Nadhim Zahawi
Nadhim Zahawi
Reports of his sacking coming through. Inevitable really.
Raab next?
https://news.sky.com/story/nadhim-zahaw ... w-12793431
Raab next?
https://news.sky.com/story/nadhim-zahaw ... w-12793431
Time for a big fat one.
Re: Nadhim Zahawi
Yes, the old guard Tories who are worried about a repeat of 1997, I think they are mistaken.Opti wrote: ↑Sun Jan 29, 2023 9:13 amReports of his sacking coming through. Inevitable really.
Raab next?
https://news.sky.com/story/nadhim-zahaw ... w-12793431
From what I remember, Major himself wasn't so tarnished and I felt they were tired and needed to go but not that they were actively vandalising the country.
Also they were still true to their key constituency of business - it was just that Blair didn't scare businesses and indeed might have had a slight advantage.
This time, Johnson trashed that in chasing the Red Wall, which they have also betrayed.
Have you considered stupidity as an explanation
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Re: Nadhim Zahawi
Sunak's really not good at this politics malarky.Opti wrote: ↑Sun Jan 29, 2023 9:13 amReports of his sacking coming through. Inevitable really.
Raab next?
https://news.sky.com/story/nadhim-zahaw ... w-12793431
Zahawi's days were numbered from the minute the story broke, Sunak could have got rid of him there and then, containing the damage. Instead he's had this continually hanging over him with a corrosive effect on both his reputation and the wider party; just to get rid of him eventually anyway which throws into highlight all the criticisms of his leadership and his government and the fact they really haven't moved on from the Johnsonian stench of corruption.
The alternative is Sunak's position was too weak to move on Zahawi without inflicting serious damage on his administration in which case get the popcorn ready as Zahawi et al. now take their revenge
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This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.
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Re: Nadhim Zahawi
How bad at politics do you have to be to have been outmanoeuvred by Liz Truss?Little waster wrote: ↑Sun Jan 29, 2023 10:50 amSunak's really not good at this politics malarky.Opti wrote: ↑Sun Jan 29, 2023 9:13 amReports of his sacking coming through. Inevitable really.
Raab next?
https://news.sky.com/story/nadhim-zahaw ... w-12793431
Zahawi's days were numbered from the minute the story broke, Sunak could have got rid of him there and then, containing the damage. Instead he's had this continually hanging over him with a corrosive effect on both his reputation and the wider party; just to get rid of him eventually anyway which throws into highlight all the criticisms of his leadership and his government and the fact they really haven't moved on from the Johnsonian stench of corruption.
The alternative is Sunak's position was too weak to move on Zahawi without inflicting serious damage on his administration in which case get the popcorn ready as Zahawi et al. now take their revenge
Have you considered stupidity as an explanation
Re: Nadhim Zahawi
Exactly, he could easily have said that he was a new broom and would not tolerate even the appearance of financial irregularities (of course making himself a hostage to fortune given his affairs but he could have found some formula that enabled him to act)Little waster wrote: ↑Sun Jan 29, 2023 10:50 amSunak's really not good at this politics malarky.Opti wrote: ↑Sun Jan 29, 2023 9:13 amReports of his sacking coming through. Inevitable really.
Raab next?
https://news.sky.com/story/nadhim-zahaw ... w-12793431
Zahawi's days were numbered from the minute the story broke, Sunak could have got rid of him there and then, containing the damage. Instead he's had this continually hanging over him with a corrosive effect on both his reputation and the wider party; just to get rid of him eventually anyway which throws into highlight all the criticisms of his leadership and his government and the fact they really haven't moved on from the Johnsonian stench of corruption.
The alternative is Sunak's position was too weak to move on Zahawi without inflicting serious damage on his administration in which case get the popcorn ready as Zahawi et al. now take their revenge
Have you considered stupidity as an explanation
Re: Nadhim Zahawi
Three things this isn't about, by Dan Neidle
https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/29 ... wi-affair/
https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/29 ... wi-affair/
My avatar was a scientific result that was later found to be 'mistaken' - I rarely claim to be 100% correct
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
Re: Nadhim Zahawi
Also worth reading the earlier Neidle piece, if you haven't already, to discover what Zahawi was actually careless about. Neidle would seem to suggest he was mainly careless in trying setting up a tax avoidance method that rather too obviously didn't work, and resulted in him having to pay the tax he tried to avoid. He was also careless in not covering his tracks as thoroughly as he might, by accidentally publishing things he didn't need to publish, and making it easier than it might have been for Neidle to find out what had happened.
