Brown’s “Not a Single Penny” Un-Spun
When it emerged that Gordon Brown had made £1.4m since leaving office on the international speech circuit, his spinners were quick to point out claim that “not a single penny” had gone to Brown himself and instead it was all given to charity. But that’s not quite true.
The most recent set of abbreviated accounts for the Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown (Ltd.) paint a different picture. Though they do not give a turnover, or how much actually went to charity, or how much was spent on “administration”, they do show that at least 20,934,300 pennies are being held by the Browns in cash. No income tax on that…
Knowing Brown you have to look for the off-balance sheet vehicle!
Brown might have anger management issues but he is the most decent honest PM we had in the last 30 odd years. John Major was a decent man as well he was surrounded by evil nasty once.
He doubled the tax on the lowest paid (the 10p affair) abd you think he is honest and decent?
He is the one who gave 10% tax a well. Who did the current lot gave a tax cut to? Only to once who are paid over £150,000 and who ended up paying for it, granny and pastry eaters.
2,000,000 or 20 mill ?
meme says:; It is not 2,000,000 or 20 mills, it is 65,000,000 people paying more to give tax cuts to 350,000 people.
Those bloody oncers!
The economic damage the idiot Brown inflicted on this country will take a generation or more to repair. He has crippled our nation. The man’s actions were as unforgivable as they were incompetent.
The Prime Mentalist was at the very heart of the blackest period of political butchery our nation has ever experienced. He should never be forgiven.
If you can offset the reduction in tax from increased Income tax allowance with your pastry eating I’d be impressed
Fucking amateurs! £250k per dinner, surely?!
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When Boris came back from his holidays from Canada why did tax payers pay £2,098 for his air ticket?
http://static.london.gov.uk/mayor/expenses/docs1112/B-Johnson.pdf
I think you need a name change old thing. Income is plural in this context – and don’t add an “s” tht would be quite wrong.
Boris, are these income going to a company? at 4:26
Because he had to come back early and needed an emergency ticket which everybody knows costs much more than if you book in advance.
It is extremely unlikely that he had a flexible ticket for his holiday flight as originally he would have had a fixed itinerary like most people on holiday hence he had to buy one to enable him to undertake his duty as mayor.
Do use a little bit of common sense.
Dear Londoners,
Please vote for our friend Ken, he is a shining light
And our new hezbollah in the UK
Why don’t you just fuck off?
Decent? Honest?
Sorry, but where have you been living over the last 15 years or so?
Brown is a c u n t there’s nothing decent about him. Even his turds are evil.
To be honest, apart from having mental health issues, and being pretty crap, and biggotted, compared to B£iar, Brown was relatively honest (in his own crap way).
Yep – that “honest and decent” man financed an illegal war on Iraq for Tony Bliar, killing 100′s of thousands of people
I think I prefer crooks – you can get to the bottom of a crook, but you can never get to the bottom of a liar. (Thanks granddad!)
Nonny – you’ve brought your 1 blade Swiss Army knife to a gunfight AGAIN – are you stupid or just masochistic?
Sorry – that WAS rhetorical – we all know the answer.
Then why did the Conservatives supported it?
The leftie ‘Anonymous’ team is very active. Elections looming?
You ARE Gordon brown aren’t you?!
C45 s looming
Opposition always supports gov when our forces in action.
It is protocol, so as not to undermine the poor bastards at the sharp end – not something we would expect a yellow, snivelling, arse licker like nonnymouse to understand. The only thing you have ever fought is the revulsion in your own eyes when they spot you in a mirror.
That was NOT rhetoric, Noncie.
Farty Arty says:; still if it a crime then it is still a crime when you do it together.
“supported” – support shurely?
I can see the point you want to make but it’s flawed in as much as we don’t need our leaders to be simply decent and honest, we need the to produce results for us. We provide them with our money and votes to do a job for us. Brown failed to “end boom and bust” and even sold off the gold reserves at the worse possible moment, not much good to us if he was honest as he was incompetent!
Can anyone answer this?
How long is it since we have had a decent, honest and good PM in this country?
Don’t know about a PM….. How about Alfred the Great?
1990.
That is all.
It is an impossible equation. The political classes cannot be honest and decent. After all it is ‘politics’ where apparently such things as moral standards do not apply -remember the expenses fiddles. No remorse whatsoever.
