Pointless, the prosecution had a hostile witness (Ireland) to deal with. Ireland didn’t want to win and receive the eleven billion, its more lucrative for them to set up a tax scam with Apple and rake it in that way and to the cost of their EU “partners”.Looks like you were too late getting your evidence to court.
Apple has €13bn Irish tax bill overturned
The EU's second highest court says the tech giant will not have to pay a record sum in back taxes.www.bbc.co.uk
lets see now, if the UK had set up such a scheme, and it was proved to be legally sound, then it would have been seen for what it was .. sound financial management. Note Ireland was not a hostile witness. It was basically a defendent. Ireland had made its position clear a number of years ago, they were very sure that what was being done was legal and in conformance with EU law. It would have been very nice to have had the money credited to our balance sheet, and many in the Irish Parliament would have wished us to lose by putting up a feeble defence and hence gain the money . However long term integrity is at stake.
I remember it well, it did nothing for the reputation of the RAF at the time, appearing to be unable to destroy even an immobilised merchant ship.
Indeed, and the Sage advice was preceded by the open letter from many scientists on 14 March.
Yes, a similar ploy previously worked with the Tu-144.
You don't think they might have thought of this?
It's hard to contradict Johnson admitting ignorance.
I can’t accept this. The government said they were following the science at all times. What you are suggesting is tantamount to calling the government a bunch of liars.
Haven’t you twigged yet? They call heads and tails, that way they can never be wrong. Everyone’s doing it, you need to keep up.
They were following the science, just a very long way behind.
I am currently reading a book by journalist Luke Harding 'Shadow State' which is all about Russia's remaking of the West under Putin. It's frightening what they have been up to and disheartening seeing how the West have just let them get away with it all.
I hate giving BBC credit, but think world tonight is right, accusng russia now is all about timing - about distracting the great British public from the publication of the Russia report (that grayling was no doubt supposed to suppress before against all odds julian Lewis, who will publish it, won). It will be interesting to see whether the public buy it. In boris's defence, there must be something really explosive in the report to justify these kind of desperate attempts at preventing it being noticed
Well it is a cracking deal...... If they get access for free, the UK would take that deal.
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