Government Watch - 2

I think Davis knows more about it than he's saying. He was working in Green's office when it was raided, I think I read.

2 for 1 offer!!

Davis will quit if the allegedly porn watching, woman grouper -Green is sacked.

We can but hope.

Legatum - a free market think tank - which has close ties to Brexit ministers, is under investigation for compliance.

And look at this. Some Tories create more money for themselves than others.

evolvepolitics.com/firm-where-theresa-mays-husband-works-has-paid-no-corporation-tax-for-8-years-despite-467m-turnover/

I can't work out which of today's stories is the most damaging to the government.
I don't care, either. Take them all together, and there really should be some resignations, if not another general election.

Well done Dennis.

Did you see Dennis Skinner yesterday telling Greg Clark what he thinks of a Tory industrial strategy?

evolvepolitics.com/watch-smug-tory-greg-clark-tells-dennis-skinner-calm-ripped-shreds-tory-industrial-strategy/

Video on here.

evolvepolitics.com/22-leading-economists-back-labours-borrow-invest-economic-plans-msm-meltdown/

Never mind; economists know the truth.

Yes, I saw that, GracesGran.
Not only can the Tories not sort out thecountry's finances, they take bungs from rich Russians - as if they need to.

evolvepolitics.com/exclusive-super-rich-putin-cronies-have-given-1-8million-to-the-tories-since-2010/

Gets worse as time goes on.

yo you

Obviously the myth, continued by the mega-rich owners of some papers who are only thinking of their own financial situation, that the Tories are competent when it comes to the economy is surely beginning to seems full of holes even to the most ostrich-like of Conservative supporters. This is from Richard Murphy's blog today. Even if you suspect he is biased, for heavens sake read it and don't remain as ignorant as our gutter press would like to keep yo.

Labour not only repaid more often, it turns out it also repaid much more in total and on average during each year when repayment was made.

So what do we learn? Two essential things, I suggest.

First, Labour invariably, in real terms, borrows less than the Conservatives. The data shows that.

And second, Labour has always repaid debt more often than the Conservatives, and has always repaid more debt, on average.

Or, to put it another way, the Conservatives are the party of high UK borrowing and low debt repayment contrary to all popular belief.

The Tories created two thirds of the UK’s national debt

Just seen Kevin Hollinrake on the local news, clutching a copy of the report.
He's an estate agent and owns lots of properties to rent out.
He's voted to reduce corporation tax, against measures to reduce tax avoidance (I wonder how much of his fortune is in tax havens) and voted against secure tenancies.
That's a self-serving strategy.

What this country needs is not so much an industrial strategy as a coping one

Oh, how true.

www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-negotiations-industrial-strategy-greg-clark-theresa-may-piers-morgan-high-banter-a8078366.html

They are trying hard, GracesGran.

Isn't a 'Conservative Industrial Strategy' a bit of an oxymoron? Had the LP been bandying the words 'Industrial Strategy' around I have a feeling the word 'communist' would have been thrown in their direction. Mind you, after the UC and the apprenticeship debacle I doubt this will actually do what it is intended to do.

I was just reading somewhere that Hammond is likely to reduce the VAT threshold to £20,000.
I find that hard to believe. It was £15,000 in 1990.

Depressingly, we have the budget tomorrow.

Dwarfs the money collected by Children in Need, doesn't it?
And they've known about it for over a year and not said anything until now.
Gawke needs sacking.

They've made mistakes in 75,000 claims and up to now 1,000 affected have been contacted. Only another 65 years to sort out the problem at that rate.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42012116

calderdaleandkirklees999callforthenhs.wordpress.com/2017/11/16/sustainability-and-transformation-plan-cuts-closures-and-downgrades-mayhem/

For anyone worried about your NHS.

Interesting Jen.

I wonder if Aarron Banks will get his money back if he is made bankrupt. Apparently he doesn't have nearly enough money as he claims he has.
Same with trump, so I read yesreday.

Same with the referendum - all sorts of funny funding going on and although exposed nothing much seems to have been done about it.

whitewave, that tiny minority are the ones who finance the Tories with millions. There are supposed to be rules about how much any one person (or a company) can pay to a political party, but they don't seem to be enforced at all.

Yes, Jess, I found that a bit odd. There are some very rich pensioners, made that way through tax dodging, so I don't see why pensions are exempt from tax dodging. In fact, I am certain they are not.

I have thought the same whitewave. What is it that gives so few people so much power. (Not sure we should call the Brexit Bulldog a little runt though)

What I find very puzzling is that the Tory party, which like labour is a broad church, and whose extreme right wing is a tiny minority, has spent years and years trying to appease them. We ended up with this chaos that is Brexit, which if parliament behaved properly would work together to face what is a monumental task. Yet still Maybot tries to appease this little runt - getting herself and the U.K. into all sorts of difficulties. The latest being the shooting herself in the foot of declaring a date and time for leaving.