The G Man

,any vids of the drive out?

Thought the exact same

What we all need to remember regards pension contribution, which I’ve found a staggering amount of people don’t, is that you don’t pay any tax on pension contributions, you’re taxed after pension contributions on your salary are taken off. Tax comes later when lump sum payments are calculated and accordingly, what income a pension pays out. It’s all very complicated for us mere mortals but it’s never too early to start learning and hoping you’ve done the best with your money.

You missed taxing them in every country appropriately to the revenue they accrue. Of course it needs to be retrospective, then the tax that should’ve been paid, would still be in the pots of millions of pensioners pensions, not in the Cayman islands or similar. But then we come right back to the myth of brexshit, when the truth is, billionaires don’t like to be taxed fairly, not at any cost and certainly not to help a country or individuals to have a comfortable future. If you’re happy at that, then I suppose you are happy to die ‘in service’, when you may well be 75 patrolling some landing full of criminals and thugs (think about that for a second) with no hope of retiring, despite the ‘5% - 25%’ input to your pension

Tax them in ALL the countries they operate in, on the revenue they accumulate in that country, not som tax haven, convenient minimal tax regime. Tax them now and make it retrospective.

Exactly! Change the tax laws, tax the rich and powerful more, thankyou for confirming that point

You're just in the job, that’ll be worth next to nothing just now. 5% from you? Used to be zero %, non contributory, except widows and orphans fund (2.5%). 2 for 1’s in some cases. Good luck I hope you don’t die IN service or in service, hope you have a long retirement

What, like Amazon, Google, Facebook .

Well, the financial crash, which cost @ 1/4 of what Covid so far has cost. For the little misadventure of a global financial crisis, women of a certain age lost 7 years of state pension and their male counterparts lost a minimum 2 years, in today’s terms that was @ £72,000 pounds in saved (which were paid for) state pension income for a couple who had full NI contributions. That was before they started dismantling the final salary pension schemes that were once a fantastic work benefit, through tax changes, national insurance changes and a multiple of stealth tax on investments on a level pertinent to probably people like most on here. Pension pots are already being raided with tax cuts to lifetime pot accumulation. There’ll be more legislation, on a quite aggressive scale, to further claim from the big pension funds. Im no expert but at 37, if I were you, I would be heavily investing in a pension if you’ve not done so yet. There is a lot of good organisations out there that will help. Even my cast iron final salary pension has moved position in the last few years due to government raids (I’m talking two years ago) to push what I was due at 60, to 62. All this in the last 10 years, the next 4 years will see a massive influx of legislation not for an imminent pensioners benefit. All this and we’re only 6weeks into brexshit, in another 6 weeks we’ll be under new pressure from that jobby sandwich. i think the markets, if you know how to work in/with them, is the way to go now.

Most of NASA’s $2billion was spent on shift allowance for all that 24hr a day computer watching.......I mean flying a spaceship......

Once this Covid mess is under control, from a medical point of view, standby for an unmitigated and persistent assault on any and all pension pots from the westminster government. Just like they did after the financial crash, only two, three, umpteen times worse. Best hide yer dosh under the mattress..............

The Abarth comes in solid colours as well, as in all one colour

Mentioned elsewhere before, I’m actively looking for one of these. My Mrs says the different coloured bonnet etc puts her of and looks a bit ‘aftermarkety’. So probably a solid red or white for me if I commit. Im assuming the fit and finish, being built in Japan (?) is pretty good? I too, prefer the Fiat look against the newer MX-5, although @5’ 11”, I do comfortably fit the MX-5. Just need to get off my ar5e and find one I suppose.....

