The Brexit Struggle Made Clear

Rob Slane, over at the Blogmire, clears up any question you may have had about the state of play in the Brexit struggle, deploying a didactic method reminiscent of the way an Englishman might explain cricket to a foreigner.

There are a number of parties. One of them wants to take us out, but there are some within that party that didn’t want to take us out, so they were kicked out by the man who just came in. In order to get us out, the man who just came in tried to get himself out, so that he could then get back in, in order to take us out. But he was thwarted by the other parties, who despite wanting him out, kept him in because they fear that if he gets out, he will then get back in and will then take us out. But if they can keep him in long enough, and prevent him from taking us out, they figure that soon after he has failed to take us out, they will be able to get him out and get themselves in. And then after he gets out and they get in, they may try to take us out or they may try to keep us in. It’s anyone’s guess. Then again, it’s entirely possible that if they do get in, they might try to get us out, then campaign against their deal for taking us out to try and keep us in. It really is that simple... Source

And if you find that cryptic, you can read the full source article which makes all crystal clear.

And for those in need of further clarification, France's Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, has just stated that delay to Brexit "isn't possible" under current conditions, a view agreed by EU Chief, Guy Verhofstadt, who said delay was "unacceptable"  unless the deadlock in the UK Parliament is resolved.

Once You Let the Alien In, He'll Seek to Take Control

Thereason May's Home Secretary, the Muslim, Savid Javid, son of Pakistani immigrants, and a man with a good chance of becoming Britain's next Prime Minister, makes it clear that Brexit does not mean and end to the open door for Muslims settlers in Britain, even though, according to former Prime Minister David Cameron, the reason the Brits voted for Brexit was to end mass immigration.



And here's the "Justice Minister" in the government of former Treason Party Prime Minister Tony Bliar demanding a Muslim Prime Minister for Britain.


Meantime, Angela Merkel, the former East German Communist, declares that the nation states must give up their sovereignty, meaning that Europe must open its border and be inundated by immigration without end.

Brexit Means Exit, Not Bullshit

In this June's United Kingdom European Union Membership Referendum, Brits voted by an absolute majority to leave the European Union. Following the vote, Prime Minister Cameron, who campaigned for Britain to remain in the EU, resigned the premiership, attributing defeat of the remain campaign to public anger over the EU-mandated immigrant flood that has made the English a minority in their own capital city of London and in many other urban centers including the cities of Leicester, Luton and Slough, and soon England's second city, Birmingham.

The new face of  Britain. In Luton, a jobless couple with eight 

children demands public housing with at least six double bedrooms. 

They evidently plan on having a couple more kids. 

It's what's known as indigenous population replacement
immigration, aka the genocide of the English. Meantime the folks
slated for extinction are evidently paying to clothe, feed and 
educate those who are about to replace them. (Source).

Quite bizarrely, the Conservative Party opted to replace Cameron as Prime Minister with former Home Secretary, Teresa May, who not only campaigned with David Cameron against Britain's departure from the EU (aka Brexit), but is on record as favoring Shariah courts in Britain, one of the issues of greatest contention among those opposed to the wholesale replacement of the English people and their culture, including the English common law,  by people and cultures from elsewhere.

Since assuming the Premiership, Ms. May has done little to dispel the impression that she is totally unqualified to handle the Brexit decision. "Brexit" she declared "means Brexit," whereas in reality Brexit means exit, a fact that Ms. May seems anxious to obscure.

Brexit and Europe's Very Stupid Leaders

"We are led," said Donald Trump, speaking of Americans, "by very stupid people."

As recent events prove, the Europeans likewise.

Addressing the European Parliament following the yes vote for Brexit, a triumphant Nigel Farage, told his fellow Euro parliamentarians:

When I came here 17 years ago and I said that I wanted to lead a campaign to get Britain to leave the European Union, you all laughed at me – well I have to say, you’re not laughing now, are you?

And this:

Most of you have never done a proper job ...

No Churchillian magnanimity in victory there.

Is that very stupid, or what?

As for Angela Merkel, she pushes on with the Coudenhove-kalergi plan to make Europe a unitary mixed-race state* with a total contempt for the expressed wishes of the British public and, if the truth were told, all Europeans.

