@piersmorgan How utterly stupid. We just make taxes voluntary then?The problem is that there is a class of people who are psychotically aquisitive. People with very little should pay no tax. People with huge fortunes should pay more, far more. It's not difficult.
Yesterday Google announced its UK tax bill will be just £50 million despite nearly £6 billion of sales in our country.
As our public services are being slashed, the Tories are letting an elite few get away with not paying their fair share.
We're not broke, we're being robbed.
It takes a while to realise that the City of London is a bizarre little conclave for tax evaders and money-launderers that appoints its own police force that is completely outwith any other region of the UK.
I remember an Italian journo - specialist in mafia investigations - who declared the Square Mile to be the most corrupt, lawless place in the world.
Honestly, the BBC is an absolute disgrace - first they interview and whitewash Mandelson and now, even worse, McSweeney.
This is not journalism by any stretch of the imagination.
Nick Robinson -- what a hill to die on.
Palantir has been granted “unlimited access” to NHS patient data.
This is the same company that is involved in mass surveillance and genocide.
We did not consent to this. Get Palantir out of our NHS, now.
I'm just going to repeat that the 'unlawful acts of harassment' found by EHRC were:
1. A (correct) statement by Ken Livingstone about German history, and
2. A (correct) statement by councillor Pam Bromley that false accusations were being made.
And that's it.
#ItWasAScam
“The Labour Party’s commitment to justice, freedom and security for Palestinians is unwavering.”
In which parallel universe is this true? #GazaGenocide
Keir Starmer is gone: the most mendacious, dishonest, authoritarian, warmongering politician of the modern era, & the bar is very low. I hope he soon resigns as our MP too so that we can elect someone who is honest, accountable, democratic & honourable, someone who represents the people of Holborn & St. Pancras rather than his billionaire donors, corporate paymasters, Netanyahu & Trump
Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.
Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.
On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.
And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.
But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.
History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.
https://t.co/sGfebPkDXR
Keir Starmer, the utterly mediocre product of Project Mandelson-McSweeney, rose to power over a mountain of Palestinian corpses, and on the strength of a fake anti-Semitism crisis so obscene it included the purge of lifelong, elderly Jewish Labour Party members for the crime of opposing Israeli apartheid.
May Starmer's ejection from office be as painful and humiliating as possible.
He deserves nothing less.
It is beyond disgraceful that the 'Great Israeli Real Estate' event was allowed to go ahead.
Once again, the government has exposed its flagrant contempt for international law as well as its shameful complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation.
https://t.co/ole6xWxq91
Sentenced and imprisoned on grounds of “terrorism” that no jury ever convicted them of.
Meanwhile, the British government continues to aid and abet the greatest crime of our time.
A historic miscarriage of justice — and a truly dark day for civil liberties in this country.
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