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An amazing amount of IT contractors seem to be dyed-in-the-wool lefties. They are usually the ones with their money offshore in some tax dodge spouting how it's right that the permies pay 50% tax on their £40k salaries.
The definition of ultimate hypocrite would be any contractor who votes Labour
Even if they declare themselves inside IR35 and pay full tax? Even if they operate via an umbrella company?
Do you really think that someone who wants the flexibility of working for themselves, with a range of clients, and who pays more tax than they could, but is left of centre is a hypocrite?
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Even if they declare themselves inside IR35 and pay full tax? Even if they operate via an umbrella company?
Do you really think that someone who wants the flexibility of working for themselves, with a range of clients, and who pays more tax than they could, but is left of centre is a hypocrite?
If you admit you are merely a disguised employee of the client and agree to pay the full tax and NI of a permie, then you are a temp employee, whatever way you want to cut it.
'So who on CUK is voting Labour' = 'So who on CUK is voting for creeping Sharia'
Don't sit there - no women are allowed in that part of the room
"Labour should be embarrassed about holding a sex-segregated rally"
Labour rally in Hodge Hill (Birmingham), in which seven Labour representatives spoke at a packed Islamic community centre
Islam require men and women to sit separately
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4 May 2015, The Spectator
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