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Westminstenders: Move Your Business To The EU

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RedToothBrush · 24/01/2021 14:46

The government is advising people to move their businesses to the EU to avoid UK taxation and red tape.

Why would you do this?

For the interests of the uk?

Or is it about power WITHIN the uk?

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DGRossetti · 26/01/2021 18:56

One law for us ...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/26/conservative-party-illegally-collected-data-on-ethnicity-of-10m-voters-mps-told

However, Elizabeth Denham insisted there had been no need to issue an enforcement notice against the party, as it had voluntarily deleted the data it held after a “recommendation” from her office.

(contd)

UK data protection is a bad joke at the best of times.

Clavinova · 26/01/2021 19:07

ListeningQuietly
A fairly brutal assessment
Of the worst-affected nations, the UK has earned the dishonor of having the highest number of confirmed deaths in the world, proportionate to population.

Why is Belgium missing from the chart in the CNN link? And Slovenia, although they have a smaller population (2 million);

coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

ListeningQuietly · 26/01/2021 19:11

Why is Belgium missing from the chart in the CNN link? And Slovenia, although they have a smaller population (2 million);
Death certificates ....
same as there are two sets of data in the UK

SabrinaThwaite · 26/01/2021 19:13

@Clavinova

SabrinaThwaite

In his radio interview he said HMRC were very helpful.

He said the same in his Twitter thread.

But his issue isn’t with HMRC.

It’s with Johnson and his abysmal last minute deal slid through at the 11th hour to avoid scrutiny.

Clavinova · 26/01/2021 19:23

Death certificates...
same as there are two sets of data in the UK

Scroll down -
Cases and mortality by country

COUNTRY CONFIRMED DEATHS CASE-FATALITY DEATHS/100K POP.

San Marino 2,889 65 2.2% 192.39
Belgium 694,858 20,814 3.0% 182.23
Slovenia 158,131 3,379 2.1% 163.44
UK 3,680,10 98,723 2.7% 148.48

ListeningQuietly · 26/01/2021 19:25

Sabrina
So true.
I was chatting to a senior officer on a long standing issue the other day
and they are so exasperated
its insane
a lot of the good staff are taking early retirement
as are teachers, nurses etc etc etc

Clavinova · 26/01/2021 19:26

But his issue isn’t with HMRC.
It’s with Johnson and his abysmal last minute deal slid through at the 11th hour to avoid scrutiny.

He mentions starving children in one of the links as well.

SabrinaThwaite · 26/01/2021 19:30

@Clavinova

But his issue isn’t with HMRC. It’s with Johnson and his abysmal last minute deal slid through at the 11th hour to avoid scrutiny.

He mentions starving children in one of the links as well.

Indeed he does. A nod to Johnson’s debacle over free school meals.

But I note you don’t dispute that Boris fuck business Johnson HAS NEVER RUN A FUCKING BUSINESS.

Clavinova · 26/01/2021 19:35

Indeed he does. A nod to Johnson’s debacle over free school meals.

Indeed - I raised an eyebrow when James O'Brien described him as not political yesterday.

mrslaughan · 26/01/2021 19:38

I think everyone becomes political when they are completely tucked over by their own government.....

SabrinaThwaite · 26/01/2021 19:43

Lambert has every right to comment on Johnson’s handling of free school meals (and imagine the UK prime minister having to be shamed into doing the right thing by Marcus Rashford).

That doesn’t make him “political”, as much as you’d like to claim that his views should be ignored because he has the “wrong” flags on his Twitter account.

And ... no response to Boris fuck business Johnson HAS NEVER RUN A FUCKING BUSINESS?

