Hodge the Dodge: Satire is Dead
Question-dodging Margaret Hodge had some nerve asking the PM about tax avoidance today, and when she got her phone out to tweet afterwards the irony knew no bounds:
PM fails to answer my question on naming and shaming companies who avoid tax. #taxavoidance #pmqs—
Margaret Hodge MP (@margarethodge) December 05, 2012
Never mind the fact that she still hasn’t answered Guido’s repeated questions about her own tax arrangements. Come on Margaret, what was that about failing to answer questions?
Champagne socialist is hypocrite. Nowt new there.
Surely time for a piece of real investigative journalism to be done on Stemcor’s tax arrangements and of trusts hat benefit from profits… Ohh that’s right post Leveson they are all to scared poopless to have a crack!
Without wishing to give the impression that my preferred head apparel is the much vaunted tin foil hat, I am suspicious of the lack of interest that Cameron and the Conservatives in general appear to have in Hodge’s tax arrangements. I am not holding my breath for any investigation either. She is very relaxed about it all and probably has good reason to be.
She told Daily Politics on Tuesday she is taking action.
Are you being sued yet.
Will Stemcor appear before the PAC?
Hodge the dodge. lol
Best I could come up with is Mag the bag.
I think ‘Hodger The Dodger’ sounds better. Reminds one of that bloke ruled Albania. Another socialist paradise
From wiki
Margaret Eve Oppenheimer was born in Egypt in 1944 to Hans Oppenheimer and his wife Lisbeth (née Hollitscher).[1][2] Hans had left Stuttgart, Germany in the mid-1930s to join an uncle in his metals trading business based in Cairo and Alexandria
From Stemcor
Stemcor is a privately owned company. The majority of shares are held by the Oppenheimer family, with the balance of shares held by other directors and employees.
From Stemcor
Margaret Hodge’s shareholding in Stemcor
2,399,600 shares in Stemcor are currently held in Margaret Hodge’s name. This excludes shares held in trust or in her children’s names. The shareholding equates to 1.26% of the total share capital and the current value of the shareholding is £1.8m.
http://www.stemcor.com/Response%20to%20further%20allegations%20of%20tax%20avoidance%20in%20the%20UK%20press.aspx
So we still don’t know how many shares she holds in trust or in her Children’s names, both of which are tax avoidance vehicles, perfectly legal, perfectly sensible but in her case are the actions of a hypocrite.
I see she also worked for Price Waterhouse, Chuka and Reeves’s friends.
Margaret Eve Oppenheimer
I sure that there is a tatsy anagram here somewhere.
No ‘b’ for bitch. or ‘y’ for hypocrite, or ‘u’ for ugly.
There is a ‘v’ for vile, but not the ‘l’.
I give up!
There’s an anagram solver prog somewhere on the net that gives you all the alternatives. Go hunting.
But if you start ranting on about the poor people not having roofs over their heads and rich people dodging their fair share of tax it tends to shift the gaze of the electorate away from the ranter to this mythical club called “The Rich” who do fuck all most of the day except steal the poor’s birthright.
I’m an idle bastard who doesn’t want to get his arse off the sofa every day so I’ll vote for this person who is going to give me other people’s money.
When she got up to speak about tax avoidance Dave should have been facing an open goal. But where was he – back in the changing rooms still lacing up his fucking boots!
Someone tell the Tories that when they have an open goal ffs SHOOT!
Piano wire on order.
If only.
She , like most politicians is a hypocrite.
And how much does the state give you?
How much hassle you mean?
guido the woman has no shame thats the problem with these people.
Fucking Ann Clwyd turning on the waterworks. Phoney c-unt loves turning on the histrionics.
Be understanding; she’s Welsh.
I would have run the other way if she started droning on at me about her hubby too !
Pity she isnt crying for the shit that happened in Iraq shes is a f…..g drama queen her husband ,what about the ordinary joe
It’s F,ucking bleak everywhere.
Cos you F,uckers have now got F,uck all to nick!
Hope HMRC are chasing her.
Has she actually sued anyone yet?
Threats she has made, action taken she has not.
