@RobertJenrick Turns out the Labour tax on granny’s cupcakes story forgot one tiny detail: the council exemptions for small honesty box sales.
Real policy. Fake outrage. Standard X hysteria from the not trusted Jenrick!
@RobertJenrick This is absolute fucking bollocks from you are usual.
You lot will try anything to distract from @Nigel_Farage £5 MILLION undeclared donation and @TiceRichard tax dodging.
Jesus the mental gymnastics you’ve been through to write this absolute shite is astonishing. The truth is much more boring in reality though isn’t it Jenrick?
This is Bassetlaws “Street Trading Consent” scheme. Many councils have similar schemes including Reform councils and Tory councils. The council policy is aimed at street trading regulation, not specifically at pensioners selling six eggs at the garden gate. These schemes normally exist for things like:
burger vans
ice cream vans
roadside traders
regular commercial pitches
mobile food businesses
traders operating in publicly accessible areas I.e market stalls.
You’ve managed to flatten all the nuance in it to “Labour are taxing old ladies that make cakes”
To say you are being disingenuous would be giving you too much credit. You’re blatantly gaslighting people. Twisting a grain of truth into a lie. I’d love for you to supply us with the number of pensioners slapped with a fine for not paying the licensing fee for having an honesty box at the end of their garrden path Robert. Surely you can easily provide that because it must be happening daily for you to be this outraged about it.
This is why people don’t trust politicians. You’ll sit there and blatantly tell us that black is white with a straight face. You’re a dishonest, untrustworthy, gaslighting, scumbag charlatan who should never be allowed near any position of power or authority ever again. We need people who are better than this gutter level of politics. If you can’t attack your opponents on real issues you just make one up and this is the result. It’s tedious and childish and it makes you look like a twat. Do better.
@RobertJenrick This isn’t quite as your describing is it Bob?
Bassetlaw isn’t “charging people for selling a few eggs or cakes”. The rule is an old street‑trading licence policy that accidentally covers home honesty boxes. The council is reviewing it and plans to exempt small‑scale sellers.
@RobertJenrick You gave your pornographer mate £40 million tax advantage. Pay that back to the exchequer and we’ll listen to you. Otherwise, save your outrage because when it comes to public money, you can’t be trusted.
You really are an odious little man aren't you? It isn't a tax, it's a street trading licence. The council has explicitly stated that eggs, vegetables and cut flowers sold as surplus from normal domestic life are not covered by the policy. The licensing team has been instructed to take a proportionate and pragmatic approach based on individual circumstances, and fines would only result from persistent serious cases.
The policy applies to anyone selling goods on any street or public space where the public has access without payment, it's a street trading policy, not a tax on garden gate honesty boxes per se.
Say what you like about Nadine Dorries, but having once been Culture Secretary, she is living proof that even someone with the intellectual capacity of a haddock can reach high office.
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Richard Tice will be speaking to Laura Kuenssberg because I'm still afraid of scrutiny. I thought the best person to explain why there is nothing wrong with accepting a £5 million gift would be the man who repeatedly avoids paying tax.
#BBCLauraK
Wise choice by Zia Yusuf not to deny that I have had other undeclared massive handouts from crypto billionaires - so he can't be accused of lying when it is inevitably discovered.
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The timing alone should set off alarm bells. The Trump administration is currently being challenged in court over its preservation of government documents. And this week, it issued new internal guidance that a leading archives expert says gives White House staff "license to do the exact opposite" of preserving records.
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University of Maryland professor Jason R. Baron, who specializes in archives and the law, read the memo and sounded the alarm immediately. The new guidance, he told the Washington Post, provides nothing that "prevents the White House from directing the transfer or destruction of White House records, including tens of millions of emails, either before or after the end of the president's second term in office."
The key sleight of hand is buried in the language. The memo says EOP components are "free to retain" previous record-preservation policies. As Baron points out, that also means they are free not to. Text messages now only need to be preserved "when they are the sole record of official decision-making" — and staffers are merely "encouraged" to memorialize those exchanges in another format rather than preserving the original exchange directly.
Translation: if someone decides a text isn't the "sole record" of something, they can delete it. And nobody has to take a screenshot.
Federal law is unambiguous. Presidents and their staff are required to preserve records related to government activity and turn them over to the National Archives at the end of each administration. Warrington’s memo, however, doesn't clarify whether these records will actually be turned over, and doesn't specify how Trump or Vance will personally preserve their own records.
This is the administration that used Signal to discuss active military strikes in a chat that included a journalist. The administration that has fired numerous inspectors general. The administration that is fighting records requests in court while issuing internal guidance that makes destruction discretionary.
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