In 2022-23 HMRC had only 397 specialists working on profit shifting by thousands of companies.

No match for tax avoidance industry.

Big four accounting firms alone have 4 times as many international tax specialists.

Any wonder corporations dodge taxes.
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A former Post Office managing director says he was 'unaware' it was the Post Office that had brought criminal proceedings.

Selective amnesia?

He didn't know what Post Office was doing, but still collected his full salary. Why? What was he managing?
news.sky.com/story/post-off…

Labour must be bolder and radical if it wants clamp down on tax dodgers.

Without eliminating anomalies & freeing tax policymaking from the tentacles of the avoidance industry, Labour is unlikely to make a significant dent in the leakage of tax revenues.
leftfootforward.org/2024/04/labour…

Every constituency in Britain saw a rise in sickness benefit claims.

Crisis made by Govt - low wages; poor food/housing, can't see GP/Dentist, 7.54m hospital appointment waiting list.

2.7m chronically ill.

Tory economic policies destroying the UK.
archive.ph/EhdAP

Tory Minister Michelle Donelan's libel bills cost taxpayers £34,000 after she falsely accused an academic of extremism.

Libelling others is not part of part of Ministerial duties. So why are the people paying for it?

Ahh ... .the Tory magic money tree.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

A former Post Office managing director says he was 'unaware' it was the Post Office that had brought criminal proceedings.

Selective amnesia?

He didn't know what Post Office was doing, but still collected his full salary. Why? What was he managing?
news.sky.com/story/post-off…

Govt to get 18-year-olds to drive buses.

18 year olds can join the police, work in offices/factories but denied the full minimum wage.

Min wage at 21, £11.44 an hour
Age 18-20, £8.60

Their output doesn't sell for less; they pay full price for essentials
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

NHS England hospital waiting list: Feb 2024, 7.54m appointments.

2.5m in 2010; Feb 2020, 4.5m.

300,000 people a yr die awaiting appointment.

14,000 a yr die in A&E.

2.7m chronically ill, can't work.

500,000 left the labour market.

1m forced into private care

Democidal Govt

Nationalising Thames Water & forcing losses on creditors will deter investment in infrastructure, say lenders.

Err ... they want govt bailout.

Losses are part of capitalism that City pushes. So why squeal?

Let Thames go bust.

Nationalise at low cost.
archive.ph/pMitY

Yorkshire Water fined £150,000 for dumping sewage in River Don.

Already sanctioned 94 times since 2011, £109m fines, but still dumping sewage.

Instead of fine take 10% of shares every time.

Enforce environmental stds; bankrupt it and nationalise.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Post Office would do 'anything to hide Horizon failures' - Alan Bates.

And it did - aided by Ministers, civil servants, lawyers, accountants/auditors, Post Office/Fujitsu execs, all because it was profitable.

What kind of a society produces this horror?
bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-6…

Royal courtiers privately put pressure on the Welsh govt to ensure that King Charles could not be prosecuted for rural crimes under a new law.

Everyone is equal before the law, except when they are not.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…

You mean lies like:

Brexit was oven ready
Johnson didn't party during the lockdown
Sunaks don't use trusts.
NHS is safe in Tory hands
40 new hospitals
Schools are not crumbling
Food banks are a lifestyle choice
Tories borrow and tax less
Rivers/Seas are not polluted
Govt cares

Nationalising Thames Water & forcing losses on creditors will deter investment in infrastructure, say lenders.

Err ... they want govt bailout.

Losses are part of capitalism that City pushes. So why squeal?

Let Thames go bust.

Nationalise at low cost.
archive.ph/pMitY

NHS England hospital waiting list: Feb 2024, 7.54m appointments.

2.5m in 2010; Feb 2020, 4.5m.

300,000 people a yr die awaiting appointment.

14,000 a yr die in A&E.

2.7m chronically ill, can't work.

500,000 left the labour market.

1m forced into private care

Democidal Govt

So the Tories in the uk are against anything that will help ordinary poor people - have I missed anything? Destroyed public services, sure start and lowered their living standards with Brexit. Name a single thing that has benefited the woman on the Mile End Road omnibus in 14…

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Yorkshire Water fined £150,000 for dumping sewage in River Don.

Already sanctioned 94 times since 2011, £109m fines, but still dumping sewage.

Instead of fine take 10% of shares every time.

Enforce environmental stds; bankrupt it and nationalise.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Ex-MP says Post Office operated a ‘behind-scenes deception process’.

He was repeatedly “brushed off” by the Post Office executives and ministers about about the reliability of its Horizon IIT system.

How many other corporate abuses buried by govts?
theguardian.com/business/2024/…