[Youngian]

Good thread by a former tax partner at a City law firm. In short, Zahawi looks like he's got a problem. The bad bit of tax planning is quite something. Offshore companies managed from the UK are treated like a UK company, so you don't do anything like fill in documents with London addresses on them...

All that effort to avoid 20% corporation tax on revenues that aren’t often strictly accurate. I get why Led Zeppelin were doing this 50 years ago.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Would be quite a lot of tax avoided/evaded in this case. Hopefully soon to be unavoided, with considerable interest added.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[davidjay]

Every day, in every way.

[satnav]

Suella Braverman has forced the Telegraph to correct their story and she claims that she is actually instigating an inquiry into the quality of government legal advice. That sounds a bit like Harold Shipman launching an inquiry into the care of the elderly.

[Watchman]

When do we see the first government lawyer accused of perverting the course of justice?

[Boiler]

Spotted elsewhere:

"A new girl band - shall we call them The Spite Girls?"

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[Bones McCoy]

It's a no from me Simon.

[Watchman]

Nadhim Zahawi; apparently this bloke is Chancellor of The Exchequer, so on the day the BoE raise interest rates and warn of impending recession, he refused to make a statement because he is on holiday!

[satnav]

I'd love to know who is actually running the country at the moment. The Prime Minister is apparently on holiday, the Chancellor is on holiday, the Foreign Secretary is campaigning around the country for the next six weeks, Suella Braverman is touring the newsroom trying to explain the governments economic policy and heaven knows where Dominic Raab is at the moment. (According to Milton Jones he is doing stand up in Edinburgh).

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I'd love to know who is actually running the country at the moment.

Those hated pen-pushers of the civil service...

[satnav]

No they can't be because they spend all day doing diversity training!

[Yug]

Or struggling with shite IT administered by the sort of people who willingly work for peanuts when there's no decent monkeys about.

[mattomac]

Also they are all working from home so can’t possibly be doing anything.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Particularly pathetic effort here. Tory majority on the committee, and has to be confirmed by the whole house where the Tories have a 70 plus majority.

BTL Goldsmith goes off on one about how this system was brought in by "Clegg", who's been gone from Government for 7 years. Johnson, Cameron and May somehow forgot to change this terrible, unfair system.

[Yug]

Of course the Partygate probe was rigged, just not in the way Goldsmith is whining about. The Met have admitted they didn't bother questioning Johnson about some of the parties.

[Abernathy]

Well, if anybody should know about obscene abuses of power, it’s Johnson and Goldsmith.
This probably reflects the reported unease within the upper echelons of the Tory party, in which some are apparently urging Johnson to apply for the Stewardship of the Manor of Northgate before the commons privileges committee has had a chance to condemn him. God knows why- surely the formal confirmation of his disgusting mendacity is now academic? Everybody KNOWS he’s a lying cunt.

[Andy McDandy]

Like father, like son. Jammy Goldfish generally considered himself above the law.

[davidjay]

[kreuzberger]

That's the thing about this lot; they don't understand the difference between power and opportunity. And they never will.