Jeremy Corbyn "Donations" Mystery?

Why does Jeremy Corbyn take some of his substantial "donations" in the form of fake loans which he is obviously never going to repay? And why are big organisations like Unite the Union* [sic] making loans to him and then writing them off? What is the con going on here?

First Leadership Election, 2015

As ever with "socialists" they are happy to spend the money of other people but less keen on splashing their own cash. Thus only three private individuals (excluding Jon Lansman - see below) actually made declarable donations to the thick, done-nothing, nonentity from Islington. Two of them were vocal supporters of Jeremy's "friends" - the terrorist organisation, Hamas. One infamously wrote:

"The Palestinians have a moral right to their terrorism within historic Palestine..."

But, of course, it was the hard-pressed members of trade unions who were forcibly "taxed" by their leaders to stump up the bulk of the dosh for the Bearded Weirdo. And Unite members, thanks to Corbyn's friend and ally Len McCluskey, were very generous with their members' dues. In the first campaign Corbyn took the following off Unite's members:

£3000.00 - for serviced offices;
£10,762.42 - for secondment of staff, and
£50,000.00 - by way of donation.

In addition to these whopping sums, Unite also made him an "unsecured, interest-free loan" of another colossal £50,000.00 (yes, fifty thousand pounds) on 8th July, 2015. Now Jeffrey Bernard is a wealthy man but even he probably hasn't got £50k hidden in a tin in his allotment shed and it seems improbable that he ever intended to pay this money back to Unite members. So why was this sordid deal dressed up a a fake loan? Why did Unite rig the donation in this way? And yes, those excited Unite workers who are thinking there may be £50k winging its way back to them - this was a forced donation of their money since Unite then kindly "wrote-off" Jezza's debt on 12th September, 2015! What the hell is going on here?

Second Leadership Election, 2016

Labour MP's voted 172 to 40 in a vote of "no-confidence" in their ludicrous leader in 2016 having seen him "inaction" and once again it was mainly trade union members who had to pay the price for Jeremy's deluded ambition.

Two lawyers provided "legal services" for the dimwitted crypto-communist but only two individuals divvied-up for The Messiah (and one of those was Mike Wrack of the FBU).

Once again, those workers who, unlike St Jez, have actually had to face austerity since the Great Crash under the last Labour Government had to flash the cash. The usual suspects paid up but, once again, it was Unite who robbed their members' funds to an astonishing degree.

This time, Unite gave "serviced offices" worth £21,856.15 and then two more huge loans.

On 7th July, 2016 Unite members were obliged to make a loan "for an indefinite period" ("lol") to Jez of a stonking £25,000.00 but just a month later McCluskey "doubled-up" and forced his trade unionists to make another "interest-free loan for an indefinite period" to Popeye of  a stonking £50,00.00.

Once again - why is Jeremy accepting fake loans from workers which he can never repay and why is McCluskey dressing up donations as "loans" in this way?

And yes, of course, on 23rd November, 2016 Unite duly wrote-off both loans to the Islington conman and that was another £75,000.00 of union dues straight down the pan. Now Jeremy, that really IS "a magic money tree!"

Momentum

On 24th June, 2015 Mr Jon Lansman, a former acolyte of another crazed leftie - The Bennatollah - set up two limited companies (limited by guarantee) to support "Jeremy" [sick]. The first was Jeremy Corbyn Campaign 2015 (Supporters) Limited. Lansman was the sole subscriber and director. Lansman used the "standard form" of Articles of Association for this type of company but added a sinister Stasi-esque variation that one of the company's objects was to be "to control and process information collected in the course of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party leadership campaign".

The second company was Jeremy Corbyn Campaign 2015 (Services) Limited. Lansman and a guy called Fletcher were the subscribers and in addition to the standard Articles an additional object was added by Lansman "to act as an employer and undertake various administrative functions in the course of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party leadership campaign." (Query why this was necessary when Unite members were paying large amounts to support Corbyn's campaign?)

