Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

No I havent add it up for yourself, its way below 30%.

AVOIDED by the way above not EVADED.

Gloating Tories don't care that people are dying of poverty on the real-life Benefits Street

Created on Thursday, 16 January 2014 10:19
Category: Latest news

Following public condemnation of the lifestyle and attitudes of the residents of “Benefits Street”, the highly controversial and much-criticised portrayal of a handful of benefits claimants living in the Winson Green area of Birmingham, the Mirror has published this article outlining the tragic reality for one benefit claimant:

Conservative Philip Davies demonised welfare claimants in the Commons while a man died waiting for benefit payments a mile from the MP's constituency
On Monday, in the House of Commons, the Conservative MP Philip Davies gloated over the portrayal of welfare claimants in Channel 4’s Benefits Street.

Esther McVey’s flatmate asked her boss Iain Duncan Smith: “Have you, like me, been struck by the number of people on there who manage to combine complaining about welfare reforms whilst being able to afford to buy copious amounts of cigarettes, have lots of tattoos done and watch Sky TV on the obligatory widescreen television?”

All the while, on real-life Benefits Street, a mile or so from Davies’s West Yorkshire constituency, a man lay dead.

He died alone in a freezing cold flat, wearing several layers of clothes and two dressing gowns – waiting for benefits that had been stopped for months by the DWP.

Next week, the man will be buried in the Nab Wood Crematorium in Shipley, the constituency Philip Davies ­represents.

Read the full article and resulting comments here

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+2 #1 Bill 2014-01-16 12:17
Its should not be called Benefits Street, it should be called ''Criminal Street'' because the makers seem to concentrate on the law breakers in the road rather than the honest and decent people who are claiming benefits through no fault of their own.

Of course its what the Tories want everyone to concentrate on because they have painted exactly this picture of all benefit claimants to date, with the help of their newspaper Baron friends and supporters.

The program has been made so that it fits nicely into what the Tories want the ''hard working families'' of the UK to despise. Sadly, a program about real peoples lives on benefits would have little or no interest at all for the viewing public and would not produce the type of characters that the Tory Party want to expose.

So, step forward the Labour Party and get some of your Media friends to make a program that show a real life on benefits...... if you want to help us, as many people think you do, you can start by giving the ''hard working families'' of the UK a true view of what life is really like for real people like us who have to survive on benefits, along with illness in a great deal of cases.

Divisions in Coalition as MPs demand independent inquiry on poverty

Created on Thursday, 16 January 2014 13:09
Category: Latest news

Calls for a ‘commission of inquiry’ into the impact of the government’s changes to social security entitlements on poverty have won overwhelming support from Parliament.

The motion by Labour’s Michael Meacher was passed with a massive majority of 123 votes; only two people – David Nuttall and Jacob Rees-Mogg – voted against it.

The debate enjoyed cross-party support, having been secured by Mr Meacher with Sir Peter Bottomley (Conservative) and John Hemming (Liberal Democrat).

Introducing the motion, Mr Meacher said: “It is clear that something terrible is happening across the face of Britain. We are seeing the return of absolute poverty, which has not existed in this country since the Victorian age more than a century ago. Absolute poverty is when people do not have the money to pay for even their most basic needs.”

Read Mike Sivier’s Blog post in full

Hansard

http://mikesivier.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/divisions-in-coalition-as-mps-demand-independent-inquiry-on-poverty/

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#1 Bill 2014-01-16 14:56
Thank goodness for this. Lets hope that some action is taken to stop this country sliding back another 100 years.

Foodbanks, with thousands of people relying on them, can you truly believe that is how our once great country treats its own?

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Why do you lot go on posting day after day about politics , just see what the party's have to say up to the next election and vote.

More important than the muppet politics is that "Trigger" is no longer with us ! Roger Lloyd PACK has passed away !......never will be forgotten....with "only fools and horses" coming back...how can the return start except by a tribute to : this great actor/comedian !...

Osborne's latest u-turn of Minimum Wage rate.

I don't think the cons could walk in a straight line if they tried.

But he is probably realising how unpopular the torrids are and started to buy votes.

What a crew.

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Sorry that money is needed for the pressurised bankers and their high taxed puppeteers.

sticky - you're not making sense ....

if someone has AVOIDED tax - a perfectly legit exercise - HMRC has not the slightest interest

i assumed,surely correctly, that your table showed the number of cases where EVASION was known or at least strongly suspected

please clarify .....

also, somewhat for entertainment value, please tell me (us all) during which years labour was in power between fiscal 2000 and 2011

Those posh birds who work in City like to talk about money Trig ," I found one of those old white five pound note's the other day " No Trig , No

Cyners you havent read it have you. Stop being idle.

Read about IR35 and then you will see what im talking about.

Trig's daughter is Emily Lloyd. You may remember her in Wish you were here. Her catch phrase was "Up your bum!"



She has gone downhill these days

She doesn't look very happy

A lot of that film was shot in Bognor regis when Madam Cyn was a teenager she worked in the Bus station.

Have you read IR35 now Cyners and do you see the association with the years I posted down, not forgetting The Tories came to power 0n 6th May 2010. Labour being in power for all the years before this in my illustration.

Penny finally dropped?????????????????????

Alders what were you doing hanging around the bus station LOL LOL LOL.

Naughty boy.

Catching a Bus what else , lol

haven't read anything .... may do tomorrow :-)

IR35 has been a waste of time and money. It never saved much money and cost a lot to administer. I used to operate a an individual limited company for years before starting a bigger company. I have friends who have operated under IR35 for years and it makes very little difference to their final income.

In May 2009 the Professional Contractors Group received a reply to a request under the Freedom of Information Act to HMRC, asking just how much tax revenue IR35 had in fact raised for the exchequer. The FOI reply revealed that in the tax years 2002/03 to 2007/08, IR35 directly raised just £9.2 million. This equates to an average of around only £1.5 million per tax year, less than 1% of the expected amount.

How much did the administration of IR35 cost?

In September 2011 a Freedom of Information Request revealed that the number of cases reviewed had fallen from 158 (year ending April 2007) to 12 in year ending April 2010 and 23 in year ending April 2011. The same document also gives the "tax yield received for the requested years" as having fallen from £1,906,619 to £219,180.

ALL UNDER LABOUR

Question time.

Grant Shapps...blown away by logic and reasoning (buffoon)

other non entities...similar.


Stand out contributors: By audience

John Sentamu (Bishop)

Julia Hartley-Brewer (broadcaster, ukip-ish)

Hays another one who hasnt read the link. READ IT, the fact is IR35 enforcement figures under Labour were far higher than figures today under the coalition where just 4 Tax Officers and a Chief, police the scheme.

And unlike Cynic insists it is not Evasion but is in fact AVOIDANCE.

To put it in very simplistic terms it is weeding out employees who claim they are self employed. Self employment giving them the chance to pay 20% rather than 45% which they should be paying.

And what Hays as missed is the deterrent factor, admittedly much less under the present government.

But as you can see above it hadn't benefitted the country by introducing IR35. It probably costs more to administrate than it produces. Another stupid Labour idea.