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So Paul "Trotsky" Scott, "Red" Darren Atwater, George "the twat" Osborne and your out of touch cabinet pals who have never risked their capital to run an SME, PR supremo Reg "crony capitalist" Hoare et al you want me to pay my staff £9 an hour. Let me tell you about Christina and why I am in such a foul mood today. Warning this podcast contains a stream of bad langauge. I also cover Greece, Blur, Johnston Press, Mosman Oil & Gas (0p here we come) and Armadale Capital.
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VINES
Thinking outside the box, what about getting recent immigrants to do the tables on work experience, two weeks later get a new lot in, or have they closed that loophole. could be some recent prison leavers willing to do it for lunch and a reference.
wildrides
Dare we ask what she has gone back for ? £9 per hour by any chance ? ( reaches for tin helmet and climbs down into Anderson Shelter )
Well at least the Greeks are getting Karma in spades ………. hurrah ………. 13% vat and retire at 52 , my arse they will . The ship builders will have to pay tax …………. oh gosh …….. you mean like the rest of us ? oh gosh that will be hard for the little dears ………. bless them .
My son wants £9 per hour to mow the back lawn now ………… I aint told him the going rate around here is £10 . Cheers Ozzy for capping my lawn mowing costs until 2020 .
I take it Darren does not know that Porton Down released 20 million Highland Super Midge ( with enhanced biting parts ) up in Scotland this summer to keep the mardy Scots indoors. I hope he took plenty of insect repellent with him . its to stop the Scots having Barbies you see . Thats how we reach our UK Co2 emission targets . We are all glowing red Charcoal down here in England when viewed from space of an evening . Up there in Scotland just darkness . Its just how it should be …….. equilibrium restored ……… everything in its place. God bless the English fox and Nicola “stir” geon.
DUCK AND DIVE
Loyalty, conscientiousness, responsibility and reliability are inconsistent with a wage of £7.50 an hour.
On top of that, Darren obviously said something out of order to her yesterday which offended her so much she packed her bags.
I’d hazard a guess at: “If the till doesn’t tally when I get back, you will all be under suspicion, especially the East Europeans, and any shortfall will be deducted from your wages. Cheerio. See you in a fortnight.”
alcira16247
Tom
Re – Greece
Failed brinkmanship has resulted in having to accept more draconian terms for the poor suffering Greek people, however, they have averted the worst fate of being forced from the Euro-zone.
Given that many heavily indebted nation’s, lead by France, have a vested interest in ensuring the easing of present Euro fiscal policy so once the dust from the present crisis has settled, Greece will be able to renegotiate and secure more favourable terms.
Either way far better to be dealing with your prime lenders than the dishonourable unfeeling arrogant executives of some Vulture Fund…… whose moral mantra is …….
“I never give money to homeless people, I can’t reward failure in good conscience”
Russell O'Callaghan
IF Greece does not accept the new terms and we get a Grexit then, hopefully, in about two or three years the Heroes of Thermopylae will be getting rightfully feted throughout Europe again. As in the distant past they, through sacrifice and heroism, will have shown that being little and being eccentric doesn’t mean you always eat everyone else’s crap. They may well be the firebrands who actually light the Bonfire of the Euro and the Western World will once again be thanking the Spartans. Folks will be saying, “OK, let those crazy little guys retire at fifty-two again. They’ve earned it. Thanks to them we aren’t all creaming up for those bum-drillers in Frankfurt”.
Go Greece! What would Achilles be saying to that Dr Strangeglove lookalike from the ECB? Eh? Or Perseus? or Theseus? Or Leonidas? I bet it wouldn’t be “Let’s go through your figures again and look for some common gtound…”
Phil
Russell
Hear hear.
Wait for the howls from the Franco/Anglo/German domination’s of the European Union when it is forced to free market demand. Based on the way I see some private shareholders play the AIM market, which is an international market that works to market demand, it will be a bloodbath.
When you get there, and you will, I’ll be there to welcome you, and to tell you i always knew you would come. Till then play your games of captive one way trade, and let someone else pick your cotton,
Britain on the fringe, really, you think I’m that easy. When I see a car manufactured in Greece on a British street that matches out the number of cars manufactured in Britain on a Greek street , maybe them. Till then your up to your armpits in it,
No one leaves a success story, leave the EU, my arse you will. You will be forced off it, just like Greece
wildrides
Could we have a video of you in a “seething white rage” please . It would be almost as good as the “Hitler in the bunker” vid I am sure .
Russell and Phil ………..what you two been smoking ?
Brad Whiter
You have to laugh. Tom bangs on about running a business but at the same time doesn’t think people should have to repay debts if the result is a bit of belt tightening.