Show The Evidence Or Come Clean Angela

The British Tax System is a bit of a minefield which i why i pay someone to do mine and avoid coming home to find someone from HM Revenue & Customs wheeling my TV out the door to pay a tax bill so i have no idea if Labour's Angela Raynor has been caught red handed not paying her Capital Gains bill when she sold her home and moved in with her husband, but i know a man at the Tax Policy Associates who does.   
Ms Raynor says she took professional advice and said: 'I was not liable for capital gains tax because it was my home and the only one I owned' and the HMRC website states that: 'You may have to pay Capital Gains Tax if you make a profit (‘gain’) when you sell (or ‘dispose of’) property that’s not your home' so simply i asked him if Angela Rayner failed to pay CGT on her house sale and the answer was an unsatisfactory, she may have, it depends.
We know Angela Rayner bought her house for £79,000 in 2007, married in 2010 and moved into her husbands home and sold her property in 20215 for £127,500, making a profit of £48,500 and this is where it gets murky because she chose her husbands address as her main residence, meaning that was where she lived so her other home was a 'second home' and when sold, Capital Gains would have been due on it, an estimated amount of between £3,000 and £1,500 once expenses, improvements and other things are taken into account.
It could be that she spent more on improvements and expenses than being estimated therefore she doesn't owe anything but with Labour seeming to be heading for power, they don't need a scandal over whether the Deputy Prime Minister 'dodged' paying her fair share of tax akin to the Nadhim Zahawi case to explode in their faces before they even set foot in the door.
Angela, who i have a lot of time for, should either publish the advice she got and clear her name or get further advice from a  tax expert and if she made a mistake, hold her hands up, admit to it and make good the tax she owes because most people would understand that our tax system is fraught with difficulty and a mistake was made, what the British people won't accept is a politician gaming the system to avoid paying tax while forcing them to pay it.
Let's not start a Labour Government with a call of they are just as corrupt as the ones we just voted out. 

End Of The World (Again)

The end of the world is coming and it will start in Illinois on Monday according to some of the conspiracy theories running rampant about the coming solar eclipse.
Republican congresswoman, Majorie Taylor Greene, says she thinks it is a sign from God that America needs to repent its sins, saying: 'God is sending America strong signs to tell us to repent.
Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come' which is wonderfully whack-a-doodle but right-wing commentator (it's always right wing commenters), Alex Jones, is flapping his gums about
globalists 'using the solar eclipse as a justification for the nefarious plans they intend to carry out'.
Obviously not wanting to be outdone in the crazy stakes are the religionists who are saying that it is the end of days and Monday will be the end of the world, starting in Carbondale, Illinois but before
you laugh, they have evidence.
Apparently they have mapped the eclipse's path of totality and it either six, seven or eight (depending on who you read) places called Nineveh and Nineveh is mentioned in the Bible so the theorists are
leaping to the conclusion that it really isn't worth many any appointments for Tuesday.
I would go out on a limb and say i think you will be okay to make their dental or hairdressers appointment because, and whisper this quietly, a full eclipse takes place roughly every 18 months or so
and i think we would have noticed if the World ended after a previous one so i think you will be alright.

Wragg's Willy Wrangles

What do we know about the MP William Wragg's apology as some of his fellow MP's throw a protective arm around him and praise his 'courageous' and 'brave' apology?
We know that he met someone on the Grindr dating app and after a few exchange's, to use Wraggs own words, the person 'gained compromising things on me' which is a less crude way of saying he asked for dick pics, and the MP gleefully dropped his pants, grabbed his iPhone and posed.
So far, so Member of Parliament but this is where it now gets interesting because now that they had gained the compromising things, the recipient of the photo's of the Honorable Member's Member, began to blackmail him so what is a disgraced MP to do?
Obviously immediately going to the Police never crossed Wragg's mind so instead he opted to start obliging his blackmailer request for the personal mobile telephone numbers of other MPs, Westminster staff and political journalists.
Scotland Yard confirmed it was in contact with Parliament following reporting of unsolicited messages to members of parliament for which Wragg's weak explanation was that he was scared and he was sorry that his weakness has caused other people hurt.
One MP actually went on TV and rather than demand he vacate his position for dropping his colleagues in it by handing out their private numbers, said: 'I think everybody would accept, including William, that he's made a mistake' and how it was: 'far better that somebody recognises their mistakes rather than tries to hide behind it'.
Rishi Sunak is yet to comment if recognising that he had thrown his colleagues under the bus to try and save his own neck is brave and courageous but Wragg is not expected to lose the party whip over the matter, meaning he can remain in the Conservative Party but if i was one of the colleagues who he had handed over their number, then he had better keep those pictures of his todger as a reminder because by now it would be floating down the Thames.