I can’t see Guido’s imaginary writ technique being used successfully against him.
Just because her own behaviour is questionable doesn’t mean she can’t ask questions of others.
In fact, I wouldn’t mind if a few more of our politicians had titanium balls like Margaret.
Anyone else notice Blinky say “you’re lying” to Cameron over and over again after he quoted Burnham? Isn’t that a clear contravention of Parliamentary code of conduct? I’ll have the video uploaded soon.
All joking aside, how can the behaviour of almost all of the Labour front bench be acceptable ? im actually quite scared of that shower getting in again.They are dishonest and manipulative, very worrrying.
Yeah, because obviously we’re in safe hands at the moment.
Keep hanging onto nurse dear.
Guido, these people operate with one half of their brain shut off and look out of only one eye by choice.
That it makes them look clearly unelectable to more people is the only victory you’ll get from this, you’re banging your head against a wall here, she’s almost psychedelically deluded.
I use NONE of my brain, and looking out of one eye is not by choice, in my instance.
[Gordon is going to suicide ram Dave's Palace, Vultan turns to Gordon] That must be one hell of a planet you men come from!
Investors are fleeing other countries,and,deep joy,coming here to invest,so
we can breathe a sigh of relief cos george said so.
I think what’s important is that Margaret is showing that tax avoidance is an important issue that we need to get round the table to discuss and that’s what’s important.
The fact the stupid woman is a tin-eared fucking hypocrite is neither here nor there.
Does she originally hail from Liverpool by any chance?
no she is egyptian
German actualy but the Openheimer family had moved from Germany to Egypt in the 1930s to work in the family’s metal trading business where she was born in 1944. By this time the family were stateless and moved to London.
Off all the counties in all the world she had to choose ours
Why did the family move? Germany in the 1930′s was such a happening place.
Who wants to live under a right wing government?
Most do. But they didn’t want to live under a totalitarian left national socialist government.
National Socialist German Workers’ Party… the clue is in the name.
Unt no vun had ze clue to ask vy vay ver made stateless. Perhaps it vos something to do vith ze shameless tax avoidance back zen ?
The problem with tweets is that you only get 140 characters. Obviously she meant intelligent questions.
The hospital treating the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge says it “deeply regrets” giving out information about her condition to hoax callers from an Australian radio station.
That was a fair dinkum bit of social engineering.
Strewth – we thought the pretend Corgies let alone our accent and obvious international placed call would have given the game away.
Thith ith an outwage! I demand a judge led inqwuiry!!! someone must we sign!!!
be really nice if Stemcor appeared on the list
Mashed potato.
About time Hodges financial arrangements were brought into the public domain, so all can see whether she is a hypocrite or not.
Any nearer?
She is ignoring you Guido…
I suspect she considers you are irrelevant.
Yerrrs, like the tiny tiny 1.8 mill – your blog is just a tiny tiny fly in the media ointment so she’s going to ignore you.
Silly bitch.
What an odious woman, she and TWatson make a right couple.
Typical socialist scum bags.
Her excuse would be that she owns only one-and-a-quarter percent of the shares and couldn’t possibly use her voting strength to change policy anyway, even if it were proved the company were involved in aggressive tax avoidance. But she dare not sell off the shares and deprive her kids of their legacy, oh no. People like her can’t afford to stand on principle where giving their kids’ kids a leg up in life with trust funds is concerned. No, the grandkids have to have a bit of an independent income so they can afford to engage in “social activism” instead of having a workaday job like the plebs out there. And why not– all in a good cause, yeah?
But do the shares (numbers unknown) that she has placed into trust and her children’s names to avoid tax also carry voting rights?
And the family also invented the nuclear bomb. What a nice lot
The original nuclear family?
And no national dead tree press will touch this or any other story about MPs now that Leveson has “Putinified” the free press.
Far from being the wild west, the web is the only place left to read anything resembling the truth.
Indeed, a job well done.
Speaking of Osborne & Little,I have no further comment on this matter.It is for Gideon Osborne to give further and better particulars.
I have fondled his particulars. They were not very particular. But that Stemcor woman – fine filly. I believe Gangam Style is the correct vernacular.
