Michel Barnier

[Wolfie]

33 minutes ago, Dyslexic cnut said:

Not at all. Myself & the wife have had it, it’s not amusing & making snide remarks about someone’s ill wife is abhorrent, even for this place. Like what you want, I couldn’t give a fuck.

Did you miss any days off work?

[Dyslexic cnut]

20 minutes ago, Wolfie said:

Did you miss any days off work?

No…it was during lockdown & furlough. No card or grapes, etc from you at the time. Which was noted.

[Wolfie]

1 minute ago, Dyslexic cnut said:

No…it was during lockdown & furlough. No card or grapes, etc from you at the time. Which was noted.

Well, that's convenient – in as much as you were furloughed at the time. Just imagine the disruption it might have caused now, with you being so busy at work.

[Goober]

56 minutes ago, Decimus said:

I'd privatise the fucking lot. Failing that, have a semi-funded system with a 5 percent profit cap and if they don't perform they're out on their arses.You should also be able to deduct any money spent on private healthcare from your P60/tax return.

The NHS was appropriate and fit for service in a post WW2 world, but it hasn't moved with the times. I don't care if it's Labour, the Tories, the Lib Dems, or any other bunch of fucking cunts, I just wish that someone had the bollocks to stop just throwing money at it and instead focused on reforming it from the ground up, with privitisation as a genuinely viable option.

And before any fucking smart arse points out that I work in the public sector, I'd happily privatise my job and every other public sector role out there.

 

Abso-fucking-lutely. 

If you take some responsibility for your own health care by taking out insurance the cheeky cunts hit you with 12% IPT after you've paid NI and income tax at whatever rate applies to you on the cash you're buying the insurance with. 

If your employer offers health insurance as a perk, the premium they pay on your behalf is a taxable benefit, so again you get hit for 20, 40 or 45%.

Rather than financially penalising people for reducing the burden on our failing healthcare system, people should be given generous tax breaks to take out health insurance. It's not fucking rocket science.

[Dyslexic cnut]

5 minutes ago, Wolfie said:

Well, that's convenient – in as much as you were furloughed at the time. Just imagine the disruption it might have caused now, with you being so busy at work.

True. Can’t see me being busy at all until April if I’m being honest. The industry has been fucked by this covid, additionally I’m surging out of convalescence right now. Boris pulled the rug from under ‘Ramp-Up 1&2!’

[Penny Farthing]

4 hours ago, Cunty BigBollox said:

It didn't take you long to come up with this fantasy which leads me to conclude that it's not the first time its entered your mind. Weird or what?

I now believe you to be the best on here.

[Decimus]

2 minutes ago, Dyslexic cnut said:

True. Can’t see me being busy at all until April if I’m being honest. The industry has been fucked by this covid, additionally I’m surging out of convalescence right now. Boris pulled the rug from under ‘Ramp-Up 1&2!’

Out of interest DC, what industry are you in? I don't expect you to furnish me with a lot of detail and risk being doxxed, but a rough idea would be appreciated. 

[Roadkill]

Just now, Decimus said:

Out of interest DC, what industry are you in? I don't expect you to furnish me with a lot of detail and risk being doxxed, but a rough idea would be appreciated. 

Chicken sexing would by my guess - he must do it at the keyboard, mind.

[Dyslexic cnut]

3 minutes ago, Decimus said:

Out of interest DC, what industry are you in? I don't expect you to furnish me with a lot of detail and risk being doxxed, but a rough idea would be appreciated. 

I’m a Jehovah’s burglar.

[The Beast]

1 hour ago, cuntspotter said:

It’s a complete fucking mess, not least because of the bending and stretching of the truth early on to terrify the public into complying. Here we are ten miles down the line and people still shitting themselves , not feeling protected.

And more lies this evening. 800,000 allegedly have received a booster the last 72 hours. The number or vaccine centres/hubs and contracts with GP's has been wound down since June. It would be logistically impossible to vaccinate this many over 72 hours with current capacity. This is pure propaganda either to instil a false sense of security and/or to nudge people in a certain direction

[Roadkill]

2 minutes ago, The Beast said:

And more lies this evening. 800,000 allegedly have received a booster the last 72 hours. The number or vaccine centres/hubs and contracts with GP's has been wound down since June. It would be logistically impossible to vaccinate this many over 72 hours with current capacity. This is pure propaganda either to instil a false sense of security and/or to nudge people in a certain direction.

It's already getting colder and energy prices are about to skyrocket - they can use covid as an excuse when oldies start freezing to death in bed.

