Let Them Eat Cake, Drink Booze and Smoke Ciggies Says Libertarian Politician

Smoke, Drink And Eat Whatever You Want: Norway’s Public Health Minister

11 May 2019

For years we have been lectured and harangued by the bansturbators, (that is, the people who get off on stopping us doing things that give us pleasure,) their fingers wagging furiously in our faces as they tell us smoking will kill us, even looking at an alcpholic drink will destroy our livrers, a pinch of salt will cause heart attacks, strokes and acute asplaxification of the nurdlers, a cream cake or two will make us obese, a steak dinner or a burger will give us cancer, and driving our cars will destroy the planet. So it was a pleasure to come across a news item about a politician who believes adults can be trusted to behave sensibly and left make their own choices in life.

Norway’s new public health minister, Sylvi Listhaug is such a politician, she believes that adults don’t need the constant lectures and admonishments from government about what they put into their bodies – telling Norway’s state broadcaster NRK that “people should be allowed to smoke, drink and eat as much red meat as they like,” according to a report in the snowflakes favourite journal, the New York Times.

Norwegian Health Secretary Sylvie Listhaug – Picture: http://www.hegnar.no/

“The government may provide information, but I think people in general know what is healthy and what is not,” she added.

The interview – published a few days into her new role as head of the ministry, was “dotted with the kind of sharp, controversial comments Ms. Listhaug, deputy leader of the right-wing, anti-immigration Progress Party, is known for,” reports the Times – which promptly goes on to disparage the conservative politician for actually believing in individual freedom and personal responsibility, two of the basic principles of real liberalism, (we all know people who ‘identify’ as liberals do so only because hir sounds cuddlier and less threaening that if they were honest and called themselves fascistic authoritarians.

Ms Listhaug is no stranger to controversy, as immigration minister she made headlines in 2017 with disparaging comments about Sweden, saying that Norway should not become like its neighbor, which was accepting more refugeesnd African despite having experiences a huge rise in crome rates, especiall in sex crimed by middle – eastern a males against European women since abolishing border controls and letting all comers claim residency in the country. Last year, she resigned as justice minister after comments about terrorists
(which were in fact true,) she made on Facebook threatened to bring down the government.

This week, opposition politicians and health advocates suffered collective apoplexy as they tried to outdo each other in denouncing in the strongest terms Ms. Listhaug’s comments on habits that are hyped as major risk factors for many serious diseases, all of which are big money spinners for Big Pharma

The secretary general of Norway’s Cancer Society, Anne Lise Ryel was shocked by the comments – saying in a statement: “I fear that this will set public health efforts back for decades, and that this will compromise the general understanding among Norwegians of the health consequences of tobacco and alcohol use.” It is notable that a way of preventing cancer (and some maverick doctors say a cure,) has been available since the 1960s but no public health charity or government department in the democratic world is promoting it. Could that be, perhaps, that no expensive drugs, therapies or surgery are involved, only self discipline.

Ryel has called for Listhaug to be removed from her post, adding that “she seems to lack understanding of what public health really means and what her role as minister in that area should be.” Perhaps she understands more than Ryel admits. This publication knows public health is about shovelling taxpayers’ money into Big Pharma’s coffers.

Listhaug stuck to her guns, fireing back in a Friday email to the Times, writing: “The government believes that people have to take responsibility for their own life, but the government has to make sure that everyone can make healthy and informed choices.”

“The number of daily smokers has declined sharply since 2000,” she added. “This confirms that the Norwegian tobacco policy and control strategy works.”

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, in 2017, 11 percent of Norwegians aged 15 or older smoked daily, one of the lowest rates among the group’s 34 member nations. Norway has also had the steepest decrease of any of the countries since 2000, when the equivalent figure was 32 percent.

