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Lord Tebbit has his say on ‘aggressive homosexuals’:
“Why shouldn’t a mother marry her daughter? Why shouldn’t two elderly sisters living together marry each other? I quite fancy my brother!”
Harold Macmillan says:
” Evans, dear boy, Evans “
Well done R&M. A great leap forward from the obscure to the obvious and with a recognisable character too!
Do as I SAY not as I Do, as I am your leader and you Will do as you are told. Political class above the RULE of LAW? Its a JOKE on the People.
Why dont we have another WAR, as our Non Executive pay will dip this year as we sit on the boards of all military equipment businesses.
No it is NOT a joke; it is a CRIME against the people !
pity it needs the link to the article below to explain it ?
Mr bean ?
Strangle the cuпt whoever it is.
I thought it was Rupert Murdoch.
Do you mean the cartoon?
Right next to his advert – priceless!
Yes, GOM. Nelson Mandela does look a bit pale though after his illness, methinks.
Be nice.
Wonderful juxtaposition of moniker and message
another wonderful juxtaposition would be your tongue and a tramps scabby arse.
Projecting again TaT.
You’re right Cat! I thought it was Rupert Murdoch, but now I see it is a very sickly looking Mandela.
Nice to get my health opinion backed up by someone in the business!
A lot of cats and rats posting comments…
Is it Ken Livingstone?
The improvement in quality is a result of them being thrown a bone from Guido’s Daily Star cash from yesterday.
The Bone Star State?
+ 1
ANIMAL FARM 2012
In the window he looked at the green eyed Great Newt and saw that he now looked exactly like a plutocratic socialist tax avoider.
But the Great Newt said:
“If the Red Channel can take huge bonuses and the greedy Guardian can use offshore tax avoidance schemes….who is the real hypocrite? ”
” Boris Pecker, The Tory scum and the Bankers?” neighed poor forlorn Boxer the work horse, as he heaved a sigh and struggled back to the politically correct intellectual multiculti Gulag…..formerly known as London
It has always been seen as a perfectly legitimate tool of socialist activism to use the capitalist’s systems against him.
Therefore he is not evading tax for his own personal ends, but to allow him better funding to atack the evil capitalists, as is comrade Rusbridger at The Gurnian.
There is no hypocrisy at work here, just the subversion of a system designed to keep the working man from gaining power, against itself. All this is for the greater good of the proletariat who will rise against the evil oppresors when the great leader returns to his rightful place to lead them from the bonds of slavery.
Fucking socialist scum!!
That’s the worst drawing of ET that I’ve ever seen! When did it start wearing a suit?
I give up – did he win an Oscar?
Ron Paul isn’t a luvvie, he’s probably the best yank Politician they have:
http://tinyurl.com/7evb28p
E.T. ?
Imagine a close encounter with Ken Livingstone.
It’s Ron Paul.
Shouldn’t he be leaning to his left and wearing a red tie ?
This is balls. I will bet there are thousands of bankers and finance staff doing much worse.
They don’t try looking like the working man’s saint. Ken is a hypocrite, just as myself. I’m for cuts in the NHS, but not in my own constituency!
It doesn’t look like Balls, but with Rich and Mark that’s no barrier …
Streep wins best actress at the Oscars.
It doesn’t look anything like Meryl Streep or Maggie Thatcher ?
Mornin mate!
Would not want to spitroast that…
Not even after a few beers !
mornin mate !
Mornin mate, do fuck off.
TaT ! You don’t have any mates you sad fuck !
How about our £100,000 per week tax breaks ?
We are really relaxed about a fellow comrade fiddling hid tax.
With the bloody doctors talking industrial action may be MP’s might sound more convincing if they changed their salary and pension benefits to what they propose for NHS staff. We are all in it together remember.
We’re all in it together…….up to a point!
Poor GP’s.
They only earn £225,000+ from their NHS work, plus extra for private work.
It must be tough making ends meet.
Yet another champagne, marxist newt lover.
Sorry, I forgot, man-of-the-people tax dodger too, (legally of course)
he loves the money. Never forget how corrupt his administration was, the amount of cash squandered and missing was astronomical.
Always remember: it was a Fatcher tax, so he has an obligation to avoid it.
Go on. Please explain how this £1,000 a week tax saving dodge works. I dying to know how he gets his hands on the money without paying the income tax on it!
By gradually paying it out as a dividend.
You set up a company (cost – about thirty quid) and give yourself and the missus 50% of the shares each. You then pay yourself (and your missus) through the company up to the lower limit for national insurance (about 7K this year) so there’s 14K tax (and NI free). Then you pay 20% Corporation Tax on the profits (after you’ve deducted all manner of expenses to offset against profits).
The money left over after Corporation Tax you then pay out as dividends which – since they’ve already been taxed at 20% CT – you can take without further tax up until about another 37K (ish) each.
Result – less than 20K tax on income of 100K.
S’all legit – Blair and Brown do it.
BBC self employed stars
Sportsmen
Pop Stars
They’re all at it
And real workers such as IT contractors, who are being tarred with the same brush.
Indeed – and real contract/freelancers end up paying to cut through this red tape to make a living – while these rich abusers do it purely through greed.
Where is the Taxman? Oh he doesn’t like upsetting the rich and powerful who are chums with his boss… Just screws the real workers…
It’s legit and I have no problem with it.
When Actors, BBC types, sportstars and lefty politicians stand up and pontificate about rich people paying their way it grates
But, but, but Steve. We are humanitarians.
We sing songs and make spe-aches about social failings of others. We play many benefit concerts. And Ken will eventually be rewarded with a real knighthood [not the honorary one I have been given]
Just think Sir Ken L? Or even Saint Ken [ If Tony can put the word in]?
Pope Ken the First.
I am reminded that in the days leading up until the live 8 concert, Dave Gilmour suggested that as all artists appearing would benefit by enjoying massive sales as a result of such exposure then perhaps it would be appropriate that they all pledged a fair percentage of these increased sales to the charity. The silence which followed was deafening and no more was said about it.
I wonder if Marcus Brigstocke does it. Would explain his quip last year about handing in his tax return being a pleasure to give money back to society. I’d love to know which ltd at Companies House he is a director of…
It could be “CORDUROY PRODUCTIONS LIMITED “.
Registered at Companies House under ref no. 04645908
Accounts overdue apparently! Perhaps he’s trying to think of ways to enhance the tax liability.
For some reason, I can’t post a reply to “Are you licensed for that TV?” but thankyou!
An MP could have several companies in order to pay the bare minimum of tax.
That won’t work. There’s no per-company tax free allowance, just a different tax structure.
Lets not forget the longer term family benefits.
Once the Company owners die the shares can be transferred to the children, totally free of Inheritance tax, it is very good inheritance tax planning because it is far more flexible than a trust, where the money must be an outright gift and you must live 7 years before all inheritance tax is avoided.
The children, on inheriting the shares, need do no more than slowly draw money off the company, as dividends, when needed.
The Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown Ltd, will provide that opportunity… once it no longer needs to support the Browns in their “Public life”.
If you work on your own account, as I did from the mid 1980s, then you find that you can earn a shedload one year and nothing the next. On average you do better than employed but you have to be able to survive the thin times. When the Revenue decided to stop you claiming back tax (from a previous good year) in a lean year, it became the only way to ensure that you were not being shafted.
Most of us in this situation don’t want to spend all the cash we make as we go. Therefore there is only any need to suffer tax on that which you pay yourself to live on. Providing you create a separate entity to hold this cash, no law or even ethical code, is being broken.
In a nutshell
So what you are actually saying is that anyone who works PAYE is a complete twat.
What a huge surprise, a left wing firebrand is a hypocrite cu’nt
I’m sure you are all turning left wing
If this man had any morals, he’d pay the taxman what he should have paid in the first place.
Morals have no place in politics.
Morals do have a place in politics – it’s just that many politicians have no morals. It’s those politicians who have no place in politics.
Lord Lucan on crocodile safari?
Oh how I wish I worked at HMRC so I could ring this self serving hypocriticlal piece of scums neck.
The sooner his neck is throttled the better.
Hypocracy of politicians however disgusting is unfortunately out of HMRC hands.
Until the UK authorities change the single earner criteria many self employed may choose this legal escape route bringing a non working partner onto the company’s income and expenditure books for their own financial benefit.
He hasn’t broken and LAW, he’s just a hypocrite.
This is the loophole that the Labour hypocrites had 13 years to do something about. If socialists had any shame they would denounce him immediately.
This didn’t get done on purpose.
They look to their own interests before those of the general public.
With the exception of Gordon Brown of course. He told us that his work outside of politics would be charitable.
Yeah, right.
Charity begins at home.
Charity begins and ends for the Admiral Brown, (Royal Naval saying) at home.
Perhaps his wife would like to tell us how much they donate to charity on twitter?
Good to see the British getting an Oscar for best costume for an extra in a short documentary film. As this year’s Oscar record for British filmmakers has been so dire, can we expect our politicians and media (like the BBC’s luvvy lovers) demand that those getting paid squillions in the film industry give up half their income for the year? Just a thought. Hard to believe there was a time when bankers were respected and actors were looked down on.
