Bulletguy Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 A majority holding of 50.01% in Gatwick Airport has been snapped up by a French company for £2.9 billion. Maybe it was French underground operating the invisible drone. I'm surprised there's still anything left to flog! "Taking back control" but the rest of the world owns it! (lol) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46691846 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowie Posted December 27, 2018 Share Posted December 27, 2018 So where do GIP and Vinci pay their taxes, and how much? Is this tax potentially lost to HMRC? Is Gatwick essential infrastructure? Do other countries sell this sort of business (or allow it to be sold)? Snowie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted December 28, 2018 Author Share Posted December 28, 2018 snowie - 2018-12-27 11:35 PM So where do GIP and Vinci pay their taxes, and how much? Is this tax potentially lost to HMRC? Is Gatwick essential infrastructure? Do other countries sell this sort of business (or allow it to be sold)? Snowie I'm not sure Alan though if paying in UK it will no doubt be along similar lines to Google and Starbucks etc. The shareholders do pretty well out of these places and an international airport is a licence to print money really. Heathrow have 'em dropping in at the rate of two a minute during the day. https://www.ft.com/content/1e3f2f56-09ab-11e9-9fe8-acdb36967cfc I hope the owners have footed the bill for having police on a wild goose chase after that invisible drone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derek pringle Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Hi, If this is the case I hope the employees at Gatwick demand the same rights as the French have if the airport was in France. derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Bulletguy - 2018-12-27 11:24 PM A majority holding of 50.01% in Gatwick Airport has been snapped up by a French company for £2.9 billion. Maybe it was French underground operating the invisible drone. I'm surprised there's still anything left to flog! "Taking back control" but the rest of the world owns it! (lol) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46691846 I thought Johnny foreigner wasn't investing in the UK anymore? >:-) ........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PJay Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 pelmetman - 2018-12-28 9:48 AM Bulletguy - 2018-12-27 11:24 PM A majority holding of 50.01% in Gatwick Airport has been snapped up by a French company for £2.9 billion. Maybe it was French underground operating the invisible drone. I'm surprised there's still anything left to flog! "Taking back control" but the rest of the world owns it! (lol) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46691846 I thought Johnny foreigner wasn't investing in the UK anymore? >:-) ........... They know we will be better off without them!! We should re nationalise the Trains, water, electric airports. ,a lot of which have been bought by the EU That way we get back control PJay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted December 28, 2018 Author Share Posted December 28, 2018 derek pringle - 2018-12-28 9:09 AM Hi, If this is the case I hope the employees at Gatwick demand the same rights as the French have if the airport was in France. derek As long as we remain an EU member state they would be entitled to......but a certain faction here wants to drag the UK out of the EU into "third country" status. You can't expect the benefits of 'club membership' for free Derek. :-| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted December 28, 2018 Author Share Posted December 28, 2018 pelmetman - 2018-12-28 9:48 AM Bulletguy - 2018-12-27 11:24 PM A majority holding of 50.01% in Gatwick Airport has been snapped up by a French company for £2.9 billion. Maybe it was French underground operating the invisible drone. I'm surprised there's still anything left to flog! "Taking back control" but the rest of the world owns it! (lol) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46691846 I thought Johnny foreigner wasn't investing in the UK anymore? >:-) ........... They haven't.....if you read the article you'd see it's privately owned. *-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted December 28, 2018 Author Share Posted December 28, 2018 PJay - 2018-12-28 2:02 PM pelmetman - 2018-12-28 9:48 AM Bulletguy - 2018-12-27 11:24 PM A majority holding of 50.01% in Gatwick Airport has been snapped up by a French company for £2.9 billion. Maybe it was French underground operating the invisible drone. I'm surprised there's still anything left to flog! "Taking back control" but the rest of the world owns it! (lol) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46691846 I thought Johnny foreigner wasn't investing in the UK anymore? >:-) ........... They know we will be better off without them!! We should re nationalise the Trains, water, electric airports. ,a lot of which have been bought by the EU That way we get back control PJay Just the rail network and rolling stock alone is 70% owned by European countries so that would cost billions to buy back.....money we haven't got. https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/70-of-uk-rail-routes-now-owned-by-foreign-states/ No prizes for guessing who sold it all off for "get rich quick" merchants? