While he is squealing with delight at being at the top of the ‘Pink List’ he is still selling the rest of British industry down the river with jobs, investment and confidence in hot pursuit.
HMRC are trying to claw back £200m in backdated taxes to fund the bloated State Sector.
Are you just incompetent or really are still a Communist bent on the destruction of British Industry
In a politically embarrassing development for the Labour Party, the letter to Lord Mandelson also has the endorsement of the Unite trade union – the first time it has backed protests over the port rates fiasco.
“The Government remains intransigent, ignorant of the facts and quite frankly seems not to care about the thousands of jobs up and down the country that are at risk,” the letter says.
The rates row harks back to a decision last year by the Valuation Office Agency – an offshoot of HM Revenue & Customs – to impose additional business rates on port companies, backdated to April 2005.
HMRC is now attempting to claw back a sum believed to top £200m.