Comments by "May L" (@MeiinUK) on "Financial Times" channel.

  1.  @frze5645  : The Netherlands have not lost their sovereignty.... as far as I know. They still have a Dutch Royal family.... As well as different regions, but they operate in an egalitarian way ? And there is a residual Dutch Empire... as far as I know. They also do have their own stock exchange as well. And they have the flowers, as well as the farming too...
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  2.  @luisvillafane3950  : As a British Cantonese.. I will tell you that, PRC...(I don't want to dignify them and call them "china" cos they are not.) PRC.. has already made moves... 1) With Russia.. , the PRC has now provided arms and military provision for Afghanistan. 2) They have now bought oil, and various deals on arms... with Saudi Arabia. An American journalist has already been assasinated as well. With the PRC...(which is a chinese version of the Soviet Union)... And all they talk about is "unification with Taiwan"... There is no "unification".. Cos Taiwan was actually Chinese. The PRC is not China. THIS is the ultimate thing. There never ever was a "Single China"... not when there is Tibet. With Mongolia. Historically.. it never was either ! The few remaining genuine Chinese.. have moved further Southward as well.... While the conquered North have expanded their population.. with mixing with those Northern tribes. i.e. Manchurian. Siberians. Mongolians (ex-Koreans) Turkic people etc. Soviet Union fell apart is because.. it tried to "unite" different racisl groups and different civilisation under a single umbrella, under a Monarchy. But in truth... those who lived there, had been a civilisation for a long time. Like the Turkics. Like the Siberians. Today, the PRC would not rock the boat.. cos there are always revolts... So they just sign papers and lies in the media about consent. This is why US doesn't even want to get involved either. And those people, often are left alone.. but once a while, the powers that be.. pushes them a little bit here and there. And sweeten their deals... to edge them to become more Sinitised. i.e. Han-nification. So they bring in a lot of Northern Hans people to inter-marry and to dilute their population in order to win the soveignty. That is what had been going on for many years. I hope Taiwan will rise. With Japan. I think with what PRC has done.. there is definitively going to be another war soon. Very soon. They are pushing for a lot...
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  3. You mean that Ukraine had an actual cyber police team ? Hence why they were able to funnel money for this war ?
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  4.  @jonsimmons4150  : Yes.. but Japanese... could do that, only cos the overseas Chinese help them to do it. Are you going to send your citizens.. that is Polish, ALL over the world over? And get THEM to buy your goods? Some of the oversea's chinese are actually old dynasties of Japanese.. and they are staying away from china from being persecuted !!!! ... Are you going to build your old Imperial families abroad ???....
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  5.  @ActuallyJamesS : Some people wanted to run them even though they don't have the capacities. The other thing also is.. not able to reverse calculate an actual implied situation. That is my own issue too. Knowing the basic of an actual concept, and reverse assumption is a lot harder. As you don't know what are the contributing factors.
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  6. Many people did not realise that... their small businesses have no room to exist.. cos many chains were already created.. So indirect competition with themselves? So in a way... this lock down has shown us.. what can and cannot work. It also should us that... which company was prepared or not. For the larger companies.. they need to shrink. For the smaller companies... then they need to focus on local clients. That about sums it up. For foreign companies, reshuffle and rejuggle.
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  7.  @garethbuckeridge6910  : What shareholders? Many of these are private investors with their return and desire for money... These aren't British either.. so either way.. we won't be able to negotiate at all. So... and look at the responses ! They assume that the global meltdown in 2008.... and the deregulation was really our faults... Who forced Ireland to join the euro even though they did not want to? And who forced Italy to take those deals.. and Greece as well ?? If people did not protest to the medias... would the other parties have given way ? Or investors to rethink ????.... No.
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  8. Chinese do not complain. It is not a complain that expect a responsible action. They are cussing. Cussing, for their rights. And they are not respected and their rights are removed. And yes... some of the rights IS related to the city being a financial city as well. Cos some of the land should be private and passed onto them as next generation.. but some of the banks are often using those specific plots of land... to leverage for YOUR currency increases and rise... And what you are now finding in HK is that there is absolutely zero stabilities as well. People work in a gig economy way which is super unsustainable ? They don't even know what to do and how to be and what... Meanwhile.. lots of factory works everywhere else... and lots of mortgages that are not sustainable. HK should've had some of the factories to exist there.. but people got so swept away with the influx of foreigners to the extent that... well.. it isn't working out. So that is why the protest happened. And I quote... what I wrote elsewhere... "HK built around 10 high rises a year. UK only built one high rise in 2-3 years." DO you think that this is sustainable? Many businesses have already collapsed in the mainland already, cos of over-expansion and over-production. It MIGHT help... if you understood cantonese.. but you don't. So you don't get what they are on about !!! It does not help !
