Keith Sansum1
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Because of Davids continued harping on, and discouraging people to post, and insults
I will not respond on this subject further
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Lets hope Bale doesn't go the same route as Gazza
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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BBC pay-off row: Corporation chiefs defend £25m in pay-offs to just 150 staff as real 'value for money'
Furious Tory MP blasts 'the most bizarre game of whack-a-mole I've ever seen' as seven senior BBC
staff past and present appear before the Commons Public Accounts Committee
The BBC Trust chairman and his predecessor, a former Director-General and four other senior figures
in the corporation were today accused of playing a game of "whack-a-mole" as they attempted to
blame each other for years of excessive redundancy packages funded by the licence fee.
In unedifying and acrimonious scenes in front of MPs on the Public Accounts Committee, the BBC's
former boss Mark Thompson clashed with his old colleagues by insisting that the BBC Trust -
the corporation's governing body - had been fully aware of his plan to pay his former deputy Mark
Byford £1m in a severance deal.
Full story Independent.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Not a penny will be paid back ,nobody will go to the nick
Unfortunately
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Keep up the good work on Tax dodgers Charlie.
Commons Question today.
Charlie Elphicke: Does the Prime Minister agree that the tax agreements
that were entered into are not just a milestone against international
tax avoidance, but send a clear message to any tax-dodging company,
trade union or political party in this country that it is time for it to
face up to its responsibilities and pay......... a fair share of tax?
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Wonder how the big pay offs at the BBC will end up?
will patton have to go
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Brian Dixon
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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ian paisley claimed nearly 70 grand, i hope he turned up at the commons unlike the sinn fein members who simply claimed for offices.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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and flats
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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but ian paisley was always consistent
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Revealed: Private equity firms are making millions out of failing children's care homes - yet care
for vulnerable is 'unacceptable'
Review launched after Rochdale child-grooming scandal discovers that 63 privately owned homes
did not meet the Government's minimum standards
Private-equity firms and multimillionaire property dealers are making millions of pounds from dozens
of children's care homes that failed to provide acceptable standards of care for the most vulnerable
young people in society.
A major review of the industry launched after the Rochdale child-grooming scandal has revealed
hat 63 privately owned children's care homes across the country did not meet the Government's
minimum standards.
Ofsted inspection reports included in the landmark study, commissioned by the Education Secretary
, Michael Gove, reveal that one in three homes run by Advanced Childcare Limited, Britain's largest
private provider, failed to be classified as "good" or "outstanding" by the education watchdog.
Officials now class any institution that fails to meet this benchmark as "unacceptable".
The Cheshire-based company, which charges councils up to £208,000 a year to care for a single
child, is owned by GI Partners, a US private-equity firm which has around £4bn of assets
under management.
Full story Independent.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Have you heard this before ?
How to keep your money 'out of the Chancellor's grubby mits': Government expert resigns
after being secretly filmed giving tax avoidance advice
A government tax adviser has resigned after he was secretly filmed offering tips on how to keep
money "out of the Chancellor's grubby mits", according to reports.
David Heaton, a member of a panel advising HM Revenue and Customs on tackling tax avoidance,
had spoken at a London conference, "101 ideas for personal tax planning," the Financial Times said.
He stepped down after he was recorded by BBC's Panorama programme outlining the advantages
of planning tax, which he reportedly said included ways to keep the money from George Osborne's
"grubby mitts".
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Clifford Chance trainee lawyer faces sack after describing his work as 'f***ing people over for money'
A trainee with City law firm Clifford Chance faces the sack after a video has emerged of him drunk
and describing his work as "f***ing people over for money".
The unnamed man was interviewed by Oxford student newspaper Cherwell for its Shark Tales online
TV programme. The video - published on Cherwell's website on 10 May but reported for the first
time on legal blogs on Friday - shows student journalist Toby Mather in the early hours of the
morning "taking to the streets once again in search of drunken wisdom".
The trainee describes himself as a "City lad". He said: "I f***ing love the ladness. The ladness is
just basically f***ing people over for money."
Clifford Chance, an international firm based in London and part of the 'Magic Circle' group of the
UK's five leading law firms, is also one of the 10 largest in the world in terms of number of lawyers
and revenues. According to The Lawyer, it had total revenues in 2012/13 of £1.27 billion and profits
per equity partner of £1 million
Full story Independent.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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shows just how these people work
and what they think of others
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Hedge funds emerge as winners after Lehman's fall
An estimated £40 billion will be paid out to Lehman Brothers' creditors
Opportunistic hedge funds and distressed debt traders who snapped up creditors' claims on
Lehman Brothers in London have made four times their money, according to the joint administrator.
Tony Lomas, an insolvency partner at PwC, said that he expected creditors to receive even more
than the 116.2p in the pound he estimated in March. He plans to announce a new higher figure next month.
Full story The Times.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Surely that can't be right, can it?/
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Lib Dem conference: Leaked briefing over tax hike for 2.6m earning over £50,000 blamed on
'a cock-up on top of a mistake'
Nick Clegg was accused of planning a secret tax hike for 2.6m people today after a leaked
Liberal Democrat briefing paper suggested the party would seek to raise taxes for people earning
more than £50,000 a year.
The Lib Dem leadership disowned the plan, blaming "a cock-up on top of a mistake", after a
one-year-old statement was included in a briefing for MPs attending the party's Glasgow
conference and then accidentally emailed to journalists.
The paper, on "lines to take" in media interviews, said: "In these difficult times, it is important
that everyone makes their contribution. It is right that we ask the broadest shoulders to bear their
fair share: it is unrealistic to cut more money from welfare spending without increasing taxes on
*** Britain's richest.
"We are looking at how the richest 10 per cent of people, those earning over £50,000, could make
a further contribution. The vast majority of people in the country would consider £50,000 a very
large salary: these are not the middle income earners."
Full story Independent.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Fair to say the lib dems are going to make every brave effortto cling on to a few seats
but its all to late,,,
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Clegg speech: We saved UK from 'snooper's charter,' ID cards and tax breaks for the rich...
Lib Dem leader launches bid for 2015 election
Deputy Prime Minister says Lib Dems are 'only party' that will build a stronger economy and a fairer society
Nick Clegg launched his campaign to win another five years at the centre of power in Britain by revealing the
controversial right-wing Conservatives policies the Liberal Democrats have blocked inside the Coalition.
In his closing speech to the Lib Dem conference in Glasgow today, the Deputy Prime Minister said his
party had ensured a "stable, successful coalition" since 2010. But he began the process of diverging
from the Tories before the 2015 election by lifting the lid on their disagreements inside the Government.
Mr Clegg raised Coalition tensions as he listed 15 blocked Tory proposals alongside a more familiar roll
call of 15 Lib Dem ideas the Coalition has implemented, such as the £10,000-a-year personal tax allowance
from next year.
