No quitten we're whelan onto chitchat 12.

Think it's passed editing now, I would have been able earlier, its only a few pig tails and a reel of polly wire but hate giving it away when paying tax. I always thought that these were not a 'fixed item you could never claim against them. The cattle brush is fixed and I can't, the mind boggles.

That is only to name life easy for her. LikeI said my accountant was surprised as,well. They are still depreciated in the year they are bought as are small tools etc.

Revenue is not the big bad wolf many think. Its like putting in foundations you need to deal with the reality on the ground.

Interesting one concrete blocks, stock brick soaps, and ready mix are vat rated at 13.5% yet blocks are a product, for so e accountancy reason revenue allow them to be vat rated at the lower rate. Yet everything else is 21% sand stone, gravel even conc paving slabs and creditors brick. You could buy a water trough off a supplier and its 21% buy if he was suppling you conc blocks its 13.5%.

There was an Irish and History teacher I had and in Irish grammar he used to say the exception proved the rules. I think of pig tails and yard brushes like that.

Because the US have an egomaniac transactional president who is all about the $'s.

Global politics is at a tipping point.

The only glimmer of light is the November elections in the US but even that is completely unpredictable at present

because it’s good television.
As much as NATO needs America as the big brother, America needs NATO.
American military power is as much down to superior Logistics. If they suddenly can’t rearm their Burke class destroyers in Roja in Spain and have to sail all the way back to Norfolk Dock Yards after every fire mission, or they can’t launch B-1,s from the UK and can’t send wounded troops to Rammstein in Germany it’s gets way harder to beat up the little guys.

Interesting to see the Trump and Gript crossover showing up among new registered users.

Another one! Fair enough. I think a lot of what you’re reacting to comes from the version of refugees you’re exposed to online rather than in real life. You’re hardly meeting them on your farm. Social media algorithms are very good at feeding outrage, and I can hear that anger coming through in your post.

I live among refugees and deal with them every day in the real world, not through clips, headlines or comment sections. I see nurses on hospital wards, cleaners keeping buildings running, labourers on sites, parents dropping kids to school, and people doing shift work to get by. I also see second generation families and educated people who are quietly embedded across the working world here, contributing, paying tax and getting on with their lives.

That day to day reality doesn’t fit the online caricature you're used to, but it’s the one I actually experience.

Gript maths!!^

Oireachtas truth: Ireland did not spend €2 billion in a single year on accommodation for asylum seekers. The actual figure for 2024 is around €1 billion, confirmed by parliamentary answers.

Ease off on the social media pal, your benefits are safe.