[Goober]

8 minutes ago, The Beast said:

And more lies this evening. 800,000 allegedly have received a booster the last 72 hours. The number or vaccine centres/hubs and contracts with GP's has been wound down since June. It would be logistically impossible to vaccinate this many over 72 hours with current capacity. This is pure propaganda either to instil a false sense of security and/or to nudge people in a certain direction

The current list (updated 15th Oct), has about 2,600 locations on it, give or take. 

So 1,100 GP led days (Friday only), 2,400 days for pharmacy based locations (excluding Sunday, even though some would be running on a Sunday) and 900 days for the other locations over the 3 days assuming they worked throughout. That's ~180 per location per day. 

Not beyond the realms of possibility. Phil Taylor could do that lobbing syringes out of his lounge window. 

 

[White Cunt]

24 minutes ago, Roadkill said:

It's already getting colder and energy prices are about to skyrocket - they can use covid as an excuse when oldies start freezing to death in bed.

Indeed. The winter fuel top-ups will achieve absolutely fuck all this winter. Pissing in the wind.

[cuntspotter]

46 minutes ago, The Beast said:

And more lies this evening. 800,000 allegedly have received a booster the last 72 hours. The number or vaccine centres/hubs and contracts with GP's has been wound down since June. It would be logistically impossible to vaccinate this many over 72 hours with current capacity. This is pure propaganda either to instil a false sense of security and/or to nudge people in a certain direction

Yeah… but how many 12 year olds have been vaccinated because that’s going to be a game changer isn’t it? (Is it bollocks) . Kids don’t get ill but apparently even if vaccinated can still carry it around and be infectious. Right then….. so, what’s the point of vaccinating them ? They are not going to get sick but they can still pass it around. I use this as one example of the kind of nonsense that is being palmed off as received wisdom at the moment.

[Goober]

17 minutes ago, cuntspotter said:

Yeah… but how many 12 year olds have been vaccinated because that’s going to be a game changer isn’t it? (Is it bollocks) . Kids don’t get ill but apparently even if vaccinated can still carry it around and be infectious. Right then….. so, what’s the point of vaccinating them ? They are not going to get sick but they can still pass it around. I use this as one example of the kind of nonsense that is being palmed off as received wisdom at the moment.

Vaccinating anyone under 30 that doesn't have comorbidities, let alone children, is utterly futile. 

Can one vaccinate one's pets too? If not, when Alan the Alpaca succumbs, will the DEFRA vets be turning up captive bolt gun in hand and 30 plod in tow? It's only a matter of time...

[Eric Cuntman]

3 hours ago, camberwell gypsy said:

A packet of custard creams (sell by date August 2019) on their way to you. PM me your address 

I don't need to. Leave them by the back door and I'll collect them when I've finished wanking in the bushes.

[King Billy]

1 hour ago, cuntspotter said:

Yeah… but how many 12 year olds have been vaccinated because that’s going to be a game changer isn’t it? (Is it bollocks) . Kids don’t get ill but apparently even if vaccinated can still carry it around and be infectious. Right then….. so, what’s the point of vaccinating them ? They are not going to get sick but they can still pass it around. I use this as one example of the kind of nonsense that is being palmed off as received wisdom at the moment.

SAGE forecasted in September that hospital admissions could be up to 6000 per day in late October. Their best case scenario was over 4000. As usual that was total bollocks. Currently around 1400 per day and has been around that for about 3 to 4 weeks. 2.6% of hospital admissions Covid related. The NHS is a cesspit of socialist activists who are feeding the media with scare stories and doomsday scenarios and the MSM are more than happy to lap up the lies and keep the public terrified.

A quick internet search will show that every Autumn, going back at least 20 to 30 years the NHS has apparently been close to breaking point and unlikely to get through the winter. Operations cancelled and stories of ambulances queued outside A and E are nothing new. 
Anyone who believes the shit the media are telling then is a fucking clown.

Fuck off.

[Cunty BigBollox]

8 hours ago, Roadkill said:

It's already getting colder and energy prices are about to skyrocket - they can use covid as an excuse when oldies start freezing to death in bed.

They won't freeze to death in Neil's bed, not with the amount of friction he'd be generating in the pelvic area.

[Cunty BigBollox]

6 hours ago, King Billy said:

SAGE forecasted in September that hospital admissions could be up to 6000 per day in late October. Their best case scenario was over 4000. As usual that was total bollocks. Currently around 1400 per day and has been around that for about 3 to 4 weeks. 2.6% of hospital admissions Covid related. The NHS is a cesspit of socialist activists who are feeding the media with scare stories and doomsday scenarios and the MSM are more than happy to lap up the lies and keep the public terrified.

