6bn Speedo move on 09:42 - Sep 14 with 1824 views | mylittletown | Looks more like a tax related move, despite the carefully worded statement | | | |
6bn Speedo move on 09:42 - Sep 14 with 1823 views | BlueBadger | Probably the fault of the Labour party and remainers not Getting Behind Their Country. | |
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6bn Speedo move on 09:43 - Sep 14 with 1825 views | WeWereZombies | Pentland need to be careful if they move the Mitre brand at the same time as Speedo - just in case they have some Nodge players in those boots, they don't want the budgie smuggler alert going off... | |
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6bn Speedo move on 09:46 - Sep 14 with 1799 views | chicoazul | I have a brilliant Speedo joke but it would get me banned if I told it. Trust me it cracks everyone up. It’s almost as good as my Auschwitz one. | |
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6bn Speedo move on 09:50 - Sep 14 with 1781 views | bluefunk | So nothing at all to do with the lower Corporation Tax rate in Ireland then…… | | | |
6bn Speedo move on 09:57 - Sep 14 with 1750 views | MattinLondon |
6bn Speedo move on 09:42 - Sep 14 by BlueBadger | Probably the fault of the Labour party and remainers not Getting Behind Their Country. |
It’s rejoiners now, not remainers. | | | |
6bn Speedo move on 10:05 - Sep 14 with 1727 views | Moriarty |
6bn Speedo move on 09:42 - Sep 14 by mylittletown | Looks more like a tax related move, despite the carefully worded statement |
Could be, but isn’t there soon to be a minimum rate of 15% and if it was solely tax related, why didn’t they move sooner? | |
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6bn Speedo move on 10:08 - Sep 14 with 1716 views | Moriarty |
6bn Speedo move on 09:50 - Sep 14 by bluefunk | So nothing at all to do with the lower Corporation Tax rate in Ireland then…… |
That rate will likely be increasing. Why only move now if the rate was there for ages? If it was solely tax rate orientated, the Netherlands would have been at least as good an option. | |
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6bn Speedo move on 10:16 - Sep 14 with 1695 views | Moriarty |
6bn Speedo move on 09:42 - Sep 14 by BlueBadger | Probably the fault of the Labour party and remainers not Getting Behind Their Country. |
I wonder if there will be more damage for both U.K. and Ireland? I’ve heard here and there that as we emerge from COVID, we’ll get a clearer picture of how bad brexit might actually affect our respective economies. COVID has, as it were, been masking the beast. | |
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6bn Speedo move on 10:23 - Sep 14 with 1673 views | noggin |
6bn Speedo move on 09:42 - Sep 14 by BlueBadger | Probably the fault of the Labour party and remainers not Getting Behind Their Country. |
*there country | |
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6bn Speedo move on 10:24 - Sep 14 with 1668 views | Keno | does this mean Joe Royle will have to travel to Ireland to get his next pair of green ones? | |
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6bn Speedo move on 10:25 - Sep 14 with 1668 views | WeWereZombies |
6bn Speedo move on 09:57 - Sep 14 by MattinLondon | It’s rejoiners now, not remainers. |
There is little point in the United Kingdom as a whole joining the European Union again as it stands. The Leavers have nixed all the advantages we had, like compulsory adoption of the Euro being something we could opt out of, and some of which their beloved Thatch gained for us. Either by concession or maximal devolution or outright break up of an older Union there may be firmer links with the European Union, or one or two nations going through the long process of accession (which will involve adoption of the Euro) or new blocs will emerge, driven by economic and environmental necessities - which in turn may see national security realignments. | |
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6bn Speedo move on 10:30 - Sep 14 with 1649 views | WeWereZombies |
6bn Speedo move on 10:23 - Sep 14 by noggin | *there country |
*or England, despite them living in another country (by which I mean Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales - the Union with Norway is one for the future...) | |
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6bn Speedo move on 10:34 - Sep 14 with 1640 views | Moriarty |
6bn Speedo move on 10:25 - Sep 14 by WeWereZombies | There is little point in the United Kingdom as a whole joining the European Union again as it stands. The Leavers have nixed all the advantages we had, like compulsory adoption of the Euro being something we could opt out of, and some of which their beloved Thatch gained for us. Either by concession or maximal devolution or outright break up of an older Union there may be firmer links with the European Union, or one or two nations going through the long process of accession (which will involve adoption of the Euro) or new blocs will emerge, driven by economic and environmental necessities - which in turn may see national security realignments. |