Judged by any decent and honest standards the whole lot are appalling.
He destroyed the pensions of everyone who does not work for the state – deliberately.
If that’s honest and decent then my cock’s a cucumber.
I wish my cock was a cucumber.
So do I.
I would have if finely sliced and served to you in dainty sandwiches at my next garden party.
Bet
I didn’t wash mine for a month and it started to turn green – hope that helps
I liked Brown for his Taxation of Unicorns and handling of the flying pigs disaster.
I don’t see anything decent in the way Brown undermined Tony Blair to satisfy his own ambition.
Time you went back to the home for the bewildered.
James Murdoch has gone!
Hope they sell up all their interest in UK as well.
Its time cyclops was prosecuted for crimes against the British people.
£209,000 is roughly our national budget deficit for one minute. Thanks, Gordon!
Guido seems to think it’s £20m. Now that really would put B£iar in the shade.
or was it 20m PENNIES
Socialism is a mental disorder: The Labour Party is the asylum
Still taking othr peoples mony.
Worst PM ever!
Worst Chancellor too (a liar and a thief). The current one is getting close to him though.
Brown wasn’t the worst PM, all the problems he had were left by the previous chancellor, possibly the worst in any country ever.
So why would a crap Chancellor become PM?
Because he was greedy.
and B£iar knew it, and buggered off leaving us all in the shit. Good eh?
Only when he’d sorted the Pe*ace En*voy stuff out for himself first.
confirms himself to me as an absolute C unt. (sorry about the language there is no other word in the English dictionary).
It’s his very own Private Finance Initiative.
Gordon has been a bit slow here, you would think he would know better than to post his accounts through Companies House. He should take a note out on my book, open offshore companies and bank accounts – Directors are anonymous and accounts don’t have to be posted. What a Wally getting caught out like that. If I had opened a UK Company like him, everyone would be able to see where my money was coming from, Russia, Taiwan, my ‘boys’ etc etc.
http://www.manta.com/ic/mxb5gzy/gb/mike-hancock-mp-portsmouth-south
More sleaze on Handycock.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/spy-row-mp-mike-hancock-269325
I will have you know that I am an MP of the utmost integrity and here is my Facebook page showing all my fans, to prove it. Boaz.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mike-Hancock-MP-should-resign/165787856843976
The Special Immigration Appeals Commission had no right to accuse you of lying to the Court, my teddy bear and King Louie, but I cannot forgive you for telling me you were in Iraq when in fact you were shagging someone else in Paris.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2067544/My-darling-Teddy-bear-Diary-passionate-love-affair-Russian-honeytrap-clear.html
There was a smidgeon of talk a while back about off-shore accounts details being made available to the tax office. Nothing ever happened about it afterwards.
Funny, that.
Many politicians have offshore accounts as do many of the UK’s rich and famous. In the book ‘Goldfinder,’ the story of the late Keith Jessop’s discovery and recovery of $100M from Hms Edinburgh in arctic waters; he states that a member of Royalty agreed to liase between the Russian Government and the Foreign Office to smooth things out to help the operation, but insisted that £100K was payed into an offshore account for the service. It goes on, has always gone on, and always will, that is why nothing has even been done about it by any Government, although they all make noises about doing something to stop this tax evasion.
Sleep In First.
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Yes must be corrupt they spent all that money on…..
Oh, they haven’t spent it? Couldn’t they find a friend who wants to set up a school, say?
I am buying Euros with that.
Typical reverse Rumpelstiltskin.
The only chancellor to spin gold into straw.
Yes, unlike everyone else we front-benchers all became richer.
No, I’ve changed my mind – A masterstroke – I am going to buy lots of Greeks Bonds and Feta cheese futures.
It’s the right thing to do, if you’re a fucktard like me.
…and that nice Mr Broon told us he was good with money?
He wouldn’t lie to us, would he?
Prudent, he said, and prudent the B-bbc repeated, ad infiniteum.
Remember…No more boom and bust?
Ten days before they went bust, Broon was praising Lehman Brothers for its ‘inventiveness’. That’s the calibre of the one-eyed Scottish idiot.
Gordon Brown upsets my pet goldfish. Awful, awful man.
“No income tax on that…”
I know the whole tax thing has always confused you, but do you know why it’s called income tax?
“do you know why it’s called income tax?”
