Today’s first letter, from our star correspondent Roger Arthur, is addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, taking him up on his call for more taxation:
Sir,
Your readers might be interested in the letter I sent to Archbishop Justin Welby:
“Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury
Your Grace,
I congratulate you on your campaign to reduce UK tax avoidance by large companies. But you may have missed the connection between that and the Free Movement of Capital, as outlined below.
Some months ago, one company’s UK tax bill rose to £5.1m, based on a UK income of £842m, i.e. less than 1%.That was because, as Jeremy Corbyn said,
“The EU knowingly maintains tax havens … around the continent … and allows companies to outsource their profits to (EU) countries where tax rates are low.”
Yes the EU has destroyed the sovereign rights of national governments to levy tax in a country where income is earned. So why don’t we reduce the scope for tax avoidance by changing the law? Because while in the EU, we can’t limit the Free Movement of Capital, which facilitates such avoidance.
As seen from this weblink, Google’s Matt Britlin was quite open in that they avoid being taxed (at UK rates) on profits arising in the UK, by opting to have them taxed in Ireland. Indeed Ireland has reduced its corporate tax rate to help facilitate that, which is legitimate under EU regulations.
But isn’t the EU acting to reduce tax avoidance you ask?
Yes the EU has been developing CFC (Controlled Foreign Company) regulations, but they are not designed to address the tax avoidance within the EU, which Corbyn was referring to. The tax havens that are to be blacklisted under CFC are outside of the EU, while the Free Movement of Capital (which facilitates tax avoidance within the EU) is not up for negotiation.
So having indicated that you are against Brexit, you may want to reconsider your position, which runs counter to your expressed wish to reduce the scope for UK tax avoidance. Indeed, since the UK will be leaving the EU in March, you might decide to spend more time on getting the best deal for the UK, than in trying to oppose Brexit.
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter.
Yours sincerely, etc”
Respectfully, Roger Arthur
The following letter comes from our correspondent Septimus Octavius and addresses the problem of anti-semitism in the Labour Party. It is very timely in view of the Editorial we published here today:
Sir,
a ‘kinder, gentler form of anti-semitism’? It would have been a real shock if the official Jewish authorities had not been “disappointed” with the outcome of their recent meeting with Jeremy Corbyn. They have had two years now of his firmly spoken words about stamping out anti-semitism in the Labour Party, combined with a total lack of any action to support those words.
Gordon Brown was spot-on with his rant about the problem; it is indeed about the very soul of the Labour Party. Sadly, he is pissing in the wind.
He correctly calls for the party to adopt in full the official definition of anti-Semitism, but that bit in it about denying the right of Israel to exist, and the other bit about taking historical words and deeds into account, just cannot be accepted by them, as so to do would put virtually the whole party on a disciplinary charge.
There is a very simple reason why the rabid anti-semitism with which the current Labour Party is riddled will not be stamped out; it is because that anti-semitism is an essential part of both the creed and the soul of that present Labour Party, which is of course now proudly Marxist.
Indeed, that anti-semitism can be traced back to Karl Marx himself, who wrote in one of his essays:
“Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew – not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. Let us not look for the secret of the Jew in his religion, but let us look for the secret of his religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.”
Thus the link between true “socialism” and anti-semitism is both profound and vital. The idea of the “worldwide Jewish capitalist conspiracy” is one of the most fundamental tenets of that true socialism. It should be remembered that the word “Nazi” derives from the German for “National Socialist”.
In the following century, the nation of Israel was formally established in 1948, and this was in the eyes of true socialists a tragic disaster, for the obvious reasons set out above. This meant that true socialists naturally became fervent supporters of those six Islamic Arab states which ganged up together in 1967 with the simple objective of completely destroying Israel, in what is now known as the six day war. In fact, due largely to vastly superior Israeli air power, the war went very badly for the Arabs, and Israel actually became a bit bigger as a direct result of the attack on it.
Since then, true socialism has had to content itself with being fanatically pro-Palestine, and thus friends of Hamas and Hezbollah, both of which have that same sole objective of the complete destruction of Israel.
This means that there is a firm and unbreakable link between being pro-Palestine and anti-semitism, and that worldview is a highly prized policy of the present Labour Party, but its members genuinely cannot see it. They believe themselves to be virtuous and anti-racist in their support for Palestine; and thus see their hatred of Jews as actually being an essential element of that virtuous anti-racism!
It is because of this syndrome that the modern Labour Party really cannot see the venomous anti-semitism which now infests it, and view accusations of anti-semitism as wholly unjustified veiled attacks on Jeremy Corbyn.
If a problem cannot be acknowledged, it cannot be solved; moreover, this is a problem which the Labour Party does not want to solve, because it is a fundamental part of what it is about.
Oh, Jeremy Corbyn!
Respectfully, Septimus Octavius
For the last half century or so I fondly believed that one of my great grandmother’s was a jewess who married out. Good old Ancestry – great grandma was christened! Leman is probably an old english surname, not a variant of Lehmann and Leman Street was not named after rellies who owned all the warehouses. Why the foul child abuser who gave birth to me spun that yarn God only knows (caught her out in other porkies in my teens but sans internet not that one) However even though I have to accept that I don’t have Jewish blood in… Read more »
Helena. You appear to be implying that we are all guilty of anti-semitism unless we state we are not?
Not intentional I assure you – however there has been some criticism of our declining to sign the – whatever the anti-semitism thing Labour won’t is – (sorry it’s late) – see Janice North’s interview.
Other’s have said that it’s enough to support the aims.