Now there must have been a bit of a cash-flow crises at the start of Jezza's first tilt at the tarnished prize of Labour leadership [sic]. Lansman is said to be a "millionaire". He gives his address as a posh flat in Shad Thames (by Tower Bridge in London) where most of the flats sell for well over £1m. Strangely, Zoopla only value Lansman's hovel at £905,000 but still, hardly Grenfell Tower for this dear old leftie. So Corbyn turned to his rich pal for help.

On 23rd June, 2015 - the day before Lansman set up the two companies - he personally lent Jez £5,123.59p. But clearly Corbyn is a man of honour. Whilst happy to shaft Unite members over their alleged "loans" to him The Saint wouldn't sh*t on "one's" rich mate. Thus Jon didn't have to wait long for repayment - indeed the wealthy hard-line Trot got his cash BACK just a month later on 24th July, 2015 when the union cash taps started to flow!

All this research started thanks to a good spot by my old mate Bob Woods - a life-long Labour Party Member, trade unionist and award-receiving trade union employee. Of course, that track record is no longer valued by Labour "members" and he is currently being hammered on social media for daring to speak out against the joke Corbyn!

Bob saw the following "advert" and expressed the view that this gave an outward impression of being a Labour-Party site. Indeed, the "join the Labour Party" button does take one to the official Party site whereas the "donate" button invites one to make donations to "Jeremy for Labour Limited" which, after a bust-up within Corbyn's Momentum, is a reincarnation of the aforementioned Jeremy Corbyn Campaign 2015 (Supporters) Limited. The person with "significant control" of this Comany remains Jon Lansman. Incidentally, this is now the third name for this company since between October, 2015 and July, 2016 it was known as Momentum Campaigns Limited.

The curious thing here is that this company was in existence for the first leadership contest and that Corbyn had thousands of £3 Trotsyist infiltrators - sorry, valued new Labour Party members - howling at the moon yet Lansman filed "dormant company accounts" made up to 30th June, 2016. We know that alleged "socialists" can't organise a p*ss-up in a Shad Thames wine bar but this filing suggests that the Company received no donations whatsoever in support of the great man for over a year from the crazed Corbynistas!

No doubt cash is now rolling in. But if you don't want to donate via the site I can give you the address of Lansman's luxury Thames-side flat should you wish to send donations direct "lol"!

Anyone who has had anything do do with the hard lefties will know that they constantly fight like cats in a sack. The old Jeremy Corbyn Campaign 2015 (Services) Limited has now become Momentum Campaign (Services) Limited. When Lansman and Fletcher still had control, accounts made up to 30th June, 2016 showed that they had mustered some money from somewhere since on that date the Company had net assets of £49,557. Alas the law allows the Company to only file abbreviated accounts so that the source of the cash can be kept secret. But 12 days later Lansman and Fletcher let the Company  - yes, you guessed it - make an unsecured, interest free LOAN to Jeremy Corbyn of no less than £50,000.00 for an indefinite period! Clearly Corbyn has no intention of ever paying this money back from his own considerable resources, gold-plated pensions etc and so why has this "donation" again been dressed up as a loan? Perhaps Unite members will stump up when Momentum need the dosh for something else and the crafty commies have cleverly not formally written this loan off in case some other mugs come along to give dosh to JBC which can then be legally diverted back to Momentum. Perhaps that is why two lawyers, including a QC, have helped the "Corbyn" campaign?

As with Corbyn himself this whole loan business reeks of deceit. The moral of the story [sic] is if you ever want to lend money to Steptoe and get it back, change your name to Jon Lansman! "Millionaire" personal friends of the Sage of Islington are "preferential creditors" before trade unionists.

(Of course, as with most left-wing sects the members have fallen out and Lansman and Fletcher are no longer involved with the Company Momentum Campaign (Services) Limited.

* Declaration of interest - the writer and his wife have been subjected to a vicious Twitter trolling campaign by the bullies at Unite orchestrated by one of their West Midlands Regional Organisers, Brian Rickers.

