Super-Twat

[ian]

Isabel Oakeshott     
https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/965964011232792577

I dunno, it was worth it for...

...I don't think you understand how averages work, Isabel.

[rogerzilla]

This is specifically payment in lieu of notice, not severance pay, according to the article, so I'm surprised it wasn't taxed already.  If you work your notice instead of taking gardening leave, you'd expect to pay tax as it's just normal salary.

[Polar Bear]

Sometimes you don't get the opportunity to work out your 'notice' though.

[Jaded]

This is specifically payment in lieu of notice, not severance pay, according to the article, so I'm surprised it wasn't taxed already.  If you work your notice instead of taking gardening leave, you'd expect to pay tax as it's just normal salary.

Just take .5% more off those that earn over 200k instead...?

[Pingu]

Isabel Oakeshott     
https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/965964011232792577

Anyone who uses the phrase 'political correctness' non-ironically belongs here.

[Canardly]

Used to be a £30,000 allowance thinks. Interesting that the unemployment figures are now rising.

[Beardy]

My understanding from our union bods in the wake of our pensions shafting is that the tax only affects pay in lieu of notice. The actual redundancy (or voluntary severance pay) is still tax free up to £30k.

It becomes complicated if you plan to take your severance pay over into the next FY if you've got pay in lieu to consider as well, and of course there's a gotcha in that many larger companies have a 3 month notice period but generally only operate a 1 month notice period. It could be argued that some of your severance pay is pay in lieu of the unenforced 2 months.

But like most things, most of us won't look into the detail in any detail until it actually affects us, by which time it'll be too late to kick off about the changes. 

[Kim]

Interesting that the unemployment figures are now rising.

Unemployment figures mostly reflect the effectiveness of the various ways that successive governments have found to cook the unemployment figures, they don't really indicate anything useful.

[clarion]

Isabel Oakeshott     
https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/965964011232792577

Anyone who uses the phrase 'political correctness' non-ironically belongs here.

I liked the suggestion to replace the words 'political correctness' with 'common decency' at all times.

[Mr Larrington]

Used to be a £30,000 allowance thinks. Interesting that the unemployment figures are now rising.

Since The Wrong Hammond assured us there were no unemployed people not long ago, they could hardly go down

[jsabine]

My understanding from our union bods in the wake of our pensions shafting is that the tax only affects pay in lieu of notice. The actual redundancy (or voluntary severance pay) is still tax free up to £30k.

I am almost sure that PILON was already taxable, if your employment contract gives the employer the right to impose it - which most do. Certainly that's what I was told in 2012 or so.

[Polar Bear]

Donald J. Shitforbrains.

Assailants and crimes use guns not only because they make the task easier, not only because they think that it makes them cool, not only because it depersonalises the assault, but also because law enforcement also carry and use guns.  Adding more guns to the cocktail is like pouring paraffin on a fire.

A fool and their brane should be forever parted.

[Beardy]

A fool and their brane should be forever parted.

I think that we should make sure that they are kept together, but maybe have a word with the nice Elon chap to find a role for the fool AND his brane as a component of the ballast of his next heavy lifter rocket.

[rogerzilla]

A fool and their brane should be forever parted.

I think that we should make sure that they are kept together, but maybe have a word with the nice Elon chap to find a role for the fool AND his brane as a component of the ballast of his next heavy lifter rocket.

I think that's mighty unfair on the aliens.

[spesh]

NRA chief Wayne LaPierre: https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/966691126416760835

A truly evil creature.

[Polar Bear]

Donald J. Shitforbrains yet again.

So, the shootings are the fault of the armed deputy who didn't enter the building are they?  So, arming a member of staff will deter and prevent such incidents will they?

You Donald J. Shitforbrains and the NRA are primarily responsible for promoting and defending gun ownership in the way that you do and therefore you must take some of the blame for the ongoing problems faced in the US.

[TheLurker]

I feel rather sorry for the officer involved.  The gunman in the school had a semi-automatic assault rifle and heaven only knows how many rounds of ammunition in an undetermined number of magazines.  The police officer had a hand-gun with, I assume,  somewhere in the region of half a dozen to a dozen rounds and very likely a much shorter killing range than the gunman's rifle. 

Just how much difference do idiots like the orange buffoon expect anyone to be able to make in that sort of a situation?  It isn't Die Hard or Rambo or any other Hollywood "Lone Hero" fantasy story.  "Pluck" and "grit" do not make up for that kind of difference in fire-power. 

As far as I can see there's being brave and there's being a suicidal idiot. Trying to take on someone with that sort of disparity in weaponry is simply stupid and suicidal.

[Redlight]

I find the nerve of someone who chickened out of the Vietnam war because he had a sore foot calling anyone a coward quite repulsive.

[Beardy]

I find the nerve of someone who chickened out of the Vietnam war because he had a suspiciously convenient sore foot calling anyone a coward quite repulsive.

FTFY 

[Polar Bear]

I find the nerve of someone who chickened out of the Vietnam war because he had a sore foot calling anyone a coward quite repulsive.

Couldn't agree more. 

I feel rather sorry for the officer involved.  The gunman in the school had a semi-automatic assault rifle and heaven only knows how many rounds of ammunition in an undetermined number of magazines.  The police officer had a hand-gun with, I assume,  somewhere in the region of half a dozen to a dozen rounds and very likely a much shorter killing range than the gunman's rifle. 

Just how much difference do idiots like the orange buffoon expect anyone to be able to make in that sort of a situation?  It isn't Die Hard or Rambo or any other Hollywood "Lone Hero" fantasy story.  "Pluck" and "grit" do not make up for that kind of difference in fire-power. 

As far as I can see there's being brave and there's being a suicidal idiot. Trying to take on someone with that sort of disparity in weaponry is simply stupid and suicidal.

Of course, what the NRA and the Orange One clearly do not want to understand is that by having weapons so freely available the idiot simply loads up with as much as they can carry.  If you think that you might be shot at you take a bigger gun.

The term 'arms race' means nothing to the orange-arsed baboon.

[Polar Bear]

Ben Bradley - Grand Master Twitter Twatter!!!

Points and laughs:  HA HA!   

[clarion]

Jeremy Hunt, for receiving (and awarding to himself) recognition of his sterling efforts in the field of Patient Safety.

SuperTwat!

[Torslanda]

UBER-Twat.

Wonder if he's got shares . . .

[Polar Bear]

Why doesn't the uber-twat just get on with sorting the huge problems with the NHS on his watch and not bother to get involved in the brexit debate.

I with that these politicians would just do their jobs.  It's what they get rather excessively rewarded for.

[mrcharly-YHT]

I would actually award the S-T to the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, for giving the patient safety award to JH