Putting The Fun Into Funerals

Themed funerals are becoming more of a thing and i attended one's where everyone was asked to wear Christmas jumpers and you walked in behind the coffin to the sounds of Mariah Carey singing she wishes it could be Christmas everyday and as solemn and miserable an occasion it was, it did seem to make it more of a celebration of the persons personality than a staid and conventional funeral.
It wasn't to everybody's tastes, the traditional view amongst some is that funerals are meant to be sombre, austere and joyless but it seems the days of the traditional funeral may be coming to an end, the last one i went to actually called it a FUN-eral and stipulated no black clothing and bring along your funniest antidote for the wake afterwards.
It may not please the church and it was apparently quite a job to get a vicar willing to oversee the proceedings that insisted no tears, no dwelling on loss and it was a gathering to rejoice and have a good laugh at what happened when she was alive but if vicars are not happy donning a Snowman jumper then they are really going to struggle with wearing a Darth Vader mask and doing the sermon in the voice of the Dark Lord of the Sith which was one request revealed in the funeral directors list of the funerals they are being asked to facilitate.
Some of the deceased's wished their funerals to have a sci-fi and fantasy theme, with others asking mourners to show up in suspenders and stilettos for a Rocky Horror-themed ceremony.
There was a request by a naturist for everyone to be naked and there are a growing number of requests for 'Santa' to officiate and to conga out of the ceremony.
Mark Screeton, CEO at SunLife said: 'Over the past 20 years we have seen more and more great examples of how people make their loved ones funerals really personal' and i think it is a great idea because the last funeral was certainly a celebration of my friends personality, i have never laughed so much at a funeral but it is hard not to raise a smile when a coffin made to look like a mobile phone disappears behind a curtain to the sounds of Celine Dion singing 'My Heart Will Go On'.

Top God

Since man first looked around and thought, i wonder how all this got here? they have been thinking up Deities to try and explain it and then convince each other that this one is the 100%, absolutely guaranteed right one and on most occasions in their zeal to prove their God is the most loving and peaceful they have slaughtered and massacred believers of other Gods, in a loving and peaceful way of course.
The people at GodChecker have a list of pretty much every Supreme Being that has tried to persuade it's followers that the Big Bang never happened and the Earth was actually made by them a few thousand years ago so they could now stop believing all the overwhelming mass of scientific evidence about evolution and the creation of the Universe but of the 4000+ Gods, who are the ones at the top of the Holy Hit Parade?
In a Top of the Pop's countdown voice with less Led Zeppelin music and more Angelic choir, here are the Top 10 Gods and at 10 we have the Slavic Chernobog who lists his hobbies as being the Lord of Evil and causing calamity, disaster, bad luck and misfortune wherever he turns.
At 9 is Yoruba Godess Oya and when she isn't controlling the weather, she likes to spend her time overlooking funerals and lung disease and she is joined in the top 10 by another Yoruban, Obtala who is teetotal after the whole getting rip snorting drunk and missing out on creating the World, but he did get to create men and women so you can blame him for Piers Morgan.
He may be the top banana in Norse Mythology but Odin is at number 7 in the list who, when he isn't out riding his eight legged stallion, is kept up to date with Earthly goings on by his two ravens and his son Thor may have an impressive hammer but it isn't as good as the one weidled by the God at number 6, the Chinese God Monkey who has the one used to flatten the bed of the Milky Way and uses to give a headache to any demon stupid enough to get in its way.
Top 5 and at 5 it's the Greek Tithonus who went from being a mere mortal to marrying the Godess Eos before being turned into a Cicada by Zeus so that must have been an exciting couple of weeks for him and Norse God of mayem Loki may have a TV Series but was last seen having serpents venom dripped on him in a cavern where he is tied up with his sons entrails.
Yoruba God Shango is many things, god of thunder and war mainly, but he is also known to play drums on the clouds and does like a spot of dancing so a bit like Keith Moon is many respects and just missing out is The Yoruban Orishas who are not one God but more of a cocktail of 1,700 Gods who got together to run the Earth but had to hand it over to someone else after 16 days as they realised they didn't have a clue what to do with it.
At the top of the God Charts, the Numero Uno, crème de la crème pre-eminent God is the Norse Warrior and head Valkyrie, Freya. She is a love Goddess who loves soft music, flowers and going at it like a rabbit with dwarfs, other Gods, mortals and giants if those rumours are to be believed and if you die on a battlefield you could find out yourself because she gets first pick of any slain warriors to go to her palace for...let's call it recuperation.
Special mention to my personal favourite, Voodoo God Baron Samedi, who is just outside the Top 10 because who doesn't love a rum drinking, cigar smoking skeleton in a top hat and a black tailcoat wearing dark sunglasses.

