Mark Watkinson

"Plainly I am not independent"
(Ray McCann 2019) - quite the admission from 'independent' reviewer #LoanChargeScandal #McCannReview on eve of publication of his review (into settlement terms).

Thank you to Angus Macdonald MP
for written question.

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🚨 BREAKING: Damning new reports expose key roles played by #charteredaccountants & #recruitmentagencies in the #LoanChargeScandal. There was industrial mis-selling for profit for huge commissions & fees, yet the Government refuses to tackle perpetrators.
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HMRC’s “Smoke and Mirrors”: How the Taxman Falsely Claims Crackdowns While Loan Scheme Victims Suffer In March 2020, the Loan Charge All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) released a report that exposes a lengthy and deeply troubling pattern: HMRC and the Treasury have orchestrated a campaign of mislead...

Here is my latest #LinkedIn article: HMRC’s “Smoke and Mirrors”: How the Taxman Falsely Claims Crackdowns While Loan Scheme Victims Suffer.

#HMRC #LoanChargeScandal

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HMRC Standing instructions critique The United Kingdom's taxing authority suffers bad attitudes and actions that flow from the following standing instruction: What is the Loan Charge 67,000 people are being pursued by HMRC under a piece...

Here is my latest article

#HMRC Standing instructions critique

#LoanChargeScandal

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This is the #LoanChargeScandal. Let's blow the lid of the toxic #UKGovernment #HMRC #LoanCharge policy, its destroying lives

👉 67,000 victims
👉 10 Suicides
👉 14 Attempted Suicides
👉 24 Serious Injuries

#STOPtheLoanCharge #SaveLives

@labouruk.bsky.social #RachelReeves #KeirStarmer #JamesMurray

Representation in action! After working as a motorcycle instructor, wrote to my local MP about the currently woeful legislation re. learners & compulsory basic training (CBT) in particular.
It was actually asked in parliament. There is a lot of momentum behind this, hopefully it will get somewhere.

8 is the figure they have in application. We are only dealing with the what they have put in writing. Nothing changed to make 'campaign more intense'
55 trucks a day in and out is also their figure. Only 3% of limestone fit for building, everything else being crushed for aggregates.

8 jobs, at the site, and they say they want to retain existing staff, so even that won't be 8 new jobs.

Google satellite map showing proposed location of quarry within 300m of new housing estate. The satellite image does not show full estate as more houses have been built and a community centre is being built close to proposed quarry site.

Issues are that it is not in the middle of the countryside, it is far too near homes & primary school, the main A5 road & surrounding roads cannot take increased volume of HGVs, health issues from dust, there are questions over actual demand for the limestone for building & quality of the stone etc

Limestone, but there will also be a recycling plant onsite for recycling inert building and construction waste and also mention of a ready mix concrete plant. It's less than 300m from a new housing estate. Worries are silica in dust, traffic (110 truck movements a day), noise & wildlife impact.

In my local, rural, community we are fighting against a large quarry being started on what currently are green fields. It would be great if my followers could follow this campaign account on @stopnewquarry.bsky.social and repost some of the posts. Thank you 🙏
#StopTheQuarry

Protect the health of people who live near quarries Living near a quarry brings increased risk to the health of people in the nearby communities. At the moment there are no standards laid down by government, relating to how far away quarries have to...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement

FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS

Not sure if crashing the stock market counts as a "little disturbance."

It was my first foray into what they were.
I can see them being very useful if not used in a malicious manner.
But you are most certainly correct, it’s not worth wondering how you got on a list. Chances are in my case, I don’t want to know this person, so trash takes itself out 🤷🏻‍♀️

Can't beat a bit of the Beastie Boys

Get It Together Beastie Boys, Q-Tip · Ill Communication · Song · 1994

Some good stuff. #uprising #hiphop🎶 open.spotify.com/track/6aaPce...

I've stopped looking at lists now as got added to some other weird ones, like people blocking others who follow back etc.
Social media can be a dark rabbit hole at times if you are worried about mental health.
It's best to keep your feet firmly in the real world while dipping into the online world

I stumbled upon this by accident after getting added to a list called “blockenheimer” (?) by someone IDK and it’s kind of a crazy story…
Anyway, I thought this exchange was sweet.

old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

Cartoon by David Sipress.

Conan: You know, Anora is having a good night. That's great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.

If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.

Outstanding ‼️

Trump & Vance unfit for their positions.

How and why President Trump cheats at golf — even when he’s playing against Tiger Woods Whether you’re Trump’s pharmacist or Tiger Woods, if you’re playing golf with the President, he’s going to cheat. In fact, he did cheat with Tiger Woods.

And Trump cheats at golf.

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Trump has only been in 1 type of bunker, unlike Zelensky.
Trump isn't fit to be in the same room as Zelensky and he proved that yesterday.