Pre Gordon and Tony’s moral inversion.
Amanda Holden Exclusive
” I am having toast for breakfast again “
The adulteress no less
Is that you Les?
The New” Red Cockroach” trap , snares it’s first victim !
If we just abolished income tax, we would only have to reduce government spending to what it was back in around 2005. I’m not saying public services were great back then (or any different from what they are now) but I think it would be better than forking over 20-40% of our income.
But we have to keep them in the lifestyle to which they have become so accustomed, so we have to keep on paying our taxes.
These huge tax benefits aren’t for the likes of us – we have to keep on paying out to keep them all living the high life.
Apparently 3m copies of the Sun on Sunday were sold. Stick that up your fat arses Watson,Prescott and Campbell
Several shops I went into had sold out of copies.
Are sex shops open on a Sunday?
Only if they have to pay for it like you.
Oh Dear labour, you stabbed murdoch in the back and thought you’d finished him off. Now he’s come back to haunt you!! LOL!!!
New York Times has him as headline on their site now. Ominous mention of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
It shows where public opinion is on the matter.
The 308,000 Britons on the 50p top rate – who earn more than £150,000 – pay £47billion a year to the Treasury. The lower-earning 50 per cent pay £17bn – less than the housing benefit bill.
It probably doesn’t cover the cost of collection either, especially when you weigh up the cost to ‘business’ doing HMRC’s work for them.
Its not 50p tax – its 52p – bonuses paid this am and I receive less than half of the face value
To avoid 52% tax I am now awarding myself 4 months annual leave.
The more I see of Cameron and Clegg in action the more I am inclined to increase this.
Socialist treat people equally, by fining one person thousands of times more for working than someone who’s less productive in order to fund the lifestyle of someone who’s feckless and lazy.
This is called fair and equal.
My Manifesto
- Boris Bikes will be resprayed
in redto a warmer friendlier colour thereby prividing some stimulus to the economy by providing work for spray painters.- The City Hall wine cellar will be restored to it’s former glory thus stimulating the
Frencheconomy.- The Londoner newspaper will be introduced to keep Londoners up to date with the incredible and wonderful work being done by the new
Dear Supreme LeaderMayor- The Boris buses will not need respraying as the current colour is fine, but perhaps a new catchy name would be appropriate, plus a slight modification by adding a tow-bar so that a second bus could be attached to the back to make it more like the bendy buses much loved by London’s
fare dodgerscommuters.- A new
Lee Jasper glove puppetLondon Equality Tsar will be appointedat huge cost to the tax payerto make sure that any minority groups receive all the help they needafter Lee has taken what he needsI will cut my own salary
and increase my wife’s salary by an equivalent amount which will be paid directly into our tax efficiency vehicleIt’s usually sex that catches the Tories and LibDem’s out, but it’s always money with the socialists. Livingston is just keeping the tradition alive. It’s his duty. It’s what they do. Bastards…
Don’t forget Laws – he had to falsely claim money to cover up his sexiuality, or so he said.
Hang that rope from one of Livingslime’s CONgestion charge spy cameras.
Tax is for little people.
People like Red Ken benefiting from Bank of England stealing from savers and pension funds. Printing and laundering of Bank of England’s fake money (QE) goes into overdrive, pension annuity rates dive and REAL inflation goes up (not the fake inflation the ONS / BoE publish)…. however the BoE claims QE is not hurting savers and pensions that much. Lies, and more damned lies.
Look.
QE is just (at the moment) changing debt to shorter terms (not a good idea) but not quite the outright monetary expansion you seem to think it is.
However the extra interest we now pay is a straight subsidy to those connected to banks.
Also QE which causes in inflation (or more aptly IS inflation) makes deposits and low yielding fixed interest securities less attractive to savers in the long run. In order to acheive real positive returns, or even just preserve their savings/wealth, investors are forced into risker asset classes like equities fuelling a stock market bubble.
Shock Horror !
Ken Livingstone follows the Adam Smith principle of “Enlightened Self Interest”.
So tell me then “What exactly is this Socialism business all about ?”
“What exactly is this Socialism business all about ?”
Not apologising for 150 million people murdered?
A new way of disguising Slavery?
Could I take that neck over for a while? – gives me ideas!
You know..I think I’ve been getting more left wing as I get older.
How juvenile is that?
Extreme.
A sample of my finest hypocrisy :-
“These rich bastards just don’t get it… No one should be allowed to vote in a British election, let alone sit in our Parliament, unless they are paying their full share of tax.
