Farmer Saint

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Well, it's been an issue since Puel was here. We've had various different managers, coaches etc, and no-one has been able to sort it out.

No, because our issue seems to be marking, so having less players to mark is not a good idea.

Our defence is not good enough to play only 2 x CBs.

Fucking ridiculous how poor Starmer is.

Because we've been through that before, so I wonder why you're asking the same question again. They're not particularly offering pro-business policies, and yet the economy is doing better than under the "pro-business" Conservatives. Weird, huh? They are offering policies like the below though: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/almost-a-million-young-people-to-benefit-from-expanded-support-new-training-and-work-experience-opportunities "Brits are moving to popular spots like Australia, Spain, Canada, and the UAE, seeking lifestyle, job opportunities, and lower living costs, with younger Brits favoring the US/Canada for work and older generations sticking with Spain/Portugal for retirement, while emerging trends show interest in Qatar, Norway, and Georgia for unique work/life balance. " Interesting bit from t'internet, with the young choosing US and Canada, which we know take a long time to get work visa's for so must have been applied for pre-Labour. Surprising to see high tax Norway on that list as well. It's as if people move abroad for all sorts of reasons...

And you were aware that tax burdens were higher in Japan for high earners? No, didn't think so. Our young entrepreneurs aren't going to Dubai, they're going to Spain and Ireland (due to CTA and low cost of living) mostly. Tax burdens and dividend tax increases for the self-employed/entrepreneurs have been eroded gradually since 2014 - when I had my own business every year we were dealing with thresholds being reduced until it was barely anything. The added reduction in rates are not what has caused this - it is years of Government mismanagement. The biggest issue for youngsters is the lack of private sector jobs, and this has been an issue since COVID as private companies do not want to employ graduates. That's what we need to solve, and it's something that comes up ALL the time when discussing at board meetings. It's all experience over education now, and you can't invent experience.

Do you understand what it takes to get a visa to work in another country? Clearly not as it is not an easy, quick or cheap thing to do. Took me 2 years to get into the US, and that was with a lot of money behind me. I know it can take 3 years to get into Canada as that's what I'm going through at the moment. I know a heart surgeon who is moving to Australia in February, that's taken over a year and they are crying out for people like him. Answer my questions first please.

What, like Japan and South Africa? You know Japan has a very high tax burden for high-earners? South Africa? Really? Or the cunts playground known as Dubai? You think we should be zero tax do you? Freezing tax bands was put in place by the Tories originally, and would have been extended anyway. It is also the year ending June 2025 - emigrating is a long and arduous process, so the chance is that most of these people made their decision to leave whilst the Tories were in power.

Also, why would he have a clue - he's a Financial Advisor. Why would he have a clue as to why our younger generation are working abroad? They shove numbers into models, they're not macro-economists.

But all of that is nothing new and was the same under the Tories? And what increasing tax burdens for the young is that? In fact, the move to a higher national wage should help to put more money in our youngsters pockets. Please don't quite your old favourite "inheritance tax" again.

It's another example of Ralph parroting another article without properly reading or applying any critical thinking or historical analysis.

Young people have always wanted to be mobile. I moved to the US at 32 for example. Add that to the issues Western countries are having with creating jobs for youngsters over the past 5 to 10 years and you can see why they're going.

One of the main reason's they're leaving to these countries is due to leaving the EU they can no longer easily move to other EU countries that they previously would have.

So just before Xmas me and a few friends did some volunteering at a children's charity, and one of my ex-colleagues joined us (he moved to Dubai to be a CEO of an IT company in April). He's enjoying it, although he said the weather in the Summer is oppressive. He also has a young wife and baby and they are struggling a bit. What he was saying though is that younger people are going out there without fully appreciating the costs. Most young people who move out will not have schooling including in their packages (tends to be VP and above), and this can be a huge cost, even with the zero tax incentives. However, most young people who move to Dubai aren't interested in having kids...you tend to be a certain kind of person to move to a sandy hell-hole like that.

Because we live in a shit hole of a country with no hope and no future outside of the EU, and a possible Reform government on the horizon to fuck it further. It's why I'm seriously re-considering my options now, even with the changes to the farm tax.

"Sun all year round is a huge reason for me." Fucking Labour and their anti-sun policies.

And here-in lies the issue, I don't support a political party, and I would guess many others don't.

Exactly this. Good to hear that from a relative "neutral".

I think most of the "left" on here are sat in the middle TBF. I think Ralph thinks we all work in the public sector, which couldn't be further from the truth.

Lol, what's that in response to?

A letting agent for one property with a long term, reliable tenant...doesn't make any sense to me.

I have said it before, I think they're the same person from different sides of the spectrum.

I don't think they're friends, that's the issue, I think they're just members of the public. The people stacking shelves in Aldi. The Kurdish barbers that he gets his perm done at. The people working on donations at the food bank (only kidding - he wouldn't donate to a cause like that). But yeah, blue collar, salt of the earth types. I'll await the profiles (hopefully we'll get some after the embarrassing way he skirted around the Dubai migration profiles earlier this year).

Fucking political correctness gone mad innit. You can't display anything these days.