So much for Likudniks screeching in outrage when hearing the words ‘from the river to the sea’ (except as part of their own manifesto). Apparently it’s now ‘from the river to the river’, and neither river is the Jordan.
Just ate a chicken gizzard by the strawberry quartz shop under the slave quarters of Old Zeelandia, the Dutch fort that ruled Formosa until it was brutally sacked by the sino-Japanese pirate Koxinga in the largest naval invasion of the 17th century, thereby restoring the native Taiwanese rituals of the Siraya people who worshipped extraordinarily cruel priestesses called Inlibs who insisted on the abortion or slaughter of all children born before the mother’s mid 30s
So much for Likudniks screeching in outrage when hearing the words ‘from the river to the sea’ (except as part of their own manifesto). Apparently it’s now ‘from the river to the river’, and neither river is the Jordan.
At least we should be grateful he's not a Russian.
He certainly sounds unique '“I have been a member of the Conservative party since 1978, inspired by Edward Heath,” he said.'
'Lots of interesting lots 'Tables for the fundraising party cost as much as £10,000 each, giving Tory backers the chance to bid for lots including dinner with Michael Gove, lunch with Jacob Rees-Mogg and a shooting trip with the shadow housing secretary, James Cleverly.
The event reportedly raised around £220,000 for the party. A lunch with the shadow energy secretary, Claire Coutinho, sold for £10,000 and a round of golf with David Cameron for a rate of £2,000 a hole.
The most popular lot, however, was the dinner with Badenoch, which attracted bids from a number of senior donors, according to attendees.'
I'd pay £2k a hole to take Cameron round a golf course. But only if I got to donk him on the head with a golf club at each hole. I should think it would be quite therapeutic.
‘ EXCL: The Cabinet Office’s propriety and ethics team broke into a safe and destroyed the department’s copy of a historic bullying investigation into Antonia Romeo, the new head of the civil service.’
Oh how the mysiginists in the Civil Service and the Zionists in Fleet Street hate the concept of a woman not tied to Israel in charge of proceedings around the PM.
Nothing like a good dose of anti-semitic conspiracy theory in the morning to get us started.
I am part Jewish by ancestry.
Do not take the lazy and corrupt way out of confusing anti Zionism with anti Semitism.
As an aside, this doesn't affect me as yet, but the Making tax Digital (MTD) bullshit is dumb as hell. You should, if necessary (it isn't) be able to submit quarterly info straight into the HMRC website rather than using a private third party for software. It's fucking ridiculous.
It's also pretty fucking ridiculous that they demand you submit returns quarterly but still pay the actual tax annually.
If they were demanding tax quarterly there might be some point to it although the software nonsense would still be insane.
Really it just shows the Treasury's civil servants not only have no idea about managing money but no idea of how sole trader small businesses work.
You may find this article demonstrating the ignorance of those who came up with the scheme of interest:
What is HMRC going to do to those S/E who continue to submit returns annually on paper? As you, say there is no loss to HMRC in this scenario so on what basis would they prosecute?
The idiots don't realise that this is going to reduce tax intake.
Some SE are retiring early because of this. Also its a disincentive for going SE in the first place. Thirdly, the cost of the imposed software will be income tax off-settable - so loss of tax revenue there too.
‘ EXCL: The Cabinet Office’s propriety and ethics team broke into a safe and destroyed the department’s copy of a historic bullying investigation into Antonia Romeo, the new head of the civil service.’
Oh how the mysiginists in the Civil Service and the Zionists in Fleet Street hate the concept of a woman not tied to Israel in charge of proceedings around the PM.
So it’s not true and it’s all sexism then ?
Gabriel Pogrund has broken the story.
It's a rum old story- the report was needed to check that a mandarin's memoirs hadn't broken the rules, and was destroyed because someone may or may not have misunderstood the retention policy. And it all happened in 2022.
There's certainly a lot of sizzle in the story, possibly not as much sausage as the Sunday Times implies. The more interesting question is- why did this story surface now?
So it was destroyed under a Tory regime
It has resurfaced now for precisely the reasons I have suggested.
Mark Regev will be pissing himself laughing that his proteges continue his lies and bile.
