Please don’t leave Twitter, instead let’s reclaim it from the dangerous narcissist & the disinformation, racism & hatred.
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But good people, stay - and keep calling it Twitter!
The whole of the England needs to back
@AndyBurnhamGM
in calling for proper support for businesses forced to close & the many people & families who rely on them.
The UK Government’s current approach will destroy & cost lives.
They must change course or they must go.
A company went into administration Shareholders lost their shares
Workers lost their jobs
Businesses lost income
I think this is a bit more than a blunder
The senior official who oversaw the
#Rangers
case was
#JimHarra
, Director General for Business Tax at the time. He’s now been made First Permanent Secretary & Chief Exec of
@HMRCgovuk
! He also misled MPs on the Select Committee. He must resign.
#JimHarraMustResign
#HMRCShambles
Political careers come & go, everyone who goes into politics has a limited time, however long or short. What people remember is reputations.
What’s unfathomable is that
@MelJStride
has decided to destroy his own reputation over the
#LoanCharge
, which he has.
Strange. Sad.
So Nick Boles’ motion got more votes than the Prime Minister did for her motion even the 3rd time. He then tells the House he tried his best to unite MPs & find a way forward for the UK, but failed & then resigns.
Do you need any more tips Theresa..?! 🤷🏼♂️🙇🏻♂️
@mrjamesob
I’m not Labour, but Keir has got this right & Boris Johnson is an international embarrassment & the worst & (by a country mile) the most dishonourable Prime Minister that this country has & will ever have.
This is a huge national scandal. There have been 7
#LoanChargeSuicides
yet
@Jesse_Norman
just blusters, dismisses & misleads, causing more hurt for the families.
Today was one of the most shameful displays I’ve ever seen from a Minister. Callous & a disgrace to the office.
For 12 yrs I was proud to be a Parliamentarian, dealt with many issues, but nothing like the
#LoanChargeScandal
. Highly paid
#civilservants
& chinless Ministers know what the
#LoanCharge
is doing. Yet they’d rather hoodwink & deceive than stop people killing themselves. Shocking.
If I were a senior HMRC officer involved in the
#LoanChargeScandal
this is when I’d be firing up the shredder & putting in for a transfer to another Ministry or trying to get early retirement. The way HMRC have conducted themselves is sinister & shocking & needs an investigation.
The Treasury &
#HMRC
think that all this will pass & that they’ll get away with their grotesque hypocrisy & lack of integrity. They won’t. Clear conflicts of interest. Extraordinary & barefaced double standards 💩
Time for change
#LoanChargeScandal
I was an MP & proud
#Parliamentarian
for 12 years. Years ago
@Jesse_Norman
, when on
@CommonsTreasury
, seemed to be. I’ve seen a few sad cases of MPs shedding all their principles to take Ministerial office, but Jesse’s performance over the
#LoanCharge
is on a new level. Sad.
The latest sinister turn to the
#LoanChargeScandal
is attempts to suspend Twitter accounts alongside a big push to try to stop MPs talking about suicides claiming it isn’t ‘responsible’ & Conservative MPs being pushed to defend Mel Stride & deny his demonstrable misinformation!
I remember when I studied politics and Parliament, first at school then at university, that it was a clear part of convention that Ministers accepted basic integrity, took responsibility and also would resign where their actions just distracted & damaged. I see no integrity left.
Ah, so a desperate
@HMRCgovuk
rush out a misleading statement via their taxpayer funded
#propaganda
team (who I know brief nonsense to journalists). You’re part of the problem, not credible & it seems alas as dishonourable & as hard to believe as your bosses!
#JimHarraMustResign
The nation should salute Julian Lewis tonight, he has struck a blow against a sinister rotten attempt by the Government to impose an incompetent yes man into a key role of Parliamentary scrutiny & suppress truth. Julian is a courageous & true Parliamentarian. We need more of them
I’ve just texted my wife, I popped into a building this evening & it was only after 2 pints that I realised it was a pub. Now I appear to have been ambushed with a beer. I can’t comment other than this until Sue Gray’s report except to say several of the bar staff have resigned.
I love
#RugbyLeague
. It’s been (and still is) a big part of my life. It’s a sport like no other with a history like no other. I’ll continue to do whatever I can to promote it & it’s values. 🏉XIII
I am asking for the chance to tell my side of the story. Investigative Reporter Mark Williams-Thomas will release a new documentary at 9am on Sunday 10 December. ⬇️
It’s time that more than a few good journalists realised that Government & HMRC have deliberately deceiving Parliament, journalists & others over the
#LoanCharge
. There is a rotten core at the heart of the British State. Thank goodness we have some courageous journalists & MPs.
