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Reply | Mcfraud got what he wanted
at 08:07 2 Apr 2025
If you compare us to Southampton and Leicester, who both prior to last season were premier league clubs, mckennas done ok. At the end of the day we’re just not good enough at the moment. Hopefully we can invest in the summer from the inevitable Delap sale, get a bit more depth and should we go straight back up hopefully we will be better placed to try and stay up. |
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Reply | £500 a year better off a year
at 14:11 28 Mar 2025
My point was what people do and don’t spend their money on is up to them. If they’ve been able to claim winter fuel allowance and that’s in their figures that’s up to them. It could be means tested but i said where do you stop because where do you? Because 1 persons sky package could be taking the family out for a meal once a month or going to the pub 3 nights a week or going on a saga holiday. |
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Reply | £500 a year better off a year
at 13:40 28 Mar 2025
Going off your “if you can afford it”. I mean if they cancelled it, but then spent more on a meal out how would people feel about it that way. |
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Reply | £500 a year better off a year
at 13:22 28 Mar 2025
Where do you stop? Block all oaps from going to bingo? Or going out for a meal with family? We could all find ways of saving everyone else £50/month. With sky im young and in a position to “afford” it, however 1 meal out with my family a month can cost more than my subscription, so yes bring means testing for fuel allowance, but please don’t dictate what others spend their money on if they were receiving it. |
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Reply | What do the Tractor Boys think of the Tractor "Go Slow" A14 Protest? (
at 20:22 3 Feb 2025
Good grief some of these replies. Any private business incoming farms can claim bpr and this is as important as apr. A claw back on sale would have achieved far more. It world have allowed us wanting to carry on farming carry on investing and expanding and acting as a deterrent to anyone wanting to sell to avoid iht. [Post edited 3 Feb 20:28]
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Reply | Farmers' protests in London today...
at 16:20 11 Dec 2024
For me I can look past the likes of Clarkson to an extent. The real elephant in the room is roll over relief and for me that’s what drives up land prices. I could sell 50 acres for houses tomorrow and get anywhere between £25-50m for it. If I don’t invest it within 2 years I grt clobbered for capital gains. Yet if I invest in more farm land I’ve enough to be 2500 acres at £10k an acre. Or push the price up on less |
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Reply | Farmers' protests in London today...
at 14:12 11 Dec 2024
Labour have made a mess of it from the beginning. The changes could have been implemented so easily. Being 4th generation on a family farm, this current iht rule could see it broken up completely with 2 deaths in close timings. And who will buy the farm? Big corps and people wanting to hide money.
For me they should have said there will be no iht on death, however for 5 years there will be 40% claw back and then 20% for another 5. If the farm is subsequently sold by the decentants. So easy and unlikely to have had any arguments from us farmers that want to farm!! [Post edited 11 Dec 2024 14:13]
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Reply | Labour hates hard working people
at 15:22 1 Nov 2024
What they should have done is change the “active farmer” rule. At the moment any average joe can buy land attend a few meeting as get classed as a farmer and get iht relief. I would have liked to see it changed that to be an “active farmer” the farm must be sole or main income. A proper family farm full of active farmers could then get relief on a more sensible figure, say £10m and a “land owner” would only get relief on sat £5m. Then the likes of clarkson and dyson wouldn’t be hiding cash in land. For me as forth generation on my family farm this news would stop my children benefiting from over 100 years of hard graft from previous members of the family and makes me think what’s the point. |
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Reply | Fixture Changes
at 17:35 15 Oct 2024
8 would be easier. 7:45 I get home from work at 6:15 eat, spend some time with the kids/help with bedtime etc then out the door for 6.55, even then it’s tight. |
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Reply | Smoking in SBR Lower toilets
at 14:56 7 Oct 2024
My guess is security. The last ground went to personally that allowed fans out for a puff was Derby several years ago. If you have an outside area, how big would it be? Would it be 1 in 1 out? Or would you get the queue like for the bogs as someone is outside chaining all half time. The extra security needed on each point would be an added headache as they’ve got to stop people getting in as much. As a ex smoker who enjoyed a half time ciggy before it was banned, I understand why people want one, but also wish they’d consider others. |
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Reply | This Country is finished
at 08:56 5 Aug 2024
Nail on head. Lack of proper funding for a long time is the major issue here and the cost of certain things like houses that distort everything. I feel we are getting to point where we’ve got to accept we are going to have to borrow a heck of a lot of money and spend bit in every part of the country to try and repair decades of decay, however it’s not going to be ok overnight and every government is scared to actually do something about it imo. |
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Reply | Am I naive and stupid to not mind if taxes do go up a bit?
at 22:57 26 Jun 2024
We pay a shed load as it is and a lot is wasted. Just the other day the story broke of all that PPE wasted. Over a billion pounds worth I believe they said. I’d like to see current tax be used morr efficiently and not wasted first before I hand over more tbh. If there was a way of holding governments to account and they prove money goes to where they promise and you can see results then maybe. |
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Reply | VAT on Private School
at 10:54 18 Jun 2024
Tbh going after wealth could be a dangerous game. If you get a job, pay taxes on the income, then buy a house with the income, only to be told you’ve got to pay more as you’ve got successful will get a lot of peoples back up. Where do you stop, in terms of wealth. Because anyone super rich will just move their money out of the country. |
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Reply | VAT on Private School
at 11:09 17 Jun 2024
Yes it’s a race to the bottom. Correct me if I’m wrong but a state school currently receives just over £7500 per student per year. Most class sizes are around 30. The cost to send my boys to their school is around £15000 a year. Most private schools as far as I’m aware (again correct me if I’m mistaken) receive no funding for pupil places. My boys class sizes are 14 and 13. With my little brain means their school makes as much from their classes as a state school does.
I say it’s a race to the bottom as for me proof is there. Like every sector in this country it has been starved of funds. Merging schools and classes is happening everywhere atm. Yet for me we need more schools and smaller class sizes. The government should be looking at the private sector as inspiration to guide them in how to build a successful state system. |
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Reply | VAT on Private School
at 23:17 13 Jun 2024
Just like the road tax is used to fill potholes and the extra £350m a week to the nhs you mean 🤣
This is like everything else in life, a race to the bottom |
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Reply | VAT on Private School
at 22:38 13 Jun 2024
As a parent of children fortunate enough to attend a private school, having to pay another 1/5 will be an almighty stretch. However my boys are in classes of 13 and 14 respectively. At the local state they would be in a class size of 30. My eldest requires extra help which he receives thanks in part to the small class sizes.
I fully accept the registered charity uproar, however for me starmer would more likely get my vote if he had said we will charge vat to private schools, but we will cap state school classes at 20-25 and use the extra income to build/replace hundreds of schools. |
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Reply | Thoughts and prayers everyone, thoughts and prayers.
at 10:59 1 Feb 2024
If it was guaranteed to go towards education I’d pay more tax and I’m already in the 40% bracket. However tax has been mishandled for many years, and every sector has been underfunded for decades. |
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Reply | Thoughts and prayers everyone, thoughts and prayers.
at 14:24 31 Jan 2024
No one should be written off ever, however in a school nowadays when class sizes are 30-35 it makes it jolly hard to get help to the “strugglers”. I speak from experience in that my boys are fortunate enough to go to private school, my eldest needs extra help which they are able to provide, with him having a class size of only 14, I feel he would most definitely would have been overlooked in the state system. Ideally we would all love a well funded state system, but how much truly would the cost be to half class sizes, an awful lot I imagine. |
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