Andrew may have used RAF jets to meet Epstein, Brown tells police
Telegraph reveals details of former PM’s letter containing ‘new information’ about ex-prince
Gordon Brown has demanded a police investigation into whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor used taxpayer-funded jets and RAF bases to meet the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
In letters sent to six police forces, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the former prime minister suggested that civil servants be questioned about Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s time as a trade envoy between 2001 and 2011, including almost three years when Mr Brown was in No 10.
He has also demanded a full investigation into the trade envoy role, its cost to taxpayers, and any evidence that links Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s government work to Epstein.
Did Gordon Brown not have 3 years to make inquiries about this when he was PM? And indeed before that as Chancellor? His recent interventions have been odd, to say the least.
His strict Scottish Presbyterian household coming to the fore
I am a little puzzled as to why Andrew has been publicly humiliated (birthday etc.) for alledgedly passing on some guff he found out as a token trade envoy, whereas Mandy has not been arrested when there is clear evidence that he passed on very important and commercially sensitive information to the same person.
I was thinking the same thing, it is quite curious. Possibly it is because it is deemed more likely Andrew has committed other, much worse, crimes (indeed, it seems highly likely to me) so doing a Capone on him (even if it ends up being token) is a higher priority than Mandy even though the latter was very clearly doing the same thing from a more powerful governmental position.
With Gordon Browns intervention too attacking Andrew it’s all very much attacking one so we forget about the other. I doubt there is any will in this govt to push anything into investigating Mandelson quickly.
Allegations against Mandelson are far worse but Labour seem curiously silent on those.
Andrew is a very convenient distraction from numerous politicians that were also involved, and also the ltotal lack of action from government with regard to the subject we don’t discuss.
Oh, and it’s knocking the Chagos islands and Starmer’s spat with Trump over Iran off the front pages.
All somewhat convenient isn’t it.
The Chagos Islands is simply not an issue for anyone outside of the Westminster Bubble or GB News.
Who said that, not me!
Dan Hodges in Gorton!
Interesting piece here. Goodwin is not easy to find on the streets of Gorton and Denton. A few photo ops and then onto Social Media to campaign seems to be the strategy.
Meanwhile Farage puts as much blue water as he can between himself and Manchester by flying to the Maldives the crucial weekend before the byelection. Obviously he prefers G and T to G and D..
Which is telling.
It is an interesting test. Reform did well in July 24, often with paper candidates, and little visibility on the ground but with a strong Social Media push.
Can such a strategy work at a byelection?
I don't think Reform have anything like the numbers to win G&D.
It'd require a perfectly split left-wing vote, and for them to substantially overperform and maximise turnout.
I do expect the media to massively overreact to that, of course.
Whatever the result the media will overreact and apply a take to the vote to suit their own narrative.
The sad thing is they will all go, the circus moves on, and Gorton and Denton will continue to be left behind with no one giving a toss.
Hannah will care. Pretty sure of it. It’s gonna be a tough few years for her.
So much for Likudniks screeching in outrage when hearing the words ‘from the river to the sea’ (except as part of their own manifesto). Apparently it’s now ‘from the river to the river’, and neither river is the Jordan.
As an aside, this doesn't affect me as yet, but the Making tax Digital (MTD) bullshit is dumb as hell. You should, if necessary (it isn't) be able to submit quarterly info straight into the HMRC website rather than using a private third party for software. It's fucking ridiculous.
It's also pretty fucking ridiculous that they demand you submit returns quarterly but still pay the actual tax annually.
If they were demanding tax quarterly there might be some point to it although the software nonsense would still be insane.
Really it just shows the Treasury's civil servants not only have no idea about managing money but no idea of how sole trader small businesses work.
You may find this article demonstrating the ignorance of those who came up with the scheme of interest:
What is HMRC going to do to those S/E who continue to submit returns annually on paper? As you, say there is no loss to HMRC in this scenario so on what basis would they prosecute?
The idiots don't realise that this is going to reduce tax intake.
Some SE are retiring early because of this. Also its a disincentive for going SE in the first place. Thirdly, the cost of the imposed software will be income tax off-settable - so loss of tax revenue there too.
Probably marginal offset by a better understanding of future tax flows. Everyone has been complaining about Treasury forecasting so now they should have no excuse.
Just one more thing on the MTD bullshit, further to the blog (cheers for linking that): people don't like paperwork. To the extent that early retirement, if already under consideration, would look more attractive. Or if you have the choice between dipping under a threshold to avoid the stress, that can be appealing.
