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The taxman commeth for Ebay

I've been using Ebay pretty much since it started. I buy a lot of stuff on there that I need, but I also do a lot of buying and selling of entertainment stuff
 
For example, I buy a lot of  VHS tapes and computer games for various consoles. After I'm done with them and not going to watch / play them again, I re-sell them on Ebay
 
I've always worked under the assumtion that if you're just offloading unwanted items, you don't need to pay tax. Correct or incorrect, and I think it's correct, that's why when I've made the occasional profit, I've not bothered telling HMRC
 
(That and other reasons, obviously)
 
Well now they want my national Insurance number
 
Now to be honest, I don't think HMRC are going to bother themselves with finding out how much people like me sell on Ebay, and trying to take a few pence tax here and there. It would likely cost them more than they gain
 
However, our new Government are financially illiterate enough that they might even try it
 
It's not about the tax though. I never make a profit on Ebay. If I buy a game for a fiver and sell it for a fiver in six months time, I've actually lost a couple of quid in the postage I paid to get it
 
The problems would arise if I have to prove to HMRC that I'm not making a profit. If it's not worth their while to find out who owes them a couple of pence here and there, it may be worth their while to make us prove to them that we don't owe a couple of pence here and there
 
There's a link in the email imaged above: If you're unclear about whether you need to report income
 
 
I don't know enough about tax to be sure, but I think you still need to report sales if you're a business, even if you're not making a profit. If that applies to folk selling tat on Ebay, I'd have to start keeping records of everything I buy and sell to prove I'm not fleecing HM Government
 
I tell you, filling in a tax return would not be worth it just to pass some used media on to the next person who wants to enjoy it
 
In the unlikely event that I do have to start fannying about with tax returns, our local Help the Aged may see an upturn in donations of games and films I've bought on Ebay
 
I say unlikely. Who knows what Labour are capable of... 

As long as they pretend to make good laws...

 ...we'll pretend to follow them
 
Chris Snowdons latest bit just got me thinking. It's all about the creeping criminalisation of society, and begins with the new 'Online Safety' censorship laws, then moves on to other aspects of the nanny state
 
And he couldn't be more correct. I've had a VPN installed on my PC and laptop for quite some time, but never used it. I remember going through this phase of thinking I should do something about Government intrusion and matbe protect myself from them online, but it never amounted to anything more than installing the software
 
This weekend, I hit a snag while searching the web, realised this stupid law had now come into force, and finally decided to set up and configure this VPN. And it worked perfectly
 
The VPN is now my online safety bill that protects me from the Government 
 
(Oohh, what were you searching for, I hear you ask. Well I'm not telling, so ner)
 
Using a VPN is not yet illegal, but I'm sure it soon will be. And I'll probably still use it
 
In fact... No I won't go into the list of laws I routinely break, or simply ignore. That could get me in trouble. Have a think about it though. How many laws are you breaking as you go through life minding your own business, doing your own thing and causing harm to nobody whatsoever?
 
It isn't none 

 

 

Face like the back end of a rail replacement bus

Something, something, supreme court, something, men cannot be women, something, something, stay out of the female bogs
 
And rejoyce, the problem was solved!
 
But of course it wasn't. Left wing activists will not give up and bugger off, for something as insignificant as a supreme court ruling, and left wing activism is much too far entrenched into every institutions for the ruling to be enforced
 
Those fighting for the rights of men in childrens bikinis will always find a way to muddy the waters
I’m just ugly not trans, train driver told colleagues
I do remember a saying doing the rounds once, 'You're not trans, you're just ugly and have no friends'. Maybe we've come full circle?
A train driver insisted they were not transgender but “just ugly” when challenged by colleagues after the Supreme Court ruling on gender.
There have been many scare stories about how the court ruling will eventually lead to real women being asked to prove their gender before going for a pee in public, maybe through some form of one minute DNA test, or even being asked to get their knickers down
 
So is this a real world example of that actually happening?
 The “just ugly” comment was quoted in a submission made by Aslef, the train drivers’ trade union, to an Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) consultation.

In its submission, Aslef said: “Since the ruling, there have been examples of our members being questioned about their biological sex by colleagues to the level where one member felt the need to explain to their colleagues that ‘they are just ugly’.
No. It was part of a submission by the train drivers union to the EHRC, as part of an attempt to push back on the, 'no knobs in the ladies' ruling. And therefore, can be taken with a pinch of salt, in my opinion
“We are seriously concerned that similar situations may arise where women in particular are queried about their biological sex to the extent that a birth certificate may be requested and the certificate itself even then queried further.”
They are seriously concerned about a seriously unlikely scenario, that seriosly hasn't happened and is very unlikely to do so
 
Notice how they wrap their serious concern in a blanket of caring about women? Well they don't seem seriously concerned about mentally ill males getting their dongs out in female toilets and harassing the actual women therein. A seriously serious problem that seriously has happened before and seriously does happen on a regular basis
 Aslef appears to have joined the ranks of those pushing back against the ruling.

