Bransons giving all his money away!
21 September 2006, 04:13 PM
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21 September 2006, 04:32 PM
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Giving away 10 years' profits isn't the smartest tax fiddle
21 September 2006, 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Moley_WRX
Paying yourself a £1,000,000 p/a (for example) salary then 'giving' the rest away isn't done for no reason at all.
21 September 2006, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Moley_WRX
Paying yourself a £1,000,000 p/a (for example) salary then 'giving' the rest away isn't done for no reason at all.
21 September 2006, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by STi wanna Subaru
Pretty pointless unless he can do something about the US and China aint it? Nice thought though.
It's been proven that our Planet was completely Tropical before the Ice age. The Planet is just going back to where it once was. If it never heated back up after the Ice age, non of us would be here.
Global warming? Global Bollox.
Yes, man may well be polluting the planet, but we can't stop mother nature restoring the planet back to what it was.
21 September 2006, 04:45 PM
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Shamer nothing man can do will make one jot of difference to global warming, or climate change, or whatever the PC-name of the moment happens to be. Anything that is happening is happening in spite of man being here not because of. So the man's either a complete pillock, which we know he's not 'cos he's a self-made billionaire, or there's something in it for him ......
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21 September 2006, 04:46 PM
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Classic Branson, the "me too" rush for a bit of PR, in this case lining himself up alongside some serious philanthropists, everyone says what a great Brit he is, how good he is etc, then it all fizzles out into nothing, but that's a while off, and no-one follows it up... He does know how to get free publicity better than anyone, though.
Tom Bowyers unauthorised biography is a good read.
Tom Bowyers unauthorised biography is a good read.
21 September 2006, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Moley_WRX
And how will his money do that exactly????
- Research into alternative energy
- Subsidising renewable energy projects
- Replanting areas of lost forestation
- Etc.
21 September 2006, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by TopBanana
Come on, I'm sure you can think this through yourself. Here are a few suggestions:
- Research into alternative energy
- Subsidising renewable energy projects
- Replanting areas of lost forestation
- Etc.
21 September 2006, 05:07 PM
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Sky is saying Bransons intention is "to help wean the world off oil and coal", yet at some point in the last 12 months I remember his last big PR exercise; Branson announcing his going into the oil refining business, as fuel costs rocketed. Once again, postioning himself as the saviour of us all. What a bull****ter.
I might as well claim my fitting double glazing is a contribution to saving the world...
Edit: they're quite big windows
I might as well claim my fitting double glazing is a contribution to saving the world...
Edit: they're quite big windows
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21 September 2006, 05:24 PM
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Yes. What do you think is the reason?
I think Branson is a top bloke and have a lot of respect for him.
But he hasn't got to where he is today by giving away the profit his company makes.
Sorry, but there has to be more to it.
21 September 2006, 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by TopBanana
Yes. What do you think is the reason?
21 September 2006, 05:33 PM
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Hardly giving it away. He's investing the next 10 years profits in research into alternative fuel development from which he will stand to make an even greater fortune.
21 September 2006, 05:55 PM
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Maybe it is a selfless gesture, give him the benefit of the doubt, he is getting old, is minted and perhaps wants to give something back, he doesnt seem like a complete hard headed business *******, there is a bit of the old hippy about him.