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Wooks, a contributor to Shout99 has made some excellent comments especially to the "Questions for Gordon" article.
His comments (and some of the others) have given me food for thought and I considered it worthwhile to draw them together and summarise.
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It has been said that a lie will be around the world before the truth
has got its boots on. While that might have originated as an
illustrative comment, the age of the internet has made it a reality.
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Martin Spicer writes "The "loonies" are definitely running the asylum. Not only do we have the disjointed economic philosophy of 'New' (ha!) Labour of promoting the technology revolution in the UK whilst on the other hand crippling small knowledge based businesses by stifling growth and enterprise by the introduction and uncertainty of IR35 - but wish to bring the same lunatic policies to the NHS as well.
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In a previous life I was responsible for selling products and services totalling over £100 million into countries as diverse as Japan, Malaysia, India, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Finland and the USA.
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As the founding Chairman of the Professional Contractors Group, I will immediately declare an interest in the organisation - but perhaps that also puts me in an advantageous position when it comes to 'knowing what's gone on behind the scenes'
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Apart from the fact they are all five letter words - what do 'avoid', 'evade' and 'cheat' have in common?
Contractors who have lived with the unfairness of IR35 and the insults of Government Ministers for the past 12 months will probably know the answer.
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