howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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considering practically every country on earth has a parliament with a speaker or equivalent, none choose to see how it works in north korea.
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Howard.
"why would the speaker need to travel anywhere?"
Bet you 10p you don't get a reasonable answer to that one.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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To get away from that awful woman he married.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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Thats 10p I owe you Howard.
Peters will be the best reasonable answer you get to that one. lol
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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congratulations to reg, just noticed the posts here have passed the 3000 mark making this an elite thread.
Keith Sansum1
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his wife is a labour supporter so must be ok lol
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Tax avoidance: UK effort to collect from assets hidden in Switzerland fails
'Giant loopholes' in Treasury's deal with Swiss authorities mean HMRC will see only small fraction of expected £3.2bn
"The Swiss Bankers Association (SBA) said the UK may get little more than a CHF500m (£347m) minimum levy agreed with the UK after individual banks found only small sums from UK citizens were caught by the deal."
"The Swiss declaration is not only embarrassing for the Treasury, it also This knocks a sizeable hole in public finances as the Office for National Statistics controversially included the £3.2bn in May's public accounts."
"The SBA said numerous UK clients had chosen to make voluntary disclosures to the tax authorities...
...It is not clear how much the Treasury has received directly from UK citizens who opted to make a voluntary disclosure of their tax position, but tax experts said it was unlikely to make a material difference to the shortfall.
But a Treasury spokeswoman said there was no reason to revise the estimated revenue from the deal.
She said: "As the SBA has said, more people have chosen to disclose their tax affairs to HMRC than expected so the yield from this route is likely to be higher than anticipated.""
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/jul/05/tax-avoidance-uk-effort-switzerland-fails Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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And this will keep the kettle boiling
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy Private Eye.........
Gong Fishing
Honours List,
SIGNIFICANT CULTURAL PHILANTHROPIST: Michael Hintze has also given £1.4m to the Tory party
NUMBER 10 said the Queen's birthday honours saluted those "playing their part to create a Big Society". Judging by the list, it's a big society of Tory-donating financiers, arms bosses and dubious civil servants.
The government claimed Michael Hintze was knighted for being "one of the UK's most significant cultural philanthropists". Hintze uses the millions from his hedge funds - which are ultimately owned offshore in the Cayman Islands - to plaster his name over exhibitions and galleries. But his philanthropy also embraces the Tory party, which has given £1.4m. Bicester banker Robert Fleming, from the financial dynasty who manage their own and other "high-net-worth" folk's billions through the Fleming Family Private Bank, got a CBE, also for "philanthropy" - including £500,000 given to the Tories by Robert Fleming since 2001.
Bill Winters, the former JP Morgan banker who got a CBE, is the "respectable" face of the City. US-born, London-based Winter is credited with keeping JP Morgan away from some of the wilder "structured products" behind the crash, and served on the Vickers Banking Commission ("Banker-bashing is a bad thing"). Winters has given £50,000 to the Tories since 2010, earning him membership of George Osborne's "donors club". Number 10 said BAE Systems chairman Dick Olver was knighted for contributions to "the development of corporate governance in the UK" and "ethical business conduct". On his watch BAE has paid out over £70m in fines over charges of bribery in Tanzania, Saudi Arabia and Eastern Europe, without a single executive going to prison.
Among the public servants recognized was University College London provost Malcolm Grant, who was knighted in part for being chair of the NHS Commissioning Board, a key government body for NHS privatisation. His own students passed a "no confidence" motion against Grant in 2011. They were angry that the £330k-a-year Grant, one of the highest-paid university chancellors, was resisting the "living wage" for low-paid cleaners that was agreed by most other London University colleges.
Cabinet Office mandarin Melanie Dawes became a Companion of the Order of Bath. She was the HM Revenue & Customs tax commissioner who in 2010 sat down with boss Dave Hartnett, Vodafone finance director Andy Halford and Hartnett's new boss at Deloitte, David Cruickshank, to agree the dodgy Vodafone tax deal. Later the same year, after Hartnett fouled up a deal with Goldman Sachs and was told to undo it by a "governance committee", it was Dawes with whom Hartnett once again conferred and agreed that he would ignore the committee and stick with his own deal. In a recent judicial review, the high court described all this as "not a glorious episode in the history of the Revenue". Not glorious, but apparently honourable.
Greg Martin, principal of Durand Academy in Lambeth, was one of five headteachers knighted for services to education. He could, of course, also have been recognised for services to the legal and PR professions, having shelled out more than £380,000 of school funds on lawyers Carter-Ruck in libel fights with a teacher's father and with Lambeth council's chief auditor, plus £310,000 on PR firm PMLR to buff the school's (and its head's) image (Eyes passim).
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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its a scandal
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I THINK CAMERON HAS PICKED THE WRONG ISSUE AGAIN!!!!!!!!!
He won't win the argument on MP's influences
he lost the debate in prime minister question time of party funding
no wonder when you dig further
whilst there is no doubt unions influence labour
the tories are also influenced by companies
and look at the amounts;
Donations to tories £25.3 million(declared)
Michael farmer £4million
Michael spencer £3million
Michael heinst £1million (owner of CQS)
Peter Crudden £1million(manager with CMC Markets, resigned chair of tories over the cash for access scandal)
George Magan £800,000 made life peer dep. chair of tories
Paul Ruddock £600,000 knighted by tories(made a profit out of the Northern Rock collapse)
Jonathan Wood £585,000 Part of SRM GLOBAL
Peter Hall £515,000 hunter hall investments recently funded Tory Andrew Graylings private university
who charge £1,800
Hugh Sloon £508,000 part of sloan Robinson
James Lyle £500,000 part of millgate capital
2 donations also made at a staggering £942,000
the 2 donors
Elite Carlton club
&
The Secretive Utd and cecil club
Quite a bit of influence there
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Yer pays yer money and takes yer choice...........wonder what they chose.....?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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why would the united and cecil club give money to charlie, i cannot work that out?
no good asking them as they seem to have no website or other contact details.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Has the united and cecil club replaced the freemasons as the new underground secret body
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 3083......forget their website Howard you will find them all in the ``Freemasons Register``......oh sorry that's
also not available......wonder why ?
Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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It's a thing called open access Reg.
Never give up...
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy Times.................rvhised.....
No more tax rises, Osborne pledges
****************but plenty of tax breaks for ``my friends`******************
George Osborne fired the first salvo in one of the next election's key battles yesterday by
vowing to avoid further tax rises to plug the deficit.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Richard ....it is their version of Transparency.......................
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i could put a word in for you at my lodge reg. we are a very open and honest bunch and you wouldn't have to worry about parking fines, speeding tickets and other such nonsense anymore.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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so many secret groups
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