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Too right . ....they avoid it by using the finest( and extremely expensive ) brains . it is prohibitively expensive to set up offshore nominee companies , trusts etc in tax havens so that excludes all the chavs and the chattering classes from the game . A very exclusive game.

If they get a bailout and fall under the stewardship of the state then they have additional obligations to the UK taxpayer as well as their shareholders . If Mr Darlings mandarins have their wits about them , when the deal is negotiated they will put an end to this fancy tax avoidance footwork to avoid uk corporation tax . Barclays lose their right to this as they turn to the state for help . Any normal commercial business in such a position would go to the wall when it runs out of cash and its assets bought up by a more successful management team to better utilise in the free market .

Course all large companies are at it . It will get a bit more difficult though if the G20 find a way to place the thumbscrews on tax havens , where those that can afford it leave a trail of smoke and mirrors .

Barclays were seeking to legitimately ensure their tax payments were kept to a minimum .Tax avoidance is quite legitimate ( tax evasion is illegal ) and to any any commercial company in the real world it is common sense not to pay any more tax than is legally required . Commercial organisations will always be ahead of the legislators . That is a dynamic of a capitalist market. Anyone who thinks otherwise is in laa laa land.

I ve just had a brainwave around quantitative easing that would put a real feelggod factor back in the domestic housing market . The government could revert back to pounds , shillings and pence ( the pre Feb 1971 currency for us oldies ) and there can be 240 pennies in each pound . A property today worth £100 000 would tomorrow be worth £240 000 .This would make evryone feel good again .House price would be instantly higher than the August 2007 peak . confidence would be restored to the market and the last 18 months or so will just seem like a bad dream.

They should have worked a 12 step program around their business . Seems they have corporately been acting out on the character defect of greed .

Boscombe has got soul ,its a diverse and vibrant community . There is though a ley line of evil that runs through Macdonalds and the surrounding area up to the Crescent ( which is best avoided ) .if you search out the nooks and crannies you can actually get a meal of the best pasta in the universe in Bosco

In essence : Confidence = Money Fear = money gone Bottom line is the markets are ultimately acting on the full range human emotion that polarises them between greed and fear . Acting out on greed blinkers the greedy to actual reality . I guess the analogy of an elastic band could be used . It started off balanced in 1999 then expanded and expanded until August 2007 . It then snapped back , when the illusion could no long be sustained by all the 'market weavers' with an intensity that created convulsions in the market . After a long period of confidence, blinkered by greed a severe financial contraction prevails as the market readjusts to reality . In traditional economic terms , I could not personally work out where all the apparant additional capital was coming from between 1999 and 2007 . With the benefit of hindsight , it looks as if most of it was not actually there . The parable of the emporers new clothes comes to mind . Ultimately I guess the uk market can not stabalise until house prices have bottomed out ...and who is to say they will not bottom out back at 1999 levels ...which will force a huge write off of capital originally secured at August 2007 valuations . So my conclusion is that the money hasnt gone because it wasnt there in the first place .

one of the benefits of brown running the economy into the ground , there will be a forced cull within the beaurocracy Its about time the bloated public sector be precribed the same medicine as the commercial

According to Chappell and Matthews the EA ...Castle Lane West Bournemouth is in Hampshire ...Last time I looked , I thought Bournemouth was in Dorset .

We may spend evenings as a family sat in front of open fires . Less cars on the road The age of speculative purpose built flats being built on every spare blade of grass is over . The art of conversation and reading books passing candelight evenings during power cuts will return . Greed and debt will no longer reign supreme . The emporer has been revealed to be wearing no clothes again ...and all the cash has gone ...anarchists couldnt bring about the demise of capitalism as we know it ...but the bankers have succeeded with computers as their weapons Less consumption and demand on the planets resources Quite a few dogs will be getting their day . Conversion between £ and Euro will be totally straightforward if £1=1 Euro or even £1 =$1 Less stress in airports going on foreign hols ... holidaying at home . More time in the fresh air getting down and dirty with the earth growing vegetables on the allotment . First time buyers will be able to realistically get into the property market as house prices return to 1999 levels . The government will eventually run out of cash/ credibility and the overblown bureaucracy will be have to be seriously streamlined . Society may become less materialistic and re focus on what really matters. .

