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General Cricket => Players => Topic started by: Bats_Entertainment on January 27, 2015, 08:46:50 PM
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I suspect that I'll regret asking forum members' opinions on this, but anyway...
http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/31011948 (http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/31011948)
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why did he tweet that though, out of the blue.
And nothing offensive about it really, not sure how factually correct he is.
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He should be concentrating on how he is going to take some wickets
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He should be concentrating on how he is going to take some wickets
Funny, people think the poor should have money taken away to motivate them...
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It's a non event. People are to sensitive these days.
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Its reference to an oxfam released stat about wealth and the top 1% own half of the worlds wealth. And while that is an interesting stat, to qualify for that 1% you have to have assets (including a house if the mortgage is mostly paid) of $800,000 or roughly £500,000. While that is a huge sum, there are roughly 2.6 million 1%'ers in the UK of which he certainly is one. Pretty stupid tweet, because he does not get anything good out of it. I never get why celebs say things like this because they are hardly going to get 'yeh yeh your so right rich guy, I should feel humble'. So stupid!
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it is in reference to KP calling players on £15k muppets.
he is a clown.
his central contract is worth £700k. year before his match fees, bonuses and his endorsements.
he got his first million at 23 years old.
on the up side he pays significantly more tax than I earn!
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re: the tax ... I'm sure whilst representing his country he is employing a cunning tax advisor so he pays f all back... I'm a life long Notts fan but I truly dislike the spoilt, cosseted child
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Really just looks like people grabbing onto any straw they can in order to slate him in my opinion looking through twitter :-[.
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it is in reference to KP calling players on £15k muppets.
Is it? Please explain.
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dont see how anyone can have a problem with that tweet imho
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dont see how anyone can have a problem with that tweet imho
That's more like what I was expecting!
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How much is a set of Millichamp and Hall blinkers nowadays? ;)
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It's a non event. People are to sensitive these days.
Completely agree. Twitter is full of offendomongs these days who get themselves wound up over nothing. Plus the media are rubbish and love a non story getting bloom out of all proportion so they can get more website hits. Even if he does think that it's his opinion
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He earns loads and probably dodges some tax but I am sure he still pays a lot more tax than many. It is not like he is committing benefit fraud and robbing us tax payers.
It is his opinion, let it be, not like he is punching young players in their face, [#Root and Warner], he just called them muppets, could have been said out of affection. Hardly an offensive word now is it.
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IMHO players, celebs whoever need to wise up when using twitter. its free news for the press. If its not your field of expertise leave it alone and get on with your life or you will inevitably end up making some form of embarrassing apology.
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Don't understand why people would get offended. Probably have nothing better to do for 5 minutes
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Don't understand why people would get offended. Probably have nothing better to do for 5 minutes
probably the same reason why broad felt the need to write it, self importance.
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re: the tax ... I'm sure whilst representing his country he is employing a cunning tax advisor so he pays f all back... I'm a life long Notts fan but I truly dislike the spoilt, cosseted child
Notts should have pinched someone else then shouldn't they ;)
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I know he meant well, but he just cones across as unbelievably thick/ insulated.
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It is not like he is committing benefit fraud and robbing us tax payers.
Oh dear. People's ignorance continues to astound me.
I asked for it, I suppose.
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Oh dear. People's ignorance continues to astound me.
I asked for it, I suppose.
You are right, it was ignorant of me to assume all are tax payers, I take it back.
Now go buy another bat :-)
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Just taking the tweet as it is - £6.50 an hour is relative to the cost of living in that country. You might be able to live comfortably on less in other countries but not in the UK. Anybody even thinking it's ok, needs their heads examining. Why we can't move to the living wage is beyond me - wait no, it's to do with the government subsidising business by paying benefits to those on minimum wage because business won't pay a fair wage (I'm talking big business not the thousands of struggling small businesses). If you paid living wage then thousands of people would start paying tax,be better off and claim less benefits, that's a terrible thing isn't it?
If Broad is worth 700k, then I'm seriously underpaid as a cricketer.
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Just taking the tweet as it is - £6.50 an hour is relative to the cost of living in that country. You might be able to live comfortably on less in other countries but not in the UK. Anybody even thinking it's ok, needs their heads examining. Why we can't move to the living wage is beyond me - wait no, it's to do with the government subsidising business by paying benefits to those on minimum wage because business won't pay a fair wage (I'm talking big business not the thousands of struggling small businesses). If you paid living wage then thousands of people would start paying tax,be better off and claim less benefits, that's a terrible thing isn't it?
If Broad is worth 700k, then I'm seriously underpaid as a cricketer.
Good post. It is actually big business that is scrounging most off the state.
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You are right, it was ignorant of me to assume all are tax payers, I take it back.
Now go buy another bat :-)
You should be more worried that there are people in this country that can not afford to eat properly, than you should about their inability to pay tax.
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Going to close this off - it feels like an argument waiting to happen - especially as this is a bit of a non issue.