clown just said "if they leave we should take over the plant and build our own wings" Was his name Icarus per chance? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullerene Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 21 minutes ago, I'm Brian said: Was his name Icarus per chance? Paul McCartney, actually 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 4 minutes ago, Fullerene said: Paul McCartney, actually We should have listened to what the man said . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 51 minutes ago, doulikefish said: Airbus not happy today,some clown just said "if they leave we should take over the plant and build our own wings" This is why big corporations scatter production around the world. As well as allowing them to avoid tax and milk subsidies from multiple governments it also reduces the power of workers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 Quote I really don’t believe in this idea. I am very happy to be public about it and very happy if the prime minister decides I am not the right person to do the business industry job. [A no-deal Brexit] would be a total disaster for the economy, I was delighted to read Airbus’s comments this morning because it is telling it like it is. UK business minister Richard Harrington tells German industrialists that he was delighted to hear Airbus threaten to sack British workers! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renton Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 26 minutes ago, Detournement said: This is why big corporations scatter production around the world. As well as allowing them to avoid tax and milk subsidies from multiple governments it also reduces the power of workers. That and the fact that Airbus was originally a government backed collaboration between the UK, the Germans and France. Our perspicacious Government pulled out in 1969 fearing they would not recoup their money, but the other two were reluctant to carry the cost of bringing the wing development over there, so we managed to keep it with the then Hawker Siddely owning 20% of the Airbus shares. Later, Hawker's successor BAE systems decided to sell it's share in Airbus eliminating any UK based management from Airbus in order to concentrate on the sprawling US defence contract business. Ironically they then tried to merge with Airbus' parent company EADS (who subsequently took the Airbus name as their own when restructuring their business) in order to get that civilian market stability back. Just another UK clusterfuck with Europe really, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 Airbus not happy today,some clown just said "if they leave we should take over the plant and build our own wings"[emoji23]I bet he looked like this- 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 4 hours ago, UsedToGoToCentralPark said: TBF the Tories helped the SNP out by cutting their VAT on Police Scotland. The Scottish government of the day knew fine well they would be liable for VAT. Uh-huh they also knew there was no good reason for it and campaigned constantly to get it lifted, which the Tories eventually did. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 Nothing wrong with some anarcho-syndicalism. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tibbermoresaint Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 2 hours ago, Detournement said: UK business minister Richard Harrington tells German industrialists that he was delighted to hear Airbus threaten to sack British workers! That's an interesting interpretation. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted January 24, 2019 Share Posted January 24, 2019 30 minutes ago, Tibbermoresaint said: That's an interesting interpretation. Quote Speaking at a German Industry UK gathering in London, Harrington said: “I was delighted to read Airbus’s comments this morning because it is telling it like it is,” adding that a no-deal Brexit would be “a total disaster for the economy”. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/24/minister-praises-airbus-for-blasting-governments-brexit-handling 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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