George Osborne faces mounting calls to hand back the £450,000 profit he made flogging his taxpayer-funded second home.
The Chancellor’s windfall provoked outrage across the political spectrum when it was revealed by Guido Fawkes yesterday.
Allies of Nick Clegg said the Deputy PM returned the £38,750 profit he made from selling his second home in Sheffield– and called on Mr Osborne to do the same.
Right wing political blogger,Guido Fawkes,also urged the Chancellor to “do the right thing”.
Mr Fawkessaid: “If an MP has sold a second home which was purchased with the aid of taxpayers’ money then it seems only fair that a proportionate chunk of the profit should go back to Exchequer.”
David Cameron had already condemned Mr Osborne’s “greed”, saying it made him “unfit to govern”.
LOL1 bullyballs just on tv responding to chancellor’s statement complaining that the ‘deficit is not rising’ !!!
Then he realises he’s shot himself in the foot and tries to correct but not before the HOC breaks into uproarious laughter.
We won’t be showing that tonight.
Ask Lords Patten and Hall Hall.
The worstIi have ever seen Balls in Parliament. Both Eds have had a torrid time today.
What a tool.
That’s why Balls started again, so the BBC can edit it out totally.
Are you suggesting we cover things up?
Oh Yes rather like margarethodge when she was leader of that london council.
In 1985, Demetrious Panton complained about abuse that he had suffered while in the council’s care in the 1970s and 1980s. He did not receive an official reply until 1989, in which the council denied responsibility
In 2003, following Hodge’s appointment as Minister for Children, Demetrious Panton went public with his allegation that he was abused in Islington Council care and had repeatedly raised this issue with no effect. He accused Hodge of being ultimately responsible for the abuse that he suffered. Davies also went public with the issues that she had raised concerns about while working for the council.[13] Following a media campaign conducted by several national newspapers calling for her to resign from her new post, she responded to Panton by letter, in which she referred to him as ‘extremely disturbed’. Panton then passed the letter to the press which planned to publish it, only to be judicially restrained from doing so at the instruction of Hodge. The letter was eventually published, mainly on the grounds that the blocking of the letter was seen as disproportionate. Hodge was forced to publicly apologise and offered to contribute to a charity of Panton’s choosing as recompense
The BBC only cover up things that would embarrass the Liebore party, with the Tories they smear and lie
Now then, apocalypse now then.
See her glaring at the Tories when some were shouting Stemcor at her scummy bitch
They all have this “right to rule” type attitude,Ed x2 Hattie etc just sit there waiting for their turn again even though they have done b*gger all to produce any new policies in 2 1/2 years !
Quite extraordinary that the exact same shower of shite as last time are sitting on the shadow bench and they are 14 points ahead whilst nobody seems to know what their policies would be to sort out their mess. Without the New Labour machine reigning them in, if they get elected they are going to be extremely evil. It is indeed deeply troubling.
Balls has been on the lash, he’s all over the place. Hasn’t got a clue.
I really am a pathetic bell end.
You all are.
Cameron and Osborne look totally bored to death and I don’t blame them. Ball is just rambling away
And Ed Millionaireband looks like a nodding mong with a broken nose..
He looked utterly bewildered to me at what Balls was spouting on about. Both completely out of their depth.
Who is the opposition twat currently speaking in the hoc? Who is this useless bloke?
Someone had best call an ambulance for Mr Balls. His mind is wandering, his speech disjointed and he makes no sense.
A good day for Ed then?
Theres an overweight, blinking buffoon with a poor haircut in the House of Commons rambling and shouting at the sky like a tramp in the park on meths.
Is this care in the community or did he escape from a mental institution?
Someone’s located Harry Cole.
Margaret Hodge has the thickest skin of any life form on the planet.
Why aint sum won menshonned the royal baybee?
Itz wat us plebs wanna bee earing abowt.
Margaret has some questions to answer before she start to pontificate about tax dodging. Ask her the question and see if you get any further than Guido. You never know if she gets the question often enough…..
margarethodge@hotmail.co.uk
What a good idea. I have e-mailed and await a reply(or not)