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Reply | Tyler Morse looks set to take on a more prominent role
at 18:31 23 Nov 2024
I was wondering what the difference is with other clubs Dr.
We've been told that we now have one of the lowest playing budgets in the Championship. Which means that all the teams above us in the spend table have a higher budget so are spending more. Quite a few have PL parachute money but many others don't.
So aren't all of them breaking P&S rules ? Cardiff for one. A few extra thousand on the gates won't make up the difference. |
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Reply | Tyler Morse looks set to take on a more prominent role
at 16:41 23 Nov 2024
You say P&S is the issue Keith and I certainly don't expect them to splash too much cash.
But the previous lot cut everything to the bone so I don't understand why there may be a problem if some money is spent. |
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Reply | Seventy Five million pounds for the Coronation
at 17:33 22 Nov 2024
You're right ohl. The tourists would still come. All those centuries of history, which so many of them come to explore, wouldn't just disappear because the royals have been dethroned.
And most of them don't come because of the royals anyway. It's mostly art galleries, museums and castles. |
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Reply | Farmers
at 14:39 22 Nov 2024
Here's a different way of looking at it.
IHT on inherited farms was cancelled in 1984 by the lovely Maggie. Since then land value has quadrupled, a lot of that caused by the ultra wealthy trying to hoard their wealth by buying up millions of acres.
If the changes mean that all those tax avoiders were to decide to sell their land because the loophole has been closed, land values would plummet. They'd lose a load of money and all of a sudden the value of the majority of the smaller 'real' farms would fall drastically, a huge number probably to below £3 million.
Problem solved. No need to thank me. |
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Reply | Seventy Five million pounds for the Coronation
at 14:27 22 Nov 2024
I don't understand how anyone could argue it was worth it.
This is such a strange country in so many ways, that so many people can be left hungry but then that amount of money is spent on a medieval ceremony. |
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Reply | Farmers
at 18:29 21 Nov 2024
He certainly proved himself to be a knob when interviewed by Victoria Derbyshire yesterday.
He asked her 'how many people in the UK pay IHT'. She said 4% (in other words 96% don't). He responded by saying after this 96% of farmers will be paying IHT.
Utterly stupid. |
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Reply | Transferring ownership of your house to your son
at 17:43 19 Nov 2024
I'm back on the case with this.
union_jack suggested Bill Parry in Walters Road as a good solicitor. Have any of you used Peter Lynn in the past ? Any good ? Any other solicitor suggestions ? |
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Reply | Tyler Morse looks set to take on a more prominent role
at 11:12 17 Nov 2024
Whatever happens regarding the manager and investment in the playing squad i'm just glad of a bit of positivity.
As regards Luke Williams so much depends on the plans the new owners (EFL confirmation assumed) have for the club. If they decide to just stabilise for the time being ie a reasonable amount of player investment in Jan and the summer then they would probably keep him.
But if they are thinking about a larger player investment they may think that someone who is still a novice at the Swans level is not the person they'd trust to spend that money. And if that's the case then they may just get someone in now ready for the summer.
But i'll say it again, whatever happens it will surely be a huge improvement on the current owners. |
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Thread | Channel 4 Dispatches - Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall
at 17:41 14 Nov 2024
I'm amazed no one else posted a thread on this so i'll do it.
This is the article on the BBC news website dated 2nd November.
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The Royal Family has received millions of pounds of income in rent from the NHS, schools and the armed forces, a new documentary has revealed.
In the investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches and the Sunday Times, external, it is reported that the private estates of King Charles and Prince William hold contracts with public bodies and charities.
Dame Margaret Hodge told the BBC on Sunday the findings have raised "serious question marks" and has called for a "full and transparent review" of both duchies.
A spokesperson for the Duchy of Lancaster, the private estate of King Charles, said it "complies with all relevant UK legislation and regulatory standards applicable to its range of business activities".
Over the past year, deals made by the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall have raised around £50 million, it has been claimed.
The Duchy of Lancaster, established in 1399, and Prince William's Duchy of Cornwall, established in 1337, both hold large amounts of land and commercial property in England and Wales.
Their contracts with public bodies are said to include a £37.5 million agreement between the Duchy of Cornwall and the Ministry of Justice to lease Dartmoor Prison, and a £11.4 million deal between Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust and the Duchy of Lancaster to rent a London warehouse over 15 years to store ambulances.