How to Avoid Tax (legally), and Why Smearing UK PM David Cameron May be the Purpose of the Panama Papers

Tax evasion is a crime that tends to be severely punished. But tax avoidance is quite legal. It is the legality that defines it, i.e.:

the arrangement of one's financial affairs to minimize tax liability within the law.

So why the fuss over the Panama papers, which reveal that thousands upon thousands of individuals and companies across the world have used banking and corporate services in Panama to so arrange their affairs as to minimize their tax liability "within the law." Is the existence of these offshore arrangements for tax avoidance a revelation, or what?

No, it is not a revelation. Many years ago, as the owner of a small under-capitalized business selling goods and services in several dozens countries, it was obvious that I could grow the business faster if I could avoid paying approximately half of my income in tax. Naturally, therefore, I inquired of competent, honest (so far as I know), and entirely legitimate lawyers how I might minimize my tax liability "within the law." What I learned, for a fee of around one thousand dollars, was in essence, how to do what UK Prime Minister David Cameron's father was doing at the time, which was as follows.

Set up a corporation in a tax haven and receive income in the tax haven where it would be taxed at a very moderate rate, for example 3% in the Bahamas, which is where David Cameron's father made his tax avoidance arrangements. At the time, the Canadian Federal corporation tax rate was 28% on top of which was a provincial corporation tax, which meant that the Bahamian corporation had the potential to raise my after tax income by around half. Furthermore, if I brought that income back to a Canadian parent corporation, there would be no Canadian corporation tax payable, since Canada had a tax treaty with the Bahamas that precluded double taxation. Thus the tax saved would be available for reinvestment in the business. Neat, hey?

In fact, there are quite a few complications, which as you might expect, make this tax avoidance arrangement unprofitable for small companies, but not for anything much larger than small. For example, the arrangement requires that the management of the offshore company be in the jurisdiction where the company is located. This is not difficult to arrange, but it involves some overhead. Local directors have to be employed. For example, David Cameron's dad is said to have employed a local bishop among others as a director of his Bahamian company. But anyone who is prepared to do exactly what they are told and not steal from their employer will do as a tax haven company director. Some people in tax havens thus gather hundreds if not thousands of directorships for which they earn a few hundred dollars a year from each company.

There are further complications. If you're in London or Toronto and telephoning the guys laying on the beach in the Bahamas and telling them what to do, then the tax authorities will say that the management of the company is not in the Bahamas but in London or Toronto, as the case may be. So that means you or an employee must take a short vacation in the Bahamas every three months or so, and have a meeting with the local "directors," so that an understanding is reached among all concerned as to what the Bahamian company should be doing, which is probably almost nothing.

There are other issues. If you are building bicycles in Mississauga and shipping them in China, you cannot invoice the sale through the Bahamas and treat the entire amount received as income to the Bahamian company, but you could consider some part of that amount income to the Bahamian company, e.g., for the cost of invoicing, say 5%.

None of the above is intended as professional advice and no one should take it as a basis for action without obtaining competent professional advice. What it is intended to provide is clear evidence that what the Panama papers reveal is what has been going on, and what has been known to have been going on, by tax authorities and business people ever since the tax avoidance business got organized in hundreds of tax havens throughout the world, especially in former UK colonies such as the British Virgin Islands, and in the UK Crown Dependencies of the Isle of Man, and the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark.

So if the Panama papers reveal nothing that was not well known to all and sundry, why the hue and cry about them? Some have concluded that the revelation, which fingers not a single American citizen, is a CIA op to discredit associates of Vladimir Putin and thus smear the Russian president himself. But why, in that case, smear David Cameron because of the seemingly quite legitimate activities of his late father?

One possibility is that smearing David Cameron is the main point. Cameron is on track to lose the referendum on Britain's EU exit. British withdrawal from the EU could be the first domino to fall in a
continent-wide rebellion against the corrupt, incompetent, anti-democratic, globalist EU. Such a nationalist reaction could free all of Europe from US domination. It may, therefore, make sense in the US view to oust Cameron to make way for a more charismatic leader of the fight to remain within the EU. In exchange for the premiership, perhaps the presently anti-EU Boris Johnson can be turned.