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  9. You shouldn't laugh. Cos the surname is as famous as the surname Windsor. When you build up the different imperial families.. then maybe it makes sense.
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  10.  @markomak1  : Yeh... Well... Dog eat dog... Even my pension pot was robbed ....
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  11.  @petea7323 : I think I want to move to Australia now... lol.... Sorry but this is looking a bit pants. Seriously.
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  12.  @UNITED-WITH-UKRAINE  : That's what you think. A lot of Irish people came into Yorkshire.. and then they opened all the pubs and then all the actual working men's clubs as well. And they had things like the Scouts.. and various clothing stores... And this is why there was a big boom of ales and individual ales in this region as well. Funny how... well.. everything is gone now. Most British local businesses, the Yorkshire chocolatiers are gone. The toffee houses are gone. The sweet shops are gone. All bought out by the Italian Ferrero.... Asset stripped and gutted too. As some Irish families tell me... "why don't you try and move to Ireland, cos if you were born in NI, then you should qualify for an EU passport as well"....
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  13. You mean Russian intelligence ?... Basically.... And now Russia wants to list in HK.. And Xi has already signed a deal with Russia and Mongolia... Go figure on that one ! Twitter being taken down.. because. what.... This is not going to end well !!!! While the population is stuck at home. The elites, politicians.. and the intelligence are travelling by plane flying across the world to do conferences while the country has basically collapsed !
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  14. I just watched an actual movie recently.... and I realised that it was also actually hosted by Alibaba.. or at the very least, the story line, is definitely scraped or using analytics. Cos after the movie.. I went out to vomit. I literally... and this is psychologically damaging ? And I knew that, I am too used to social media, to the level that it isn't even healthy ???... With the amount of actual... spams that are out there. I actually got a super headache... like, I couldn't stop crying and shaking during the movie itself. Cos it was SO close to home ?.... And I know that they deliberately used and targetted certain subjects, and people as well.. It was that bad.... I had no idea that you could have such movies.
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  15.  @zubairshah1612  : That is not true. There had been a lot of engineers in the UK, from many many MANY foreign countries.. and because they earn more to wash the dishes. So they literally just wash the dishes. That is what genuinely happened here. For me, I was the first of the third generation migrant here. My nephew is now the forth. And even when I read the actual politics, AND the histories.. There has been SO much manipulation that, it is pretty surreal ? Like REALLY surreal ? And the manipulation of the stories AS well ? For their own benefits, and their own gains ? I found it odd that, some people will say that, "you were also a migrant once, why do you not support migrant's policies" ? WELL... I WANT TO BE SELFISH, AND KEEP MORE MONEY FOR MY OWN FUTURE GENERATIONS. IS THAT NOT ALLOWED ?!?!!?! There.. I have said it. I was arguing about another issue in the NHS about lack of doctors... So then many Africans doctors and many Filippino nurses... disputed. WELL... The system have always had been there, and it existed. So... how come people do not stay and work their way up, any way? In order to gain a higher wage? NHS is really, the only thing that was left to hold together the country, while the rest of Europe was basically destroyed. And if you really knew what is going on.. these people love their own country so much so that, they would take the hit... and be drugged... and forever be kept on the NHS feed and live within the benefits tier. THIS is what genuinely happened. These are loyalists to the core.. whenever I see such people, I cry. So yes, if Home Office is going to kick these people out of the country, then I will agree that it should be time. In all honesty. Which man, or which woman, literally degrade themselves, and mutilate their own bodies, so that you can survive, and get a wage, and be praised in the global media about it? HOW ? Why ????? Do they love you, more than you love them ?? WHY ??? Why should they love you, and allow you to mutilate them? WHY ???
