The Conservative Party

[domalino]

Sunak's bid for the highest office in now sunk...... to think he is worse than Johnson at this stuff

Rishi Sunak admits having US green card while chancellor - as his wife says she will now pay tax in the UK

Sky News reported earlier that the chancellor and his wife Akshata Murty held US green cards - permitting him residence in the country - until more than a year into his time at 11 Downing Street.

news.sky.com

Im not normally a fan but Marina Hyde has done an excellent column on Sunak.

Its genuinely remarkable how quickly he’s sunk from obvious next PM to unelectable and in such avoidable ways.

 

[WestGorton]

Sunak's bid for the highest office in now sunk...... to think he is worse than Johnson at this stuff

Rishi Sunak admits having US green card while chancellor - as his wife says she will now pay tax in the UK

Sky News reported earlier that the chancellor and his wife Akshata Murty held US green cards - permitting him residence in the country - until more than a year into his time at 11 Downing Street.

news.sky.com

Another crook like them all.

 

[Vic]

Well the story is now developing into they had Green cards during his first year as chancellor, so in theory they must have been paying US tax on international earnings.

However the most likely thing is she's been funnelling her money off to a tax haven, as do most non-doms. Something that was dodged in their statement to the press.

I don't think the debate here should be whether non-dom status is right or wrong to exist, that's far too wide and far reaching a subject.

It's that the associated benefits of being in a marriage with a globe trotting international non-dom is 100% incompatible with the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer of the UK, and it's even more mind boggling when said chancellor putting taxes up during a cost of living crisis.

He's absolutely cooked as Chancellor and he'll never be PM now.

Agree 100% people can't expect him to give up his wifes citizenship, but he will have to give up his ambitions of holding one of the 4 great offices of state.

He does hold one of the 4.

 

[WestGorton]

And yet a core 30% of voters will always vote for them and the media will always be their mouthpiece come election time.

i just wish the 4 other parties would work together and use their 60% to keep them out.

Labour and Lib Dems need to merge. It is the only way.

 

[domalino]

I suppose, in this week of all weeks, it shouldn't come as a surprise that our media is failing us.

A lot of this is bollocks though, the media doesn’t have access to who has a US green card or even a list of non-doms in the UK. The blog frames it that the media has known about this all along or could have, when in actual fact it’s only because it’s been leaked by senior sources (likely no. 10) that they know about it at all.

That’s just how shit works sometimes.

Also some of the stuff just wasn’t relevant 2 years ago. Everyone knew about his wife’s stake in her dads business but it wasn't a story until they kept doing business with Russia despite Sunak levelling huge sanctions.

It has to be remembered he came to power during lockdown when there was no access for journalists to government for anything except covid. There was very limited contact and there were no public events for him to show how out of touch and buffooney he is - like filling up some random persons car and not knowing how to pay, or releasing photographs claiming to be reading the budget but very clearly reading a double page interview of himself in the Mail.

Not to mention the biggest gaffe of all - his first non-covid budget.

So while I’ll always get onboard a pile on the Whitehall media in this country, I think it’s entirely wrong to pretend this is all stuff that should have been reported in April 2020.

 

[Zinchilla]

Labour and Lib Dems need to merge. It is the only way.

They’ll never merge, but a coalition with LD and the Greens, would also make for much better policy decisions.

 

[WestGorton]

They’ll never merge, but a coalition with LD and the Greens, would also make for much better policy decisions.

Scotland is lost so some synergy is needed against an evil opponent.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

No one actually told the reality. It's a gift to everyone with a bill this year, and a tax (or theft) from everyone with a bill in future years. If you get the £200 and peg it, your kids settling your bills will pay £200 less. Then anyone moving into their first home will pay £40 a year for 5 years to repay the government for £200 that someone else received.

It's all perfectly simple. It's not a loan, it's a silly scheme that the energy companies will spend money administering.

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2022/02/martin-lewis--how-the-flat-rate-p200-energy-bill-loan-really-wor/

I keep saying that the government will get back more than they give out. There will be more people moving into their first homes than pegging it. Just look around at all the new homes being built and how many people will be moving out into their first home. Just think of all those students in their final year in September then them moving into a new flat/home next year all having to pay back £200 they didn’t get.

 

[BeerIsTheBest]

Sunak's bid for the highest office in now sunk...... to think he is worse than Johnson at this stuff

Rishi Sunak admits having US green card while chancellor - as his wife says she will now pay tax in the UK

Sky News reported earlier that the chancellor and his wife Akshata Murty held US green cards - permitting him residence in the country - until more than a year into his time at 11 Downing Street.

news.sky.com

You can imagine that Johnson has organised some of this damage. He would sell his own parents if only he knew who they were.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

This shower of sh1t are quick to send weapons to Ukraine and slow to take in people. Getting priorities right than. More money and profit for their mates in the weapons industry.