I just think with it in the news at the moment we can make a stand. I am horrified and ashamed that Jewish families who are British through and through for generations are now planning to emigrate to Israel because they are frightened for their safety.
Right on on with the Judenfrage. There is another reason for the Corbo Islamophilia. It comes in bin-liners full of postal votes from certain monocultural areas.
Thank you for that Septimus, it is the best explanation I have ever read for the pervasive hatred of Jewry that runs through the Left.
I have often posted that antisemitism runs through the core of Socialism like “Brighton” through a stick of seaside rock, you have provided a brilliant explantation of it.
How odd therefore that so many Jewish Labour MPs were socialists and so many Bolsheviks/Communists were Jewish?
No odder than the surprising number of Communist millionaires and even billionaires – Soros is not only a Communist billionaire but an antisemitic Jew too, then there was that Chairman of the IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn AKA “the rutting chimpanzee”, one of whose properties was bigger than Buckingham Palace, he boasted of his Left wing credentials too.
And Champagne socialists are rather common in certain areas Labour-voting such as Quislington, I believe Jeremy Corbyn is more than averagely well off, come to that..
David,
D’you think any lefties have actually read Marxy. I think they’re just confused and read Mein Kampf in error. Which may explain things.
Obviously Old Etonian Justin Welby will campaign to remove his school’s tax evading charitable status;
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/11/private-schools-tax-charitable-status-eton-dulwich-college
THE LABOUR PARTY has drifted into Marxism, with Mr Corbyn having an odd take upon the enemies of Israel. This is an unfortunate but subtle drift into being anti-Semitic. He has every right to hold to his own views, just as we all have, but it is annoying that so many Labour supporters are not able to see, and evaluate the drift that the Party is taking, and just continue to vote for the word ‘Labour’. ….. It would do them good to read up on the life of Keir Hardie, an early Labour MP and outright Socialist. He lived… Read more »
Septimus Let’s be honest, this is all about the loss of Jewish influence in the Labour Party to Islam. The Jewish lobby were not troubled by the rise of Marxists in the 1970s Labour Party. Could the Bolshevik revolution have taken place but for the activism of Jewish support both in Russia and West?
The more I comment, the worse it gets!
GB is intended to stand for Great Britain not in this instance Gerard Batten.
to septimus,
The paragraph from Marx shows him to have been a Nazi himself. It also shows that he was personally a failure in most other respects. Jealousy shows through.
all politicians these days are failures?
To Roger Arthur. PS. It is just that to many, the word profit is in itself a sort of theft or evil or something. Without it we would all be grubbing around in caves. The Archbishop shows vast ignorance. He’s probably got a doctorate in theology or summat.
Whatever qualification he has, he should stick to what he does he best like preaching to the converted in church or at Canterbury. He should not be getting involved in politics and preaching how much better off we would all be remaining in the EU and being dictated to from outside the UK by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. People like who think they speak for the majority make me sick.
hes not a christian at all–he made his pile and is not offering to share it. all taxation is theft
To Roger Arthur, Capital is one thing, profits another. As I see it, at my present level of understanding. Taxing capital merely, or indeed tinkering with it in any way will halt growth fast. We must in GB allow free movement of capital. At least in the world as it is. Some EU countries tax wealth. Even GB does it in a politically sneaky way by encouraging inflation: But not Capital. Anyway gov’ts get far far more in tax from employment taxes and other taxes from businesses than from profits ( Although anything you can save is gain ). Messing… Read more »
I suggest that taxing of “profits” is fundamentally misguided – any good accountant will subjectively adjust provisions to massage the declared profit. But profits must be distributed or held back to invest in the business – so we should tax the profits at point of distribution (including interest on loans, which are simply another form of capital employed). Profits retained for investment should then be regarded as the seed-corn that will generate future profits, which is probably too difficult to measure fairly for the relatively small amount of tax collected. If we taxed at point of distribution we could take… Read more »
Thanks Jim. I am keeping a copy of your comments (if OK?) to feed into SECom debates on policy. You may recall that UKIP policy was to introduce a Turnover tax. But of course that has its own limitations, in that some companies have lower margins than other. UKIP policy should be published at Conference and I would appreciate your views on what emerges.
A turnover tax. Another tax. Surely not ukip policy. Not good for Britain, although it’s what politicians and socialists crave.
If the British Government decides to allow free movement of Capital (or income, or profit) then OK. But let us return to a position in which directly elected MPs make the decisions. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/10421590/European-law-created-this-tax-racket-that-robs-us-of-billions.html
If anyone wonders why labour has an anti-semitism problem, perhaps they should watch this video of the lady who won the most votes in their NEC election this week, fast forward video to her speech at 1:19:30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6448&v=nVl5dgl8u4I How is supporting the Islamic Iranian Revolution compatible with British values, Women’s values, or even socialist values? The lady who was elected in fourth place, Huma Eldi, does not even describe herself as British, but as an ‘EU Citizen and African Woman’ https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/momentum/pages/92/attachments/original/1521668008/Huda_Elmi_CLP_%281%29_%281%29.pdf?1521668008 UKIP urgently needs to wake up and get organised, forget its internal fighting, and get on with the business… Read more »
Doesn’t Diane Abbott describe herself as “not British”?
not human is more apt?
eu has no citizens–all are members of their respective countries–how that must annoy the eu parasites
Doesn’t stop them using the phrase though, and most it seems believe it, Just as the Major General I.C Marines described ‘our forces’ meaning e.u ones. Mind you he also doesn’t mind it seems having Frederica as his boss, neither apparently do the ‘para’s’ In Bosnia who are presently sporting the e.u motive on uniforms and equipment. Not that I suppose the other ranks have any choice.