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Skinner you legend!!
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'The summary also showed that Mr Osborne earned just £3 from bank interest in 2014/15.' http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a6979061.html |
I must confess that all this 'Panama Papers' row has me very worried.
On his deathbed, my dear old dad - who worked ALL his life as a coal miner (apart from 12 years in the British Army) snided me a pair of his worn out pit boots, an empty 'Jubilee' stout bottle (which was worth 3 old pence if returned to the local Miners Welfare Club) and a screwed up ten bob note (50 pence in todays money). "Don't tell the tax man about these son" he whispered "I've paid him enough". Well, I never did tell the tax man, but now I'm worried. Should I have? Will I get locked up if he finds out? I just don't know what to do. :shrug: |
I'm not sure what that's all about Kirk. The panama papers show multi-national companies/millionaires/billionaires dodging paying their dues, paralleled with people like your dad who have to compensate these losses with his own tax payments.
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"The government announced yesterday that:
On 12 May, the Prime Minister will host the Anti-Corruption Summit to step up global action to expose, punish and drive out corruption in all walks of life. The summit will seek to galvanise a global response to tackle corruption. As well as agreeing a package of actions to tackle corruption across the board, it will deal with issues including corporate secrecy, government transparency, the enforcement of international anti-corruption laws, and the strengthening of international institutions. It will be the first summit of its kind, bringing together world leaders, business and civil society to agree a package of practical steps to expose corruption so there is nowhere to hide punish the perpetrators and support those affected by corruption drive out the culture of corruption wherever it exists OK then, do this: Full country-by-country reporting for all multinational corporations Do a proper public register of beneficial ownership in the UK backed up by supporting evidence from banks who undertake checks on the companies they provide services to Impose the same on our Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories. If said this was the goal then I might believe David Cameron is serious. Until then, let’s be clear, his words are not worth the paper they are written on, as his failure to act yesterday showed." http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016/04/12/33127/ http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2...-on-corruption |
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I am Glad the Old Fool was Ejected |
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That was a Set Up He is a Old Fool |
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He pulled even greater attention to it by being told to leave the Commons,with a very sad faced Speaker to have to tell him to do so and the apparent cheering from the govt benches at an 80 year old man being forced to leave the chamber just for what he said. Brought back memories of the elderly man ejected from a Labour Conference some years back, which was also thought shameful and pathetic. I think with the wider audience and getting on the national news reports too, the sympathy here will be more with Dennis Skinner than the smug looking Conservative front bench. |
You'd think Skinner would appreciate protocol after all his time in the Commons rather than play the naughty kid in the schoolyard role
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More Bellend than legend. |
Labour has, according to the Mirror http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...arebar_twitter published the following ten point tax plan:
1 An immediate public inquiry “to establish the harm done to the UK’s tax revenue and consider detailed proposals for reform”. These could include forcing firms and trusts to publish more information. 2. Change the register of MPs’ interests forcing members to publish all offshore holdings, no matter how small. 3. Create a ‘Specialised Tax Enforcement unit’ in HMRC, doubling the number of staff who scrutinise the affairs of the wealthiest individuals and firms. 4. Force foreign firms to list their owners and beneficiaries if they are bidding for public sector contracts. 5. Negotiate an EU deal forcing to multinational firms to file public reports on their dealings, country by country, and protecting whistleblowers. 6. Introduce a “General Anti-Avoidance Principle” and extend current rules to cover offshore abuses. 7. Crack down on accounting tricks, including telling courts to ignore “artificial steps” inserted in transactions to try and reduce tax. 8. Work with banks to find out more about who owns the companies and trusts they work with. 9. Introduce ‘strict minimum standards’ on transparency for crown dependencies and overseas territories like the British Virgin Islands – where more than 100,000 Panama Papers firms were based. That includes a public register of owners, directors, major shareholders and beneficial owners. 10. Draw up plans for a register of trusts which transfer trustees’ residence offshore and tax avoidance schemes involving trusts which are disclosed to the HMRC under the current law. |
I think it is time Parliament was brought into the 21st century,it is perfectly fine to make insults to other MPs even leaders as to their dress sense, to even call them idiots as I believe the PM did as to Ed Balls on more than one occasion.
However the term dodgy was so out of order on this occasion that an MP of decades standing in the Commons in his 80s was told to leave, yet the word dodgy has been used many time to describe a dossier presented by a PM which seems acceptable. People miss the point, Dennis Skinner made a point his way, he has often strayed from the dafter stricter parliamentary procedures. Had it been passed over, it would have had no effect but the way it was handled by the Speaker in the end brought even greater attention to it and the issue in fact. It will not have done Dennis Skinner any harm in the slightest and he will not lose a second of sleep worrying about it either. Clearly he may have struck a raw nerve it seems with the term dodgy in my opinion. |
yet these idiots are allowed to heckle scream and shout and make animals noises to silence questions and kill proper debate yet never get thrown out for it?
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That is the biggest likely turn off too for most viewers when watching any House of Commons debates. |
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It doesn't need "some reform" it needs tearing to the ground and rebuilding from scratch. |
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More accountability that is relevant and not just about arrogance a great deal of the time,more humility and true consensus on all sides being made the norm. |
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Yes Skinner was the First item on Live USA Red Eye comedy Hour 3AM USA 8AM UK. |
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