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  16.  @paulkirby4266  : First of all. We should STOP all translations in the United Kingdom. END THOSE wages or subsidies. END it. Cos it is creating disparities. Even China has ended theirs. Second of all. Increase the amount of worshipping opportunities, and to connect with the communities. CORRECT any actual immigration issues, and literally kick out anybody that has ZERO connections in the UK ? If you do not know something that already lives here, then please you cannot stay. Cos the chances of you hitting on somebody is going to be high, isn't it ?
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  17.  @JohnRafaello-cg6xg  : And that is the problem as well? How come Indian contractors were hired... do to EU projects.. and not even hire British candidates.. or even EU candidates??? It is about jobs... and why shouldn't EU countries pay for EU citizens to work? All of this "this is cheaper option"... Er... When UK was part of the commonwealth, it did not do this either. Mergers and acquisitions and sales figures can go up... or come down too. So why don't people sit it out ????? This is not always good enough for the European Parliament, is it ?? It has to be "global or nothing"....
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  18.  @sterlingdafydd5834  : But Ireland using a tax haven status to support Russian Playrix, with their monetisation, via Huawei's app store and OSes isn't a good thing either though, is it !!!!
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  19. If people wanted to work for a tech company, then why don't they work for a tech company then. A tech company is not a bank though. Know the difference. A bank is to serve people's transactions. Nothing complicated about that. This bank isn't an IB though.. It is a credit union... So how come everybody doesn't get this fact? I think that this article is basically created TO educate people from the differences.. Sure.. you may do some contracting work for this organisation... but sure... you do not build something for the organisation only to have them hacked to death into the future. What does this help any body ?? A bank is a mere multiplier... I find it odd that... in some countries.. say India... everybody owns some gold. And yet, they don't store the gold in the bank. They are BEYOND the wealth of SO many people.. and yet... They keep harassing SO many others.. on their wealth. So how come.. in India... most people live behind a gated door then ? They bring in the security teams. They bring in the gated residences... to do what with? Protect their dowries of gold ??? What a big difference... from HK... (But sure.. HK used to have those "every other day hacking" events as well.. til people calmed down.... and got rid of their attitudes... Sure.. it happens.)
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  20.  @jonsimmons4150  : Well... Japan is also cohesive as well though, so... and people are ... they literally do not dare to destroy one another either. So.... Europe is indeed a bit odd. I dunno...
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  21.  @RugbyMatters  : So, what is the background story to that? Is Tony stating that, they must be 1) trained before operating on people in the UK. Or that, 2) he wanted the exact and same training, so requalify by UK's standards. Or, 3) not to be trained from EU or the UK ? Which ? Cos was it not Corbyn who wanted... an NHS like that of Spain? i.e. a community-based one? Well.. it would've worked if it was from the same group of people, but I think.. and I assume... and now reading the backlogs... People do not agree that, there is no state control over the pensions. So... I guess the NHS is communal now really, as well. And then, the commonwealther-types... they are loaded, and minted, cos what they did then was to provide private contract or items.. and patent their things.. So they earn from the UK government. So what is NOT to like, eh? While Europeans fight amongst themselves... the mat is literally robbed from their very feet. Well.. otherwise, you wouldn't see the likes of Rishi now.. with his father in law's background so prominent. I don't even know what is going on here... Anyway, many EU citizens can still work in the UK. Mostly you can apply for central government jobs as well. If you feel so passionate about the migrant situation as well. It is best to work in the Home Office. And even Albanians COULD work in the Home Office too. Since they are part of the EUs. So how come the educated uni types, don't DO that? Cos only that can draw some level of equality... I was so surprised to find that, since brexit.. we now have an Embassy in the EU... This is so odd. Sigh.
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  22. A genuine genuine republic ? No. I did vote for remain... but I also want the monarchy. No to losing the royalties in Europe. No, no, no. The world is more of a dangerous place, than ever before... Somebody mentioned this before.. not voicing their opinion is just as worst as accepting the status quo.. Which is true and true...
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  23. But most young people had cars as well to drive to and it gives them the freedom. If some of those stores either created a nice space to have kind of like co-working spaces or gatherings. And young millennials are very green conscious. M&S wear are now cross generational move. I.e. bridging the age gap and it's modern. So that allow the average family to cut costs ?.... It needs a good strategy for the young generation though.
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  24. And would you like to see the videos that people have now uploaded online of the 1980s's crashes.. of the 1990's crashes.. and then of the 2020's crashes as well ??? To be frank.. whether we do or not, does not seem to matter any more.. cos it is all interconnected isn't it !!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_economic_crises Why is it the fault of the little people that often tries to survive !!!!! This is quite insulting, in all honesty !
