Did anyone read about Michelle Mone? Thought not!

Oh, I did.

But kept quiet for fear of being branded a Boris basher

I'm really trying not to call her "the bra wummin."

Yes I read about it last week.

Volver I purchased one of her bras many years ago, it was the most uncomfortable thing.

I was quite disappointed to be honest Volver, as I once heard her on Woman's Hour talking about how she got where she is now, and I rather admired her. Why do people have to get so greedy? Is the driving force which gets them to where they are, the same force that makes them think they are untouchable, special, don't have to follow the same rules as the rest of us? Mind you, it is quite laughable when you see the Daily Mail getting itself into a self righteous twist about whether Keir Starmer did/didn't have a beer/curry/whatever, while this story was breaking.

I think the news broke on the same day as Boris Becker was jailed and Neil Parish admitted he was the Commons porn watcher. Is the BBC's silence to do with the very costly trouble it got into over coverage of the raid of Cliff Richard's home in 2014?

Yes I did.
But do we have to comment on everything we read/hear/see ?

cant stand her type ,shouts about what a hard life they had when she was young , a dad who was sick and couldn't work etc ...than joins the tories and votes to make life harder for millions on benefits while pocketing cash for PPE that wasn't fit for purpose .Vile woman.

What maw said.

I'm with paddyann54 on this one.

I know its petty but she is in the House of Lords and calls herself Baroness Mone of Mayfair, although she's from Glasgow.

All the self awareness of a rice pudding.

Yes. I read about it. Anything new or interesting about a Coservative crony being busted for tax? It seems to be a daily occurence. Not worth wasting time reading about it.

Oh ok. Sorry I mentioned it, just thought it may be of interest. Shall go and carry on with the garden.

FWIW, I think you were right to mention it.

I'm really interested in why the BBC aren't covering it.

M0nica

Yes. I read about it. Anything new or interesting about a Coservative crony being busted for tax? It seems to be a daily occurence. Not worth wasting time reading about it.

If we don't read about it we forget about it. At least most people will. Cronyism has to be remembered until the next GE. If not we'll get the Tories back in, although I get the impression that you wouldn't mind that.

The NCA deals with serious and organised crime - not necessarily tax avoidance. I write avoidance rather than evasion since it is currently legal to use offshore companies. I personally think that it is evasion.

Dinahmo, we do not forget about it, we know it happens, just quietly chalk it up as yet another example of corruption in high Conservative places.

I remember seeing a definition which defined evasion as lying and avoidance as hiding.

Antony Seely, policy specialist on taxation in the House of Commons Library has written:

In recent years tax avoidance has been the subject of considerable public concern, although there is no statutory definition of what tax avoidance consists of. Tax avoidance is to be distinguished from tax evasion, where someone acts against the law. By contrast tax avoidance is compliant with the law, though aggressive or abusive avoidance, as opposed to simple tax planning, will seek to comply with the letter of the law, but to subvert its purpose.

Moot isn't it but using the words: aggressive, abusive and subvert suggests there is a fine line.

“Tory peer Michelle Mone bought £46m of unfit for purpose PPE from China and sold it to the NHS for £122m. Her London home has been raided by police from National Crime Agency as part of the probe into allegations of multi-million£ PPE fraud
And that's where we are in toryland”

Then of course is the small matter of £37bn - lost without test or trace.

This is not meant as a criticism of anyone on here.

But this is where we are. A Tory peer is suspected of a fraud worth £122m to the treasury and we go "Ah well, here's another one. Nothing worth talking about."

Yes, I read about it but don't feel the need to comment on every single thing that ever happens.

Yes of course I did. It was splashed across the front pages of the Sun and the Express. Oh, hang on a minute. That was Keir Starmer having a can of beer. Silly me. Must get my priorities right in future….

volver

This is not meant as a criticism of anyone on here.

But this is where we are. A Tory peer is suspected of a fraud worth £122m to the treasury and we go "Ah well, here's another one. Nothing worth talking about."

This must never be treated as “just another” what has happened to us if we are not appalled by such corruption?

Whitewavemark2

volver

This is not meant as a criticism of anyone on here.

But this is where we are. A Tory peer is suspected of a fraud worth £122m to the treasury and we go "Ah well, here's another one. Nothing worth talking about."

This must never be treated as “just another” what has happened to us if we are not appalled by such corruption?

Oh dear, I was just going to say
"Not another one"
#Brenda

Although not another one differs from just another one

Yup, it was in The Guardian and The Telegraph, nothing on the BBC website though. Hopefully this is the start of investigations but we'll see!

I did, we don't know enough about it to comment.