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Previously on "Unarmed ex-accountant takes on the government"

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  • LondonManc
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    Originally posted by GJABS View Post
    The Wail has got wind of it:

    Aviation tycoon seeks judicial review of the Covid-19 lockdown | Daily Mail Online

    Comments section people laying into him, as expected..
    You're reading the Daily Mail......

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  • AtW
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    “ In particular, I question whether the lockdown contravenes the European Convention of Human Rights, which covers the right to liberty, family life, education and property.”

    Why I'm challenging lockdown in court

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  • AtW
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    Not even Daily Faul’s readership supports it

    Hopefully in the next budget income (of any kind - including dividends) originated in the UK will be taxed at normal UK rates regardless of place of residence
    Last edited by AtW; 2 May 2020, 15:45.

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  • GJABS
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    The Wail has got wind of it:

    Aviation tycoon seeks judicial review of the Covid-19 lockdown | Daily Mail Online

    Comments section people laying into him, as expected..

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  • AtW
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    Gina Miller was not trying to force Govt end lockdown in the middle of (at best) the 21st Century Plague Season.

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  • ladymuck
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    Gina Miller's first case was crowd funded:

    Gina Miller: Who is campaigner behind Brexit court cases? - BBC News

    Mrs Miller launched her first Brexit legal case with London-based Spanish hairdresser Deir Tozetti Dos Santos and the People's Challenge group, set up by Grahame Pigney - a UK citizen who lives in France.

    Backed by a crowd-funding campaign, they argued the government could not invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - starting the formal process of the UK leaving the EU - without seeking approval from Parliament.
    The article doesn't state how the second case was funded. I'm sure it's available somewhere.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    Didn't Gina Miller fund her Brexit case herself?
    She wan’t in the Times Rich list

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    And in other news Monaco millionaire Simon Dolan asks for money from the cretins of this world rather than funding it himself.
    Plenty of complete idiots on this forum - go on you know want to.

    Join the Legal Challenge to the UK Govt Lockdown

    This is just sick stuff.
    Didn't Gina Miller fund her Brexit case herself?

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  • sasguru
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    And in other news Monaco millionaire Simon Dolan asks for money from the cretins of this world rather than funding it himself.
    Plenty of complete idiots on this forum - go on you know want to.

    Join the Legal Challenge to the UK Govt Lockdown

    This is just sick* stuff.

    *as someone middle aged would use the word.
    Last edited by sasguru; 2 May 2020, 12:31.

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by Andy Hallett View Post
    I disagree. Simon is one of the sharpest businessmen I have ever met.

    His overall view that the government will use Covid to take a lot of our freedoms shouldn’t be overlooked.


    We should start GoFund campaign - to finance tin foil hats for both of you.

    Lockdown costs Govt crazy amount of money - they are the ones who want to open up more than anybody, despote deaths, but even they don’t dare now

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  • northernladuk
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    Shows the different world he lives in to us. During lock down I paint the garden shed to ease the boredom. Simon takes the government to court.

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  • jamesbrown
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    Originally posted by sasguru View Post
    I'm sure he is. What's he's not is an epidemiologist or public health specialist.
    I can't presume to know his motivation (you'd be naive to think that loss of business doesn't come into it) but removing the restrictions as he advocates - I've skimmed his Linkedin post- will result in thousands (and maybe hundreds of thousands) more deaths than necessary.
    No doubt given his resources he can avoid being part of that death toll, others can't
    Success in business is completely irrelevant in this sphere. He thinks he’s the messiah, but he’s a very naughty boy.

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  • sasguru
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    That is something which concerns me. It's the perfect opportunity to pass restrictive legislation in the name of saving lives. They couldn't quite manage it with the terrorism threat but now there's a massively compelling argument for increased state interference in our lives, much of it vehemently advocated by people on this forum. Surveillance laws passed now are unlikely to be repealed.
    That's a different and valid argument.
    However the primary and urgent issue at hand is a public health/epidemiological emergency.

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  • Mordac
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    I think sasguru meant sharp in a different context. Successful agents, for example, are sharp operators - but they're not necessarily very good at analytic or critical thinking.
    I didn't think Sassy was allowed near anything sharp?

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  • sasguru
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    Originally posted by Andy Hallett View Post
    I disagree. Simon is one of the sharpest businessmen I have ever met.

    His overall view that the government will use Covid to take a lot of our freedoms shouldn’t be overlooked.
    I'm sure he is. What he's not is an epidemiologist or public health specialist.
    I can't presume to know his motivation (you'd be naive to think that loss of business doesn't come into it) but removing the restrictions as he advocates - I've skimmed his Linkedin post- will result in thousands (and maybe hundreds of thousands) more deaths than necessary.
    No doubt given his resources he can avoid being part of that death toll, others can't
    Last edited by sasguru; 2 May 2020, 10:18.

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