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(not satire – it’s the Telegraph!)
Remember when the Telegraph led the effort by the right-wing press to deflect criticism away from big firms like Starbucks, Amazon etc by attacking Margaret Hodge MP the leader of the parliamentary committee which was investigating them for tax-evasion?
The Telegraph tried to accuse Ms Hodge of being connected to a firm which they claimed was also evading tax.
Well they lied.
Here’s their meagre ‘apology’ – tucked away somewhere where most people won’t find it:
This comes not long after the Telegraph decided racism is just – quote “self-pitying bollocks” –
Daily Telegraph on racism – it’s just self-pitying b*ll*cks!
OK. So now we know the Telegraph is a racist, lying hackrag.
Not exactly news that, is it?
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The torygraph umm says it all
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The main stream media has lost the capacity for investigative journalism relying as it does on press release handouts and the establishment’s rumour mill. Therefore this apology seems to me to be less of an apology as an admission of poor journalistic skills. Seems to be what happened in the Mcalpine fiasco. Journalists are the wayward children of the elite, sometimes useful, sometimes a pain in the neck.
As for apologising to Ms Margaret Hodge-Oppenheimer, she should be apologising for covering up claims of institutionalised child abuse on her watch in Islington.
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You left out ‘ that protects paedophiles’
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That’s a technicality. Hodge is still a hypocrite because the low level of tax paid by Stemcor, while perfectly legal, put it in the same category as Starbucks et al., who were also paying tax legally.
Also, I don’t think you should call the Telegraph racist as apart from it being rather dubious whether Thompson’s tweet really is racism, there is also the consideration that Thompson’s views do not represent those of the paper, just as Mary Riddell’s pro-Labour writing does not make the Torygraph a Labour paper.
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But inserting anti NHS sentences on any health matter articles is just par for the course is it?
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And stupid anti irish bigotry is good quality journalism..i would have fired that journalist for laziness and pointless name calling.
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Hey maybe companies get to keep all their money and not pay their staff and just hire DWP jobseekers who would work without a proper salary, but that would be ridiculous wouldnt it?
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Hmm.
So, what do we call putting the shareholding in the family company into a trust. For the kiddies and grand kiddies. So that inheritance tax doesn’t have to be paid?
Is this tax avoidance? Is it moral? Using the tax law of the country to legally reduce your tax bill by a few millions?
In my opinion this is straight tax compliance. The law says you can do it so you can do it.
As can Starbucks, Google, Amazon and all the rest.
Others differ of course.
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Oh dear Tom what have you done ? Now uncle Tim shows up.. Must have got bored with trolling liberal conspiracy,,
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Tim – the context of this discussion is it is happening at a time of extreme austerity – especially for those who can least afford it. That context is important.
If we think it’s OK and ‘moral’ to force terminally ill cancer patients who have more than 6 month to live to make a choice between working or starving – then perhaps we think it would be OK to tax money put aside for inheritance.
However, what you have done in your comment Tim is to ‘do a Romney’. You’ve tried to shift the argument away from one of large multinational corporations paying taxes to normal people with grandchildren.
But large corporations are not people. They don’t have grandchildren. The people who work for them do but 99.99999% of those people do not see any financial benefits for themselves or their grandchildren from tax avoidance by the firm they work for.
A very very few people at the top of those corporations – perhaps as few as 10 people – might see a benefit in increased salaries, bonuses etc from the firm’s tax avoidance but that’s all.
I was chatting yesterday with a mother of two children who has 3 jobs. Despite having three jobs she can’t afford to put the heating on and is behind with the rent. She cried yesterday morning because when she got up the washing up liquid was frozen.
That’s the reality of the UK today.
Any tightening up of the tax laws would be good in my opinion. I’m all for collecting taxes due from those who can afford to pay them – even Labour MPs!
However, ignoring Starbucks, Google etc etc as the Telegraph has consistently done and choosing to take a ‘moral’ stand when it’s a Labour MP involved in revealing tax avoidance is clearly just hypocrisy of the worst kind.
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I am amazed that anyone reading this Comic would expect anything but news on how many Cow Pies Mr. Pickles, (the Desperate Dan of the Tories) eats and certainly not a fullsome apology.
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