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Surely you can see the optics here? Wife of Person A - owns large stake in Company 1 Company 2 - makes profits from extracting oil/gas Company 1 - makes their largest ever investment, by investing in company 2 - their return will be directly related to the profitability of Company 2 Person A -...

"The Plan is Working" His plan is quite clear, and it does indeed appear to be working for him and his wealthy mates.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/17/peer-kulveer-ranger-faces-years-ban-from-lords-bars-for-bullying-two-people-while-drunk

And further down that article: The Conservative party declined to answer when asked if it accepted that Caulfield’s claim the local council planned to charge motorists was incorrect, or if it recognised the distinction between the 15-minute city idea and the conspiracy theory. A spokesperson...

Thanks Harry! As wise as me about it all then......

I've not been following the Gaza issue closely. What's the Tory / LD stance? That is - are Muslim voters just staying away, or voting for other parties?

Somebody on twitter put the figures into electoral calculus.....

Not just Sussex then.

Wouldn't say it was small. 10% up, Tories 15% down as well.

How easily we forget this.

He was paid to leave under a recent variation of the 'Assisted Voluntary Returns Scheme'. Which was originally introduced by Labour in 2004. So - the big song and dance by the Tories today is that they have managed to encourage a failed asylum seeker to depart our shores using a scheme they...

Presumably the increase in value before she married wouldn't be counted? That is - if the house increased in value whilst she was living there full-time by, say £20k, and then after she married and seems to have lived in both houses, it went up by another £28k, the CGT would only be liable on...

Her husband's house was about a mile away in Stockport - not in London. Also - CGT is reduced if refurbishments are done, which seems to have happened. So, it would be unlikely to be £3.5k anyway. She has quite openly said that she did not know of the tax rules re main residences when she...

The Police don't even seem to know what it is they are actually investigating. CGT avoidance is an HMRC issue - so it can only be electoral fraud or council-tax evasion.

'Panda car'! Surely you mean 'Jam Sandwich'....

We've just had a whole load of 'average-speed' cameras installed o the A590 up our way.

They don't have to 'commence proceedings'. They could say 'appears to have broken electoral law, but time limit has expired, so we won't prosecute'. They are just doing the job for their political paymasters - not for the public good.

At least they had the gumption to include a Question Mark to avoid being done for potential libel.

Publicly threatening / blackmailing an MP. Surely a crime?

I'm sorry - that cannot be right https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-01/sunak-says-uk-making-progress-against-small-boat-migration