-:Undertaker:-
27-02-2011, 11:58 PM
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/leftwatch/2010/12/polly-toynbee-leads-topshop-protestors-on-to-picket-guardian-office-not.html
http://order-order.com/page/3/
Polly Toynbee leads Topshop protesters on to picket Guardian office. (Not.)
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/.a/6a00d83451b31c69e20148c669a3e3970c-500wi
Polly Toynbee, prominent Guardian journalist leading protest against TopShops tax avoidance
According to Guido Fawkes/Paul Staines, who has today issued a blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of looters (http://order-order.com/2010/12/04/defending-philip-green-against-the-looters/), the Guardian isn't averse itself to tax avoidance (which of course, unlike tax evasion, is perfectly legal) - see here (http://order-order.com/2009/02/02/guardians-tax-hypocrisy-is-ridiculous/), here (http://order-order.com/2009/02/06/tax-justice-protest-against-guardian/) and here (http://order-order.com/2008/07/31/disquiet-grows-about-hypocritical/).
The man in the basement with a match, a matchbox, a fuse, and limitless supply of gunpowder writes -
"The Telegraph quoted Grant Thornton’s senior tax partner Mike Warburton saying: “Guardian Media Group has enjoyed a tax holiday courtesy of some very helpful rules introduced by their friend Gordon Brown. They are taking full advantage of the relief legally available to them, which all businesses should do. That’s fine, but don’t knock people who do exactly the same.”
Thornton was right - doubly. Right to say that there can be no reasonable objection to a newspaper planning its tax affairs rationally (whether or not it is owned, as the Guardian is, by a trust originally set up for the same purpose). And right again to suggest that those in glass houses, etc.
Which is why Polly Toynbee doubtless marched today's Topshop protestors on towards King's Place...
Polly and the Guardian newspaper group often bang on about the Tories allowing the likes of TopShop and other corporations such as Vodafone to be let off from paying tax like the rest of us. Now fair play you may say, I agree - the difference is that the Guardian group itself is at the same game - double standards yet again not to mention the fact we never heard a peep when Labour were in office concerning this issue.
Suprisingly enough (and I know Labour supporters on here have read this stuff from the Guardian) I remember when discussing the cuts and tuition fee rises, we got the usual 'well why don't the government collect these missing tax payments and it'll lessen the impact of the cuts' - again, a fair point but nobody (including the Guardian itself) dared say that when Labour was in office and also allowed these corporations to dodge tax.
So yes, take what they say/claim to believe in with a pinch of salt.
Thoughts?
http://order-order.com/page/3/
Polly Toynbee leads Topshop protesters on to picket Guardian office. (Not.)
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/.a/6a00d83451b31c69e20148c669a3e3970c-500wi
Polly Toynbee, prominent Guardian journalist leading protest against TopShops tax avoidance
According to Guido Fawkes/Paul Staines, who has today issued a blast of the trumpet against the monstrous regiment of looters (http://order-order.com/2010/12/04/defending-philip-green-against-the-looters/), the Guardian isn't averse itself to tax avoidance (which of course, unlike tax evasion, is perfectly legal) - see here (http://order-order.com/2009/02/02/guardians-tax-hypocrisy-is-ridiculous/), here (http://order-order.com/2009/02/06/tax-justice-protest-against-guardian/) and here (http://order-order.com/2008/07/31/disquiet-grows-about-hypocritical/).
The man in the basement with a match, a matchbox, a fuse, and limitless supply of gunpowder writes -
"The Telegraph quoted Grant Thornton’s senior tax partner Mike Warburton saying: “Guardian Media Group has enjoyed a tax holiday courtesy of some very helpful rules introduced by their friend Gordon Brown. They are taking full advantage of the relief legally available to them, which all businesses should do. That’s fine, but don’t knock people who do exactly the same.”
Thornton was right - doubly. Right to say that there can be no reasonable objection to a newspaper planning its tax affairs rationally (whether or not it is owned, as the Guardian is, by a trust originally set up for the same purpose). And right again to suggest that those in glass houses, etc.
Which is why Polly Toynbee doubtless marched today's Topshop protestors on towards King's Place...
Polly and the Guardian newspaper group often bang on about the Tories allowing the likes of TopShop and other corporations such as Vodafone to be let off from paying tax like the rest of us. Now fair play you may say, I agree - the difference is that the Guardian group itself is at the same game - double standards yet again not to mention the fact we never heard a peep when Labour were in office concerning this issue.
Suprisingly enough (and I know Labour supporters on here have read this stuff from the Guardian) I remember when discussing the cuts and tuition fee rises, we got the usual 'well why don't the government collect these missing tax payments and it'll lessen the impact of the cuts' - again, a fair point but nobody (including the Guardian itself) dared say that when Labour was in office and also allowed these corporations to dodge tax.
So yes, take what they say/claim to believe in with a pinch of salt.
Thoughts?