22Mar/0910
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"I'm white and middle class and dress nicely and speak English, therefore I'm hated..."
No. You didn't pay your fucking bills on time, is all.
This is, by the way, another example of the Mail's stance on the right kind of immigrant, bearing in mind this and this.
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March 22nd, 2009 - 17:50
Is the Mail trying to justify tax-dodging?
March 22nd, 2009 - 18:05
Having re-tweeted your message on the ubiquitous Twitter I thought I’d see what you’d followed it up with.
I have nothing to offer in reply other than to thank you for bringing it to my attention (for obvious reasons I normally tend to avoid THAT ‘newspaper’ as I have access to much better scripted comedy and can afford actual toilet paper).
March 22nd, 2009 - 18:38
So if immigrants dodge their taxes they are tax dodging scum. If white middle class people dodge their taxes they are victims.
Idiots.
March 22nd, 2009 - 20:13
Luckily, he managed to pitch a feature including photo of his pretty wife, which I expect will help clear some of that 75 quid. There’s a lesson in there for all white, middle-class, “selective” bill-payers, I think.
March 22nd, 2009 - 20:52
As long as at that (sometime) immigrant isn’t australian, owns two newspapers and a major broadcaster that in turn operates an unregulated simulacrum responsible for providing endless reams of inane free copy and hours of banal radio ‘phone ins’ for the past 17 years, obviously.
Then you can dodge all the tax you want, obviously, it’s all part of the game spoony.
March 22nd, 2009 - 23:31
The voting down of comments to that article is very revealing, isn’t it?
The double standards of the Mail and its readers really are so blatant that all satire is now superfluous.
March 23rd, 2009 - 07:54
I don’t know where to start with this one.
March 23rd, 2009 - 10:59
Are we meant to feel sorry for these morons because they were too proud to accept the help the state offers to all its citizens? They are clearly of the opinion that they are “better” than mere benefits recipients. Idiots.
March 23rd, 2009 - 16:01
Thing is, I’d love to be an occasional freelance writer and my partner would love to be an occasional freelance illustrator.
Thing is, we have bills to pay.
March 24th, 2009 - 20:48
So he made a point of boasting in court that he refuses to accept any help from anyone.
Then complains when none is given. Brilliant.
Also, I don’t think the court has the power to write off arrears. The Local Governmant Finance Act says the court is required to make a liability order if it is found the person is liable for the arrears. It’s possible the arrears were found to have already been paid, or covered by council tax benefit arrears.