Banbury Mutiny | Politics and News UK

Theresa May has made much of her desire to crack down on irresponsible big business. But this may not go down well with some of her financial backers. Let take a look at a few of her pre-election downers: Sir Mick Davis , former owner of a mining conglomerate gave £30,000 Abel Halpern , a senior partner at a US private equity firm gave £30,000 Ian Taylor , CEO of oil dealer Vitol, which is a company previously found guilty of grand larceny in the Iraq Oil for food program, a 2001 article in the Observer stated that in 1995 Vitol had secretly paid US$1 million to Serbian war criminal Arkan to settle a deal with a Serbian Oil company, Orion. Vitol has denied all charges, arguing that no government agency has ever prosecuted the company in this respect. In 2007, Vitol pleaded guilty to grand larceny in a New York court for paying surcharges to Iraq's national oil company during Saddam's regime and circumventing the UN oil-for-food program. Vitol subsequently paid $17.5 ...

Theresa May has bashed big business for not paying its fair share of tax. Reminding them that they have to use the companies infrastructure such as roads and rely on its other public services. We wonder if she will also be bending the ear of her husband about the company that he works for. Philip works as a senior executive for Capital International Ltd, which controls an estimated $1.4 trillion dollars worth of assets. This includes tax dodging companies such as Starbucks, Amazon JP Morgan Chase, defense giant Lockheed Martin, tobacco company Philip Morris International, the pharmaceutical sector’s Merck & Co, and also Ryanair. According to Capital, Philips job is as a relationship manager in the UK, which entails him making sure the company knows about their customer's goals. Perhaps Theresa will be interested to know that Capital International have not paid corporation tax since 2009. Private eye is reporting that the company has accumulated losses of 26.4 Milli...

The Prime Minister, in a speech to the CBI - a group for business owners - appears have got the Prime Minister Theresa May to go back on her pledge to get employees represented on boards. Having workers voices on companies boards has been proven to be a good thing in most of Europe, Germany is one example, they can bring some ethics to an organisation that would otherwise do anything for profit. All companies care about is profit, ignoring the employees, environment and the general society where they are based. They need someone to keep them honest and to remind them they do not operate in a vacuum, a workers representative provide a company with at least a shred of a responsibility. Share holders just want profit at any cost and many of them dont face the consequences, they do not work for the company or live in the society in which that company operates, many shareholders in UK company's are foreigners. This is not a surprise based on Mays record of supporting big bu...

Let us look at the prime ministers appalling voting record that reveals her disregard for democracy and willingness to go to war. She almost always votes in favor of using force, she voted for the disastrous Iraq war and replacing Britains Nuclear arsenal with a newer system, however despite being willing to sacrifice troops on poorly thought out operations she has voted against improving access to service people and their families. Theresa May hates poor people so much that she voted against raising welfare benefits in line with price rises this goes along with voting against extra support for disabled people and young people who have been in long-term unemployment, and when this has become too depressing she has voted against allowing terminally ill people from ending their lives, she would rather they rot and suffer with less and less. The prime minister also likes to tax those on lower incomes while lowering the taxes for bankers and higher earners. She has voted to increa...