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Labour's disgraced ex-shadow Minister and member of the Islington set Emily Thornberry (white van man?) has attacked the Toris 'Right to buy Housing Association homes, apparently bought a HA house as a buy to let which is not worth a million quid!!!
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Ed Milliband's Political Adviser pays no tax in Britain on his £300,000 earnings from the Labour Party
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I don't see what the problem is here. The house was sold at auction, presumably by the housing association, eight years ago.
Since the housing association obviously had no need of the place, how can you criticise someone who bought it for attacking a policy which could force housing association to sell off property ?
As for the advisor, he's American, lives, works and pays tax in the US and the money is paid to his consultancy firm which I would guess is also based in the US. So why on earth should he pay taxes on that money in the UK ?
Wouldn't it be far better for the Daily Mail to attack Labour policies instead of trying to smear people associated with the party ? Or could it be that they can't actually find any policies which they can attack ?
Since the housing association obviously had no need of the place, how can you criticise someone who bought it for attacking a policy which could force housing association to sell off property ?
As for the advisor, he's American, lives, works and pays tax in the US and the money is paid to his consultancy firm which I would guess is also based in the US. So why on earth should he pay taxes on that money in the UK ?
Wouldn't it be far better for the Daily Mail to attack Labour policies instead of trying to smear people associated with the party ? Or could it be that they can't actually find any policies which they can attack ?
Oh, and if you really think that the money raised from right to buy will be used to build more houses, think again.
The last time the RTB scheme was given a fillip was when the maximum discount was increased three years ago. At the time coalition government said that one new house would be built for every additional house sold under the scheme. Around 15,000 additional houses were sold at the bigger discount, but only 3000 houses were built with the money.
Hardly a good track record, is it ?
The last time the RTB scheme was given a fillip was when the maximum discount was increased three years ago. At the time coalition government said that one new house would be built for every additional house sold under the scheme. Around 15,000 additional houses were sold at the bigger discount, but only 3000 houses were built with the money.
Hardly a good track record, is it ?
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Lynton Crosby (David Cameron's adviser) has paid all taxes on his earnings here to the UK Government.
The house that Thornbury and her husband purchased belonged to a Housing Association. It seems to have gone bust. At the time she was calling for more social housing. Thornbury (or Lady Nugee to give her proper title) snapped up a house which could have been sold to another Housing Association, just to add to her portfolio of Buy to Let. My post was about Hypocracy.
Lynton Crosby (David Cameron's adviser) has paid all taxes on his earnings here to the UK Government.
The house that Thornbury and her husband purchased belonged to a Housing Association. It seems to have gone bust. At the time she was calling for more social housing. Thornbury (or Lady Nugee to give her proper title) snapped up a house which could have been sold to another Housing Association, just to add to her portfolio of Buy to Let. My post was about Hypocracy.
lindapalmara
Lynton Crosby works and, I would guess, lives in this country. He is the director of a number of companies, some based in the UK, and if his services are supplied via one of those UK companies, or he is employed directly by the Conservative Party, naturally his taxes would be paid to the UK government on his earnings in this country.
As I pointed out yesterday, Mr Milliband's advisor us American, lives and works in the US, and the company through which he works is based in the US, which means he has no obligation to pay taxes to the UK government.
With regard to the Thornberry house, either the HA did not need the property at the time and sold it, or it was sold by the receivers after the HA had gone bust. Either way, the HA or the receivers could have offered it to another housing association. The fact that it was sold at auction, thereby potentially removing it from the social housing pool, is hardly something Thornberry (who, by the way, never uses her title) can be blamed for.
The current lack of social housing is down to successive governments (of both colours) not ensuring that adequate numbers of such properties were built. Something which would not have been helped by the original right to buy scheme which prevented councils from building more housing to replace the stuff which had been sold off under the scheme. If any hypocrisy is involved, it the governments who are exercising it by complaining about the lack of social housing and not actually doing anything about it.
Now to make two things absolutely clear. I am not, and never have been known as Hudson, and I have no association with, or leanings toward, any political party. I am, however, capable of seeing when mud is being slung, and that only increases my contempt for the parties and and the backers who sling it.
Lynton Crosby works and, I would guess, lives in this country. He is the director of a number of companies, some based in the UK, and if his services are supplied via one of those UK companies, or he is employed directly by the Conservative Party, naturally his taxes would be paid to the UK government on his earnings in this country.
As I pointed out yesterday, Mr Milliband's advisor us American, lives and works in the US, and the company through which he works is based in the US, which means he has no obligation to pay taxes to the UK government.
With regard to the Thornberry house, either the HA did not need the property at the time and sold it, or it was sold by the receivers after the HA had gone bust. Either way, the HA or the receivers could have offered it to another housing association. The fact that it was sold at auction, thereby potentially removing it from the social housing pool, is hardly something Thornberry (who, by the way, never uses her title) can be blamed for.
The current lack of social housing is down to successive governments (of both colours) not ensuring that adequate numbers of such properties were built. Something which would not have been helped by the original right to buy scheme which prevented councils from building more housing to replace the stuff which had been sold off under the scheme. If any hypocrisy is involved, it the governments who are exercising it by complaining about the lack of social housing and not actually doing anything about it.
Now to make two things absolutely clear. I am not, and never have been known as Hudson, and I have no association with, or leanings toward, any political party. I am, however, capable of seeing when mud is being slung, and that only increases my contempt for the parties and and the backers who sling it.
The word 'Hudson' was obviously a case of predictive type error, which seems to affect quite a lot of people on AB. If you leave patronising comments on everyone's post who had a typo then you you'll be very busy!
I stand by what I say about Thornbury, a member of the Islington set champagne socialists. Remember the derogatory tweet about White Van Man, and sending her kids to selective schools. There are Hypocrites in all parties but I have never come across so many in the Labour Party who are totally out of touch with the ordinary people.
Patronise and pontificate all you want but you won't change my view, or many others on this forum!!
I stand by what I say about Thornbury, a member of the Islington set champagne socialists. Remember the derogatory tweet about White Van Man, and sending her kids to selective schools. There are Hypocrites in all parties but I have never come across so many in the Labour Party who are totally out of touch with the ordinary people.
Patronise and pontificate all you want but you won't change my view, or many others on this forum!!
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