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/982037.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Kirby Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 pelmetman - 2018-12-28 9:48 AM Bulletguy - 2018-12-27 11:24 PM A majority holding of 50.01% in Gatwick Airport has been snapped up by a French company for £2.9 billion. Maybe it was French underground operating the invisible drone. I'm surprised there's still anything left to flog! "Taking back control" but the rest of the world owns it! (lol) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46691846 I thought Johnny foreigner wasn't investing in the UK anymore? >:-) ........... Investing? I think just buying assets. Whether they actually invest we shall have to wait and see. Still, I'm puzzled by Dave's attitude. He's cock-a-hoop that to much of our infrastructure is foreign owned, and equally cock-a-hoop that the UK has the 5th/6th largest economy in the world. So, if the UK is so successful economically, why have we sold so much of our critical infrastructure to foreign state entities? Why can't the UK own, and successfully operate, these items? I don't think Branson or Railtrack have bought interests in Bundesbahn, SNCF, or Treinitalia, have they? So, in terms of taking control, how will that work? We still have what some like to call a UK motor industry. It employs over 160,000 people and is almost wholly foreign owned. The largest UK owned producer (Aston Martin) produces about 5,000 cars per year. The names live on like ghosts, but the plants are owned and run by Chinese, Japanese, Indian, German, Malaysian and Spanish headquartered companies. So, why does it take foreigners to run and own british car factories? Odd, innit? :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowie Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Popular purchases are ones with iconic brand names. In a materialistic world that’s as important as the product itself. I believe that some uk entrepreneurs buy uk agricultural land as well as or rather than invest in their company. Do EU entrepreneurs have a more long term view? Snowie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Brian Kirby - 2018-12-28 6:54 PM pelmetman - 2018-12-28 9:48 AM Bulletguy - 2018-12-27 11:24 PM A majority holding of 50.01% in Gatwick Airport has been snapped up by a French company for £2.9 billion. Maybe it was French underground operating the invisible drone. I'm surprised there's still anything left to flog! "Taking back control" but the rest of the world owns it! (lol) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46691846 I thought Johnny foreigner wasn't investing in the UK anymore? >:-) ........... Investing? I think just buying assets. Whether they actually invest we shall have to wait and see. Still, I'm puzzled by Dave's attitude. He's cock-a-hoop that to much of our infrastructure is foreign owned, and equally cock-a-hoop that the UK has the 5th/6th largest economy in the world. So, if the UK is so successful economically, why have we sold so much of our critical infrastructure to foreign state entities? Why can't the UK own, and successfully operate, these items? I don't think Branson or Railtrack have bought interests in Bundesbahn, SNCF, or Treinitalia, have they? So, in terms of taking control, how will that work? We still have what some like to call a UK motor industry. It employs over 160,000 people and is almost wholly foreign owned. The largest UK owned producer (Aston Martin) produces about 5,000 cars per year. The names live on like ghosts, but the plants are owned and run by Chinese, Japanese, Indian, German, Malaysian and Spanish headquartered companies. So, why does it take foreigners to run and own british car factories? Odd, innit? :-D Gatwick is currently owned by a Nigerian ;-) .......... https://allafrica.com/stories/201208040520.html So it's hardly a case of the UK selling assets as it was sold years ago :-| ........... My point is.......which you chose to ignore......... is that foreigners are STILL investing in the UK >:-) ........ Kinda goes against all that propaganda you Remoaners have been peddling :D .......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 snowie - 2018-12-28 8:14 PM Do EU entrepreneurs have a more long term view? Snowie Yep ;-) ...........They know the UK will thrive once free of the EU shackles >:-) .......