Spending cuts are here to stay says Osbourne. Not in Tory Town Bournemouth who want to build a 5 Million Plus Service Center that the public don’t even want. See the towns Echo Sunday 4th September 2011 for details.

The joke is the town hasn’t even had a Bus Terminal since it was burnt down in around 1979 instead buses stand pumping out choking diesel fumes and blocking traffic flow.

Yet they are in process of trying to legitimately Land Grab 90 per cent of the Stour Valley Nature Reserve by fencing the area off from the public for the grazing of just TEN Cows in an area a mile and a half long, would you believe? Yet as we all know after 8 years the fenced off land reverts to the council no doubt to sell later to developers so they can misspend more money on wasted projects such as the one and a half million pounds or so they spent on a Surf Reef that doesn’t work.

Tory Town Bournemouth is becoming legendary for failed projects and bad planning such as the Eyesore Imax Cinema nobody wants to go to. Right on the seafront. Not forgetting the Prison Block lookalike BIC center which when used for Political Conferences causes vast amounts of lost revenues to local businesses due traffic stops and survey-lance etc.

In fact I was going back to my car with three loaves of bread in the nearby town of Boscombe when a helicopter came right on top of me asking what I had in the bag. You really couldn’t make this up, they are as I said legionary for failed planning projects. With this in mind it makes you shudder to think they are running the country.

Information courtesy of agpcuk

The DIY trade will always be around, and I for one see this time as a good opportunity for these outlets to streamline their product ranges and get rid of the ‘rubbish’ and concentrate on good value for money – Shelves piled high with cheap, and in my mind, products that may not be entirely fit for purpose may make money but I really think we need to be moving back towards greater quality and less quantity.

Best,

Julian

We have 3 VAT rates in Ireland – 21% 13.5% ( now 9% for some things ) & 0%

The 13.5% is generally on services inc hospitality industry but also for trades and the like ( electricians, plumbers, builders on the work they do ).

The new 9% rate applies ONLY to the hospitality sector as you mentioned. However the 21% rate still remains on everything else.

A controversial “temporary raid” on Irish pension funds is being used to fund this VAT Cut. With the IMF/ECB running the Irish Economy at the moment use of Exchequer funds for such initiatives is not allowed. Any sich initiative must be “revenue neutral”.

Aidan

As for the comments about overpaid pilots then let them employ average British workers to fly their planes. Uh oh – There’s a flaw in that argument too.

Pay the pilots the going rate for their skills and you won’t have any disruption. If they can find £47 million to pay the fines and costs of their CEO’s price fixing debacle then they can find the few million extra to fund the difference between the sub-inflation offer and the going rate the pilots expect after their salary sacrifices over the last three years.

Not too much to expect but thanks to an HR head who has promised the board that she can break the last unionized group within Virgin we now have the potential for a strike. Aside from the disingenuous utterings from Ridgeway and SRB about everyone else accepting the company offer, they didn’t mention that the “offer” was imposed, not accepted as all the other workgroups are not as united and organized as are the pilots.