Just checked my 5.0 V8, no charge apparently

Ooft! Love a good movie and rewatch loads, just a few in no particular order: The Godfather Trilogy Heat A Few Good Men Most Marvel movies, with End Game being top Top Gun First three Star Wars Saving Private Ryan Bullit Fury Inglorious Basterds Django Unchained (Tarintino) In fact all Tarintino Original Le Mans We Were Soldiers All The Presidents Men Laundromat Alien series Deadpool 1 and 2 Safehouse Equalizer Batman (Christopher Nolan trilogy) No Country For Old Men Ron Burgandy, both Bad Santa Fargo Burn After Reading Three Billboards All Daniel Craig Bond movies All Sean Connery Bond movies Unforgiven A Bridge Too Far Waterloo Toy Story Star Treck (Chris Pine lot) 2001 A Space Oddity John Wick 1,2 and probably 3 Goodfellas The Irishman To Kill A Mocking Bird All Mission Impossible The Big Lebowski Thunderbolt & Lightfoot Fightclub Zulu The French Connection 1 and 2 Debbie Does Dallas (first porno movie I watched) The Searchers The Train Gladiator Moneyball the List could go on and on.

Keep yer Stang, they are mightily fun, even on the narrowest of roads, Christ we even went up Glen Etive in September in ours Ive only did @ 2k Miles the whole of last year in it, obviously Covid restrictions didn’t help with planned Euro trips . Yesterday, I just sat in it on the drive and ran it up to temp to defrost, started fannying aboot wi the active exhaust and the Lund N gauge and nearly killed the car Luckily I managed to revert it back to the tune, despite my big fat goldfinger Im considering one of these as a ‘back up’ fun car, don’t know if it’s on your radar, https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202012227321289?postcode=ml92ap&model=124 SPIDER&sort=relevance&include-delivery-option=on&onesearchad=Used&onesearchad=Nearly New&onesearchad=New&advertising-location=at_cars&make=FIAT&radius=1501&page=1 that exact one in fact. Ill keep the Stang till it’s a pile of dust on the drive, being a Ford, that’ll probably not be long Owes me nowt, but the adventures we’ve been on in it have been marvellous and it still gives me a nice, comforting feeling when I ‘slip it on’.

IMO, best looking wheels on the planet

Best Bond ever IMO, that said, he advocated giving wummin a slap and evaded tax, in his tax haven

So drinking bleach and sticking a uv lightbulb up your erse doesn’t work? Jeezo! I’m shocked After the other night where he was clearly oot his box on steroids, I think he should suffer a massive relapse and just shuffle off now.

In my experience, restricted regimes and boring days are much, much better than “visors down, shields up” days, by a long way Trumps a knut, his kind will do anything to empower themselves with more money and influence (Supreme Court judge appointments, a case in fact). I don’t wish him dead, but I hope he gets it as rough as fluck. “I like Presidents that don’t catch a virus”, just like he likes military men who don’t get captured, a total spunkbucket of a *****. Anyway, back on the fence........

Hand me down iPhone 6 here, saving my money for a blower

Dan, I can’t forget your statement ‘Covid did US (?) a favour’. Who is ‘us’, never did me or my family or the 70,000+ dead a ‘favour’, not in a brexit scenario, a healthy nation scenario nor in a NHS scenario did Covid ‘do us a favour’. That’s pretty perverse. The only ‘favour’ Covid did was to temporarily let this band of incompetent scoundrels, off the hook, temporarily. Covid is still here, brexit is inevitable, none of these things ‘do us a favour’. As a father, a father in law, a brother and an uncle to 4 nurses, I asked them if they think Covid ‘did us a favour’, not in any shape, form or fashion was there a positive to that scenario. Stay safe

One needs to be an adult to understand adults, clownheid is less an adult as my 3yr old grandson. This moron, masquerading as an adult, has shown toddler like tendencies when ‘appealing’ to “good old British common sense”. Anyway, the gist of this thread revival is to gauge, given what we know now of this unmitigated disaster known as Brexit, to those that supported it, would you still support it and, what are the benefits? Can supporters point to our ‘extra’ freedoms? What ‘freedoms’ are we to look forward to on 01/01/21, that we didn’t have prior to 2016? Bearing in mind, we now understand that the whole fiasco was brought about to allow the tax dodging rich avoid new EU legislation and was not about ‘ sovrinty’ that we already had.

Nismo Mk1 wheels, diamond cut wheels are gash, IMO