Keir Starmer - and his miserable government

not used a cheque in years and would never accept one now mainly because would cost me a fortune to go and bank the fucker now banks closed so many local branches so easy to send electronically now either by bank or something like paypal

(28-10-2024 13:19 )lovebabes56 Wrote:  I thought they had been I've not had one from the Halifax for years!! My understanding was they charge 50p for processing cheques (or does that hsve to be a specific amount that incurs a charge) don't they? or they said processsing cheques is not worth the cost, one or the two.

Nat West charge 70p for writing a cheque and the same for banking one.

(28-10-2024 16:38 )Freeloaderthatsme Wrote:  Nat West charge 70p for writing a cheque and the same for banking one.

Seriously?

I have multiple accounts, not all offer a cheque book, but none charge for banking a cheque. I think all of them now offer cheque banking through the app as well, just take a picture of it.

Come to think of it, I have an RBS account, which is part of the Natwest group, and that offers a cheque book and cheque banking through the app, no charges for either.

(28-10-2024 16:38 )Freeloaderthatsme Wrote:  

(28-10-2024 13:19 )lovebabes56 Wrote:  I thought they had been I've not had one from the Halifax for years!! My understanding was they charge 50p for processing cheques (or does that hsve to be a specific amount that incurs a charge) don't they? or they said processsing cheques is not worth the cost, one or the two.

Nat West charge 70p for writing a cheque and the same for banking one.

I've just checked online and that looks like the charges for a Business A/C which is not the same as personal accounts which are typically free at all major banks.

keir Startmer condemns the Israel decision to ban UN operations in Gaza

I watched the Cenotaph On Sunday at my parents, and saw how Lammy moved, can you imagine the smell if he had farted when he bent down?

Farmers who block roads with their tractors into central London next Tuesday to protest the Chancellor's Inheritance Tax risk being arrested. Police have now brought in a ban to stop them.

This from the FT:


"Far from “protecting the family farm”, as claimed by Tom Bradshaw, president of the National Farmers' Union (Opinion, FT.com, November 5), the inheritance tax loophole on farmland, introduced in 1984, simply pushed up the price of land without improving returns to active farmers.

This is because, like most agricultural subsidies, the value of the relief was capitalised into land values. As tax planners cottoned on to its role as a licence to avoid IHT, they advised their super-rich clients to buy land and take advantage of it. In the 20 years to 2012, the price of farmland increased fourfold.

This turned landowning farmers into millionaires but especially since land represents a cost of production - did no good to the incomes of food producers. It created impoverished millionaires who claimed a need for more support. At the same time, because more expensive land had to be squeezed even harder for the last drop of revenue, the environmental damage caused by intensive agriculture was made worse. Taking at least some of this tax loophole away will do no harm to family farmers but will help both public revenues and the environment.

Just a shame the relief was not wholly abolished."


Paul Cheshire
Emeritus Professor of Economic Geography
London School of Economics, London N7, UK

(14-11-2024 11:30 )southsidestu Wrote:  This from the FT:
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Here is a video explaining the same thing.

https://youtu.be/s9J0GpnXNhY?si=Hq_3hFewzLuxKavT