What is irritating you today

[ogr1]

Picked up on this comment elsewhere about our esteemed Chancellor of the Exchequer

"He boasted of "the biggest cut in fuel tax 70 years", taking petrol prices all the way back to where they were 4 days earlier"

Apparently his net worth is 200 million.
His wife is apparently a billionaire.
He is taking the piss shovelling loose change about and supposedly doing us all a favour.
He is a 1st class twat.
Just like the rest of the untouchables.

 

[andyBeaker]

Picked up on this comment elsewhere about our esteemed Chancellor of the Exchequer

"He boasted of "the biggest cut in fuel tax 70 years", taking petrol prices all the way back to where they were 4 days earlier"

I know facts aren’t supposed to get in the way on here but it was the biggest cut in fuel tax in seventy years.

The overall price is something entirely different. Cost of product, (which is the big variable at the moment due to the economic reality of supply and demand), profit to retailer (about 10p per litre at the moment), fuel tax and VAT make up the overall price.

derek kelly made me say that by the way.

 

[andyBeaker]

Apparently his net worth is 200 million.
His wife is apparently a billionaire.
He is taking the piss shovelling loose change about and supposedly doing us all a favour.
He is a 1st class twat.
Just like the rest of the untouchables.

And your solution to the fiscal situation is……..?

 

[andyBeaker]

The mass of paperwork I have to do to engage with a new solicitor after ditching the last one for being repeatedly useless.

 

[Duck n Dive]

I know facts aren’t supposed to get in the way on here but it was the biggest cut in fuel tax in seventy years.

The overall price is something entirely different. Cost of product, (which is the big variable at the moment due to the economic reality of supply and demand), profit to retailer (about 10p per litre at the moment), fuel tax and VAT make up the overall price.

derek kelly made me say that by the way.

Profit to retailers really only applies to those engaged only in retail.

The big companies long ago split their operations to maximise earnings and push the minimum profit margins downline. That makes it much harder for anyone they don't want to compete and allows them to maximise corporate structure profit in the most tax efficient way.

Not saying that's right/wrong just that's how it is.

The big margins are made in exploration, drilling, extraction, transporting, refining and final distribution (I'm sure there's a few more steps I'm missing).

At each stage a generous profit margin is added and past to the next activity in the chain

The next stage takes that as the starting point, adds it's activity costs, adds a generous profit and passes that cost to the next entity, and so on down the chain.

It's only at the last point, retail, where the margins are wafer thin and tax makes a big proportion of the actual price. By that time the big producers have made their money.

 

[andyBeaker]

Profit to retailers really only applies to those engaged only in retail.

The big companies long ago split their operations to maximise earnings and push the minimum profit margins downline. That makes it much harder for anyone they don't want to compete and allows them to maximise corporate structure profit in the most tax efficient way.

Not saying that's right/wrong just that's how it is.

The big margins are made in exploration, drilling, extraction, transporting, refining and final distribution (I'm sure there's a few more steps I'm missing).

At each stage a generous profit margin is added and past to the next activity in the chain

The next stage takes that as the starting point, adds it's activity costs, adds a generous profit and passes that cost to the next entity, and so on down the chain.

It's only at the last point, retail, where the margins are wafer thin and tax makes a big proportion of the actual price. By that time the big producers have made their money.

That’s what I said - profit to the retailer is about 10p per liter.

Actually now I think about it that statement isn’t quite right -‘10p or so goes to the retailer’ is more accurate.

 

[Malone]

What are the stringy bits on the side of the banana for?

 

[ogr1]

And your solution to the fiscal situation is……..?

Take a pay cut and feck em off to Ukraine.
See if they can bullshit the ruskies.

 

[andyBeaker]

Take a pay cut and feck em off to Ukraine.
See if they can bullshit the ruskies.

I’ll pass that on to the Chancellor…I’m sure he will find it most illumimating.

 

[Duck n Dive]

I’ll pass that on to the Chancellor…I’m sure he will find it most illumimating.

Don't drag the illuminati into this.

We can get quite enough conspiracy rumours into this already

 

[Pow-Lo]

Apparently his net worth is 200 million.
His wife is apparently a billionaire.
He is taking the piss shovelling loose change about and supposedly doing us all a favour.
He is a 1st class twat.
Just like the rest of the untouchables.

It's his father-in-law that's the billionaire, not his wife. Although she will be when her parents pop off.

 

[Minkey]

All I know is that this government doesn't know how people at the bottom of the pile are struggling or rather they don't seem to care.

 

[Minkey]

Wednesday I received a text from Royal mail telling me they were going to deliver a parcel from BT this backed up a text from BT saying I would be getting some equipment for the installation of my new fibre broadband.

So I stayed at home waiting for a parcel to arrive, postman turned up and put something through my letterbox, I asked him if he had a parcel for me, he said only what he had delivered, so I had a look and it was a cable

 

[ogr1]

I’ll pass that on to the Chancellor…I’m sure he will find it most illumimating.

Please do, he might realise that time is very short when at the bottom of the pile.
Unlike the rich where the days are long and gravy aplenty.
P.S....He and his cronies are still a bunch
of 1st class clunts.

 

[andyBeaker]

Please do, he might realise that time is very short when at the bottom of the pile.
Unlike the rich where the days are long and gravy aplenty.
P.S....He and his cronies are still a bunch
of 1st class clunts.

I totally agree…but heckling from the sidelines without offering anything constructive never answered anything.

 

[Centaur]

I totally agree…but heckling from the sidelines without offering anything constructive never answered anything.

Perhaps you should tell the opposition that. They have developed sideline carping to a high degree.

 

[Squag1]

Is that not what opposition do. Our clowns lost the election years ago and when laws that they had proposed were brought before the Dáil by the new government they began tearing them apart. Fr Ted stuff.

 

[Duck n Dive]

Keys!

Growing old is about keys ....

As a kid you don't have any keys.

Then you get a bicycle and a lock, with a key

Then you're old enough to be trusted with a house key.

Then get your first bike/car - another key

Then you get your first home, maybe a bedsit or flat - another key

Then your first house, front and back door keys

Then you feel the urge for a shed, a padlock and another key

Then you can afford a bigger house with a garage, another key .

....................

 

[Duck n Dive]

Clocks go forward tonight

Have to say I'm impressed with the ancient Britons.

Moving Stonehenge one hour forward must have been a hellava job

 

[derek kelly]

Keys!

Growing old is about keys ....

As a kid you don't have any keys.

Then you get a bicycle and a lock, with a key

Then you're old enough to be trusted with a house key.

Then get your first bike/car - another key

Then you get your first home, maybe a bedsit or flat - another key

Then your first house, front and back door keys

Then you feel the urge for a shed, a padlock and another key

Then you can afford a bigger house with a garage, another key .

....................

Try being in the Prison service