Yesterday this letter was sent to all MPs from the daughter of one of the 7 people who have killed themselves facing the immoral & sinister
#LoanCharge
. 541 retweets so far. It & this heartbreaking video were ignored. Please watch this video & share it.
Wow, this is the headline in a respected national newspaper. “Chancellor accused of lying”. I just don’t understand why Ministers are being deluded mouthpieces of a discredited & out-of-control HMRC. Whether they realise it or not, their reputations are being destroyed over this.
The staggering
#doublestandards
of Treasury Ministers over the
#LoanCharge
, admitting they can’t/won’t retrospectively pursue promoters as the schemes weren’t illegal yet ARE retrospectively pursuing thousands of ordinary people to the point of ruin
In case anyone is wondering why I’m so angry, I tonight read through the information I’ve seen about the decent people pushed to suicide by
@HMRCgovuk
&
@hmtreasury
over the
#LoanChargeScandal
. It’s heartbreaking. It’s also state sponsored evil. 10 unnecessary deaths.
#LoanCharge
See below, a
@Conservatives
peer has blocked the daughter of a man who tragically took his own life facing the
#LoanCharge
, one of the seven
#LoanChargeSuicides
victims.
Any comments on this
@Jesse_Norman
? And why those who sold the scheme to Gayle’s dad still face no action?
This is just embarrassing. Really embarrassing. A Minister who’s supposed to oversee HMRC, instead being a (puppy loving) puppet to try to cover up the appalling & out-of-control abuse of humans.
Mel, your reputation is destroyed & cuddly puppies won’t help.
#STOPtheLoanCharge
Good to speak with
@SkyNews
today about great work by HMRC cracking down on illicit puppy breeders - good also to spend time with our very own Beagle puppy this weekend! 🐶
I’ll say this now. The Ministers responsible & now defending the immoral
#LoanCharge
will live to regret it & their involvement, support & complicity.
Stay strong. This extraordinary campaign of ordinary people & justice will prevail. ⚖️
Need to log off now & spend time with my family. I’ll just say this, having spent months trying to support & help people who are broken, ruined & suicidal. If one more person kills themselves due to the
#LoanCharge
I’ll ensure Ministers & senior HMRC Officers are held responsible
It’s a sad truth Keith, but the undeniable truth, that
@Jesse_Norman
is profoundly dishonest over the
#LoanCharge
. Whether he’s actually stupid or deliberately dishonest is impossible to know. But his dishonesty is not in doubt. Which considering the suicides is just shameful.
...repeating them to Parliament.
After all, ministers have had to resign for UNINTENTIONALLY misleading Parliament. I think it is fair to say that you are fully on notice that HMRC's advice to you on the loan charge cannot be trusted.
If anyone has anyone doubt that due to lack of any real accountability & oversight, bad leadership & no moral compass
@HMRCgovuk
are out of control, incompetent & cruel look no further. The family of a man who committed suicide facing the
#LoanCharge
treated like this. Shameful.
Lets get this straight
@Jesse_Norman
@JimHarraHMRC
. Dominic Cummings’ family has thousands of pounds of tax that was always due written off by an executive agency of
#HMRC
yet you changed the law to retrospectively demand tax never legally proven to be due via the
#LoanCharge
?!💩
I’ve been involved in a lot of
#campaigns
over the last 15 years, but I have to say, I’ve never had to deal with so many people who are so desperate & actually in some cases suicidal. I’m appalled by the
#2019LoanCharge
& how it undermines the rule of law. We must fight it. ⚖️
Staggering the way Jesse Norman tells
@RuthCadbury
&
@SeemaMalhotra1
that their factually correct questions on the
#LoanCharge
are wrong then reels off information that is actually incorrect. Why is it ok for Ministers to be so ignorant of their own brief & so dismissive with it?
There is rightly so much focus on the grotesque fact that
#PaulaVennells
was awarded a CBE.
What about ‘Sir’ Jon Thompson, one of the architects of the
#LoanChargeScandal
, to cover up
#HMRC
failures, then Chair of the disastrous
#HS2
.
This is broken Britain in a nutshell.
"told me she is having suicidal thoughts...thinking about divorcing me after 39years...she can’t cope...LC hanging over her head for years...needs financial certainty...a safe stress fee environment for herself & our mentally ill son."
Source:
Ref:EW005
Tonight my younger daughters had a virtual
@Girlguiding
#Guides
meeting. A powerful reminder of the amazing time & effort Guide Leaders & other similar volunteers are putting in to keep important activity for our children & young people going, despite the challenges. Thank you 👏
Despite the demonstrable dishonesty of senior HMRC officials, Treasury Ministers & civil servants, over the
#LoanCharge
, the tide is starting to turn & their dishonesty exposed. The
#LoanChargeScandal
will haunt some of them.