TheElementsOfMedical · 26/01/2021 20:27

It's very neat - only people who never express any opinion on anything remotely political, are to be allowed validity in expressing any opinion on anything remotely political Grin

Chersfrozenface · 26/01/2021 20:44

The implication of the remark on the mention of starving children is that Lambert doesn't like Boris Johnson because of his, Lambert's, political stance and is at the very least exaggerating his problems with importing goods in an attempt to make Johnson look bad in the media.

slitheringsnakes · 26/01/2021 21:00

So sickening to see Johnson saying that the government did everything they could to prevent Covid deaths. Their main interest in Covid has been using it to extract public money and give it to their friends and spouses. They did that in the knowledge that it would cause unnecessary deaths. Because that's what happens when you give a sweets manufacturer a contract to produce PPE. And so on and so on.

SabrinaThwaite · 26/01/2021 21:02

Johnson is damaged goods.

ListeningQuietly · 26/01/2021 21:08

@SabrinaThwaite

Johnson is damaged goods.
Sadly at the moment I have to conclude keep him that way THe more puss ridden and septic the pro Brexit Tories become over the next few months as their chickens come home and shit on them the better

I'm not sure what the alternative is right now
as Starmer has vanished
BUT
there should be elections in MAy
Only weak countries cancel elections after all
so the we get to vote for things
will come true

borntobequiet · 26/01/2021 21:11

@SabrinaThwaite

Johnson is damaged goods.
And that’s why the Tories will hang on to him until they can jettison him and all his Covid/Brexit baggage, at which point the Govian glory years will commence
RedToothBrush · 26/01/2021 21:14

www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2021/01/26/news/interview_pascal_soriot_ceo_astrazeneca_coronavirus_covid_vaccines-284349628/
Interview with the CEO of AstraZeneca.

Its good. Covers just about everything.

Key para:
“The UK agreement was reached in June, three months before the European one. As you could imagine, the UK government said the supply coming out of the UK supply chain would go for the the UK first. Basically, that's how it is. In the EU agreement it is mentioned that the manufacturing sites in the UK were an option for Europe, but only later.

Do read the full thing though about whether you think this is a reasonable response and whether its its a fair one.

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Ellie56 · 26/01/2021 21:17

Johnson saying that the government did everything they could to prevent Covid deaths.

Yes of course they did - like not closing the borders last year when it all started kicking off, letting the Cheltenham Festival go ahead, letting a load of Madrid supporters come into the country when their own city was a Covid hotspot, presiding over the PPE shambles, ditto Track & Trace etc etc...

Angry
HannibalHayes · 26/01/2021 21:28

Ah. I see "not wanting poor children to starve" is now counted as being political...

Peregrina · 26/01/2021 21:49

Not wanting children to starve is most definitely political, and those Tories who voted against providing meals for children ought to be hanging their heads in shame. Not that they will be.This includes people like Grease-Mugg who happily breaks Covid restrictions to make a show of his religion. He could try to remember a few choice verses from Scripture.

Coquohvan · 26/01/2021 21:51

I heard Zahawi say on TV earlier today that the UK ordered vaccines in May x amount delivered per month etc
A few EU countries were going to order their own supply until the EU stepped in and said No the EU would order for all the EU. However they didn’t formally order until August a full 3 months later.
No wonder other EU countries are pi@@ed off with the EU and UK.

HannibalHayes · 26/01/2021 21:51

@Clavinova

Death certificates... same as there are two sets of data in the UK

Scroll down -
Cases and mortality by country

COUNTRY CONFIRMED DEATHS CASE-FATALITY DEATHS/100K POP.

San Marino 2,889 65 2.2% 192.39
Belgium 694,858 20,814 3.0% 182.23
Slovenia 158,131 3,379 2.1% 163.44
UK 3,680,10 98,723 2.7% 148.48

By the looks of it, we're the only island in the top 50.

So much for " taking back control" of our borders...

Dustyboots · 26/01/2021 21:59

Why has Starmer vanished? Is it a tactic?

RedToothBrush · 26/01/2021 22:00

@Dustyboots

Why has Starmer vanished? Is it a tactic?
He's currently in isolation due to contact with a positive covid case.

Its his third isolation.

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