Michelle Gibson

Nothing to see here.. Just orthopaedic surgeon Zsolt Hegedus who is tipped to be Hungary's new Health Minister Grooving on stage, after Viktor Orban was voted out So happy for the people of Hungary ☺️

Increasingly, the claim 'we voted for Brexit' is misleading, at best. Take my son & elder daughter, 27 & 24, they didn't get a vote in the 2016 Referendum. Their gran & grandad did, but as is the way with these things, they are both dead. How many more years to be asked again?

All hail @PrivateEyeNews Brilliant story about how one of the proposed new owners of Thames Water is offering up a £25 million "Community Benefit Trust" (CBT) to "support" local environment and community groups but only on condition that TW are exempt from environment law and any threat of prosecution for at least the next 5 years. In other words we'll pay a £25 million bribe to local river groups and charities to shut them up, it's hush money, it's blood money, it's a bride. The Evenlode Catchment Partnership (ECP) knows better of course, they've already handed back £135K to Thames Water after they realised they were simply been used and the only people benefiting from the arrangement was Thames Water. Other river charities would do well to follow ECP's example, don't accept the hush money, don't accept the blood money, it is after all nothing more than a bribe.

People seem to have forgotten the two massive spikes in oil trading, one on 23 March, immediately before Donald Trump’s post announcing a delay in attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure, and the other on 7 April when he declared a ceasefire. Investors made something like $1.5 billion. But were these a genuine huge gamble, or was it insider trading — a serious criminal offence in the US?

"Britain is building a culture where people think they can do what they like and nothing will happen."

My window cleaner always asks me to pay him in cash because ‘if it goes into his Bank Account he’ll have to pay tax on it’. Today he told me he’s a staunch Tory because ‘Labour have put taxes up’. This is why we need to teach critical thinking at school.

And here's a much longer video showing how to use the app:

But the rules are being widely ignored. This chart shows the scale: ◻️ Grey: didn’t register at all 🟧 Orange: claim to have no owner 🟥 Red: name a company, not a human 🟦 Blue: name trustees only

Our full report, with the interactive map, is here: taxpolicy.org.uk/who-owns-brita… We'll be highlighting our key findings over the next week. Today, I'll summarise what we found.

90,000 properties in England/Wales are owned by offshore companies. Almost half unlawfully hide their true ownership We've found them, mapped them, and published everything ▶️ This 60-second video shows how to find secretly owned property near you 📊 Details & stats below

Gabriel's write-up in the Sunday Times. Note his numbers are a bit smaller because we did some further analysis into additional dividends after the paper went to press. We've very confident in our numbers.

Combining stock exchange announcements and Companies House reporting shows that Quidnet paid around £600,000 in REIT dividends to Mr Tice and his offshore trust. (methodology in the report, linked below)

@TiceRichard @IsabelOakeshott Now ask the Sunday Times to do the same exercise with the company run by Rupert Lowe and Ashaka Murty (aka Sunaks wife) which received £663k in furlough payments before going into administration owing £6m to HMRC.

@TiceRichard You mercilessly attacked Angela Rayner for less. Surely you should resign Dickie?

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@Gabriel_Pogrund Our full report is here: taxpolicy.org.uk/richard-tice-c…

The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT. From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't. A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:

The worst kept secret is now being openly discussed in Europe. Hungary is acting as a Trojan horse for Russia and the Kremlin. Viktor Orban is actively spying on NATO and leaking highly confidential EU intelligence directly to Vladimir Putin. 😳👇

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Israeli tanks in Beirut in 1982, before Hezbollah existed. There has always been an excuse. It was never their fault.