Without knowing the tax rules, it's hard to condemn the woman.
The fact that she is the wife of our Chancellor ...SHOULD be irrelevant.....shouldn't it?

No. Conflict of interests for starters and then morality            And then the rest......

This one's for Rishi...You can't have your cake and eat it     

I get the conflict of interest (on his behalf) and the morality issue, but as long as she is within the law I don't see that she should be of anymore interest than any other British tax paying citizen.
I see it as yet another media skulduggery to take away our focus on the important things that are happening around us.
Like the war in Ukraine for example...and the grotesque slaughtering of civilians therein...

@slimfern posted:

I get the conflict of interest (on his behalf) and the morality issue, but as long as she is within the law I don't see that she should be of anymore interest than any other British tax paying citizen.
I see it as yet another media skulduggery to take away our focus on the important things that are happening around us.
Like the war in Ukraine for example...and the grotesque slaughtering of civilians therein...

The war in Ukraine is what they want you to think.

They are the Torys     

The older I get the more hostile I get. If this was Labour I'd be saying the same. But they're not in power.

Don't fecking lie to me - I'm getting sick of it. Let's see May.

@velvet donkey posted:

The war in Ukraine is what they want you to think.

They are the Torys     

I would be concerned if labour didn't want us to think the same...
Our home economics pale into significance don't you think?

@velvet donkey posted:

The older I get the more hostile I get. If this was Labour I'd be saying the same. But they're not in power.

Don't fecking lie to me - I'm getting sick of it. Let's see May.

I'm assuming you don't mean Theresa...she was after all as effectual as a fart in the wind.

I'm not convinced that Starmer could do any better.....

and just to let you know....am not a Tory voter

There is no home economics. We are trillions in debt.

Chancellors make me laugh. And hedge fund manager sounds like a very loose term to me.

How did he make his money?

Probably the same way as every other hedge funder

Yes we are trillions in debt, but to be fair the pandemic has to be responsible for a good percentage of that.
We weren't doing so badly beforehand....admittedly we could have been doing better but then Brexit had a hold on us at that point.

Rather than criticising ...we should be coming together, whether we're Tory, Labour, Liberal, Green or Lord Screaming Sutch (I know he is no longer a candidate ), as we are now in a new era where Putin thinks he can run amok!

and NO! I don't read the Daily Mail....

We had the lowest growth in the G7 and Europe before the pandemic. Statistics since mislead.         

The Tory's don't know what the truth is     

@slimfern posted:

Probably the same way as every other hedge funder

Yes we are trillions in debt, but to be fair the pandemic has to be responsible for a good percentage of that.
We weren't doing so badly beforehand....admittedly we could have been doing better but then Brexit had a hold on us at that point.

Rather than criticising ...we should be coming together, whether we're Tory, Labour, Liberal, Green or Lord Screaming Sutch (I know he is no longer a candidate ), as we are now in a new era where Putin thinks he can run amok!

and NO! I don't read the Daily Mail....

I agree , and no, I don’t read the Daily Mail ….or any other newspaper ….nor do I *Twitter*.Having said that I don’t agree with nom doms either .

Ukraine is taking your eye off the ball. Exactly what they want - I dunno how you can be fooled.

And Ukraine is five star out of order.

@velvet donkey posted:

Ukraine is taking your eye off the ball. Exactly what they want - I dunno how you can be fooled.

And Ukraine is five star out of order.

I agree about Ukraine Velvet ….but even more , it’s taking everyone’s eyes off covid too .

Correctamundo Baz       

It's like it doesn't exist. And hospitals everywhere are saying don't come unless it's life threatening. If you do it's a 12 hour wait.

The news channels should pick a topic and lead on it for a week to hammer home the state of this country. They're getting off far too easily. As I said, let's see May me chum     

@velvet donkey posted:

Correctamundo Baz       

It's like it doesn't exist. And hospitals everywhere are saying don't come unless it's life threatening. If you do it's a 12 hour wait.

The news channels should pick a topic and lead on it for a week to hammer home the state of this country. They're getting off far too easily. As I said, let's see May me chum     

Exactly Velvet ….hospitals are apparently overflowing ….albeit many of the covid patients in hospital have actually gone in with something else and found to have covid …..but that’s no consolation to those waiting for cancer treatments etc .

Hi Velvet

It's absolutely incredible that Sunak's wife declared India her permanent residence, and he declared he was a permanent resident of the USA for 6 years Both avoiding tax here and this is the guy that's put taxes up 15 times, is 11 Downing St a holiday home.... Parliament is a sewer, I can think of less the 20 MP's that really deserve to be there

I don't know what we can do about the Ukraine other than sanctions for now, unless we really do want WW3, although our sanctions were very lax, given the Russians a month to move money,  yachts etc.

I really do think it's important that government should be held to account for tax evasion, lie after lie, after all if we can't trust them to run our country, I certainly wouldn't trust them delegating in a war.

Well said Damsel     

Hope you're ticking along like a Vacheron Constantin     

The oldest watchmaker in the world   

The Maltese Cross is their motif. You won't need to phone a friend on Millionaire   

The Maltese Cross used to be my avi.

I love Malta but you can't be car bombing journalists and that went to the top.

@velvet donkey posted:

Well said Damsel     

Hope you're ticking along like a Vacheron Constantin     

The oldest watchmaker in the world   

The Maltese Cross is their motif. You won't need to phone a friend on Millionaire   

I am Velvet, thank you. I hope you're well too

I try to avoid political stuff now, it just infuriates and frustrates me

I remember you having the Maltese cross for your Avi