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@CPhilpOfficial Cat check: Here's coverage of the same event in 2023; you were Minister for Crime & Policing at the time Christopher.

@Queenshandbag1 @DanNeidle You missed "legal mastermind" out of your bio for some reason?

@DanNeidle You realise if HMRC investigate and you are wrong, you will be sued to high heaven so I wouldnt be so cocky yet.

This is astonishing nonsense. Nobody has identified any errors in our report. Tice’s lawyer didn’t even comment. And Tice’s statement translates into English as “you’re right, but I want to talk about something else”.

@TiceRichard If this guy was called Angela he'd be calling for his own resignation...

THE SUNDAY TIMES: A STATEMENT FROM RICHARD TICE MP, DEPUTY LEADER OF REFORM UK   The Sunday Times is still crawling all my business career in the hope of dredging up some more obscure technical issues from years ago. They openly admit their "journalism" is a joint venture with a senior Labour Party activist. This smear campaign is getting ridiculous. As a result, I now appear to have a debenture slot on the front page as they rehash the same old dividend story. The Sunday Times article features assumptions, numbers and dates that are simply incorrect. Like the rest of us, they and their Labour Party tax experts sometimes make mistakes. It is all extremely technical: good luck keeping up. Meanwhile, the Financial Times has been busy calling up former work colleagues and advisers from my past, trying to find some dirt. This is what we, at Reform UK, are now up against.   In a highly successful career spanning 40 years, I have done business in 12 countries across three continents, and been a director of more than 150 companies. I have helped build thousands of homes, creating thousands of jobs and generating hundreds of millions of value for shareholders and investors along with many tens of millions of tax for HMRC. I am very proud of this record. Throughout this career I have taken professional tax advice and have always paid everything that I was advised to pay.   Here’s the reality: tax efficiency is a basic corporate responsibility and duty to shareholders. A long career with multiple businesses is bound to feature some errors. Naturally I am always happy to put things right and if numbers need rechecking, of course I will pay what is owed – be that more or less. It is worth noting that last time my political enemies did this to me, during the Brexit referendum, HMRC concluded that I had significantly overpaid.   It is a measure of Reform UK’s success that Establishment media is coming after me in this way. Senior elements within News UK seem very unhappy about how well we are doing. Doubtless this will not be the last time, and I will not be the last target. Certain journalists are determined to put the worst possible gloss on everything I have done.   Meanwhile they wilfully ignore the highly questionable accounting of millions of pounds in Labour Party Properties Ltd. By any objective measure, this is a much simpler and more shocking story - but we are not in the land of objectivity here.   The relentless effort to tarnish my good name is the kind of behaviour that deters other successful business people from going into politics. The consequences are very real - as we can all see with the current Labour Cabinet, which is entirely devoid of business experience. The result? A flatlining economy and dire public services. All in a nation facing humiliation on the world stage.   After several weeks of this treatment, I won’t be indulging the Sunday Times any further. I am working flat out for my constituents and campaigning for the local elections. If my primary interest were making money, I wouldn’t be giving everything I’ve got to trying to save our country.   PS: It is worth noting that we have the longest tax code in the world at circa 24,000 pages and counting, whereas Hong Kong’s is less than 500 pages.   Richard Tice MP, Deputy Leader, Reform UK

@fpl_methodology @FPLNightmare Really like that team...might sub NOR for Guehi myself but love the defence. Who from the template front 7 you most scared of missing?

@FPLNightmare There's definitely still ways to play it a bit differently (without being too reckless) Famous last words but I'm pretty excited to put out this #FH33 team

I have never been more bored playing FPL than trying to put this Free Hit team together. Everything just feels so obvious. Tempted not to bother playing it just so I can feel something again.

#fpl really don't like the assist rule....how can a ball hitting someone who knows literally nothing about it be called an assist? You credit people for nothing.

Mitoma can get a brace in 10, right??

@Mr_Derivatives Let me ask my quant....

