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  1. There are loads of considerations in respect to which is the best route to go down. Will you want to own or buy equipment to support the business, i.e. mechanical plant or vans, etc. Are you buying material up front and then charging it back to the end user customer? What is your own level of financial knowledge and ability to do rudimentary book keeping? Would your customers primarily be end user punters or would you be dealing with other businesses? For a genuine one man band operation if all you are doing is selling your own time by and large, maybe using your own tools and running back and forward in your own car, then the sole trader route can be much less burdensome in respect to the level of reporting and form filling that you have to do. If you are doing anything beyond that then a Ltd company is probably the more beneficial way to go as there are greater opportunities to manage more complex requirments, but that also means more complexity on your side. As has been said above, get a good small business accountant to give you guidance on this that is specific to your own needs.
  2. I am so sorry to learn of your loss, Andrew was taken far too soon. Although you must feel unbearable sadness, try to find comfort from the life you lived together and cherish the memories.
  3. Sorry to hear your news Mike. Hopefully the specialist will be able to quickly confirm treatment options and get the disease managed for you.
  4. Good man. KoL are a good band, Muse are a very god band. I do very much enjoy port, although it gives me a stonking headache, even if i’ve not had too much. I got myself a white port to see if that made a difference, but it didn’t. It is a thoroughly good tipple all the same
  5. It's the problem of having a government with no effective opposition, other than being asked some tough question every so often there is nothing to really challenge the SNP. As a consequence there is monstrous levels of arrogance, which turns into complacency and ultimately abuse of privilege. It's for the same reason i don't like to witness the collapse of Labour at the UK level. While I have been a traditional conservative voter and even a member of the party, the failure of leadership by BoJo and the incompetence of so many in his cabinet fill me with despair because without a competent opposition that isn't going to get any better.
  6. In this particular instance there is undoubtably a great many questions that stem from the process and the management of that process before even delving into the various allegations. The fact that Lady Dorian described the committee's and COPFS legal interpretation and judgement in respect to not hearing evidence in this case due to a confidentiality order in a separate case as being "absurd" should be enough to ring alarm bells. The explanation of Lady Dorian's ruling to be issued on Monday will be pivotal to what happens next and I expect there will be significant discomfort amongst the upper echelons of the SNP. The wheels are starting to come of the wagon for the ruling elite of the SNP, there is civil war within the party and it is only going to get worse. A potential 50,000 party members resigning from the SNP in the course of a month such is the level of unhappiness. The suggestion that it may have been a potential list candidate for an SNP MSP seat, who is himself the partner of a sitting male SNP MP, made a threat on twitter of 'a corrective raping' to another female SNP MP shows the staggering level of discord in that party. The fact the party leadership have not made a specific statement in support of the female MSP is bewildering. The reason for the threat of a 'corrective rape'? The female MSP had the temerity to suggest that sex is an immutable characteristic and women should not lose their protected rights in the face of the extreme trans lobby that is gaining significant influence in the SNP. Setting aside whether they are left or right leaning, pro independence or against, it staggers me that any woman in Scotland would want to vote for a party that is actively pursuing policies to erode their rights and their very sexual identity. There are a couple of ongoing court cases in Scotland and likely to be another couple that will really bring into clarity the level of corruption at the top of the SNP, too many people know and the truth will soon break through the increasingly flimsy legal barrier the SNP leadership have built around it. The evidence is already in the hands of journalists, some of whom are SNP party members and it is only a matter of time until that is made clear to all. The £500,000 paid to Salmond pales into insignificance in the face of the £24m paid out, so far, as compensation as a result of an admitted malicious prosecution by the COPFS (Scottish Government) in the Rangers takeover debacle. The potential yet exists for that bill to the tax payer to reach in excess of £100m because the Scottish Government maliciously set out to falsely prosecute private individuals. The sad thing through all of this, that those who are so fixated on Scottish Independence are entirely content to turn a blind eye to any wrongdoing, they are actively encouraging others to stay silent and not risk any damage to the reputation of the SNP, and specifically the brand of Sturgeon, no matter how corrupt the leadership may be, in case it damages the indy cause. They genuinely don't care the leader of their party may have been complicit in a scheme that could have seen an innocent man spend the remainder of his life in jail, they do not care that sitting MP's are threatened with a 'corrective rape' and those that make that threat are buoyed and motivated by the words of the First Minister, they do not care that the justice secretary is actively promoting a bill that would see private family discussions around the dinner table subject to police action if someone even disagrees with the notion that a man can be a woman just because he says so. Appreciate this post is probably very boring and dry to most on here, but i find it quite sickening how so many in Scotland are prepared to sacrifice integrity and decency in not even considering the potential of corruption at the very top of the SNP. To be so fixated by a single ideology that corruption and malicious prosecution of private individuals by the state is completely ignored! In some cases the SNAT's are genuinely suggesting it is an MI5 campaign.