The Eurosceptoc Progress Party has been a junior partner in Norway’s center-right governing coalition since 2013. Its rise to prominence created unease, coming just two years after a far-right, anti-Muslim extremist who had once belonged to the party killed 77 people in a murderous rampage. It;s rapid rise has accompanied a crime wave in the immigrant communities of Noway’s cities, with turf wars between rival immigrant gangs for control of the drugs and sex trades often erupting into violence on the streeets of the capital city Oslo.

Governments around the world have stepped up campaigns to fight unhealthy habits usually be imposing punitive taxation. France recently told people not to drink every day; a soda tax in Britain has helped lower sugar levels in some drinks, and Australia’s graphic warnings on cigarette packages, considered a success, are being copied in other countries. –New York Times While governments claim success for their authoritarian attacks on personal liberty, the rise in contraband goods smuggled from nations were taxes on tobacco and alcohol are low or zero has risen astronomically and in Europe there have been cases of small factories being set up producing low quality cigarettes made with cheap tobacco in in healthy conditions, which are paked in fake reproductions of leading brand packaging and passed off as the real thing.

Listhaug also said that smokers in Norway are made to feel like “pariahs,” and that she would not be the “moral police” in government – echoing comments made by Austria’s far-right defense of freedom of choice in their oppostion of antismoking legislation.

Listhaug is a former regular smoker who told NRK that she is now just a social smoker.

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Macron Moves Against yellow Vests, Bans Protests In Neighborhoods With “Ultra” Radicals

 

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France is cracking down on “yellow vest” protesters following a weekend of renewed violence – as the Macron administration announced on Monday that it would ban demonstration in several areas of France – including the Champs Elysees in Paris, if “ultra elements” are present, according to Interior Minister Edouard Philippe.

‘We will ban demonstrations if ultra elements’ are present, said Philippe, according to CNEWS.

The ban will apply to “neighborhoods that have been most affected as soon as we have knowledge of” the “ultras.”

“I am thinking of course the Champs-Elysees in Paris, the place Pey-Berland in Bordeaux, the Capitol Square in Toulouse”, Philippe added, where “we will proceed to the immediate dispersal of all groups.”

Philippe added that he has asked the State Judicial Agent to “systematically seek the financial responsibility of troublemakers.”

UK Taxman Ruthlessly Pursuing Its Contract Staff For Six-figure Sums In Unpaid Tax

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Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is once again hounding its own employees for potential six-figure bills as part of a crackdown on tax avoidance schemes. Some years ago I was a victim of one of these crackdowns, as an Information Technology consultant I, along with thousands of others working as external consultants in both government and business were forced by the tax inspectors to operate as  limited liability companies.

The tax service had decided we were using th

e self employed status to avoid National Insurance Employers Contributions (a sanitized name for a British payroll tax,) as the self employed were not liable for this levy. By reinterpreting a law in such an extreme way it stretched words beyond any literal meaning, the taxman decided we should all set up limited companies, with ourselves as the only employee, thus making our employers, the quasi – companies, liable as our employers for the payroll tax.

Taxman thought he had won, but people who decide to employ themselves are bright, resourceful types and we soon learned the completely legal tax dodges used by the super rich, through their companies and trusts. We got ourselves accountants who advised on techniques like buybacks, directors loans etc. and we, in partnership with our incorporated dopplegangers, were soon all paying less tax than we had as self employed individuals.

Needless to say the taxman was furious. But we IT professionals, consultant engineers, designers, technicians and other contract workers in media, finance, healthcare and across the whole range of commercial activities were being advised and assisted by accountants. So the taxman hit on a new idea, he talked politicians into passing retrospective laws. Something you did legally in, say, 1995, could in 1998 be declared to have been a crime since 1993, thus in 1999 you could be prosecuted for it. And they call this liberal democracy.

All that was a long time ago. The techniques we used then have been blocked one way or another, and as a bonus for the taxman, Britain’s software industry died (well, relocated to cyberspace,) as a result.

The ruthless war on enterprise and talent continued. Electricians and plumbers were targeted by the taxman in a purge that cost us poor taxpayers £8million and in which the tax inspectors managed to recover £100,000 in unpaid taxes (yeah, economics is not one of these people’s strengths.)