Because as unpopular as it is, it’s still better than calling it by it’s real name, theft.
Extortion. They make the “law”s so it’s not illegal.
Why is his (their) balance sheet abbreviated, how much money has been siphoned off into the rocking horse shit account?, we should be told.
Let’s be honest here, we need another MP ‘s expenses cover up investigation. They are all still at it as though nothing ever happened.
I once asked Gordon Brown the time of day. His answer took 3 and a half hours and by the end I still didn’t know.
During PMQs, he’d have said “it’s Ashcroft O’Clock”
Tell me about it. Explaining even the simplest things to guidophiles can take days.
It can’t be a flaw in your powers of persuasion so it must be them.
Those Mental Health Therapy sessions in Greenock Clinic don’t come cheap. Almost as expensive as my speech therapy!
Hello Bollocks ,
As I was saying to wifey Harry “ET” the other day … the sooner that Balls goes to therapy the sooner I can claim it against tax in the PLP accounts before the tax year ends.
Annnnnnnnnnnnnd mInnneee.
On a practical note, guys: How long are you going to be talking about Gordon Brown? It’s just that I might not have that long to live.
Brown is the new Thatcher (except for the BBC of course).
As long as they’re scamming their thicko advertisers, massaging the traffic figures and nothing much is happening politically, they’ll talk about Gordon. Most of us have managed to move on.
Sleep In First.
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You may have moved on, however your children ( if you have any ) will be paying throughout their lifetimes for Browns wretchedly bad and devious actions.
Don’t forget B£iars PFI ticking time bomb.
Indeed, PFI the gift that keeps taking.
“Most of us have managed to move on.”
Only problem is, the bastard’s debts are following us like some dreadful stench. Soon they will completely engulf us.
Guido really !!
Why not jusy say £209k and be done.
There are times when fancy wordplay is its own worst enemy .
Needless to say ….. so I won’t
Is it because Gordon said “not a single penny” and Guido was pointing out there are 20,934,300 pennies?
Just a hunch.
Surely most of it will go to pay for Sarah’s Twitter account?
A Labour canvasser asked if I’d be voting for them. I asked for one good reason why I should vote for Labour. He became angry and said he didn’t have time for trick questions.
i would vote for the respect party. i may even donate. imagine a party of the left appealing to nutters. it would split the red vote in two!
Is it possible the 20k is waiting to be distributed to charity? Just saying like.
As any good capitalist will tell you, it’s working capital.
Just resting in his account, perhaps
20K?
I believe a trip to Spec Savers is in order.
He obviously likes to channel money through a middleman or woman – remember how he paid the expenses for his cleaning through his brother and not directly to the cleaner?
The Imaginary cleaner you mean !
He’ll give it away for sweeties ….. like he did our gold.
Moderator , remember the biblical dicrum :
” He who is moderated last will live to moderate the longest ”
( Come on Guv’nor — let it thru — you know you want to .)
I’m surprised he hasn’t bought gold with it……
He could’nt bloody afford it now
He ain’t that bright is he? Selling our gold at the bottom of the market was a bloody stupid thing to do – let alone a “monetary wizard”.
Let my Jack Dromey handle it. He’ll not be able to recall anything about it.
Broadcasting the news weeks prior to the actual sale was also another enormous blunder. McBust should have been nicked there and then for insider trading.
Why don’t you put a date on these blaste video clips Guido .
You narly gave me a heart attack !! I thought this was Brown speaking this afternoon in quasi real time .
Was it ? Was he re running the general election for the benefit of the dross who had been in their pit the last 22 months and just awoken from their golden slumbers hoping they would re vote in his favour and the past 22 months could be exained away as a ” shower scene ” ??
What I want to know is where the bloody hell has Labour general secretary gone, and why now?
Organising cocktails in Buenas Aires? Buying a list of potential donors’ credit cards in Mumbai? Whaling with the Japanese? The possibilities are endless, but most likely on holiday because that is what people do who feel they are worth it.
Thank you again for unadelterated free speech Guido .
Your ” Mod” boy is an example to us all on the ever vigilant powers of the British judicial system regarding the minutiae ofthe libel laws.
Why not keep talking about Brown? He was absolutely useless and the Labour Party was bullied into accepting him as leader.
