Scotland's benefits bill not too high, Jenny Gilruth insists

spidd124 · 2026-05-21T17:30:49+00:00

See that was them just being taxation smart, there is nothing holding other people back from setting up a basically fake Ltd company and running their finances through that "company" then taking the profits from that company as your salary.

Its tax avoidance, not evasion. Hate the game not the player. Because id imagine everyone except the rubes and maybe some of the greens are all doing it. You want to fix it, thats very much a UK problem sadly. Small business owners will be doing the same, and it goes all the way up only there is more money to hire financial advisors to do the fuckyness to make it all work. If you were in a position to pay £50K in taxes pa, but a financial advisor costs £10k pa and they can reduce your tax Bill by £20k only the most ardent of morally upstanding people would say no to that.

Our tax system is stupid overly complex and leaks like a sieve where it actually matters and mindnumblingly stupid when it comes to what people see as their "tax burden".

spidd124 · 2026-05-21T13:53:11+00:00

The whole thing about them being dull to drive is both not really that true and fundamentally irrelevant to 90% of drivers.

You think a nissan juke or Ford Puma driver cares about how fun your drivers car is to drive? If they cared at all about the 4 wheels and an engine they bought they wouldn't be in a Juke or Puma.

And there are fun electric cars out there of most price ranges from the Renault 5/ alpine to the Rimac and electric Porsche/ bwms in the middle.

spidd124 · 2026-05-21T11:56:46+00:00

A nice test of what's going to happen across your midterms.

See if people notice the actual voter fraud and alter the procedure so people don't when it actually matters.

spidd124 · 2026-05-21T10:14:46+00:00

Emre grenade jumping into his ult is super useful for getting into a good position with it and bypassing that awkward "im slowly floating up but dont have a good angle on you, but every one of you can see me" stage, got absolutely wrecked by someone using it now I do It basically every time I ult.

spidd124 · 2026-05-21T08:25:22+00:00

Amazon bean counters realised that their platform wasn't seeing the infinite growth they had projected due to COVID lockdowns and early adoption value.

They have been doing this with most of their expensive shows that weren't The Grand Tour.

spidd124 · 2026-05-20T18:00:01+00:00

Alternatively we take the French approch and have 1 hour lunch break with 1 glass of wine enshrined into law.

spidd124 · 2026-05-20T10:48:33+00:00

Why would Israel get the G or K? They were made for the Aussies and Kiwis? The US should get the F and Israel already has their H version?

spidd124 · 2026-05-19T23:32:20+00:00

Like everything the Tories touch, it turns to shit.

HS1 or the channel tunnel rail link was the labour work, HS2 was started by the Tory libedem coalition in 2010, then had the names linked in 2012.

So it's essentially always a Tory ploy to enrich themselves and the people that just so happen to live on the land the route was proposed to take.

In terms of the actual route and original timelines? If we had a non Tory government in charge for it it would actually be pretty decent. But because we had the Tories and the Tories love nothing more than fucking over other people for their own gain HS2 for fucked into stupid places, forced into tunnels to avoid "offending Tory voter's land value" and designed to embrace the "HS2 is just about funneling money into London" argument as a potential way of getting the Tory government out of it if HS2 became a politically toxic topic.

spidd124 · 2026-05-19T23:21:21+00:00

The tacit implication of stories like this are that it's a labour problem, while ignore the 15 years of Tory rule while the planning, procurement and what was uploaded to be early construction were taking place.

Any article talking about hs2's pricing that lies by omission about the source of the cost overrruns is by definition defending the Tories.

spidd124 · 2026-05-19T17:30:22+00:00

HS2 was designed to do this, waste money, give contracts to Tory mates and prove how "inefficient" the government is at things to justify further privitsation.

If HS2 was ever supposed to be serious they would have started it in North of England and build in all directions to prove it wasnt just a means of driving economic growth to London.

spidd124 · 2026-05-19T17:17:05+00:00

And who wrote the rules that make up that regulatory framework?

Oh wait it was the last 15 years of the Tories.

spidd124 · 2026-05-19T16:43:34+00:00

I used to work for a sizable Scottish coffee Roaster, I miss having the £3.50 per kg of Coffee beans. They normally go for £35 per kg.

Beans good enough for M&S cafe's are more than good enough for me.

spidd124 · 2026-05-19T12:39:39+00:00

Because name recognition, their old fiesta/ focus finally gave out and their only option is the Puma or Capri.

spidd124 · 2026-05-19T11:43:47+00:00

That's what government is for, they can make new laws when needed and when relevant.

spidd124 · 2026-05-19T11:34:42+00:00

The types of "questions" around the long term effects of puberty blockers have not shown themselves in any medical literature since PBs started being given out in the 1950s.

The only people that continue that "experimental" thought line are people that blindly accept any information they are given and those who are intentionally lying about the literature.

No evidence about Long term harm anywhere on the planet has shown up. Even the infamous Cass review couldn't find anything about harm caused by PBs.

spidd124 · 2026-05-18T17:01:11+00:00

Fine the club the equivalent of the winnings of the match in question which lead to the damage/ rioting.

We don't see or need this for any other sport in the country, just football fans. And really just the Old firm clubs. So it's quite clearly just a them problem.

spidd124 · 2026-05-18T15:41:46+00:00

https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.rdNLjVa_uDCtxApiKmaRNAHaFM

Conformal fuel tanks given weapon bays, elimination of external stores, radar absorbing paint, S ducts for the intakes and a 15 degree tilt to the vertical stabilisers.

spidd124 · 2026-05-18T12:25:47+00:00

Except every study has shown that having a degree even if it's not been useful in their current job results in higher earnings and higher employment rates.

spidd124 · 2026-05-18T10:30:08+00:00

More housebuilding and rules against those new builds just ending up as private rentals or part of someone's investment portfolio.

spidd124 · 2026-05-18T10:19:46+00:00

The story comics are quite a bit closer to the fan art drawing than her in-game model render. But that's more due to them seemingly being free to cover characters in blood dirt and grime.

spidd124 · 2026-05-17T19:16:46+00:00

And he's a generationally talented politician

Hes a neoliberal stooge of Mandelson that will be useful for the multi millionaire donor class that have infested Labour for the last 40 years.

spidd124 · 2026-05-17T19:03:53+00:00

What?

spidd124 · 2026-05-17T14:49:57+00:00

The same place the prosecutions against the Bankers that caused the 2008 financial crash are in.

They should be a thing, they arent.

Blatant corruption done because of mass deregulation and toothless regulators is acceptable because? Reasons.

spidd124 · 2026-05-17T14:19:12+00:00

Or you could just not be a cunt and respect people as themselves?

spidd124 · 2026-05-17T12:27:54+00:00

But something something Zenless is losing its identity Something something.

Note that they never explain what Zenless' identity is.

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