Saint86

There are a few rules in life that you can swear by. One of them is that if the fish fuckers either claim something derogatory about Southampton or positive about their fish bowl of a club / slum of a city, then it is in fact 100% certain to be yet another Portsmyth, and not worth the paper its printed on.

Really is disgusting - would come with a football banning order these days.

https://news.sky.com/story/israel-not-committing-genocide-in-gaza-but-casualties-and-destruction-are-utterly-appalling-says-uk-government-13427380 Imagine this stance will change subject to whoever wins the deputy leader contest.

A lot of Tory donors have switched to reform now, as well as them starting to attract business. They are the largest party at this point - I think it will come down to whether labour can sort themselves out and/or whether people actually think reform can form a serious government. The tories are normally wounded as far as the next GE goes. The other question ofc is whether Corbyn splits the left wing vote - which would also be devastating for labour. I wouldn't be at all surprised if labour push through PR to at least stop reform getting in - even if it's long term suicide for labour. I don't think it's that unlikely that we see reform and lib Dems as the main two parties next GE.

Now that just sounds like the democrats in America 😅

He may be isolated, but its extremely telling that he is still there and hasn't even been moved.

Of all the cabinet - this is the fucktard that actually has to go.

Grim. People like that are a great argument for why we need migrants... we've got a thick underclass of absolute bitter morons that have wasted / taken for granted all of the advantages that being born in Britain afforded them, and are nothing but a net drain on the economy and society as a whole. Any chance we can deport that lot?

He's the preffered candidate for the blairite wing of labour, but not for the left of labour. I think labour are almost as ungovernable now as the Tories were post Brexit. Corbyn/sultana's new party and rayners fall from grace could now split the labour party by the next GE.

I agree. The outlook is depressing. I think most people could sense labour were going to be a car crash (their GE campaign was to keep stum and just let public sentiments on the Tories win it for labour), but they have been terrible since getting in office. Considering they haven't had a major external issue jump out of them, I do think it's the worst year a government has had (that I can recall) for what are essentially self inflicted domestic issues / politics. The freebies they've been getting, the lying about qualifications, the winter fuel payments and grooming enquiry fiascos (complete political suicide on both fronts), they seem weaker on illegal migration than the Tories (in so much as the numbers have gone up), we've seen real regression on the free speech front, and whether rightly or wrongly - the 2 tier Keir moniker will remain with him for life. But then look around - the response to labour (and the Tories) is to apparently now just vote reform - and a large part of that seems to be a similar attitude of "they aren't the other 2" or to punish lab/con. Reform may have a few good individuals/policoes in their mist, but is any of it really costed? Do they know how to implement any of it or work with the civil service? Or will they just been an even bigger car crash?! And in all seriousness (and taking politics out of it), I cannot ever see farage as PM and being the leader of the UK on the world stage... Like FFS. He is genuinely a guy who would just be happier in a pub with a pint talking to disgruntled locals about issues he knows they'll agree with him on... Not dealing with international sanctions or weapons deals, or hosting international figures to encourage business investments. And ed Davey is no better... Running around baking and doing slip and slides is about as far removed as possible from what the country needs from the leader of a party who could well form the next (coalition) government or be the official opposition to a reform one. UK politics is a shit fest - and a very bleak and depressing decade lies ahead. Are we doomed to cycle through the Tories, labour, and reform - before realising they're all shit and finally having some kind of political renaissance in a few years. Grim if so.

Semmens had no investment behind him, he and Ralph kept the club going and in the top flight on a relative shoestring, they also made the most out of a lot of players we had in place. The likes of ings, kwp, livramento were all good buys. The lavia leg work was done on their watch. JWP saints' career was basically saved by Ralph etc. There were some duff buys in that time as well though, particularly earlier one... But absolutely nothing in comparison to the absolute shitfest that was sports republic's (rasmus') first year in recruitment duties 😅 (Bet semmens thought he was onto a winner when he SR turned up and wanted to put money into investments... Little did he know that we were going to rip up the entire established recruitment system and he was going to have little control 😄).