We may spend evenings as a family sat in front of open fires . Less cars on the road The age of speculative purpose built flats being built on every spare blade of grass is over . The art of conversation and reading books passing candelight evenings during power cuts will return . Greed and debt will no longer reign supreme . The emporer has been revealed to be wearing no clothes again ...and all the cash has gone ...anarchists couldnt bring about the demise of capitalism as we know it ...but the bankers have succeeded with computers as their weapons Less consumption and demand on the planets resources Quite a few dogs will be getting their day . Conversion between £ and Euro will be totally straightforward if £1=1 Euro or even £1 =$1 Less stress in airports going on foreign hols ... holidaying at home . More time in the fresh air getting down and dirty with the earth growing vegetables on the allotment . First time buyers will be able to realistically get into the property market as house prices return to 1999 levels . The government will eventually run out of cash/ credibility and the overblown bureaucracy will be have to be seriously streamlined . Society may become less materialistic and re focus on what really matters. .

Hello Wessex City team . I have been offline for a week or so because my account was locked and I couldnt work out how to get back on . Also I was enjoying the first blast of summer on Southbourne beach and it was good to get away from the computer . The sea numbed me on the first day , but by the fifth it seemed much warmer . As Ked mentioned , the Cellar Bar will probably be the natural hangout for the surfers when the reef is completed as its laid back , and has live music and occasional reggae .. Maybe a bit small though . Its always been a bit of a locals hang out . There are quite a few empty shops on Boscombe high steet i noticed at the moment . All with big blue signs covering the window space showing the sea glistening and mentioning the surf reef ...hopes are obviously high for this in Boscombe . I have heard of one small local developer stopping work on all sites and trying to sell off a couple of parcels of undeveloped land . Glad to hear that daily mail award winning reef flat development has been filling up with the brown stuff , just about symbolises the quality of the flats they have been building for the Tarquins and Geneveives over last few years . Southbourne is sandbanks without the glitz and mega£ cost of buying into . Has anyone noticed any price drops around the southbourne area like Bh6 Welcome to the new posters in this thread . It was great to see the FA Cup come to the south coast yeasterday , well done Mr Redknapp

Eating a BLT considering the fate of the BTLs ...he realised , he was not a number he was a free man . Or was he number 6 ?

Personally I think whatever colour of political persuasion takes so called power , it is just a veneer of apparent democracy , to make us think we do have democracy . The real power rests with the bureaucracies and those who wield the laws , council workers , police , judges , magistrates , parking wardens , cctv operators enviro nazi's, planners , social workers , HMRC ,councillors etc etc and all the other busy bodies and do gooders who like bossing other people around . Politicians with only a few exceptions are driven primarily by self interest and self promotion and in reality there is zilch in the way of difference between the reds the blues and the yellows these days especially since the intellectual root of socialism died a natural with the demise of communism . The old left has now moved to the enviro issues which is a new chip / stick they latch on to and beat everyone up with . The only political worth voting for is dead ..........Screaming Lord Sutch The rest of them are good at spinning fancy words and manipulating The lunatics are running the asylum

Harry Ramsdens do class chips too

Thanks Bosh ...new season fresh start in August with a new owner Jeff Mostyn the local curtain king ...its happened many times over the years and they usually manage to get back up pretty quick.. Best of luck for Moscow .

yes , he owns 2500 ish properties in the area now , and has recently completed a £90 million refinancing . He put the baseball bats away quite a few years ago I have personal experience of genuine acts of kindness he has bestowed upon tenants believe it or not .. Many years ago , my dad used to rent a garage from him and if you pay you rent on the nail there would never be any trouble .. He was the landlord that would rent places out to tenants that no other landlord would touch ...which I suppose was the reason he used to have to employ his own unique methods of enforcement. The regeneration of Bosco would be in his interest as he owns so much of the property. AFCB have just been relegated ....booo ..hooo

