and we rank 4th in the world at entrepreneurship opportunities*

*Rates countries across 14 factors including business startup costs, R&D expenditure, and respondents perception that "Working Hard Gets You Ahead". The U.K. ranks 4th, behind Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and the US of Y comes sneaking along in fifth place

in one of them surveys what they do

Posted By: Tombs on February 13th 2015 at 09:36:17

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Rofl at Miliband and this "tax avoidance" nonsense (NCFC) - Jim, Feb 13, 07:04:49
- Milibland. (NCFC) - Cheltenham_Canary, Feb 13, 09:40:50
  - vmt (n/m) (NCFC) - Bungle, Feb 13, 09:46:00
- He is pathetic, real shame the Labour Party rules allowed him to get nominatedas leader (NCFC) - Taxi 4 Johnson, Feb 13, 08:23:51
  - Yeah, it's the wrong Milliband, Gromit. (NCFC) - Bungle, Feb 13, 08:26:01
- Most tax avoidance shouldn't be legal. That's the point (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 13, 08:21:05
  - Jesus! Another 'war and peace post' to make a simple (n/m) (NCFC) - Cheltenham_Canary, Feb 13, 09:35:06
    - Point (n/m) (NCFC) - Cheltenham_Canary, Feb 13, 09:35:17
      - 👉 (n/m) (NCFC) - Jumbo1, Feb 13, 11:50:11
  - Same as it ever was (NCFC) - Ken Dodds Dads Dog, Feb 13, 09:28:35
  - and in respect of all of those failings (NCFC) - CWC, Feb 13, 09:27:13
  - Excellent post (n/m) (NCFC) - Pixelman, Feb 13, 09:17:38
  - Do you not have better things to do that continually write essays on here? (n/m) (NCFC) - Brom, Feb 13, 09:15:16
    - someone has to tell us how to think (n/m) (NCFC) - Tombs, Feb 13, 09:21:14
  - Good Stuff. (n/m) (NCFC) - megson, Feb 13, 08:36:33
  - Trying to be clever with big posts no one reads ^^^^^ (n/m) (NCFC) - trianglepatch, Feb 13, 08:32:59
    - Here's a shorter post for you you fucking prick (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 13, 08:38:18
      - Tis disgraceful, the system is now setup to make people fail and punish the vulnerable... (NCFC) - DrDublin, Feb 13, 10:14:48
  - They are not. They are trying to score points off it (NCFC) - Jim, Feb 13, 08:31:19
    - You are spot on with your last point in particular jim (n/m) (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Feb 13, 08:53:17
      - For every loophole the Tories have closed.. (NCFC) - colincanary, Feb 13, 10:47:56
        
        That's not true. (n/m) (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Feb 13, 11:22:49
      - But i would add that it's also part of the cycle of the economy (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Feb 13, 09:01:01
    - The Tories ARE greedy toffs. They prove it repeatedly (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 13, 08:33:26
      - And labour are huge hypocrites who ruin the country every time (NCFC) - Jim, Feb 13, 08:36:31
        
        Oh, really? I see. (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 13, 08:48:55
        
        I hardly think you can just strip out the effect of the recession (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Feb 13, 09:15:38
        
        calm down lad (NCFC) - Tombs, Feb 13, 08:53:55
        
        :) I'm giggling now (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 13, 08:55:41
        
        yep (NCFC) - Tombs, Feb 13, 08:56:58
        
        And who will probably oversee the ruin/ break up of the uk for good if (NCFC) - Jim, Feb 13, 08:37:17
        
        I'd vote for them if they could guarantee the break up of the UK (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 13, 08:48:48
  - Too many words (n/m) (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Feb 13, 08:24:20
    - shame really as there's some valid points in amongst the preachy hyperbole (n/m) (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 13, 08:30:41
      - I'll always get angry about this, sorry. Injustice makes me angrier than anything else (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 13, 08:32:08
        
        I welcome your anger and an argument against the bullshit I've read in the rest of this th (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 13, 08:44:25
        
        I give more of a sh*t about that than I do some people trying (NCFC) - Jim, Feb 13, 08:35:34
        
        You think, in a country with the worst level of social mobility in the Western world (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Feb 13, 08:51:39
        
        Yes I do. Seems that whilst we agree on most things Norwich City related (NCFC) - Jim, Feb 13, 09:13:35
        
        that's not true is it? worse than the us of yank? nah (n/m) (NCFC) - Tombs, Feb 13, 09:13:07
        
        actually the united kingdom of england is betterer than the yank and swedens and finlands (NCFC) - Tombs, Feb 13, 09:25:44
        
        and we rank 4th in the world at entrepreneurship opportunities* (NCFC) - Tombs, Feb 13, 09:36:17
        
        Don't worry, were working on that. (n/m) (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Feb 13, 09:35:53
        
        hurry up (NCFC) - Tombs, Feb 13, 09:38:43
        
        Well, they say judge a country by how it treats it's weakest don't they? (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Feb 13, 08:45:47
        
        Do we? (NCFC) - Jim, Feb 13, 08:50:56
- Indeed. Tax avoidance is ok. It's evasion that's illegal. They should concentrate (NCFC) - Tony Martin, Feb 13, 08:08:28
  - Companies only doing what the law permits. All this (NCFC) - Jim, Feb 13, 08:18:44
    - Politicians will NEVER alter the tax laws to the extent (NCFC) - Jim Nasium, Feb 13, 10:21:42
- Let's have a Farrage v Millipede debate. (n/m) (NCFC) - ghost of hucks, Feb 13, 08:04:39
- his target audience won't understand the distinction though (n/m) (NCFC) - CWC, Feb 13, 07:36:17
  - That's abit patronising tbf, it's morally wrong which ever way you look at it. (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Feb 13, 08:27:58
    - Holding an ISA is morally wrong? Really? (n/m) (NCFC) - CWC, Feb 13, 09:16:37
  - True. Maybe its calculated on that basis but (NCFC) - Jim, Feb 13, 07:39:57
    - Plus aren't a lot of people that would traditionally be labour voters cash in hand types? (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Feb 13, 08:16:27
      - "far bigger cost" - any figures to back that up? (n/m) (NCFC) - Ralf Scrampton, Feb 13, 08:23:40
        
        Good article: (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Feb 13, 09:05:50
        
        One more: (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Feb 13, 09:12:02
        
        Does it matter? (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Feb 13, 08:45:54
    - Vimto (n/m) (NCFC) - Tony Martin, Feb 13, 08:09:47

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