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Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
Chomper Higgot replied to Scott's topic in World News
Well the Government are not collecting taxes on goods arriving from the EU (having failed to implement the necessary border customs checks), maybe your friends and family can get some of the completely duty free stuff. -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
Chomper Higgot replied to Scott's topic in World News
Brexit is costing considerably more than stated in the link you have provided “Put another way, between April and June economic output was £33 billion lower than it would have been had the UK voted to stay in the EU, costing the government around £12 billion in lost tax revenues.In the year to the end of June 2022, Mr Springford estimates the tax loss at around £40 billion.” The BREXIT costs are continuing. https://www.itv.com/news/2022-12-20/brexit-costs-government-40-billion-a-year-in-lost-tax-revenue -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
Chomper Higgot replied to Scott's topic in World News
Can you point out anywhere in those 89 pages where anyone has claimed Brexit has been more damaging than COVID and the war in Ukraine? -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
Chomper Higgot replied to Scott's topic in World News
The graph I posted indicates four decades of declining house building. A period that aligns with the same four decades of rampant House price inflation Four decades of public policy failing to build the houses the nation needs while propping up house price inflation. But along you come to blame it on immigration. -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
Chomper Higgot replied to Scott's topic in World News
I’ll go with the Madeline, it brings back so many vivid memories. -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
Chomper Higgot replied to Scott's topic in World News
More like a direct result of record rises in immigration numbers since 1997. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06077/ http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06077/assets/841f882b-a72c-484f-af35-f9b98546171c.png Immigration has added to the UK population every year since 1977. Would you expect house building to increase? Well house building has not increased, I’ve given my thoughts on why not above. -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
Chomper Higgot replied to Scott's topic in World News
Ah ‘Jam tomorrow’ and ‘warm sunlit uplands’ just over the horizon. -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
Chomper Higgot replied to Scott's topic in World News
And the predicted self harm ensued. -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
Chomper Higgot replied to Scott's topic in World News
A direct result of selling off council houses, restricting the building of replacement council houses and promoting the private landlord rental market. Choking the supply of housing and putting first time buyers in competition with private landlords, many of whom leveraged their own existing property wealth to obtain. Lower cost mortgages and again getting ahead of first time buyers. Add that to the vested political interest in jacking up house prices and the reason why the UK is not building enough houses becomes clear. -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
Chomper Higgot replied to Scott's topic in World News
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Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
Chomper Higgot replied to Scott's topic in World News
By ‘Brit Haters’ are you referring to people who supported, promoted and voted for the self harm we know as Brexit? People who actually cared about the damage it would do, and has done, presented their arguments not to damage the economy and the nation’s international standing. -
Import personal used bicycle
Chomper Higgot replied to Winston Smith 007's topic in Cycling in Thailand
Sorry I don’t know, I have never put my bike on an internal flight. -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
Chomper Higgot replied to Scott's topic in World News
But if somebody is renting out property then that property exists and is therefore not part of any shortage. -
Your opinion is that the scientific advice has been selected - AKA a conspiracy. You are making a false equivalence between the AHPRA and the UK’s MHPRA. The AHPRA has codes of conduct governing the professional practice of medicine in Australia - So those codes of conduct. But congratulations on having made such an I’ll informed conspiracy laden post. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Health_Practitioner_Regulation_Agency https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicines_and_Healthcare_products_Regulatory_Agency
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Get in touch with HMRC and get a statement regarding your tax status. The risk here is that your bank closes your account, this may or may not be a problem but it may have implications down the line.
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Refer criminal case I have already linked. And: https://www.thebulwark.com/the-pattern-of-gop-voter-fraud/ https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/5/3/republican-party-is-waging-a-nationwide-assault-on-voting-rights https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2021/nov/12/gerrymander-redistricting-map-republicans-democrats-visual
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Thai wives living in the UK and Pensions
Chomper Higgot replied to malct's topic in UK & Europe Topics and Events
UK Pension office will only stop paying you annual increases if they are aware you have moved to Thailand. If they have a UK address for you and they are paying your pension to a UK account you will get the annual pension increases. For this reason some think it a good idea not to tell the Pension Office or HMRC that they have moved to Thailand. …… Your wife will need to have made 10 years of NI contributions to get any pension at all and 35 years of NI contributions to get a full pension. If she has 5 years already and looks like she will make at least 9 or ten years then pay the missing year(s) at the heavily discounted rate. If you then move to Thailand she needs to decide if she wants to continue paying Class 3 NI contributions (currently £15.40 per week). Based on her age she can only reach about 25 or 26 years of NI contributions. That’s still a big commitment for most retired people to keep up from Thailand. There is also the question of whether she’ll be able to contact the Pension office if you are not around. Alternatively, if she can afford it, she could make additional payments to her company pension. ….. My advice is: 1. Think very carefully about where you want UK Pension Service to contact you and what bank to use to receive your pension. 2. Get your wife to pay the missing NI year(s) and then see what the future has in store for when she stops working and moves to Thailand. 3. Make provisions, records of information, copies of records and letters etc, to help your wife trace her pensions when they are due. -
Not so, Schofield was fraudulently submitting absentee ballots that he had obtained and filled in himself. He applied for absentee ballots for people who had indicated not interest in voting, refer DOJ link below. ”Jason T. Schofield was arrested in September by the FBI on a nine-page indictment charging him with fraudulently obtaining and filing absentee ballots” https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/rensselaer-county-elections-commissioner-indicted
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Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
Chomper Higgot replied to Scott's topic in World News
So why is there a housing shortage? -
“Any promotion of anti-vaccination statements or health advice which contradicts the best available scientific evidence or seeks to actively undermine the national immunisation campaign (including via social media) is not supported by National Boards and may be in breach of the codes of conduct and subject to investigation and possible regulatory action.” Please explain what you think is wrong with that?
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Mark Meadows is alleged, under oath, to have habitually burned documents. Do you think that there’s only one copy of documents given to Mark Meadows? Do you think other people might have copies of documents given to Mark Meadows? Do you think other people may have been witness to Mark Meadows receiving those document? Do you think other people might have witnessed Mark Meadows burning documents? Neither Mark Meadows, you or any other Trump supporter are going to wish this away. Mark Meadows a DOJ target rich environment.
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Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
Chomper Higgot replied to Scott's topic in World News
Are you seriously claiming someone cannot be racist based on having Indian heritage? -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
Chomper Higgot replied to Scott's topic in World News
I suspect the financial magnitude of the actual trade is more of a factor. -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
Chomper Higgot replied to Scott's topic in World News
What a ridiculous qualification. A supermarket would only need one customer to not be ‘completely empty’. But do not despair. UK Gov and the trade associations publish trading data. We can rely on that rather than ridiculously qualified questions or equally ridiculous claims of ‘own observations’.