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Kirby Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 pelmetman - 2018-12-29 9:10 AM...…………………….. Gatwick is currently owned by a Nigerian ;-) .......... https://allafrica.com/stories/201208040520.html So it's hardly a case of the UK selling assets as it was sold years ago :-| ........... My point is.......which you chose to ignore......... is that foreigners are STILL investing in the UK >:-) ........ Kinda goes against all that propaganda you Remoaners have been peddling :D .......... Dave, even if it was originally sold years ago, it was still sold, wasn't it? I don't ignore your point, I think it without merit. Why? First, the acquisition of a fixed asset is only an investment for the buyer. It is merely a change of ownership, with a view to benefitting from the profits it yields. How does it benefit you, me, or the UK as a whole? Second, the foreign acquisition of one company with substantial fixed assets is not evidence of a trend, it is merely a single, opportunistic, event that proves nothing more than the buyer thinks he can make money from his acquisition. In short it proves nothing regarding the UK economy, one way or the other. At times (frequently :-)) you behave like a drowning man grabbing a passing matchstick for salvation. Coffee time? :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Brian Kirby - 2018-12-29 12:44 PM Second, the foreign acquisition of one company with substantial fixed assets is not evidence of a trend, it is merely a single, opportunistic, event that proves nothing more than the buyer thinks he can make money from his acquisition. In short it proves nothing regarding the UK economy, one way or the other. At times (frequently :-)) you behave like a drowning man grabbing a passing matchstick for salvation. Coffee time? :-D Oh the hypocrisy *-) ......... You behave like a desperate Remoaner ........all the time......If it was a story about Gatwick shedding jobs because of Brexit......... you'd be all over it like a rash (lol) (lol) (lol) .......... Coffee time?........No thanks as your Remoaner mugs are always half empty *-) ........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derek pringle Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Bulletguy - 2018-12-28 5:41 PM derek pringle - 2018-12-28 9:09 AM Hi, If this is the case I hope the employees at Gatwick demand the same rights as the French have if the airport was in France. derek As long as we remain an EU member state they would be entitled to......but a certain faction here wants to drag the UK out of the EU into "third country" status. You can't expect the benefits of 'club membership' for free Derek. :-| Hi, I don't expect anything for free but the point is we do not get the same rights even as Nett Contributors. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletguy Posted December 30, 2018 Author Share Posted December 30, 2018 derek pringle - 2018-12-30 11:26 AM Bulletguy - 2018-12-28 5:41 PM derek pringle - 2018-12-28 9:09 AM Hi, If this is the case I hope the employees at Gatwick demand the same rights as the French have if the airport was in France. derek As long as we remain an EU member state they would be entitled to......but a certain faction here wants to drag the UK out of the EU into "third country" status. You can't expect the benefits of 'club membership' for free Derek. :-| Hi, I don't expect anything for free but the point is we do not get the same rights even as Nett Contributors. cheers What rights are those you believe we don't have that other countries do Derek? :-| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derek pringle Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 Bulletguy - 2018-12-30 3:34 PM derek pringle - 2018-12-30 11:26 AM Bulletguy - 2018-12-28 5:41 PM derek pringle - 2018-12-28 9:09 AM Hi, If this is the case I hope the employees at Gatwick demand the same rights as the French have if the airport was in France. derek As long as we remain an EU member state they would be entitled to......but a certain faction here wants to drag the UK out of the EU into "third country" status. You can't expect the benefits of 'club membership' for free Derek. :-| Hi, I don't expect anything for free but the point is we do not get the same rights even as Nett Contributors. cheers What rights are those you believe we don't have that other countries do Derek? :-| Hi, I believe our country refused to sign up fully to the Workers Charter which gives among its protections better protection for workers under redundancy for instance. French redundancy rules and job protection go much further than our as do their pension rights...ditto for Germany i believe. cheers derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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