Among the people in another purge  to fall foul of this new retrospective lawmaking were entertainers and sports stars. And like the professional consultants of my era, a few years earlier,  these people fell foul of the taxman for doing something that was perfectly legal at the time they did it.

Around 50,000 contractors are now being targeted by the tax office for using so-called disguised remuneration schemes, which involved receiving income in the form of tax-free loans from an offshore trust, throughout the Noughties and more recently.

The law was changed in 2016 and those who used the arrangements now face huge tax bills which, campaigners claim, will force some into bankruptcy or cause them to lose their homes.

It has now emerged that HMRC engaged contractors who were being paid in loans and is now pursuing them for the unpaid tax, the Sunday Telegraph revealed.

A panel of MPs  looking into complaints about HMRC’s persecution of certain groups has received evidence from multiple contractors once engaged by the taxman who say they used disguised remuneration arrangements and now face penalties.

Sir Ed Davey, a former Government minister, said: “This is astonishing considering HMRC’s ruthless and unreasonable pursuit of people in this situation, when they didn’t break the law and followed professional advice.

 

“What’s more, the evidence we’ve received also shows that these people declared all their arrangements in their annual tax return, so contrary to their claims not to know, HMRC were indeed aware contractors working for them were using these schemes.

One contractor, who worked for HMRC over two spells, anonymously told the panel that, based on the bills received by her peers, she expects she could be asked for almost £140,000. The 45-year-old, who lives in London, said: “It feels like the Government has gone to war against you. This is all about wearing people down and getting them to give up.”

Well yes, as I said earlier the government has been at war with enterprise, creativity and talent for a long time.

The schemes became popular in 1999 and were briefly sold by some of Britain’s leading accountancy firms.

In December, the House of Lords Economics Committee criticised HMRC’s approach to recouping the tax owed, describing it as “retrospective” and saying it was failing to distinguish between “contrived tax avoidance by sophisticated, high income individuals” and relatively low earners who made “naive decisions”.

A spokesman for the tax office said: “HMRC has never endorsed or participated in disguised remuneration tax avoidance schemes. It is possible for contractors to use disguised remuneration without the participation or knowledge of their engager.”

He added that all contractors found to have used a loan scheme would be treated the same. What a pity they do not feel able to deploy the same diligence in their dealings with companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, all of which are handled with kid gloves in spite of blatantly operating tax scams to avoid paying tax on most or all of their corporate profits.

 
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As Brussels Moved A Million Migrants Into The EU,Google Europe Moved $23 Billion To Bermuda Tax Haven In 2017

 

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While the virtue – signalling lefties and university brainwashed millennials are creaming themselves over the United Nations Pact On Migration, which they see as a big step towards a borderless world; while they chirrup in unison as usual missing the point of what a borderless world would mean. “Oh those lovely dark skinned people will come by the million to live among us and enrich our culture with their enlightened ways and cultural traditions,” they forget that those enlightened ways and traditions include throwing homosexuals off high buildings, stoning women and publicly beheading adulterers.

Whether they think that is a good or bad thing is a matter of opinion. However other implications of a borderless world are not, and our virtue – signalling compatriots might be horrified to learn what other freedoms of movement a borderless world might facilitate alongside unrestricted movement of people. News of Google’s latest and perfectly legal thanks to progress in globalisation, move to protect its obscene levels of profit from taxation in the European Union involve a financial device known as the Double Irish Dutch Sandwich (DDIS). Be careful not to confuse this with A Dutch Reverse Steamboat, which falls into a very different category of activities.

The DIDS accounting strategy involves using a Netherlands-based subsidiary to shift royalties paid in Europe – Google EU is headquartered in Dublin – to Google Ireland Holdings, the company’s Bermuda-based affiliate. According to a Google filing with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce, the search giant channelled 19.9 billion euros ($22.7 billion) through such a structure to its company in the Bermuda tax haven in 2017, around 4 billion euros ($4.5 billion) more than 2016, Reuters reported.

