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.

If the Tories did a deal with UKIP.........Ukippers would leave the party in droves.

In fact their is a case to be made for labour getting back some of their voters and still being the biggest party.

Garage is dreaming. He won't have any MPs to make a deal. It is a desperate attempt to stop the decline of UKIP.

He doesent need mp's to do that sort of deal.

It's a mutual non hostility pact.

Are they going to lie on their backs and have tickle each other's tummies.

Sounds a bit what some of them do all ready.
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It is a desperation measure to get MPs as his party are losing support.

And Germany win World War 3 the World Cup!

What a scrap in extra time!

hay if you think ukip support is falling you are far from correct
I will give any one on this thread odds of 2.1 conservatives and min 1000 bet

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Andrea Leadsom received £70,000 donation from family firm in tax haven





Andrea Leadsom, a high-flying Treasury minister, received more than £70,000 from a family business, the parent company of which is controlled out of the Virgin Islands tax haven.

The payments, which appear to be within the letter of the rules for political donations, have been criticised because of the contrast with the Treasury’s stated aim of combating tax avoidance by chanelling money through off-shore firms.

Entries in back numbers of the MPs’ Register of Members’ Interest, which have since been removed from the current Register, show that in 2010 and 2011 Ms Leadsom received a series of payments varying from £5,000 to £20,000 from a firm called Gloucester Research, which later changed its name to GR Software and Research.

The money was used to pay the salaries of staff in Ms Leadsom’s Westminster office after her election in 2010 as MP for South Northamptonshire.

Gloucester Research was a London-based firm, which meant that the donations conformed to a strict rule banning political donations from abroad.

But what the Register did not reveal is that Gloucester Research was owned by Pans (UK) Holdings, based in the secretive offshore haven. Both are among a host of companies controlled by Ms Leadsom’s sister’s husband, Peter de Putron. It emerged last week that Guernsey-based Mr de Putron had made donations of £816,000 to the Conservative party, also through GR.

As well as Mr de Putron, Ms Leadsom’s husband Ben Leadsom is a director of GR Software & Research.

The Labour MP Tom Watson said: “These very large donations might be within the rules, but it certainly isn’t right that a Treasury minister has been taking money in this way. Most reasonable people will see this as completely unreasonable.”



More: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/andrea-leadsom-received-70000-donation-from-family-firm-in-tax-haven-9603559.html

It seems the stench around Cameron and cronies becomes more odious.

Within the rules as are huge union donations and union sponsored MPs.

Who are they hays? Unions havent their funds in tax havens.

Why does that matter?

How out of touch with the real world can a minister get. How are we to prove we live here in an emergency for billing purposes? How are the NHS going to chase payments of immigrants that have given false addresses or don't have an address. Good idea Mr Hunt but completely unworkable.... although I do think that a levy being charged at visa level is a very good idea.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28291276

They are supposed to be clamping down on tax havens, yet taking bungs from the dodgers.

Hardly consistant.

many people have off-shore accounts for perfectly legit reasons and/or they are long-standing trusts that were set up in those havens many many years ago

further, once money is brought back on-shore, it automatically attracts tax anyway

It depends on how it brought on-shore, for what purchase and what tax it has been avoided in its history!

Also, in this case what privileges the cash is hoping to "buy"!

Haystack - 14 Jul 2014 11:16 - 43545 of 43549

Why does that matter?..........................ends

because more likely than not its money that as been used for Tax Evasion and thats a crimminal offence.

So now we know Ms Leadsom’s is backed by CROOKS.