I’m ngl, I would love to see a Big Short 2.0 movie. The first one was such a classic. A movie we will still watch 40 years from now. But first thing’s first. We need a, well, Big Short. Any ideas?

@McFaul Presumably Putin called and reminded him that they are exclusive, so he isn't allowed despotic affairs with other dictators.....

Good news from Trump. This also means that he is reversing his idea for a joint venture with the despotic regime in Tehran.

@whatareyoueven9 @GrandidgeS @mjfree This is the either the best fake (or dumbest actual) "defence" I've ever heard. There's no need to question the veracity of events and facts that led to past event X because the fact X happened validates all else. Sheesh.

@GrandidgeS @mjfree She did by entering legally retard...

Both Donald Trump and his Slovene-born escort spent years calling for Obama’s birth certificate. I am calling for Melania Trump’s legal immigration papers: How did she get an “Einstein” visa for extraordinary abilities despite her blatant lie under oath about her college degrees?

@dulverson @whatareyoueven9 @mjfree Why you bringing Trump into this?

@whatareyoueven9 @mjfree Oh! A drooling pedophile!

@RNAiAnalyst @mjfree Yup! Presumably just have to swear never to break the paedo omerta and you're in!

@mjfree It was an 'Epstein', not 'Einstein' visa. Big difference!

@KMogill32836 @mjfree She can barely speak the language after over 10 years....get a grip you gibbering buffoon. Her secret power is being dumb - both intellectually and verbally. She's presumably sworn and upheld the paedo omerta, and been paid handsomely for it.

@mjfree Look you jerk! Melania is smart, beautiful, and a very good person, which you are not! What are you? A has been actor.

Everyone who's ever watched the Sopranos knows that if Tony doesn't get his slice it doesn't go well for the schmuck who tried to go solo....

@Joeblogs1947633 @melaniestrong @ChasingGlimmers Your people hate being found out, don't you? I checked your timeline. You slag off benefit claimants like UC and PIP in other posts. Feels v GB news & Daily Mail. Likely sitting at home on benefits, given UK pension is an unfunded benefit. Maybe we should means test that??

@Iain_C5 @melaniestrong @ChasingGlimmers Call what you want, I haven’t got to justify anything to you, I know mobility is abused and that’s good enough.

The changes to the Motability mileage cap mean that those of us who transport our children ourselves, to specialist provisions out of area, will now likely exceed the limit. 10,000 miles per year is not compatible with disabled lives. Motability is no longer fit for purpose.

@MarkUrban01 End of US arms manufacturing oligarchy gathering pace

Trump’s reckoning with NATO gathering pace 👇🏻

@FaytuksNetwork I forget, what's Rutte's job title again? He seems to think it's Orange Grifter's messenger boy and Arse Kisser??

BREAKING: President Trump has set a deadline for European allies to provide concrete military support in the Strait of Hormuz, including the deployment of warships, Der Spiegel reports. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte informed European countries that political pledges made since the start of the conflict are no longer sufficient.

@Joeblogs1947633 @melaniestrong @ChasingGlimmers I call bullshit, if you had anything to substantiate your claim you'd pass it on, right? It's what any reasonable person would do in a discussion. Of course if I had no backup, then I'd probably wave my hands and try and blame the other person in the discussion somehow.

@Iain_C5 @melaniestrong @ChasingGlimmers I don’t think whatever I say will make you change your mind. I am not providing evidence on here. If you don’t believe it’s not being abused then I think you are a bit naive to the mobility scheme. I feel sorry for those who genuinely need the help from the scheme.

@Joeblogs1947633 @melaniestrong @ChasingGlimmers Because I don't think that there has been "abused by some", so I'd like to see why you think that and what evidence you have for it, so that if there's something I've missed I can change my mind.

@Iain_C5 @melaniestrong @ChasingGlimmers Why are you genuinely interested?

@bennpeifert UK sees your "MAGA" and raises you "Reform" - a copycat populist grift party demonstrably working against the interests of those who support it by stoking racism and division.

MAGA is the lowest IQ collection of people ever to exist and its not even close