How many more crimes does he have to commit?? Rape, Treason, Theft, Tax Evasion – They locked up Al Capone on a lot less than this!!
£5 million – a careless oversight! WHAAAATTT!!!! A Careless oversight??? From a man who was responsible for the country’s finances???? Bollocks!! Tax Evasion and Greed!
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.”
Poetry – Hide
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Hide your camera,
Hide your cash,
Conceal your wealth.
Wear no jewellery,
Disguise yourself.
You are entering the land of hopelessness.
Hide your conscience too;
Because their poverty is down to you.
In a world of such inequality
What we have creates their misery.
Cream rises to the top
But so does shit.
Our smart clothes
And easy lives
Rubs their noses in it.
There is nothing to lose
When there is no way to gain.
They are victims on the streets
In a world
Run by
The criminally insane.
Opher 18.1.2016
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I wrote this poem after arriving in Brazil. We were told that poverty was rife and crime and violence endemic. We should take care at all times and be sure to hide all valuables such as cameras. We should leave money and jewellery in our safes.
I walked around Recife and Olinda. There were little children with young teenage mothers begging in the streets. There was garbage and there were shanty towns of corrugated iron. There were also immense multimillion pound apartment blocks for the wealthy.
This system does not happen by chance. It is the result of the schemes we operate. We human beings have designed a way of operating that create poverty. The inequality is the result of how we run things. It does not come about naturally.
It does not have to be this way. We can design better systems. What prevents us from designing something fairer is greed and the desire for power.
I consider both of those desires to be criminally insane.
I would prefer to live in a fairer world where there were not huge numbers of people living on the edge. That would benefit them and me.
This chasing after money and power leaves misery in its wake.
There are better ways.
Firstly we could stop voting in power-mad politicians and secondly we could start thinking more globally.