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Aha! Is Corbyn's Coogan A Tax-Dodger?

Last night the 68 year-old, done-nothing, nonentity Corbyn held one of his Nuremberg rallies for his crazed followers in Brum. The warm-up act was "Socialist Millionaire" Steve Coogan (interesting in itself in that Coogan has, hitherto, been the - metaphorical - c*ck-sucker in chief of vicious Labour bully, the Corbyn-hating Tom Watson!) No doubt there were some interesting chats in the "Green Room" as the exotic comedian regaled the ascetic bore "Jeremy" with tales of his (alleged) coke-n- whores lifestyle whilst the Islington Saint handed him his damson jam recipes....

I tweeted this:

One of Corbyn's keyboard warriors was quick to respond:

So Coogan, who hectored the crowd last night about "austerity", wants to pay more tax does he? I wonder....

There is absolutely nothing preventing Coogan from being, like me, self-employed. All his income could simply be paid to him and he could then pay income tax on it. But it is more tax-efficient (ie he can minimise his payments to the NHS, the police, education, the army etc) by setting up a limited company. In fact, Coogan has set up a complex web of numerous companies and has used company law to say that they are not "a group". Accordingly, he can shield most of his financial stuff from prying eyes by declaring that the individual companies are "small" and so only have to submit limited  and unaudited "abbreviated" accounts to public scrutiny. No doubt "Jeremy" wholly approves of this lawful skullduggery - at least if he could understand it (the person his cult-following want in charge in the country has been living off the taxpayer for 34 years and has gold-plated pensions yet even though his tax affairs are the simplest imaginable he couldn't complete his tax return a couple of years ago and was fined £100 by HMRC! Still at least he has got his son, Seb, on the gravy train too - working for would-be Marxist Chancellor, John MacDonnell!)

I am not a company lawyer nor account but let's have a look at Coogan's sprawling business empire. Of course, it is possible that Coogan has offshore assets and businesses so this only relates to what is publicly available in the UK.

We start with there is Baby Cow Productions Limited. In 2015 one of Coogan's co-directors was an, er, accountant. There were charges against the company from German and Dutch banks. This may have been legitimate fund-raising or it could be a mechanism to reduce company profits and, therefore, the tax that Coogan is apparently so keen to pay. Alas, because he has used the system to only file "small company accounts" we simply can't tell.

But Coogan mysteriously also set up a whole host of subsidiary companies to shift money around. Here is the entry from the accounts of 31st March, 2016 when the company was still owned by Coogan and a chap called Carroll:

On the last accounting date when Coogan owned the Company it was sitting with over a million quid in cash at the bank:

And Coogan was shifting cash around his companies as three of them owed Baby Cow Productions Limited considerable sums. Indeed, debt had been deliberately loaded onto the subsidiaries between 2015 and 2016. Once again, there may be perfectly legitimate reasons for this. Equally, such transactions are often used to (lawfully) defer and/or minimise tax.

On 1st April, 2016 Coogan sold out most of the Production company (and its subsidiaries) to Corbyn cheerleaders the,er, BBC but he retains directorships.

Coogan is a director of Baby Cow Animation Limited and again uses the "small company" routine to only file limited accounts. Two charges are registered as outstanding - one from a Canadian Bank and one from the, er, BBC. This company itself has two subsidiaries. The first, Baby Cow Animation (Warren) Limited, (Director S. J. Coogan) satisfied a charge to Barclays Bank in 2016. It is ultimately now owned by the BBC via Baby Cow Productions Limited.

The second subsidiary (Director - S. J. Coogan) Baby Cow Animation (Wussywat) Limited has an outstanding charge to a Canadian Bank. Once again there may be good reason for this - perhaps Coogan and his advisers are cleverly shifting risk on media projects onto banks? Or perhaps, again, interest on loans is used to depress taxable profits?

On we go through this tangled web...

