Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
He is also one of the richest thanks to his father-in-law who owns Infosys, in which he has shares in. It was only a matter of time that Britain was going to have a PM from one of its former colonies. India is hailing it as a great victory for Indian power.
Btw, it took me a while to get “Charles beat him by a few weeks”. Aha- He talks to plants.
Coincidentally, it is Diwali and past two nights I’m hearing fireworks.
I didn’t realize how many pagans live in my vicinity [eastern Queens and western Nassau County, NY].
Not that there’s anything wrong with filthy pagans.
He’s gonna try to “fix” the economic crisis he caused over the last 2 years as Finance Minister. This is all UK has an option – a man who has more personal wealth than the King of England, who has only been a MP for 7 years, had a temporary green card to US whilst he was UK’s Finance Minister AND tries to defend a wife who was evading her UK taxes on earnings abroad (she ended up starting to pay them…so they say). He’ll be gone in 2024. The revolving chairs is what’s wrong with the Westminster System of Government.
He’s gonna try to “fix” the economic crisis he caused over the last 2 years as Finance Minister. This is all UK has an option – a man who has more personal wealth than the King of England, who has only been a MP for 7 years, had a temporary green card to US whilst he was UK’s Finance Minister AND tries to defend a wife who was evading her UK taxes on earnings abroad (she ended up starting to pay them…so they say). He’ll be gone in 2024. The revolving chairs is what’s wrong with the Westminster System of Government.
His wife’s status is reason enough to avoid putting him in the cabinet. Apparently, however, she had an option under the law to pay taxes on income earned abroad to local revenue authorities in lieu of paying taxes to British authorities provided she paid a fee to British authorities. It does underline the reality that Britain is an address for her, not a home. However, there is apparently nothing unlawful or unethical about it.
He did not cause the economic crisis. Some of it was a random shock and every element of the poor response to it required the participation of others, among them the body of Conservative MPs. He also was not implicated in Truss’ obnoxious program. The thing is, the government blows up in part because the prime minister insists, quite gratuitously, that the country should have more immigration (the previous three ‘conservative’ prime ministers having done nothing to stem the already excessive rate of inflow). Here we have a person whose parents were born abroad and whose wife is a foreign national. Note also his career in business; he did not own a local factory or build houses in Britain or work in the mining sector or work for domestic utilities; he was employed in investment banking, much of the time working for firms domiciled abroad. It’s an upraised middle finger at their own electorate. The Conservative MPs response to their voters is an upraised middle finger.
However, there is apparently nothing unlawful or unethical about it. Really?
He did not cause the economic crisis. Some of it was a random shock and every element of the poor response to it required the participation of others, among them the body of Conservative MPs. of which he was a main part of. He privately lobbied for a green levy under Johnson, which would have increased fuel prices then in March 22 blamed Ukraine War for UK economic crisis. He wants net zero by 2050, at the expense of ordinary citizens. He’s also been privately lobbying for crypto-currency as mainstream payments. There are a lot of red flags to indicate that the purpose to get into UK politics was to lobby to benefit himself and his associates. Truss was incompetent but they replaced her with him. Boris bowed out of the race because he couldn’t be bothered with the party disunity within the Conservative Government. Sunak won’t survive the next election.
I agree with you on your immigration comments though, Art. We used to have a lot of British backpackers living and working in Australia. A lot. After Covid, they haven’t come back. It’s one of the reasons we have worker shortage on sectors like Hospitality.