Clown Job

lol wut desperate stuff

You didn’t have to pay them to give you that award like you did with the Tories?

“Crack down”

Greedy workers eh?

How deluded is this guy

Listed doesn’t mean they can never be demolished as far as I’m aware

Newsworthy apparently

They’re proud to be bootlickers essentially

It’s not funny. it’s weird

Not normal this behaviour

You’ll what?

Semi interesting night Some guy was standing directly in front of the TV, a few people complained, he pulled out a warrant cart as he was a police officer, he ended up getting chucked out the pub

Booked a table to watch the football This is my view Now I know how away fans feel visiting Parkhead

To be honest I only expect SNP MP’s to be going to Westminster to forward the case for independence Could not give a f**k who is on the front and backbenchers

Why not both?

I’d be very happy to see her passport being cancelled, citizenship stripped and banned from entering the UK A good old fashioned exile

Rangers liquidators finally settle tax case as eye-watering EBT figure shows club could never have been saved Rangers, under former owner David Murray, were propelled headlong towards liquidation when HMRC caught on to their misuse of an Employee Benefits Trust scheme. EBTs, as they are known, were utilised from 2001 to 2011 to avoid paying tax and national insurance on player and staff salaries funnelled through them Now, BDO, have finally reached agreement with HMRC on the tax denied to the Treasury coffers by Rangers. First, and principally, during the Murray era, and then after Craig Whyte bought the club from the Edinbugh-based businessman for a £1 in May 2011 and proceeded to withhold tax. A sale rushed through because Murray was then coming under severe pressure from Lloyds Bank as his empire had racked up a mountainous debt that the bank largely was on the hook for. BDO have now reached a “negotiated resolution” that has resulted in a “composite settlement” of £56m for the whole HMRC claim. Or, if you prefer, almost 87% of what the tax authority sought to have lodged This conclusion to an interminable saga is significant since there were some bizarre moves three years ago to promote the notion that gross miscalculation by HMRC over EBTs had prevented Murray attracting a buyer beyond the dubious turnaround specialist Whyte to spare the old Rangers from liquidation. Yet, even without Whyte’s arrival on the scene and his subsequent mismanagement, Rangers would still have been left with a near £50m bill to HMRC. A liability they could never have satisfied and, as this demand hadn’t crystallised in 2011, never found an alternative buyer to step forward back then. Especially when there was an additional £18m bank debt Lloyds demanded be repaid before sanctioning any sale of the Ibrox club. It doesn’t affect the finances of the current Rangers – under a different company structure – that creditors are in line to receive just over 14p in the pound over the car crash that the club’s finances became before they hit the wall. But these absolutes should surely end any further misguided attempts to present a scenario in which Rangers could have avoided liquidation and the need, essentially, to reform in 2012. Edit: Yet you’ll still have the brass next to claim the trophies and argue “it’s the same club”

Therese Coffey says it’s not government’s job to help out food banks The environment secretary has said it's not the government's job to provide free food to people during the cost of living crisis. Therese Coffey, appearing in front of the Commons environment, food and rural affairs committee, said it wasn't the government's role to top up food banks after they received fewer donations. Instead, she said she was "a strong believer in helping people get into work" so they could support themselves. It comes as soaring energy bills and food prices continue to hit families across the UK. On Tuesday, Coffey was asked if the government was going to make up the difference to food banks by providing free or cheap items. She responded: "The government isn't going to provide free food and it's not the role of government to provide free food." Food inflation surged to 12.4% in the year to November, according to data from the British Retail Consortium (BRC), sparking predictions of an "increasingly bleak" winter. Many Britons, including those working, are now turning to food banks for help. Coffey said the government would not intervene in the market to help farmers and the public with soaring food prices. She told the committee: "I don't think we are at the stage of a market intervention directly when it comes to pricing." Labour and Co-operative MP Jim McMahon criticised Coffey for her stance, tweeting: "Today the new environment secretary confirmed she hasn't got the first idea what her department actually does, what it's responsible for, or how to show any kind of political leadership.

Some laugh that AGM must have been