Colin
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Somewhere between probability, charge characters & pugilism. Suffering White Sox fan.
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Joined February 2013
RT @rcolvile: (As per previous posts the Bank has hinted elliptically that this has something to do with the nature of the workers we are a…
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@StingyMrs @SherdyMe @MPIainDS Why quote a song instead of answering a basic question? It's a binary answer, yet you continue to dodge it. I think we can read between the lines.
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Fully support same sex marriage & adoption, but because I don't want anyone under 18 to pump themselves with questionable drugs moderates like me aren't welcome 🤣. There's a reason we don't allow tattoos for under 18s & puberty blockers should be the same. Wait until you're 18
Foyle Pride say politicians who supported a ban on the sale or supply of puberty blockers to under-18s will not be invited to take part this year.
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@StingyMrs @SherdyMe @MPIainDS Again, was the Provisional IRA right to plant a bomb at a police station in Loughall. What was the British Army supposed to do? Don't work in medicine, but I am self-employed in technology. Anyway, what's the purpose of that? You simply can't answer the Loughall question.
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Spot on & double the VAT threshold for small businesses too. Smart capitalism
We should scrap IR35 - the perfect example of badly thought out policy, implemented by people who understand nothing about the reality of running a small business or being self employed. Things change, contracts change, circumstances change. IR35 accounts for none of that, adding layers of unnecessary paperwork and regulation. Forcing the self-employed to be treated as an employee, with all of the negatives and none of the positives. It is a bureaucratic nightmare. Businesses will now just not bother investing - it's not worth the hassle. Scrap it. Get rid of it, and force Government as far away from small businesses as possible. Innovation and entrepreneurship are more important than ever. What does IR35 do? Strangle and kill it. We need to be making it easy and straightforward to start a business. Slash tax, slash regulation. Give men and women the freedom they need to operate. Get businesses SPENDING money. IR35 cripples ambition, and discourages investment. Flexibility in business matters. Is it any surprise that politicians who have never even been involved in the private sector fail to understand that? We need to fundamentally overhaul how the state deals with businesses - the main message? Get the hell out of the way. Starting with scrapping IR35.
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@StingyMrs @SherdyMe @MPIainDS What gun? Was planting a bomb at a police station okay with you? Why won’t you answer the question.
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@StingyMrs @SherdyMe @MPIainDS You replied to me, & do you take the same approach to a doctor? Considering our taxes pay for them too ‘their whole’ working life?
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RT @93vintagejones: Why would you place taxes on industries you are subsiding, rather than just cutting subsidies? Totally unserious.
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@StingyMrs @SherdyMe @MPIainDS Is it, is your name on your account? What do you think an army trains for? Is that *exactly* what happened? Was the Loughall Ambush there to target Roman Catholics or terrorists trying to bomb a police station? Would you say it was right to bomb a police station?
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@StingyMrs @SherdyMe @MPIainDS Yes, in the context of someone who clearly hasn’t a clue. Did IDS come to Northern Ireland to murder Catholics. Was that his aim? Yes/No?
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@StingyMrs @SherdyMe @MPIainDS The idea that a practicing RC come to Northern Ireland with the sole reason to ‘murder’ the RC community in NI is slander. Where’s your proof? Why not say it with a face to your account, eh?
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@StingyMrs @SherdyMe @MPIainDS So you're not a Roman Catholic in certain parts of the UK, but are in others? That's a theologically very shaky argument, what's the difference between his mass in London & a mass in Belfast? Doesn't Roman Catholicism transcend borders, considering the Vatican etc
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Establish a democratic state for Gaza & let the people choose without fear or intimidation.
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