Mick Mac

This is a case of investors will abandon us rather than bankers moving offshore. Its the investments that suffer the tax and these will go elsewhere, leaving us with too many bankers. Unemployed bankers don't pay any tax.

Cut your hair with clippers....

This makes no sense to me. Its a tax on London as the financial capital of the world and if anyone in this country sees it as a good idea then please expalin to me why this is the case. Personally I think it will make us less competitive. There are few things that Britain leads the world at these days and this is one of them. It will drag investors away from Europe and into the US/Asia. London will be weakened as a financial centre as compared to New York/Asia and as a result the UK will likely lose huge amounts of employment and corporation taxes. Less money will then be available to fund our huge debts and public expenditure, including public sector salaries and pension obligations.

Prompted by Sue's experience with a certain female builder. Two things you should not ask a woman to do: Build you a house, or teach you to drive. Any others? :)

DJKQ seems like a completley normal bulider to me. Can't see what the fuss is about. ;-)

Yes I think wright called him a big streak of danish Bacon.

Very good....

Rich should be relative to how far your money will go not just a number compared to other parts of the world. Noone living in London on an average London salary could be seen as rich in my opinion, even if that put them in the top 1% in the world.

?109,000 gets you tied for the richest person on earth. Tied for 107,565th place with 107,565 other people. Apart from the fact that there must be more people than that, on that salary, in London alone I suspect. [ Edithed to say, ?109,000 is the highest number the calculation seems to acknowledge (not my salary) ::o ]

Was eating more healthily for the first couple of weeks just for general health reasons. Cut down on coffee too. Also a few trips to the gym. But these are not the reasons for doing it, its really just to give my body a complete rest from alcohol. Like to test myself once a year. I have tried January in the past but found it harder than November. And the weather in jan is too depressing and work is busy too! Good luck.

I wish I could, but no. All the alcohol that was in the house on 1 November seems to have been guzzled by my wife. There is none left even if I wanted to.

I think if a child defies school policy to wear a poppy he should get detention, and to spend that time learning extra German. Unless the kid is a plastic paddy, in which case he is excused. Naturally.

When will Ireland get the internet so you can keep in touch?

Parkdrive Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A friend of mine has his own company and he pays > just over ?80k a year for a box which he uses > mostly to enter prospective and existing clients. > Its the way of the world. Now that I'd like to see.

Christmas is for the have nots. Something to look forward to. The haves just buy what they want when they want. Christmas all year round but for the have nots it should be special. It was when I was young anyway.

Bored. Actually I am quite enjoying it and have even ventured out a couple of times for an orange and lemonade or two. Feel very relaxed about it this year which is good.

The owner of our firm had Stevie Wonder play at his 50th birthday party, in his back garden. (I wasn't invited).

The mattress perhaps Jeremy?

By my calculations (and a very small survey) east dulwich properties are yielding about 4.5%. I'm not sure equities can match that?.

4 times one income is what I was referring to. If you bring in joint incomes you are assuming there will be.no time off for either party which is often unrealistic.

No luck there but have So You Think and Flat Out in the Classic.

Breeders Cup. Going for Gio Ponti in the Mile opposing Goldikova....not.sure this is wise but there you go.

ibilly99 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bought this flat in Eastbourne for 15k and was on > a graduate starting salary of ?8500 (yes really) > so it cost about 2* my income - the price now is > ?86k and graduate starting incomes (non finacial) > maybe 22- 25 k so nearly 4* income - prices need > to drop considerably for fair price (and first > time buyers) to return. You suggest two times salary is a fair price but four times is more appropriate to what people are willing to pay. And as buyers dictate what is a fair price (otherwise they don't have to make an offer) the four times must be a fair price and I'm not sure I see that changing.

Feguson had a big job to do in breaking the drinking culture at MU with Mc Grath Robson etc, so the first couple of years its often thought were spent slowly getting rid of the old guard before he could even think about building something he could call his own team.

Someone has been on the sauce, and its not me. :'( Think the Gooners won the cup in 79 (Alan Sunderland..?). United won it in 77 (lucky deflection)