A quick internet search will show that every Autumn, going back at least 20 to 30 years the NHS has apparently been close to breaking point and unlikely to get through the winter. Operations cancelled and stories of ambulances queued outside A and E are nothing new. 
Anyone who believes the shit the media are telling then is a fucking clown.

Fuck off.

The NHS has effectively been mismanaged by a bunch of fucking idiots for decades only this year they've got Covid to blame it on. 

[Mrs Roops]

11 hours ago, Goober said:

Abso-fucking-lutely. 

If you take some responsibility for your own health care by taking out insurance the cheeky cunts hit you with 12% IPT after you've paid NI and income tax at whatever rate applies to you on the cash you're buying the insurance with. 

If your employer offers health insurance as a perk, the premium they pay on your behalf is a taxable benefit, so again you get hit for 20, 40 or 45%.

Rather than financially penalising people for reducing the burden on our failing healthcare system, people should be given generous tax breaks to take out health insurance. It's not fucking rocket science.

Health Insurance is currently exempt from IPT.

[Mrs Roops]

8 hours ago, King Billy said:

SAGE forecasted in September that hospital admissions could be up to 6000 per day in late October. Their best case scenario was over 4000. As usual that was total bollocks. Currently around 1400 per day and has been around that for about 3 to 4 weeks. 2.6% of hospital admissions Covid related. The NHS is a cesspit of socialist activists who are feeding the media with scare stories and doomsday scenarios and the MSM are more than happy to lap up the lies and keep the public terrified.

A quick internet search will show that every Autumn, going back at least 20 to 30 years the NHS has apparently been close to breaking point and unlikely to get through the winter. Operations cancelled and stories of ambulances queued outside A and E are nothing new. 
Anyone who believes the shit the media are telling then is a fucking clown.

Fuck off.

They actually said between 2000 and 7000 admissions per day based on roadmap modelling calculated by Imperial College and Warwick University. SAGE also said this scenario was highly unlikely unless a hitherto unknown variant of Covid-19 had mutated.

[Penny Farthing]

As far back as I can remember (which is the late 1950s) the doctors and hospitals (i.e. NHS) has been running at full stretch during the mid-winter. There were always flu epidemics mixed in with things like smallpox outbreaks. What has changed is higher survival rates with things such as the flu vaccine and higher expectations along with NHS staff becoming more wary because of the likes of ambulance chasing lawyers and other parasites.

[Goober]

3 hours ago, Mrs Roops said:

Health Insurance is currently exempt from IPT.

I'd not claim to be an expert in insurance or tax, but according to BUPA's own documentation the premiums paid for health and dental insurance include IPT. You can however claim exemption if you live in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.

Also see:

https://www.abi.org.uk/news/news-articles/2020/02/health-insurance-cover-drops-by-nearly-10-in-four-years-following-stealth-tax-raid/

Perhaps something has changed that I'm unaware of though. 

[Penny Farthing]

37 minutes ago, Goober said:

I'd not claim to be an expert in insurance or tax, but according to BUPA's own documentation the premiums paid for health and dental insurance include IPT. You can however claim exemption if you live in the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.

Also see:

https://www.abi.org.uk/news/news-articles/2020/02/health-insurance-cover-drops-by-nearly-10-in-four-years-following-stealth-tax-raid/

Perhaps something has changed that I'm unaware of though. 

Having looked at what you quoted it is out of date and looked like scare mongering when they were worried that the government might apply IPT to permanent health insurance

 

From the AVIVA (Norwich Union) site ..

Are there any exemptions?

Some types of insurance are exempt from IPT, for instance, life insurance, permanent health insurance, commercial aircraft and ship insurance, and risks located outside the UK. Visit HMRC for a comprehensive list.

[Goober]

9 minutes ago, Clavo said:

Having looked at what you quoted it is out of date and looked like scare mongering when they were worried that the government might apply IPT to permanent health insurance

 

From the AVIVA (Norwich Union) site ..

Are there any exemptions?

Some types of insurance are exempt from IPT, for instance, life insurance, permanent health insurance, commercial aircraft and ship insurance, and risks located outside the UK. Visit HMRC for a comprehensive list.

"Permanent health insurance" is not what you've assumed it to be. That actually means income protection insurance, not necessarily what a layman would call 'health insurance'.

Http://www.simplyhealth.co.uk/sh/pages/about-us/ipt-increase-clarification.jsp

I'm as confident as I can be, not being a tax expert, that 12% IPT applies to health care insurance.