Search results

It wasn't meant to be a point-by-point critique. Just general conversation about how the supermarket profits are a mighty red herring because (in spite of the apparent big numbers) supermarket profits are not big at all.

Is it £500 per day maximum from an ATM machine? If they think I'm going to visit an ATM every day for 8 years, they can think again! ;)

If that's what you think it meant, then I haven't expressed it clearly enough. The point about supermarket profits is that supermarkets are an efficient way of getting goods to the general population at cheap prices, and that even if they made no profits at all our food would not be noticeably...

So if the supermarkets cut their prices so they made no profit at all, what would you do with the £1 a week that you saved? I really don't see why people get outraged about the average combined supermarket profits (for the big 4) of £60 per person per year. It's not a fortune, and there are...

I wonder if he'll do it again next month when the England cricket team go to Pakistan? Though I suppose if his protest is specifically against David Beckham rather than against the Qatar government policy, he'll not need to, because Beckham involved with Pakistan (so far as I know!)

Not to mention the Chinese Olympics, and England cricket touring Pakistan early in the new year.

Britain joined the EEC in January 1973, the big IMF bailout was in December 1976, the winter of discontent was in 1978-79. We didn't stop being the "poor man of Europe" as a result of being in the EEC.

Though for balance, there are schools of thought that says part of the Pakistan flood problems are due to their own government policy (deforestation and building on flood plains, for example), and also massive population growth, as well as climate change. Just because the Pakistan government...

I wasn't "throwing anything at you". The first sentence you quoted was part of a reply and the sense of it (maybe I could have made it clearer) was that if we spend money on a new possession, then it is because we have chosen to spend that money on that possession over the good the money could...

No, you completely misunderstand. If you have £300 in your pocket and you spend it on a new TV, then you cannot spend that £300 on other people. It is mutually exclusive. You might be giving £100,000 to charity and spending £300 on a TV, but that's because you have made a personal decision...

Post 63.

I think any article that focuses entirely on the bad and pays no attention at all to the good, must be said to be biased. Even opponents of Arthur Scargill and Margaret Thatcher must (if they are being fair) accept that their careers included good points as well as bad.

That's a heavily biased article; more party political broadcast than proper news. Describing him as illiberal because he said that the benefits of vaccinating under-5's against covid are outweighed by the risks? That's surely a mainstream view. Taxing Disney at full rates? Liberals generally...

Owen Coyle left Burnley in 2010 and took with him all the coaches, goalkeeping coach, physio and kitman. He did leave the youth team coach behind to be caretaker manager, though they appointed Brian Laws (Lord knows why!) before the next match.

It doesn't have a sustainable past. Crypto doesn't generate income, it doesn't possess assets. If you buy it, all you own is a bit of computer code, and all it is worth is what someone else will pay for it. There are no underlying assets and no trading income. The future prospects are based...

That was written last year, when most of the players were leaving (some on free transfers) and we had neither a manager nor any money. Since then we have got Kompany and 16 new players, with astonishment that such a good side can be built from scratch. (Barnes, Cork, and Brownhill were the...

Momentum, that's all it was. And just in case scoring two goals against Blackburn and pushing their keeper into the net (and getting away with it!) wasn't enough, in his live BBC interview he referred to them as "the b@stards" and got away with that too! :lolol:

But you would get a two bedroom terrace house within 30 miles of Burnley. ;) The ones in nicer town centre areas cost typically£525-£600. Cheaper to buy, of course. I presume that if your rent/mortgage is higher, your benefits would be higher too.

They don't like putting you to sleep because there is the tiny chance you won't wake up again. Apparently healthy people do die (very rarely) under effects of anaesthetic. About 1 in 100,000 for healthy, non-emergency surgery; but across the NHS as a whole, if they do (random number) 5 million...

When poverty is based on average income, it becomes impossible to eliminate. (Except that if 51% of the population have nothing, then officially there is no poverty because nobody is below the median). But a more practical example of the problems comes with income tax. If income tax rates are...