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Torsten Bell

@TorstenBell

MP for Swansea West @torstenbell.bsky.social

Katılım Ocak 2014
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Torsten Bell@TorstenBell·
Swansea’s Civic Centre will be revitalised with £20 million from the UK Government. This is fantastic news for our city and I’m delighted to have played a part.
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Torsten Bell@TorstenBell·
Fantastic news for Swansea. £20m from the UK Labour Government to revitalise our Civic Centre. Securing investment in this iconic Swansea landmark has been a personal priority for me - it's brilliant that exciting plans to revitalise the building can now become a reality.
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Friends of Hafod Morfa Copperworks
Friends of Hafod Morfa Copperworks@CopperworksHM·
To find out about Swansea’s once vast & thriving copper industry🏭 join us for a free, 2 hour guided tour of the old Hafod Morfa Copperworks on Saturday 28 March at 11am. 🚶‍♂️🚶🚶‍♀️ Meet us opposite Landore Park & Ride SA1 2LQ. Please wear sturdy footwear.
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Torsten Bell@TorstenBell·
Kemi isn’t fooling anyone. Households won’t forget how eager she was to charge into war.
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Richard Tice thinks him being criticised for aggressively trying to avoid tax is some kind of evidence of British moral decay… …rather than his aggressive tax avoidance when he was (notionally) a public servant being the problem
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK

🚨 WATCH: Richard Tice responds to reports he avoided nearly £600,000 in tax "There is a moral imperative now in the UK that we shouldn't just pay tax as required, but you're a naughty person unless you pay the maximum tax you could possibly pay"

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Torsten Bell@TorstenBell·
Exciting plans to revitalise Swansea's Civic Centre have one key barrier left - securing the funding to make them a reality. As Swansea West’s MP, this challenge is a personal priority for me. Here's why 👇 swanseabaynews.com/opinion-torste…
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Torsten Bell@TorstenBell·
Here’s the job numbers for those wanting the facts
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The Tories trashed UK’s energy resilience. They: - cut the number of offshore oil/gas jobs in half - criminally delayed nuclear power build-out (with the Lib Dem) - unforgivably wasted low interest rate years when renewable and grid build-out should have been turbocharged
Claire Coutinho@ClaireCoutinho

The world is getting more dangerous. We need an Energy Resilience Strategy: Back the North Sea. Make electricity cheap. Double down on nuclear. Stop crippling industry with Carbon Taxes. Read more below 👇🏾

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Torsten Bell@TorstenBell·
It’s for Richard Tice & HMRC to conclude on the specific legal position here. But it’s already clear this was someone doing absolutely everything to avoid paying the tax that ordinary people contribute week in week out. Oh, and he was meant to be a public servant at the time..
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Torsten Bell@TorstenBell·
The contrast is clear: - Parliament legislated specifically FOR people to be able to open ISAs. - Parliament has legislated specifically AGAINST people engaging in aggressive tax avoidance like this (ie the General Anti-Abuse Rule)
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Torsten Bell@TorstenBell·
Idea that what Tice was doing was remotely like opening an ISA is mad. His was VERY unusual behaviour associated with aggressive tax planning : - UK resident using an offshore trust - he claimed REIT status for a firm that never met the tests (because he owned it personally)
Daniel Hannan@DanielJHannan

It’s hardly my job to defend @TiceRichard. But there is nothing wrong with legal tax avoidance. Legal tax avoidance is what you do when you buy an ISA. If you dislike the specific arrangements he had, change the rules. But don’t complain that he was following existing rules.

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Torsten Bell@TorstenBell·
Richard Tice: - engaged in highly aggressive tax avoidance to avoid nearly £600,000 of tax - did so at a time when the taxpayer was already paying his salary as an MEP Nothing patriotic about this party of grifters thetimes.com/article/6f5522…
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Today I met with WRU bosses, urging them to reset their plans and be straight with fans. They can’t say no decision has been made about Ospreys when their plans would see the club disappear. Almost nobody likes what they’re doing. Absolutely no-one likes how they’re doing it.
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Ospreys Supporters@OspreysSC·
A couple of times we’ve asked directly, for Rob Stewart’s claim re revelations about the future of Ospreys at that meeting to be confirmed/denied. It has not yet been answered! This comes as no surprise. Read Rob and Swansea Council’s accompanying posts👇🏻 facebook.com/share/p/1HdgJ5…
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Torsten Bell@TorstenBell·
This is incredibly serious. I am meeting the chief executive of the WRU this afternoon - there are a lot of things to discuss. Not least the urgency of bringing this chaos to an end.
Swansea Bay News@swanseabaynews

EXCLUSIVE: Secret minutes reveal the Ospreys' "death date" 🏉 Swansea Council publishes notes showing the WRU plans to end the region in 2027. Council Leader Rob Stewart slams "misleading" union claims. #Ospreys #WelshRugby #WRU swanseabaynews.com/smoking-gun-mi…

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Torsten Bell@TorstenBell·
@John_Stepek I’m afraid that isn’t right. If you only get pensions tax relief for investing in certain assets that is functionally identical to saying a pension can only invest in those assets - because the tax relief is the central feature of investing via a pensions wrapper
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John Stepek
John Stepek@John_Stepek·
This is disingenuous. Restricting tax relief to UK-listed assets was a key element of PEP (ISA precursor) when they launched and also part of many nations' pension regimes. Very different to what's proposed (currently - presumably will be tweaked) in the pensions bill.
Torsten Bell@TorstenBell

This is hilarious. Whose is the peer who has most persistently lobbied me and other ministers to “dictate your pension investments” (by withdrawing tax relief if you don’t invest as she would like)? Ros Altmann. And I told her we weren’t interested

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Torsten Bell@TorstenBell·
This is hilarious. Whose is the peer who has most persistently lobbied me and other ministers to “dictate your pension investments” (by withdrawing tax relief if you don’t invest as she would like)? Ros Altmann. And I told her we weren’t interested
Ros Altmann@rosaltmann

Government can't be trusted to dictate your pension investments - my latest article in Daily Mail's #thisismoney ROS ALTMANN: Government is seizing 'Henry VIII' powers over pensions thismon.ee/a/15633071 via @ThisIsMoney

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