Mel Stride on LBC Radio phone in tonight

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You can share your thoughts and insights on the tax avoiding Mel Stride's lecture on the undesirability of tax avoidance on here - please take the time to do so and advise your MPs of this blo as well.

[Endofdays]

A transcript of the call would be useful if anyone has the time to produce one I may have a crack over the w/e.

I suspect not many of the people congratulating him would be members of his target audience for votes.
As Iain implied he is another conservative deploying a counter conservative policy.
He also introduced us to his view that the schemes were "defective" and said that loans were not loans.

"People were paying less than the man next to them". Well the man next to me was avoiding his tax via the Ltd Co route - I'd be happy to pay the difference.

Agree wonder if we would use the same “person next door paying right amount of tax” if the people next to him knew he paid 25k corporation tax on 1.6million profits

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A transcript of the call would be useful if anyone has the time to produce one I may have a crack over the w/e.

I suspect not many of the people congratulating him would be members of his target audience for votes.
As Iain implied he is another conservative deploying a counter conservative policy.
He also introduced us to his view that the schemes were "defective" and said that loans were not loans.

"People were paying less than the man next to them". Well the man next to me was avoiding his tax via the Ltd Co route - I'd be happy to pay the difference.

[Endofdays]

This kind of quote is killing the cause, as sentiment will go against the victims. He must be called out for this, quickly and publicly. This is surely challengeable as he has no parliamentary privilege in this interview.

He is basically calling tens (hundreds?) of thousands of hard working contractors (IT specialists, doctors, financial workers, nurses, social workers) criminals.

This is outrageous!

I agree from the comments I have read from the public not close to the scandal we are tax avoiding scum should not get away it people even congratulating him swaying public opinion to going to be harder than swaying MPs

I would have loved Iain Dale to have challenged Snide on Doug Barrowman the Tory donor..

[Dmac]

Quote from Stride

Answering my own point, yes he did say that the "schemes were illegal".

This kind of quote is killing the cause, as sentiment will go against the victims. He must be called out for this, quickly and publicly. This is surely challengeable as he has no parliamentary privilege in this interview.

He is basically calling tens (hundreds?) of thousands of hard working contractors (IT specialists, doctors, financial workers, nurses, social workers) criminals.

This is outrageous!

[webberg]

Answering my own point, yes he did say that the "schemes were illegal".

[webberg]

Did Stride say - definitively - that the schemes were illegal?

Or did he imply that they were as justification for chasing?

Big difference.

The first is a deliberate falsehood.

The second is part of a PR campaign in which opinion masquerades as fact.

[kentishlad]

Mel repeated his previous claim that these schemes are illegal, on the air and outside Parliament.

If the schemes entered into were, as Mel Stride implied 'illegal'.. Does that mean that a Tory Peer is in bed with a man that knowingly made money, and subsequently contributed said cash to the Tory Party was generated through such illegal means?

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I think he'd have taken an LCAGGER telling his kids their dad was a nasty man over that car crash

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[Vincenth1]

Mel Stride LBC

Mel repeated his previous claim that these schemes are illegal, on the air and outside Parliament.

[phil@pmtc]

I tried calling in but they didn't let me on air. They did however read my question out (asking for helpline) which Mel completely failed to answer. I was pleased to hear the presenter refuse to fall for Mels nonsense about it not being retrospective.

[Scottie99]

Mel Stride

He wasn’t exactly sympathetic, was he?

[lowpaidworker]

I'm told this is between 8pm and 9pm.

A chance to ask some sticky questions perhaps?

The show is hosted by Iain Dale and you can send questions in advance or call in.

Rather than call and have your name in lights you can put your question via their website

https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presente...for-the-panel/

[webberg]

I'm told this is between 8pm and 9pm.

A chance to ask some sticky questions perhaps?

The show is hosted by Iain Dale and you can send questions in advance or call in.