Vennells substituted the word 'bug' for 'exception'. I have seen this behaviour before. I have an internal document instructing senior HMRC officials to use the term 'exploitation' of a VAT exemption not 'abuse' because abuse had legal ramifications. bbc.com/news/business-…

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Whatever he has done in the past , Brian Altman will be forever remembered as one of the permanently tainted infamous names who perpetrated the biggest miscarriage of justice in uk history. His reputation is surely doomed....

How is this even legal ? lawgazette.co.uk/news/post-offi…

Interesting to re-read an interview I gave to CMU in 2011 just before LVCR was removed from the Channel Islands. I said physical music was far from dead and specialists would rise again and I was right! bhttps://archive.completemusicupdate.com/article/qa-richard-allen-ravas/

Remember the proposed phone app customs border in Ireland?🤡

Was delighted to be quoted in this piece in the Sunday Times about the staggering success of Shein a Chinese company that has exploited loopholes in tax rules giving it a huge competitive advantage over domestic retailers (remember Play,com?) thetimes.co.uk/article/can-fa…

Dedicated to Bucks planning department. Apologies to the MC5 Anne-Marie Vladar #BucksTimeTraveller Chalfont Mutterings udio.com/songs/3BRcRBHB…

It is scary what AI can now do. Here's a song about sewage flooding in Chalfont St. Peter dedicated to Thames Water Feargal Sharkey Anne-Marie Vladar #BucksTimeTraveller Chalfont Mutterings udio.com/songs/knkzH5Cy…

AI really is rather scary. Here are a few songs I generated about HMRC, tax dodging, sewage flooding in Chalfont St Peter and poor planning set to swing, folk, opera and the MC5. udio.com/songs/tC2YYP1J…

Richard Allen RAVAS Observer article by Anna Tims asks if the stamp scanners are foolproof when just one stamp out of a book is declared fake.

I'm becoming increasingly fascinated by how often WC executives are prepared to standup and tell baldfaced lies to local residents even through those residents know they're been lied to and are willing to call it out for exactly what it is, bullshit.

Well done everyone. 👏👏👏

And in how many other towns and villages across the country has this happened.

Water companies blatantly and deliberately adding more and more to a sewage system they knew couldn't and wouldn't cope. Corruption?

And Ofwat did what exactly?

Jaw dropping moment ; when Thames, Bucks Council and The Environment Agency realised they were expected to address residents. They thought it was a drop in 'flooding workshop' whatever that is. 'Turd workshop' would be more appropriate. The anger was palpable Feargal Sharkey

Repeat after me Thames Water 💧 sewage dumping due to groundwater ingress is illegal, sewage dumping due to groundwater ingress is illegal, sewage dumping due to groundwater ingress is illegal...

Wouldn't that be right Environment Agency.

Angry residents from the village of Chalfont St Peter challenge Thames Water (speaker) & Bucks Council about months of #flooding & #sewage backing up in some homes ⁦Feargal Sharkey⁩ ⁦Joe Crowley⁩ ⁦Paul Jennings⁩ ⁦⁦Steve Backshall⁩

It's amazing how the Post Office go to inordinate lengths to protect corpororate backside prosecuting innocent people yet potential crime hiding in plain site is ignored.

50 x 1st class stamps for £9.99 on eBay. Comes with the caveat seller doesn't know if they are genuine. Plenty of other similar offers. Does anyone enforce anything anymore? eBay = Fence?

Interesting to note one of the few areas of progress in a new HMRC report is the closing of the VAT gap from £11.9 billion in 2005/6 to £7.6 billion in 2023. 2005 is the year I began campaigning . Just saying vatfraud.org 🌻 Ralph Lucas Lord Leigh of Hurley gov.uk/government/new….