Mind you I wasn’t the chancellor of the exchequer handling the tax for the entire country and in the entire course of my forty-year working life I haven’t got close to a sum total of £5 million. My entire earnings of a lifetime in education come to a quarter of what Zahawi tried to fiddle!!
What the hell are these Tory Ministers earning?? What sort of world do these Eton boys live in?
Then Johnson with an £800,000 loan? What the hell is that about? Then pulling in millions from speaking, a fortune from newspaper articles and a projected £3,500,000 from his memoirs.
How on earth can they relate to a nurse, teacher or train driver? No wonder they see us a plebby scum.
TAX EVASION IS THEFT!!
The trouble is we’ve become used to this amazing level of Sleaze and Corruption. It’s become the norm. They have been creaming off billions for so long that we’re used to it!
Millions for greedy tories but not a penny for nurses, ambulance drivers, teachers, civil servants or the poor. The greed is out of control.
How about levelling up?? Give us all £5 million!!
Excerpt from Guardian, Polly Toynbee today.
“The past few days have provided ample reminders of what happens when the very rich take control. The stench emanating from this government reprises John Major’s last days of “sleaze”. But the sums of money back then look paltry compared to the extraordinary finances of the multimillionaires who now fill the Tory benches.
Nadhim Zahawi’s mysterious “error” in failing to pay capital gains tax landed him with a walloping 30% penalty; he agreed to repay an estimated £5m reportedly while chancellor, collecting everyone else’s taxes. No normal citizen could be “careless” about such a sum, so it’s time for Rishi Sunak to come clean about exactly what he knew about Zahawi’s tax affairs when appointing him party chair. Zahawi had been nominated for a gong in the new year honours list, but following the usual due diligence, his name did not appear, reports the Sun on Sunday.
Many will remember his startling expenses claim 10 years ago, when he was obliged to pay back money wrongly claimed for heating his horses’ stables. He declared himself “mortified” at that “error” concerning a £5,000 bill, so presumably he feels a thousand times more mortified over an error a thousand times greater. Since he claims that HMRC called his tax non-payments “careless and not deliberate”, let’s see the correspondence – as there was nothing “careless” about his multiple legal threats to Dan Neidle of Tax Policy Associates, who investigated his tax affairs.”
(I must say Dan Neidle is a pretty odd looking bloke!)Zahawi, Sunak, Johnson: this is rule by plutocrat. It’s like a stench that’s worse each day | Polly Toynbee | The Guardian
Excerpt from Guardian, Polly Toynbee today.
“The past few days have provided ample reminders of what happens when the very rich take control. The stench emanating from this government reprises John Major’s last days of “sleaze”. But the sums of money back then look paltry compared to the extraordinary finances of the multimillionaires who now fill the Tory benches.
Nadhim Zahawi’s mysterious “error” in failing to pay capital gains tax landed him with a walloping 30% penalty; he agreed to repay an estimated £5m reportedly while chancellor, collecting everyone else’s taxes. No normal citizen could be “careless” about such a sum, so it’s time for Rishi Sunak to come clean about exactly what he knew about Zahawi’s tax affairs when appointing him party chair. Zahawi had been nominated for a gong in the new year honours list, but following the usual due diligence, his name did not appear, reports the Sun on Sunday.
Many will remember his startling expenses claim 10 years ago, when he was obliged to pay back money wrongly claimed for heating his horses’ stables. He declared himself “mortified” at that “error” concerning a £5,000 bill, so presumably he feels a thousand times more mortified over an error a thousand times greater. Since he claims that HMRC called his tax non-payments “careless and not deliberate”, let’s see the correspondence – as there was nothing “careless” about his multiple legal threats to Dan Neidle of Tax Policy Associates, who investigated his tax affairs.”
Everything You Think
Everything you think you knew
Was fed to you
By us.
We control your every thought
All the things you bought
From us.
We tell you what to believe
Which lies to conceive
About us.
Every single thing you do
Is what we told you to
No fuss.
The very life you live
The gifts you give
From us.
We tell you how to vote
Who to promote
It’s us.
You no longer can tell the truth
All the proof
Comes from us.
Opher 3.9.2022
He who controls the news controls the minds.
He who owns the media can make the truth whatever he wants it to be.
He who writes the news makes the news.
Say it often enough and it’s true.
Spin it 180 degrees. Lies become truth.
It is the populist story of Bois Johnson, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Jaire Bolsonaro. They repeat what they think you want to hear. They control the message. They make lies true. They know you have short memories.
So he got all the big calls right. He got Brexit done. He got us through Covid. He was responsible for vaccination.
It’s all utter bollocks.
He forced through an extreme damaging Brexit in order to gain power. His short premiership will cost the country hundreds of billions.
He made mistake after mistake during covid costing thousands of lives.
The drug companies produced vaccines for profit and the NHS (which he had brought to its knees) administered it.
In this age of lies, spin and propaganda everything you think is being planted in your head by them.
Tory policy is very simple – you take from the poor and public services to give to the rich in the hopes that they invest it and the GDP grows. Fairness does not come into it. The plebs are pawns to be exploited. Nothing more.
Unfortunately, this model does not work. The rich simply stash the money, tax-free, into the Cayman Islands. On top of that the Tory Brexit has broken the country and wrecked our GDP so there is no growth.
We’re in a helluva mess!!
Strange things happen
Strange things happen in a universe
Where the laws of physics conform
To the perverse.
Nothing can be more peculiar
That the laws that pertain
To nuclear.
Anything is possible
In infinity.
Creating worlds
Of possibility.
Where carbon’s
Strange agility
Combines with Oxygen
And hydrogen’s ability
To create a woven web
Of life’s history.
Spelt in bases helical
Consciousness is chemical.
Strange things happen in a universe
Where the laws of physics conform
To the perverse.
Opher – 29.8.2022
Many things are beyond our understanding – such as how a bunch of chemicals have come to think and speak, to wonder and emote.
Many things are beyond our comprehension such as the infinite nature of the universe, the vastness of space, the enormity of matter and the unending nature of time.
My chemicals ponder.
Life is perverse.