The crocodile tears can't hide the fact that after this shit storm was discovered, she's tried to claim that she was given financial advice that said she was paying the correct amount and scapegoat the conveyancers. This was something she's claimed retrospectively and is a lie, especially as she's sought advice and was actually advised to speak to a specialist tax adviser. I get it, that was probably a desperate attempt from her to try and save her career at at stressful time, but just another example where she's failed to show adequate integrity. She's gone now - that will satisfy most interested parties and stop people looking further into whether this was deliberately done, why she lied about the advice she was given after the fact, and why she sold her house to her son's care trust for an inflated amount. Has she accepted the ghost is up and is falling on her sword to escape greater scrutiny? Probably.

Interested to see what happens now, and whether Streeting fills the void or someone more on the left of Labour. Streeting has been very quiet until now, but potentially stands to gain a lot from this whole thing.

And to come back to my point and the linked article...

Is it not fraudulent tax evasion where you lie about you living arrangements/finances etc to get out of paying tax... or is lying in fact a legal form of tax avoidance?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/13/tax-authorities-should-prosecute-evaders-keir-starmer Based on the fact that Rayner has clearly lied and can't decide which property she lives in... Starmer is going to have fun with this one 😄

Starmer would have you know that tax evasion should be considered as fraud and punishable as such (unless ofc its Rayner, in which case its fine as she holds his labour party leadership balls in a vice). Edit - the legal/conveyancing firm have now come out denied entirely that they gave her (or any other clients) tax or trust advice, have accused her of trying to scapegoat them, and have therefore now added a pretty serious accusation of lying at Rayner. Wonder if they'll also pursue her for reputational damages.

Robinson has the potential to be a good prem player for saints imo, someone of the JWP/Schneiderlin style level. Dibling has Bale level potential (i.e., to become one of the best players in the league/europe etc) - although i'm doubtful as to whether he can realise that potential as there does seem to be something else going on with him from a mentality perspective. Eitherway, both are great talents and success stories for the academy.

Quite something to have the rangers sporting director come out and speak on behalf of the manager over what Martin will be doing to get Raskin back on side 😬

I'd be dropping Downes for Jander for the derby. Its no place for someone who is seemingly as fairweather as he is atm, similarly he is constantly getting needless bookings or giving away fouls all the time atm - don't know whats up with him, maybe its because his mate russel has left or because we blocked his move to Ipswich, but whatever it is his head doesn't seem fully focussed and putting him in CM for the skates would worry me a bit.

Yeah, plenty of good MPs in it for the right reason - that's true enough. But Rayner is very clearly just another corrupt hypocritical pig with no integrity and her snout in the trough.

So wait, Rayners blatant tax avoidance is okay because she's not as bad as the Tories. They're just as slimy as the last lot 😆 I guess by the end of this, she'll at least know where she lives (even if its not her own constituency) and pay the right tax 🙄

She received financial advice to avoid paying tax.... The rules are the rules and she wants to get around them and dodge tax... be it having one primary residence to avoid paying double council tax, and one to avoid double stamp duty... Whether her financial adviser fucked up or not - she still went t them for advice to avoid tax. She has still consciously dicked about with her addresses to dodge tax. And she's now gone and got a primary residence thats not in her constituency (when it suits for tax purposes) to avoid paying tax whilst not knowing that she was doing that. Old saggy chops would be proud. Its utterly irrelevant whether the advice she then got is incorrect - she still actively sought financial advise to avoid paying taxes after zealously attacking better off people for avoiding taxes. She's also got a party leader / PM who is on record saying tax evasion is fraud, and should be prosecuted as such, and she's in a party that has campaigned to clamp down on tax avoidance whilst also hiking council taxes and supporting 100% increases on council tax for 2nd homes(which she's loop holed her way out of) etc.

Mate, she's either incompetent, or a hypocrite of no integrity who has committed tax avoidance. I very much doubt she sought financial advice without the intention to minimise tax in this instance - you'd just pay the default (dare we just say correct) tax otherwise.

Separate issue, but why did she need a court injunction for an amicable divorce from a husband and the setting up of shared trust? 🙄 End of the day, she's paid for legal advice to minimise stamp duty and council tax, changed her residences around to suit both stamp duty and council tax payments across her 3 properties, at best - her solicitors have fucked it all up, and she's got caught, and is now having to hold her hands up. Will be her dog's fault next... Lets ignore the fact that that would mean she is also ignorant about the implications of council tax, primary residences, and stamp duty, whilst at the same time publicly vowing to clamp down on tax avoidance and hike taxes on property and council tax.