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  25. We know e-commerce. But we are saying, you are not doing European e-commerce. Because we have actual laws to stop the format that you do inside China... Nobody sells it this way in Europe.... Cos it violates supplier chain laws too....
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  26. It is even more shocking that, we don't actually have the knowledgeable people, OR the skillful financiers.. that pulls the strings back, and stop, or force the takeover of British mutuals.. or British pension pots.. by foreign companies.. which is what bankrupted half the country to begin with. It is still actually illegal, to employ a British citizen, without providing them an actual pension pot? Those so called "gig economy drivers" is one of those people. Uber has an actual company in the UK. Or in Ireland... they are obligated to provide a pension pot for their employees in the UK as well. So how can they get away with this triangulation situation? In fact.. people now, should NOT be able to use Uber at all in the UK? It is also weird that... the taxi drivers... do not even actually steps up and protests, cos they are liable for the insurances, and yet, their licenses should technically NOT allow them to deliver hot food as well? That itself is illegal as well ? This is whereby, again... the skillset of the people in this sector, is somewhere narrow.. and they are not aware of their own position. Cos we have now brexited. Use local courier firms. Cos the laws states clearly that.... No physical business unit, or office, then no deal. No employment contract. It is a fallacy that, the so called IR35 can allow them to ride this wave forever... And same with those gambling firms... and those media contractors.. and those games developers contractors turned... financier... Maybe it is time for the UK government to legalise what is "money". Cos all of this so called "fin tech" that has ZERO money.. is NOT money.... And Maybe the UK government, NEEDS to force these advertisers to realise this aspect as well. And as usual.. our media sector is not even caught onto this loophole at all.
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  27.  @freemanol : To be honest, I find this entire conversation extremely vulgar, AND insulting as well ???? Like, very insulting. And very vulgar. "I worked my arse off by working part time as a programmer while taking my degree, while a lot of british kids don't go to university despite having access to generous student loans and bursaries." I think you will find that Britain is what it is today, cos the people fought for it. They fought very hard for this as well. You worked your arse off ? Lots of kids in the UK worked their arse off too. Doing milk rounds, newspaper rounds as a child. Riding a bike throwing newspapers to each door way. (Those were the period of times whereby the snow would come up to your knees.) And then paying maintenance to their own parents as a way to keep themselves afloat as a family. That is, not everybody could and was claiming benefits. Cos why? Not all areas were available actually. And the tax offerings, that was introduced slowly as well... and if it wasn't for HK being a British Commonwealth country... and that my father also was looked after by the state. I think he must've worked for some kind of state company for that period of time. And so did my grandad.. IF it was not for this group of people as well.... SG, or the likes of SG would not have risen either. The other YT video by CNA Insider just made my blood boil to its extreme. While they grabbed their share of power... others had to pool back together their profits to earn a piece of the government and the stabilities back. The welfare state was to circumvent the external global power grab against the pound. Judging some of the online YT videos, it is the subsequent financial crashes that really made things worst off. I don't know anybody in my peer group in my generation.. that did not worked and did odd jobs as well for small pocket money or for cash. In order to save and populated the national banks like Nat West. When I read what is stated today.... I am appalled. Many kids were taught at a local community college and I was told that, even then... their syllabuses was quite high. I have seen them, and they did work. I am also amazed at some of the books which I used for computing A level was so comprehensively written too. From basics. I now see so much junk books out there as well.. and publish for publishing sake, which we know. Lots of people also worked odd jobs too during their summer months around uni days. I worked for families, in take aways, whilst my friend worked on the farms. Those days of whereby the farmers or somebody would broker a transport to take people to do that. And her mom was a full time nurse too. Her dad also worked in a take away too. Everybody worked... so I don't get why these kind of insulting comments today in 2023... And London didn't always had the exchanges and the size that it did. Liverpool had a stock exchange before, and regional stock exchanges were also the norm too.
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  28. They are basically saying that once brexited.. those ex commonwealthers and what nots... Are suddenly criminals.... So this has become an actual reconciliation exercise. That is what. Read the entire thread.. and see how many people has a limited company but have never done proper accountings ? Or take into accounts the differences in the currencies fluctuations and what nots.... Or to do formal and proper reporting of a business and formally register them and not merely be an actual euro credit debt exercise....