Self-employment provides as a lot of freedom for workers but also flexibility for businesses who don't need to bother with fully hiring someone as an employer with all the paperwork and other burdens (paid time off, pensions etc) that comes with that.
Harming the self-employed through an additional bureaucratic burden that achieves nothing is not exactly going to help the economy to motor along.
Apparently 60,000 landlords are selling their property portfolios. Might explain the drop in house prices as so much is coming onto the market at the same time.
Just one more thing on the MTD bullshit, further to the blog (cheers for linking that): people don't like paperwork. To the extent that early retirement, if already under consideration, would look more attractive. Or if you have the choice between dipping under a threshold to avoid the stress, that can be appealing.
Self-employment provides as a lot of freedom for workers but also flexibility for businesses who don't need to bother with fully hiring someone as an employer with all the paperwork and other burdens (paid time off, pensions etc) that comes with that.
Harming the self-employed through an additional bureaucratic burden that achieves nothing is not exactly going to help the economy to motor along.
On the face of it MTD seems a massive own goal. So what is the driver for it ?
stupidity, civil servants having never had real jobs have no clue about reality and just implement their stupid ideas regardless of the wreckage.
Just ate a chicken gizzard by the strawberry quartz shop under the slave quarters of Old Zeelandia, the Dutch fort that ruled Formosa until it was brutally sacked by the sino-Japanese pirate Koxinga in the largest naval invasion of the 17th century, thereby restoring the native Taiwanese rituals of the Siraya people who worshipped extraordinarily cruel priestesses called Inlibs who insisted on the abortion or slaughter of all children born before the mother’s mid 30s
Might have a beer now
You would need more than one after that horrible experience
‘ EXCL: The Cabinet Office’s propriety and ethics team broke into a safe and destroyed the department’s copy of a historic bullying investigation into Antonia Romeo, the new head of the civil service.’
Oh how the mysiginists in the Civil Service and the Zionists in Fleet Street hate the concept of a woman not tied to Israel in charge of proceedings around the PM.
Nothing like a good dose of anti-semitic conspiracy theory in the morning to get us started.
I am part Jewish by ancestry.
Do not take the lazy and corrupt way out of confusing anti Zionism with anti Semitism.
That is directly from the Netanyahu pkaybook.
Doesn't matter, it's still a conspiracy theory. You make an unproven (and unprovable) statement that criticism of Romeo's appointment in the media is a result of her position on Israel.
Just one more thing on the MTD bullshit, further to the blog (cheers for linking that): people don't like paperwork. To the extent that early retirement, if already under consideration, would look more attractive. Or if you have the choice between dipping under a threshold to avoid the stress, that can be appealing.
Self-employment provides as a lot of freedom for workers but also flexibility for businesses who don't need to bother with fully hiring someone as an employer with all the paperwork and other burdens (paid time off, pensions etc) that comes with that.
Harming the self-employed through an additional bureaucratic burden that achieves nothing is not exactly going to help the economy to motor along.
Apparently 60,000 landlords are selling their property portfolios. Might explain the drop in house prices as so much is coming onto the market at the same time.
no drop here, quite the opposite.
Massive amount in Torbay including Brixham
Prices rocketed in the Covid wfh lockdown as londoners moved in turned them in to air bnb and subsequently bottom has fallen out of that market with tax changes and 2nd home levy for those not claiming business relief.
One dormer bungalow near us gone from 500k to 380 k in 12 months no interest
One development that is part residential part holiday let has 25% of properties for sale, 5 year fixed rates ended, increased tax all over 300k, probably worth 230k.
Just one more thing on the MTD bullshit, further to the blog (cheers for linking that): people don't like paperwork. To the extent that early retirement, if already under consideration, would look more attractive. Or if you have the choice between dipping under a threshold to avoid the stress, that can be appealing.
Self-employment provides as a lot of freedom for workers but also flexibility for businesses who don't need to bother with fully hiring someone as an employer with all the paperwork and other burdens (paid time off, pensions etc) that comes with that.
Harming the self-employed through an additional bureaucratic burden that achieves nothing is not exactly going to help the economy to motor along.
On the face of it MTD seems a massive own goal. So what is the driver for it ?
stupidity, civil servants having never had real jobs have no clue about reality and just implement their stupid ideas regardless of the wreckage.