In his resignation letter, he repeats various things he has claimed previously. But the facts exposed by Neidle put a very different spin on those claims. Like the reasons Zahawi gives for "selling" shares to his father. His father did pay for them - but only 2 years later and a rather small sum of money given what by then they would have been worth. The income off them was very large in comparison. He claims he did that because needed his father's help. But there is no evidence his father gave any help.
In his resignation letter, he repeats various things he has claimed previously. But the facts exposed by Neidle put a very different spin on those claims. Like the reasons Zahawi gives for "selling" shares to his father. His father did pay for them - but only 2 years later and a rather small sum of money given what by then they would have been worth. The income off them was very large in comparison. He claims he did that because needed his father's help. But there is no evidence his father gave any help.
Re: Nadhim Zahawi
It is somewhat reminiscent of the Major days, when this repeatedly happened. Minister caught up to no good, Major giving them his unconditional support. Press going on and on, finding out more, making minister's position ever less tenable. And eventually they have to go, when it would have been much better to sack them as soon as the story came out.Little waster wrote: ↑Sun Jan 29, 2023 10:50 amSunak's really not good at this politics malarky.Opti wrote: ↑Sun Jan 29, 2023 9:13 amReports of his sacking coming through. Inevitable really.
Raab next?
https://news.sky.com/story/nadhim-zahaw ... w-12793431
Zahawi's days were numbered from the minute the story broke, Sunak could have got rid of him there and then, containing the damage. Instead he's had this continually hanging over him with a corrosive effect on both his reputation and the wider party; just to get rid of him eventually anyway which throws into highlight all the criticisms of his leadership and his government and the fact they really haven't moved on from the Johnsonian stench of corruption.
The alternative is Sunak's position was too weak to move on Zahawi without inflicting serious damage on his administration in which case get the popcorn ready as Zahawi et al. now take their revenge
I tend to believe Sunak has to some extent had the make-up of his cabinet dictated to him by the right wing of the party, who still to a degree act as monarch-makers. I doubt these dubious characters are all entirely his choice. Maybe he has had to negotiate Zahawi's sacking with the power behind the scenes.
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Re: Nadhim Zahawi
Has nobody thought of the poor cold horses
I’ve decided I should be on the pardon list if that’s still in the works
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Neigh lad; no-one ever thinks of the poor cold hosses.
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Re: Nadhim Zahawi
Very clever - took me longer than I would care to admit to get this.
PMQ's on Wednesday will be interesting.
You can't polish a turd...
unless its Lion or Osterich poo... http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbus ... -turd.html
unless its Lion or Osterich poo... http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbus ... -turd.html
Re: Nadhim Zahawi
They're fine.
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Re: Nadhim Zahawi
Prepare to hug yourself in delight, Simon Jenkins deigns to wade in.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... estminster
It goes as about as well as you would expect.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... estminster
It goes as about as well as you would expect.
This place is not a place of honor, no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here, nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.
This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.
This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
Re: Nadhim Zahawi
BTL comments didn't last long.Little waster wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:50 pmPrepare to hug yourself in delight, Simon Jenkins deigns to wade in.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... estminster
It goes as about as well as you would expect.
My avatar was a scientific result that was later found to be 'mistaken' - I rarely claim to be 100% correct
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
Re: Nadhim Zahawi
I mean, what?Little waster wrote: ↑Mon Jan 30, 2023 5:50 pmPrepare to hug yourself in delight, Simon Jenkins deigns to wade in.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... estminster
It goes as about as well as you would expect.
where once I used to scintillate
now I sin till ten past three
now I sin till ten past three
Re: Nadhim Zahawi
If I were a tax inspector, I might pay Simon Jenkins a visit…
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Jenkins is surely amongst the worst columnists in the UK. My favourite was that time he complained about being stuck in roadworks traffic and then said we need to invest more in roads.
If truth is many-sided, mendacity is many-tongued
Re: Nadhim Zahawi
Yes but this is even more obviously utterly dim. At least a very simplistic idea might think that if there are lots of cars on the road, increasing capacity might help.El Pollo Diablo wrote: ↑Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:11 amJenkins is surely amongst the worst columnists in the UK. My favourite was that time he complained about being stuck in roadworks traffic and then said we need to invest more in roads.
Have you considered stupidity as an explanation