Re: Brexit Bill
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 5:23 pm
What an excellent article kingfisher. Thanks for posting.
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Re: Brexit Bill
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 5:34 pm
Thank you Kingfisher, very interesting!
Re: Brexit Bill
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 5:51 pm
Kingfisher
Sums things up nicely.
Jackie
Sums things up nicely.
Jackie
Re: Brexit Bill
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 5:57 pm
How dare the writer take my name in vain?kingfisher wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2017 5:01 pm It is outrageous to the elite that the work of the Devil should prevail.
Re: Brexit Bill
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 6:13 pm
Devil wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2017 5:57 pmHow dare the writer take my name in vain?kingfisher wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2017 5:01 pm It is outrageous to the elite that the work of the Devil should prevail.
I was wondering if you'd comment on that line!Re: Brexit Bill
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 6:16 pm
Jimgym
Crossed my mind too
Jackie
Crossed my mind too
Jackie
Re: Brexit Bill
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 7:17 pm
Good post Kingfisher, thanks.
Devil
Devil
Re: Brexit Bill
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 7:50 pm
I should have credited the author, James Bartholemew.
The article reminded me of the quip: “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach; and those who can’t teach, teach teachers”…
Another good one in the same vein, if you’re not rushing out to your Mensa meeting,is:
The article reminded me of the quip: “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach; and those who can’t teach, teach teachers”…
Another good one in the same vein, if you’re not rushing out to your Mensa meeting,is:
Re: Brexit Bill
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 10:33 pm
I wouldn’t want to requote that tosh, as that’s all it is. I’ve rarely seen anything so full of presupposed garbage.
I wonder what schools
I wonder what schools
- younlot
Re: Brexit Bill
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 12:16 pm
Jim
Please explain 'younlot' I don't understand it, but then I don't belong to Mensa
Jackie
Please explain 'younlot' I don't understand it, but then I don't belong to Mensa
Jackie
Re: Brexit Bill
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 9:05 am
I didn't require proof Lloyd firstly because I didn't believe the money was going to the NHS and I don't believe it was promised to the NHS by anyone in a position to do so. Secondly how do you know I accepted it? Thirdly, how do you know I voted for Brexit? Your assumptions are getting worse! As I said, I prefer facts. You really ought to do some more research before making wild assumptions to suit your rather silly argument.
Re: Brexit Bill
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 9:15 am
Good points Jimgym
Re: Brexit Bill
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 10:49 am
Nowhere did anyone promise to give £350,000 per week to the NHS. Please read what was actually written on the side of the bus. "We send £350,000 per week to the EU". This is true. That we get back approximately half of it back wasn't mentioned and I agree is misleading. The writing also said that we could give more to the NHS. It didn't say that the NHS would get £350,000 per week. It just said "more".
With politicians from all sides, one must read what they actually say and not interpret things further down the line.
A bit like HiC and his use of words such as "probably" etc. Read what they actually say.
Personally I knew that there would not be £350,000 available. But who knows what the EU would have done later, if we remained, as the French are demanding, that the rebate would be withdrawn. But that is all conjecture.
With politicians from all sides, one must read what they actually say and not interpret things further down the line.
A bit like HiC and his use of words such as "probably" etc. Read what they actually say.
Personally I knew that there would not be £350,000 available. But who knows what the EU would have done later, if we remained, as the French are demanding, that the rebate would be withdrawn. But that is all conjecture.
Re: Brexit Bill
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 12:34 pm
Varky, have read of some of these articles about the 350 MILLION not 350k per week and where it was alleged to go.
https://www.google.com.cy/search?q=brex ... on&ie=&oe=
https://www.google.com.cy/search?q=brex ... on&ie=&oe=
Re: Brexit Bill
Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 2:06 pm
Sorry, didn't put in enough zeros. Nothwithstanding this my comment remains valid.boycott wrote: ↑Mon Sep 18, 2017 12:34 pm Varky, have read of some of these articles about the 350 MILLION not 350k per week and where it was alleged to go.
https://www.google.com.cy/search?q=brex ... on&ie=&oe=
Re: Brexit Bill
Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2017 9:38 am
Part of the final Brexit bill will be a payment towards EU official's pensions. According to The Times, the UK bill for this one item alone could amount to £10Bn. No wonder the EU negotiating team are so stuck on this one issue! Until resolved their pensions are not safe. The term 'Snouts in the trough' comes to mind for Msrs Barnier Junckers et al.
It's worthy of note that the average UK pension is £18,000 per year. Compare that with the EU officials average pension of £46,000 per year - the higher officials are on £136,000 per year. These are annual pensions. In comparison, our Prime Ministers annual salary is around £149,000.
EU officials retire at 62 and receive pensions of 70% of final salary - which we all pay towards. Who said that the EU is NOT a gravy train?
It's worthy of note that the average UK pension is £18,000 per year. Compare that with the EU officials average pension of £46,000 per year - the higher officials are on £136,000 per year. These are annual pensions. In comparison, our Prime Ministers annual salary is around £149,000.
EU officials retire at 62 and receive pensions of 70% of final salary - which we all pay towards. Who said that the EU is NOT a gravy train?
Be it £20 billion, £30 billion or £80 billion, the important thing to remember about Britain's divorce bill will not be an arbitrary number plucked out of the air. Brussels and the UK have to agree a formula for calculating the total but it will be a function of the EU's various budget liabilities that the UK currently owes too.
That is why it matters for the UK that the EU's accounts, published yesterday, reveal that the cost of pensions liabilities for EU officials rose last year to to €67.2billion (£59billion), more than doubling in the past decade. The soaring bill could add as much as £10billion on to Britain's eventual settlement.
On average, EU officials retire at 62 and receive £46,000 a year. They pay 10.1 per cent towards their 70 per cent of final salary pension, which is worth more than €155,000 (£136,000) a year to those on the highest Brussels pay grades. The average British pension income is £18,100.
The cost of EU pensions has been driven by rising staff numbers between 2000 and 2010, a period when the EU institutions grew by 53 per cent.
A growing part of the pensions bill is for retired MEPs. Under a scheme created by the European parliament in 2009, MEPs pay no contributions to their pensions. Their pension is worth more than €17,000 for each five-year term served as an MEP. The scheme's liabilities grew more than €230 million over its first five years.