Dylan is currently being pursued by Barclays Bank which has a global freezing order on his assets.
He admits to past issues and he and his company has been the subject of a mass of negative press comment.
Not long ago the Dame drew Felicity Buchan's attention to the activities of Dylan and his confrere, Jack Mason. She pointed out the two government-backed institutions were renting office space from the duo. Nothing has been done!
It is symbolic of this awful government that despite warning Felicity Buchan the Treasury has done nothing to cease its lease arrangement with this very dodgy(that is being polite) company
Is it really right that HMG should be dealing with a BVI company owing hundreds of thousands to HMRC and where connected people are subject of Global Freezing Orders on their assets.
It seems with the government anything goes.
THIS IS NOT A PRIORITY
Several ministers....more senior to Felicity Buchan, suggest Inheritance Tax needs reform.
Miss Buchan says the ministerial code silences her and is unable to give a view.
It sounds as if she is making herself out to be a special case!
Rampant property price inflation impacts Miss Buchan’s constituents yet the payment point has remained unadjusted for many years: IHT is a classic example of double taxation.
Numerous surveys suggest it is one of the UK’s most hated taxes.
Stamp duty is another tax in need of drastic reform.
Payment thresholds have never been adjusted to reflect property price inflation.
Patrick Bullick of Chelsea based agency, Stanley Chelsea opines:
"The progressively higher Stamp Duty hits her constituents harder than most. She should be fighting for Stamp Duty to be the same % whatever the value of the property. Lower Stamp Duty on the higher value properties would mean a more fluid market allowing properties to be bought by those who really need them.
Felicity Buchan should also be aware that the 28% CGT on investment property (vs 20% on other assets) again restricts fluidity and keeps prices higher than they need to be."
Finally, Kensington businesses- large and small, struggle with business rates.
Business rates are calculated on rental values.
Inflation has forced up rents over the last two decades yet no adjustments have been made.
If your rent is £40,000 a year you can expect to pay nearly half of that in (anti) business rates.
The MP’s current obsession appears to be running a Kensington Environment Forum.
The Dame would prefer Miss Buchan to hold a Forum on these taxes that hit her constituents hard.
She needs to sort out her priorities.
Running a Kensington Environment Forum is not a priority.
This above is for whoever cannot understand what a bladed weapon is. Frustrating for the police to recover this and know the carrier will get a derisory sentence
Elizabeth Campbell wrote the below about the killing in North Kensington...not terribly confidence-inspiring and really quite pointless.
This blog has consistently pointed out that the only way to stamp out knife crime is to impose the very heaviest penalties.
Carrying a bladed weapon in a public place should carry a mandatory sentence of 8 years.
Using a bladed weapon a minimum of 15 years.
Over the lives of successive Conservative governments, crime has soared.
Campbell should be backing harsh sentences rather than boring us all with her meaningless statements.
Leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council, Cllr Elizabeth Campbell said:
“I have been shocked and saddened by the news that a man was stabbed and killed in our community last night. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.
“Council officers will be working alongside the police today to provide an increased presence in Kensal Road and the surrounding area to support and reassure residents.
“There is no place for violence on our streets. I would like to reassure residents that we hear and understand their concerns over safety. We are working every day alongside the Police to make people feel safer with more visible on street uniformed presence and collaborative working with other authorities.”
Some of us might mind her inference we are not doing enough quite insulting.
Britain can be proud of its history of helping refugees settle into this country.
For a country close to bankruptcy we are doing more than our fair share.
We are now full to bursting.
Perhaps it is time Cllr Adam told us why rich Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE are doing so little to assist their co-religionists fleeing oppression and war?
Both countries are rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
When they do invite in the dispossessed treat them callously.
Cllr Adam is a very irritating person....
Cllr Mona Ahmed's hero chatting to terror leader
According to today's Times the stupid leader of Barnet Council sold a discounted council house to a wanted Hamas terror leader, Muhammad Qassem Sawalha. We even gave him British citizenship despite the Home Office barring citizenship to those supporting terrorist activities.Barnet has the highest concentration of Jewish people of any London borough: must be reassuring if Jewish to know you have someone living amongst you who wants you dead.
