Ringy Rose

Selling peat was banned in Ireland years ago. Irish law enforcement continues its excellent job 😂

I didn’t say I was on the bones of my arse, I said I didn’t want to be paying more income tax to prop up failing businesses.

I’m well aware that they won’t pass the savings on to customers, they’ll pocket it for themselves. That lost VAT will need to be found from somewhere else, all in the week when my income tax has gone up by £40 a month. Nurses for Manx Care, or propping up a failing restaurant. Tough choices.

Licensed premises didn’t reduce their prices for spirits last year when the standard shot size dropped from 28ml to 25ml. They kept the prices the same and just pocketed the 10%. It would be the same with VAT. Anyone who claims that VAT reductions would be passed on to customers is either deluded or a liar. And the reduction in VAT income would have to be found from somewhere.

Of course the flight to Belfast has low numbers. It’s 90 minutes on the coach from Belfast to Dublin Airport. And if you come back via Dublin you can load up on duty free in the airport on way back.

Good argument! The two rumours I’ve heard are either it was wind related or it was a technical failure of the landing gear. If it was wind then the pilot was at fault. If it was a technical failure then clearly the aircraft wasn’t airworthy and the aircraft owner and the pilot was at fault. Either way, goes to show that General Aviation has no place in a commercial airport. GA clearly can’t be trusted to be competent. This happened before a few months ago too when someone else ballsed up their landing. Meanwhile nigh on 1000 commercial aviation passengers have their weekends ruined because of one bloke in a little shitbox plane.

It’s either going to be a technical failure or the pilot ran out of talent. The Flightradar24 track is interesting. Either way, one person has managed to disrupt the weekend for nigh on 1000 people. And yes it’s a tiny little plane. It’s bounced along from Germany at 10,000 feet and barely 130 knots. I’m glad there are no injuries reported. This keeps happening with general aviation, though. It’s not good enough.

We have a VAT treaty with the UK which means that we have to charge the same rates of VAT as they do. The building supplies reduction to 5% wasn’t an IOM initiative. The Channel Islands are not in a VAT treaty with the UK.

It keeps happening, there’s no need for these tiny little aircraft to be using the main runway. Whether it’s bad airmanship or bad maintenance doesn’t really matter, one person has caused absolute chaos for hundreds of people.

It’ll still take them hours to clean up the mess because of some div in a little shitty plane who can’t fly properly.

They don’t. The UK standard rate is 20% and the upper rate is 40%. The UK has an upper upper rate of 45%. Until the changes today, our upper rate is the same as the UK standard rate.

Absolutely. It should never have been set up and just adds a pointless layer of bloated management on top of the DHSC. I’d start with the pound shop Tory Chief Minister to be honest. A lot of the rot starts with him. Ironically the only one I don’t think is a complete fucking moron is Allinson.

Typical Alf Cannan. Huge tax rise for middle earners who live here and spend here, nothing for the HNWIs who helicopter in once a month to visit their money. Manx Care does need the money, though. But most of that money is being wasted on the pointless ‘reform’ pushed by Cannan in the last government.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/glasgow-child-abuse-ring-horrors-b2446927.html https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-65189785.amp https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/15/child-sexual-abuse-gangs-white-men-home-office-report DJ Gammon strikes again. Never knowingly correct about anything.

Pretty much. One lass was playing with a rifle butt. Would explain why the north won.