Mrs Flatlander is self employed and will have to use it from next year.
As this is entirely a Linux shop it is going to be a pain in the backside. It is utterly ridiculous how they've set it up.
She's talking of retiring as we don't need the income and she's mainly working for the lolz. Why bother?
As an aside, this doesn't affect me as yet, but the Making tax Digital (MTD) bullshit is dumb as hell. You should, if necessary (it isn't) be able to submit quarterly info straight into the HMRC website rather than using a private third party for software. It's fucking ridiculous.
It's also pretty fucking ridiculous that they demand you submit returns quarterly but still pay the actual tax annually.
If they were demanding tax quarterly there might be some point to it although the software nonsense would still be insane.
Really it just shows the Treasury's civil servants not only have no idea about managing money but no idea of how sole trader small businesses work.
You may find this article demonstrating the ignorance of those who came up with the scheme of interest:
What is HMRC going to do to those S/E who continue to submit returns annually on paper? As you, say there is no loss to HMRC in this scenario so on what basis would they prosecute?
The idiots don't realise that this is going to reduce tax intake.
Some SE are retiring early because of this. Also its a disincentive for going SE in the first place. Thirdly, the cost of the imposed software will be income tax off-settable - so loss of tax revenue there too.
They have wanted to keep people PAYE for years. This is a part of it. I suspect. Glad I’m not contracting now.
As an aside, this doesn't affect me as yet, but the Making tax Digital (MTD) bullshit is dumb as hell. You should, if necessary (it isn't) be able to submit quarterly info straight into the HMRC website rather than using a private third party for software. It's fucking ridiculous.
It's also pretty fucking ridiculous that they demand you submit returns quarterly but still pay the actual tax annually.
If they were demanding tax quarterly there might be some point to it although the software nonsense would still be insane.
Really it just shows the Treasury's civil servants not only have no idea about managing money but no idea of how sole trader small businesses work.
You may find this article demonstrating the ignorance of those who came up with the scheme of interest:
What is HMRC going to do to those S/E who continue to submit returns annually on paper? As you, say there is no loss to HMRC in this scenario so on what basis would they prosecute?
The idiots don't realise that this is going to reduce tax intake.
Some SE are retiring early because of this. Also its a disincentive for going SE in the first place. Thirdly, the cost of the imposed software will be income tax off-settable - so loss of tax revenue there too.
They have wanted to keep people PAYE for years. This is a part of it. I suspect. Glad I’m not contracting now.
In general, it's just increasingly not worth working unless you absolutely have to do so.
I saw a a post that said nearly half of the US deployable aircraft are now in the Middle East, and they still haven't decided whether to use them or not
I saw a a post that said nearly half of the US deployable aircraft are now in the Middle East, and they still haven't decided whether to use them or not
Yes I saw the same. It’s Desert Storm levels of deployment, way past the level you’d expect if the end result was to be a negotiated settlement over nuclear policy.
I saw a a post that said nearly half of the US deployable aircraft are now in the Middle East, and they still haven't decided whether to use them or not
If it wasn't Trump as President I'd be more confident they were going to do the right thing and use them.
‘ EXCL: The Cabinet Office’s propriety and ethics team broke into a safe and destroyed the department’s copy of a historic bullying investigation into Antonia Romeo, the new head of the civil service.’
Oh how the mysiginists in the Civil Service and the Zionists in Fleet Street hate the concept of a woman not tied to Israel in charge of proceedings around the PM.
Nothing like a good dose of anti-semitic conspiracy theory in the morning to get us started.
I am part Jewish by ancestry.
Do not take the lazy and corrupt way out of confusing anti Zionism with anti Semitism.
That is directly from the Netanyahu pkaybook.
What you posted is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.
You may not want to be told that, or believe otherwise, but that doesn't alter the fact.
Your ancestry, even if you are telling the truth, has no bearing on that.
Andrew may have used RAF jets to meet Epstein, Brown tells police
Telegraph reveals details of former PM’s letter containing ‘new information’ about ex-prince
Gordon Brown has demanded a police investigation into whether Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor used taxpayer-funded jets and RAF bases to meet the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
In letters sent to six police forces, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the former prime minister suggested that civil servants be questioned about Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s time as a trade envoy between 2001 and 2011, including almost three years when Mr Brown was in No 10.
