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Michelle Donelan's libel costs (which we paid) were £34,000 and not £15,000 as first stated.

Penny Mordaunt defended her vehemently when the issue came to light saying that Donelan not accepting her redundancy payment of £16,000 (for serving as Education Sec for THIRTY FIVE

One thing is clear - the possibility that Angela Rayner avoided £1,500 in tax is an absolute outrage, whereas my wife definitely avoiding up to £20m tax is absolutely fine.

It looks like Angela Rayner avoided £1500 in tax. So can we please stop going on about the £4.9bn Covid fraud, Jezza’s 7 flats, Rishi’s non Dom wife, Zahawi’s billions, McVey’s property flipping, Bone/Wagg/Pincher etc sex scandals, Johnson’s £250k free legal advice. Fair’s fair.

This from Marina Purkiss ⏬️⏬️excellent graphic

Usual Tory hypocrisy and lying trying to point their fingers (usually rifling through troughs of our money) at Angela Rayner ⏬️⏬️⏬️

Angela Rayner's alleged tax avoidance on her house sale was half of what Esther McVey claims for rent *every single month* on a flat just one mile away from a property she jointly owns

My brother wants me to play with him but I can’t: I’ve got no legs, says little Palestinian boy maimed by the israeli bombing | #IsraeliButchers

For those of you under 60, Maureen Lipman was famous in the 80s for appearing in an advert for a phone line (which was a monopoly - crazy times).

Back then no one suspected she would turn out to be a fan of apartheid and the mass slaughter of brown children.

Miriam Margolyes looks at this little boy and feels compassion.

Maureen Lipman looks at this little boy and feels nothing.

That's what Zionism does to you.

🚨BREAKING: It has now been confirmed that the the aid workers targeted by Israel were travelling in a “deconflicted zone” in two armoured vehicles that were branded with the WCK logo and that it had *coordinated their movements with the Israeli military*…

World Central Kitchen

This Easter, GB News is suggesting to viewers that welcoming refugees is at odds with 'Christian values'... 🤔

Herd of elephants found a broken down orange truck and had a party

Esther McVey, Minister for Common Sense, and her husband talk a lot about wasteful public spending. But how careful are they with your money in their own lives? We’ve found out. 👀

If you are worried about

Benefit Fraud £0.5bn but not Government Corruption £219bn.

Immigration £2bn but not Tax Havens £150bn.

Junior Doctors pay rises £1.3bn but not Bankers tax cuts £7.3bn.

You‘re buying their lies.

Gosh, this sounds terrible.

Imagine losing 70% of your customers overnight…….

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Or do we think someone might be being slightly economical with the truth?

Let’s dig in!

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If you want to know how power works in the UK contrast the press interest in (1) the £1,500 of capital gains tax Angela Rayner is said to have evaded with (2) the tens of millions Lord Ashcroft denies having evaded. 🧵

I was interested to see some on here asking 'why should a rich person pay more for the same services than a poorer person?' on the back of council tax/poll tax discussions. Now of course no one likes tax, but we need to understand it, so I wanted to bash out my quick, unpolished

17.8m UK adults have annual income of less than £12,570.

ZERO benefit from national insurance cut.

Poorest fifth pay 28.3% of their disposable income in indirect taxes, 9.0% for the richest fifth.

Govt did not cut the VAT rate. No help for the poorest

Poorest become poorer.

For whatever criticisms I make of it, the FT really is head and shoulders above every other British paper.

The headline here isn’t spin or propaganda, it’s the unvarnished truth.

Following the International Court of Justice's historic ruling against Israel, I have written to the Prime Minister.

I am again urging him to heed Britain's obligations as a signatory to the Genocide Convention and to end his government's complicity in this atrocity:

Important questioning of the Biden administration, from ITV's Robert Moore, after the UK TV news org filmed a Palestinian man with a white flag, Ramzi Abu Sahloul, being shot dead by the Israelis in what was supposed to be a 'safe zone' in Gaza.
A deeply inadequate response: