View Full Version : How the other half live. Bloody ridiculous!
walpurgis
05-07-2017, 21:30
Money must truly be no object when divorce settlement legal fees reach £10,000,000. To be blunt, that's fucking ludicrous!! Not to mention grotesque and absurd!!!
http://www.itv.com/news/2017-07-05/viking-cruises-founder-and-estranged-wife-reach-divorce-settlement-after-10m-in-legal-fees/
That's just crazy, wouldn't it pay them to just stay together? They're in their 70's, what could be so important?
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Firebottle
06-07-2017, 07:22
Obscene is the word.
Gordon Steadman
06-07-2017, 07:52
Being in one's 70's doesn't mean normal life is over. We still do everything, just a little bit slower - sometimes. Life has just as much meaning and enjoyment!
Quite an appalling waste of money however. With that much money, why the hell would it matter losing half? Still enough for a dozen lifetimes by any reasonable standard.
walpurgis
06-07-2017, 08:50
With that much money, why the hell would it matter losing half? Still enough for a dozen lifetimes by any reasonable standard.
I know. I find it disgusting!
That ten million could have rehoused all those displaced by the Grenfell Tower disaster for instance.
Minstrel SE
06-07-2017, 14:09
Look up Hamilton Palace in Sussex as a potent reminder of what it is all about especially in relation to Grenfell tower. I cant even mention the person as he disgusts me. If you want a deep symbol of what this country is all about..... that should do it.
Couple that with the fact that nobody on minimum wage can really afford to rent now and it adds up to a housing timebomb
Sorry but I am firmly in favour of a cap on earnings and an 80%+ tax bracket. The disparity of wealth is truly obscene
Van Hoogstraaten? He's a nutcase and hardly typical of anything. Except nutcases.
Arkless Electronics
06-07-2017, 14:50
The top 10 wealthiest in this country are so obscenely wealthy that seizing just these 10 peoples assets would pretty much sort out the country. I sincerely hope Corbyn taxes them till the pips squeak WHEN he becomes PM.
Abramovich spent £1200,000,000 on just a big dinghy! This is more than the bribe to the plague monks of the DUP...
IMO no one should be allowed personal wealth beyond say £10 Million and I hope a future Labour gov agrees with me! Just take it from them and build new hospitals, increase benefits so food banks are no longer needed and build shit loads of new council houses!
RothwellAudio
06-07-2017, 15:33
Couple that with the fact that nobody on minimum wage can really afford to rent now and it adds up to a housing timebomb
... and build shit loads of new council houses!
Yes, I think this is at the root of many of the country's problems. We've heard a lot recently about the 1% pay cap, but pay rises wouldn't be necessary at all if the cost of things didn't go up - particularly the cost of housing. House prices and rents are ridiculous these days. Today kids are expected to leave university owing £27,000 (at least). In 1997 you could buy a house for £27,000.
Affordable rents for council houses used apply downward pressure on rents and house prices across the board, but now there are so few council houses left there's nothing to stop prices from rising indefinitely - particularly when the government is prepared to pay inflated rents through the housing benefit scheme.
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That's just crazy, wouldn't it pay them to just stay together? They're in their 70's, what could be so important?
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Ah the curse of viagra strikes again, when all should be sleepy down Pubic Avenue, a little something has gruesome.:D......possibly?
The top 10 wealthiest in this country are so obscenely wealthy that seizing just these 10 peoples assets would pretty much sort out the country. I sincerely hope Corbyn taxes them till the pips squeak WHEN he becomes PM.
Abramovich spent £1200,000,000 on just a big dinghy! This is more than the bribe to the plague monks of the DUP...
IMO no one should be allowed personal wealth beyond say £10 Million and I hope a future Labour gov agrees with me! Just take it from them and build new hospitals, increase benefits so food banks are no longer needed and build shit loads of new council houses!
The DUP/NI got a billion I believe, so they could buy several Abramavitch yachts. I doubt that makes you feel any better though.
Agree the housing situation needs to be addressed. Rather than council houses why not build new houses and let people buy them for the cost of the build instead? That way they actually get a stake in it. Plenty of brownfield sites that commercial developers are not interested in. even down south. Build them there. You could also compulsory purchase all the empty properties in the UK, there are a couple of million I think. Take mortgages off the banks and have a state mortgage lender instead. Take housing out of the commercial realm altogether eventually.
Arkless Electronics
06-07-2017, 17:35
The DUP/NI got a billion I believe, so they could buy several Abramavitch yachts. I doubt that makes you feel any better though.
Agree the housing situation needs to be addressed. Rather than council houses why not build new houses and let people buy them for the cost of the build instead? That way they actually get a stake in it. Plenty of brownfield sites that commercial developers are not interested in. even down south. Build them there. You could also compulsory purchase all the empty properties in the UK, there are a couple of million I think. Take mortgages off the banks and have a state mortgage lender instead. Take housing out of the commercial realm altogether eventually.
Count the zero's... that is £1.2 Billion for his yacht! (The USA billion is pretty much universally used now so it's 1000 million which is referred to as a billion). Apparently it is not the worlds most expensive private yacht toy!
The rest sounds great. I'm wondering if you've been re-programmed by Momentum activists as that all sounds nice and socialist to me :)
Count the zero's... that is £1.2 Billion for his yacht! (The USA billion is pretty much universally used now so it's 1000 million which is referred to as a billion). Apparently it is not the worlds most expensive private yacht toy!
The rest sounds great. I'm wondering if you've been re-programmed by Momentum activists as that all sounds nice and socialist to me :)
Misread thought you posted 120 million. As for the rest I am for pragmatic solutions, not interested in whether they are 'left' or 'right'. I told you that you didn't know my politics ;)
chris@panteg
12-07-2017, 08:13
Van Hoogstraaten? He's a nutcase and hardly typical of anything. Except nutcases.
The man is so bitter he refuses to leave any of his fortune to his children and is determined to be buried with his entire fortune in a bizarre mausoleum.
Stratmangler
12-07-2017, 08:36
Count the zero's... that is £1.2 Billion for his yacht! (The USA billion is pretty much universally used now so it's 1000 million which is referred to as a billion). Apparently it is not the worlds most expensive private yacht toy!
If you think it's a toy then you need to think again.
Where do you think many business deals get negotiated, signed and sealed?
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