The Genocide Defender's Point Of View

You can't keep a good woman down and it appears that it applies to awful women also because the twice sacked former Home Secretary Suella Bravermann has just been on TV saying that: 'Israel is absolutely not in breach of international law' and to even suggest it was: 'absurd and an insult to Israel'.
It is a refreshing change from that tired old thinking that always blames murder on the murderer and she seems to be taking the view that whilst humanity has become more tolerant of groups who once seemed to be on the margins of society, it is wrong that we can still be offensive about the innocent citizen murdering community.
Maybe she is hoping her ridiculous denials will put across the genocidal murderers point of view with one view being that bombing schools, hospitals, shelters and peoples homes are clearly the fault of the people who live in the areas being bombed.
Now many of us see pictures of buildings reduced to rubble with a bomb sticking out and hastily conclude the bomb had something to do with it but look carefully and it becomes obvious it was caused by the silly sods being in school, hospital, shelters or their own homes at the time.
Benjamin Netanyahu once spoke out for child murderers civil rights by informing us the Palestinians deliberately arrange the 'telegenically dead' to be filmed, to attract sympathy. So it seems Hamas stroll round bomb sites, placing the prettiest corpses on view for film crews because otherwise we’d all think: 'It's a shame i guess but then she was an ugly two year old'.
In less enlightened times, those responsible for such murder and genocide of a population it has been militarily occupying for over 60 years would be snarled at in the street but thankfully we’re growing more liberal, and if Suella and people like her get her way, no longer will genocidal maniacs feel looked down on for carrying out their basic human right to bomb a school full of children or mow down the very citizen's they have been starving when they desperately turn up at a food aid truck.

British Bake Off For Americans

As we know, we handed the American's a structured English language and the first thing they did was mangle it by taking out the letter U and making up silly words for things which already had perfectly good names so you get all the confusion over Crisps, Chips, Gas, Pants and don't even get me started on Fanny but i didn't know that America now gets The Great British Bake Off and nobody on that side of the Atlantic Ocean really knows what any of the desserts are.
The differences between what British people and Americans mean by pudding and biscuit i was vaguely aware of but a British pudding can also be black, steak and kidney, rice, a crumble, Pease, Figgy, Treacle, sticky toffee or even a Roly Poly so not that straight forward.
A biscuit is even more complicated with it being a Wagon Wheel, Malted Milk, Jammie Dodger, Party Ring, Bourbons, Ginger Nuts, Rich Tea, Digestive, Chocolate Chip, Custard Cream or even a Hobnob and some of which may be half covered in chocolate.
Apparently Americans eat biscuits with gravy so heaven knows what the hell that is unless gravy is another word for custard but even that is weird but it seems that everything is called something different so our cookery books refer to aubergines, mangetouts, courgettes, coriander and sultana's while the
Americans will call them eggplants, snow peas, zucchini, cilantro and golden raisins.
So if you hear Paul Hollywood or Pru Leith refer to toffee then think caramel, a traybake is a bar cookie, granola bar is a flapjack, pancake is a crepe but apparently Americans don't even have trifle, Eton mess or banoffee pie so if you are not accustomed to the UK palate then then you should stay well away from bubble and squeak, clotted cream, squashed fly cake, Lardy Cake, Wet Nelly and Dumplings and a Spotted Dick should be avoided at all times.

Rishi Under Pressure Supplying Israeli Arms

What will it take for Israel’s allies to say no more and stop supplying the weapons to them? Obviously not the ICJ calling it a genocide or the growing list of war crimes, the destruction of Gaza hospitals, Security Council Resolution 27/28, restricting medical and food supplies into Gaza, not the 33,000 dead civilians or the 103 journalists or the previous murder of 200 aide workers but the killing of 3 British workers may have tipped the balance in the UK because the pressure is now ramping up on the Prime Minister to stop supplying Israel with weapons.    
Conservative MPs, the former representative of the UK to the United Nations, 600 lawyers and three former High Court Judges have spoken out to warn the Prime Minister that that the UK is breaching international law by continuing to arm Israel.
A 17-page letter from lawyers and members of the Bar explained that 'serious action is needed to avoid UK complicity in grave breaches of international law, including potential violations of the Genocide Convention' and even the former head of MI6 said this morning that the sheer amount of killing by Israel means: 'It is hard not to conclude that insufficient care is being paid to the collateral risks of these operations'.
The UK government has refused to publish its own legal advice on the matter but a leaked recording suggests its own lawyers have advised that Israel has breached international humanitarian law in Gaza which leaves the UK vulnerable to claims of being complicit although Rishi Sunak has only said that
that arms licences were kept under careful review according to regulations and procedures that we’ll always follow which obviously doesn't include Israel deliberately causing a famine, killing tens of thousands of people but does include the profits of UK arms dealers.

