Is this the end for HMV?

[Beef Oven]

75% hummmmmm

are you SURE of that

and 98% of kipper statistics (like that one) are simply just made up nonsense .................a quick search will find that one out

and also since when did we have an "elected" government in Westminster ????

MrGG, stop being a knob. You know full well that the UK is a parliamentary democracy and you know that our laws are made not by us, but by unelected managers in Brussels to the tune of 75%. Now stop it!!

[mercia]

Robert Peston seems to think HMV can continue in a slimmed-down form

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21023602

[scottycelt]

So is there ANYTHING that isn't the fault of the EU
so why is it the fault of the EU that we in the UK allow companies to fiddle tax ?
surely the answer to this is to harmonise tax

I suspect Beefy may have been indulging in a spot of lighthearted, late-night 'irony', Mr GG ..

However, you are right. In the UK, it's the EU wot gets the blame for everything at least in the press and nowadays the majority of the modern Tory party. This has always been the historic role of the Daily Express, in particular.

Some of us are old and decrepit enough to remember horrendous front-page headlines in the 1960s warning the public of a 1/4d on a pound (lb) of butter if we joined the old Common Market. Not long after World War II this was truly scary stuff.

You are right about Amazon and tax. If I were the financial director of Amazon I'd choose the spot where the company paid the least tax. Indeed, I'd expect to be swiftly removed from my post if I didn't.

The responsibility for the relative emptiness of the UK's tax coffers lies squarely with successive British governments, nobody else. I continue to shop at the extremely efficient Amazon without the slightest compunction.

[Mr Pee]

and also since when did we have an "elected" government in Westminster ????

Ummmm.....let me think.....since the last General Election?

MrGG, stop being a knob.

[Bryn]

Ummmm.....let me think.....since the last General Election?

Try again. What we got was a negotiated, unelected, coalition of losers, just as we would have if Labour, the Lib Dems, the Green, the Nats, et al had got together instead.

[Flosshilde]

Those bloody EU tax regulations again!!!

Umm - Luxembourg isn't part of the EU.

[Bryn]

Umm - Luxembourg isn't part of the EU.

Eh?! It's very much at the core of the EU.

[Flosshilde]

I suspect Beefy may have been indulging in a spot of lighthearted, late-night 'irony', Mr GG ..

Indeed - I'm reminded of Lewis Carrol - 'Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes. He only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases'.

I think the little boy in question turned into a pig & ran away.

[Flosshilde]

Eh?! It's very much at the core of the EU.

Oops - of course it is. I must have been confusing it with one of the other minor principalities.

[gradus]

Today had some relatively upbeat contributions on the prospects for HMV, let's hope for the sake of the 4,500 staff that the administrators pull something together.

[Mr Pee]

http://i.imgur.com/OTq3p.png

[Bryn]

Don't tell Luxembourg, they think they have been in the EU since 1957 (then the EEC) and they think the secretariat to the European Parliament is based in Luxembourg; they think The European Court Of Justice is based there and the silly sods actually believe the European Court Of Auditors is based there!!

Do try and keep up, Beefy. That was dealt with some time ago.

[Beef Oven]

Umm - Luxembourg isn't part of the EU.

Don't tell Luxembourg, they think they have been in the EU since 1957 (then the EEC) and they think the secretariat to the European Parliament is based in Luxembourg; they think The European Court Of Justice is based there and the silly sods actually believe the European Court Of Auditors is based there!!

EDIT: Point taken Bryn and thanks Just wanted to respond myself

[Vile Consort]

Umm - Luxembourg isn't part of the EU.

Oh yes it is. It was one of the original six!

[scottycelt]

Oops - of course it is. I must have been confusing it with one of the other minor principalities.

No, Wales is considered very much part of the EU as well, Flossie ...