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Starmer's principled positioning .... on 07:30 - May 15 by nrb1985
So in other words, you couldn't hack private practice or weren't particularly good at it. A story as old as time.
I thank you though for the other insights. The fact that 38 years ago you had a computer when some other chap or chapess at Clifford Chance or similar didn't certainly adds weight here.
I think you'll read that back at some point and feel it wasn't a great post.
SB
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Starmer's principled positioning .... on 07:44 - May 15 with 404 views
Starmer's principled positioning .... on 21:13 - May 14 by DJR
I myself qualified and worked for a number of years in a City law firm.
I left to find intellectually more challenging work, and also because I didn't like the ass-licking of clients that goes with private practice. It was also great to be freed from things like timesheets and billing.
I joined the civil service in 1987, and our office was well ahead of the City law firms in terms of technology because we each had desk top computers. And one bright spark in our office had developed a programme which enabled us to turn individual word perfect documents into something that was identical in terms of looks to the Bills that Parliament produce. This was useful when it came to considering the iterations of successive drafts, and was taken up by the Houses of Parliament, when in the past it was all type-set.
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Just because I'm a pedant, it's "program" for computers, not "programme".
Starmer's principled positioning .... on 21:12 - May 14 by BanksterDebtSlave
Out of interest, have you ever been to Stockholm?
Been, yes. Great coffee, efficient trains, and funnily enough—a country that realised chasing away wealth doesn’t fund schools.
I have also lived in Switzerland where people arguably have the highest quality of life in the world and, get this to really blow your mind, - wealthy people, high earners and strategically important multi national companies can actually negotiate their own tax rates!
Starmer's principled positioning .... on 07:43 - May 15 by StokieBlue
I think you'll read that back at some point and feel it wasn't a great post.
SB
Nah - appreciate where you're coming from but don't think I've said anything not inkeeping with the rather sneery and condescending tone he started off with before he even knew me or what my profession was.
"He probably read it in the Telegraph so it must be true" chortle chortle, scoff scoff.
And there's only one post in this thread that's been reported for abuse and it's certainly not mine (Cue I'm sure now numerous people reporting me for abuse).
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Starmer's principled positioning .... on 08:10 - May 15 with 285 views
Starmer's principled positioning .... on 08:06 - May 15 by nrb1985
Been, yes. Great coffee, efficient trains, and funnily enough—a country that realised chasing away wealth doesn’t fund schools.
I have also lived in Switzerland where people arguably have the highest quality of life in the world and, get this to really blow your mind, - wealthy people, high earners and strategically important multi national companies can actually negotiate their own tax rates!
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"Wealth people, high earners and strategically important multi national companies can actually negotiate their own tax rates!"
Given they do that in Nigeria too, not sure that's the slam dunk you think it is.
Starmer's principled positioning .... on 08:10 - May 15 by bluelagos
"Wealth people, high earners and strategically important multi national companies can actually negotiate their own tax rates!"
Given they do that in Nigeria too, not sure that's the slam dunk you think it is.
You would know this far better than me of course but Africa and other frontier markets have their own set of unique issues and challenges that play into that.
I used to have a large number of African clients so have spent time in Rwanda (which is booming now as you know), Kenya and Ghana - so I'm fairly well versed in the "inefficiencies" of the tax system in parts of the region.
Obviously I don't know as as much as you on the subject, and I'm yet to have the pleasure of visiting Nigeria, but I'm sure you get the point I'm making re idiosyncratic issues.
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Starmer's principled positioning .... on 08:17 - May 15 with 259 views
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