The arrangement, a variation on the dear old ‘Luxembourg Structure’ allowed Google to reduce its tax bill for operations within the EU to single-digit levels,  roughly one-quarter of the official rate for those tax jurisdictions.

But little can be done about it because, as Google likes to remind us, it is perfectly legal.

“We pay all of the taxes due and comply with the tax laws in every country we operate in around the world,” Google said in a statement.

“Google, like other multinational companies, pays the vast majority of its corporate income tax in its home country, and we have paid a global effective tax rate of 26% over the last 10 years.”‘

The DIDS strategy, which involves an employee of the Netherlands company who works in Dublin, sending invoices for ‘management services relating to royalties on patents,’ to an employee of each national operation in the EU (these employees also work in Dublin.) The national offices (which are pigeon holes in mail drop addresses, the accounts people who deal with the invoices actually work in – you guessed it, Dublin.) Then the accounts department of the Bermuda company, the staff of which all work in Dublin, send an invoice for something vague like ‘financial consultancy relating to royalties on patents’ to European headquarters (in Dublin you may remember,) where it is dealt with by someone who may have handled all the transactions in the chain without ever leaving Dublin. This  allows Google to avoid US income taxes and European withholding taxes. However, thanks to recent changes in Irish law (which followed pressure from the EU), the favorable treatment is slated to end in 2020. That will be a bit of a bugger because they’ll have to move back to Luxembourg. Or maybe not.

The goal of a budgetary proposal in Ireland’s 2015 budget was to shut down the use of so-called “Double Irish” and “Double Irish Dutch Sandwich” structures commonly used by U.S. multinationals, such as Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, among others, to significantly reduce their worldwide effective tax rate on royalties derived from the exploitation of intellectual property .

Because the Irish proposal only addresses revenue from royalties on patents, does it really put an end to the Double Irish structures (with or without the Dutch sandwich) or US corporations exploiting the favourable treatment Ireland offers to hide profits offshore? In a word, No. At least not if your accountants have more brain cells than tits or testicles as the case may be. The same benefits can be achieved by only slightly modifying the existing structures to avoid triggering the new proposed rules, For example by moving Google Europe Holdings (Ireland) Ltd. from Dublin to Google Europe Holdings (Malta) Ltd. whose offices are in …………… Dublin.

The Double Dutch structures are useful for a few reasons. Primarily, Ireland has a 12.5 percent corporate income tax rate for active “trading” income, is English speaking, and is highly educated. Also Ireland uses a management and control standard for determining residency, thus it is possible to protect income earned by the top-tier subsidiary from Irish taxation by placing management in another country (an Irish Non Resident company.)

Thanks to the box checking culture of the US public sector, profits can be entirely avoided by ensuring lower-tier subsidiaries to be disregarded for U.S. tax purposes, because all of the non-U.S. activities are considered to be conducted by a single entity. The only factor that has been altered by the Irish proposals is the residency clause. Under the proposals, moving management and control of an Irish company to a Caribbean nation with which Ireland does not have a tax harmonisation treaty covering corporate residency will no longer achieve the desired objective.  Under the treaty with Malta however, it is possible to form an INR, as under existing structures, with its management and control in Malta. Pursuant to the treaty between Malta and Ireland (which will not be overridden by the new proposal), the INR, though trading solely in Ireland, should be treated as a resident of Malta, and not Ireland (See Article 4(3) of the treaty). Malta does not impose any tax on royalties derived from patents or other intellectual properties.
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A gilets – jaunes (yellow jackets) protest in Paris

French writer and political philosopher Renaud Camus, who found fame (or notoriety perhaps,) as the first academic to propose the theory of the “Great Replacement (link goes to French language video),” aired his thoughts to news reporters about the wave of riots and civil unrest that has rocked France over the past two months, giving his opinion that the recent “Yellow Vest” protests are a grassroots reaction against the Davos elite who view working people as worthless “human Nutella.” (i.e. cheap, low grade products.)

