Work so hard you cripple yourself

[selectortone]

I'm finding it hard to feel sorry for James Dyson who scuttled off to Singapore and is now one of the biggest 'farmers'* in the UK.

*If you can call buying up farmland as a means of avoiding tax 'farming'.

 

[redhunter350]

How old are you, are you in good h

Yes Artie in good health and very lucky at 80 ! as I said things are MUCH heavier now

 

[RobinBHM]

Before anyone suggests that both parents would be unlikely to die at the same time, a will from the first to die could easily pass "their half" of the farm to the beneficiary/ies - after all, we are specifically discussing "generational" farming.)

If it l structured like other IHT, then the allowance is passed to the surviving spouse

 

[Jacob]

It is difficult to know whether the water companies have done a good job or not

No it's easy. Just follow the news.

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As a nationalised enterprise, delivery failings and funding are far less transparent. If proven incapable of regulation (it is not just water) then I doubt their capacity to do any better with all the resources directly under state control.

That's just ideology speaking and flies in the face of common sense.

 

[RobinBHM]

Brexit was caused by Bliar completed under Cameron (Sadly

Brexit was a Conservative clusterfork

Brexit only happened because Cameron stupidly put a referendum in his manifesto without any thought to setting restrictions like a super majority.

Cameron did it because he believed Brexit would fail and it would kill off the ERG nutters and Farage.

It’s no good you blaming Blair, this is 100% on the Tories

Mind you it’s slightly amusing that Brexit has destroyed the Conservative Party, it’s burnt through 5 Tory PMs and it’s allowed Farage to compete for the racist votes.

 

[RobinBHM]

As a nationalised enterprise, delivery failings and funding are far less transparent

I rather doubt the sovereign wealth funds that seem to own our main services are transparent in any way.

Thames waters new CEO was head of Ofwat FFS. Transparency my arris

Your are clearly ideologically in favour of private enterprise, but you have to ask yourself do you seriously think foreign ownership of British infrastructure is in our interests?

Our railways are state owned….the French state, the German state. It’s a joke

 

[Terry - Somerset]

No it's easy. Just follow the news.

That's just ideology speaking and flies in the face of common sense.

Your faith in the public sector is touching.

Nothing to see at the Post Office, infected blood scandal, numerous NHS cover ups, countless project over-runs (HS2, London Olympics, etc etc etc).

No doubt all these failures are the fault of private sector subcontractors - even though contracts were agreed and managed by the public sector.

You really should accept that the public and private sectors have strengths and weaknesses. They should be encouraged to learn from each other, not assume a dogma driven superiority of one over the other.

 

[Terry - Somerset]

I rather doubt the sovereign wealth funds that seem to own our main services are transparent in any way.

Thames waters new CEO was head of Ofwat FFS. Transparency my arris

Your are clearly ideologically in favour of private enterprise, but you have to ask yourself do you seriously think foreign ownership of British infrastructure is in our interests?

Our railways are state owned….the French state, the German state. It’s a joke

Through the regulator (energy, water, rail, etc) the government seek to manage service delivery. They have unambiguously failed. To assert they would do a whole lot better if they also had control of service delivery is IMHO an assumption too far.

 

[Jacob]

Your faith in the public sector is touching.

Nothing to see at the Post Office, infected blood scandal, numerous NHS cover ups, countless project over-runs (HS2, London Olympics, etc etc etc).

These were all cock-ups under the tories. Run down public services, sell them off, make loadsamoney.
Post office is particularly tragic. It used to be one of the most prominent buildings and well used service in towns and villages throughout UK, bigger than banks, supermarkets etc. Now it's shrunk to a little counter at the back of a discount store, with a bad tempered assistant. The management have paid themselves huge amounts in bonuses whilst screwing the workforce to the point of suicide and running a diminished and inefficient service. Tory policy in a nutshell.

No doubt all these failures are the fault of private sector subcontractors - even though contracts were agreed and managed by the public sector.

You really should accept that the public and private sectors have strengths and weaknesses.

I do. It's the ideological dogma-driven tories who don't. Maybe you don't read the Telegraph or the Mail?

They should be encouraged to learn from each other, not assume a dogma driven superiority of one over the other.

I agree.