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Agreed, he dragged it out 4 days longer than necessary because he didn't want people questioning his dad's tax affairs in Panama? From someone with a background in media, someone that has previous spoken about other individual's tax affairs, a politician, a millionaire with millions of pounds worth of special advisers around him, tax question evasion turned out to be a very poor tactic.

It really does make you wonder why he made such a pigs orifice of trying to carefully word a 'clever' vague suspicious sounding none answer on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Did you or anyone vote for Samantha Cameron? The key thing is she has a public money budget for advisers because she's married to someone. I thought we had royalty so we didn't have that first lady stuff? Perhaps we could reduce the deficit by only voting for single politicians that promise not to get married. Up to £53,000 per year. It's a stupid and crass waste of money when they are making other people redundant to try and save money.

So, it turns out that Samantha Cameron has a P.A. and fashion adviser on a salary somewhere between £26,000 and £53,000 paid for by the state (or as I like to think of it, me). Who is this public employee advising Sam Cam on wardrobe? It's the grandaughter of a former tory MP Lord Elliott of Morpeth. I guess she just gave the best interview for a very necessary job? Just remember that, when your job centre has a recruitment freeze and your library asks for volunteers. The government are using your tax to pay someone to advise the PM's wife what to wear. Nothing to see here, nothing but snouts in a trough. Rosie Lyburn just one of £8.4Million worth of 'special advisers' we pay for each year. and before any deflections, it would be equally wrong regardless of the colour of the tie

If he's got any last strand of interest I'd like to think he'll be present today. You know, as the owner that has just made a little bit of the history he is so proud of. Then after the game, over to E4 to be on an episode of Tattoo Fixers. 'yeah, I got drunk and I had this sort of football lion done, but now I'm more in to jigsaws and staying home...'

No idea to be honest. It was slightly more complicated than just getting on a plane. I was keeping it brief! I needed to set up bank accounts, help set up a joint business with a local firm and get a flat and a car. Maybe I could have done all that regardless, don't know. I also know that trying to work in Nigeria and Libya proved blissfully awkward to arrange visas and export credit guarantees etc.. Awkward enough for me to have ended up not going, but having had the credit for saying I would. I wouldn't really have gone, but I just trusted in others to blink first.

Well we're trying to get a reunion organised at some point, so I couldn't have made too many Maltese cross. Anyway, most of the management level were Brits or Germans and most of the site labour was north african. Quite a few locals moaning about foreigners taking jobs, whilst lots of middling jobs were difficult to fill. Reminded me of somewhere, I just can't quite put my finger on where it was....

I'm a bit late to the party with Bert Jansch, but yeah, good stuff.

The easy travel around the EU is something I've personally benefited from, having both worked and had holidays in France, Germany, Ireland and Malta. Not a massively impressive list compared with some, but yeah, I've had a phonecall on a Sunday and got on a plane to Malta on a Monday to pick up a new job.

always work for the company with the slackest stationery cupboard security protocols free biros

digital now, ripped on to CD for the car in 2 hours time, proper play with the big speakers this evening... The Lovely Eggs. It was a close call between this and some Nils Frahm, but Nils lost out because he appears to be one of these £18.99 for a record artists. He can remain a youtube thing for a while at those prices.

over 50% of all our current immigration is already non EU, so that's hardly a restriction at the moment. I think there are something like 1.2 million non EU immigrants in the UK? Yet we can't find a competent american goalkeeper. But is the number of american goalkeepers we can have more of a UEFA thing than an EU thing? I don't know, not a clue. But would Russian and Swiss teams be restricted by the same foreigner rules as a footballing not EU regulation? Personally, I'd change the rules to a maximum of less than 1 american goalkeeper per team. I think that would help us.

could you imagine the loop you'd end up in, needing a mid wank snack that you then need to work off that you then need a snack to get through that...... or as I call it: working from home

For me, it would be useful to have another symbol. Yes, I could walk it off, run it off, or swim it off. But how long would I have to masturbate for? Sorry love, I'm going to be another hour or so in here, I had a four finger kitkat at lunchtime....