Mr Camus warned there might be more substance to the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) movement, which organised the protests and, according to polls, is supported by 77 per cent of French people , than just dissatisfaction over a rise in fuel taxes, saying it was really about a “lack of respect by governments for the prople,  being treated by managerial politics like an object, a simple product.

“A product, a producer, and a consumer all at once, a thing, a number, not a human being,” Camus said.

Excoriating the globalist elites, whom Camus refers to as the “Davocracy,” an allusion to the annual World Economic Forum meetings in the Swiss town of Davos, where the rich and powerful arrive in their private jets to meet, enjoy fine foods, rare wines and high class prostitutes and make decisions like the one that is leading to the replacement of educated, intelligent Europeans who ask difficult questions with uneducated, illiterate third world immigrants who can easily be bought with free stuff, Camus claimed the global elites were advocates of the “Great Replacement” saying they supported “the change of people and civilisation for the sake of the industry of man, the economic system which produces the Undifferentiated Human Matter, the human Nutella, spreadable at will.”

Harsh words, but they contain more than a grain of truth one suspects.

The theory of the Great Replacement, which Camus extends not only to mass migration but to the easy and efficient interchangeability of goods as well as peoples (aka the throwaway society,) has been referred to by several prominent French figures including the Mayor of Béziers Robert Ménard, the Archbishop of Strasbourg Luc Ravel, and conservative politician Nicolas Dupont-Aignan.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has also made numerous references to a replacement of European people through migration, and has been widely attacked for his views by Cultural Marxist leaders leaders such as Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron.

More recently, the French department of Mayotte, an island off the coast of Africa, highlighted the “replacement” of their indigenous peoples due to wave upon wave of illegal migrants in recent years.

It is happening in mainland France, Germany, Britain, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain. Only Italy, Hungary, Austria and Poland have so far shown and will to resist.

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ITALY’S Eurosceptic government is showing its teeth by defying the European Commission’s order to submit a new budget after Brussels rejected its budget proposal. The Lega Nord / Five Star coalition Government will today present the same measures despite the threat of harsh sanctions.

Italy will present its new budget proposal on Wednesday following a request by the European Commission to rethink some key economic measures non-compliant with European guidelines. Brussels demanded that Rome come up with a revised version within three weeks worthy could face fines up to £3billion (€3.4bn).

But Italy will not budge on its plan to increase its deficit to 2.4 percent, which contravenes EU fiscal rules that are designed to protect the Eurozone. Italy’s projected GDP for 2019 is expected to be £1.67trillion (€1.87trillion), according to Trading Economics. When the single currency system was created it was known than nations including Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece could not possibly sturvive economically with such a restriction on their financial autonomy. Germany and France however, were were determined to push ahead with their plan to create The Fourth Reich, by unifying the EU’s member states politically they ignored all warnings of the consequences of financial integration.

If the Italians ignore Brussels and run their deficit of 2.4 percent then their deficit comes to £40.01billion (€44.88billion). But the eurosceptic Government coalition of Matteo Salvini’s Lega and Luigi Di Maio’s Five Star Movement is proving defiant and has announced it will not change its plans in order to put the interests of Italian people ahead of Germany’s Euromaster race ambitions.

The disputed budget includes a new basic income plan and the scrapping of a key Brussels enforced austerity law introduced in 2011.  These are very left wing ambitions for a government Brussels propagandists and mainstream media like to describe as far right.

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As Third Rate Celebs Are Paid Millions, BBC admits 70% of convicted TV Licence non-payers are women

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), after a long battle was this week forced to publish details of what its top earners are paid. Sure enough, the explosion of outrage following the revelations might even have shocked the smug, self – serving, self – righteous twats who run the corporation or suck up shitloads of licence payers’ money for doing very little.

