This Fiona Bruce? She has been criticised after last night appearing to trivialise the appalling behaviour of Boris Johnson’s father, the alleged wife-beater Stanley, on the grounds that he had only put his ex-wife in hospital with a broken nose once.
The Good Law Project are trying to close a loophole that would gain around £600m in tax. please log in to view this image Dear Badger As we await the details of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s second budget announcement, we’re warned that there will be no big ‘giveaways’ for the average consumer. The cost of living crisis will carry on getting worse for those on the average income. Many of us will face even higher energy bills and higher council tax from April. Yet whilst the income of the average person pays a tax sum of around 40% – once you include employer’s and employee’s national insurance contributions – private equity fund managers earning seven or eight figure salaries pay just 28% – thanks to a tax break from HMRC. Sign the petition to close the tax loophole here: Sign the petition ‘Private equity firms’ are a controversial type of investment firm where managers buy businesses, with a goal of increasing their value, before eventually selling the company at a profit. Often they do this by loading the company up with debt and making widespread redundancies. Private equity executives take a share in the profits of the funds that they manage – called ‘carried interest’. Whilst they pay nothing for this stake, they often stand to get hundreds of millions of pounds, shared between a small number of executives. Carried interest can therefore make you seriously wealthy. But most private equity execs pay just 28% tax on this income – much less than, say, the average head teacher does on their income. This is because of the ‘carried interest’ loophole, which means that private equity executives’ returns are taxed as capital gains, at only 28%, rather than trading income, at 48%. This loophole wasn’t made by Parliament – but by HMRC after successful lobbying from the private equity industry in 1987. A new peer-reviewed analysis by Dan Neidle, former head of tax at one of the largest law firms in the world, argues that agreement is unlawful. Whilst, for years, people have been arguing about whether the carried interest loophole should be abolished, Neidle says it never existed at all. HMRC isn’t allowed to give sweetheart deals. And, were this loophole to be closed, HMRC would collect an estimated £600 million more in revenue each year, from just a couple of thousand people. To put that into context it would cost the Government £544 million to expand free school meals for three years for children from lower-income families in the UK. Good Law Project has been looking at this issue for some time. We are taking advice from a leading KC on whether to bring judicial review proceedings to force HMRC to apply the law properly – with no special favours for the private equity industry. Thank you for all your support, Good Law Project team Good Law Project only exists thanks to donations from people across the UK. If you’re in a position to support our work, you can do so here: Donate Good Law Project please log in to view this image
So there was no government vaccine mandate despite what you claimed. Got it. Thought so. Incontrovertible facts remember. Implications that they were behind it for me plausible deniability are just conjecture. They might well be true. But you claimed incontrovertible facts. That don’t exist. I’m shocked I tell you, shocked. Well - not that shocked
Perhaps we could also have MOTD replaced by Antique Roadshow with the lovely Fiona Bruce. Whatever she does is a good watch.[/QUOTE] Amazes me how we all see things differently but I find Fiona Bruce absolutely cringeworthy to the extent that I switch over whenever she appears on television.
This is looking more and more like yet another very well worked distraction by the government, whilst still keeping the refugees in the headlines. They have shown over the last few decades that they don’t care about the country having sold off everything of value, whilst still working on destroying the NHS, so no real surprise that they are throwing the BBC under the bus as well.
The BBC is going the same way as the rest of the country with every valued principle, organisation or public service trashed by the Tories.
Apparently Black South Africans had to live with a state controlled media during Apartheid and their chant addressed to the media was that they should be "Truthful, not neutral".
All values worthy of standing up for no denying that, but who benefits from the "well respected broadcaster's" wise words? Will the refugees be allowed to come ashore now that He has spoken or will Gary himself be the beneficiary? His substantial ego will be well and truly massaged after this whatever the outcome and maybe we are looking at a future Sir Gary once the current incumbents have been shifted. The question is, putting aside his self promotion, will His opinion influence government? I mean, who does he think he is, Bono? #justice for wing-nut
MOTD now with no world feed commentary, BBC commentary, pundits or presenters: Genuinely wouldn’t be shocked if they try to pull it, although they would then be in breach of contract themselves.
Who does he think he is? Who cares? He's just a guy with an opinion, albeit a guy who happens to have done something pretty spectacular for his country (48 England goals). The point is, our morally bankrupt government don't like his opinions, and have pressured his employer into trying to silence him. It's not like he ever talks about politics on MOTD either, these are his personal views expressed publicly through social media.
Posted at 11:2811:28 Lineker leaves home without comment A short while ago Gary Lineker was spotted leaving his home. Waiting media asked him how he felt about the controversy around his social media posts, and if his "career is over at the BBC". Lineker did not respond to the questions, and was driven off in a car. Bit late for that Gazza
Leicester has a 59.1% population of people from ethnic minorities, with the other 40.9% being from white backgrounds. Could explain why Lineker cares so much about refugees, given that his home city has more than done its bit for an integrated society.