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  29. What it means ? It means that, UK citizens themselves, literally BOYCOTT those products, and those actual businesses as well. Just break it up. And then... look towards outside of the country, into various other commonwealth places. The problem comes, when you have around a whopping 69 million people. Or a whopping 300 million people, who all wants to be businessmen. And that company, that stated "we get our products manufactured from Thailand". Well..... for those of us ethnic minorities.. we don't buy certain products, cos of price range, and quality. There is no market for certain items. And they themselves are too late in the game as well? Often, whether they like it or not, to win a game, is to eliminate a market, so that you can enter. If I was in her shoes, then I would definitely try and sell either on Ebay.. or to also do business with the likes of Moonpigs. At the end of the day, these people, they were raised, cos somebody gave THEM a chance. When I was a child, what did I buy? I bought those stupid Italian stickers. And now.. where is that family gone to???.... They have grown up, known. And... and you assume that we don't know who you are, and where you are? Why did the USA have an actual resell market at this moment in time ? And why IS Japan.. literally, resending and refreighting goods from themselves ??? ESG has to be the ONLY way. If there is to be a British Hallmarks or whatever again. Then just do it. When the argument was whether it was for soveignty or for a republic, I had no idea what they meant by that... Cos.. is there to be an actual European soveignty/monarchy model? Now I get why France is still winning that actual cosmetics and that perfume sector. When Boot was literally broken apart, and then left with weird and odd actual products. And even the products that I see today, is not the same any more. Whether this is registration or regulation, or whatever. Now I am seeing those being moved across into China to be produced as well. No wonder people took to Body Shop. Soveignty ? Soveignty of lies. Well.. Germany is also already have a "back up supply-chain", cos they frankly don't care. Aren't they invested into China a long time ago? Even have an actual Business Unit as back up too. There should have been many a court battle.. really from the UK side.. to force Germany to let go from their other investments. And if ESG is SUPPOSED to be the way forward. And then there is Germany who held onto the oil, and caused US great harm.
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  30. If Russia invests in HK.... or force the situation such that.. Yuan Dynasty version 2.0 is going to happen.. after so many Ming dynasties pushed back the borders in the Russian region... Then be sure that either Japan.. or Taiwan... or more people is going to step forward to fight in this new war. And this time round.. it is NOT going to be the Western countries that need be involved. Cos there cannot be BOTH RUSSIA AND BEIJING..... Dream on.
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  31. Apple has left. Korean companies have left. Japanese companies have left. Tesco has left. Russian McDonald has ended..... ALL Western companies have left from China... and they are just gathering in that tiny bit of island in HK Island.. which is still under British treaty.. even if the NT area is NOT.... What does this tell me? This tell me that, there might be a world war soon. This is what it tells me. Just like before... when the so called "hakka-weitou" war happened... and under an edict... there was a clearance of the area.... This time round, the NSL has also cleared the area... Call it a prophecy... And why is actually DJI in Shenzen as well.. and now the actual war with Ukraine is happening.... and who is using drones again ????
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  32.  @cloudsterino4491  : 😭😭😭😥.. It took me around a good 15 odd years of my life to really get English... and to enter the world of work.. and you are saying to me that, this is pointless? My life had been pointless? And yet.. so many people can buy mere goods from China. Why???? Why did the world let this happen then ??? And not negotiate to open factories in Europe and to resell back to China ? WHY ? Or even for Ericsson to make mobile phones in eastern Europe? Why did that not happen then? And then to push back the other way ? So everybody in Europe could speak one of the main language in European.. Whether this is English, Spanish, Italian or German.... we still cannot resolve this ? So how come people do not help others like they would help themselves then? So.. if Eastern Europe had to take down some of their old buildings, in order to modernise, would they accept this stance from the EU ? I want to know. If say... tomorrow... EU states that, a good 5% of each population of EU members have to move to Poland... Would Poland be happy about this ? And how come, there aren't Polish schools inside China then ? Rather than English schools.
