Could Zack Polanski be any more of an obnoxious twat?

One example:

2025, Bradford Council made 1,838 payments totalling £5m categorised under Covid Winter Grant. But this scheme closed in ‘21. Payments include £39k to Save the Mothers Trust. Office below. £238k from gov. grants over 5 yrs. Website directs donations to Pakistan, Yemen, Palestine & Uganda. Charity Commission website shows it operates in 10 regions

It'll probably be quicker to compile a list of the ones who don't.

Greens have been parasitised by perverts and antisemites. Dave is a political opportunist, a puppet "as a Jew" leader and a fucking twat. The only tit he's ever made bigger is himself.

Not to mention people expecting prescriptions for stuff they can buy in the supermarket for pence but manages to cost the NHS a fortune due to admin and handling charges.

Yes, unfortunately, if you're Jewish, your "perception" can get you seriously wounded.

Good point. The amount of fraud - (tax, benefit, grant, contracts) seems extremely high atm and that’s just from the snippets I’ve seen.

There is an account on X called The Procurement Files which looks at local and main government contracts being awarded around the country. It highlights the sums of money being spent with all sorts of organisations that seem disproportionate or potentially fraudulent.

I wonder which Green candidate will be posting on Facebook on how this is actually revenge or a false flag or whatever.

I have a friend in Sweden. The healthcare is EXCELLENT. You have to pay for prescriptions up to an annual comp and you have to pay a base fee to see a doctor - cash desk at the entrance to A&E but their time wasters and missed appointments must be minuscule. Can we have this system here please? No because those on low wages have been conditioned to think they deserve to pay little to no tax, and the bleeding heart liberals think our health service is the envy of the world, despite dire cancer stats and people dying in A&E corridors.

There is a growing narrative that Jews, especially Ashkenazi Jews are European, so have no ancestral right to live in Israel.

When people eulogise about ' Nordic countries' they point out the high taxes and great services but fail to point out that everyone pays high taxes- rich and poor. Minimal, restricted unemployment benefit, subsidised childcare but nothing for non working parents etc, insurance based healthcare etc.
I'm convinced the Greens know this. They spend a lot of time talking about the 1%, a little quiet about the 10%, a large proportion of whom are their London based home owning supporters.

Yup. Amazon. Myth number two in the commonly quoted big book of tax myths. Wait for it…

Anyone who is really interested in inequality ought to read the 6 year IFS study into it published the other day - the Deaton review. I suggest ZP takes a look. It talks of different sorts of inequality and whether / why it’s a problem and how best to tackle it. It obviously points out why a wealth tax is a non-starter.

But when it comes to wealth, people are wealthy due to a number of reasons. Inherited wealth yes, but also wealth produced by a person’s entrepreneurship (Jim Ratcliffe etc) and artistic talent (JK Rowling, Ed Sheeran etc). Which of these ‘inequalities’ do people have an issue with and why? Do we really want to drive entrepreneurs from the country? And artists who pay a tonne of income tax (like JK Rowling) because we’d be a financially MUCH poorer country if we did.

Prepare to be told they're "making it up", Flossette - probably by the same people who insist that the numbers "proving" that fraud is a tiny % of the benefits bill really are true

Surely you know by now that all this is the fault of the very wealthy - oh, and Amazon

But happily HMRC does publish the best estimates of how much ‘the wealthy’ are evading and it’s a tiny TINY frastion of the total evasion, which is mainly driven by small and medium sized enterprises. There is no magic money tree of wealthy tax evaders to shake down. You are stating one of the most commonly stated tax myths there are, and as a tax professional I am cringing for you! Talk about gullible!

I think there would be some value in a widespread ‘get a grip’ training programme. Universities sound like they’d benefit entirely (no offence to the legions of sane and rational young people who just want to get on with an education and are being hampered by the ones in need of ‘a grip’).

Institute of Fiscal Studies
The top 1% of earners pay 30% of all tax revenue.

The highest amount in 20 years.

As the Labour government in the 1970s found to their cost, if you tax the rich too heavily, they remove their money from the country and then you get no tax from them.

A balance has to be found - not perpetual calls to ‘tax the rich’ as if that will solve all the problems. At the moment as our benefits bill exceeds the income tax revenue for the first time ever, we have a major economic problem.

She did! This student, a young middle class white woman, was told to self manage in order to cope if the word "Israel" appeared. The girl said "it's everything they've done, I can't bear it".
She then went to the pastoral team. I hope they pointed her in the direction of Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran et al, for some measure of reality

I find the whole 'it's triggering me so i have to shut it down' thing very, very worrying because it automatically stops any sort of reconciliation/discourse about opposing ideas.

I hope your friend (sympathetically) introduced the concept of getting a grip to her student 😂

Good, you should be! No knee jerk reaction from him. Unlike the hyper sensitive student my friend teaches, who saw the word "Israel" in a different context and was too "triggered" by the word to carry on with the seminar. I ask you 🙄

He is. I'm very proud of him for that and all sorts of other reasons 😊

Carrying placards with that slogan on is truly appalling.

Also it sounds like he's intelligent and doesn't fall for slogans or simplistic binary thinking.

According to my DS (early 20s, at university) most of his friends think the Greens are great. When he points out they're really not great at all he jokingly gets called a Reform supporter 😂

He is not a Reform supporter btw, he can just spot a charlatan after years of political discussions growing up.

He also liked, and supported, a now notorious antisemitic mural which appeared in London.
He since changed his mind and his position on that particular image fortunately. However, it shows at the very least, poor judgement.

Agree. You can't refer to Hamas as "friends" yet somehow claim not to be antisemitic.

It would be nice if Corbyn had actually supported Jewish people against fascism in the 21st century, not just what happened in the early 20th at Cable Street.
"Our friends in Hamas" are antisemitic, homophobic, misogynist, anti democratic nihilists. Corbyn chose his side.