Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦£662 million.
Isn't it weird how there is never enough money to fix the NHS, fix potholes, fix social care, or properly regulate the energy industry, but there is always enough money for performative cruelty to foreigners?
Craig Cockburn#magicmoneytree has been found. Again.
#fbpe
BBC News - Brexit: Broad agreement to pay more as UK leaves, the BBC understands
Gillinger has moved@ChrisMayLA6
#Starmer can pay for it using the ÂŁ2bn that Yvette Cooper is going to claw back from the #Covid fraud debacle. Either that, or use the #MagicMoneyTree that we were told doesn't exist but enabled the #Tories to fritter away billions on unwanted and useless #PPE equipment.
#Starmer can pay for it using the ÂŁ2bn that Yvette Cooper is going to claw back from the #Covid fraud debacle. Either that, or use the #MagicMoneyTree that we were told doesn't exist but enabled the #Tories to fritter away billions on unwanted and useless #PPE equipment.
SubtleBlade ⚔️'#HMRC withheld offshore #TaxAvoidance figures for #UK’s wealthy during election
Pressure on officials to publish estimate of offshore tax avoidance...'
'...estimated the tax gap to be ÂŁ39.8bn for the 2022-23 tax year. The tax gap is the difference between the amount of tax that should be collected and what has actually been paid.'
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/06/hmrc-offshore-tax-avoidance-uk-wealthy
[Here's a #MagicMoneyTree just waiting to be harvested...]
소주한잔Britain is awash with failed prime ministers. The cost of their security detail rises as a function of how hated they are (a lot) and how much they travel overseas (a lot).
There's no #MagicMoneyTree for this stuff... We need to impose the #FiscalRules
Ben De NevisThe Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire (Documentary) on Vimeo
At the demise of #empire, City of London financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web…
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire (Documentary)
Ian Stronge#taxpayers are the #MagicMoneyTree !
'Inspections deemed that jobs totalling ÂŁ380,000 will need to be carried out in the next 12 months.
Subsidiary of Four Seasons Tamaris Scotland did not respond to an initial claim for the value of the works plus an additional ÂŁ30,000. The council then took court action last month and an agreed sum of around ÂŁ87,000 has since been paid'
https://www.midlothianview.com/news/over-1m-needed-at-two-edinburgh-care-homes-after-private-provider-walked-away
MarkR
Yorkshire BylinesWealth inequality: is there a magic money tree hidden in plain sight for Labour? A one-off wealth tax would solve Labour’s fiscal responsibility dilemma | John Cole
#WealthTax #MagicMoneyTree #LabourParty https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/economy/wealth-inequality-is-there-a-magic-money-tree-hidden-in-plain-sight-for-labour/
