@C_J Actually I’m like @benson an anaesthetist, just one who does intensive care. I actually think there shouldn’t have been a pay rise in times where there isn’t the capital to do it, a 1% one just upsets people and makes them feel worthless. I’m probably in a minority here though.

Apologies Wasily. I agree there isn’t scope to increase it by more out of general taxation but if we can raise £38m for the late Captain Sir Thomas Moore doing 100 laps of his garden I think we can do something for the cunts doing a hundred hours a week on the Covid wards for the last twelve months and counting. I’d chuck in fifty quid, get another couple of million to do the same and you’ve got a hundred milly. If we could get Tesco etc to top that up to £300m that’s about a grand per nurse after my 1% fee.

bosstrabs Dave. With respect, the EU’s anti-tax avoidance directive is a joke. A complete sham. Look at Dublin, Luxembourg, Switzerland. They are tax havens and that’s why they have the highest GDP per head in the Eurozone. The EU is corrupt and that’s why we left. You’re a somewhat educated person and yet you are wilfully ignorant of these facts.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/time-real-reform-stop-tax-havens-escaping-eu-blacklist

      Amps or, alternatively, tell Google they’ll get tax breaks if they set up their campuses in the UK, invest in educating, training and recruiting young British people with the skills they’ll need in the 21st century and raise taxes on bads like sugar, drugs and pollution.

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          It’s basically too late to worry about any of this now. Our souls were sold decades ago and it ain’t ever changing

          3.5% pay cut for us coming July 1 (our fiscal year). City/County charter requires a balanced budget and we can’t be in the red. Is what it is. Hopefully they’ll give us “floating holidays” in rue of the salary loss. But who knows.

          For those of us COVID activated, we get 8 extra hours of time away for every 80 hours (two weeks) worked - a way of compensating given they cannot give hazard pay. I’m currently at 1,030 - basically 6 months off. If I ever get the chance, my top might never come back on.

          C_J With respect, the EU’s anti-tax avoidance directive is a joke. A complete sham. Look at Dublin, Luxembourg, Switzerland

          Reasonable point, though Switzerland is not in the EU.

            CJ’s clearly spoiling for a ‘swedge’ on this one, the Ayn Rand ‘wide cunt’ of the JC messageboard.

            Ayn Rand claimed social security in her later years, the hypocritical old boot.

            Smallman1 How much did SM Snr spend on your education again? Money well spent.

              C_J Sure, but offering some of these companies tax breaks, when they have paid so little for so long, is a bit like asking your rapist for a reach around. I think you need the leverage / threat in there in some way. It makes little odds, Boris and chums are more interested in being liked by the rest of the psychopaths than helping the country.

                CJ can froth at the mouth and call people on here ‘ignorant’ all he likes.

                What I think he doesn’t quite understand is that when many people are seeing wage stagnation and the cost of living increase year-on-year in real terms, and are also getting pissed off by only having precarious employment with the likes of Uber, Deliveroo, Amazon et al available to them, and THEN see these tech companies (and others) getting away with paying fuck all, sooner or later there will be enough pissed-off people to upend the whole system (which never seems likely until it actually happens and then… oh shit!)

                And I say this as someone who is definitely a capitalist. It has to be seen to be working for the majority of participants if a system is to sustain itself.

                I agree the tech companies need to pay more tax but no-one so far has managed to figure out a way of doing it unfortunately.

                  Wally Taking on Facebook didn’t seem so scary after all for Australia when they did it.

                    Wally There’s an amazing tool called Smallman too.

                    Much obliged Wal!