George Osborne ‏@George_Osborne 29 Oct 2014 Tax evasion is not just illegal it's immoral.People evading tax should be treated same as common thieves.This agreement helps us tackle them More

Off topic really for this thread, but by coincidence there's a letter in the local paper today (it wasn't me!) that lists his local campaigns and platitudes and compares them with how he votes in parliament. He's a wrong 'un. In the interest of balance, the labour guy was also a wrong 'un and a party puppet. But also a bit scruffy, a bit slow and quite sulky.

Awol, my local MP did a superb job of lobbying on our behalf and giving us the contacts to fight and win a court case against the FAW. It's not that we wouldn't have won the case without him, we wouldn't even have been able to get it to court, we wouldn't have known what to do. When he comes to the footy (which he still does, love him), I say hello. On other non footballing matters, he has since gone on to criticise a local foodbank, stating free food makes people lazy. He has also taken a six figure salary plus six figure expenses and then voted to reduce disability benefits. Literally this week I have discovered that when he was a Welsh Assembly member, he received expenses to have a flat in Cardiff Bay as his commute between constituency and assembly was unduly arduous. Eleven Miles. Eleven. Now in parliament and now promoted to Wales Secretary, he does what he is told by the tory leader and tory whips. I didn't vote for him and looking at his voting record since, I was damn right not to. But that's the Westminster party system for you.

I'd written a similar response and then decided life is too short to squabble on the internet. Look, if my views or lack of passion for the freedoms Westminster offer aren't your cup of tea, I won't be offended, do feel free to use the ignore function. But genuinely, whilst your contributions are obviously considered, I think they are easily countered. There is no more fact to debate in your understanding of freedom than in my half arsed contradictions and counters. If you want to post up grand eloquent speeches on the freedoms hard won by Ghandi or Robert The Bruce and now offered to us by Westminster, that's fine, that's an interesting perspective. Personally, I'm not convinced. Whilst I'm not convinced, I think the majority of voters could be. One thing is for sure, after the referendum, life will carry on, and I will have about as much influence on Westminster as I have on Brussels.

Calm down love. There's a chance there are caricatures on both sides of this fact free debate. We both know that.

Rest assured that the protection of the little guy will be enhanced by the tory party should we vote leave. They will put an end to looking after your chums in the city and they will stop money buying influence.

No, no, no, you are wrong. It's hardly trivia to be able to produce goods we can sell to europe that no longer have to meet european standards. Once we are out we will be able to make stuff to whatever standard we like and sell it to them. Also, once we are out we will be allowed to sell stuff all over the world, which at the moment would be illegal. Once out we will be able to stop all those indians, south africans, americans, pakistani's, kiwis and australians from coming over here. They'll have to go and live with the tens of thousands of Brits in France, Spain and Cyprus. Once out of europe we can stop taking in all these refugees. In Wales alone we've already taken in up to 11 families. Enough is enough. Once out, we can spend money on our borders and our police and customs, which I guess at the moment we can't be allowed to. Hardly trivia.

It's relevant because sometimes some state employees can end up doing some very odd things. Sometimes, those who's duty it is to protect can actually end up selling military hardware to rogue states and use the profit from that to set up shell companies that fund terrorist campaigns by known drug smuggling gangs. Resulting in the killing, torturing and raping of thousands of innocent people along the way. Whilst believing they are doing the right thing for the greater good. It's highly unlikely. But it is not beyond the realms of possibility that one person or a small group somewhere in that team could decide that they are serving the greater good to have a president killed. Directly or indirectly. Or to put it another way, if you found out that there was one single rogue nutjob somewhere in the CIA / FBI / US Military, and that one nutjob wanted to kill a socialist president, would that be utterly mind bogglingly beyond your wildest imaginings? I don't think it's the most likely thing to happen. Not by a long way. But I also don't think it's very far fetched.

sometimes some people get confused over office / personality / duty / legal / illegal

suffice to say, if a tory was on fire, I'd take 3 days to get back from my holiday and then I'd go out to tender for 6 weeks to find the cheapest person willing to piss on them before considering any further action