Moan, Moan, Moan - 2012

[Lesley Cox]

Oh the recovery's happening all right. Ask any CEO, bank director or those heading financial institutions all of whom are getting extra bonus payments, higher fees and salaries and politicians who continue to travel the world on holidays, with spouses and partners at the tax payers expense. The only recovery though for the rest of us is when we finally succumb to being beaten into submission and maybe a paramedic gets there in time with a defibrillator.

[TC]

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Oh goody, my book distributors have gone into voluntary liquidation!    After going into administration four years ago. If I'm lucky they'll start up again under some other name having sold all the books they ordered from publishers like me but never paid for. How can they be allowed to keep doing that?! And where's this recovery the government keep saying they can conjure up at the same time as slashing spending?!

This is called the phoenix syndrome.  Rip off the company profits, run up debts especially to the tax man and go burst.  Start up the company under a new name and shuffle the directors and then start the cycle again.  Double glazing firms and Indian restaurants were notorious for this.

On the radio this morning Mr John Redwood, Conservative MP, suggested that the top rate of tax should be set at a level the rich "were prepared to pay". That's free market 'choice' for you.  

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 I spent my working life dealing with people like this. Dealing in cash,claiming tax back on their living expenses and manipulating their income to avoid paying tax.
The bigger the company, the more it goes on..  Roll on the red revolution !

[Martin Baxendale]

I suspect a phoenix company is what is planned. That's pretty much what happened last time. But this time it looks like they may be going to hide their new company behind another distributor who will do the ordering and paying since a lot of publishers are probably getting fed up with them.

[Martin Baxendale]

If it happens as I think it will, they'll be using another distributor's warehouse facilities just outside Leeds, which means I'll have to deliver to Yorkshire instead of just up the road to Daventry in Northamptonshire. M5, M40, M1 - that should be a pleasant trip 

[Gerry Webster]

Earlier today I came across this quote from Aesop which was new to me:

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

[Lesley Cox]

M5, M40, M1 - that should be a pleasant trip 

Mmm.....

[David Nicholson]

.......M5, M40, M1 - that should be a pleasant trip 

It will be but you'll have a job finding the M1   M5, M42, A42 M1

[Martin Baxendale]

Yes, I meant M42.  I use both the M40 and M42 for different trips and I'm always getting their numbers the wrong way round.

[Martin Baxendale]

About 190 miles to Leeds as opposed to about 90 to Daventry. Just checked on Google maps. 

[annew]

If you go a little bit further, you can call for a cuppa with me.

[Martin Baxendale]

If you go a little bit further, you can call for a cuppa with me.

Excellent idea. 

[Anthony Darby]

My father's cousin lived in Leeds and worked in London, spending his weekends at home. He cycled to work!

[ronm]

In what country ??

[David Nicholson]

My father's uncle lived in Leeds and worked in London, spending his weekends at home. He cycled to work!

The Leeds near Maidstone I assume?

[Anthony Darby]

There's only one Leeds and it's not near London! Riding south from West Riding. Took him several hours.