  7. They did make a good peh. My mum worked at Wallace's for many years, not in the bakehouse but in one of the shops. Flemming's of Arbroath always made the best steak and gravy pehs. At kicking out o'clock Rough and Fraser in the Hilltoon was a regular stopover due to their 24hr serving hatch at their bakehouse, was always a bit perilous though in case the bad lads of the Hilltoon Huns got you!
  8. It's a nice hotel, but that is utterly outrageous. You could get yourself a great quality self catering house and bring in a private chef and house keeper for way less.
  9. AZ indicated earlier last week they could possibly stretch by another 9m. At the time the EU dismissed it.
  10. If you are interested i'd be happy to help you work out some options, but rural Perthshire and Gleneagles would be an awesome place to start.
  11. I’d go along with that, a few really excellent restaurants not far away, a brand new distillery just down the road where you can make your own gin, Tentsmuir beach within 15 mins drive.
  12. It is quite remarkable. Some interesting quotes by Orban that he prefers the Chinese vaccine and they are actively now in commercial negotiations to buy that. The fact that the supply agreements were made by the supranational EU, at their insistence that should be a collective endeavour, but there is talk of litigation by some individual member states against the producers is also pretty remarkable. I can see that very quickly turning into the individual member states taking action against fellow member states or even the EU itself.
  13. I hope that the result of your biopsies is the best that can be hoped for Mike. Sorry to hear that Martin is struggling too.
  14. The EU spin on the contract seems tenuous at best to me. There has been a lot of muttering about section 5.4 and how that considers the UK facilities, for the purpose of the clause, as part of the EU but that is a clause of permissibility of supply from a non EU country rather than an obligation to supply. The "binding commitments" that are explicitly defined relate to the total count of vaccine supplied with no commitment to timescale or a schedule, those are defined by "reasonable best endeavours". RBE is also defined as a comparison to a company of similar size and capability in developing and supplying a vaccine during a global pandemic, of which the only analogues, currently, are Pfizer and Moderna, both of which also have the same problem in ability to scale. Coupled with Macron's crazy statements today, enforcing article 16 on the Irish border, the placing of export embargoes and a host of other nonsense being spouted about virus efficacy suggest it is a very orchestrated misinformation campaign by the EU to try and suggest that the reason the UK is doing so much better in vaccine distribution, and deflecting their own poor performance, is because of duplicitous acts by AZ and the UK. What is in essence a trade dispute between the EU and their supplier they have tried to turn in to an issue about the UK. Using heightened emotion around Brexit to paint the UK as some sort of enemy of European unity and safety to cover up a manifest failure of the EU leadership. A German MEP going as far to say that the UK needs to think carefully before starting a trade war when every single bit of hostile rhetoric has it's source in the EU institution. The EU have built a case to justify Brexit so remarkably well. The pleasing thing is that a lot of the European member states' press is seeing right through it and calling them out. The EU have also pulled off the remarkable and have managed to unify politics across the spectrum in NI within the space of a day. They also appear to have dragged the US, Canada, Japan and Australia into this fight of their own making, really quite remarkable. Hmmm, scratch the bit about Article 16, a quick U turn by the EU. This debacle makes BoJo look competent and that is another remarkable feat.
  15. grrclark

    PC blunder

    Perhaps most alarming of all, it comes as absolutely no surprise. No law is infinitely more preferable than bad law, compound that with bad law badly policed and there is an inevitable outcome.
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