Fortunately the voting public rejected him at the first opportunity. Useless chancellor and PM, probably the worst in living memory.
worst chancellor ever anywhere no doubt. as PM he was just a c#nt
McRuin was and still is, a thug in a suit.
Don’t knock him, I managed to buy a humongous stack of gold at very reasonable prices!
As did we.
He was unelected and we were bullied into accepting him as PM.
He was worse than useless, he had no social skills and he had a bad temper. Just the sort of person needed to run a country.
The electorate rejected him and his party were never given the opportunity to reject him.
Comparisons with the blessed J Major are inaccurate; Major went to the country and won, albeit against Kinnock….
Kinnock didn’t do badly out of it. Neither did his wife and son.
Yes, for two people who originally despised the Common Market (as was) they did pretty well to become millionaires at our expense. They also despised the House of Lords, but their deep-seated principles prevented them from saying ‘no thanks’ when the gravy train was passing their door.
Such splendid, gold-plated hypocrisy, a really fine example to the current bunch of useless, self-regarding politicians…
…and remember he had Balls in tow. A good reason to hang him now.
Interesting article in this tweet about how the hacks feel about the Guardian
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speaking of which I see some female hack was up at Leveson today being asked about her relationship with senior plods.
I look forward to Amelia Hill getting the same treatment
What about the money he’s taken from the English tax payer as wages for not attending the HOC?
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Allegedly, the taxpayer is still paying for Mr & Mrs Bliar’s security.
Not allegedly, fact. Ride past the armed police in Connaught Square at least once a week
Another case of horrendous expense for you and me. Lets face it he (they) would be no loss if he/she were to err.. stop a bul……
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Nick “Not Dracoian” Cleggie, we’ll have a bit of a sniff around his emails and web habits and see if we can find any more info!
Brown, Blair, Livingstone good ‘socialist’ tax avoiders
This story is all very interesting but it is not takibng matters any further. Are we expected to go tut tut or do something?
Nobody can be surprised at this surely? Known liar tells a lie. Just normal behaviour for the odious Brown.
£209,000 has been held aside as a contingency for future Nokia replacements.
This is an attempt at a smear. The money could have been paid to charity the very next day.
It is just resting in the account?
…and it might be tomorrow.
Mr Brown could have formed a charitable trust instead of a limited company, if he had wished to ensure that none of his income from boring people to death could (a) be taxed or (b) benefit him.
Murdoch resigns as BSkyB chairman
ft.com
Stays on the board
Try finding Blair’s name on any document at Companies House.
Funnily enough our super new wiz bang internet snoopy laws will not target any politicians who are crooks and pocket liners or any such as T Bliar esq, crooks with a paper veneer of legality.
Onward and upward.
Do you have to resign directorships if you go to prison?
…well you certainly don’t have to resign Lordships!! In fact it is now viewed as a badge of honour.
Apparently requires a change of law to kick them out, somethingn naturally well beyond the ability of the “Mother of all Parliaments” !!!!
Brown is a biological hazard
I don’t think I can support this coalition if they go ahead with all this email and internet snooping.
Er this is story about Brown is a load of bolox. Any accountant will tell you the “cash at bank” figure is the real money reserved the organisation holds. It has not been paid to anyone and as such should not been taxed. All Guido has uncovered is that the organisation has healthy reserves. None of it has been paid to Brown. Pish poor reporting from Guido.
Exactly
Well you see Mr Monkey, I trust that Mr Brown chap, he is as honest as the day is short.
You don’t think he might come back do you?
Remember the trouble Schwarzenegger7 had getting rid of the second Terminator?
Guido will put up any c r a p on this blog to avoid talking about the Murdochs being run out of town
If he had received the money personally, rather than funnelling it through a Ltd Co , then it would have been taxable as his income and 50% tax paid. As he has kept it in reserves and not declared a dividend then no tax is payable. In my simple analysis he has avoided paying income tax !
No one will visit my mucky websites…
But I’ll still have young girls tities on page 3, keeps me going it does.
tities ??
T’s should, like titties, be in pairs, sorry about that, I was getting all excited just typing the word!
Now, who shall I put on page 3, oh the power.
What can I do now Rupie ?
I used to show my titties in the Screws and even the Sun is getting a bit second rate now..
Should I move to the Express/Star, the real pornographers ?
A lying bastard, as ever.
Yesterday was very warm.