Once, Twice, Three Times A War Crime

If a country broke one International Convention then you would expect an outcry, if they broke two in the same day then you would expect the howls to reach fever-point so we wait with bated breath to see what is going to happen to Israel after it broke three on the same day.
First up was the news that Israel had finished its 'operation' at Gaza’s Al Ahifa hospital and even made a claim that the IDF didn’t kill any civilians during it's two-week long attack.
Obviously anything Israel claims should be taken with the whole salt shaker and not just a pinch of it, especially as it claimed it attacked the Al-Shifa hospital previously due to Hamas using it as a military headquarters and showed the 'evidence' as a handful of guns and tunnels, tunnels which Israel had built themselves in the 1980's and analysis of IDF footage by CNN found that Israeli forces may have moved or rearranged weapons within the Hospital before providing international news organizations access to the scene which prompted questions of just how authentic the 'evidence' actually was.
Still got hold of that salt because the claim that no civilians were killed was questioned by the WHO and immediately asked if that was the case, who were the hundreds of bodies, including 'entire families dead and their bodies decomposing in houses around the hospital' were but this was overtaken by the breaking of International Convention two with the bombing of a Consulate in Syria.
Israeli forces attacked the Iranian Consular building in Damascus killing 11 people including seven members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard which is a violation of the Vienna Convention, and nations stepped up to condemn the attack on a 'diplomatic institutions' but while they were queuing up to condemn the first two, Israel went and broke a third one with the bombing and killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers, killing seven.
Obviously mistakes happen but the car containing the aid workers were travelling in a de-conflicted zone in cars branded with the WCK logo in movements coordinated with the IDF and was leaving a well know food warehouse and Western Governments were quick to respond just in case the Israeli's did something else atrocious.
The EU said they condemned the attack despite all the demands to protect civilians and humanitarian workers and after refusing to comment, Israel said they would investigate which if the murder of over 100 people at a an aide convoy last month is anything to go by, means it will be filed under the carpet where it will hopefully be forgotten so over to you United Nations and International Court of Justice, how much more Genocide and how many war crimes can you take before actually doing something to stop it?

Trump Missed A Trick With His Bible

Donald Trump has been a salesman for many things although as at least five bankruptcies attest to, he isn't that great at it so his record stands as Trump beverages (abandoned before making it to market), Trump: The Game (discontinued after poor sales), Trump magazine (folded after 2 years), Trump Mortgage (defaulted), Trump Steaks (pulled after two months for poor sales), Trump’s travel site (folded after 12 months), Trump Communications Company (abandoned before launch), Trump Tower Tampa (collapsed after being sued by buyers), Trump University (shut down and facing lawsuits), Trump Vodka (abandoned after poor sales) and Trumps Cologne (discontinued after poor sales).
The ultimate business failure has to be Trump casinos which should be a licence to print money but ended in £3 billion debt and bankruptcy but everyone loves a trier, especially if he is too damn stupid to realise what a loser he is in the business man stakes so we have recently had Trump gold trainers and now the Trump Bible although it hasn't been confirmed that he has removed the usual 10 commandments to just those he hasn't broken so Moses needn't have lugged both those heavy tablets down the mountain and could have just managed with half a one instead.
Now normally i would say if you was mad enough to pay $60 for Bible when they are just laying around on the Pews of Churches waiting to be slipped into your handbag then it's your money to waste but whilst i don't want in anyway help Trump pay his multi-million pounds worth of court costs, i do think he has missed a trick by hocking the same, tired old stories and he should have gone for a sequel, 'The Holy Bible 2'.
Obviously it would have to feature Jesus because he was a successful character in the first one and main characters God and the Devil could finally make an appearance after just being as yet unseen characters but i wouldn't bother with minor characters such as Joseph, boy that guy was yawn.
The first Bible ends with Jesus returning and cleansing the earth from all evil and restoring his dad's original plan for mankind, with a new heaven and a new earth and that's perfect as he could introduce some other deities for broader appeal across the other religions Globally, i have always liked that big headed Elephant one and the Greek God of getting shit faced drunk Dionysus would be ideal as the John Belushi type Bluto from Animal House type character.
There you go then Donny, a follow up to the Bible i'm sure your followers would lap up, actually on second thoughts, as they are your supporters, better make it a colouring book. You are very welcome.