“Cameron’s problem is too many of his team have become super rich by exploiting every tax fiddle. Given he is surrounded by so many millionaires in the shadow cabinet it’s not surprising their tax policies aim to reward the rich and screw the rest of us…
“If Brown wants to get re-elected he should promise to sweep away all the tax scams and everybody should pay tax at the same rate on their earnings and all other income.”
http://bit.ly/x8Gz74
Liam (There’s no money left) Byrne is calling for Cameron to answer why Emma Harrison £8.8 million per ann was appointed families tzar
and given multi million pound contracts , when her company was already under investigation for fraud !
Cameron certainly makes some dodgy appointments i.e
Spelman
Coulson
Harrison
Who next ?
Well, there is you and me, Frankie.
I’ll put in a tender for £50m and see if we get the job.
But I must warn you that you have to be prepared to put in an afternoon a week though…
It was Labour that started the Government links with Emma Harrison and A4E.
In fact Blunkett was a huge advocate of the firm, enjoyed a foreign trip to South A frica paid by the company, and earned thousands acting as an advisor.
Seems like Liebour are denying for 13 years they screwed the country and are innocent of anything but being nice to the braindead voters, I think the Olympic logo says it all for me.
braindead voters
What can you say except true?
The type of person who would be likely to vote for Livingstone in the first place is the type of person who doesn’t begrudge him the tax breaks; their rather curious reasoning is that old Ken is “sticking it to The Man” by using all the tricks the rich bastards use, and how do they like it, now that the shoe’s on the other foot? It’s all so Animal Farm. Red Ken does it– GOOD! A “one-percenter” banker does it– BAD! Meanwhile, the old crock is laughing up his sleeve at how easily he is able to gull such people; he’s got his, Jack, and sod off to you if you don’t like it, but evidently you DO like it if HE does it, is how he’s able to get away with it. Even Lefties love Horatio Alger-esque stories when it’s one of theirs mouthing their version of all the right pieties; Andrew Carnegie redux– “I hate myself for being so rich! Really! You have no idea how much personal grief it gives me! It’s a dirty business but someone has got to do it! Better someone like me, who at least has something of a ‘social conscience’!”
I get the impression you don’t really know anyone on ‘the left’, as opposed to people who support the Labour party, which is an entirely different thing. Most people on ‘the left’ saw through Livingstone many years ago (BEFORE he become GLC leader in the 1980s) and aren’t surprised at his hypocritical antics.
If you saw through him, how come you didn’t stop him?
The first rule of warfare is that you only lead your troops headlong into battle when you know you are going to win.
Cameron may have had the finest education money can buy but I think one or two things may have been skimped over.
This may be one of the best things R&M have ever done on here. Still not a patch on Steve Bell though. But give it time.
Erm, is that a camel trying to squeeze itself through the eye of a needle?
I was hoping it was a noose.
A loophole is something that the defender of a fort or castle fires through, not a means of escape.
I recall a few instances where embrasures were breached, thus possibly giving rise to the modern usage. Regrettably my books are mostly still in boxes otherwise I would be able to cite instances.
Google it you twat.
I did.
Google is not the answer to everything. Clearly it could not help you.
Is that why Bliar was having meetings with small Labour groups? To gain support and have his ego massaged?
White people love playing divide and rule.
What do you expect?
We’ve had 13 years of divide and rule from Labour.
That drawing is too flattering.
11.30 and still the obscure cartoon
must be a slow day for news
Morning, Ken. Cuppa tea ?
I heard that Ken LivingWill fellah in the back of my cab’s radio Saturday morning .
He was on London’s Biggest Constipation with that Tory toff David Smellor…
Oh Guidoooooo!!
Moderation is your middle name ! Stop it immediately or we’ll have to give you the Order of the North Korean Censor to be conferred on you by one of the Sachs-Coburg – Gotha’s in person !!!)
Guido … I think you’re the nicest person in Christendom .
Is this awaiting moderation too ??
My Hackney Cab friend has given up and is going to Dignitas to end it all …
Guido you’ve excelled yourself … you’ve managed to delete three missives from a Taxi Driver two of which would have been passed by the Pope himself …. I think I’ll whistleblow you to Wikileaks..
We don’t pay in tax — just brown envelopes to a dead letter box in Highgate Cemetery.
May I be allowed to recommend an ” egregiously elegant ” little tax shelter in Lower Vanuatu ??
‘Ere? Why don’t you print none of my comments then Guv’nor ??
I mean it’s not as if I even swear or nuffink … I did the Knowledge y’know!