Ed Milliband looks weird all the time these days. The Tories aren't completely sunk as long as he keeps popping up on the telly
Another witch-hunt. Who amongst us hasn’t had to rustle up millions when rumbled by the taxman for using offshore investment vehicles to conceal capital gains? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ons-in-tax-after-dispute-over-family-finances
De Pfeffel's farewell tour present De Pfeffel live and unpluggedhinged: Boris Johnson’s Partygate testimony to be shown in full on live TV Former PM’s comeback plans are under threat as MPs stage televised interrogation over claims he misled parliament
In further you can't keep a good man down news: Neil Parish considering offering to stand for election again as a Tory Former MP for Tiverton and Honiton resigned after admitting watching pornography in Commons
Also, in even more you can't keep a good man down news: Man with free central London home and free country house earning £164k salary requires £800k loan "...credit facility..." (sic.) from relative foreign businessman to do job.
Teachers vote to strike. It's almost as if the Government can't run anything. What a shame schools aren't private businesses with non-unionised staff. All this nasty strike business would just go away.
Exclusive! Leaked synopsis of Johnson's forthcoming autobiography! Born into entitled disfunctional family. Went to posh school to reinforce entitlement. Went to Oxford (ditto) got rubbish degree. Burnt fivers in front of tramps. Daddy got me job at paper in Brussels. Told thousands of lies. Got married. Became MP. Had affair. Told lies. Got sacked. Got mistress up duff. Persuaded abortion. Got newspaper column. Told thousands of lies. Had affair. Had kid. Arranged super injunction. Became mayor. Lied a bit. Had affair/technology lessons. Became MP (lied that would stand down as mayor). Decided route to PM would be to back stupid idea of leaving EU (not expecting Leave to win). Lied a lot. Became Foreign Sec. Went to Bunga Bunga parties with KGB spy. Sabotaged T May. Finally got prize. Was really rubbish at it. Lied to Queen. Delivered appalling brexit deal. Lied. Let thousands die. Elicited public sympathy by pretending to have nearly died. Partied while country grieved. Lied to parliament. Married ghastly spouse, had sprog. Took money from sponsors to turn No 11 into Turkish Brothel at spouse's instruction. Took money from sponsors for holidays. Tried to change rules for grifting acolyte. Appointed sex pest acolyte to whips office. Finally got heave-ho from Tory MPs. Thought about coming back after Truss debacle. Couldn't get MP support. Went off to make money from speeches while still sponging off benefactors. Thinking about another triumphant return after disastrous May elections. Ends.
Not a story much of the media wants to go big on. I’m going to drop a name here and I’m asking the question would it be a bigger deal if it had been this chap and not Zahawi? Jeremy Corbyn.
The Zahawi story is absolutely extraordinary. Any regular citizen would be facing serious charges. Meanwhile, Javid saying the quiet bit out loud now that they have driven the NHS to the brink and feel the time is right to offer the alternative they planned all along. Pay to visit A&E or your GP. The bootlickers will lap this up as a CoMmoN SeNsE response to a difficult challenge, blah-blah-blah, forgetting that we already pay for the NHS through taxation and National Insurance. Just another big stride on the journey to a ruinous private health insurance system and terrible health outlooks for anyone who can't pay. Staggering that this stuff gets any traction but it does. Great Torying, guys.
2 years and 3 days to go..........(I don't suppose they will be rushing to give up their ministerial salaries!)
Why not just get rid of all taxation, absolutely all of it, and charge for everything. It is, after all, the ideology they spout. If you drive on a road, you get charged for what you use. If you want a pavement repaired, the local people have to club together to repair it, or not if they don't think it's desirable or can't afford it. If you send a child to school, pay. Good schools can charge a lot, less good ones can charge less. If you go to hospital, pay for the appointment, the x-ray, the treatment, the medicine. If you want your bins collected, pay. If we're going to bow down to the private sector, to the profit motive, to personal responsibility and luck, then let's remove the gold-plated security and incentive of having the public purse to fall back on. But let everyone keep all of their money. Do away with the farce of different taxation rules for different people depending on status and wealth. Let the public decide what they want to pay for or not. And, of course, in desperate times the market will set prices but that'll just be the luck of the draw. One upside would be the Govt would have nothing to chuck at the private sector. Lobbying would be dead within a year or two because there'd be no money to lobby for, no subsidies, no favours, no back-handers. And we would then see how popular their ideology is.
HMRC rarely, if ever, prosecutes a person who cooperates with a tax enquiry and pays what they owe plus any fines due. And, in fact, somebody well known is more likely to face 'serious charges' than a 'regular citizen' because of the PR benefits to HMRC that a high profile tax evasion case tends to generate. But the inland revenue also usually takes a fairly dim view of people in positions of trust or power who should be expected to know not to attempt to fiddle their tax returns, so as a former Chancellor of the Exchequer (albeit briefly) it is a little surprising that Zahawi isn't deeper in the brown stuff than he is.
Georgist theory... It was very, very popular with the the post-Soviet democracies. ISTR that the Baltic states rowed back on full implementation as it would harm EU alignment...
Great explanation of Zahawi's shenanigans here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...-on-me-now-hes-handed-over-millions-qjpqrhtnj
And the sleaze goes on. Johnson reported to Standards watchdog after it is alleged that the BBC Chair, Tory Richard Sharp, helped guarantee an £800k loan for Bunter weeks before the Government selected him for the BBC role. https://news.sky.com/story/labour-r...agmire-of-sleaze-engulfing-former-pm-12792440
Is Sunak old enough to know about the seat belt rule ? Raab says he is a human being. Is he ? Are any of them ? Stuck in their world of privilege and wealth with no connection to the man and woman in the street. Time for a revolution. The status quo will not change while these planks make all the rules and the masses just stand meekly taking it all.
Oh mate. That’s just the first mistruth the Tory bootlickers tell themselves. You’re better than that.
Zahawi libel lawyers have been making groundless threats all over the place apparently. Has given people the willies. The twitter summary by Dan Neidle is worth a read - got plenty of threats while he was doing his investigation.
