Reply to: Clever little scam

[Old Greg]

hmm Cummings is a poor mans Edwina

Deity I feel old...

I just remembered what's grey and smells of curry.

[vetran]

When I heard he'd been let off, that was exactly what I expected to hear about. It's a disgrace

only the little gals pay tax...

[vetran]

Likes to eat babies, apparently...

hmm Cummings is a poor mans Edwina

Deity I feel old...

[ladymuck]

When I heard he'd been let off, that was exactly what I expected to hear about. It's a disgrace

[darmstadt]

Another lever little s am going on here (CBA to see if shared anywhere else)

Dominic Cummings allowed to avoid backdated council tax on second home | Politics | The Guardian

No planning permission, no back dated charge for council tax due

[darmstadt]

Another lever little s am going on here (CBA to see if shared anywhere else)

Dominic Cummings allowed to avoid backdated council tax on second home | Politics | The Guardian

No planning permission, no back dated charge for council tax due

He must have something on the Durham council and police, won't investigate him, won't fine him...

[Old Greg]

Another lever little s am going on here (CBA to see if shared anywhere else)

Dominic Cummings allowed to avoid backdated council tax on second home | Politics | The Guardian

No planning permission, no back dated charge for council tax due

He's exempt due to his partial sightedness.

[darmstadt]

If you were a local council bod wouldn't you be scared of that person?

Likes to eat babies, apparently...

[SueEllen]

Another lever little s am going on here (CBA to see if shared anywhere else)

Dominic Cummings allowed to avoid backdated council tax on second home | Politics | The Guardian

No planning permission, no back dated charge for council tax due

If you were a local council bod wouldn't you be scared of that person?

[ladymuck]

Another lever little s am going on here (CBA to see if shared anywhere else)

Dominic Cummings allowed to avoid backdated council tax on second home | Politics | The Guardian

No planning permission, no back dated charge for council tax due

[vetran]

If this is the case the police would be stopping bicycles on pavements, bicycles with no lights, bicycles going through red lights.
Drugs are delivered by bicycle, houses are burgled and the booty taken by bicycle because there is no registration plate and it is quite. The ring leaders use cars but are invariably taxed and insured.

Sorry I was meaning a kingpin not a runner.

Agree completely that runners and addicts feeding their habit are frequently using bicycles they probably won't have any lights so a nice safety push at night confiscating bikes without lights or with known drug / burglary offenders on would help. Get them off the road if possible.

But even the street dealers are finding it hard

Coronavirus: Price of street drugs rises due to lockdown measures, dealer says | UK News | Sky News

and ~5,000 more offences detected.

Recorded drug offences rise by a third during lockdown as dealers make 'risky' home deliveries | UK News | Sky News

[Paddy]

One of the reasons the Police like catching people for traffic offences is because if the don't obey the rules of the road they may disobey others. Those with no insurance are far more likely to be drug dealers/users and wanted for more serious crimes.

I suspect its like your friendly dug dealer you want some pot they offer you more dangerous options as well because they know you are already willing to break the law. Start with a bit of minimum wage abuse and move up to money laundering its a slippery slope.

If this is the case the police would be stopping bicycles on pavements, bicycles with no lights, bicycles going through red lights.
Drugs are delivered by bicycle, houses are burgled and the booty taken by bicycle because there is no registration plate and it is quite. The ring leaders use cars but are invariably taxed and insured.

[vetran]

The story appears to involve one guy running a VAT fraud, and almost certainly also laundering money from dubious sources as part of that, by setting up and closing numerous companies, as part of which he did business with various other companies, none of which it seems are alleged to have been directly involved in his scam.

So although the headline is strictly accurate, it implies that numerous textile firms in Leicester are involved in money laundering.

This is very unfair. The majority of Leicester textile firms are only involved in exploiting their (largely immigrant) workforces by paying less than minimum wage, requiring excessive hours to be worked, and completely ignoring all health and safety legislation; and maybe a little tax and NI fraud on their own account

One of the reasons the Police like catching people for traffic offences is because if the don't obey the rules of the road they may disobey others. Those with no insurance are far more likely to be drug dealers/users and wanted for more serious crimes.

I suspect its like your friendly dug dealer you want some pot they offer you more dangerous options as well because they know you are already willing to break the law. Start with a bit of minimum wage abuse and move up to money laundering its a slippery slope.

[NickFitz]

Although, if he had 14 shell textile companies and that other Malik guy has also been caught doing the same I'd argue that the bold section is, in fact, completely true. The problem is these numerous textile companies were just shells.

There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of textile companies here, so fourteen or even forty isn't "numerous" by Leicester standards

I used to live round the corner from the old Imperial Typewriter factory. There are at least fifty, probably more like a hundred, in that block alone: Google Maps

[_V_]

Still, the important thing is that we're going to get those bloody middle class contractors.

The privileged few.