“As a trans woman could breastfeed it is not clear if they would be protected from discrimination,” the union continued in its submission to the EHRC consultation.
The train drivers union believes that men can breastfeed. So I wonder how many breast feeding men they actually represent?
Just under one in every five railway workers is a woman, according to the National Skills Academy for Rail’s annual survey of train staff. No data is available for the number of trans-identifying workers in the industry.
I'm guessing none then 
 In April, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that trans women are not legally women.
We live in a time where that court case was necessary. The furure is going to judge us harshly

The Cryin' Game

So I wake up to find Rachael Thieves has been crying in Parliament over something. I don't know the full story, as I've only just read about it on Twitter while sat on the bog
 
What surprised me though, was the Tweets offering sympathy, and asking that we don't make this a thing about weak women crying, but acknowledge that she's under a lot of stress in her position (I didn't screenshot any of this while sitting on the porcelain throne, so you'll have to take my word for it)
 
This is the woman who last year, increased employers National insurance, and increased the minimum wage beyond already unsustainable levels, resulting in many job losses
 
Redundancies were made at the place where I work. I was pretty lucky, as I've managed to convince them I'm indispensible (I'm not, no-one is, but for the moment, it's easier for them to keep me than bin me, since they whittled my department down from four to one, and I've been doing this for 17 years).
We did loose a few good people though, and some of them cried
 
Work has slightly picked up since the redundancies, but unfortunately we still can't afford to re-employ any of them full time, so when we get a bit of extra work in, it's up to everyone else to take it on. Fortunately we have part time staff who work the weekends only, so they have been able to earn a bit of extra cash in the week
 
Mrs Buckos company also made redundancies. They went through a very long consultation process. Much too long in my opinion. The stress of all that would probably have made me cry
 
She got lucky too, but others didn't, and some of them cried 
 
I'm sure Rachael Reeves is in a very stressful situation, earning her Chancellors wage and expenses, while playing student socialist politics and runing the lives of working stiffs, who just need to go to work and earn a bit of money to pay for their net zero enhanced bills
 
Her story could almost make me weep. Not. She should be crying. The whole bleeding lot of them should be made redundant, and made to cry so hard, they're at risk of serious dehydration. Then made to cry some more
 
Sympathy?
 

 

 

 

 

 

I have no sympathy for her or any of her economically and socially illiterate mob. In the one year they've been in power, their fixing the foundations and dealing with the black hole, have done more damage to ordinary peoples lives than their lazy, inept Conservative predecessors could ever have hoped for 

They should be made redundant, they should be thrown out of power, they should have all their assets stripped and given to the treasury. They should be swinging from lampposts (For all I care)
 
Of course I am not advocating for violence here. I don't want to go to prison. You get less for noncing young boys than suggesting people should actually vent their anger on the source. So no, please don't swing any MPs from lampposts. I'm just kidding
 
Of course, you don't actually have the time to be swinging anyone from lampposts, what with all the extra hours your doing at work, just to make ends meet
The only people with the time on their hands to swing people from lampposts, are wasters who choose a life on the dole, or middle class twats living of mummys trust fund, and they all actually want more government, not less
 
Anyway. You've probably got it, that I have zero sympathy for this woman. I've seen people cry this past year, and it was for real reasons. That's where my sympathy lies, not for the dimwit that caused it
 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
*Update*
Pound tumbles and bond markets sent into turmoil after Rachel Reeves's Commons tears
I'm not that well up on how markets work, but apparrently if your Chancellor makes a blubbering mess of herself in the Commons, the pound falls
Traders are likely to be anxious that even after Ms Reeves’ dismal stewardship of the economy, any Labour replacement could bring more uncertainty to the public finances
Ahh. So she's shit, but any replacement would be shitter. I get it 
 
 
 
So she can fuck things up without even trying. Nice... 


Did we leave the EU?

We did. Although I'm no longer sure that really means anything
The European Union is planning to ban airlines from charging extra to take both a “personal item” — the small under-seat bag — and a one small carry-on wheelie bag.
Members of the European parliament’s transport and tourism committee voted to ban airlines charging extra for two bags, in an effort to simplify booking processes, remove so-called drip pricing and save consumers money.
How the blue bloody fuck is more EU regulation going to save consumers money?
 
Currently you only pay for what you need. If the EU bans airlines from charging for carry on and under seat bags, all passengers will just be made to pay the equivilant of both, regardless of what they take
 
Prices up for everyone
 
I've taken a total of five flights with only an underseat bag. Saved a lot of money, each time
I guess that's over... 

See that? That's climate change, that is

Antarctic ice is melting and we're all gonna die
Antarctic ice has grown again...
Oh? Well that's good news then, surely?
...but this does not buck overall melt trend
Oh? But if it keeps growing?
Study shows ice sheet gained mass from 2021 to 2023, due to extreme snowfall...
So will we get more extreme snowfall, so we can all stop worrying about climate change? 
...that was also an effect of climate crisis
Oh... 
 
Melt - Climate change
Grow - Climate change
Cold - Climate change
Warm - Climate change
Turn off the fucking money tap - No climate change