The estates also reportedly charge the Ministry of Defence for access to moor boats and refuel warships, some state schools to use their properties, and a local borough council to operate a toll bridge.
The estates are not subject to corporation tax and the royals do not pay capital gains tax on the assets they sell. They voluntarily pay income tax on the surplus.
The programme, Dispatches’ The King, The Prince and Their Secret Millions, reports that details of the rental agreements have not been given to Parliament.
The report points out that the duchies say they are not funded by taxpayers, but they do receive income from public services.
The documentary raises concerns about the environmental impact of some of the estates' contracts, including those with mining companies.
The two private estates are separate to the Crown Estate.
Profits from the Crown Estate - a property business owned by the monarch but run independently - go to the Treasury. The level of profit made by the Crown Estate is used as a benchmark to calculate the funding given by the government to the Royal Family in the form of the Sovereign Grant.
The taxpayer-funded Sovereign Grant will rise to £132 million in the next financial year, after profits from the Crown Estate increased to £1.1 billion.
Dame Hodge, a former chair of the Public Accounts Committee said: "We all love the monarchy, we all want it to work. But we want them to lead by example in the way they conduct their finances.
"They don’t pay capital gains tax and they don't pay corporation tax, yet they claim to act commercially," she said.
"But they can’t have it both ways. If they want to be private and commercial they have to pay the fair rate of tax as everyone else does, otherwise they get a competitive advantage".
A Duchy of Cornwall spokesperson said it is "a private estate with a commercial imperative which we achieve alongside our commitment to restoring the natural environment and generating positive social impact for our communities".
On the issue of mining, the spokesperson said that the duchy was “acting responsibly and in a sustainable way” in line with the government’s industrial strategy, which encourages investment in domestic sources of minerals.
A spokesperson for the Duchy of Lancaster said it operates "as a commercial company, managing a broad range of land and property assets across England and Wales".
They said that the duchy "delegates certain functions, particularly those regarding asset management, to the Duchy Council" and while the King "takes a close interest" in the work of the duchy, day-to-day management of the portfolio is the responsibility of the council and executive team.
It added it had made "a number of key environmental improvements in recent years".
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Didn't anyone else see the programme ? |
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Reply | James mcclean .and the team
at 14:58 11 Nov 2024
As it happens there was an ex soldier of 21 years service on the radio earlier talking about this.
He said he doesn't expect people to wear poppies and if they decide they don't want to they have every right to do that.
The whole point of our soldiers fighting for the freedoms we enjoy today is that we then have that freedom of choice. Telling others that they should do what we think is right and not what they think is right goes completely against that.
So if he can support JM's choice, while not agreeing with it, why can't all of us. |
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Reply | Christie signs
at 22:27 1 Nov 2024
We can only hope that the stories about other people looking into part/full ownership of the Club comes about. Because with this lot the only way is down. |
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Reply | Labour MPs
at 22:21 27 Oct 2024
Yes, I would. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Millwall : Match day thread
at 18:19 27 Oct 2024
I don't normally look at the highlights when we lose but I did today to try and work out what happened. The first 75 mins was for the most part dreadful. Slow, boring, paint dry stuff. The last fifteen they came to life. I don't know if it was Ollie coming on (whether Franco should have been the one going off is another question) but things immediately became more positive.
They went at it and there were a lot of chances. The highlights showed the scrambles at both posts, Key's chance straight at the keeper and the double save/block by the keeper. It didn't show the two free headers in the six yard box - Darling and ??? (can't remember). Darlings went over the top and the other header went wide of the right hand post. That one was completely free and didn't even hit the target.
Back to the first 75 mins. Incredibly frustrating and Grimes was guilty a lot of the time for slowing things down but I also lost count of the number of times I said to my mate no one is moving. Grimes had Darling and Cabango either side of him meaning there were seven players in front of him and not one of them was moving to create space for a pass (not all the time obviously).
Is that a coaching problem ? Do you need to be told that you need to make space ? The answers no.
Then back to the last fifteen minutes. All those chances not scored from. Some of it was good goalkeeping but if so many chances are created is it the coaches fault that none of them were taken ? |
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Reply | Labour MPs
at 17:58 27 Oct 2024
Why don't we wait and find out the details before jumping to conclusions. |
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Reply | Don’t mention Gyökeres
at 22:23 24 Oct 2024
You're right, he wasn't. The fact that he did eventually develop into a very good player is just something that happens. |
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