{"id":28528,"date":"2021-04-21T15:46:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=28528"},"modified":"2021-04-22T16:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T15:03:03","slug":"dyson-tax-text-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=28528","title":{"rendered":"Dyson tax text scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Commenting on reports of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-56832486\"> texts between Boris Johnson and James Dyson<\/a> in March 2020, Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is no surprise that Dyson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ultimately aborted efforts to provide the NHS with ventilators were conditional on tax avoidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bDespite the back door deals and \u00e2\u20ac\u0098mate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rates\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 this government presides over and revelation after revelation of Tory sleaze, it is still shocking that the Prime Minister changed national tax policy over text because James Dyson told him to,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhile Boris Johnson was \u00e2\u20ac\u0098fixing it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for his billionaire tax exile mate, who ended up doing nothing to help the country in its time of need, British-based manufacturers offering vital world-beating skills and services were being ignored by ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt encapsulates everything that is wrong with this government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s response to the coronavirus and approach to industry in general,&#8221; Turner continued. &#8220;Instead of an open process which chooses the right people and organisations for the job, decisions are based on a closed network of personal contacts whose overriding interest is profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn the end, it was the skills and efforts of UK manufacturing workers, many of them Unite members, and world class businesses that came together, organised themselves and \u00e2\u20ac\u0098got to work\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 providing the emergency medical equipment our health service depended on, from ventilators to PPE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAnd after having stepped up in a national effort to save the lives of thousands, workers were then disgracefully denied access to the job retention scheme as they hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been placed on furlough earlier,&#8221; he went on to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe fact that life-saving efforts were delayed in getting off the starting blocks because Boris Johnson and his government were too busy giving Dyson a sweetheart deal in the middle of the biggest national crisis since the Second World War is a disgrace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere must be a public inquiry into the rot of lobbying and sleaze that sits at the heart of this government.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Ryan Fletcher<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenting on reports of texts between Boris Johnson and James Dyson in March 2020, Unite assistant general secretary Steve Turner said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt is no surprise that Dyson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ultimately aborted efforts to provide the NHS with ventilators were conditional on tax avoidance. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bDespite the back door deals and \u00e2\u20ac\u0098mate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rates\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 this government presides over and revelation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1205,1495,1626,1627,55],"wps_subtitle":"PM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dyson tax texts encapsulates \u00e2\u20ac\u0098lobbying and sleaze\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 that failed UK manufacturing workers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28546,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28528\/revisions\/28546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}