What about Nigel "nowhere to be seen" Farage?
She didn't e & ade it. She avoided it. Very different.
she took and followed legal advice - that seems fairly cautious!
I'm not actually convinced HMRC would give advice in this situation. If HMRC just provided tax and planning advice to anybody who called, there'd be no role for tax advisors for example. They exist for a reason. HMRC will tell you what your current tax position is based on information you've given them, but they won't get involved in telling you whether buying a home through your child's trust fund counts as a second property or whatever.
But it now transpires that she took advice from a conveyancing company who had no solicitors working for them, and who explicitly said that any client should make their own arrangements for getting tax advice.
But she seems to have told the Council in Ashton that the Ashton property was her primary residence, and told the Council in Hove that the Hove property was her primary residence. She can't have two primary residences. Doesn't that sound as though she was trying to evade her tax liability (illegal) rather than avoid it (legal)?
I saw on the news some clips of her berating Tory ministers for refusing to resign with the line “one rule for them, another for everybody else”. Which does make her look hypocritical, and as you say perception is everything.
Well they do, its a tax and guess what the HMRC give the definitive tax advice in the UK. I did have a look and it did say under 18's who are the direct beneficiary of a domestic house in a trust, their parents/guardians ulimatly own the house and any further purchases would be a second home.
When I fill in my tax form (can’t actually remember the last time I filled one in), I filled it in with the intention that I paid as little tax as I could get away with paying, as I’m sure pretty much everyone else does. While I’m certainly not defending Rayner, there are many more extremely wealthy individuals who need looking at.
Are there any rules? The party directly elects their deputy leader, but there is no compulsion for a Labour PM to have to give them the title of deputy prime minister, especially given that this role is entirely powerless and meaningless in the UK context. Everyone who has held the title has also had an actual cabinet position (in her case, communities/local government/housing)
About time.
Genuinely good and competent people don't go into politics anymore (or if they do they don't go far or are corrupted). There are plenty of other professions that not only have comparable, if not better pay, but come with much lower levels of public visibility and responsibility. Throw in the negative attitude towards the profession in general, and good people don't see the attraction. This then leads to the only ones going for it being incompetent, naïve and/or power-hungry, which then reinforces the aforementioned attitudes, creating a negative feedback loop. This is why changing parties of government hasn't solved anything, and why someone like Reform won't improve either. The overarching problem is the whole political system, that goes above parties and politicians, needs overhauling.
agreed - see my initial post relating to the story
There's quite a logistics challenge given it's only three weeks away and there has to be a period for nominations. The cabinet has the right to appoint an interim deputy leader if they wish.
Fully agree!