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  33.  @RadiantStar8997  : Ignore him... the UK's education board has already moved uni level details and level.. into A level region already... So yes.. even if a person cannot have the money to go to universities.. at least they are not missing out. So I don't get what he is on about. And there are more "adult learning" anyway.. which is to bridge the gaps... and anybody who wants to top up.. then they can. But most companies don't need that any more anyway, cos it has been disintegrated and moved to the EU already... So I don't know what they are on about. And it is also not easy to get a job in the UK any more either.. cos some of these recruitment agencies tend to play mind games... and price war games ? So even if you are qualified.. and meets the requirements, because of failure to negotiate the pricings.. It can lose you an opportunity. And then you can never be hired again by that company unless you are actually.. going through that same agency. By law. There are so many systemic issues that the other Indian posters here, are unaware of. So if other countries don't have such strict employment laws.. Then this is different, isn't it ? So I don't get what he means by "lazy"..... If you can even jump through the hoop.. and into the doorway, consider yourself lucky !!!! So many really bad employment agents that doesn't follow the UK employment laws either... Never mind the different ones in Europe... And of course, when that happens.. the European Commission is going to say another sanctimonious word like..."but many of you guys are not educated enough"... Really ? Nobody deserves this kind of manipulation and mind games.
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  34.  @RadiantStar8997  : I've only done one computer assessment in recent years... within the last 5-8 years or so. Previously.. what I stated above still stands. And yes, companies will compete with one another, and that is just the way it goes... So playing by the game.. doing odd jobs.. and keeping your head above the water.. and juggling everything. This is not easy. And the rental prices in the UK is not like in Germany either. They are not capped. So therefore, you always have to renegotiate... We used to have a spare room concept. Which worked out... and so many people competeing with others such that... This isn't even working out any more. My ethos is... contribute and help your community, if not... then don't moan. For a small 70 million existence... with any single citizen out of the running is always going to have a knock on effect to the economy, either way. Thank God for the benefit tier.. even if it is small... cos it is meant to be the safety net to "catch all"... especially for those precarious companies. Once upon a time... the employment law does state that... you cannot be fired, unless the position is redundant. And hence, the laws is locked as such that... you will and do contribute taxation to the social tier as well. And we all know that the market can always change. This video just goes to show us that.. with these SMEs taking risks into Europe.. their assumption of the losing market share is.. It should be just seen as a blessing in disguise. Expansion always costs money. Take it as a reduction in sales, but keep steady. Just shrink for now and tighten that capital flow.
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  35. Das ist nicht gut ! Dislike. Dislike. AND you can take back Aldi ! Funny how Aldi cannot find people to work for them now. .... 🤣😂... I don't even shop there either. Either Sainsbury's, Mark's (Marks have started to sell Isle of Man's eggs too! Wow.... ;) ) or local farmer's market. Be petty? We're all petty. :) P-E-T-T-Y. Petty. Sounds like "pretty". Guten Abend !
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  36.  @saltymonke3682  : Always interesting to learn about the taxes ! ... Never knew that. Well well well.... and now.. Ireland is screaming blue murder on the high property prices...
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  37. I don't think that he was that starter. I mean, farming have already existed. And many estates.. grew their own veggies, and that they sold directly to their local communities... So he isn't the first. Maybe where he lived was like that, but a lot of farmers, and people near where I grew up had always had this. Allotments, and both private and public farms.... What I can see is that, London do not have access to food, and that is why they always continued to import food, and goods. Well.... competition is extremely tough right now.... so high... When I found the word "organic" , I almost fell off my bandwagon. Cos I had always thought that "farm to table" was normal. But apparently, this is not normal.. and that it had never existed. I don't believe that it did not exist. I did exist, but the entire country was still a soveign land and soveign states.... so democracy didn't truly existed. So if elites held back their land, then they are entitled? Now, that is something which I find hard to believe. Or I have come to learn to acknowledge and to accept.
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  38. After the second world war, Japan had trouble feeding their own people, and they needed to buy from the USA, and from other countries as well. So... I had always thought that was a holding plan only. Only ever to be temporary... and not more. I find this whole thing a bit odd. Cos there isn't the really ethos of the people that desire to stay and to maintain the land. Isn't people meant to be quite nationalistic!? Even the real nationalistic people that continual to protest, DOESN'T put their actions where their mouth is !!! So you have time to protest, but you don't have the time to actually DO the work?! This is the inconsistency of the world today. In Japan, they farm their own food, their school children farms a small farm in their local community. Maybe it is time that Guy literally consider SELLING his well grown produce, and then replant them into school mini farms, and then let THEIR kids learn where veggies come from? So you don't do this box scheme thing, but you can definitely nurture a really big and well produced set of produce... and focused a lot more about maintaining the nutrients of the farm itself? One thing I will say is that, this country is so bureaucratic that is absolutely unbelievable...
