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Let me explain. The Government has been in dispute with the Government about the Government charging the Government for parking on Government land. But now the courts have ruled the Government cannot levy a tax on the Government for parking on Government land.
I hope that's clear.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hmrc-news-nhs-car-parking-court-case-news-6lxzcj9bm
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Be fair. They are way too busy arresting people for carrying signs pointing out official UK government policy.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/09/palestine-march-israel-counter-protest-hamas-war-london/
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@Catogrande Very much so.
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@Catogrande I think it's a group account that some UK media people use to parody a certain type of smug liberal.
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This isn't a parody. It's an actual written question to the PM.
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@Tim I couldn't resist posting this about Jones (from a blog).
"Every rally that Jones has claimed to organise appears to have resulted in a Labour loss. One of his rallies in 2019 General Election in Uxbridge that tried to topple Boris Jonson’s reduced 5,000 majority from 2017 actually resulted in an increase of 50%. Back in 2018, when the Labour Party were apparently still relishing their 2017 revival, every single local election campaign at which Jones made an appearance resulted in a Labour defeat. In fact, the one district where Jones cancelled an appearance enjoyed a Labour victory."
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
An ordinary NHS nurse, retiring at 60, now gets a pension worth just over £1m in the annuity market.
What could possibly go wrong?
@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
An ordinary NHS nurse, retiring at 60, now gets a pension worth just over £1m in the annuity market.
What could possibly go wrong?
Problem is public sector hasn’t adopted private remuneration rigour.
Annual remuneration ought to be measured as salary, benefits, present value of pension benefits during year AND change in present value of historic pension liability because of salary increase in year.
A £5k increase in the pay of a 59 year old nurse could increase their pension pot by £150k in that year alone.
Which is why very few listed companies have schemes open to future accrual.
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
UK Police - desperately under funded etc etc
Also UK Police:
Solve crimes you fucking idiots. Not hurty fucking feeling on Twitter.
For me separate police by spinning off ideological watchdog element with 5% of funding and make it plain that the residual doesn’t police wokedom but just sticks to the basics of catching crooks and preventing violence.
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Two new things on the Post Office scandal came to light this week.
It now it turns out MPs investigating the Horizon system were deliberately misled (see below). Secondly, a report from a KC in 2015 told the Post Office their prosecutions were unsafe but the Business Secretary was told by Civil Servants the report said everything was OK.
The sheer rotten-ness and lies told by the Post Office and civil servants is staggering. Nadhim Zahawi is calling for a manslaughter investigation.
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ITV has just been tearing them apart with these leaked audio tapes. It's been fascinating to open YouTube everyday and see what new shit they've dragged up of these fucking crooks.
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