Foremost among targets for public ire are the Brexit-hating cultural Marxists and left wing propagandists the Corporation passes off as comedy. How, for example, can the £2.2million paid to Chris Evans, a radio presenter of outstanding mediocrity whose main achievement over the past two decades has been to ruin the BBC’s most popular TV show, the long running Top Gear, in just six episodes. There are plenty of other zero talents profiting from Auntie’s profligacy however.

Some of the most hyped autocue parrots have even publicly gloated over their good fortune at the expense of BBC licence fee payer, but perhaps they don’t know just how many lives they are ruining, or their victims?

The BBC licence fee is a coercive, regressive, stealth tax. It costs £145.50 ($189.00) for every television owner in the United Kingdom who watches any live television. If you fail to pay up, the corporation will send round hired goons who get bonuses for catching what they call “evaders” such as a war veteran with dementia, and a young mother in a women’s refuge.

In fact, the BBC disproportionately targets women when it prosecutes for licence fee evasion, as The Register noted just days before the salaries were released:

Of the 184,595 people across the UK charged with non-payment of the TV Licence by Capita TV Licensing, 21,300 were found not guilty – and 90 people were jailed for failing to pay court-issued fines. The figure for charges includes out-of-court disposals.

140,000 of those charged were taken to court, where an astonishing 101,000 women were found guilty.

What the BBC is really prosecuting is the idea that people cannot afford their tax, as Tory MP Andrew Bridgen noted: “If someone cannot afford to pay the £145.50 licence then they are highly unlikely to be in a position to pay a £1,000 fine. People are being criminalised where their only crime is being poor and this needs to stop.”

It is a long established tradition of course that the greedy, faceless bastards who control domocratically elected governments enforce unjust laws involving non payment of taxes more brutally that laws against murder, rape, arson and theft, so it should be no surprise that dozens of people, including single mothers, impoverished var veterans and victims of dementia have been imprisoned for not paying this pernicious tax.

A Daily Mail investigation last year discovered that Capita, the contractor that operates the TV Licensing system as a high-pressure sales operation, with door-to-door salespeople being offered large bonuses for getting people to sign up to the £147/yr licence.

Eleven per cent of TV Licensing prosecutions in 2016 resulted in the defendant being found not guilty.

“This number of unsuccessful prosecutions lends weight to the view that cases are initiated on a speculative basis,” said Caroline Levesque-Bartlett, who gathered the data using Freedom of Information laws. A 2012 study found that one in ten of all criminal prosecutions in England and Wales were brought by Capita TV Licensing, which enforces the Telly Tax on behalf of the BBC.

The TV Licence funds the BBC, including its all-dominant news empire. Failure to pay the Telly Tax, which is payable if you watch live TV or stream BBC iPlayer online, is a criminal offence.

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Politicians sometimes have train – wreck interviews on live media, especially when campaigning, but in the run up to a General Election which could see her party anihilated, Labour Party home affairs spokeswoman Diane Abbot surpassed all expectations by doing three train – wreck interviews in one day.

First off, with Nick Ferrari of LBC Radio: Ferrari wanted to focus on the completely whacky election promise made by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn that if elected, his party would recruit 10,000 extra police officers , funding the project by reversing cuts to Capital Gains Tax made by the Conservatives:

When Ferrari questioned Labour’s figures, Diane Abbott struggling to explain how the party would fund the policy, started to bluster as she does whenever a question is asked that she cannot answer (Ms. Abbott does a lot of blustering).

The MP initially suggested that Labour would hire 10,000 officers for £300,000, which would would have left officers earning £30 a year.

Ms Abbott’s assessment of how many new officers would be recruited in one year ranged from 25,000 to 250,000.

TRANSCRIPT:
transcript:

Nick Ferrari: So how much would 10,000 police officers cost?

Diane Abbott: Well, if we recruit the 10,000 policemen and women over a four year period, we believe it’ll be about £300,000.

Nick Ferrari: £300,000?

Diane Abbott: Sorry, … (Interrupted)

Nick Ferrari: 10,000 police officers? What are you paying them?

