tsubaki
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I agree the current top of the Labour Party are terrible, but to not get drawn into the fakeness of woke debating should be enough - call it out for what it is, and keep going back to the notion of fairness.
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I agree the current top of the Labour Party are terrible, but to not get drawn into the fakeness of woke debating should be enough - call it out for what it is, and keep going back to the notion of fairness.
Sounds very dodgy all that. Seems like a total cowboy. HMRC don’t muck about in these cases and he’ll have nowhere to hide.No surprise here, Tory not paying taxes...
Tory MP faces bankruptcy over unpaid taxes
Exclusive: court records show petition filed by HMRC against Adam Afriyie, MP for Windsorwww.theguardian.com
Would be the obvious route of course but that depends as much on the media to be compliant. Pretty certain that will be the tories main line of attack and Labour will get all flustered in desperation to try not to offend anyone.
tsubaki
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I don't think it does, in fact if they go down that road it allows them to point to the antics of some of the media and how much some of them are complicit in this.
The vast majority of people understand this already (hence the lack of trust in journalists and papers) - in fact they'd not even have to say they are biased against Labour, just that there are serial examples of them not doing the job they proclaim they do (not only with this woke nonsense, look how some of them (especially the Telegraph) covered that Paterson vote) and that they are letting the country down.
peteblue
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Bruce, they are all the same…….
i mean I think if you’re honest even you can see the current incumbent and those close to him are turning it up to eleven . I can sort of understand your loyalty to the ‘brand ‘ and all that but come on pete .
tsubaki
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TBF that could easily just be a story to try and ultimately discredit / derail this current row - Cox has made a lot of money but then as a QC of his experience and knowledge he was always going to be coining it in. Nor is it that strange he's been acting on behalf of a government, even one engaged in tax avoidance. I'm sure the Mail understand this (having lots of experience of QCs and tax avoidance themselves), so on its merits this really doesn't convince as a hit piece itself - its almost designed for people to think its a lot of money but there is a clear reason for him to have earned it (so legitimizing the idea of MPs coining it in).
Also I suppose expanding the "sleaze" to money earned by lawyering for disreputable types will bring in a lot of Labour figures (including Starmer and Khan), of the whole didn't you represent nonces / terrorists kind that they've already tried before.
FWIW they would (and should) never stop people acting as lawyers from continuing to work whilst being MPs, just as they should never stop doctors from continuing to practice after being elected; at least those people actually do measurable things that can be checked openly rather than the types getting five and six figure sums for "political advice", speeches and various forms of consulting (which are where the problem is).
The Mail has moved slightly to the left since Geordie Greig took over as editor from Paul Dacre in 2018. He was editor of the Mail On Sunday from 2012 and (unlike the Daily Mail of the time) was pro-Remain in the EU referendum. They are definitely less rabidly pro-Johnson than the Express, although I can't see them siding with Labour any time soon.
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I'm aware of Dacre's reputation as a bad brexiteer. He's caused a lot of damage to this country so at least one paper might be free of that cretin's influence.
The Express are an absolute lost cause, I'm afraid. Bin them.
But they're not Pete. Remember, this was an issue that last week was so important for them that they wanted to drag democracy through the mud...
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The mail certainly turned against Johnson now.
Calling him cowardly Boris today.
Calling him cowardly Boris today.
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The Mail have been dunking on him for months tbh, quite surprising… I guess it’s partly because they have no fear of Labour being a threat to the tories, If Starmer was actually popular they would probably be less critical of Boris.
Mail readers all seem to hate him as well judging by the comment sections, guaranteed they all end up voting for him anyway.
Mail readers all seem to hate him as well judging by the comment sections, guaranteed they all end up voting for him anyway.
peteblue
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Ed Davey, Kier Starmer, Ian Blackford, all have second jobs outside of being an MP. They are all the same….
Thing is, the other way round and it'd be the same outcome.
Labour see political capital from it, only reason they turned up. It's not for some moral reason.
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