There is something seriously rotten here at the heart of
@hmtreasury
, with Ministers knowingly deceiving MPs & Peers.
This is now more than bloody mindedness & refusing to accept a policy is wrong, this stinks 💩🙊
Are they beholden to
#HMRC
or the big consultancy firms? 🤔
Bit odd that
@Jesse_Norman
claims he’s unaware of blanket decisions by firms, because I personally handed him a list of firms doing that, when I met him a few weeks ago.
Nice sounding twaddle from pseudo-intellectual
@Jesse_Norman
. Jesse, when are you going to apologise to the seven families who’ve lost loved ones to suicide facing your Government’s
#LoanCharge
? Or will you carry on the propaganda to mislead & brush it under the carpet?
#Hereford
Boris Johnson was right to apologise. Mistakes were made, but people were under tremendous pressure & working long hours. He’s got all the big calls right (whatever that means) & it’s time to move on…
If you say that, you’re a liar.
If you believe it, you’re a fucking idiot!
I spent 12 years as a
#UK
#British
#parliamentarian
& proudly defended our system, despite its faults (as all systems have) & vehemently argued that
#corruption
wasn’t endemic in this country & I don’t believe it was. Now it’s endemic, shameless & in full view. Heartbreaking.
This is shocking & something that should embarrass MPs who voted for
@MelJStride
as
@CommonsTreasury
Chair. Without any contact from him, he blocked the brother of the seventh
#LoanCharge
suicide victim. So the task of
@wesstreeting
et al will be holding their Chair to account...
There needs to be an investigation into who within
#HMRC
conceived of the controversial
#LoanCharge
that has caused (at least 10
#LoanChargeSuicides
), as well as the way HMRC officials have consistently misled Parliament. Another example of institutional dishonesty in the UK.
The Gavin Williamson situation is very troubling. Either he is guilty & is now barefaced lying about not being, or he is not guilty, has been seriously wronged & the culprit is still in the Cabinet & lying & the PM is wrong (again). What extraordinary times, what a Government.
It’s staggering how a Minister can give such a knowingly false picture of the reality of the
#LoanCharge
.
@MelJStride
you know that the picture you’re painting is false. Your reputation is in tatters. Misleading Parliament & misleading the media. Shame on you!
#LoanChargeScandal
It’s been inspiring today, again to meet so many ‘ordinary’ decent law-abiding people who’ve decided to fight back.
I’ve also spent time with family members of loved ones who took their own life due to the
#LoanCharge
. It’s immoral.
Defend it & I’m coming after you. Promise.
This is the reality of the
#LoanCharge
@MelJStride
(as you know, you’ve been told about the suicide risk). Claiming that HMRC “don’t ‘want’ to make anyone bankrupt” is disingenuous. There have ALREADY been bankruptcies, suicides & people have already sold homes
#LoanChargeScandal
@Anne80262390
@Nervous_72
@maxc73
@loanchargeAPPG
@LCAG_2019
24 hour hell Anne. Hubby nearly ended life twice. Stopped by myself and our 14 year old. Something she should never have had to see. I suffer from Trigeminal Neuralgia - direct result of stress from LC. Reminded of LC every second with pain. Haven't they punished us enough?
It speaks volumes when a highly respected journalist accurately & wittily dubs Mel Stride the
#MisLeaderofTheHouse
over his chronic dishonesty over the
#LoanCharge
#LoanChargeScandal
. In times gone by he would’ve been sacked. These days he gets promoted. Things are truly rotten.
It’s known that Sir Jon Thompson is moving on from HMRC. His successor cannot credibly be anyone linked to the
#LoanChargeScandal
& the extraordinary campaign of disinformation that’s brought HMRC into disrepute. It’s time for a bit of a clear out & someone who’ll restore trust.
It takes real skill to turn a scandal into an utter fiasco, but that’s exactly what has happened with the
#LoanChargeScandal
. They‘ll be some seriously worried
@HMRCgovuk
officers now. Ministers can move on & disappear (& will) & they can’t. So they’ve left them carrying the can!
Unbelievable that we have a Secretary of State for Health that failed to stick to his own rules, banned people from seeing their own ill relatives & condemned Neil Ferguson for having an affair. If he had any integrity, he’d have resigned. If the PM had any, he’d have sacked him.
.
@Jesse_Norman
’s aggressive, sneering, aggressive response to a very serious question is one of the most grotesque parliamentary responses I’ve ever seen from a Minister.
Sneering about people killing themselves due to an immoral government policy. Shameful.