Baby Cow Pictures Limited is now ultimately owned by the BBC but Coogan remains a director.

Baby Cow Films Limited has been ultimately owned by the BBC since Coogan sold it to them on 1st April, 2016. He remains a director. There were charges on the company whilst he owned it to RBS. As ever with Coogan - there are yet more subsidiaries - three in this case. The first Lost Child Limited had the aforementioned Mr Carroll as a director but not Coogan. Again, only abbreviated accounts are filed but this company appears (and once again I am not an accountant) to be a vehicle for claiming tax relief via film tax credits. In the last set of accounts the taxpayer owed this company over 120k for "corporation tax recoverable" ie they were not paying tax - they were clawing it back!
Subsidiary two - Alan Partridge Limited - of course has Coogan as a director but appears to be dormant save for outstanding charges - including to the BBC. Subsidiary three - is as per Lost Child but claims to have "intangible assets" - presumably film rights etc - of over £8 million although, as ever, the "small companies" status is claimed.

Baby Cow Films (Zoe) Limited was only set up in 2016 and has yet to file accounts. Coogan is a director.

Coogan remains a director of Baby Cow Manchester Limited (which also claims small company status) had nearly half a million quid in the bank in 2015 but this disappeared by 2016 - seemingly when the BBC became ultimate controller of the company.

Baby Cow Productions (Hunderby) Limited owed half a million quid to BP Productions on the last day of Coogan's ownership. Once again money was being shifted around between various Coogan companies and their subsidiaries. The BBC took over the company in 2016 but our man remains a director.

And on and on it goes.... Coogan remains a director of Baby Cow Productions (Red Dwarf) Limited - now ultimately controlled by the BBC. On the last day of Coogan's ownership it had over £300k in the bank although it appears (and I put it no higher than that) this was money owed to another Coogan company.

Lola Baby Cow Limited had Mr Carroll as a director but was dissolved in 2015. It is not clear whether Coogan had any connection with this company although the name suggests it was part of the "non-Group".

Coogan is an active director of The Last Holiday Limited which was only set up in 2016 and is yet to file documents with Companies House. The initial subscriber to the Company was Baby Cow Films Limited.

The "socialist millionaire" is the sole director and shareholder of Conor Hamill Limited - in the last accounts there was £108k in the bank. As ever, he claims small company exemption so that he only has to file unaudited abbreviated accounts.

Comedy Republic Limited was another Coogan/Carroll double act but was dissolved in 2015.

What I have yet to find out is how much of OUR licence fee money that we pay to the BBC was used by them to buy out Coogan in 2016 (answers on a postcard please). Another matter arises in that Coogan retains directorships in the BBC-controlled companies and their business relationship needs to be declared if they are covering his inane political witterings.

Last night when he was supporting The Terrorists' Friend, Corbyn, he pandered to the hard-left cultists by having a go at Rupert Murdoch and the morons roared their support. Yet even though he is still involved in the BBC-controlled companies this f*cking hypocrite took his latest series of "The Trip" to, er, Sky TV (prop R. Murdoch Esq). So quite happy to stick his snout in the Murdoch trough but then p*ss on him. Nice!

One imagines that on his (alleged) drugs and hookers binges he spent more in a week than most families live on for a whole year. Wikipedia (which, of course, is always accurate "lol") says he had a penchant for owning Ferraris and now enjoys travel by private jets. Whilst patronising Brummies with his rants about the homeless last night he neglected to mention that he paid a cool £2.35 million for his own agreeable house near Brighton.

I wonder if our above Twitter friend Ms Kate Martinson can enlighten us on how much tax Coogan actually pays? Why does he set up so many companies and shift money around between them? Perhaps he can explain his byzantine commercial network to "Jeremy" tonight at one of the rallies although that is probably a lost cause as the man some people - unbelievably - want to lead our country is notoriously as thick as sh*t.

As another "socialist comedian" might say, "Socialism My Arse!"

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