The Conservative Party

[bluethrunthru]

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?

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

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

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?

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

www.mirror.co.uk

Probably nothing, he’ll be claiming it on expenses and trickling that money back down to you.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Probably nothing, he’ll be claiming it on expenses and trickling that money back down to you.

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.

 

[Vic]

To be fair, how could you ever guess that a headline about HMS Princess Diana is an April fools joke?

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​

 

[Vic]

It's behind a paywall, so was this the Telegraph's April Fool joke?

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

It's behind a paywall, so was this the Telegraph's April Fool joke?

The Tories, once gain hitting the middle class.

 

[TinFoilHat]

The Tories, once gain hitting the middle class.

They've squeezed the workers until the pips squeak. They need a new money maker the self serving Tory bastards

 

[mexico1970]

They've squeezed the workers until the pips squeak. They need a new money maker the self serving Tory bastards

Wouldn't most Labour supporters be happy that those with a second home pay more?

 

[TinFoilHat]

Wouldn't most Labour supporters be happy that those with a second home pay more?

Most labour supporters would be happy to own one home.

 

[mexico1970]

Most labour supporters would be happy to own one home.

Is this a case of the Tories going for the middle class and the middle class labour supporters not being happy ;)