| Just the odd £32,000 on clothes then on 00:20 - Oct 3 with 1146 views | lambo77 |
| Just the odd £32,000 on clothes then on 15:12 - Oct 2 by Zapers |
Not just your opinion, I can assure you.
Anyone seeing it as acceptable, and just someone being kind and generous, is incredibly naive.
Business just doesn’t work that way. |
It did work that way when my Dad ran a business.But then we're old skool |  | |  |
| Just the odd £32,000 on clothes then on 07:47 - Oct 3 with 1057 views | tractorboy1978 |
| Just the odd £32,000 on clothes then on 10:01 - Sep 28 by bsw72 |
I just want to check whether you understand the difference between accepting a gift/donation, subsequently declaring at as per guidelines versus signing contracts with donors and paying for those contracts, which prove to subsequently be worthless, with tax payers money.
Can you explain how accepting gifts is a kick in the teeth for hardworking families? If he was using tax payers money to purchase his clothing I would get it, but that is not what he has done.
In the last few months I have been to several football matches, attended a number of dinners and been flown out to San Jose and San Fran for conferences all paid for by vendors I have contracts with, all declared and above board with work.
I genuinely do not understand the fuss about declared donations, it is not a new phenomenon and has been done in business and politics forever. |
That may be how it works in most corporate circles (and it is, I can vouch for it) in order to build relationships, keep clients and win work but some professions are held to standards. Accountants, lawyers, police officers for example have codes of practice in place driven by their regulatory bodies to avoid accusations of bribery and corruption.
I find it bonkers that politicans are allowed to accept this sort of level of donations within the rules personally. The top level of public office. [Post edited 3 Oct 2024 7:47]
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| Just the odd £32,000 on clothes then on 10:19 - Oct 3 with 989 views | Ryorry |
| Just the odd £32,000 on clothes then on 10:55 - Sep 30 by Pinewoodblue |
Unfortunately there doesn’t appear to be a quick fix , with regards to WFA, that offers an acceptable solution.
With hindsight would like to think that Reeves will back down come budget day. It would be better to pay it to people who don’t need it than withhold it from those who face serious choices as a result of it being withdrawn.
The number of pensioners who will be impacted, in my opinion, exceeds the number who could easily do without it.
This winter only, with time to come up with a better solution. The problem I feel is not being able to identify household income accurately . |
Can’t for the life of me understand why they didn’t go after a policy of recovering the £bns that scumbags like Mone stole from taxpayers. Would have been a win-win-win economically, politically and socially. Have a feeling Rayner is like a terrier with bone in pursuit of her mission to show she’s well ‘ard and not afraid of unpopularity. |  |
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| Just the odd £32,000 on clothes then on 10:53 - Oct 3 with 957 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Just the odd £32,000 on clothes then on 10:19 - Oct 3 by Ryorry |
Can’t for the life of me understand why they didn’t go after a policy of recovering the £bns that scumbags like Mone stole from taxpayers. Would have been a win-win-win economically, politically and socially. Have a feeling Rayner is like a terrier with bone in pursuit of her mission to show she’s well ‘ard and not afraid of unpopularity. |
That is already in motion.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68087776 |  |
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| Just the odd £32,000 on clothes then on 11:11 - Oct 3 with 890 views | Pinewoodblue |
She was a Labour supporter until Gordon Browne raised top level of income tax. No doubt she has found the Tories easier to deal with. |  |
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| Just the odd £32,000 on clothes then on 12:11 - Oct 3 with 834 views | Churchman |
| Just the odd £32,000 on clothes then on 10:19 - Oct 3 by Ryorry |
Can’t for the life of me understand why they didn’t go after a policy of recovering the £bns that scumbags like Mone stole from taxpayers. Would have been a win-win-win economically, politically and socially. Have a feeling Rayner is like a terrier with bone in pursuit of her mission to show she’s well ‘ard and not afraid of unpopularity. |
Most of the stolen billions will never be seen again. When the whistle was blown on this, a friend of mine’s team was put on recovering some of it. This team was at the time going after serious criminals (the ones that will make you disappear if you challenge them - the absolute worst). Taking them off this work was justified by the govt deeming serious crime ‘not a government priority’. The real reason that there wasn’t anyone else thanks to cuts after cuts.
The problem they had was that the way contracts had been issued and the ways in which public £millions had been taken made it mostly impossible to trace. A total waste of time just so a minister could say to HoC we are looking at it.
Setting up these schemes left HMG wide open to mass fraud and that’s what happened. People filled their boots with yours and my money, whether it was bogus companies, rubbish unusable PPE, fraudulent made up furlough schemes, you name it.
Those who were responsible for this disaster and those who robbed the taxpayer blind should be held to account and jailed and they/their family’s assets seized until every last penny of lost money is recovered. But they never will be not least because the politicians themselves probably took their share of the spoils one way or another.
A draconian view but what happened, as with so many things over the Scumbags’ 14 year reign of horror, is totally unacceptable. |  | | |
| Just the odd £32,000 on clothes then on 13:51 - Oct 3 with 759 views | Ryorry |
Ah, thanks, I should keep up more!
Glad at least one of them’s being held to account. | |
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| Just the odd £32,000 on clothes then on 13:52 - Oct 3 with 755 views | Ryorry |
| Just the odd £32,000 on clothes then on 12:11 - Oct 3 by Churchman |
Most of the stolen billions will never be seen again. When the whistle was blown on this, a friend of mine’s team was put on recovering some of it. This team was at the time going after serious criminals (the ones that will make you disappear if you challenge them - the absolute worst). Taking them off this work was justified by the govt deeming serious crime ‘not a government priority’. The real reason that there wasn’t anyone else thanks to cuts after cuts.
The problem they had was that the way contracts had been issued and the ways in which public £millions had been taken made it mostly impossible to trace. A total waste of time just so a minister could say to HoC we are looking at it.
Setting up these schemes left HMG wide open to mass fraud and that’s what happened. People filled their boots with yours and my money, whether it was bogus companies, rubbish unusable PPE, fraudulent made up furlough schemes, you name it.
Those who were responsible for this disaster and those who robbed the taxpayer blind should be held to account and jailed and they/their family’s assets seized until every last penny of lost money is recovered. But they never will be not least because the politicians themselves probably took their share of the spoils one way or another.
A draconian view but what happened, as with so many things over the Scumbags’ 14 year reign of horror, is totally unacceptable. |
Very enlightening (if very depressing) - thanks for the info. | |
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