Diane Abbott: No, I mean, sorry … (Interrupted)

Nick Ferrari: How much will they cost.

Diane Abbott: They will cost [long pause], it will cost, erm, about, about £80m.

…

Nick Ferrari: The £80m is the figure we use. But I don’t understand. If you divide £80m by 10,000, you get 8000.

Diane Abbott: What … (Interrupted)

Nick Ferrari: Is that what you’re going to pay these policemen and women?

Diane Abbott: No, we’re talking about a process over 4 years.

Nick Ferrari: I don’t understand. What is he or she? £80m divided by 10,000 equals £8000. So I don’t, what are these police officers going to be paid?

[papers rustle]

Diane Abbott: We will be paying them the average … (Interrupted)

Nick Ferrari: Has this been thought through?

Diane Abbott: Of course it’s been thought through!

Nick Ferrari: Where are the figures?

Diane Abbott: The figures are that the, the additional cost in year 1 when we anticipate recruiting 250,000 policemen will be £64.3m

Nick Ferrari: 250,000 policemen?

Diane Abbott: And women.

Nick Ferrari: Right. Where…? So you’re getting more than 10,000? You’re recruiting 250,000?

Diane Abbott: No, we are recruiting 2000 and perhaps 250. And the cost … (Interrupted)

Nick Ferrari: Where did 250,000 come from?

Diane Abbott: I think you said that not me.

Nick Ferrari: I can assure you – you said that figure because I wrote it down.

Diane Abbott: What I’m saying about the cost is in year 1 obviously we’re getting ready to recruit, but in year 2 the cost will be £64.3m, in year 3 the cost will be £139.1m, year 4 the cost will be £270m, and year 5 the cost will be £298m, and that can be amply covered by reversing the cuts in capital gains tax.

NEXT UP WAS AN APPEARANCE ON SKY TV’s BREAKFAST SHOW

Before we go into a transcript of the Sky interview, a little background is needed. The Labour Party, folllowing its usual campaign style of offering massive increases in public spending, and evasively mumbling something about taxing the rich when questioned bout how the extra expenditure will be funded, has already promised to spend money raised by reversing recent cuts to Capital Gains Tax (estimated at around £2bn) in a number of different areas including increased education budgets, more funding for arts, and higher welfare benefits.

SKY TRANSCRIPT – key sections

Sarah Jane Mee: Ok, but just going back, you have said that reversing cuts to capital gains tax will help arts funding schools and welfare – will that be in the manifesto fully costed?

Diane Abbott: Our policies will be fully costed, and I have to say I think it suits the Tories not to talk about the loss of 20,000 police officers, not to talk about the rise in violent crime, but to quibble about figures. Our manifesto will be fully costed and what people want to know, they want answers to their worries about the rise in violent crime.

Sarah Jane Mee: Well [the Conservatives] are saying it’s nonsensical because you’ve already spent this money when talking about other pledges – you’ve committed to – the capital gains tax – the money you’ll get from that – that £2bn – to things like schools, welfare and the arts, so you’ve already spent that money – how can you spend it on 10,000 police officers.

Diane Abbott: We’ve not actually committed that money to anything, we’ve used these huge cuts in capital gains tax, cuts which will only help the top 5%, we’ve used them to illustrate the type of places where we could get the money to fund some of our policies, but as we roll out our manifesto, you will see that each policy pledge is specifically costed, and this is a really important issue – the rise in violent crime on our streets.

Sarah Jane Mee: But you’ve made promises – Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell (Labour economic spokesman), have all stood up and said by reversing capital gains tax, we will help tackle these problems.

Diane Abbott: You will find that we haven’t specifically allocated the money. We are rolling out our manifesto, and this morning I am specifically allocating some of the £2.7bn to funding the 10,000 policemen.

One has to wonder what she will allocate it to tomorrow morning.

NOW OVER TO HER FINAL APPEANCE OF THE DAY (we hope) ON INDEPENDENT TELEVISION’S GOOD MORNING BRITAIN.

