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    Yesterday, 18:04
    meridian replied to a poll General Election predictions in Brexit
    Whodathunk, raising taxes pays for stuff. Like fixing leaky school buildings, for example. Revealed: one in five school buildings in England...
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    Yesterday, 16:00
    meridian replied to a poll General Election predictions in Brexit
    No, all we’ve agreed is that you can’t keep a coherent argument, and that you can’t provide any substance to what little argument you might have. ...
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    Yesterday, 13:18
    meridian replied to a poll General Election predictions in Brexit
    QED. If Labour aren’t in it, then they haven’t ****ed it up. Your words....
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    221 replies | 6994 view(s)
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    Yesterday, 13:06
    meridian replied to a poll General Election predictions in Brexit
    Given that there have been more recessions under Conservative leadership than Labour over the past 100 years, and given that the Conservatives have...
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    7th December 2019, 13:27
    meridian replied to a thread "Fact Check" in Brexit
    You continue to outdo yourself in your cretinism. It say “per year”. You even quoted it.
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    51 replies | 859 view(s)
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    5th December 2019, 23:09
    meridian replied to a thread TBP Ltd losing more members in Brexit
    This one is that one’s brother; that one is a friend with the other one. They’re all doing something that’s sort of like the other thing, but not...
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    2 replies | 274 view(s)
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    4th December 2019, 10:08
    meridian replied to a thread Aviva in Business / Contracts
    ClientCo (FTSE100) has also made a deliberate decision to remove all U.K. based contractors and increase the headcount of TCS and ITCInfotech. A...
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    29 replies | 1921 view(s)
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    4th December 2019, 07:20
    meridian replied to a thread Labour to raise dividend tax from 7.5% to 20% in The Future of Contracting
    Believing McDonnell puts people at the top of the gullibility league, but you can trust Johnson.... If that’s what you think, then nothing anyone...
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    42 replies | 4189 view(s)
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    3rd December 2019, 22:19
    meridian replied to a thread Labour to raise dividend tax from 7.5% to 20% in The Future of Contracting
    McDonnell is more recently on record saying that he is a socialist. No doubt you’ll interpret that as you wish. Iain Dale pushes John McDonnell on...
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    42 replies | 4189 view(s)
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    3rd December 2019, 13:26
    meridian replied to a thread Telegraph 2/12 in IR35 Reform
    Confirming that HMT and HMRC do not make the laws, they are just better lobbyists, and that the solution lies with politicians.
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    16 replies | 1033 view(s)
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    3rd December 2019, 13:08
    meridian replied to a thread Telegraph 2/12 in IR35 Reform
    There’s no question to beg, he’s pulling your chain. HMRC can only operate within the law that has been set. They don’t create laws themselves. ...
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    16 replies | 1033 view(s)
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    3rd December 2019, 08:35
    meridian replied to a thread More rehash of the same old entrenched positions in Brexit
    Parliament has. That’s what a representative parliamentary system does. What you think you’re describing as “democracy” is in fact ochlocracy.
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    78 replies | 1796 view(s)
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    1st December 2019, 13:40
    meridian replied to a thread London Bridge in General
    Conservatives have presided over a cut of 20k in police numbers, 300 court closures, an increase in suicides in prisons, a deliberately “hostile...
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    77 replies | 2609 view(s)
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    30th November 2019, 13:06
    meridian replied to a thread Looks like Brexit is really going to happen in Brexit
    Should make no difference. Unless you’re in your 40’s and looking to be adopted.
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    20 replies | 730 view(s)
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    30th November 2019, 12:47
    meridian replied to a thread London Bridge in General
    The offender had a fake suicide vest, but they weren’t to know that. Charging in with a couple of fire extinguishers and a narwhal tooth. Balls of...
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    77 replies | 2609 view(s)
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    30th November 2019, 12:17
    meridian replied to a thread London Bridge in General
    What’s your solution? Lock everyone up for life, no parole? Capital punishment? Although the situation yesterday is unwanted by anyone, remember...
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    30th November 2019, 10:19
    meridian replied to a thread London Bridge in General
    “One hero was a jailed murderer on day release” should cause a cognitive breakdown for some on here...
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    28th November 2019, 15:34
    meridian replied to a thread Labour pledge to halt IR35 in IR35 Reform
    “Never”? That depends only if you have a narrow definition of “left wing socialism” that suits failed states like Venezuela, Cuba, etc. Try a...
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    55 replies | 4030 view(s)
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    28th November 2019, 13:46
    meridian replied to a thread Labour pledge to halt IR35 in IR35 Reform
    More whataboutery. The question wasn’t whether socialism works or fails. Or about Venezuela, or Cuba, or Hong Kong. The question was when the...
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    28th November 2019, 13:17
    meridian replied to a thread Why I'll be voting Tory in Brexit
    FTFY.
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    49 replies | 1732 view(s)
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    28th November 2019, 13:15
    meridian replied to a thread Labour pledge to halt IR35 in IR35 Reform
    Whataboutery. Why are you comparing current poverty in the U.K. (a first-world country, number 6 economy) to Venezuela and historical Eastern...
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    28th November 2019, 09:35
    meridian replied to a thread Why I'll be voting Tory in Brexit
    It’s cute the way you say “in a block”, as if the US would give the U.K. anywhere near the same level of fairness as the EU. The EU is a...
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    49 replies | 1732 view(s)
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    28th November 2019, 08:00
    meridian replied to a thread Why I'll be voting Tory in Brexit
    There is another solution, but you might not like it...
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    27th November 2019, 11:49
    meridian replied to a thread Labour pledge to halt IR35 in IR35 Reform
    Let me know when the “trickle-down” from Tory policies of the past decade start.
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    55 replies | 4030 view(s)
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    27th November 2019, 11:29
    meridian replied to a thread Labour pledge to halt IR35 in IR35 Reform
    Their plans aren’t meant to make me better off. They’re meant to make the people that frequent the food bank opposite my house better off. HTH.
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    55 replies | 4030 view(s)
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    27th November 2019, 11:23
    meridian replied to a thread Labour pledge to halt IR35 in IR35 Reform
    So you would prefer all contractors to be forced into IR35 and removing our ways of working, over a relatively small number of contractors that might...
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    55 replies | 4030 view(s)
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    27th November 2019, 10:04
    meridian replied to a thread More rehash of the same old entrenched positions in Brexit
    President of the Council, not the EU. “Resist” is an odd choice of your words (not his) - in any healthy democracy, having debates about the...
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    78 replies | 1796 view(s)
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    27th November 2019, 09:47
    meridian replied to a thread Why I'll be voting Tory in Brexit
    Your own link says “Throughout the mid-1970s, especially 1974 and 1975, the British economy was troubled by high rates of inflation. To tackle this,...
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    49 replies | 1732 view(s)
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    25th November 2019, 12:12
    meridian replied to a poll Is Corbyn the reason you won't vote Labour? in General
    The only way that a PM can “fight” to keep the Union is to provide political support to the regions (I’m assuming that sending tanks in to Edinburgh...
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    44 replies | 1279 view(s)
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    25th November 2019, 09:17
    meridian replied to a poll Is Corbyn the reason you won't vote Labour? in General
    Is that a rational argument? His views on whether Ireland should be united or not is largely irrelevant - the only views that count in that regard...
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    44 replies | 1279 view(s)
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