Blair Faces HMRC Unpaid Interns Investigation
In a delicious twist of fate, the very man who introduced the minimum wage to Britain is facing a possible HMRC investigation into allegations he has broken minimum wage laws. Last week Guido picked up Graduate Fog‘s Tony Blair unpaid intern story, calculating that it would take the £20 million-a-year former PM just twenty minutes to earn enough to fund a three month minimum wage internship. The papers followed suit, and now it looks like Tone’s tightness could prove costly.
Evidence of the Office of Tony Blair’s alleged breach of minimum wage laws has been passed on to HMRC. Employers found to have broken the law can be forced to pay compensation of up to eighty times the minimum wage, in the case of Blair’s three month internships that makes almost a quarter of a million pounds per intern. That’s at least a couple of speeches…
Like Al Capone – massive criminality but tripped up on tax in the end
Do his tax records go back far enough for any HMRC tax inspection to take place?
How does this differ from any other unpaid intern? ( I regard all unpaid internships as a racket BTW )
You get pharisaism, hypocrisy and then Blair.
Indeed
Oh dear, I appear to have just accidentally shredded all of Tony’s
expensestax returnsActually Al Capone just supplied alcohol to adults that wanted to drink it. Something that was entirely legal before and since. Blair is a murderous, psychopathic war criminal. I know who I’d prefer to be around.
Spot on !
If mrs thatch had not destroyed the country’s economy by closing down the mines perhaps Tony Blair would not have been too busy to overlook this small matter.
MmmmWhaaaahahahahahahaha. Idiot…
Whoar!! You don’t get many of them to the pound!!
Would rather see him in the Hague!
Wouldn’t touch him with yours, 8illy.
That’s the biggest pair of Moobs I’ve seen lately, bet Cherie is jealous.
I’m jealous
its an early xmas –SCROOGE
The c*nt is mass murderer and should be locked up!
“BBC admits paying more than THREE TIMES more money to the Labour Party for “expenses” compared to the Conservatives: http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/126431/response/317755/attach/3/RFI20120883%20final%20response.pdf …”
It’s to ensure ‘balance’ no doubt. Across the range of their output. Having investigated themselves they’ve decided that 100%of the time they get it ‘about right’.
Only 100%. That is restrained for them.
String the bastard up
Oopsie Daisie Mr Blair…
What’s the difference between Blair and many MPs ?
Blair is a caring compassionate socialist who just happens to have made a few bob.
It must be an oversight if one of his higly valued assistants was foolish enough not to pick up sufficient payment for his services.
Don’t get me wrong – im no tony fan – I’m just not clear what the difference with between Blair having unpaid interns and most of Westminster, NGOs etc etc…
Sure, there are a load of greedy arseholes about who should be put up against wall and shot. And your point is?
You’re right, but I guess any stick will do to have a go at the creature.
Trouble is, there’s so many of the hypocritical creeps, there aren’t enough sticks to go round.
I could lease you one.
He will also be EU President and Pope. Have I left anything out?
Get him with the law, then scrap it straight after – at least it will have been good for something!
Senior Downing Street source: ‘It will take a miracle for us to win the vote tonight. We think we are going to lose.’
No comment about the public who pay for all this winning for once then?
Guido
Thank you for referring to Mrs Ed Milliband acting for these obscene people
http://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/weee/trial-begins-in-uk2019s-biggest-ever-weee-export-case
This is clearly another Trafigura scandal
But I suppose Mrs Milliband would sell her mother for a few quid
It’s the right thing to do.
It says so on my spinning compass.
errrrrrrr isnt this the politics of Envy
Yes it is, we’re envious of his moobs.
Are you envious in case some of these people start getting paid?
Don’t get upset Guido
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2083827/The-12m-tax-mystery-Tony-Blairs-earnings-soar-42–pays-315-000-HMRC.html
I am used to avoiding tax
It is in my genes you see…
Quick lots of news ( good or bad )….Time to dump.
*** U Turn Number 365 ****
Today proposals to ban abortion clinics from offering advice to women seeking terminations have been ditched by the Government
It’s just great, the more U turns the better.
My eyes my eyes!!!!!
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Anyone stupid enough to work for the corrupt hypocritical war-mongering cnut should not get any sympathy or help.
He who lives by the sword…….. dies by the sword
It could not have happened to a nicer person……
May he live in very troubled times for the rest of his miserable days……
Hope a walk thru the forest will be terminal & real poetic justice
Tight fisted, slippery as an eel. He’ll be cooked and served up in a nice green sauce
in a couple of years.
Get that man a bra !
Buy your Bros from Richards of Madison Avenue
They are Manssieres.
Can I just say that I think this story is indicative of the modernisation that is so desperately needed at HMRC.
They need to enter the modern world and get up to speed with things. They are just too hidebound to old methods. This is why, in a memo to Ed Miliband, I have suggested that a future Labour government should privatise HMRC so that the Treasury can put tax collection out to tender to private debt collection agencies.
Now, when I suggested this to Cherie, she told me: “That’s quintessential New Labour Huntery”, but what does Cherie know!
I don’t know why people are so frightened of modernisation. We need to live in the real world and modernise things.
Hardly a modern concept. James I did this in the early 1600s, it was called “the great farming of the customs” – a licence to collect tax was sold and any extra tax was kept by the purchaser “farmer”.
How much do bullets cost these days, there has to be millions with this fuckers name on them.
Just look at the tits on that…
45 You don’t see a Great Tit for ages, and then, suddenly, a pair of them appear.
… apology: ‘pair’ is singular in form (like the aforementioned tits), so ‘appears’ would be better Syntax.
p.s. Further apologies for mentioning ‘tax’… and for mentioning ‘syn’.
Big Busty Tony earns undisclosed sum too appear
Cor with tits like that if he was under 15 I would be in there
Have you seen Blair’s tits! Yak… *Bwhaaaaarrr* straight into a bucket.