Having appeared to suggest earlier that policies already announced by Labour may never have been intended for inclusion in the party’s manifesto, or that massive tax increases would be needed to pay for them, in her next appearance abbot tries to back pedal by saying that the party is not promising anything but merely illustrating what they might do if elected. Unkind souls might suggest that if the party does not know what policies it will implement six weekes before an election they are unfit to govern by virtue of being a bunch of clueless incompetents.

GOOD MORNING BRITAIN TRANSCRIPT (key points)
The conversation has been steered by Piers Morgan to the number of times (12 according to his notes) Labour have promised to allocate this increased Capital Gains Tax revenue to specific projects:

Diane Abbott: I know you referenced that we’ve promised it, we’ve pledged it in to other areas – we’ve not pledged it in to other areas. We’ve always used it as an illustration of the type of Tory tax cut we’re going to reverse, but now as we roll out our manifesto, we’re specifically saying how we’re going to pay for the specific items in our manifesto.

Susanna Reid: This is the difference that you’re trying to make between a pledge and an illustration, because all your critics will say in August last year arts funding, Jeremy Corbyn promised money saying that that can be funded through a reversal of reductions in capital gains tax. On schools he would deal with the teacher shortage and rising class sizes by reversing the capital gains tax cut and on welfare John McDonnell, your shadow Chancellor, said that he would use the capital gains tax reversal to reverse the cuts in universal credits. So we’ve got to discount now all of those pledges and stick with this one. Is that the case?

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Something to ponder … but, worth a broad smile !
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Margaret Hodge: Labour’s scourge of tax avoiders is outed as a tax avoider (image source)

Ho hum – one week to go to the election and no news worth reporting, we see pictures of Cameron, looking shiny, Miliband looking confused Clegg looking resigned and Nigel Farage holding a pint of beer.

But there is nothing worth talking about.

Yesterday Cameron announced a tax freeze on Income Tax, National Instrance and VAT. Miliband and Ed balls called it a gimmick (which it was)

A few days ago Miliband announced a reduction in Stamp Duty. Cameron, Osborne and Clegg called it a gimmick because that’s what it was.

Green candidates continued to talk bollocks, SNP candidates continued to talk about when Scotland rules the world and Russell Brand recommended that his followers (who are not voting if they take his recent advice) should support Labour.

UKIP candidates continued to talk about the issues most voters want candidates to talk about but their words of common sense were not reported in the media.

Oh and former Labour Minister and current chair of the Public Accounts committee, Margaret Hodge (nee Oppenheimer), who was Labour’s most vigorous critic of tax avoidance by the super rich was exposed as a tax cheat. A report in The Times which is behind a paywall so check it out second hand at IB Times) reveals that Hodge used the Lichtenstein Disclosure Facility (LDF) to transfer onshore 96,000 shares in a private steel­ trading business established by her father. The LDF is a controversial tax deal established in 2009 enabling the transfer of assets out of the Principality of Liechtenstein, a tiny European country with notably low tax rates, to the UK.

It was created as an incentive for those with undeclared income or unpaid taxes to repatriate their assets by offering preferentially time­-limited tax liabilities, substantially lower penalties and no threat of criminal prosecution.

The Stemcor shares Hodge received in this way in 2011, following the winding­ up of the Liechtenstein Trust, were worth about £1.5 million. Her shareholding was properly declared in the parliamentary register of members’ financial interests, but she has not spoken of offshore vehicles or the LDF.

As Hodge has singled out the LDF system for criticism while using it herself her attitude would seem a tad hypocritical to say the least. But then what else would we expect from a member of Labour, the party that claims it speaks for the working class while really representing the interests of lawyers, tax eaters and ‘the stinking rich’ (including Margaret Hodge (nee Oppenheim).

You will not get to know much about the dodgy tax affairs of Margaret Hodge from mainstream media of course, to report fully the dishonesty and hypocrisy of an elitist might open a massive can of worms.