Would Margaret Thatcher have rescued the banks?

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21 Apr 2013, 5:17 am

"Russia Today" reports that Thatcher was told what to do by the Labour Peer Victor Rothschild including the things we dont like about her, such as Privatisation and the Poll tax,

So its probably more fitting to ask if the Rothschilds are behind stealing money from the poor to give to bankers and would consider the answer will probably be yes.


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The taboo not a single commentator has broached though is the shadowy 'advisory' role played throughout her premiership by European banking fraternity's Labour peer Lord Victor Rothschild. He was revealed in the book the Thatcher government tried to suppress, Peter Wright's Spycatcher, to be behind London's top secret service appointments. In 1986 Rothschild penned 'Paying for Local Government' the policy paper that led to the notorious Poll Tax that fell hardest on the poorest, and which brought Britons onto the streets of London in their hundreds of thousands in 1990, riots echoing London's Poll Tax revolt of 1381.

And according to the then BBC Chairman Marmaduke Hussey, Lord Victor also initiated the sacking in 1987 of the last independent-minded Director General of the BBC, a castration from which the corporation never quite recovered.

One word captures the essence of the Thatcher legacy; 'privatisation'. As an exasperated former Tory Prime Minster Harold Macmillan put it "she's selling off the family silver!". And so tens of mind-boggling billions of pounds of silver were auctioned off to the highest bidders, mostly to Rothschild's kith and kin. From shipyards and public housing to telephones, steel, oil, gas and water, anyone in the world was free to own the infrastructure and manufacturing heart of Britain that was once collectively 'ours'.



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21 Apr 2013, 6:08 am

RT Article

That's an interesting article thanks



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21 Apr 2013, 6:18 am

Property Tax Loophole

This is interesting and I think shows the woman had little of the integrity people claim she had. If she was a great and patriotic Briton then she wouldn't mind paying her taxes.



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21 Apr 2013, 7:32 am

Robdemanc wrote:
Property Tax Loophole

This is interesting and I think shows the woman had little of the integrity people claim she had. If she was a great and patriotic Briton then she wouldn't mind paying her taxes.


Taxation is a necessary evil. As long as she obeyed the law, why do you care if she "minded" or not. Tax is a burden imposed on us all and until someone figures out how to fund a government sufficient for keeping the peace by means other than taxation, we will be taxed and we will pay.

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21 Apr 2013, 8:46 am

ruveyn wrote:
Robdemanc wrote:
Property Tax Loophole

This is interesting and I think shows the woman had little of the integrity people claim she had. If she was a great and patriotic Briton then she wouldn't mind paying her taxes.


Taxation is a necessary evil. As long as she obeyed the law, why do you care if she "minded" or not. Tax is a burden imposed on us all and until someone figures out how to fund a government sufficient for keeping the peace by means other than taxation, we will be taxed and we will pay.

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Because people claim she was one of the greatest Britons to have ever lived. People are saying she was our greatest ever PM. So I would expect such a person not to avoid paying their taxes.



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21 Apr 2013, 9:45 am

Robdemanc, I read the linked article, and I would note that US residents won't understand the link, since the custom over here is to refer only to ad valorum annual taxes on the property as "property taxes". Realty transfer taxes, Income/Capital Gains taxes, and Estate taxes arn't considered property taxes over here.

You would'nt know that, but it makes it hard to discuss that subject accross the pond. Cousins seperated by a common language and all that.


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21 Apr 2013, 9:58 am

AgentPalpatine wrote:
Robdemanc, I read the linked article, and I would note that US residents won't understand the link, since the custom over here is to refer only to ad valorum annual taxes on the property as "property taxes". Realty transfer taxes, Income/Capital Gains taxes, and Estate taxes arn't considered property taxes over here.

You would'nt know that, but it makes it hard to discuss that subject accross the pond. Cousins seperated by a common language and all that.


Ok thanks but I don't think I can change the name now. It is property related tax.

What I wonder is why don't all homeowners register their homes as being owned by offshore companies? Perhaps nobody need pay these taxes. But I think its a question of what is proper and seeing as M Thatcher promoted the notion of home ownership I would expect her not to be shy about declaring herself a homeowner.



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21 Apr 2013, 10:52 am

Robdemanc wrote:
Ok thanks but I don't think I can change the name now. It is property related tax.

What I wonder is why don't all homeowners register their homes as being owned by offshore companies? Perhaps nobody need pay these taxes. But I think its a question of what is proper and seeing as M Thatcher promoted the notion of home ownership I would expect her not to be shy about declaring herself a homeowner.


Go ask her. There are many third-party vendors who would be happy to facilitate the response.


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21 Apr 2013, 10:54 am

Robdemanc wrote:

Because people claim she was one of the greatest Britons to have ever lived. People are saying she was our greatest ever PM. So I would expect such a person not to avoid paying their taxes.


I she "minded" taxation (i.e. objected to some of it as foolish, oppressive and unnecessary) I would consider her all the greater.

The United States was founded as a Republic because Americans "minded" being taxed by England.

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21 Apr 2013, 11:48 am

ruveyn wrote:
Robdemanc wrote:

Because people claim she was one of the greatest Britons to have ever lived. People are saying she was our greatest ever PM. So I would expect such a person not to avoid paying their taxes.


I she "minded" taxation (i.e. objected to some of it as foolish, oppressive and unnecessary) I would consider her all the greater.

The United States was founded as a Republic because Americans "minded" being taxed by England.

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She only minded about taxes on the rich. That was evident in her poll tax.

I don't think it makes her a great Briton when she avoids paying what she should. This also shows her to be deceptive and inconsistent. That does not make a great person.

America gained independence which is good for America, but you still pay taxes.