Zero-hours contracts must be abolished;
Trade union rights must be recognised and supported;
A true living wage must be paid in the future;
Its gender pay differential must be published, and it must have a policy for reducing it;
Put its full accounts on public record, whatever its size;
It may not use any tax avoidance schemes of any sort whatsoever;
It must never use a tax haven;
If it is a large company it must publish country-by-country reports;
No one must be paid more than ten times UK median earnings;
Every large company involved must have a plan for becoming net-zero carbon and must include the cost of that plan in its accounts, and make annual reports about progress on this issue;
Publish information annually of the type required by the Fair Tax Mark;
Dividends must be based on group retained earnings;
No dividends should be permitted if group retained earnings would as a result be less than the last three years (in smaller companies, with five years being required in larger ones) average net profit after tax to encourage balance sheet resilience.
This is the price of government support in the current crisis.
Oh, plus 25.1% of the equity.
Given what Murph describes as tax avoidance this means not carrying forward tax losses (as Starbucks), not obeying transfer pricing rules (Starbucks), not deducting interest as an expense (Boots) and so on. Gonna be a fun world under the Enabling Act.
Hm. But is he moving about divisions which have ceased to exist, or is he merely starting to feel his oats?
And the one-man accountancy Soviet really needs to change his meds
Meanwhile, in a far foreign land, entrepreneurial capitalism rides to the rescue. Yay! I have now rented myself a dog. Said crossbreed german shepherd currently looking at an immediate future of being the best fed but most exercised pooch in southern Spain. Plans to tunnel out have been put on hold…
As the UK is regarded by some as a tax haven (patent box and other benefits) and pension provision is a tax avoidance measure, does that mean I have to leave the country and stop saving for the future…?
Has he reached the dribbling on his cardigan stage?
Probably beyond the dribbling stage now. He might not even be able to notice that his breaking wind carries an unexpected payload.
Do we know any friendly MPs who could sneak through a Bill of Attainder while Parliament’s distracted? Failing that, a friendly psychiatrist to section him? It’s for his own good and the good of the country, even if it does reduce the fun on here.
Ok so everyone goes bust. Survivors Start up again a few months later. I think i prefer FDR to GDR way of doing things and the results.
“I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was plain from the outset that if Roderick Spode had a sunnier side, he had not come with any idea of exhibiting it now. His manner was curt. One sensed the absence of the bonhomous note.”
Does he realise he’s as original as a broken record that’s been on for a couple of decades?
The same litany (+/- some details) was spouted at the more Alternative fun-places when I was at Uni, roughly 30 years ago. And even those shouty lads realised they were echoing the same mantras spouted in the 70’s, who were echoeing the 50’s, who were echoing the ’30’s…
Does the UK actually still have a Communist Party? Maybe neo-reformed Maoists? He’d fit right in..
No wonder Obersturmbanfuhrer Kartoffel didn’t feel out of place on his visit to Dachau.
I bet he’s had a stiffy about this for the past month. To change Yeats a little:
And what fat beast, his hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
The public mood has shifted very noticeably towards everybody mucking in to help others, and accepting that the government don’t have all the answers, but are doing their best. Certain Politicians, ‘activists’ and panic stoking Media are so out of touch with that mood that there has to be a backlash once the dust settles.
Get helping, or get the fuck out of the way. Murph, his collection of poisonous little failures, and others who are getting in the way or acting opportunistically will be judged on what they have been doing for a long time to come once this is all over.
The public mood has shifted very noticeably towards everybody mucking in to help others, and accepting that the government don’t have all the answers, but are doing their best. Certain Politicians, ‘activists’ and panic stoking Media are so out of touch with that mood that there has to be a backlash once the dust settles.
Twitter has been revolting the past fortnight. I have literally seen people quibbling over the meaning of one fucking word in a press release or broadcast which was otherwise perfectly clear, and claiming from it that the Government doesn’t know what it is doing.
I’m staying off it for the duration. It is full of deranged people at the best of times, but now it is pure hysteria.
We have seven “communist” parties of various Pythonesque Marxist hues, and at least nine Trotskyist groups. We’ve got two hard-left Socialist Parties just in Scotland – the Scottish Socialist Party (bright orange) and the Socialist Party Scotland (who are the latest version of the tartan bit of Militant Tendency).
To be repeated in an increasing shrill and shouty manner in front of torch-lit parades of flag-bearing beige-shirted young people as the strains of Ode to Joy float on the breeze.
@SurreptitiousEvil.
And yet they chant “the workers, united, will never be defeated”. More like the workers united would be a bleeding miracle. Nothing quite so fissiparous as the left wing.
@ Arthur the Cat
“The workers” and “the left wing” are two very different groups of people.
Surely it won’t be long before someone decks the obnoxious insulting cvnt:
Barry M says:
March 22 2020 at 4:22 pm
These are unusual circumstances where people and businesses are restricted in their activity to meet a common good. Restriction or discontinuation of activity is not a choice.
Using such circumstances to impose conditions as you have suggested is as unconscionable as requiring party membership for any promotion, education etc. in communist days. Or religious adherence in other times and places.
No thanks, you haven’t persuaded me. We don’t have it, and I’m glad.
Richard Murphy says:
March 22 2020 at 4:53 pm
With respect, stop being a crass idiot
And look up what idiot means to find why I say it
BF,I saw that.
He is under the delusion that Barry needs to persuade him of something. It’s the other way around.
I can’t think of anyone who has less influence on anything right now.
@Grikath
Yes
This is a surprise
Well done Susan Michie for putting country before ideology
@Worzel March 22, 2020 at 3:11 pm
Agree and more so if they read Peter Hitchens today – good article with plenty of stats
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8138675/PETER-HITCHENS-shutting-Britain-REALLY-right-answer.html
David Davis is leading a rebellion among Tory MPs to limit how long the Government is asking the powers to last
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/03/20/boris-johnsons-coronavirus-bill-plans-could-watered-mps/
Paywalled?
“…Number 10 brushed off the concerns. The Prime Minister’s deputy official spokesman said yesterday: “The legislation is to allow us to authorise powers that the Government may need.
“But as we have been clear throughout there is a sunset clause to it and we have no intention of using or maintaining powers that we don’t need for any longer than we need them.” ”
Yeah, sure. Msm will be depicting David Davis as a ‘Denier’
Fuhrer? Ritchie always always put in mind of the fat evil buffoon Reichsmarschall Goering.
Does the UK actually still have a Communist Party? Maybe neo-reformed Maoists? He’d fit right in..
The Green Party?
Oooh Rob, that’s cruel – but I’m not sure who it’s most cruel to, the Green Party or the Murph !