[davidjay]

And both he and the blokes laughing with him would without doubt lob bricks through a peedo's window an' do time if any nonce come near their kids.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Nadhim Zahawi has agreed to pay several million pounds in tax to the authorities after a dispute over his family’s financial affairs, it has been reported.

Representatives of the Conservative party chairman are believed to be paying after questions over his use of an offshore company to hold shares in the polling firm YouGov, according to the Sun on Sunday.

This has been coming a while. Zahawi has been serially dishonest about it. Surely he should be sacked.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

He should be up before the beak.

[Tubby Isaacs]

He ought to be. Then again Harry Redknapp got off the most obvious tax evasion I’ve seen, so perhaps they won’t prosecute.

[kreuzberger]

... according to the Sun on Sunday.

There's a turnip for the books. Murdoch realising that he is holding a busted flush?

[Watchman]

Nadhim Zahawi has agreed to pay several million pounds in tax to the authorities after a dispute over his family’s financial affairs, it has been reported.

Representatives of the Conservative party chairman are believed to be paying after questions over his use of an offshore company to hold shares in the polling firm YouGov, according to the Sun on Sunday.

This has been coming a while. Zahawi has been serially dishonest about it. Surely he should be sacked.

Is it what he actually owes, or a “compromise”?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Is it what he actually owes, or a “compromise”?

He's banged to rights very obviously on the internet, so it would be the whole amount plus interest.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Big Dan's still after Zahawi.

When I did this stuff low level for a job, the Revenue, as it was, used to send out an assessment for tax owed that was, well, a bit hopeful. There was then back and forth till it got to a reasonable level. I'd love it if this happened with Zahawi, and the Tory men in grey suits told him to pay the fucking lot to get this out of the news.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Absolute crankery, from a Tory peer. Lord Wei, apparently a co-founder of Teach First.

[Tubby Isaacs]

There's also some amusing state-backed Guild Socialism, I'm told. For "men from left behind communities".

[Andy McDandy]

That's the sort of thing the BNP used to hawk.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I'm actually surprised they were as stupid as this guy.

How difficult would it be to game the anti-woke tests to get the free money? Do they spy on you for the rest of your life to make sure you weren't?

[Tubby Isaacs]

More from Zahawi. What an absolute moron of political hack he is. I don't know what's worse, the idea that Labour did nothing (can't he remember Alistair Darling's "Belize" flourish?) or the idea that the Tories had sorted it forever by passing some laws.

I still don't understand why it's not been possible to get him into Parliament to explain himself.

[davidjay]

The "union paymasters" line they keep hawking. Do they realise that the only people who remember it and take any notice are their own voters?

[soulboy]

Who are the Tory "paymasters" and how are they influencing policy?

Surely greedy fat cats with off shore interests are as easy to weaponise as the scary trades unions.

Edit - I'm forgetting the client press, aren't I?

[Andy McDandy]

The "union paymasters" line they keep hawking. Do they realise that the only people who remember it and take any notice are their own voters?

At either the 2017 or 2019 elections, I saw a clip of someone, perhaps my age, saying that they "remembered the 70s" and didn't want to risk another winter of discontent.

Also bear in mind MacKenzie's description of the typical Sun reader.

[Youngian]

So many white English working class withdrawing their labour. Guess which side the “we should looking after our own” brigade who care about low wages (caused by immigrants) are mainly batting for?

[Crabcakes]

First it’s people from another country who deserve no help. Then it’s people from this country who can’t work too. Then it’s people who can work and are from this country but don’t earn enough. Then it’s people who work, are from here and earn enough but who live in the wrong area. And so on and so on until finally you get them to admit it’s anyone else at all but them.

Charity begins at home. And for the Tories and many of their supporters, dies there too.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

He's announced he's not standing again. Looking for another career...

[Crabcakes]

We had the local Tory councillor boys round this afternoon. Every one of them looking like awful, oily pricks no older than 16.

But fair play, they were polite. Just a shame that what they were polite about was laughable - openly saying they were as unhappy as everyone else with the party at Westminster, but that it was important to remember what mattered locally.

At which point I said that that was all well and good, but he had still thrown in his lot with appalling bullies like Braverman and Raab, imbeciles like Truss and sociopaths like Johnson, and moreover he was clearly *still* part of that team, so what did he expect me to think of him?

He then thanked me for my time and left with a face that said he’d heard that (or words to that effect) a LOT.

If the best they have though is “yes we think they’re shit too - but just try and forget we’re anything to do with them”, and they’re out already trying to shore up the local election vote, they are clearly shitting it on an extinction-level scale.