Consumer pressure and media brings Starbucks to heel !!!

[Vim Fuego]

I like the way that rich people can avoid billions in tax, get called parasites and then the government do nothing about it, a chav with 48 children, a semi-detached walk-in uterus and a name like Latrine claims an extra £5 a month by mistake and is sent to the colonies to live a life in servitude picking cotton, but becomes a world famous sex worker and returns triumphant to the motherland where she is cruelly treated by a rich baron.

has that actually happened outside the letters page of playboy?

[Myranda_Rose]

has that actually happened outside the letters page of playboy?

Wasn't it the plot to Mol Flanders? I think I might have missed some episodes...

[Vim Fuego]

wun't alex kingston in that? generally whenever she's in anything I can't think about the plot.

[Myranda_Rose]

And in a sort of tongue-in-cheek way I was referring to what's-his-face the owner of Topshop who avoided a whopping amount of tax (wasn't it in the region of a Billion monies?) but that's perfectly legal, and yet I remember feeling very threatened by the benefits people with regards to making sure I don't make any mistakes on my forms or I could face prison and a fine (and then got told to just put anything down when I had some blanks!).

If the rich are able to avoid tax totalling billions then I think it's time for a putsch... I'll lead the troops if I'm allowed to punch David Cameron in his smug face at the end of it. Vive la revolution...

Hmm.

It is rather cold out...

Perhaps in the new year?

[Myranda_Rose]

wun't alex kingston in that? generally whenever she's in anything I can't think about the plot.

That's the one... she wore those tight tops - the sort of period-garb equivilent of a wonderbra ... every breathe was like she was being smothered by a bouncy-tit-castle wasn't sure if I was extremely turned on or I should have been calling an ambulance - and riding along offering to rub soothing ointments into her bruised and abused chest pillows...

[mellowsun]

so the only option is they either pay their suppliers less or charge the customer more.

You forgot the most obvious, and usually the option more preferred by big companies: cut staff pay and benefits.

And look, they're already doing it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...h-lunch-breaks

[bochetagrave]

People and companies should pay their fair whack of tax. If you wriggle out of it, you're a ****!

[hungrymark]

True enough. I want to add "but only among the muppets who don't understand economics", but unfortunately that seems to be almost everyone these days

Nobody understands economics, not even economists. It's all made-up.

[hungrymark]

Surely they'll just bang all the prices up?

Don't buy it then.

[stickyfiddle]

Nobody understands economics, not even economists. It's all made-up.

Well, maybe. But it'd be nice if our Chancellor would appreciate that if you tax the people with private jets and houses in Monte Carlo they'll make use of those facilities more often..!