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  georgenorman  22 Apr 23 10.10am |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
Tax evasion is around 3% of total tax liabilities, while benefit fraud accounts for 0.8% of total benefit expenditure. Tax evasion £35bn. Benefit fraud £6bn. The latter far worse recently suggesting weak management of the DWP. On a Pareto basis, which should have the bigger focus? And who is responsible for these woeful figures? How can they tell what the true extent is of either.
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cryrst  The garden of England 22 Apr 23 10.19am |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
Because Labour is too thick to notice what you have spotted? Maple! I’m getting concerned that we are agreeing on more and more. Maybe you arnt as left as I thought and maybe I’m not as right; then again.
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HKOwen  Hong Kong 23 Apr 23 12.07am |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
Tax evasion is around 3% of total tax liabilities, while benefit fraud accounts for 0.8% of total benefit expenditure. Tax evasion £35bn. Benefit fraud £6bn. The latter far worse recently suggesting weak management of the DWP. On a Pareto basis, which should have the bigger focus? And who is responsible for these woeful figures? Any source for figures?
Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance. |
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| cryrst The garden of England 23 Apr 23 7.55am |
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Originally posted by Mapletree
Tax evasion is around 3% of total tax liabilities, while benefit fraud accounts for 0.8% of total benefit expenditure. Tax evasion £35bn. Benefit fraud £6bn. The latter far worse recently suggesting weak management of the DWP. On a Pareto basis, which should have the bigger focus? And who is responsible for these woeful figures? Evasion or avoidance? There is a big difference as one is perfectly legal but unethical and the other is illegal. I’m sure benefit fraud is the easier target so why not go that way. Are they any worse or better and It’s still stealing from us the tax payer. Concentrate on that first then go after the tax evasion. Hmg can go back years on that so why rush.
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| Jacey 23 Apr 23 9.29am |
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Poor old Keir,the media are out to get him!!
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| Mapletree Croydon 23 Apr 23 10.27am |
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No. The Sun is. What do you think has changed there them? You may remember its ‘spectacularly malicious coverage’ of the Labour Party over the years. Its plea to ‘string up’ the wrongly convicted Birmingham six. The rag that told us ‘’ STRAIGHT SEX CANNOT GIVE YOU AIDS – OFFICIAL." You may want to treat that comic with the respect it deserves. Edited by Mapletree (23 Apr 2023 10.27am)
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| Mapletree Croydon 23 Apr 23 10.30am |
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Originally posted by cryrst
Evasion or avoidance? There is a big difference as one is perfectly legal but unethical and the other is illegal. I’m sure benefit fraud is the easier target so why not go that way. Are they any worse or better and It’s still stealing from us the tax payer. Concentrate on that first then go after the tax evasion. Hmg can go back years on that so why rush. Let us again consider Pareto. Many people taking small amounts they don’t deserve (and also many not taking what they do deserve). You think them easier targets than few people taking very large amounts they don’t deserve. I can only conclude you are not one of the former.
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| georgenorman 23 Apr 23 11.48am |
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Diane Abbott has been suspended as a Labour MP pending an investigation into a letter she wrote about racism for the Observer, the party has said. [BBC]
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| steeleye20 Croydon 23 Apr 23 11.53am |
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'Sir Softie' won't fly. Judges have recently been asked by the tory Justice Secretary to send fewer people to prison because of overcrowding and backlogged courts.”  Labour were far better on crime, 'tough on crime and its causes'.
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| Badger11 Beckenham 23 Apr 23 12.09pm |
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Originally posted by georgenorman
Diane Abbott has been suspended as a Labour MP pending an investigation into a letter she wrote about racism for the Observer, the party has said. [BBC] I just read this, I think suspending her is well over the top for the Labour party. She has voiced an opinion acknowledging that some groups suffer prejudice but racism is different. I am not sure I agree with her but I don't see her comments as antisemitic. The Party machine is really out to get her she has said far worse in the past.
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| Matov 23 Apr 23 12.23pm |
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Originally posted by Badger11
I just read this, I think suspending her is well over the top for the Labour party. She has voiced an opinion acknowledging that some groups suffer prejudice but racism is different. I am not sure I agree with her but I don't see her comments as antisemitic. The Party machine is really out to get her she has said far worse in the past. How anybody with any kind of belief in anysort of basic understanding of what freedom of speech is could vote for Labour is beyond me. Now please don't think this is me shilling for the Tories because it aint. Would rather cut my hand off than vote for them as well. But seriously, Labour are through the looking glass now. What they did to Corbyn is bad enough but this... In some ways I feel sorry for the mainstream Left. They are literally so cucked by their anti-Tory stance on any and everything that they are incapable of actually taking any kind of rational POV on what Starmer is doing. Starmer could announce almost anything and they will still trot out and vote for him. One of the accusations made about the traditional white working class was that they voted Labour by way of a Pavlovian response. Hence why an ambitious Labour type might hold their nose and represent a constituency in some god-forsaken part of the midlands or the north. After all, as Mandleson once infamously stated, 'they have nowhere else to go'. Brexit put paid to that notion. But are the soc.libs now viewed with equal disdain by Starmer and co? Are they the ones who can just be relied on no matter what?
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| Badger11 Beckenham 23 Apr 23 12.37pm |
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It's ironic that an MP who made her name making fairly unpleasant and possibly racist remarks now falls foul of the same thing. The problem of course is a making of the left: We have the words prejudice, racism, xenophobia and antisemitism. Most normally people assume that when you use on of these words you are referring to unpleasant people and then listen to your point. However if you do not use the correct word the left will vilify you and ignore the point you are actually making. The left always eat their own.
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