#LoanChargeScandal
Today I asked
@Jesse_Norman
what impact
@hmtreasury
believes the Loan Charge is having on people's mental health. It's time the Treasury takes seriously the impact this policy is having on those ordinary citizens affected and scrap the retrospective Loan Charge altogether.
Surely
@hmtreasury
@PhilipHammondUK
@MelJStride
it’s time to accept that a deeply flawed policy was passed with grossly inadequate parliamentary scrutiny & a negligently inadequate impact assessment. It happens, so halt it. If you don’t, knowing the consequences, you’re liable.
We are an All Party Group of
#British
#Parliamentarians
& now we are having to deal with & refer suicidal people facing
@hmtreasury
&
@HMRCgovuk
’s draconian
#LoanCharge
. Their refusal to accept the clear risk to people is scandalous & negligent. More evidence Mel & Sir Jonathan:
This is the daughter of one of two AML clients who killed themselves facing the
#LoanCharge
@Jesse_Norman
@sajidjavid
, whilst you do nothing to pursue promoters.
And AML Director Doug Barrowman is marrying a Tory peer in Parliament!
#LoanChargeScandal
@Sunday_Mail
@Daily_Record
Shocking that he doesn’t hang his head in shame. My dad did when actually he shouldn’t have, he did nothing wrong.
Doug Barrowman has walked away unscathed & flaunted his wealth and apparent innocence. My dad left this world feeling so ashamed & like a criminal, in a coffin 😞
All MPs read this, this is the daughter of one of the 7 confirmed
#LoanChargeSuicide
victims.
All
#NC31
on the
#LoanCharge
does is exactly this. It gives people the right to defend themselves in court.
How could any MP in a democracy not support this?
#LoanChargeScandal
For those who are not aware,
#Infosys
are significant beneficiaries of the Government &
#HMRC
’s controversial & flawed
#IR35
#OffPayroll
changes. Freelance workers & contractors lose out & huge firms like Infosys benefit…💩
It’s a Saturday evening. There are amazing
@LCAG_2019
volunteers, who have busy jobs, lives & families who, as well as facing the
#LoanCharge
, are spending hours dealing with helpline calls from desperate people. All while the Treasury & HMRC deceive & ignore the risk to lives.
Personally I think it’s time
@Jesse_Norman
considered his position, that’s if there’s an ounce of integrity left within this Government. It utterly stinks.
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1/
Ex army
"wife came in & found me at the bottom of our stairs...hand in my head & sobbing...ended up losing my job & having a major breakdown...taking Antidepressants...suffer major panic attacks a lot...had thoughts of ending my life..."
Source:
Ref:CL007
When was it exactly that Ministers lost all sense of moral responsibility & basic ethics? The refusal to do the right thing is bad enough, but the wholesale & wilful dishonesty & lying is as repugnant as it is scandalous. It should be a criminal offence.
It’s time to stop
#HMRC
’s immoral & dangerous pursuit of people who were advised (& mis-sold) by Chartered Accountants & professional advisers
@trussliz
@RishiSunak
@JimHarraHMRC
.
Change course or you’re ignoring the known suicide risk.
Stop the
#LoanChargeScandal
It’s terrifying the way
#HMRC
deliberately & cynically mislead with impunity
An utterly out of control morally bankrupt public body, a monster created by merging the once reputable
#InlandRevenue
with the rotten
#CustomsandExcise
Institutional dishonesty is a form of corruption
It’s a sad day for the
@HouseofCommons
when someone is promoted to be the
#LeaderoftheHouse
, to paper over a dysfunctional Government’s death throes, when they have spent the last year deliberately misleading the
#HouseofCommons
, denying its scrutiny & ignoring its clear view.
I’ve had direct interaction with 3 of the 7 families of people who tragically killed themselves facing the
#LoanCharge
. Harrowing. State abuse. So don’t tell me not to be angry.
If the Government &
#HMRC
continue, more people will kill themselves. Please stop them.
For those who haven’t woken up to the institutional dishonesty of
@HMRCgovuk
, read this from a judge in a tax tribunal.
#HMRC
routinely mislead MPs & Parliamentary Committees, also mislead the courts!! All ignored by inept, supine Treasury Ministers. We need political leadership!
So will the Treasury & HMRC take
#retrospective
action, as they have with innocent ordinary people who merely followed professional advice, or is it one rule for one..?!
Eight
#LoanCharge
suicides so far.
No HMRC retro bills sent to Ministers & promoters!
#LoanChargeScandal
Imagine being an ex-banker, working at Treasury, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis caused by the hubris of bankers, helping sell austerity to its victims, and still having an offshore trust.