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flecc

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I find Sainsburies pretty good - though I agree about the unripe fruit. That can be a bit annoying.
I also use Sainsburys, in fact I've been doing my shop this morning before that earlier posting. First Sainsburys for the items they are ok for, then I drove on to Waitrose for the rest. Thats my typical pattern and the best I can do here.

I won't use the cut price crowd like Lidl, Aldi and Asda since they represent all that I hate in promotion of minimum prices for food. It jars with me using Waitrose with its Duchy of Cornwall and Charles the Third Rate connections, but supermarket options are very limited.
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flecc

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Batch cooking for a few hours a week saves us a lot of time. You can part cook some things, point is if you order big, shops like that deliver, as they do to fine restaurants. Then process without nasty chemicals and store in your freezer. If they don't deliver, send a gruber with a Uber, or man with a van.
Too far to drive and beyond shop delivery, I'm on the outer edge of London and the best outlets are more central like Borough Market. Being single limits the other options like buying big and I prefer buying and cooking fresh.

Deliveroo etc fetch items from supermarkets and Waitrose here have provided a parking area for them and their mopeds by the front door so they work from their by smartphone, parking up first thing and waiting for the orders to roll in. But I doubt they'd ride half way across London and back with an item of exotica for me.
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Too far to drive and beyond shop delivery, I'm on the outer edge of London and the best outlets are more central like Borough Market. Being single limits the other options like buying big and I prefer buying and cooking fresh.

Deliveroo etc fetch items from supermarkets and Waitrose here have provided a parking area for them and their mopeds by the front door so they work from their by smartphone, parking up first thing and waiting for the orders to roll in. But I doubt they'd ride half way across London and back with an item of exotica for me.
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Get a big chest freezer. I used to order big and batch cook when single, it's an excellent way to save time and energy. Taxis will collect any item from anywhere, many firms have larger taxis and also know drivers with vans. Even Michelin star restaurants part cook and store cold. If none of the mentioned works for you, where there's a will there's a way.
 
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flecc

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This is why alcohol should not be made difficult to get. It wouldn't work and it would only annoy the rest of us.
On the contrary it used to work extremely well. I grew up in that era with Off Licences, strange adult only shops which I and other youngsters would never attempt to enter. Which was brilliant since it delayed the age entry into alcohol and a major reason why we had also little drunkeness back then. The huge alcohol aisles in supermarkets have reversed that, indoctrinating the young from very early ages.

Better for the drinkers too, since the Off Licence proprietors knew their products and could and did advise accordingly.
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Tax dodgers like Angela Rayner, who was living full time with her husband at his house, according to her neighbours and had been for some time, when she sold her ex council house, designating it as her main home.

Wow talk about distraction techniques

Compared to Clarkson, Dyson thats small potatoes very very very very small potatoes, and while also not right, with A.Rayner the figure was about £15k. Far far from the millions the super rich tax dodgers are dodging.

Tell me. Do you doff your cap every time a range rover drives past ?, just in case one of your betters is riding in it. Genuine Question.
 

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council houses have a clause on them and if you sell it within 7 years a percentage has to go back to the council for any discount you got then after that you can keep it all.

if the farmers put there farms and company's in to a trust no tax will be paid at all but it is not cheap to setup but all the ppl like the lords did this decades ago.

only other option they got is give it to there kids now and hope you dont die in 7 years and why trump never paid any tax when his dad died it was all his anyway.

why work utr hole life to give half of it back to the corporation id rather burn it down ;)
 

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Tell me. Do you doff your cap every time a range rover drives past ?, just in case one of your betters is riding in it.
That made me laugh, remembering a joke a Range Rover owner once told me:

What's the difference between a Range Rover and a hedgehog?

With a Range Rover the pricks are on the inside.
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Wow talk about distraction techniques

Compared to Clarkson, Dyson thats small potatoes very very very very small potatoes, and while also not right, with A.Rayner the figure was about £15k. Far far from the millions the super rich tax dodgers are dodging.

Tell me. Do you doff your cap every time a range rover drives past ?, just in case one of your betters is riding in it. Genuine Question.
D'you mean the mayor of London cavalcade?
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.. or the hedge funds buying up the countryside's cars?
"About 12 farms have been sold recently in mid Wales by *companies outside the country*, according to an agricultural expert."
(You'll have to travel to see their range rovers!)
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Genuine question.

 

flecc

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D'you mean the mayor of London cavalcade?
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Sadiq Khan is beyond reproach on emissions. Thanks largely to him we have the largest zero emission bus fleet in Western Europe. 60% of our near 9000 bus fleet are zero emission now, what is one diesel Range Rover to that?

Only today commencing in service we had a new fleet of 20 advanced e-buses that don't even have to return to garage to recharge. LINK
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Wow talk about distraction techniques

Compared to Clarkson, Dyson thats small potatoes very very very very small potatoes, and while also not right, with A.Rayner the figure was about £15k. Far far from the millions the super rich tax dodgers are dodging.

Tell me. Do you doff your cap every time a range rover drives past ?, just in case one of your betters is riding in it. Genuine Question.
You miss my point - there is a perfectly legitimate way to minimise tax payments. Chancellors down the years have made law concerning exemptions. For example, you do not pay tax on money you put into your pension. You do not pay tax when you invest in an isa. If you just put your money in the bank, you do pay tax on the interest once it goes above a pretty low threshold.

So, putting money into an isa, or putting money into a pension pot, is a perfectly proper and legal way to avoid paying tax. It is allowed. It is proper. It is legal.

If on the other hand you EVADE tax, you act illegally. People evade tax by hiding money - especially if they deal in cash payments. Not declaring income truthfully, is of course a crime. So is pretending that the house you are selling is your actual main residence, if it is not in fact your main residence. That is a crime too. This is why I mentioned the case.

Are you suggesting that Clarkson is an EVADER?

Are you suggesting Dyson is an EVADER?

Avoidance is legal, proper, and sensible.

You also seem to be excusing the deputy PM because the amount concerned was not very large.

Tell the truth - you just don't like people who have made a lot of money and think somehow it should be taken from them and that they ought not to be allowed to take advantage of he perfectly proper allowances and reliefs put in place by governments.

If it is not too personal a question - do you pay more tax than the law requires you to pay?

I expect not. Why do you think that Clarkson and Dyson should pay more than they are required to pay?
 

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anyone that pays any tax is fkn stupid but they just make it so expensive and compacted.

at private school they teac h you about toe wold of money and how it works.

public school and you turn them in to a retarded sheman :eek:

i got over 100k coming and and going to buy this dump and keep all our benefits as well dwp thinks otherwise but i have kicked there ass over 30 times and got 2 sacked for gross misconduct :D

but look at like this the government just prints how much money it wants for what it likes and makes us pay for it until we are dead because we are corporate profit units for there spending.

gold and bit coin ends that tho they would have to beg us for the money or nuclear war should make it warm outside atm :D
 

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slap a booster rocket on it drop it on Kiev from space and it will hit the floor going near 40.0000mph 4 miles under a solid rock mountain ur dead and no radiation :p

could loop it round the moon for more speed tho :eek:
 

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how all there million pound cars are made from carbon ;)
 
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all the corporations can buy it turn them in to trusts and pay no tax whats the problem :oops:
 
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AndyBike

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Well the problem is if nobody pays tax you can wave a fond adieu to the nhs for starters. Where your recent little operation instead of being free gratis, would be in the £40,000 mark.

No benefits either, so you for one would be royally fked.