With the scale of national debts post COVID, national economies will need every advantage they can get. Will Scotland have a vote in the next few years? SF are ploughing ahead in the polls here (a sad indictment of things) and they are pushing for a border poll. It would cost the South 25Bn a year for unity which might mean it’s a no from the North. And from the South. | |
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6bn Speedo move on 10:36 - Sep 14 with 1627 views | TractorWood | It's definitely not regulatory. I'd wager it's corp tax related. | |
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6bn Speedo move on 11:34 - Sep 14 with 1539 views | chicoazul |
6bn Speedo move on 10:34 - Sep 14 by Moriarty | With the scale of national debts post COVID, national economies will need every advantage they can get. Will Scotland have a vote in the next few years? SF are ploughing ahead in the polls here (a sad indictment of things) and they are pushing for a border poll. It would cost the South 25Bn a year for unity which might mean it’s a no from the North. And from the South. |
Buried in the GF agreement is an option for a referendum on reunification which I am sure will happen sometime in the next 20 years. | |
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6bn Speedo move on 13:29 - Sep 14 with 1424 views | BasingstokeBlue |
6bn Speedo move on 09:46 - Sep 14 by chicoazul | I have a brilliant Speedo joke but it would get me banned if I told it. Trust me it cracks everyone up. It’s almost as good as my Auschwitz one. |
Does it involve smuggling the budgies out of the Premier League? | |
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6bn Speedo move on 13:30 - Sep 14 with 1425 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
6bn Speedo move on 11:34 - Sep 14 by chicoazul | Buried in the GF agreement is an option for a referendum on reunification which I am sure will happen sometime in the next 20 years. |
It's not exactly buried, it's Constitutional Issue 1, the first item of substance in the Agreement after the preamble, and the bedrock of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement: both the Eire and UK Governments commit to ensure that the future status of Northern Ireland as either part of the United Kingdom or not shall always be according to the democratically expressed consent of the people of Northern Ireland. And that Unification would be dependent on the democratically expressed consent of the people of both Eire and Northern Ireland. But it doesn't say how or when such consent should be sought, or how often it might be. | | | |
6bn Speedo move on 14:39 - Sep 14 with 1349 views | bluelagos |
6bn Speedo move on 13:30 - Sep 14 by ArnoldMoorhen | It's not exactly buried, it's Constitutional Issue 1, the first item of substance in the Agreement after the preamble, and the bedrock of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement: both the Eire and UK Governments commit to ensure that the future status of Northern Ireland as either part of the United Kingdom or not shall always be according to the democratically expressed consent of the people of Northern Ireland. And that Unification would be dependent on the democratically expressed consent of the people of both Eire and Northern Ireland. But it doesn't say how or when such consent should be sought, or how often it might be. |
Careful with those facts Arnie... | |
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6bn Speedo move on 15:22 - Sep 14 with 1307 views | gordon |
6bn Speedo move on 10:36 - Sep 14 by TractorWood | It's definitely not regulatory. I'd wager it's corp tax related. |
Yes, that just looks like a tax move and nothing to do with brexit. | | | |
6bn Speedo move on 15:51 - Sep 14 with 1264 views | WeWereZombies |
6bn Speedo move on 10:34 - Sep 14 by Moriarty | With the scale of national debts post COVID, national economies will need every advantage they can get. Will Scotland have a vote in the next few years? SF are ploughing ahead in the polls here (a sad indictment of things) and they are pushing for a border poll. It would cost the South 25Bn a year for unity which might mean it’s a no from the North. And from the South. |
I think Westminster blocking it is the only thing to prevent IndyRef#2, although blocking it may just accelerate a de facto independence social structure. The best way to maintain the Union is for more of England to act decently towards the other nations (and towards some of the English regions), just about everyone gains if the economy and power relations are rebalanced. | |
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6bn Speedo move on 16:53 - Sep 14 with 1201 views | leitrimblue | Is this likely to reduce the price of Speedos in Ireland? Asking for a friend | | | |
6bn Speedo move on 18:51 - Sep 14 with 1051 views | factual_blue |
6bn Speedo move on 10:30 - Sep 14 by WeWereZombies | *or England, despite them living in another country (by which I mean Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales - the Union with Norway is one for the future...) |
I'd rather the union be with Denmark. Sandi Toksvig as President. | |
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