My Dad's Home Town

My father's family came from the Leicestershire village of Sibbertoft -- at least eleven generations of them, which is as far back as church records go; although they were of Norman extraction, so the line likely extended at the same spot all the way back to the time of the Conquest.

For nine generations they worked as farm laborers, although my Great Grandpa must have been literate, as he held the post of village clerk. My grandpa moved to the city of Leicester (pronounced Lester), the largest town in the East Midlands, to work in the hosiery trade upon which the 19th and early 20th century prosperity of the city was built.

For thirty years Grandpa managed the Wolsey Limited factory that stood near the centre of the city. Founded in 1755, Wolsey Limited was believed to be the oldest textile firm in England. It was named after Cardinal Wolsey who, in 1530, stopped at Leicester Abbey while on a journey from York to London to face charges of treason. Wolsey alarmed the monks by announcing that he would leave his bones among them, as he did, dying that very evening. The image of Cardinal Wolsey appears as a relief on the fifth floor facade of the Wolsey Limited factory.

My Dad's parents lived just out of town in the village of Fleckney. Dad attended the grammar school in the adjacent small town of Kibworth Beauchamp (pronounced Beecham), where he became head of school and captain of football (soccer). The year he turned 16, he passed the Senior Oxford (i.e., university entrance) exams with honours, and left school with a testimonial from the Head Master stating that "his record as a pupil at this school is better than that of any other during the last eleven years."

But in those days it was considered unnecessary for a boy of that class to enter the university. As the Head Master, an Oxford MA, further stated "a little experience will give him confidence in the abilities he undoubtedly possesses, and he will then be a very valuable worker."

So it was as a worker that Dad went into the hosiery trade, where he lived up to his promise, becoming a factory manager at 18, a managing director at 25 and sales director of a manufacturing group at 30: a promising career that was brought short by a stint in the RAF during WW2.

In 1961, when I went to Leicester as a university student, not a whole lot had changed. The Wolsey Limited factory was still humming. The city still prospered, and was said to have more Rolls Royce motor cars per capita than any other town in England. But despite the flash cars and the fine Victorian and Edwardian mansions in the suburb of Oadby, is was mainly an English working class town, a place of red brick terrace houses of various types from the two down and two up with a front door opening directly onto the sidewalk, to the better sort of lower middle class housing with a yard or two of grass in front and separated from the street by a fence of iron railings.

The relief of Cadinal Wolsey on the facade of
what used to be the Wolsey Limited factory.
Image source.

Today, Leicester is rather different. Wolsey Limited has gone. The name lives on, but only as a marketing device: a good English name to stick on foreign goods. The factory's gone too, replaced by low-cost housing, although the facade with the image of the Cardinal has been retained.

Oddly, the BBC announcer reporting the reconstruction of the building did not know how to pronounce the name Wolsey. She said it with a short "o", which is daft: they knitted socks with wool, not wol, and pronounced Wolsey with a "wool".

But the misunderstanding's to be expected. The BBC encourages the use of regional accents in regional programming and, today, the voice of Leicester is the voice of ethnic Britain. From 212 thousand in 1901, the indigenous English population of Leicester has fallen by a third, while the ethnic population, chiefly, Hindu, Muslim and Sihk, has gone from nothing to more than 51% of the population in 2011 and is still growing fast.

The English are now past the tipping point in a town that has been their home for more than 2000 years and which played a critical role in their history. They are the minority. They have been ethnically cleansed, not by a conquering army, but as a matter of deliberate policy by their own government.

Dad was a man of pacific temperament. During the 30's he was a peace activist. Yet he understood the place of violence in history, and when it came to the crunch, volunteered for service in the struggle against Nazi tyranny. He believed the independence and liberty of England was worth fighting for.

Dad was no racist. He did business with all kinds and conditions of men and formed friendships with many, including immigrants from the Indian subcontinent. But he was patriot who would have considered the likes of Blair and Cameron, Clegg and Milliband traitors for what they have done to his home town: men worth fighting to expose, depose, and punish.