BREXIT BANKRUPTING BRITAIN

WHERE IS THE PROMISED "BREXIT BONANZA"?
WHO IS FARAGE FOOLING NOW?
WHY ARE H.M.R.C. BLOCKED FROM TAXING OFFSHORE ASSETS?

LETTER To Andrew Marr, at The Andrew Marr Show; the UK's BBC TV Political Program.  

13 July 2020

Dear Andrew Marr,

BREXIT BONANZA.  When you next interview an ardent Leaver such as Et Tu Gove, burbling incontinent Boris, our real PM slogan-writer sociopath Cummings, offshore billionaire Rees-Mogg,  or any of the other third rate Ministers or Shadow Ministers, would you please pin them to their chairs, for however many hours it may take, and insist on them answering in detail, with verifiable facts and figures: Where is the Brexit Bonanza? Where are the new trade deals? With whom? How much profit will the UK make? When will the deals be signed? How many extra jobs will they create? What additional products and services will we export? What additional City passporting rights will we obtain? …And why oh why are we “doing a Ratner” to our largest, most profitable export market? You should start by ascertaining if they or their family or colleagues own any of the £2 trillion UK assets tax-unpaid or paid in tax-havens – and if so, is tax-evasion their personal motive for Brexit?

I have 50 years active practical service as an accountant and business-planner. I find that all the experts and agencies, locally and globally, assert that we will lose 8% of GDP (in addition to Covid-19 impacts) , which translates to 7 million job losses or equivalent reduction in wages. Bloomberg said of Brexit, “It is the stupidest economic decision any country has ever made, ever”.  Please – please – on behalf of the whole nation – discover why our governors and Bullingdon Club betters are so utterly determined to bankrupt the UK and break up the Union. Or are they simply too stupid to do the business arithmetic and comprehend the consequences?

My CV link is in this address block.

I very much enjoy your History books.

Regards – (Mr) Noel Hodson

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Tax recovery could help fund spending

Using UK assets held in tax havens could help finance Rishi Sunak’s budget, says 

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 Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, delivers his summer statement. Countries, such as Japan, manage with large debt and Tory backbenchers are wrong to worry about borrowing large sums to fund government investment, says Bernie Evans. Photograph: Jessica Taylor/AFP/Getty Images

Many ask how Rishi Sunak’s generous budget will be financed (

Of this, it is estimated that $3tn (£2.4tn) is from the UK. If Sunak spends $300bn (£237bn) of this UK hoard, it is only 10% of our tax-haven assets. So, long-term borrowing at near 0% rates is not likely to be a problem. We, the people, will pay the loans back to the tax havens in due course. If HMRC is empowered to levy back-tax and penalties as normal, it will approximately amount to the whole capital – $3tn – and spare the UK taxpayers.

• Sunak’s statement was the creation of a chancellor determined not “to scare Conservative backbenchers”, as your 

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New Rules Rule Okay

By Mel Cooper

The announcement on 13 July 2020 of the new rules for what will win you points to immigrate into the UK and take a job seem to me to prove one thing: this government is either a bunch of fools, or they have hidden agendas more important to them than any promises or acts of common sense they have promised; and they are ultimately liars.

We weep for Coronavirus victims. We applaud the Care Workers – though, of course, it is probably all their fault for not following the rules properly.

But they did follow the rules as laid out by the government at that time – get everyone the hell out of hospitals as fast as you can, especially the elderly who must be sent back to their care homes without any testing. Testing? Masks? Forget it!

But, they still insist, when we leave the EU we have lined up for you the best trade deals ever, especially with the EU which is about to crumble and give us everything we want because they need us more than we need them. Unless, of course, they treat us badly and punish us and then it is all their fault if there is no trade deal.  

Of course, meantime, all the True Brits who have been so badly done down by all those horrid, greedy immigrants will be lining up for all the jobs that those horrid EU migrants have been taking from us – especially the ones where you get £6 an hour for wiping the bottoms of demented nonagenarians and treating them so that they feel loved and respected. I mean, Brits have been lining up for years to pick strawberries and plough fields and serve coffee in Costa Cafes and drive buses and sweep streets. And don’t kid yourself, they will very soon fill all the 120,000 unfilled care worker jobs and the many, many more that will be opening up when those horrid, ungrateful EU citizens go back to their own countries and stop trying to get into ours to take away those jobs and places in schools and all our housing. And meantime we are building, building, building, and clearly we will have enough housing for everyone in about, oh, say, six months.

Sadly, all the evidence is that so many migrant workers had their jobs because there were no British people able or willing to take them. Oh, but we only want the skilled workers! What skill is there in looking after the elderly or the ill or the mentally challenged? What skill is there is making people in a hotel feel looked after? And why would our kids want to go abroad and learn another language when they can stay right here and speak the best language in the world, the one we spread around the world through our Empire so that it is now the top language. People will definitely go on needing to talk English all over the Far East and Middle East. Especially while America remains so dominant.

As the Cheyenne tribes in the USA used to say of white government officials in the 19^th century, I fear I have to say of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Dominic Cummings and the entire cabinet and, sadly, most of the Conservative Party: they speak with forked tongue! And who, in this country, not bedazzled by their fake rhetoric and demagoguery, trusts them about anything much any more?

Including, of course, that Britain has made the right decision to leave the EU. Ah, well, there is nothing those of us who are sceptical about the future of the UK under Johnson, Brexit and a desire for a herd immunity that is illusory and dangerous, can do about it now. Is there?

So keep track of the new rules and then look back at the promises of 2016 that got you or someone you know to vote for Brexit, and see if you can find any similarity between them. Are the promises not being fulfilled? Shame on you if you think that. Use your common sense!

You can take the time to do this little exercise, if you wish to drive to or from the continent, while sitting in miles long queues or 40 acre parking lots near Dover, especially when you return to this country and find there is no red tape at all, no not any.

And then, please, do not ask any questions. Questions are a bad thing. Just swallow your doubts and carry on!

Mel Cooper, Oxford, UK 14 July 2020