Personally , I love Boscombe and it has always been the place to hang out , it is really cosmopolitan . It has suffered from a reputation for many years that is far worse than the reality . The south side of the main road (Christchurch Road ) has seen many flat developments over recent years ( which is still happening ) . Construction of the surf reef is finally underway . The north side of Christchurch road has not benefited as yet ( and in my opinion is unlikely to ) and it has quite a few flatlets / bedsits etc on which the local drug scene has been centred for many years ( The Crescent area ) . There are lots of coffeeshops and cafes in Boscombe and quite a few and varied small privately owned shops as well as the usual high street multiples . To the East of Boscombe there is a well established surf shop in Southbourne that has been there donkeys years . The main evening ent in Boscombe is centred on The Opera House a large venue which also puts on live music . It recently had an extensive and tasteful refurbishment . I guess if the surfers hit town , and Bosco becomes a south coast version of Venice beach in LA , there are already plenty of places for them to eat , score their drugs and hang out . It may need a surfers pub for the cool crowd to hang out at in the evenings . There are no wine bars in Boscombe at the moment which would probably suit the surfers as its not really their scene . Boscombe has its own well established identity , which the surfers would certainly not take over as they may do in places like Newquay , but they are welcome to blend into it .

Thanks boshdadosh , many of us are praying hard on the South Coast this week .

Sell the wifes jewellery , mortgage the dog , take out a second or third charge while the equity is there just go ., if its that once in a lifetime experience that comes from your heart . If I had been at the world cup final in 1966 I wouldnt be sitting here today umming and rrring about how much it had cost ...I would be remembering that I WAS THERE My Euro final is this weekend against Carlisle as the great escape is still on in sunny sunny Bournemouth . ( PS if anyones got two shillings and sixpence and fancies a football club please contact the administrators , who currently have their snouts in the trough .)

Yes , I remember a muslim I used to work for , he would e mail me daily quotes from the Koran ...and one of the quotes was along the lines that if someone is carrying out manual labour for you , you should pay them before the sweat on the palm of their hands is dry ..

It sounds like the sub contractor is being strung along . If it was me , I would gently point out to them , that they have forced me into an impossible situation financially . stop working for them immediately (possibly chasing good money after bad ) and issue a statutory demand for payment .This is probably the quickest way of forcing the issue one way or another .. This will get them to show their true colours and relieve the stress of not knowing . Sometimes even if the news is bad it is better to know for sure than live in possible miguided hope . The court can advise on the proceedure for issuing a statutory demand and you dont necessarily have to get a solicitor involved and incur lots more expense.

Yes , lets hope the sea level rises a few inches as well and floods that new monstrous development at Honeycombe Chine . £500k for a glorified rabbit hutch with a bit of glitz and a decent sea view . That was our public car park that Bournemouth Council sold . Barretts must have a few bob laid out on that development . I wonder how many they have sold to date . I bet there not telling prospective purchasers that the Crescent 1/2 a mile up the road is smack and crack central for the south coast

The absense of the force of law : The closest I have ever seen to the total absense and breakdown of law and order was at a stonehenge free festival in the early 1980's ...one afternoon 100s of hells angels descended on the site on motorbikes and in blacked out ford transits , and with military precision organised into small groups , they took total control of each area within the site ( covering a good number of acres ).. They siezed control with weapons , violence and the threat of violence . They then visited each tent , caravan , bus , etc and helped themselves to anything of value . At one point someone on the main stage with a microphone said theres lots of ripping off going on here tonight , anyone who wants to do anything about it please come to the main stage ....no one moved a muscle and the angels feasted on their booty and revelled in their success with lashings of cider for the whole of the next day before leaving . They controlled the site with baseball bats , hammers , guns etc ....the police based in the Stoonehenge car park were having a real laugh and there was no way they were coming onto the festival site ... if you hippies want anarchy you got it . To me , as soon as there is a breakdown of the rule of law, it is immediately down to those most effectively organised in a violent way with weapons who will take control and the resources .....