Metropol

Hymagumba wrote:So basically you wank on webcams for money?

If you want to think I wank on webcams for a living, then go ahead.

"I am employed." <-- useless
"I work in retail" <-- less useless.

There we go, a hint at my employment status whilst still being vague. Now you try.

I told you. I wank on webcams.

This is why Gavin doesn't believe you Chie. You won't even vaguely suggest how you make a living. I no longer believe you pay for no own food.

'Fine, I don't care what you think'. Sure, but you'll understand if your political views sound unfounded.

Yet if I was on £150,000 a year (which I'm not) you'd still say my political views are unfounded because I have 'no experience of how ordinary people live'.

You're just being nosy. Sod off.

Chie wrote:VAT on salt would mean processed food manufacturers who use salt as an ingredient would have to pay VAT on it.

Which they can then promptly reclaim back from the taxman.

Chie wrote:Surely that would raise quite a bit of money and encourage them to use less salt in their products at the same time.

Not really, no.

Chie wrote:Yet if I was on £150,000 a year (which I'm not) you'd still say my political views are unfounded because I have 'no experience of how ordinary people live'.

You're just being nosy. Sod off.

That as maybe, but I think people who give you a little more time of day if you had gone out into the real world and earned some money. People don't care how much you earn, but rather the manner in which you earn your money. You can cannot claim to be self employed and have a thorough understanding of the world of work and being self sufficient when it's clear you're being supported at home and have a sheltered view of reality.

Nosey it might be, but making vague statements saying that you're self employed don't carry much weight and I think people would rather hear a little more honesty from you instead of making immature comments about webcams.

Isonstine wrote:

Chie wrote:Yet if I was on £150,000 a year (which I'm not) you'd still say my political views are unfounded because I have 'no experience of how ordinary people live'.

You're just being nosy. Sod off.

That as maybe, but I think people who give you a little more time of day if you had gone out into the real world and earned some money. People don't care how much you earn, but rather the manner in which you earn your money. You can cannot claim to be self employed and have a thorough understanding of the world of work and being self sufficient when it's clear you're being supported at home and have a sheltered view of reality.

Nosey it might be, but making vague statements saying that you're self employed don't carry much weight and I think people would rather hear a little more honesty from you instead of making immature comments about webcams.

Jovis doesn't know me. He's merely a passing stranger in my life, so why does he think he's entitled to know what I do and how much I earn? It wouldn't help your understanding of my political views one bit.

Jovis wrote:This is why Gavin doesn't believe you Chie. You won't even vaguely suggest how you make a living.

What difference would it make, exactly? What's the difference between printing customised mousemats, designing graphics, copywriting, selling vintage T-shirts on eBay or any of the other million and one things I might do for a living? You don't need to know.

At least I've put up a more substantial argument than 'the Greens should win because I think they sound really nice' or 'I hope the Tories don't win, because my daddy says they were really nasty 30 years ago', or some meaningless drivel about Twitter.

Maybe I'm in the wrong place.

You all enjoy agreeing with yourselves and slagging off the Tories. I'm sure it will be a really intellectually engaging three weeks.

You're too much of a masochist to shut up here for 3 weeks

Plus there fair few others on here who do vote tory, so Its not everyone disagrees with you.

Has anyone seen this? http://news.sky.com/skynews/Article/201004115601907

Chie wrote: I don't see why it should always be 17.5% when wages have increased so much over the last 13 years

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Well that's a rather flawed way of looking at things if ever there was one. Wages may well be increasing but prices are going up at a faster rate so in real terms many people are getting progressively worse off.

Although I am above the minimum wage, my pay is linked to it i.e. last year the minimum wage rose from £5.73 to £5.80, so my rate went up by 7p to maintain the same gap between minimum and what I get.

That extra 7p an hour does not pay for petrol jumping up by almost 15p a litre since I got the pay rise, VAT going back up to 17.5% in January, the rise in council tax, the rise in utility bills, or a myriad of other basic living expenses which your posts on here would seem to indicate that you don't have to worry about.

This year's soon to be released P60 is going to show the highest figure I have ever earned in my life, but in real terms I'm worse off now than I was 3 years ago.

So no, I don't see why VAT should be any higher than 17.5%. If anything, the 15% rate should have been made a permanent reduction.