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  39. I think many people bought items on a personal basis and then sold on as a "company". What you really should've done is that, if you bought something for personal use. Then you cannot actually sell it on. UK have ALWAYS had a BIG distinction between "personal and private money", to that of "corporation and commercial money". The TWO are DIFFERENT things !!! This is why... if you are an employee.. then this is different to that if you were an actual employer. And do not confuse the "social media" with what you are doing.
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  40. In the UK, what we have done is actually... changed... So.. some of the regions in the UK have turned into customs ports. SO... you need to do what HK used to be. Which is to directly go to these ports, and then buy those items at customs-free and duty-free places.. and then.. Take them back into Finland with you. And you need to literally run a business, that is more of a sole trader, than an actual large organisation. Cos what you make or do not make is something that you have to carry the weight on your shoulders? And then to have the different taxation laws between intra-EU. Cos frankly speaking.. The EU and the various governments are NOT holding their end of the deal, are they ???? Making all of these so called rules.. and does not care about the imparts on the markets across Europe.. and also across the globe too???
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  41.  @t0pz87  : They should sell those produce to local consumers.... Seriously. :) How come, they also don't sell it to Londoners? I am sure that those bankers would appreciates it.... Or to Bristol... which have a big banking sector too. Or even Manchester ! Or Birmingham. If veg and fruits. Try selling it to cities where they have actual veg and fruit markets. Most people get it from there. My city has a vibrant one, and most people literally drive in and out, to deliver into the surrounding areas... The social media is literally filtering everything and masking things so that people can't see the wood for the trees. No wonder FT could write this report.
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  42.  @md28stads  : You have to remember that even in the 1980s.. we did not have the kind of financial services structures.. that many.. across so many European countries.. and our stock exchanges did not merge either ? Somebody was telling me that even Scotland had an exchange before. and certain.. UK had a lot of mini "exchanges".. let's say.. for food.. Like selling and buying cows and meat stocks. "Animal markets" was a genuine thing as well. We most CERTAINLY DID NOT... eat so much tinned goods AT ALL ! Only a few. This is whereby all of this sanctions business, and all of this organic business, is like going backwards??? It should've stayed with us throughout to begin with. That is because as a country we were sustainable to begin with. And being in the EU made us more greedy? I've had the privilege to travel into Europe in my 20s and I have seen a few cities... and I could see that even then, there were pockets of depressed areas. This kind of over expansion and contraction should've been reduced in all honesty. Sure... we seems to be more wealthy... but then again, we also seemed to have malnutritioned ourselves now. With so much resources, we cannot even run a school or have kids have a proper meal at all. The first 12 years of my working life, I also focused on distribution as well... I just thought that it was poetic somewhat since my father was a seaman way back then. It let me memorise him a lot. So yeh... I have noticed what's been going on in these sectors..... We went from a quarterly 4 seasons..in a year.. and scheduled shipping.. into a "next day delivery". Let us not forget that really did happen, and it was the internet that both speeded things up, as well as destroyed us, basically. If the figures add up, then we would not be in lockdown. Really, at this point, we should focus on waste management a lot more now. Or to turn polyesters back into oil. Like, in high volume. We should also, by now.... focus on reversing electronics too. Greece also used to ship a lot as well.. and even in the past 20 odd years.. they have created an industry to break down ships... Shouldn't the commodities market help them out as well? Take out an insurance and then in order that those metals are resold back into the commodities market? Oh yeh... I doubt that.. Ireland would care about that.
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  43. So basically it is a Credit Union? Ahh... I see....
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  44. M&S changed all their stores too. It looks like an Asda which I don't like. Their offerings changed to a lower price point as well. M&S got their food everywhere. In service stations. In small local middle class stores. Small but near good schools. Near good families. It's like a convenience store but it still serves like a big store. So they didn't go for a flag ship.. but they played around with their strategies. Definitely a store near car run routes. Drop offs for school runs. Has school kits to grab as well. Etc etc. Maybe they didn't trust a lot of big data but decent small local knowledge...