He has also demanded a full investigation into the trade envoy role, its cost to taxpayers, and any evidence that links Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s government work to Epstein.
Did Gordon Brown not have 3 years to make inquiries about this when he was PM? And indeed before that as Chancellor? His recent interventions have been odd, to say the least.
His strict Scottish Presbyterian household coming to the fore
I am a little puzzled as to why Andrew has been publicly humiliated (birthday etc.) for alledgedly passing on some guff he found out as a token trade envoy, whereas Mandy has not been arrested when there is clear evidence that he passed on very important and commercially sensitive information to the same person.
I was thinking the same thing, it is quite curious. Possibly it is because it is deemed more likely Andrew has committed other, much worse, crimes (indeed, it seems highly likely to me) so doing a Capone on him (even if it ends up being token) is a higher priority than Mandy even though the latter was very clearly doing the same thing from a more powerful governmental position.
With Gordon Browns intervention too attacking Andrew it’s all very much attacking one so we forget about the other. I doubt there is any will in this govt to push anything into investigating Mandelson quickly.
Allegations against Mandelson are far worse but Labour seem curiously silent on those.
Andrew is a very convenient distraction from numerous politicians that were also involved, and also the ltotal lack of action from government with regard to the subject we don’t discuss.
Oh, and it’s knocking the Chagos islands and Starmer’s spat with Trump over Iran off the front pages.
All somewhat convenient isn’t it.
The Chagos Islands is simply not an issue for anyone outside of the Westminster Bubble or GB News.
Who said that, not me!
Dan Hodges in Gorton!
Interesting piece here. Goodwin is not easy to find on the streets of Gorton and Denton. A few photo ops and then onto Social Media to campaign seems to be the strategy.
Meanwhile Farage puts as much blue water as he can between himself and Manchester by flying to the Maldives the crucial weekend before the byelection. Obviously he prefers G and T to G and D..
Which is telling.
It is an interesting test. Reform did well in July 24, often with paper candidates, and little visibility on the ground but with a strong Social Media push.
Can such a strategy work at a byelection?
I don't think it's a matter of strategy. The tell is that, if Reform thought they were likely to win the by-election, Farage would be on the ground in the constituency so that he would be associated with the victory.
Instead he's on the other side of the world so that when the by-election is lost he can say it was always a long-shot and not the highest priority for Reform.
This suggests that either Reform are going to finish third, or a very distant second behind the Greens, or that Reform will themselves be surprised by their victory.
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Might have a beer now
Reforms 'prediction' for May in London is somewhat optimistic for both them and Labour
Just as well my rugby team won to cheer me up. after all could England get any worse?
Do not take the lazy and corrupt way out of confusing anti Zionism with anti Semitism.
That is directly from the Netanyahu pkaybook.
Some SE are retiring early because of this. Also its a disincentive for going SE in the first place. Thirdly, the cost of the imposed software will be income tax off-settable - so loss of tax revenue there too.
NEW THREAD
It has resurfaced now for precisely the reasons I have suggested.
Mark Regev will be pissing himself laughing that his proteges continue his lies and bile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFBeY3D4tn0
Which seems unlikely.
Prices rocketed in the Covid wfh lockdown as londoners moved in turned them in to air bnb and subsequently bottom has fallen out of that market with tax changes and 2nd home levy for those not claiming business relief.
One dormer bungalow near us gone from 500k to 380 k in 12 months no interest
One development that is part residential part holiday let has 25% of properties for sale, 5 year fixed rates ended, increased tax all over 300k, probably worth 230k.
As this is entirely a Linux shop it is going to be a pain in the backside. It is utterly ridiculous how they've set it up.
She's talking of retiring as we don't need the income and she's mainly working for the lolz. Why bother?
5 medals which equal the previous best total but with 3 golds so that puts their overall performance as the best ever .
It could have been even better with some near misses and those frustrating 4th places .
It’s been a wonderful games , well done Italy .
However it is Trump, so TACO applies.
You may not want to be told that, or believe otherwise, but that doesn't alter the fact.
Your ancestry, even if you are telling the truth, has no bearing on that.
Instead he's on the other side of the world so that when the by-election is lost he can say it was always a long-shot and not the highest priority for Reform.
This suggests that either Reform are going to finish third, or a very distant second behind the Greens, or that Reform will themselves be surprised by their victory.