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He is losing his mind .........and why isn't he renting a pad given what he earns? Why am I about to fill in a tax return to confirm what I need to pay to support his free accommodation?

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Michael Gove's neighbours complain after he clambers onto their roof

Cabinet minister Michael Gove has been living in One Carlton Gardens, a £25million grace-and-favour property a stone's throw from Buckingham Palace, for the past two years
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bluethrunthru said:
He is losing his mind .........and why isn't he renting a pad given what he earns? Why am I about to fill in a tax return to confirm what I need to pay to support his free accommodation?

www.mirror.co.uk

Michael Gove's neighbours complain after he clambers onto their roof

Cabinet minister Michael Gove has been living in One Carlton Gardens, a £25million grace-and-favour property a stone's throw from Buckingham Palace, for the past two years
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Probably nothing, he’ll be claiming it on expenses and trickling that money back down to you.
 
The Future’s Blue! said:
Probably nothing, he’ll be claiming it on expenses and trickling that money back down to you.
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Probably correct. Grace and favours property are treated as a taxable benefit unless it's for security purposes. Which they are probably pretending it is given the comments about security in the press. Despite the fact that he didn't need it until splitting from his wife or before that when he had a more prominent role in government.
 
Brewster's millions said:
To be fair, how could you ever guess that a headline about HMS Princess Diana is an April fools joke?
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To be fair, I'd lost any sense that the government was incapable of doing incredibly foolish things after last week's headline.

Businessman who donated £5m to Tories gets knighthood​

 
Quite telling that the two main Tories on here have kept out of the thread for a while whilst story after story of incompetence and scandal and all round terrible governance, yet leap in to defend an April Fools joke that some have fell for.

Shameless. But then I suppose you have to be to still support this lot.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Yet if it were HMS Charlie 3, you’d be stroking your pole over it.

Semantics, hey?
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How do you know he won’t be stroking his Latvian?

I think the point he is making that anyone who thinks HMS Princess Diana was a legitimate name was a little misguided. @Vic probably summed it up best by saying no matter how bat shit crazy the announcement that wouldn’t immediately have him thinking “that can’t be right”. I can’t really argue with that.

I’d be very happy with new investment in our armed services. TBH it’s the one area the tories are still more trusted on so if I was Sunak it’s what I would focus on if I wanted a boxers chance at next election.
 
metalblue said:
How do you know he won’t be stroking his Latvian?

I think the point he is making that anyone who thinks HMS Princess Diana was a legitimate name was a little misguided. @Vic probably summed it up best by saying no matter how bat shit crazy the announcement that wouldn’t immediately have him thinking “that can’t be right”. I can’t really argue with that.

I’d be very happy with new investment in our armed services. TBH it’s the one area the tories are still more trusted on so if I was Sunak it’s what I would focus on if I wanted a boxers chance at next election.
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I get it, it was an April fools joke. Barring the ship name, the rest was more than plausible though.

I also get the gentle ribbing of them too, but to carry it on today seems a bit “Dan Wooton-esque”.
 
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