I reply with a simple question. Who, I ask, has done more for tax justice, John and Jeremy or Margaret Hodge?
There is, of course, quite simply no contest: Margaret wins hands down. Even in the last year, in her post Public Account Committee days, she’s done more on the issue than they have.
Well, quite, Stemcor taxation, that family trust to protect from inheritance tax, the only named user of the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility.
Quite blinding advances in tax justice.
Did anyone hear the rimming she got from Peter Hennessy on R4 the other day? No mention of tax, though she did own up to taking her eye off the ball vis a vis the Islington care homes kiddy-fiddling scandal. So that’s all right, then.
Anyone listening to that programme would think she was not a perfect specimen of your run-of-the-mill, self-interested, narcissistic and utterly loathsome politician: one who, furthermore, aided and abetted the lunatic Brown and his homies in their gang-rape of the UK economy.
He’s getting very tetchy when this is pointed out to him. Fist typing on it’s way.
It is hilarious that, opining on a case where someone inherited shares that she knew nothing about, he declared that the offence should be strict liability and that she should pay penalties and interest at the full tariff as if she had deliberately been evading tax.. His views on Stemcor and Hodge the Dodge seem slight different. What a prick!
Oops! When I said that about Esther, I’d forgotten about Hodge.
Tie for first place then.;
Given his volte face when it comes to Corby and Co and his continued fawning brown-tonguing when it comes to Hodge, I have to wonder if the reason is that Murphy thinks that Lady Hodge may be onside in any future push for a peerage by him?
Oh and I see Murphy is getting better at moderation, as he smugly spotted this fifth columnist posting over there.
Richard Gowlyter
Nice try 🙂
Completely unrelated (well – it has to do with politicians and dishonesty, so somewhat related I guess) – this made me laugh: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37167700
@RA – yes, I saw that. Fantastic. The cutn had booked a seat, but would prefer to be a martyr. Shouldn’t have booked a seat in the first place. I long for the day when people and businesses start standing up to this lying, grandstanding bullshit.
BraveFart
Not that good!
I don’t get through in unalloyed form as Ironman; Harry Steel does though.
By the way; I see Murphy has learnt a lesson from his experience with Michael Ashcroft and and is sticking to libelling the dead now (Duke of Westminster)
Ironman
“I don’t get through in unalloyed form as Ironman”
I see what you did there…..
Detumescentman might slip through, perhaps?
Not to mention deliberately making the overcrowding worse for everyone else by blocking the corridor.
He might indeed slip through with some lubrication, I’ll give it bash sometime. It would be difficult to force him in anywhere given his unfortunate condition.
I’m very sensitive you know. I can read what you’re writing. I don’t think I’ll be able to go back on Murphy’s blog and perform with this sort of mockery following me.
Since Florence Foster Jenkins managed to enter a discordant note, how about trying Flacido Domingo? I’m sure he has a soft spot for tenners.
Oh look – Richard Gowlyter fights back!
Alas, we celebrate and salute the sweet ephemeral career on TRUK of Richard Gowlyter!
even Rocco Siffredi got himself banned there
BF – I’m sad to see him go but it’s a comfort to know that his existence was in the balance while the prof searched for him on the interweb.
Gowlyter was destined to have a short shelf-life since Richard Murphy’s name is eternally linked to Dachau as Richard Dimbleby’s is to Bergen-Belsen.
Virgin gives 20% discount to Labour delegates, so Corbyn decides to shit on them.
Part of his “authenticity not spin” approach to politics.
But really just the normal lying ignorant duplicitous hypocritical shit lefty.