Barnet's Labour leader is going to investigate but if a picture is worth a thousand words don't get too excited about the outcome!
"A Hamas fugitive who “ran the group’s terrorist operations in the West Bank” and served on its ruling body lives in London in a council property he recently bought with a £112,000 discount.
Muhammad Qassem Sawalha evaded Israel’s security services using a relative’s passport and fled to the UK in the 1990s, later obtaining British citizenship.
Upon arrival, Sawalha, 62, continued to work for Hamas, holding secret talks about “revitalising” terrorist acts in Israel and helping to launder money to support activities in Gaza and the West Bank, according to a US Department of Justice indictment in 2004.
As recently as 2019, he took part in an official Hamas delegation to Moscow, where he met Vladimir Putin’s deputy foreign minister, and served on Hamas’s politburo between 2013 and 2017. The father of four was pictured with Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas, in 2010 and 2012.
This is the same government that promised to reform the strangulating anti-Business Rates....nothing happened there!
The small print is that the promise will be within the GE manifesto.
No one believes this government will win or keep its promises.
If Rishi wants to get some traction he will need to make the changes well ahead of the election.
We all remember Osborne's empty promise to lift IHT levels to £1million.....
And whilst on the subject what on earth does Sunak think he is doing careering around the Middle East playing the international statesman.
We are a small country beset with serious problems. He will add nothing by this posturing.
Stay at home and get on with your job here.
The new MP for Mid Beds, Alistair Strathern(yes, one of the Perthshire Stratherns) is a young Oxbridge man with a PPE and a £120k a year job at the Bank of England.
Al went to a £37,000 a year public school, Bedford, and then to Oxford. How has he managed to acquire this hideous faux estuary accent? Ironically, he now wants to remove the charitable status of his alma mater! Such hypocrites these politicos. It got him to Oxford but now he wants to close the door to fellow middle-class people.
One supposes he feels the lower orders are more comfortable doing a 'one of us'
The cheeky rascal decided to take a couple of hours from bean counting at the Bank to do a Greenpeace demo in Whitehall.
That time out cost the taxpayers £400
Nadine Dorries who Al beat was eccentric but the voters now need a bit of maturity.
Can whoever is posting silly stuff about Cllr Lari and Hezbollah cease. It is irritating and untrue
She has decided to leave the Party but still wants to hang on in there as an Independent.
In all her ramblings it should be noted that not once has she condemned Hamas.
That's fine but she needs to resign and let the electorate decide.
Why she ever took the Labour whip is a great mystery as it seems she has always been deeply in love with Mr Corbyn.
This really is taking the piss on the part of the bike rental companies.
This looks to be a job for Streetline as they are clearly no longer required....or perhaps they could be impounded and the Council could then make Tier et al pay several thousand pounds for their return.
shirkers
The case of the absentee Colville councillors raises the question as to whether three concillors per ward is ever necessary.In the case of Colville, one councillor carries the entire workload because of the absences of Benton and Issie.
Cllr Bakhtiar is now left doing all the case work.
But this is not just a Labour issue.
Other wards suffer with one councillor carrying the workload.
Cllr Marshall at Courtfield Ward rarely turns up for work!
Another is the traditionally indolent Mary Weale of Brompton and Hans Town ward.
She has even forgotten where the ward is!
Still, the hefty allowance helps maintain her 'chateau' in Tarn et Garonne...courtesy of K&C taxpayers,
Soon the Dame will be taking a closer look at the shirkers...so beware!
Unless she is able to teleport herself it is difficult to see how she manages to be effective as a RBKC councillor.
Taxpayers suffer in two ways: having to fund her £13k a year allowance and not having her to do her job representing the people.
The Dame has terribly eyesight but cannot seem to see these two jobs in Mogadishu declared. Is that not something that Cllr Ali should be berating her for? Tribal politics?