Today it’s a bit colder.
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The biggest news in the Village is the resignation of James Murdoch
Not a word from our lovely Guido
But I suppose he is now with the competitor Dead Tree pornographer
You are an ass Guido…FFS…
Hadn’t he resigned already?
To run the TV department?
Yes
He had been denoted to running the so-called TV department but they no longer want him either
And he has become persona non grata in the UK now for reasons evident to anyone who can read and write…
James is leaving before he can be arrested in the UK….
Resigning as a Director of Sotheby’s etc also
Interesting…
His lawyers must have told him something
(or some bent cop in the Met)
Praise The Gord!
I have been awaiting this moment , oh Gord.
And now vengeance is mine!
The murdochian false prophet has been cast out into the wilderness.
Only I, lady Saint Polly Pot remain for you to worship.
Praise be to Gord!
Nobody reads it, whatever it is. What a fucking hypocrite the fat, *Oirish* tosser really is. The same goes for his *posh* Robin.
English dipsticks the Great Gordon had a plan to ensure an independant Scotland would surge ahead and flourish while you English sank to the bottom of the cesspit of bankruptcy….and it would seem to have worked…glug!glug!glug!
I do find it amusing that you create all these problerms for a few $hillings and pence
While I, as an honest UK resident, pillage Russia avoid tax in the UK and wander around London with a dozen security gorillas…
How many footie clubs do yoou own Oligo ?
can we have a contract ?
Football club = money laundering scam.
I helped to destroy New Labout
Now I am bent on destroying the Con/Libdem Coalition
All that is left in the UK, children, is to follow my pornographer boss…
He is aggressive, determined, profitable and holds the future in his hands…
Is the Daily Express still in favour of the British Empire ?
And Imperial Preference ?
And anti-European ?
I do hope so
And that a republican so-called Irishman like Guido can perpetuate the traditions I established…
Too close to home fatty?
On his grave?
Beavers…mmmmm
Steady on
I made my fortune with beaver..
Stop impersonating me.
The Con-Lib-Dumbfcuk coalition is continuity ZaNu-Labour. Shovelling the same shite and calling it a new name, is not change. Until people like you realise we don’t want what politicians are peddling, dissent and disatisfaction will continually rise.
Since when has income tax been calculated on cash balances? Can we now assume that all companies don’t have a separate legal identity from their owners? Or do these niceties only have relevance when Guido’s Tory friends are being attacked?
Where is income tax mentioned? Well nowhere actually, your red herring argument falls at the first. Massive fail.
In red at the end of the post. Please learn to read before commenting in future!
Did you notice that Gordon Brown is not actually a director? He works, gets paid, puts the money in a company run by his wife and avoids paying the 50p tax rate that he introduced.
He then uses some of that money to run his political office, which surely comes under the category of “political donations”. The difference is that political donations cannot be charged against tax where payments to his company can.
My post on Gordon Brown’s tax avoidance is here: http://bit.ly/GH5Vkq
And the other Labour tax avoiders here: http://bit.ly/GIi0Vd
Gordon’s Brown Hole Ltd
Shows how daft El Gordo is – fancy holding cash – of course its taxed – to inflation
£5K (?) p.a.?
Lucky he’s never held a responsible job
The cu*t will probably trade it for Turkestan Tenge.
Brown’s moral compass always points away from himself.
What lovely green eyes you have boys.
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And the moral of this long winded story, is that they are all twats, no matter which party they belong to!
This sounds like a job for HMC Investigation Department.
The only thing is that with a roomful of paperpushers and bits of paper old bagpipes is in his element and has the ability to grind people down.
“Abbreviated Accounts” are an abomination!
Lets be clear, Gordon Brown chose to set up a Ltd Company. He chose not to make it a charity.
The conclusion must be that it is not a charity.
Whether it was the intention or not, the Browns are in the fortunate position of owning a small company, that will hold hundreds of thousands of pounds of money, sheltered from higher rates of tax, and whose shares can be passed to their children free of Inheritance tax.
In the meantime, as and when required, income and dividends can be drawn from the company in such a way as to minimise tax liabilities. Their children can become employees, and receive an income.
But it is the ability to pass money through the generations that holds the prospect of saving the Browns the most tax.
These tax saving vehicles are available to all with large amounts of money, but surely it is hypocritical of the Browns to use them.