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  45. Insurance is based on risk assessment... and the risk is based on crime records... Ask yourself.. how much crime exists in the USA ? Since the sub prime mortgage period... how many are homeless now ? So... why would the insurnace piece work in the USA, if at all ? It won't work. And this is also.. edging towards the same thing too even in the UK here... Cos these kind of decisions have indirectly forced... countries like the UK to take in refugees as well.... and indirectly affecting insurances as well. Despite, it should NOT have been as so.. but it is getting to be there. And then, the migrant level of being a land bank as well... which is causing even a worst economic situation too. And companies have disappeared from the UK. The increasing NGOs.. are happening here... And it will soon mean, that the actual collapse... of actual... society, as we know it, will soon happen. Which, at this point in time then.. means that... well... the market itself will collapse. Many houses have already been abandoned here in the UK too. People just ran off !... The cities where the banks are in the UK, have actually gone bankrupt... and the public money has gone.... So this is causing... the banking sector is indirectly causing the government to go bankrupt as well ? Despite the original 2008 "saving point".... and now... the "debt level".... is being carried by the government. Cos why ? Those stupid buildings that have nobody in them are here.... What did the UK government had to do ? They have to create certain laws to ring fence them in !!!! .... Devolved regions... (With a lot of debts, but still being counted though... for the country !!!! )
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  46. I don't really see you as a foreigner as such, cos my understanding of immigration had always been of that commonwealth model.. and maybe this is also something which isn't entirely reconciled in Europe as well. Not that, I also want an actual United Kingdom of Europe. I don't know. I don't know how I feel about that... I've always travelled here or there... earlier on in my career.. and that to me.. is not such a big deal overall? The point came.. when I look like Chinese, but I am British Cantonese.. upon meeting some Germans.. they saw and thought that I was a prostitute? Now... THAT.. was still in the late 1990s.. That shocked me a lot? In reality? I guess, that was way before globalisation happened, for one. And way before the entire global movement as well, happened. I had always known Judging this thread.. what I can see... and came to realise is that difference of... reversing back globalisation, and letting individuals stay in their own continents, or block, or whatever it is. Basically... go and be where your nationality and passport have and holds. It is as designed I suppose... For me, I had always had to deal with the UK-HK situation.. and always had to check my immigration and passports and things, and reconcile the feelings inside myself, as to where I had to go and how I live my life, and how to connect with families. I appreciate that it isn't easy... But that is.. going to be a case of.. well.. you need to find your community as well.
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  47. You may think that they are antiquated, but if you have seen thegazillion amount of hacking and cyber attacks, and everything else... exactly what would this achieve ??.... Lots of people, just seeing their genuine money disappear from a computer, or from a mobile very easily !!!!! Despite it not being illegal !!!!..... How much per year, are people losing their hard earned money ? So no.. merging these kind of risky areas is not funny ! It is pretty bad... when you get robbed.. and you bought an actual insurance, but it does not even pay out ??? It is bad... when you get attacked or assaulted, or even have actual personal insurances, but you don't get actually... protected. It is also bad... when members of the financial world, participate in actually in those areas and those specific .... as well.. I mean.. what have we become as an actual society ??.... It's pretty bad imho.
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  48. @dylan-tl2yx : Aim for an actual East African local bank for now, until they stabilise themselves, is the best way forward for now. IMHO. They seem to be restructuring.
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  49.  @patt5085  : But EU was one of the baddie though... "promise of wealth".. and continuous ones as well.... We are part of a block, and it does NOT mean that, we cannot have those factories back onto UK's shores.. but as you could see, these individuals want work.. but they don't want to buy the higher prices... THIS had always been the problem with the EU. And they keep saying things like "money laundering"... Er... When the euro was being introduced... didn't many banks had to be collapsed ? And then people went into shock AND poverty ????.... And now, I read this now in 2023...these sanctimonious speeches..... I am MAD. Really mad. To save a few millions of people... the rest... 70 million people... countries have to sacrifice themselves... AND also get the insults ?????...
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  50.  @just1it1moko  : It should not be a Federal State.. look at the USA. I want us to be something like Japan. Each region can indeed have their own monarchy. And the Monarchy needs to SIT in goddamn central European Union.. and the Commissions... if anybody needs to take accountabilities.. then the Head of States should do so. Sorry... but some kind of Royal Inspectors need to sit in those meetings. By hook or by crook.
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