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Raj Patel 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 retweeted
The curious case of Mohammed Alfatih Naim is worrying evidence that Britain really has lost the plot.
His father was a senior Hamas politician.
He’d been a bodyguard for Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
He’s been detained in Egypt on suspicion of helping Hamas smuggling.
He entered Britain illegally in 2014.
Yet a year later we granted him asylum.
Then British citizenship.
Facing trial for an altercation with a bailiff at his Brum home, some numpty of a magistrate ruled he couldn’t be named for 100 years.
Thankfully The Sunday Times challenged that, which is why he can now be named.
He is now facing extradition to Germany, where prosecutors accuse him of orchestrating a planned massacre of Jews in Berlin and Vienna last year.
This is how he thanks us for asylum and citizenship.
Which he was given under a Tory government.
But has this Labour one, as it welcomes ‘refugees’ from Gaza, learned any lessons.
Not if we’ve lost the plot.
Raj Patel 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 retweeted
There was never a right Miliband.
Both have been /are the wrong ones.
Raj Patel 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 retweeted
The Free Speech Union team are proud to support FSU member Stephen Gray as he appeals his conviction for posting a joke about Islam on Facebook.
Today, Stephen’s appeal was heard at Middlesbrough Crown Court.
Judgment has been reserved for six weeks, so we expect to know the outcome on 21 December.
It has been an incredibly long day, largely thanks to the Crown Prosecution Service’s ineptitude.
Today has once again shown that the process itself is the punishment.
We’re keeping the faith and hope Stephen gets the justice he deserves — and that we can fight back against an Islamic blasphemy law.
Please donate to our crowdfunder below, and watch Stephen’s update 👇
Raj Patel 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 retweeted
Why the #LoanCharge and other tax disputes keep the debate alive
In my earlier article, “Why the UK Needs a Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights,” I asked whether the protections people expect when dealing with HMRC are clear and enforceable enough.
linkedin.com/pulse/why-uk-ne…
Raj Patel 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 retweeted
I’ve written to the guardian with my experience, I focus on many of the indirect impacts of this unacceptable situation.
Raj Patel 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 retweeted
There is a free speech crisis in Britain today. It is now impossible to deny that.
If you don't believe that free speech is under threat across Britain, consider these three recent cases.
In England, a retired police officer is in court today, appealing against a conviction for having posted a satirical meme about Islam on Facebook.
In Scotland, a man has just been acquitted after being prosecuted on the strength of dashcam footage which revealed he had said something racist under his breath and in the privacy of his own car.
And in Wales, an elected member of parliament has been banned from speaking in the chamber because he raised concerns about the pace and scale of demographic change.
Now perhaps you'd like to think again.
Raj Patel 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 retweeted
Have our leaders ever done a cost-benefit analysis of Net Zero? If they had, they'd realise that Britain will pay £695bn just to make the world 0.00376°C less warm by 2100. How can that be worth it, asks Matt Ridley. dailysceptic.org/2026/11/13/…
Raj Patel 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 retweeted
Which is where we have common ground. You make a mistake and you admit it and try to at least mitigate the impacts. That's where the lawyers say no.
Raj Patel 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 retweeted
HMRC says loan schemes "never worked" - the law was always clear.
If so, winning in court didn't matter because it could have warned the public of the eventual demise of the schemes on moral grounds. Instead: a 2009 note for tax advisers and not the public.
Raj Patel 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 retweeted
If there's one thing I have learned it's that 99% of the time it's just a stupid cock up.
Raj Patel 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 retweeted
Yes, but what is it telling? We have to assume that HMRC's actions in pivoting from employers to employees with the #LoanCharge shows that they were out of time to tackle most - if not all, of the former. But then they kept on not tackling them, even with the newer ones.
Raj Patel 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 retweeted
One could almost call it entrapment or tax grooming 🤨 @HMRCgovuk published a note targeted at advisors in 2009. Mentioned in #loancharge review as attached and viewed by a handful of tax nerds at the time. Why no serious attempt to intervene at that time? Never explained
Raj Patel 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 retweeted
"ruined careers" and thus restricted income is not highlighted anywhere near enough.
Most #LoanCharge victims don’t have the money left. Fifteen-plus years of stress, legal fights, interest, settlements and ruined careers have drained them. HMRC’s laziness and the Commons’ repeated failure to fix this properly have created a human catastrophe.
#StopTheLoanCharge
Raj Patel 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 retweeted
Sometimes the most ignorant speak with a lot of confidence about matters they know little about.
Visa policy, rules, security clearance are decided by the Home Ministry, not MEA.
The Visa Manual is issued by the Home Ministry.
The tenor of your post doesn’t deserve a response but a clarification on X may be useful for followers in view of the topicality of the subject.
Raj Patel 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 retweeted
Admitting that and accepting their role in contributing to this mess would have been the right thing to do. That's clearly not in their DNA, as you know from your own experience. The lengths they then went to to cover this up and pursue a punishment strategy? Unforgivable
