Comments on: We shouldn’t really be incredulous because the government could not foresee the fall-out from selling EU membership for cash https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/we-shouldnt-really-be-incredulous-because-the-government-could-not-foresee-the-fall-out-from-selling-eu-membership-for-cash/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sun, 17 Nov 2013 18:16:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Nighthawk https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/we-shouldnt-really-be-incredulous-because-the-government-could-not-foresee-the-fall-out-from-selling-eu-membership-for-cash/#comment-1370380 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 18:16:16 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41167#comment-1370380 And lest we forget, while he campaigned against EU membership on Super One, he was issuing illegal invoices without VAT registration or VAT elements for his services to Super One, and therefore evading both VAT and income tax with the full knowledge and compliance of the Labour Party.

So I’m not surprised they reduced the penalties for VAT evasion. Neither am I surprised that all the talk about changing statutes of limitations vanished. On the other hand if it comes up again perhaps we can have a look at his VAT-less invoices again.

]]> By: Rumplestiltskin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/we-shouldnt-really-be-incredulous-because-the-government-could-not-foresee-the-fall-out-from-selling-eu-membership-for-cash/#comment-1370344 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 17:32:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41167#comment-1370344 “The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time… and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.”

– William S. Burroughs

]]> By: Rumplestiltskin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/we-shouldnt-really-be-incredulous-because-the-government-could-not-foresee-the-fall-out-from-selling-eu-membership-for-cash/#comment-1370334 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 17:25:31 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41167#comment-1370334 A quote from Napoleon Bonaparte comes to mind: “Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.”

]]> By: Alexander Ball https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/11/we-shouldnt-really-be-incredulous-because-the-government-could-not-foresee-the-fall-out-from-selling-eu-membership-for-cash/#comment-1370311 Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:57:57 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=41167#comment-1370311 Spot on.

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